[CTRL] Neil Bush - Blood Kin
-Caveat Lector- http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/12/05/120.html Global Eye -- Blood Kin Chris Floyd Imagine these banner headlines, circa, say, 1998: President's Brother in Biz With Red Chinese! President's Brother Beds Prostitutes as Corporate Perk! President's Brother Hip-Deep in War Profiteering: The More Blood His White House Sibling Spills, the Fatter the Family Coffers! Hoo-boy! There would've been a hot time in the old media town with all that, eh? Wall-to-wall coverage, 24/7, Fox News frothing, Washington Post pounding, tabloids screaming -- "Oval Evil: Reds, Beds and Milking the Dead!" Earnest clucking in the halls of Congress: "We must get to the bottom of these unsavory connections." Late-night comics cracking wise: "Hey, when the president's brother orders Chinese, he ain't just talking chow mein: 'Yeah, I'll have the rice, the won ton, two blondes and a bag of unmarked bills, please.'" But of course, that was another millennium. In our new, more enlightened age, we humbly accept -- even celebrate -- the special privileges accorded to the great ones among us. And so, with a couple of honorable exceptions, the big-time American media lay a nice soft comfy quilt of silence over last month's revelations about presidential brother Neil Bush -- details which emerged from the nasty divorce suit Neil brought upon himself by his flagrant adultery with a close family friend. While others quilted, the Los Angeles Times and Houston Chronicle detailed Brother Neil's big "consulting" contract with Jiang Mianheng, son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Young Jiang and his well-connected Communist capitalists are paying Neil $2 million in stock for his "advice" on manufacturing high-tech computer circuits -- despite Neil's sworn oath that he has "absolutely no background" in the field. "But I've been working in Asia for a long time," he added. He certainly has. Neil also admitted that he'd experienced carnal canoodling with several anonymous women during his business jaunts to Asia over the years. He told the divorce court that these brazen hussies had simply knocked on his hotel door, came in and had sex with him. These encounters were not emollients offered by the businessmen courting his favor and royal name, Neil insisted. Why, he's not even sure the women actually were prostitutes, because "they never asked for money and I didn't pay them." If it's true, as he swears under oath, that he didn't know why those women were there, then the best you can say about Brother Neil is that he is an idiot of the highest order. But of course Neil is no idiot. He first entered the public eye for a sweet deal he pulled during the Reagan-Bush years. As a director of a Colorado savings-and-loan bank, he steered $100 million of homeowners' savings to his own business partners -- without telling his fellow directors of the personal connection. The partners defaulted, and Bush, using his family links to Argentine strongman Carlos Menem, tried to hide the scam in a bait-and-switch south of the border, as The Austin Chronicle reports. When the feds finally caught up with him in 1990, Bush had cost American taxpayers $1.3 billion in bailouts to cover his mismanagement. As the son of the sitting president, Neil could not possibly go to jail for stealing $100 million; the high-born don't do hard time. No, he was merely fined $50,000 and banned from all banking activities. Naturally, Neil didn't pay his own fine; fat-cat Republican fundraisers covered it for him. We told you he was no idiot. Now comes the sweetest deal of all -- enriched by the blood sugar seeping out from the bodies of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. Yes, Neil has dipped his silver spoon into the reconstruction gravy being ladled out by his brother George, the White House warlord. Neil is now being paid a fat annual fee to "help companies secure contracts in Iraq," the Financial Times reports. Bush is co-chairman of a pork funnel called Crest Investment Corporation. His partner, Syrian-American businessman Jamal Daniel, is wired into the chief private conduit of war profits, New Bridge Strategies, a lobbying firm packed with Bush family retainers, many of whom left government service this spring to leap into the Iraq money pit. As long as Brother George keeps tossing cannon fodder into the Iraqi cauldron, Brother Neil will keep padding his bulging Bush wallet. Neil's sordid saga exemplifies the Bush clan's prime "family value": rake it in from all sides, blood and honor be damned. We've often noted here that Neil and George's grandpa, Prescott Bush, was a huge investor in the Nazi war machine, maintaining his profitable Hitlerian arrangements even after America was at war with Germany. Some of these assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act. But last month, newly uncovered government documents showed that Prescott and his partners, including Democrat bigwig Averill Harriman, secretly
[CTRL] A Bad Place
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20031205/index.php A Bad Place by Charley Reese Mosul, recently held up as an example of our successful occupation of Iraq, was where two American soldiers were shot, dragged out of their car and had their bodies pummeled with concrete blocks by a mob that had quickly gathered. All of this happened recently in broad daylight in the heart of the city. Would you not concede that such behavior indicates at least a mild distaste on the part of Iraqis for the American occupation? The fact is, the Bush administration lied about the reasons for going to war, and now it is lying about the occupation. It is trying what we tried to do in Vietnam fight a guerrilla war and win the "hearts and minds" of the people at the same time. Well, the policy failed in Vietnam, and it will fail in Iraq. The reasons are simple. A guerrilla war brutalizes the army that is fighting it. How do you think the GIs in Mosul feel about Iraqis after what happened to their comrades? They hate them. And that hatred will manifest itself, and this will in turn generate more resistance. No country in the world likes the idea of foreign occupation. The Arabs like it least of all. Every time an American soldier throws an Iraqi man to the ground and puts his boot on his neck or back, he creates an implacable, unforgiving enemy. Every time we kill some innocent Iraqis, we create enemies. Every time an American soldier body-searches a schoolgirl, we create enemies. Of course, some Iraqis will smile to our faces. Of course, some Iraqis want us to stay to avoid a civil war until they can worm their way into power. Of course, there are always traitors for sale in any country. But the simple fact that an Iraqi hates Saddam Hussein does not mean that he or she likes us. Some Americans seem to have trouble grasping that people can hate both Saddam Hussein and the Americans. You should also note that we have been trying to catch Saddam for eight months now. If he were as hated as American propaganda makes him out to be, surely one Iraqi would have dropped a dime on him by now and collected that $25 million. Yet this 66-year-old geezer continues to elude his 140,000 pursuers. More recently, an American military officer said something really stupid and callous. He said that the attacks were insignificant. I don't think that the people who are killed and maimed and their loved ones consider them to be insignificant. That was the calloused part. The stupid part was when he said the guerrillas could not defeat the American military. Of course they can't, and they aren't even trying. The purpose of the guerrilla attacks is not to defeat us, but merely to demonstrate that we cannot control the country. As long as the guerrillas can kill one or two Americans and Iraqi collaborators now and then, they will be "winning." The Viet Cong could not defeat the American military either, but you see who left and who stayed. It doesn't cost the Iraqi guerrilla anything to stay in Iraq. It's his home. He has nowhere else to go. On the other hand, it's costing us $2 billion a week to stay in Iraq, not counting the cost in lives and the spent political capital. Sooner or later, we will leave, and the Iraqi guerrillas know that. The president can prattle all he wants about "staying the course," but the only question is, can we establish a halfway decent government before we are forced to bail out? Some people in the Pentagon are saying we will be in Iraq for five or six years. I don't think we will last that long. Just in dollars and cents, six years would cost us a third of a trillion dollars. The sooner we leave, the better, because the longer we stay, the more resistance we will generate. We have dropped young American men and women, well-trained to fight a conventional war, into an alien culture, and they simply don't know how to deal with it. They will grow to resent and to hate Iraqis, and this resentment and hatred will be returned with interest. Occupation is a lose-lose proposition. www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy
[CTRL] Perle Article Didn't Disclose Boeing Tie
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37059-2003Dec4?language=printer Perle Article Didn't Disclose Boeing Tie Pentagon Adviser Lauded Plan to Lease Air Tankers By David S. Hilzenrath Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 5, 2003; Page E01 Pentagon adviser Richard N. Perle coauthored an opinion piece this summer praising a Pentagon plan to lease tanker aircraft -- which had the potential to steer billions of dollars to Boeing Co. -- 16 months after Boeing committed to invest $20 million with a venture capital firm where Perle was a principal. "It takes a special government green-eyeshade mentality to miss the urgency of the tanker requirement," Perle and a coauthor wrote in the Aug. 14 article in the Wall Street Journal. The piece did not mention Boeing by name or Perle's firm -- Trireme Partners -- and its business relationship with the giant defense contractor. Perle's business interests and his position in the defense policy world have repeatedly placed him at the center of controversy this year. Perle, an outspoken advocate of the war in Iraq, was a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration and has been a corporate consultant. The Wall Street Journal editor who handled the article was not available for comment, "but normally we would rely on the contributor to tell us if they have any financial conflicts of interest because we do like to disclose these things," said Brigitte Trafford, a spokesman for Dow Jones Co., which publishes the newspaper. Boeing yesterday said the company briefed Perle on the tanker issue on July 14. Boeing said it "had no hand in writing the document nor did we assist in placing it." In March, Perle resigned as chairman of the Defense Policy Board after press accounts raised questions about his actions on behalf of Global Crossing and Loral. He remains a member of the policy board, a group of former government officials and others that advises the Pentagon. Perle also serves on the board of directors of Hollinger International Inc., the media company whose chief executive, Conrad Black, resigned last month after disclosures that he and other executives collected millions of dollars payments the company's audit committee determined were unauthorized. Hollinger disclosed last month that it has invested $2.5 million in Trireme Associates. A special committee of Hollinger's board is examining that investment and others involving company insiders, a source close to Hollinger said yesterday. Perle has not responded to requests this week for an interview on his business activities. Messages left at his office late yesterday were not returned. His coauthor, Tom Donnelly, was traveling and could not be reached for comment. The Financial Times last night on its Web site quoted Perle as saying "I never discussed the tanker issue or my views on the tanker issue with anyone at Boeing that had anything to do with Trireme." The Pentagon put the $17 billion Boeing tanker deal on hold this week while its inspector general investigates whether the procurement process was handled properly. The company last week fired two executives, including a former Air Force procurement official, for allegedly violating company policies. Amid the controversy, Boeing chief executive Philip M. Condit resigned Monday. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld named Perle to the policy board in 2001. Later that year, Trireme Partners, a venture fund, was set up in Delaware. Trireme Partners first sought an investment from Boeing in February 2002, and the company decided to invest $20 million two months later, Boeing said in a written statement this week. To date, it has advanced $2 million to the fund, the statement said. Gerald Hillman, another principal, represented Trireme, and Perle was not involved in the discussions to obtain the Boeing investment, Boeing said. Perle holds an equity stake in Trireme Associates LLC, which is the general partner of Trireme Partners and receives a share of its profits, according to documents Hollinger filed last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission. "There's no connection between these two matters," Hillman said last night of Boeing's investment with Trireme and Perle's op-ed piece. A memorandum Trireme gave Boeing describing the fund included brief biographies of the principals, including Perle and Hillman, Boeing said. It noted that Perle is "Chairman of the Defense Policy Board and a consultant to the Department of Defense," Boeing said. Boeing "also received a letter early in the process with Trireme that also mentioned that Richard Perle is (was) chairman of the DPB," Boeing said. Trireme's fund is one of 29 venture capital funds to which Boeing has committed a total of about $250 million, the aerospace company said. The Defense Department's inspector general investigated several of Perle's business activities for alleged conflict of interest or misuse of public office and reported last month that
[CTRL] NAZI GERMANYS WAR ON TERRORISM
-Caveat Lector- http://c0balt.com/resources/terror/terror.shtml NAZI GERMANYS WAR ON TERRORISM Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a war on terrorism, establish his legitimacy as a leader (even though he hadnt won a majority in the previous election). You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history, he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. This fire, he said, his voice trembling with emotion, is the beginning. He used the occasion a sign from God, he called it to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion. Two weeks later, the first prison for terrorists was built in Oranianberg, holding the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the nations flag was everywhere, even printed in newspapers suitable for display. Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nations now-popular leader had pushed through legislation, in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it, that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into peoples homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism. To get his patriotic Decree on the Protection of People and State passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack on the Reichstag building was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained. Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. Instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as The Fatherland. As hoped, peoples hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was the homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands. Within a year of the terrorist attack, Hitlers advisors determined that the various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the nation, including those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist sympathizers. He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the Fatherland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police, border, and investigative agencies under a single powerful leader. Most Americans remember his Office of Fatherland Security, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and Schutzstaffel, simply by its most famous agencys initials: the SS. And, perhaps most important, he invited his supporters in industry into the halls of government to help build his new detention camps, his new military, and his new empire which was to herald a thousand years of peace. Industry and government worked hand-in-glove, in a new type of pseudo-democracy first proposed by Mussolini and sustained by war. www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Ethnic cleansing on the Jordan River
-Caveat Lector- http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20031204db.htm Ethnic cleansing on the Jordan River By DOUG BANDOW WASHINGTON -- Israel can push even U.S. President George W. Bush too far. The Bush administration says it will cut $290 million of $3 billion in promised loan guarantees because Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government continues to construct settlements and a security fence in the West Bank, effectively annexing Palestinian areas to Israel. "It's none of their business," responds Zitrin Eliezer, an Israeli settler in the West Bank. In fact, Israel's policies wouldn't be America's business if Washington wasn't backing Israel. And if that backing didn't in turn foster hatred of and terrorism against America and its allies. There is no excuse for Palestinian suicide bombing, but Israeli actions also exacerbate hostilities. For a time Israeli officials publicly discussed assassinating or exiling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Even worse is talk of ethnic cleansing. An extremist segment of Israeli opinion backs expulsion, which is the implicit goal of most settlers. Frustration over murderous suicide bombings has increased popular support for this brutal option. U.S. columnist Ben Shapiro also advocates ethnic cleansing: "If you believe that the Jewish state has a right to exist, then you must allow Israel to transfer the Palestinians and the Israeli-Arabs from Judea, Samaria, Baza and Israel proper." The euphemisms roll off of his tongue. "It's not genocide; it's transfer." Czechoslovakia and Poland did it to Germans after World War II. Forcing nearly 5 million Arabs from their homes is OK because "Jews are not Nazis." But ethnic cleansing means inflicting mass hardship and death. After all, Muslims would have to be forced to abandon all. That would mean wiping out their villages. Destroying their homes. And killing some of them. After World War II an estimated nine to 15 million Germans were forced from ancestral lands in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. R.J. Rummel, author of "Death By Government," estimates the resulting casualty toll at between 500,000 and 3.7 million, most likely about 1.9 million. No wonder Shapiro concludes: "It's time to stop being squeamish." Still, in principle separation seems the best answer to stop the killing. For this reason, a security fence makes sense -- if it actually separates Jew from Arab. Unfortunately, to protect a number of disparate Israeli settlements erected in the midst of Palestinian communities, Israel currently is mixing Jew and Arab and separating Arab from Arab. Thus are sown the seeds for future conflict. After 36 years of occupation the land remains almost exclusively Arab. The limited Jewish presence is the result of conscious colonization. In 1978, when the Camp David accords were midwifed with the help of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, there were only about 4,000 Jewish settlers in the occupied lands. With subsidies now exceeding $1 billion a year, the number of settlers has reached some 230,000. The settlements require a pervasive Israeli military occupation, imposing a de facto system of apartheid. Writes Avraham Burg, former speaker of Israel's Knesset: "It is very comfortable to be a Zionist in West Bank settlements. . . . Traveling on the fast highway that skirts barely a half-mile west of the Palestinian roadblocks, it's hard to comprehend the humiliating experience of the Arab who must creep for hours along the pocked, blockaded roads assigned to him. One road for the occupier, one road for the occupied." At stake is the future of Israeli democracy. There are roughly 5.3 million Jews in Israel and a couple hundred thousand in the occupied territories. There are 1.3 million Arabs in Israel and about 3.4 million in the Gaza and West Bank. Given respective birthrates there soon will be more Arabs than Jews in the combined territory. Notes Uri Dromi of the Israel Democracy Institute, "Either we give the Palestinians equal rights, in which case Israel ceases to be Jewish, or we don't, in which case Israel ceases to be democratic. The only way for Israel to remain both Jewish and democratic is for it to pull out of the territories." Four ex-heads of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency recently criticized the "immoral" treatment of Palestinians. "We must once and for all admit that there is another side, that it has feelings and that it is suffering, and that we are behaving disgracefully," said Avraham Shalom, who ran Shin Bet from 1980 to 1986. Military leaders voice similar concerns. Argues retired Brig. Gen. Nehemia Dagan: "The ethics and morals of Israeli society are more important than killing the heads of Hamas or Islamic Jihad." In October, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, chief of the staff of the armed forces, admitted that Israel's repressive tactics were creating explosive levels of "hatred and terrorism." Every day the prospect of peace between Israelis and
[CTRL] F-16s 8 Minutes Away From 9/11 Planes
-Caveat Lector- http://www.propagandamatrix.com/051203atlanticcityfighters.html Atlantic City F-16 Fighters Were Eight Minutes Away From 9/11 Hijacked Planes North Jersey Media Group As two hijacked jetliners bore down on New York City's World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, two Air Force F-16 jet fighters were practicing bombing runs over an empty stretch of the Pine Barrens near Atlantic City. The F-16 pilots had no idea of the impending tragedy in Manhattan, just eight minutes away in their supersonic jets. Why? Why weren't they alerted? And even if they had been told about the hijackings, what could they have done? The jets weren't armed to shoot down another plane. Their mission was bombing drills. Why? Those questions and others loom at the heart of an even larger mystery: How could America's elaborate air defense system of satellites, radar, and supersonic fighters be caught so off-guard on Sept. 11? The mystery is now at the center of one of the most secret - and politically explosive - investigations being conducted by the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission. Led by former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States is analyzing almost every corner of the Sept. 11 tragedy, from skyscraper escape procedures to what the White House knew about terrorist threats and how well the FBI and CIA cooperated. On Monday, the commission plans to hold another public hearing in Washington, this one focusing on homeland security and personal liberty. But one investigation that has not drawn much attention involves air defenses. This is especially important to New Jersey. For almost a half-century, the state Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing, based at Atlantic City International Airport in Pomona, had been a key part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. The command runs radar sites and monitors fighter squadrons assigned to protect the United States and Canada from attack, and from unauthorized flights by drug smugglers and undocumented immigrants. Under NORAD procedures that date to the Cold War, two F-16 fighters from the 177th were parked around the clock on the Atlantic City runway. Pilots waited in a nearby building, ready to scramble. But the 177th's jets were not on alert Sept. 11. A series of Pentagon cutbacks, beginning in 1998, changed the wing's mission from scramble-ready status to dropping bombs on enemy positions. In 2000, after two years of training, the 177th was even sent to Saudi Arabia to fly patrols over southern Iraq as part of Operation Southern Watch. By Sept. 11, the unit was back in New Jersey - but still training to bomb enemy targets overseas. A spokeswoman for the 177th confirmed that two of its F-16s were flying unarmed bombing runs that morning over a section of the Pine Barrens designated for military drills. But the F-16 pilots, she said, were unaware that America's air defense system needed them desperately. "Isn't that something?" asked Lt. Luz Aponte, the 177th's public affairs officer, pointing out the irony of having jet fighters so near to the tragedy but with a mission so far afield. Soon after two hijacked commercial jetliners slammed into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan, Aponte said, the two F-16s landed and were refitted with air-to-air missiles, then sent aloft. But that happened more than an hour after the trade center attacks. Such irony - and tragedy - is not lost on the commission. "We want to know why the jets at Pomona were decommissioned," said John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general now on the commission's Manhattan staff. An even larger concern is why fighters at other Air Force bases were not scrambled fast enough to protect New York City after the Federal Aviation Administration learned about the hijackings. "That's a big question," Kean said in a recent interview. Overshadowed in recent weeks by the much publicized - and also highly political - battle between the commission and the White House over access to intelligence data, the investigation of air-defense flaws could nonetheless become stormy next year, with accusations that the Clinton administration cut too deeply into Pentagon budgets during the 1990s or that the Bush administration reacted too slowly to the looming threat of terrorism. The commission has rescheduled a hearing to delve into air defense questions, from mid-January to early March, so investigators can have more time to go through records and other information recently received from NORAD and the Federal Aviation Administration in special subpoenas. NORAD has turned over more than 1,000 documents, some of which contain more than 150 pages, said Lt. Col. Rob Garza, a spokesman. Garza said the information comes from "bases around the nation" and includes transcripts of radio transmissions between pilots. He would not confirm what information - if any - NORAD provided from the New Jersey's 177th Fighter Wing.
[CTRL] The Perfect Enemy
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1315 The Perfect Enemy By John Kaminski "War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies." -- Ernest Becker War provides the perfect cover for those waging it to commit crimes against not only enemies but also friends. Amid the patriotic flag waving and somber ceremony, the populace is cowed into distraction and for the most part will not see the chicanery and manipulation that not only created the conditions FOR the war, but also will not perceive that the purpose OF it is not to defeat the enemy, but to financially castrate and sociologically neutralize those who are actually helping to wage the war. Such is the process by which those in power consolidate their advantage among their so-called friends. The Christian Crusades of millenia past provide an apt example of this deceptive process. With no enemies nearby and a surfeit of armed and affluent noblemen itching for aggressive acts, kings and ministers of past empires dreamed up external threats by which to distract their powerful friends from contemplating revolution. Jerusalem and the dark-skinned Muslim realms have always been a popular target. The subsequent conflicts not only reaped new riches for the warmaking kingdoms, but also depleted the ranks and resources of those sent to fight, thereby lessening the potential political threat to the very people who dreamed up the wars in the first place. Two birds with one stone. Those innocents killed in such cynical gambits now bear the unfortunate title of collateral damage, regrettable but necessary sacrifices to the selfishness of those in positions of power who seek to maintain it. So this world full of greedy humans continues to turn. During war, citizens of the warmaking state may not question the motives of their leaders, lest they be accused of treason and summarily executed. Therefore, any state seeking permanent obeisance and minimal criticism from its citizenry will logically aspire toward a regimen of permanent war. It is supremely ironic that a majority of these citizens will wholeheartedly support such efforts, without realizing that it is the destruction of their own freedom that they are cheering. However, real enemies are usually not so accommodating as to wish to engage in battle indefinitely. They are either are defeated and disappear as a viable social force, or, they kick butt and thereby ruin the plans of the manipulative attacker forever. A shrewd superpower kingdom will cleverly avoid picking a fair fight, thereby eliminating, as nearly as possible, the undesirable surprise of an unexpected defeat. It will also defer toward states of relatively equal strength, establish diplomatic relations, and wait for an opportunity to screw them surreptitiously and without penalty. Since the situation we face now is that one superpower outstrips in military might the next ten strongest nations, the need for it to be diplomatic is at an all-time low. It simply can do what it wants when it wants. And yet, humans being what they are - wanting to be free, happy, honest and well-fed - even a superpower in this unchallenged position must construct fantasy scenarios to convince its people " no matter how amateurishly " that they are doing the right thing by supporting endless wars. Today, we hear all sorts of childish whimpering about the terrorist threat, even though a cursory examination of recent history would reveal that most of these threats have been deliberately created by the nation doing most of the complaining about these very threats. And this epiphany can lead you to a very startling observation about the nature of the world as human civilization enters the 21st century following the appearance of the Divine Messiah most of this civilization pretends to worship. It seemed for a time - two centuries, actually - that the United States of America was a good country, champion of justice, advocate of freedom, that sort of stuff. What was lost in the education of its own citizens, however, was the frequency with which it went to war, against interlopers who were invariably depicted as evil people on the wrong side of democratic progress. A cursory perusal of this murderous American resumé will reveal that it has always been the aggressor in all these big fights, even though the official histories bend the facts to show the U.S. was fighting for freedom against one tyrant or another. But as time passed and the world got smaller, it became obvious that the U.S. was running out of countries that it could call evil, declare war against, and then pulverize. Besides, once a country had been seriously obliterated, it simply took too long to rebuild it into a serious enemy again. Clearly, if the same cartel that has essentially been running this country for all of its 227 years was to stay in power, it
[CTRL] Criminalization Doesn't Curb Drugs, Booze Usage
-Caveat Lector- http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1431 Criminalization Doesn't Curb Drugs, Booze Usage By Radley Balko December 5, 2003 The great journalist H.L. Mencken was a fierce critic of alcohol prohibition. He wrote in 1925: "Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished." Mencken was right, which is why Prohibition was repealed in 1933, 70 years ago tomorrow. No amount of legislation could curb America's taste for booze. What Prohibition did do was create a lucrative black market for booze and invite the ancillary crime -- organized and otherwise -- that comes with it. The corruption of the bootlegging industry infected every level of law enforcement. Local cops and prosecutors, members of Congress (which had its own private stock of liquor) -- even President William Harding's attorney general -- were buyable, bribable, and to coin a word, imbibable... Forcing Americans to go underground to satiate their thirst for alcohol also brought with it a major public health problem. Americans drank harder, because they had to get their fix in one sitting, and didn't know where or when they'd get their next drink. And they drank more potent stuff -- bathtub gin and other home-brewed spirits, liquor that was unchecked by market forces or regulators, and so was not only vile and potent, but could at times be downright poisonous. By the mid-1920s, hospitalizations and deaths from alcohol poisoning soared. Some say we have Prohibition to thank for the success of the cocktail, as the only available alcohol was virtually undrinkable straight-up. What's unfortunate is that our lawmakers still haven't learned the lessons of Prohibition. For the last 40 years, for example, we've engaged in a prohibition of a different kind -- drug prohibition. The similarities are striking. Despite harsher sentences, increased funding for law enforcement, more prisons, expensive public relations campaigns and frightening trespasses on our civil liberties, Americans still generally use illicit drugs with the same frequency they have since the drug war began, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health... Different drugs come in and out of vogue, but the percentage of the populace using them has largely remained the same for 30 years. The only difference is, as we make access to those drugs more and more difficult, the drugs become more expensive, making the drug trade more and more lucrative, meaning pushers will go to greater lengths and take greater risks because users will pay more money to get them. The drug war has made war zones of some urban areas in much the same way Prohibition famously turned sections of Chicago into public shooting galleries. We've made millionaires of cocaine and heroin cartels in the same way temperance made wealthy men of Al Capone and George Remus. And we've made hardened criminals of small-time dope dealers the way alcohol Prohibition made felons of bartenders and distillers. The number of people behind bars in the United States for drug crimes alone now exceeds the number of people in prison in Europe for all crimes combined. Now, increasingly, states and municipalities are going after tobacco, too, believing that higher taxes and bans on public smoking will persuade longtime smokers to quit. In New York City, which has long imposed a cigarette tax that is among the highest in the nation, a thriving black market for tobacco has emerged, serving as a copious source of funding for organized crime and smugglers, as well as international terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. The states of California, Delaware and New York now forbid smoking in public places. In the late 1990s, Canada experimented with an aggressive hike on cigarette taxes. The tax resulted in such an overwhelming wave of black market crime that lawmakers repealed the tax two years later. The United Kingdom has the highest cigarette taxes in Europe. Consequently, the U.K. has become a hub for international cigarette smuggling, the beneficiaries of which include such nefarious elements as the Irish Republican Army and the Italian mafia, among others. American lawmakers haven't even learned the lessons of Prohibition when it comes to alcohol. In the last 10 years, a well-funded group of neo-prohibitionist advocacy groups have sprung up and have begun calling for a variety of public policy initiatives aimed squarely at restricting (again) the public's access to alcohol. Groups such as the Center
[CTRL] Massacre in Samarra: US lies and self-delusion
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1313 Massacre in Samarra: US lies and self-delusion David Walsh via www.PropagandaMatrix.com The US militarys initial account of Sundays firefight in the central Iraqi city of Samarra, uncritically relayed to the American people by a servile media, has proven to be a tissue of lies. It turns out that the major victory over the Iraqi resistance consisted of American forces blasting away indiscriminately in Samarras city center, killing innocent men, women and children, damaging property and buildingsincluding a mosque and a kindergartenand further enraging the local population. The Samarra incident in its various aspectsthe battle itself, the militarys claims, the medias roleis a microcosm of the US occupation of Iraq. American military spokesmen first declared that US forces had defeated a massive attack, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. The Pentagon claimed that 46 Iraqi guerrillas had been killed, and later increased that figure to 54. The US media passed on the good news, repeating the militarys assertion that dozens of Iraqi fighters had been slain. As Editor Publisher Online noted December 2: Neither the New York Times, New York Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Washington Post, or Knight Ridder included any civilian witnesses or Iraqi hospital accounts in their initial reports Monday. Many flatly reported the death tally and account of the battle without noting this was according to military officials. The Times topped its front page with the declarative headline: 46 Iraqis Die in Fierce Fight Between Rebels and GIs, and this was common treatment. Rupert Murdochs New York Post predictably ran the most depraved headline: GIs Blow Away 46 Saddam Fanatics. The story, however, evaporated almost as soon as it was told. On-the-scene reporting by journalists made clear that the claim of dozens of guerrilla fatalities was absurd, an invention of the US military command in Iraq. Local residents told reporters that eight to ten people had been killedmost, if not all of them, civilians. On Tuesday, the militarys version of events continued to unravel, as even major US media outlets acknowledged widespread doubts about a major American military triumph and provided certain information about civilian casualties. The San Francisco Chronicles Vivienne Walt reported from Samarras hospital: In a mix of rage and grief, residents lashed out at the brigades soldiers, accusing them of firing randomly into crowded market areas in the center of the city, killing civilians, including two Iranians believed to be pilgrims visiting a Shiite mosque in town. All the people in town today are asking for revenge, said Majid Fadel al-Samarai, 50, an emergency-room worker at the Samarra General Hospital. They want to kill the Americans like they killed our civilians. Give me a gun, and I will also fight. Residents also charged that American soldiers showed little regard for the safety of civilians during the gun battle. I saw a man running across the street to get his small son, who was stuck in the middle, said Abdul Satar, 47, who owns a bakery a block from one of the two banks to which the convoys had driven. So the Americans shot the man, he said. Similar reports and comments from Samarra residents appeared in other major newspapers and even on US television. The New York Times cited the comments of a 52-year-old ambulance driver at the citys morgue, Adnan Sahib Dafar, who pointed to a dead woman and demanded, Is this woman shooting a rocket-propelled grenade?... Is she fighting? The Times also quoted a shopkeeper, Satar Nasiaf, 47, who had watched two Iraqi civilians die at the hands of US troops, If I had a gun, I would have attacked the Americans myself The Americans were shooting in every direction. New York Newsday correspondent Mohammed Bazzi commented: Some witnesses said US forces began firing at random after they were attacked. They just started shooting in all directions, said Akil al-Janabi, 43, who said his brother was wounded in the crossfire. They have no regard for civilians. We were not the ones attacking them, but now we want revenge for our dead and injured. Reporters from Britains Guardian spoke to local officials who questioned the high body count and said there were non-combatants among the dead. We think that at most eight or nine people died, said Khaled Mohammed, an admissions clerk in the hospitals emergency ward, but added that some of the dead might have been taken straight to the town morgue. A Samarra policeman, Captain Sabti Awad, said American troops had opened fire at random in response to the ambush, killing and wounding civilians. Ahmed al-Samarai, another police officer, said: Not more than 10 people were killed and some of those were not involved in the fighting Jihad Hussein, a student, said he had seen passersby running for cover. They were spraying the whole street, he said. I
[CTRL] Spineless Bush CAVES On Steel Tariffs
-Caveat Lector- http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/trade/2003-12-04-bush-steel_x.htm Bush Gives Up Steel Tariffs Shifts Policy, averts retaliatory trade war Dec. 4, 2003 By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON - Facing the threat of a trade war, President Bush on Thursday lifted 20-month-old tariffs on foreign steel, a move that will hurt steelmakers in states critical in next year's election. Within minutes of the announcement, the 15-nation European Union announced in Brussels that it was lifting its threat of sanctions on $2.2 billion of U.S. products. "These sanctions ... were there as a tool for compliance," EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said. "They've complied and the sanctions will disappear." To soften the blow, the administration announced a beefed-up monitoring program to guard against a sudden flood of foreign steel coming into the country. Bush said the tariffs had been imposed to give the domestic industry critical time to modernize and to protect jobs. "These safeguard measures have now achieved their purpose, and as a result of changed economic circumstances, it is time to lift them," Bush said in a statement. The tariffs, covering a wide range of steel products, were originally scheduled to remain in effect for three years, until 2005, to give U.S. steelmakers protection from foreign competition. The president acted after the European Union and other trading partners threatened to impose billions of dollars in sanctions on a wide range of U.S. products made in states considered to be critical in next year's presidential race. While those states ranging from Florida to California will escape foreign retaliation on their products, other key states, including West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, are home to domestic steel makers who will now face greater foreign competition. Bush said the tariffs had enabled U.S. steel companies to compete both at home and globally. He said the administration would continue to monitor foreign steel imports to make sure that U.S. companies are not again faced with unfair foreign competition. He said that U.S. negotiators would continue to push America's trading partners to put in place "new and strong disciplines on subsidies" that foreign governments provide to their domestic steel producers. "I strongly believe that America's workers can compete with anyone in the world as long as we have a fair and level playing field," Bush said in the statement read by White House spokesman Scott McClellan. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said that the situation facing the U.S. steel industry has improved greatly since Bush imposed the tariffs. Sales of domestic steel and company profits are up dramatically. "Not only is the industry much stronger today than it was 20 months ago, but the economic circumstances ... have changed," Zoellick said. The 15-nation European Union had vowed to retaliate against $2.2 billion of American products by mid-December unless the United States removed the steel tariffs, which were ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization. Japan and South Korea have also said they were considering retaliation. The EU carefully chose its target list to cover a range of products from oranges to pajamas that would inflict maximum political pain in key swing states that Bush is hoping to win in next year's presidential race. Bush's original tariff decision in March 2002 had unleashed a barrage of criticism from steel-consuming industries that claimed the higher prices they were forced to pay cost more jobs than were saved at U.S. steel plants. To ease the impact, Bush announced he was continuing early reporting requirements that had been imposed when the tariffs were levied in 2002 to detect any big influx of steel into the United States. The reporting program requires steel importers to apply for import licenses, giving the government a quicker way to detect possible import surges than waiting for Customs Service data when the steel arrives at U.S. ports. The administration also pledged aggressive use of U.S. antidumping laws should imports surge once the tariffs are lifted, and to continue pursuing global negotiations aimed at reducing subsidies. Those talks, under way since 2002, so far have yielded little, and many trade experts don't hold out much hope that other countries will agree to U.S. demands in this area, given the political power their own steel industries wield. Brink Lindsey, a trade expert at the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank, said the administration's package amounted to little more than a fig leaf for the domestic industry. "The existence or nonexistence of an import monitoring system is not going to make that much difference," he said. "And the pledge on more international talks is lip service as well. The talks haven't gone very far and they are not likely to go very far." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion
[CTRL] The Dean's List
-Caveat Lector- http://www.carolontheweb.com/ The Dean's List I never hated Nixon. I never paid much attention to him. He was vile looking - sounded creepy - and at the cynical age of 25, I'd already grown weary of sifting through the prevailing 'truths' of the day, for scant nuggets of profundity. I decided early on, that much of what I'd learned outside Science and English class was a load-a-hooey, brought to me by entrenched, scheming messengers that looked like Dwight and Amy Eisenhower. Was that her name? If not, don't correct me. I don't care. And neither should you. --- anyway, these pod people were positioned throughout my life in power slots marked "Do Not Disturb" and "Keep Out". The keepers of accumulated knowledge and authority labored hard to shape and control my worldview, force-feeding me disinformation and overwhelming me with garish Corinthian borders on their mahogany framed 'credentials'. Those scrolls covered the wainscoted walls I visited throughout my twenties, and I suspect in some distant galaxy such paper could be construed to be a proper measure of the merits of belief systems held by the natives. Yet many of my assigned mentors were just clueless dolts, hamsters on itty bitty treadmills stamped - Made in USA. They tried to 'instruct me'; even 'help me' navigate school, business, law, banking and government. They guided me. Directed me - to the 'top of my game'. These and other, more sinister members of that diplomatic corp. always seemed more than a few face cards short of a royal flush, yet were positively gelatinous in their poker faced representations of what constituted the American Dream. They were unreflective as moths, but industrious in their duty to define for me what was 'right', 'wrong', 'in', 'out', 'successful', unsuccessful', 'irreligious', 'cool', and of course, 'uncool'. I was uncool, disrespectful AND irreligious, which I guess, meant I was doomed to be 'unsuccessful'. I would be forever confined to Ionic columns in plastic frames, if I didn't shape up. Scientists want to measure self knowledge in dolphins to understand and further anthropomorphize those complex creatures. I recommend that research labs look first at the meta-cognition skills of people who believed Lyndon Baines Johnson was a virtuous man. These same believers walk upright, with opposing thumbs, yet think Bill Clinton was a friend and innocent bystander to no fewer than 50 deaths, of friends and co-workers - dead from plane crashes and self inflicted gunshot wounds, starting after he began a life of public 'service'. LBJ bore an uneasy resemblance to a local rancher and suspected child molester where I grew up in rural Illinois. So to me, Johnson was the prototypical sleazoid before he actually did anything disgusting. I remember being confounded by the suggestion that someone named Lady Bird had married the man, voluntarily exchanged bodily fluids with him, and then produced little-Lyndon-personsgk Today, as then, when people ponder a 'possible' connection between LBJ and the Kennedy assassination, I am reminded that - again, I am not of this planet. We may look the same. But I don't belong here. And I'm not sure how long I plan to stay. I'm alien stock - and very much on my own amongst wild eyed natives who poll to decide if Diana Spencer died in an accident. Seven/Eleven Stores provide cultural instruction for me with with ample supplies of Irish Crme. It's supposed to be a popular and tasty addition to coffee. Yet each day the regular cream is gone quickly, leaving only lonely capfuls of vile mixtures marked Amaretto, and French Vanilla, long before the coffee expires. This place is also awash with creatures that purchased, and listened attentively, to the noises emanating from that fountainhead of profundity known as Elvis Presley. His faithful are still not remorseful - with their collective hindsight running at about 32% for even the large events of the last half century. Another taste I never fully acquired was the 'mystique' assigned to JFK. I was reminded daily of the Kennedy 'aura' by the same people who paid money to watch Rosano Brazzi romance Mitzy Gaynor after she washed him right out of her hair. I've shared my disdain for that entire era before, but my perspective is lost on populations with the capacity to sit through two hours of South Pacific in teary eyed reverence. It was, well, pure magic, I guess. I felt the same about a gushing Elizabeth Taylor, bellbottoms, and Twiggy. Then there was the time I sat dutifully in an outdoor theatre, watching the aplastic virility of Rock Hudson, projecting cardboard emotions of anger, fear, and lust in techno-color. I thought - this is it? I am and was irreligious about the big, important stuff. That's always been my crime. --- Drummed into me by the same people who told me Russia was evil, we war for peace, polite people bow before royalty, and that priests are celibate. "European Jews dispense
[CTRL] Cheney Lashes Out Against Critics
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3047cheney_freaks.html This article appears in the December 5, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. Cheney Faction Lashes Out Against LaRouche Exposs by Jeffrey Steinberg According to a well-placed Washington source, in October of this year, a series of heated, closed-door debates took place in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. The subject: whether or not to launch a public smear campaign against Democratic Party Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, over LaRouche's year-long campaign to expose the Vice President as the leader of the neo-conservative war party inside the Bush Administration, responsible for the disastrous Iraq war and schemes for a string of future, similar senseless military engagements, all aimed at promoting a unilateral American imperium. While some Cheney political aides opposed getting into such a flight-forward confrontation with LaRouche, some of the office hotheads, including the Vice President himself, as well as his chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, reportedly insisted that the LaRouche exposes could not go unchallenged, according to the source. Now, with the publication, on Nov. 24, of a scurrilous attack on LaRouche by neo-con scribbler Kenneth R. Timmerman, in the Moonie-owned Insight magazine, it is clear that Cheney and company have launched a dirty tricks effort against the Democratic Presidential candidate. Parallel Dirty Tricks in Europe In Europe, a similar Cheney-led smear campaign is underway against LaRouche, emanating out of England, and spreading into Germany and elsewhere. The ostensible subject of the European slander is the suicide death of a young British man, following his participation in a Schiller Institute youth conference in Germany. Despite a thorough investigation into the incident by both German and British authorities, the smears have persisted, confusing many in Europe. The publication of the Insight attack on LaRouche now confirms that the British media slanders of LaRouche are part of the same Cheney-led dirty tricks effort, to subvert LaRouche's Presidential campaign in the United States. A 'Rogue Intelligence Cabal' The Nov. 24 Insight piece, accompanied by a photograph of Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith and Pentagon Office of Special Plans (OSP) head William Luti, accused Lyndon LaRouche of being the architect of a campaign to expose the OSP as a "rogue intelligence cabal," behind the unjustified and unwarranted Iraq war. Timmerman, whose attack on LaRouche is also being promoted by neo-con propagandist Frank Gaffney, through his Center for Security Policy website, lamented, "All this silliness could become deadly serious if Senate Democrats get their way, led by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)." Rockefeller has launched an SSCI probe into the OSP, and, in an Oct. 1 letter to Feith, demanded answers to a series of questions. A subsequent Oct. 30 letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, co-signed by Rockefeller and intelligence panel chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), gave the Pentagon 24 hours to produce the material and supply witnesses. In fact, on Oct. 27, Feith did submit a memo to the SSCI, with a top-secret annex, detailing "proof" that Saddam Hussein had been behind the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaeda terror attacks on New York and Washington. The Feith annex was also leaked to the neo-con Weekly Standard, which published lengthy excerpts from the classified document on Nov. 14, proclaiming "Case Closed"i.e., that Dick Cheney's lying assertions that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 were now "proven." Actual intelligence experts made mincemeat out of the Weekly Standard's effort to defend Cheney by regurgitating the Saddam-ran-Osama bin Laden fairytale. Former Defense Intelligence Agency Mideast head, Col. Pat Lang, debated Weekly Standard author Stephen Hayes on CNN on Nov. 20, and exposed the Feith memo as a cherry-picked collection of raw and uncorroborated intelligence reports. Former CIA officer Larry Johnson told The Hill on Nov. 19, "If anybody doubted that there was such a thing as intelligence with a [predetermined] purpose, this is a case study. Just because someone says something and it gets 'classified' stamped on it, doesn't necessarily mean it's true." 'Beast-Man' Cheney The leaking of the Feith annex to the neo-con media occurred simultaneously with the theft of Democratic Party staff memos from the Senate intelligence panel and the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sources say that both the thefts and the leaking of the pilfered staff memos to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, and right-wing radio gadfly Sean Hannity, were all aimed at bullying Democrats into a defensive postureallowing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to shut down the work of the Senate Intelligence Committee altogether, on the grounds that the Democrats were playing
[CTRL] 9/11 Victim Letter To Bush
-Caveat Lector- http://www.infowars.com/print/Sept11/widow_openletter.htm 9/11 Victim Ellen Mariani Open Letter to the President of the United States Thursday, 27 November 2003, 1:36 pm Press Release: Ellen Mariani Lawsuit Open Letter To The President Of The United States Mr. Bush, This ''open letter'' is coming from my heart. I want you to know that I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat and that this is not an attempt to ''bash the Government''. You Mr. Bush should be held responsible and liable for any and all acts that were committed to aid in any "cover up" of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. As President you have a duty to protect the American people. On September 11th you did not instruct your staff to issue a nationwide emergency warning/alert to advise us of the attack on America. We had to receive the news of the attacks via the news networks. In the months leading up to the attacks you were repeatedly advised of a possible attack on American soil. During your daily intelligence briefings you were given information that had been uncovered that the very real possibility existed that certain undesirable elements would use commercial aircraft to destroy certain "target" buildings. You never warned the American people of this possible threat. Who were you protecting? When you took no responsibility towards protecting the general public from the possibility of attack, you were certainly not upholding the oath you spoke when you took office. In that oath you pledged to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. On the morning of the attack, you and members of your staff were fully aware of the unfolding events yet you chose to continue on to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School to proceed with a scheduled event and "photo op". While our nation was under attack you did not appear to blink an eye or shed a tear. You continued on as if everything was "business as usual". In the days following the attacks all air traffic was grounded and Americans, including myself, were stranded wherever they had been when the flight ban was imposed. I was stranded at Midway Airport in Chicago, unable to continue on to California for my daughter's wedding. Imagine my surprise when I later found out that during this "no fly" period a number of people were flown out of the country on a 747 with Arabic lettering on the fuselage. None of these people were interviewed or questioned by any local, State or Federal agencies. Why were they allowed to leave and who exactly was on that flight. We know for a fact that some of the people on the flight were members of (or related to) the royal family of Saudi Arabia and members of the Bin Laden family. Were these people allowed to leave because of the long-standing relationships that your family has with both families? It is my belief that you intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen to gather public support for a "war on terrorism". These wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, have not accomplished what you stated were your goals. Why have you not captured Osama Bin Laden? Where are Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? All that has happened is a bill that is passed before Congress for 87 billion dollars to rebuild what you ordered blown to bits. As an American who lost a loved one in the "war on terror" I do pray and support our troops who were sent to Afghanistan and Iraq by you. These troops have and will continue to die for your lies. As an American I can make this statement as it appears that associates of your family may stand to prosper from the rebuilding of Afghanistan and Iraq. Mr. Bush the time has come for you to stop your control over us. Stop blocking the release of certain evidence and documents that were discovered by the 9/11 Investigation Commission if you have nothing to hide proving you did not fail to act and prevent the attacks of 9/11. Your reason for not releasing this material is that it is a matter of "national security". When in fact I believe that it is your personal credibility/security that you are concerned with. You do not want the public to know the full extent of your responsibility and involvement. After 9/11 the Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act were passed. Both of these allow the government to tap your telephone, search your home, and seize whatever they feel they need to do on a whim. They can do this without a judge's review or a warrant. I feel that this is in direct conflict with our rights as stated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We the families of 9/11 victims need to have answers to the following questions: 1. Why were 29 pages of the 9/11committee report personally censored at your request? 2. Where are the "black boxes" from Flight 11 and Flight 175? 3. Where are the "voice recorders" from Flight 11 and Flight 175? 4. Why can't we gain access to the complete air traffic control records for Flight 11 and Flight 175? 5. Where are the airport surveillance tapes that show
[CTRL] General: Israelis Exaggerated (LIED ABOUT) Iraq Threat
-Caveat Lector- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20031204/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_iraq_intelligencecid=540ncid=1480 General: Israelis Exaggerated Iraq Threat 1 hour, 45 minutes ago By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM - Israeli intelligence overplayed the threat posed by Iraq (news - web sites) and reinforced the U.S. and British assessment that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had large amounts of weapons of mass destruction, a retired Israeli general said Thursday. The Israeli assessment may have been colored by politics, including a desire to see the Iraqi leader toppled, said Shlomo Brom, who was a senior Israeli military intelligence officer and is now a researcher with Israel's top strategic think tank. Brom stopped short of accusing Israeli intelligence officials of intentionally misleading Britain and the United States. His assertions could, however, undermine the reputation of the Israeli intelligence service, one of the most respected in the world. The Israeli military declined comment, while other experts said Brom was exaggerating. Although no weapons of mass destruction have been found, U.S. and British policy-makers are sticking by their contention that Saddam's regime possessed the weapons and threatened world peace. Public debate continues in both countries over the claims. In an article in Strategic Assessment, a publication of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, Brom said weapons of mass destruction probably would not be found in significant quantities in Iraq. He said Israeli intelligence overplayed the potential danger before the war. Based on intelligence warnings that a U.S.-led invasion could trigger an Iraqi missile attack on Israel, possibly with chemical or biological weapons, the Israeli military ordered citizens to update their gas mask kits. As the war began, the military told Israelis to prepare for an imminent attack and carry the masks with them everywhere. Israelis largely ignored the order, and even Cabinet ministers were seen without the kits. In the end, Iraq did not fire missiles at Israel. During the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites), Saddam's forces fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel, and all had conventional warheads, causing considerable damage but few casualties. Brom told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that "Israeli intelligence was a full partner with the United States and Britain in developing a false picture of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capability." He said Israeli intelligence "badly overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and British belief that the weapons existed." Brom said the Israeli assessment may have been influenced by politics. "Israel has no reason to regret the outcome of the war in Iraq," he wrote, noting Saddam was an implacable enemy. Brom ended his 25-year military career in 1998. Career officers in Israel traditionally maintain close ties with military colleagues after their retirement. Yossi Sarid, an opposition member of parliament, demanded an inquiry. "If political factors interfere with intelligence assessments, heaven help us. That is the greatest danger," he told Israel Radio, adding that Israel's credibility could suffer. "When we present dire information about Iran's arming itself with nuclear weapons, who's going to take us seriously? They can say, 'You exaggerated about Iraq, too,'" Sarid said. Others argued Brom overstated the case. Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said there was a failure by all Western intelligence agencies in assessing the Iraq threat, but "to say that Israel is the prime mover in this is extremely farfetched." Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat research center at Bar-Illan University near Tel Aviv, rejected Brom's findings and accused him of trying to bolster Israeli doves who believe the country faces no credible external threats. "Intelligence has to warn of the worst-case scenario," Inbar said. He also questioned Brom's conclusion that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "They haven't found Saddam, either, but does that mean there was no Saddam Hussein?" Stuart A. Cohen, a top American intelligence analyst, wrote last month that with all the evidence the U.S. government possessed, "no reasonable person could have ... reached any conclusions or alternative views that were profoundly different from those that we reached." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said,
[CTRL] IDF Humiliating Dwarves For Fun
-Caveat Lector- http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=Board=news_internationalNumber=1082858t=-1#Post1082858 Israeli Soldiers Book Stirs Controversy [ Post 1082858 ] Category: News OpinionTopic: International Affairs Synopsis: Source: palestinechronicle.com Published: November 30, 2003Author: Unknown For Education and Discussion Only.Not for Commercial Use. "'I remember how we humiliated a dwarf who came to the checkpoint every day on his wagon ..'" OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - A former Israeli soldier who served three years in the Gaza Strip has described Israeli treatment of Palestinian civilians as befitting animals, criminals, and thieves. Staff Sergeant Liaran Ron Furer has written a book on his experience as an Israeli soldier manning roadblocks throughout the Gaza Strip. The book, titled Checkpoints-Twilight Zone contains personal testimonies and often-brash accounts of the daily harassment and humiliation inflicted by young Israeli soldiers on Palestinian civilians. Major publishers in Israel, including the famous Steimatzky bookstore chain refused to publish the book apparently because of its scathing criticism of Israeli army behavior. "You can adopt the most hard-line political positions, but no parent would agree to his son becoming a thief, a criminal or a violent person. The boy himself doesnt portray himself this way to his family when he returns from the territories. On the contrary, he is received as a hero, as someone who is doing the important work of being a soldier," says Furer in his book. Furer describes several types of sadistic behaviors by Israeli soldiers including beating Palestinians and then taking souvenir pictures with them. "I remember how we humiliated a dwarf who came to the checkpoint every day on his wagon. They forced him to have his picture taken on the horse, hit him and degraded for a good half hour." Among the accounts narrated by Furer are stories of soldiers having souvenir pictures with Palestinians they had beaten up, soldiers urinating on the head of a Palestinian because the man had the nerve to smile at a soldier and how one soldier, nicknamed Dado, forced a Palestinian to stand on four legs and bark like a dog. One of Furer`s most chilling confessions related to his abuse of a 16-year old mentally retarded boy. Furer stresses that behaviors as such are by no means isolated but rampant in the Israeli army. An Israeli army spokesperson refused to comment on the book saying sorry, I havent read the book yet. www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Our Entangling Alliance With Israel
-Caveat Lector- http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=264755lang=edir=news The Entangling American Alliance With Israel: More of the American Right Catches On 03-12-2003, 10:04 by Mark Dankof for Al Bawaba The American Neo-Conservative War Party, in firm control of both major political parties in the United States, is getting increasingly and obviously more desperate. The transparent desperation comes in the wake of plummeting opinion polls about Mr. Bushs preemptive war in Iraq. This in turn is related to brewing public discontent over provably false pre-war intelligence estimates, skyrocketing war bills, a steady stream of young American deaths in what is demonstrably now an urban guerrilla war in Baghdad, the ongoing public exposure of the crooked character of no-bid contract awards and accompanying war profiteering by the Presidents friends in entrenched places like Halliburton Oil and Bechtel, and insane suggestions by key Administration advisors that an expansion of the preemptive war doctrine may soon include Syria and Iran. The desperation is also due to the increasing inability of Mr. Bush and his Israeli-affiliated advisors to quash the free flow of information in an Internet age. Where once the denizens of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and The New Republic could insure a mainstream Left-Right War Party consensus on American Empire and Israel through the control and manipulation of disseminated news, their Information Monolith has become an increasing casualty of citizen accessibility to responsible domestic and international data and op-ed pieces which shed light upon what was an aura of darkness. The most recent example of the shedding of light and the absence of the Emperors clothing occurred this week in two articles covering a story with the potential to sear the War Party even further. The British Guardians November 22nd story by Jamie Doward and Jessica Hodgson entitled, "Pentagon Bankers May Bail Out [Conrad] Black: Ex-Presidents Club [Carlyle Group] Ready to Throw Lifeline to Embattled Telegraph Owner," and Justin Raimondos Antiwar.com op-ed piece entitled, "Conrad Black and the Corruption of Empire: The War PartyTheyre Thieves As Well as Liars," both reveal the ominous triangular alliance of Mr. Bushs Neo-Conservative Chicken Hawks with military-related contractors and the ever-present Israeli Lobby at a time when a trusting consensus in the President and his preemptive war policies is coming apart like a cheap suit. The story is fraught with implications. Lord Conrad Black, the recently deposed CEO of Hollinger International, Inc. and continued owner of the British Telegraph, was forced to step down at Hollinger after pocketing $7.2 million in unauthorized pay, not including millions in payments to Blacks front companies for "management services." Hollingers stockholders are demanding a company investigation. The Security and Exchange Commission is also involved. But far more than Conrad Blacks criminal exposure is involved in the Hollinger affair, whose newspaper portfolio includes the Likudnik Jerusalem Post. Justin Raimondo reminds readers at Antiwar.com that Chief Neo-Con adviser to George Bush and Israeli asset, Richard Perle, is a Board Member of Hollinger and the head of Hollinger Digital, the companys venture capital arm---which in turn has invested $2.5 million in Trireme Partners, a subsidiary seeking to cash in on defense contracts and the Homeland Security buildup. Hollinger International also invested $14 million in an outfit called Hillman Capital, whose managing partner, Gerald Hillman, is not only a Perle partner at Trireme, but a fellow colleague at the infamous Defense Policy Board. It is this latter American national security conclave where the interests of defense contractors and assets of the Ariel Sharon regime in Israel intersect in the Pentagon boards individual and collective membership. As Raimondo puts it, the Hollinger media combine is a ". . .particularly muscular tentacle of the Neo-Con media octopus. . .its demise would mark a great setback for the War Party." There is a corollary to this truism: the demise of Hollinger would not simply be a setback for the agitprop tentacles of the War Party, but a potential takedown of much more than the personage of Conrad Black. Who else might go down, criminally as well as politically, and what might be the subsequent implications for the credibility of American, Israeli, and British national security and banking elites if the takedown occurs in the light of day? Key chessplayers with concealed hands may be attempting to arrange the pieces on the board to insure that the answers remain hidden in the darkness. The infamous Carlyle Group, linked to Bush and Bin Laden family investments, American defense contractors and oil consortiums, central bankers and Likudniks, has now stepped forward to indicate a possible interest in rescuing
[CTRL] In Rumsfelds Shop
http://www.amconmag.com/12_1_03/feature.html December 1, 2003 issue Copyright 2003 The American Conservative In Rumsfelds Shop A senior Air Force officer watches as the neocons consolidate their Pentagon coup. By Karen Kwiatkowski Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the U.S. Air Force. Her final posting was as an analyst at the Pentagon. Below is the first of three installments describing her experience there. They provide a unique view of the Department of Defense during a period of intense ideological upheaval, as the United States prepared to launchfor the first time in its historya preventive war. In early May 2002, I was looking forward to retirement from the United States Air Force in about a year. I had a cushy job in the Pentagons Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, International Security Affairs, Sub-Saharan Africa. In the previous two years, I had published two books on African security issues and had passed my comprehensive doctoral exams at Catholic University. I was very pleased with the administrations Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sub-Saharan Africa, former Marine and Senator Helms staffer Michael Westphal, and was ready to start thinking about my dissertation and my life after the military. When Mike called me in to his office, I thought I was getting a new project or perhaps that one of my many suggestions of fun things to do with Africa policy had been accepted. But the look on his face clued me in that this was going to be one of those meetings where somebody wasnt leaving happy. After a quick rank check, I had a good idea which one it would be. There was a position in Near East South Asia (NESA) that they needed to fill right away. I wasnt interested. They phrased the question another way: We have been tasked to send a body over to Bill Luti. Can we send you? I resisteduntil I slowly guessed that in true bureaucratic fashion and can-do military tradition my name had already been sent over. This little soire in Mikes office was my farewell. I went back to my office and e-mailed a buddy in the Joint Staff. Bob wrote back, Write down everything you see. I didnt do it, but these most wise words from a trusted friend proved the first of three omens I would soon receive. I showed up down the hall a few days later. It looked just like the office from which I came, newer blue cubicles, narrow hallways piled high with copy paper, newspapers, unused equipment, and precariously leaning map rolls. The same old concrete-building smell pervaded, maybe a little mustier. I was taking over the desk of a CIA loaner officer. Joe had been called back early to the agency and was hoping to go to Yemen. Before he left, he briefed me on his biggest project: ongoing negotiations with the Qatari sheiks over who was paying for improvements to Al Udeid Air Base. I was familiar with Al Udeid from my time on the Air Staff a few years before. Back then we seemed to like the Saudis, and our Saudi bases were a few hours closer to the action than Al Udeid, so the U.S. played a woo-me game. Now that we needed and wanted Al Udeid to be finished quickly and done up right, it was time for the emirs to play hard to get. Joe gave me the rundown on counterterrorism ops in Yemen and an upcoming agreement with the Bahraini monarch to extend our military-security agreement, locking in a relationship just in case those Bahraini experiments with democracy actually took off. I had an obligatory meeting with the deputy director, Paul Hulley, Navy Captain. This meeting followed a phone call in which I hadnt been as compliant as I should have been with a Navy Captain, and since Paul had handled my bad attitude with candor and grace, I was determined to like himand I did. I gave him my story: I was a year from retirement and, more importantly, I was in a car pool. Id be working a 7:15 to 17:30 schedule. He was neither charmed nor impressed. He advised that Id need to be working a lot longer than that. Then we stepped in to meet Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Bill Luti. I knew Luti had a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts and was a recently retired Navy Captain himself. At this point, I didnt know what a neocon was or that they had already swarmed over the Pentagon, populating various hives of policy and planning like African hybrids, with the same kind of sting reflex. Luti just seemed happy to have me there as a warm body. My second omen was the super-size bottles of Tums and Tylenol Joe left in his desk. The third occurred as I was chatting with my new office mate, a career civil servant working the Egypt desk. As the conversation moved into Middle East news and politics, she mentioned that if I wanted to be successful here, I shouldnt say anything positive about the Palestinians. In 19 years of military service, I had never heard such a politically laden warning on such an obscure topic to such an inconsequential player. I had the sense of
[CTRL] The Conservative Case Against George W. Bush
http://www.amconmag.com/12_1_03/cover.html December 1, 2003 issue Copyright 2003 The American Conservative Righteous Anger The Conservative Case Against George W. Bush By Doug Bandow Some liberals admit that they hate President George W. Bush. Many conservatives say they are appalled at this phenomenon. Indeed, some of them believe any criticism of the president to be akin to treason. So much for the political tone in Washington. American politics have never been for the faint-hearted. Even George Washington suffered some public abuse, and presidential campaigns involving revolutionary luminaries John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were vitriolic. After the Civil War, Republican candidates routinely waved the bloody shirt; one GOP stalwart denounced the Democrats as the party of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. The GOP did not treat Harry Truman with kid gloves, and Democrats never let fairness impede their attacks on Barry Goldwater in 1964. Richard Nixon was widely reviled on the Left. Some fringe partisans expressed sorrow that John Hinckley failed in his assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. And then there was Bill Clinton. Some Republicans saw him as a drug-dealing murderer whose wife killed family friend Vincent Foster. Now Jonathan Chait of the New Republic says simply, I hate President George W. Bush. Not one to hold back, he explains, You decide Bush is a dullard lacking any moral constraints in his pursuit of partisan gain, loyal to no principle save the comfort of the very rich, unburdened by any thoughtful consideration of the national interest, and a man who, on those occasions when he actually does make a correct decision, does so almost by accident. More concisely, charges James Traub in the New York Times Magazine, George Bush is a craven, lazy, hypocritical nitwit. Chaits recent essay has triggered a spate of conservative responses. Bush is wonderful, liberals are irrational, and the whole thing is bad for America. These are rather hilarious arguments coming from conservatives. For instance, New York Times columnist David Brooks calls the phenomenon of the Bush haters a core threat to democracy. Yet, as Brooks acknowledges, the Clinton years were also well populated with haters. Brooks now regrets having not spoken out more clearly against the latter. Better late than never, perhaps, but his conversion looks awfully convenient, as does that of other conservative Bush defenders. Hatred of Bill Clinton never made sense. In contrast, anger was fully justified. I never understood why conservatives invested so much emotion in Clinton. He was a charming and bright but enormously flawed, highly ambitious man of few principles. That warranted criticism, not hatred. But I joined in early and often. During his first summer of discontent I urged Clintons critics to pile on as opposition mounted to his policies. Over the years there was a moral imperative to take aim in the target-rich environment: the attempted government takeover of the health-care system, the pork-barrel stimulus package, the use of jackboot tactics against critics of federal policies, the endless claims of victimization, the unjustified Kosovo war, the sale of administration access for campaign contributions, the special-interest Whitewater and cattle-futures pay-offs, the sustained efforts to cover up such abuses, and the presidential perjury in federal court proceedings. Clinton was properly impeached. He should have been removed from office. The rule of law demanded no less. Similarly, though George W. Bush is very different from Bill Clinton, hatred makes no sense. But anger is appropriate. Much of the liberal case against President Bush is barely short of silly. His election was not illegitimate. Whether or not the candidate with the most votes should win, thats not what the U.S. Constitution says. Blame the Founders, not George W. Bush. Complaints about Bushs fabled inarticulateness and privileged background are superficial. More worrisome are his partisan focus, demand for personal loyalty, and tendency to keep score, but these are hardly characteristics warranting hatred. The charge that hes a crazy right-winger is beyond silly. Other than tax cutswhich have benefited the rich only because the rich paid, and still pay, most of the taxesvirtually nothing of conservative substance has happened. Government is more expansive and expensive than ever before. Jonathan Chait must have been smoking funny cigarettes when he wrote, [I]ts not much of an exaggeration to say that Bush would like to roll back the federal government to something resembling its pre-New Deal state. Sad to say, inaugurating limited private retirement accounts is not the same as eliminating Social Security, let alone dismantling the Leviathan that has grown up in Washington. James Traub contends, Todays Republican Party is arguably the most extremethe furthest from the centerof any governing majority in the nations history. This is the
[CTRL] Controlling The News (Part 26)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a737.htm CONTROLLING THE NEWS Part 26 (November 21 2003 )Here we are again with the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination upon us. There will have to be the usual retrospectives. Of course, Oswald acted alone. Of course he did not but it has been established that he did to cover up what actually happened so we should interview his wife and others such as Gerald Posner and then forget the entire silly mess for another year. New book out that says LBJ was involved. Another one last year said the CIA did it. No publicity for either thesis. (November 22) The Pentagon is getting nervous over the continuing, highly orchestrated and deadly, Iraqi resistance. Or as the White House says, disorganized, minimal local bandits and criminals.. Our reporters are being threatened with unspecified problems if they dont toe the party line. That line? Everything is going to plan now (Question here: Whose plan? If the chaos in Baghdad is part of a plan, someone should be shot.) No negative comments about unhappy and mutinous GIs. No pictures of GIs who have been killed by mobs and mutilated. Especially no pictures or stories about enraged soldiers slaughtering locals in revenge for commando raids. Wolfowitz had an accident with his bladder when rockets slammed into his hotel recently. They mopped up after him as he fled to the airport. These men can certainly dish it out..especially from the safety of a Pentagon bunkerbut they cant take it. Odds are there will be some kind of a demonstration or, to be blunt, a mutiny of the troops, around Christmas. (November 23) The CIA has struck again, this time in Georgia. No, they have not blown up Atlanta but the former Soviet Republic has fallen securely into our hands. We want the area for an oil pipeline since the Taliban are restive again in Afghanistan and the projected Unocal pipeline to the sea is not possible at this point. This is also a shot across Putins bows warning him to be more cooperative with us or find us right on his doorstepthe next target will be the Ukraine. The Bush people are thinking about all the Ukrainians living in the US that might vote for George if he makes a show of liberating their people from the evil neo-Commie Putin. (November 24) hard wired phone companies are going the way of the dinosaur. Government loves this because it is so much easier to snoop on cell phones without bothering to get a warrant. And on this subject, look for a complete resurrection of the FBIs 70s anti war programs. These people will never learn. The repressive activities of these people toppled LBJ and will, if continued, topple BushHe is threatening the Canadians with various trade sanctions if they dont stop deserting GIs from taking refuge therethere is a sick joke about Bush having a picture of Hitler on one wall of his bedroom and another of Jesus on the otherSome joker put up a picture of Bush and the Saved Thanksgiving turkey. Caption was This turkey was reprieved and the addition was, which turkey? Not nice gentlemen. Someone might see this and drop a dime on all of us (November 28) Recent publication of an interview with General Franks brings up the institution of martial law by the Administration. There has been some muted but high-level discussions of this subject. Franks is a functioning idiot but the idea of Bush winning the 04 election like he did the last oneby outright fraudis a topic inside the Beltway. Plans have been drawn up for the eventuality that some kind of an attack, whether by groups in support of the President or actual foreign terrorists, will happen in the US and the lid can go on. The two groups that are Bushs most devoted supporters are the Born Again lunatics and the very far right. The first group actually believes the bs that God mandated a Bush presidency and that to lose him to secular humanists must be prevented by any means possible. And for these twisted souls, anything that they feel God wants is OK with them. They are the type that hear little voices in their heads that they believe is God telling them to kill their wives or shoot into that nice yellow school bus full of little African Americans. (The Bush people, especially the AJ, detest blacks because the Jewish elite around him detest blacks.) The ultra right is quivering with joy at the thought of the rest of us praying in schools, goose-stepping up and down the streets like Hitler Youth while American troops occupy most of the world in a New Roman Empire. Of course this is loonie froth on a tankard of stale ale but keep an eye on the nut fringe. This does not mean that Bush and his people would order a hit but it does mean that they would be the very first to exploit it, and the American public, to the hilt. Dont forget the Reichstag Fire in Germany and the ease with which Hitler passed his Enabling Act which clamped the iron collar on the neck of the public. =
[CTRL] Who Caused the Palestinian Diaspora?
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http://www.counterpunch.com/bisharat12032003.html
December 3, 2003
Who Caused the Palestinian Diaspora?
Origins of the Middle East Crisis
By GEORGE BISHARAT
In early October, I meandered the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland with
easy-laughing Mahmoud. We were bleary-eyed from international travel,
and from many hours of animated discussions at our conference.
Scholars, lawyers and activists had converged to explore ways to
implement the rights of Palestinians to return to and regain their homes,
seized by Israel in 1948. This fate had befallen Villa Harun ar-Rashid, the
Jerusalem home of my late grandfather, Hanna Ibrahim Bisharat. We had
been inspired by accounts of successful campaigns for housing restitution
for refugees and other dispossessed peoples in Bosnia, South Africa and
Rwanda.
The sky was leaden, the wind off the slate lake bracing. But the fountain
at the end of the lake lofted exuberant white plumes of water toward the
heavens, and seemed to elevate with them our hopes and dreams for a
more just and peaceful future.
Little did we suspect that in other conference rooms across the same
city, Israelis and Palestinians had been conducting covert, informal
negotiations for two years toward what are now touted as the "Geneva
Accord." The agreement, while envisioning a Palestinian state in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, studiously avoids mention of the very rights Mahmoud
and I, and many others, are fighting to protect. The negotiators,
prominent private citizens, include former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi
Beilin and former Palestinian Information and Culture Minister Yasser Abed
Rabbo.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has vehemently attacked the unofficial
pact, and the negotiators have been condemned as irresponsible
meddlers. The accord has no chance of adoption in the immediate future.
Its principal objective may have only been didactic: to teach Israelis there
is an alternative to the militaristic policies of Sharon.
The pointed silence regarding the Palestinian right of return, however,
means that an important opportunity has been missed to apprise Israelis,
and the world, of a critical reality. No real or lasting peace will be
achieved in the area until Israel finally admits the long-denied truth,
accepts moral responsibility and apologizes for its forcible exile of
Palestinian refugees 55 years ago.
In 1948, three quarters of a million Palestinians were driven from what
became Israel, their homes, land and possessions taken over by the new
Jewish state. Most were victims of direct military attacks, forcible
expulsion orders or a deliberate campaign of terror and intimidation,
fueled by actual massacres. A post-war internal report from the Haganah (a
quasi-official Jewish militia) stated that of 391,000 Palestinians who had fled
by June, 1948, some 73 percent had done so in response to Jewish military
operations.
Palestinian villagers were often attacked at night, from two or three sides,
while a road to the closest Arab country was left open. Their flight was
hastened by news of massacres committed by Zionist forces, the most
infamous of which occurred on April 9, 1948 in Deir Yassin. Up to 254
mostly unarmed Palestinians were slaughtered. Some were paraded in
Jerusalem on trucks before being executed.
Describing the July 10, 1948 attack on Kweikat, near Haifa, a villager
attested: "We were awakened by the loudest noise we had ever heard,
shells exploding and artillery fire ... the whole village was in panic ... Most
of the villagers began to flee with their pajamas on. The wife of Qasim
Ahmad Said fled [mistakenly] carrying a pillow in her arms instead of her
child."
Exile involved more than material deprivation. Palestinians lost their homes,
belongings, fields, orchards, workshops, possessions, professions -- but
more than that they lost their human dignity. Any people that has suffered
massive wrongs -- African- Americans, Japanese-Americans, Jews --
understand the special wound of victimization for who you are, not what
you have done.
Like slavery for African-Americans, internment for Japanese-Americans and
the Nazi holocaust for Jews, the "Nakba" ("Catastrophe") was a seminal
event in the consciousness of the Palestinian people. No act of the
Palestinians justified their expulsion. Their only "crime" was that they were
born Christians and Muslims in a place coveted by the Zionist movement
for an exclusive Jewish state, and refused to slink off into history as a
vanquished people.
As Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, once candidly admitted to
a colleague: "If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel.
That is natural: We have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us,
but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from
Israel, it's true, but 2,000 years ago, and what is that to them? There has
been anti-Semitism, the Nazis,
[CTRL] No, anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1098625,00.html No, anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism As an idea, a Jewish homeland was always controversial. As a reality, Israel still is - and it is not anti-Jewish to say so Brian Klug Wednesday December 3, 2003 The Guardian >From the beginning, political Zionism was a controversial movement even among Jews. So strong was the opposition of German orthodox and reform rabbis to the Zionist idea in the name of Judaism that Theodor Herzl changed the venue of the First Zionist Congress in 1897 from Munich to Basle in Switzerland. Twenty years later, when the British foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour (sponsor of the 1905 Aliens Act to restrict Jewish immigration to the UK), wanted the government to commit itself to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, his declaration was delayed - not by anti-semites but by leading figures in the British Jewish community. They included a Jewish member of the cabinet who called Balfour's pro-Zionism "anti-semitic in result". The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 has not put an end to the debate, though the issue has changed. Today, the question is about Israel's future. Should it become a "post-Zionist" state, one that defines itself in terms of the sum of its citizens, rather than seeing itself as belonging to the entire Jewish people? This is a perfectly legitimate question and not anti-semitic in the least. When people suggest otherwise - as Emanuele Ottolenghi did on these pages last Saturday - they simply add to the growing confusion. Ottolenghi contends that "Zionism comprises a belief that Jews are a nation, and as such are entitled to self-determination as all other nations are". This is doubly confused. First, the ideology of Jewish nationalism was irrelevant to many of the Jews, as well as non-Jewish sympathisers, who were drawn to the Zionist goal of creating a Jewish state in Palestine. They saw Israel in purely humanitarian or practical terms: as a safe haven where Jews could live as Jews after centuries of being marginalised and persecuted. This motive was strengthened by the Nazi murder of one-third of the world's Jewish population, the wholesale destruction of Jewish communities in Europe, and the plight of masses of Jewish refugees with nowhere to go. Second, you do not have to be an anti-semite to reject the belief that Jews constitute a separate nation in the modern sense of the word or that Israel is the Jewish nation state. There is an irony here: it is a staple of anti-semitic discourse that Jews are a people apart, who form "a state within a state". Partly for this reason, some European anti-semites thought that the solution to "the Jewish question" might be for Jews to have a state of their own. Herzl certainly thought he could count on the support of anti-semites. What is anti-semitism? Although the word only goes back to the 1870s, anti-semitism is an old European fantasy about Jews. The composer Richard Wagner exemplified it when he said: "I hold the Jewish race to be the born enemy of pure humanity and everything noble in it." An anti-semite sees Jews this way: they are an alien presence, a parasite that preys on humanity and seeks to dominate the world. Across the globe, their hidden hand controls the banks, the markets and the media. Even governments are under their sway. And when revolutions occur or nations go to war, it is the Jews - clever, ruthless and cohesive - who invariably pull the strings and reap the rewards. When this fantasy is projected on to Israel because it is a Jewish state, then anti-Zionism is anti-semitic. And when zealous critics of Israel, without themselves being anti-semitic, carelessly use language, such as "Jewish influence", that conjures up this fantasy, they are fuelling an anti-semitic current in the wider culture. But Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is no fantasy. Nor is the spread of Jewish settlements in these territories. Nor the unequal treatment of Jewish colonisers and Palestinian inhabitants. Nor the institutionalised discrimination against Israeli Arab citizens in various spheres of life. These are realities. It is one thing to oppose Israel or Zionism on the basis of an anti-semitic fantasy; quite another to do so on the basis of reality. The latter is not anti-semitism. But isn't excessive criticism of Israel or Zionism evidence of an anti-semitic bias? In his book, The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz argues that when criticism of Israel "crosses the line from fair to foul" it goes "from acceptable to anti-semitic". People who take this view say the line is crossed when critics single Israel out unfairly; when they apply a double standard and judge Israel by harsher criteria than they use for other states; when they misrepresent the facts so as to put Israel in a bad light; when they vilify the Jewish state; and so on. All of which undoubtedly is foul. But is it necessarily anti-semitic?
[CTRL] Zionist Firsts
-Caveat Lector- http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=Board=news_internationalNumber=1078628t=-1#Post1078628 Here are some Confirmed Zionist firsts: Grenades in cafes, first used against Palestinians in Jerusalem on 17 March, 1937. Delayed-action, electrically timed mines in crowded market-places: first against Palestinians in Haifa, 6 July, 1938. Blowing up a ship with its civilian passengers still on board: first in Haifa, 25 November, 1940. The Zionists did not hesitate to blow up their own people to protest the British policy of strict Jewish immigration to Palestine. The ship Patria had 1,700 Jewish immigrants. Assassination of government official outside Palestine: first used against the British in Cairo, when on 6 November, 1944 Lord Moyne was assassinated by the Stern Gang. Yitzhak Shamir, a member of the Irgun and later leader of the Stern Gang was behind the plan. . Taking of hostages to put pressure on a government: first used against the British in Tel Aviv, 18 June, 1946. Blowing up government offices with their civilian employees and visitors: first used against the British in Jerusalem, 22 July, 1946. The toll was 91 Britons, and 46 injured in King David Hotel. Begin, who masterminded and carried out the attack, admitted that the massacre was coordinated with and carried out under the instruction of the Haganah. Booby-trapped suitcase: first used against the British Embassy in Rome, 13 October, 1946. Booby-trapped car parked alongside buildings: first used against the British in Sarafand (east of Jaffa) on 5 December, 1946. Flogging of hostages: first used against the British in Tel Aviv, Natanya and Rishon, 29 December, 1946. Letter-bombs sent to politicians outside Palestine: first used against Britain when twenty letter-bombs were sent from Italy to London between 4 and 6 June, 1947. Murder of hostages as a reprisal for government actions: first used against the British in Natanya area on 29 July, 1947. Postal Parcel-bomb sent outside Palestine: first used against the British in London, 3 September, 1947. The first Mideast airplane hijacked was committed by Israel in 1954 when a civilian Syrian airliner was hijacked after taking off. (In December 1954, Israeli military jets intercepted a civilian aircraft in Syrian airspace that had recently taken off from Damascus, and forced it to land within Israeli territory. Syrian passengers were detained for 48 hours, pending negotiations over the fate of five Israeli soldiers who had been captured inside Syrian territory while mounting wiretapping installations.) An excerpt from the *Israeli* book (Palestinians: The Making of a People, by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel s. Migdal) The sequence of events in Dayr Yasin is now scarcely disputed. The villages nonbelligerency pact with local Jewish forces did not spare it being swept into the Jewish offensive to break the Arab stranglehold on Jerusalem. Following an intense battle between Palestinian militiamen and Irgun forces with some Haganah mortar support, Palestinian forces departed and the Irgun entered the village on April 9. In brutal acts of revenge for their losses, the Jewish fighters killed many of the remaining men, women, and children and raped and mutilated others. Those not killed immediately were ignominiously paraded through Jerusalem And here are some good books with which to confirm these incidents: http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/qbib.htm The moral posturing that puts all blame on Palestinians while excusing all Israeli provocation is the height of hypocrisy. www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] A Coverup That Won't Stay Covered
-Caveat Lector- http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts20.html A Coverup That Wont StayCovered by Paul Craig Roberts CNN recently reported that "the Justice Department is re-examining its investigation into the 1995 death of a federal prisoner that the victims family alleges was murder at the hands of the government." The victim was Kenneth Michael Trentadue. At 7 AM on August 21, 1995, officials from the Oklahoma Medical Examiners office arrived at the new Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center for the body of a man recently picked up for parole violation who allegedly was a suicide by hanging. The astonished state officials saw a body with scalp split to the skull in three places, throat slashed, and a body completely covered in blood, bruises and burns. As law requires, the officials asked to see the cell in which the alleged suicide occurred. Federal officials pulled rank and refused on the grounds that a federal investigation was underway. A federal investigation was not underway. The state officials told the prison officials that the bodys condition required FBI notice and protection of the cell as an undisturbed crime scene. Associate Warden Max Flowers, however, ordered the cell to be cleaned before any investigation could be done. Flowers claimed that medical staff informed him that Trentadue was HIV-positive and that it was urgent to remove the infectious blood. Trentadue was not HIV-positive. Dr. Fred B. Jordan, the Chief Medical Examiner of the state of Oklahoma, was stunned at the destruction of evidence by federal authorities and at the way federal officials blocked his office from carrying out required duties. In a memo to the file dated December 20, 1995, Dr. Jordan described his frustration over being stonewalled by top Department of Justice officials in Washington. He recorded that he confided to the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma City that "I felt Mr. Trentadue had been abused and tortured." Two years later Dr. Jordan said on a Fox News Interview (July 3, 1997): "I think its very likely he [Kenneth Trentadue] was murdered. Im not able to prove it. I have temporarily classified the death as undetermined. You see a body covered with blood, removed from the room as Mr. Trentadue was, soaked in blood, covered with bruises, and you try to gain access to the scene and the government of the United States says no, you cant. "They [the federal government] continued to prohibit us from having access to the scene of his death, which is unheard of, until about five months later. When we went in [the cell] and luminoled, it lit up like a candle because blood was still present on the walls of the room after four or five months. But at that point we have no crime scene, so there are still questions about the death of Kenneth Trentadue that will never be answered because of the actions of the U.S. government." Dr. Jordans effort to do his job brought him under great pressure and harassment from federal authorities. Realizing his peril, on August 25, 1997, Dr. Jordan wrote to IRS Commissioner Margaret Richardson: "The requirements of my job as chief Medical Examiner for the State of Oklahoma are currently bringing me into an uncomfortable juxtaposition with the United States Department of Justice. In order to protect myself from retribution, I would like information as to how to request a protective audit from your agency. By this, I simply mean a standard audit in order to avoid having your agency used to harass me as I proceed with my inquiries into a death that directly relates to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City." In a hand written memo to his file dated October 22, 1997, of a telephone conversation with U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D, ND), Dr. Jordan recorded: "confirmed my feelings that the investigation was crippled, the decedent was at the least beaten, we havent found the truth and probably wont, reiterated my lack of trust in the Fed. govt and the Dept of Justice in particular." Unable to secure from Dr. Jordan a ruling that Trentadues injuries were self-inflicted, the DOJ sought the cooperation of Dr. Bill Gormley, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Dr. Gormley came to the same conclusion as Dr. Jordan and came under the same pressures. In a memo to file dated May 30, 1997, Kevin Rowland, Chief Investigator in the Oklahoma Medical Examiners Office records a telephone call he had from Dr. Gormley: "The basic purposes for his call was to 1-find out what they [DOJ] are up to because he was very suspicious, and 2-ask if I might be able to explain why they only wanted certain testimony from him, since he told them that we had already given them the truth. He was troubled that they only seemed interested in him saying it might be possible these injuries are self-inflicted." Senator Orrin Hatch (R, UT) threatened the DOJ with Senate Judiciary Hearings on the case. However, FBI documents (Dec. 5, 1997 and Jan. 28, 1998) indicate that FBI agents
[CTRL] Israel Approves More Homes In Settlements
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29686-2003Dec2?language=printer Israel Approves Construction Of More Homes At Settlements By John Ward Anderson Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, December 3, 2003; Page A16 JERUSALEM -- The government of Israel has approved the construction of more than 1,720 new houses in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip this year, according to critics of the settlements who say they undercut a U.S.-backed peace plan that mandates a freeze on settlement expansion. The planned building is in addition to at least 1,000 homes and other infrastructure projects under construction in the West Bank, which Israel is also encircling with a massive fence complex, according to groups and officials that monitor settlement activity. Two weeks ago, Israeli soldiers began expanding the boundary of Beitar Ilit, a community of more than 20,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews about five miles southwest of Jerusalem. Beitar Ilit is one of the fastest-growing settlements in the West Bank; it added 2,900 residents last year. Last week, Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim announced that several unauthorized settlement outposts -- many of them just a trailer on a remote hilltop between existing settlements -- would soon be categorized as legitimate settlements. "I've never seen settlement expansion at such a rate, ever," said Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian political analyst, who claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pushing ahead with settlements while the peace process drags on. "He's stealing time to impose his own facts on the ground by practically annexing more than half the West Bank" with the fence project, Barghouti added, "and imposing ghettoization on Palestinian villages that will mean the destruction of a two-state solution." The Jewish settlers acknowledge their goal is to add more housing. "Our target is to grow and expand as much as possible," said Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, a spokesman for the Yesha Council, the settlement umbrella organization. In recent weeks, U.S. officials have criticized Israel's refusal to stop building both settlements and the barrier snaking through the West Bank. The officials have said the moves complicate the revival of the peace plan known as the "road map," and could undermine a final accord. The road map, which was adopted by the Israelis and Palestinians at a summit meeting in Aqaba, Jordan, on June 4, obligates Israel to freeze "all settlement activity (including natural growth of settlements)" and "immediately" dismantle the estimated 56 outposts established since Sharon took office in March 2001. "Israel should freeze settlement construction, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people and not prejudice final negotiations with the placements of walls and fences," President Bush said in a speech two weeks ago in London. Sharon's spokesman, Raanan Gissin, said Israel was committed to removing a few dozen outposts but added, "We can't evacuate them when we're under attack. That only encourages more terrorist activity." Israel has also agreed to freeze the number, but not the size, of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Gissin said. He said Israel has an "understanding" with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell that natural growth is permitted. "People have the right to live and multiply and give birth, and we are not going to throw them out," he said. U.S. officials have denied that Powell made any agreement permitting the natural growth of settlements. In addition to 635 new homes approved before the Aqaba summit, the Israeli government has approved the construction of at least 1,092 more in the West Bank since adopting the road map, according to Peace Now, a group that is critical of settlements and that monitors housing construction contracts. The total of 1,727 homes approved so far this year is roughly the same as in the previous two years, before Israel adopted the road map, according to the Foundation for Middle East Peace, a Washington-based research group that monitors settlement policy. Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz have been quoted in the Israeli press in recent days as saying that Israel has dismantled 43 outposts since the Aqaba summit. The government refused several requests to provide a list of the outposts. Instead, it referred a reporter to testimony in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, two weeks ago in which Gideon Ezra, a minister without portfolio in Sharon's government, named 10 outposts that had been evacuated. Peace Now, which keeps authoritative settlement data, claims that 15 outposts have been dismantled since Aqaba, including seven that were built after the summit. Five outposts established after Aqaba have not been dismantled, according to the group, for a net decrease of three outposts since the peace plan was adopted. Israel's settlement program is highly controversial and over the
[CTRL] If This Is Freedom, What Exactly Is Dictatorship?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1418 If This Is Freedom, What Exactly Is Dictatorship? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 30, 2003Let me see if I have this right. In the United States of America: 1. The president now has the unrestricted power to declare war against a country that has not attacked the United States, wreaking death and destruction on both sides of the conflict. 2. The president now has the unrestricted power to round up unlimited numbers of American citizens within the United States and incarcerate them in military brigs or concentration camps for the rest of their lives and keep them from ever again communicating with friends, families, and attorneys, simply on the president's certification that the incarcerated Americans are "terrorists," as he has done with Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi. 3. The president now has the unrestricted power to seize American citizens abroad and remove them to its military base in Cuba, where they can be kept for the rest of their lives and kept from ever again communicating with friends, family, and attorneys, solely on the basis of his certification that the imprisoned Americans are "terrorists," as he initially did with Yaser Esam Hamdi. 4. The president now has the unrestricted power to kill American citizens abroad solely on the basis of his certification that the killed Americans are "terrorists," as he did to Ahmed Hijazi, the American who was killed with a U.S.-fired missile in Yemen. Pardon me for asking the following two indelicate questions: First, if all this is freedom, what exactly is dictatorship?... Second, after the Iraqi people are freed from dictatorship, would it be asking too much to do the same for the American people through the adoption of the following two amendments to the U.S. Constitution: "The Congress shall have the power to declare war, and this time we really do mean it." "No person shall be denied life, liberty, or property without due process of law, and this time we really do mean it." Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CNN/Fox Lied About Sammara Massacre
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http://www.rense.com/general45/hes.htm
CNN And Fox Lied About
Sammara Massacre
Commentary by
Moshe Ben Gurion
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel Aviv, Israel
12-1-3
Shalom Mr. Rense,
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! I do not understand how the American news media is lying over and over again.
Yesterday, Reuters correspondent interviewed locals in Sammara Iraq, who said that the Americans came and massacre civilians in the streets. This was 'expected' by the frustrated American military, since the Iraqi freedom fighters (whom the Americans conveniently call 'terrorists'), killed seven Spanish spies and two Japanese spies the day before.
Later, CNN came with a new fabricated story about killing 54 Fidayeen Iraqi soldiers. CNN exaggeration continue unabated in describing the 'black uniforms' of the Iraqis, in order to create the impression that the Americans killed a real fighters and not just massacred civilians in the middle of the streets as Reuters reported. The American commander (self proclaimed hero), continued his fables by describing how an American tank blew up a building with all the 54 black dressed 'terrorists' inside. REAL AMERICAN HERO! This totally contradicted CNN previous report that a whole caravan was attacked from different directions, AND NOT from just one building!
Al Jazeera exposed the Pentagon lies as a simple military bloodbath of civilians ('Mai Lay' all over again): http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/56EE3BDE-1510-4F73-9D74-C820DF8FFD67.htm This al Jazeera report agrees with the initial Reuters report!
I just heard a few minutes ago an interview with the Iraqi manager of the Hospital in Sammara and he said that he is aware of ONLY EIGHT civilians killed. this support the INITIAL report by Reuters, that the Americans entered the town and massacre its citizens in the streets.
The present Holocaust that the Americans are inflicting on the Iraqi people will fail, just as our Holocaust of the Palestinian people is failing...BIG TIME!
CNN has upgraded the propaganda to a new level, when the American commander at this 'news' conference, stood in front of a movie stage, with a 'tank' behind him on the screen. The whole 'news conference' was staged as a spectacular Hollywood production, to create the impression that he is 'Patten'.
CNN manipulations is an insult to our common sense. In the latest 'news' version that CNN wants us to believe, the Iraqi 'terrorists' knew that the Americans were carrying cash. OH YES? the Iraqi peasants has now infiltrated the American top command and knew all American movements? GIVE ME A BREAK ! American 'news' media is so corrupt, it is beyond repair, IT IS NOW A DANGER TO AMERICA (not 'bin Laden').
When NO 54 bodies of black dressed Iraqis Fidayeen were found, the American commander commented that maybe someone took them! OH YES?
EXCUSE ME ! how did the American commander knew that there were 54 bodies, if no one has seen them? Do the Americans expect us to believe that the 'terrorists' who seem to be smart, will exposed themselves to the Americans in Black uniforms? American military propaganda is VERY childish compared with the Nazi propaganda.
As I am typing this email to you, I can hear on the radio that the American commander started to withdraw his story. The situation is so reniculus, we can never trust what the American military are saying in Iraq anymore. Americas credibility worldwide is at its lowest level in history. I just received an email from a business partner in China. He said that the Chinese are watching, and since the Americans are totally out of control with their web of lies, WW3 possibility is now discussed very often in china. He said most Chinese believe that the USA and Israel are behind 911.
Mr. Rense, please encourage your readers to listen VERY CAREFULLY to the initial reports of any event they hear on the 'news', IT IS ALL FABRICATED to the max. This 'production' by CNN have elevated 'journalism' to the level of Ben Hur. It is now practically impossible for the average person to find out the truth. We in Israel already lost our freedom to Sharon and the NWO, if you Americans want to preserve whatever left you have of your freedom, CNN should be prosecuted for this 'performance' . I did not watch Fox-News this time, normally they are MUCH worse than CNN, and practically every one on their staff should be prosecuted. Fox news is not as dangerous as CNN, as they are not clever as CNN, and it is very easy to spot their lies.
OH BOY, AND TO THINK HOW WE ISRAELIS USED TO ADMIRE THE AMERICANS WHEN I WAS A KID!
Thank you,
Moshe Ben Gurion
Tel Aviv
RADIO NEWSBREAK As I am finishing this email, I just heard that the actual events were like this:
1. American convoy drove through Summara
2. It was attacked by a few Iraqis.
3. The Iraqis fled
4. The American were really scared and started shooting at everything else in sight 5. They massacre eight civilians and made
Re: [CTRL] Putting together the pieces that bring destruction
-Caveat Lector- Dorothy (Zuukie), have you forgotten to take your lithium? You know you're supposed to take it every single day or things like this happen. Take your medicine honey and then you'll feel all better... Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Sharon's Secret Plan To Remove Palestinians From Israel
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1299 Ariel Sharons Secret Plan to Remove Palestinians from Israel Gordon Thomas 29 November 2003 Israels hard-line prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has ordered his intelligence chiefs and defence forces to prepare a secret plan to drive hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the West Bank. They would be deported to the no-mans land in southern Lebanon. The area is a desolate landscape with freezing conditions in winter and broiling temperatures in summer. There is scant soil to produce food. Water is also scarce in the region. Sharon has calculated that, if the plan is implemented, it will cause a furore across Europe. But he believes it will be supported by the powerful Jewish lobby in the United States the only country whose opinion now ultimately matters to the Israeli leader. Jordanian intelligence chiefs say that the operation details of which were leaked to them by a friendly foreign intelligence service could start next year, when the United States will be heavily engaged in the Presidential election campaign. Details of the plan will almost certainly be raised by prime minister Tony Blair with President Bush when he visits London next week. Blair is not known to be a great fan of Ariel Sharon. Bush, on the other hand, nowadays regards the aged Israeli leader as a powerful instrument to help him win next years election. London based sources with good connections to the Jordanian secret service say Sharon wants the plan ready by the end of the year. He seems to be resigned that the roadmap to peace will then be over and that terror groups will resume their suicide bomber attacks, said one of the sources. Sharon believes this will give him a just excuse to remove the Palestinians as they would then pose what he has called a totally unacceptable threat to the safety of Israel. Details of his plan have also been leaked last week to Western intelligence services, including MI6. King Abdullah II of Jordan revealed his own fear about Israeli intentions on his recent visit to London. Driving out Arafat and his Palestinians would lead to an uprising in the Middle East against everything Western, said a senior Jordanian intelligence officer. Of immediate concern to Abdullah is that his own tiny kingdom a mere pimple on the rump of Arab nationalism was how one Western intelligence report describes Jordan could be swept away. Its Arab neighbours have not forgotten that in 1991, King Abdullahs late father, King Hussein, lent his support to Saddam. With the prospect of an influx from the West Bank of Palestinians and the pro-Iraqi sentiments of many Jordanians, who are bitterly opposed to King Abdullahs acceding to American pressure, the 41-year-old monarch could find himself toppled or even assassinated. ends www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Putting together the pieces that bring destruction
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/30/2003 11:46:45 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keep posting these kind of replies Shannon. We all know who is getting hit by the rock thrown into the crowd by the yelp. Oh sure Zuukie. How do you find the time to post when there are "new age" boogiemen out to getcha? Yeah, that new age is so scary. Between their crystals and their patchouli oils I don't know what to fear most!! Keep shilling for racism and hatred Zuukie...for the apartheid Zionist regime you so admire...I'll struggle for America FIRST. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Putting together the pieces that bring destruction
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/30/2003 7:06:33 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way shannon would you classify yourself a freedom loving american patriot??? honesty...? I sure would. Would you classify yourself as a delusional, cowardly twat? That's exactly where I classify you. Enough feeding the troll. Have fun, I'm fini with the under 13 crowd. How about a last name Daniel...or are you, like Zuukie, to chickenshit to put your name to your drivel? Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Putting together the pieces that bring destruction
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/30/2003 7:32:08 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good, then how about being a REAL PATRIOTIC american and show us some of that famous american "freedom of speech" towords us or is that only reserved for yourself shannon? Sign your name to it like a man and I would be more sympathetic. Right now you're a cowardly twat. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Putting together the pieces that bring destruction
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/30/2003 9:01:07 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's an old communist technique, used in many different settings, to avoid the issue by putting the spotlight on the individual making the revealing comment. No Dorothy, it's actually just that it's kind of hard to take anyone too seriously who is too chickenshit (like you) to actually put their name to what they post. Nothing more than that. Maybe you'll figure out someday that most people are laughing AT you Dorothy, and that it's abundantly clear that you're a hateful zealot who doesn't even have the courage of your convictions. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] SMALLPOX PROVISIONS HIDDEN IN HOMELAND SECURITY BILL
http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1417 SMALLPOX PROVISIONS HIDDEN IN HOMELAND SECURITY BILL by Mike Davis 11/14/2002, 11:22:00 The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is urging Members of Congress to eliminate the section of the new Homeland Security Bill that would give the HHS Secretary virtually unlimited powers to declare an emergency and order smallpox treatment that could include forced immunizations and quarantines. The 480-page bill, HR 5710 hits the floor of the House tonight, even though most Members haven't had a chance to read it yet. Section 304, Subsection C is titled "Administration of counter measures against smallpox." It gives the Secretary of HHS these unchecked powers (pg. 76): Declare an actual or POTENTIAL bio-terrorist or other kind of incident He can administer "countermeasures" to a category of individuals or everyone He can continually extend the declare the declaration without Congress's consent Also, if you are harmed, you cannot sue or take any other civil remedy. "This section will give the Secretary unlimited power to define a real or potential threat, to take any measures he decides, and to do it for as long as he wants," said Kathryn Serkes, AAPS spokeswoman. "Its Alice in Wonderland time again an emergency is just what he says it is." Serkes also points out that the section echoes the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act that most state legislatures defeated this past year. "Just remove 'governor' from the old bill and insert 'Secretary' and magically you have a federal bill that was firmly rejected by voters across the country," said Serkes. AAPS sent out thousands of email alerts urging voters to ask that the section be removed. "Just what are the 'counter measures' allowed?" Forced immunizations? Quarantines? Its not clear, but the powers seem virtually unchecked by any other agency," said Serkes. "We need an honest accounting of how this will work. It's too frightening to allow it to be rammed through." AAPS has repeatedly applauded the President's movement toward an advance, voluntary immunization to head off forced vaccines following an attack.
[CTRL] Sharon's Right of Returnto Violence
http://solidarity.igc.org/atc/106jrf.html Sharon's Right of Returnto Violence by Joel R. Finkel Whereas seventy-three percent of the Palestinians supported this ceasefire, because they were offered exactly nothing, because they continued to see their land and homes confiscated, and because they continued to see their villages imprisoned by the wall, far fewer are likely to support the next one. This is what the military leaders of Israel wanted all alongwith every turn of the wheel, the secular leaders get weaker and the Islamists get strongerand now they can have the pleasure of dancing on the graves of many more innocent Israelis and Palestinians. ARIEL SHARON'S RIGHT of Return, or shall we say his Return to the Right, has led Israelis and Palestinians full circle in their cycle of violence. Sadly, they are now one level closer to hell, and it will be even more difficult for them to survive. While almost entirely predictable, it is instructive to review the steps and strategies that have led to the current horrific disaster, which will claim the lives of many more Palestinians and Israelis. The motor force that propelled events along this path was, as always, the Israeli leadership's unwillingness to sacrifice a single square millimeter of land and its undying commitment to the Zionist project of colonizing the entire Palestinian homeland. Talk Peace, Give Nothing As always, it faced the resolute commitment of the indigenous population, which has now been relegated to but eleven percent of its original homeland, to resist this plan. Superimposed on this familiar backdrop was the reemergence of an enormous corruption scandal, which would have brought down any other government. Sharon's trustworthiness among Israelis has dropped precipitously. It is not surprising, therefore, that distractions would be created. These first came in the form of increased activity on the Lebanese border. Ordering Air Force planes to fly over Lebanese air space, Sharon was able to provoke Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon to fire some scattered anti-aircraft fire, which landed near Israeli border settlements. Claiming these to be intentional attacks, Sharon started to attack Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, which he hoped would provoke them into serious reprisals. As this failed, he sent aircraft to break the sound barrier over Beirut. Worse still, the United States was not only becoming annoyed with the Israeli government, it was, for the first time in years, talking about freezing loan guarantees. The result needs to be examined closely. In doing so, we need to keep in mind this theory: The strategy of the Israeli government is to make it appear that it wants peace, raise the Palestinians' expectations, and then give them absolutely nothing. In this way, the moderate Palestinian leaders lose credibility. This, in effect, destroys Israel's negotiating partner, allowing it to claim that the only solution is a military one. Indeed, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, a top polling agency on Palestinian public opinion, seventy-three percent of the Palestinians supported the ninety-day ceasefire declared in June. However, this ceasefire was unilateral, as Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom stated in a radio interview: This ceasefire is not an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. The ceasefire is an agreement among the Palestinians themselves. We have a security agreement with the Palestinians. (Israel Radio, "Reshet Beit," August 10, 2003) That the ceasefire was effective was admitted by Shaul Mofaz, Israel's Defense Minister, who reported that terrorism alerts had dropped by about seventy-five percent. (The Washington Post, 7/23/2003) Yet Israel kept claiming that the Palestinians were not fulfilling the requirements of the road map as they were not actually dismantling Hamas. Israel knew this demand was unrealistic. It was akin to demanding that the Republicans dismantle the Democrats. It was a demand that the Palestinian Authority (PA) start a civil war. The United States came to understand this. On August 4, 2003, the U.S. State Department began talking about speeding up the delivery of $300 million in aid to the PA, and was already backing off its demands that they simply crush the Hamas leadership: "We've emphatically stated in public and private what needs to be done," a senior American official said. "It is clear that it cannot be done instantly. It requires planning, a strengthening of security forces and a unification of those forces under Abbas and Dahlan." (New York Times, August 2, 2003) Obviously, what was possible was to negotiate a ceasefire under which Hamas and Islamic Jihad stopped their attacks within Israel. In return, it was expected that Israel live up to at least some aspects of the road map and reduce its level of violence against the Palestinians. Instead, Israel violated every principle of the road map
[CTRL] Anti-Semitism
-Caveat Lector- http://english.daralhayat.com/letters/10-2003/Article-20031009-217e3cb1-c0a8-01ed-003c-37f4ff9bd91e/story.html Anti-Semitism J. Bruce Campbell Dar Al-Hayat 2003/10/9 Dear Al-Hayat, Congratulations to the writer of 'A New Definition of Anti-Semitism' (Jihad Al Khazen - Ayoon wa Azan, 6 Oct. 2003). The sadistic nature of Zionism must be emphasized so that the dimmest person associates the word with scorn and revulsion. There is one thing that puzzles me: You are apparently a Semite. And you know very well that the Russian Jews - the Ashkenazim - who control Israel and the United States are not Semitic. But you and all Arabs, who should know better, allow the weaponization of the Jewish term, "anti-Semitism." You Semites never use this term to characterize those who hate and murder you. The genuine anti-Semites are the Zionists, to whom you have granted the exclusive use of this weapon. You even allow them to accuse you of "anti-Semitism" as they practice the vilest form of it against you, and you never object! Even this otherwise excellent article on "anti-Semitism" doesn't mention this obvious fact. The Israelis, no matter whence they came to Palestine (Russia, Poland, Lithuania, West Europe, America, etc), are ninety-five percent Russian Jews, whose ancestors never set foot in the Middle East and who were in fact converts to Judaism around 900 AD. The few Sephardic Jews in Israel have virtually no rights compared with the Ashkenazim. "Zionism" simply means that the descendants of those converts must emigrate to Palestine, seize control of it, rename it and "make the Law go forth from Zion." The Law is Deuteronomy and the guide for the application of the Law is the Talmud. Why don't you Semites blow the whistle on these criminal psychopaths and their deceptive weapon of mind control - "anti-Semitism?" An Anglo-Saxon such as I cannot really complain about the abuse of the term because I have no standing as a Semite. But you have. The Jews use the term for two good reasons: First, it suggests that they are in fact Semitic, which serves to justify their invasion and occupation of Palestine, something that would be otherwise inexplicable for a non-Semite. The obvious question would be: Why do you insist on living there, where you have no roots? The other reason is that "anti-Semitism" has a clinical, sinister sound. It sounds like a congenital mental disease, which I believe it is in its true form, as practiced by Jews and their janissaries such as Bush and DeLay. But they simply do not want the term "anti-Jew" used, because they don't want non-Jews to say the word, "Jew." It offends them because the very use of the word by a non-Jew is an accusation of guilt - and they know it. So, I urge you to spread this very helpful suggestion to create awareness of the criminal psychopathic abuse of the very legitimate term, "anti-Semitism," by racist fanatics whose main reason for living is to exterminate all Semites. Such a truth campaign would undermine and eventually destroy the Jewish lie of "the right of return." What right? How can you return to a place you and your ancestors never were? www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Britain in secret EU army deal
-Caveat Lector- http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/29/weu29.xmlsSheet=/news/2003/11/29/ixnewstop.html Britain in secret EU army deal By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Naples (Filed: 29/11/2003) Britain has taken a dramatic step towards a fully-fledged European army, signing up to Franco-German proposals for a planning headquarters outside Nato, it emerged yesterday. The deal reached by British, German and French officials in secret talks in Berlin this week establishes an "operational" command in Brussels, allowing the EU to run day-to-day battlefield missions for the first time. Risking a major clash with Washington, it points to a definitive break with British defence doctrine of the last half century. But British officials hinted last night that Tony Blair would re-write the agreement if America was adamantly opposed. Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, was caught flat-footed yesterday at a summit of EU foreign ministers in Naples when the deal leaked in the French press before Britain had a chance to seek approval from Washington. The British had expected to notify President George W Bush on Thursday but the plans were thrown out by his surprise trip to Baghdad. In September, the Americans were stunned when they learned that Britain had agreed in general terms to an EU operational command, fearing that it would lead to a rival military structure and ultimately destroy Nato. The Government appeared to row back on the commitment after intense pressure from Washington, but the latest deal suggests that No 10 is still inclined to cast its lot with the Europeans in defence. The French newspaper Le Monde quoted chunks of the deal yesterday, reporting that it would start as a skeleton body and would also handle humanitarian missions. It said the unit would be "a European military headquarters in all but name". The EU already has a 150-strong military staff but it is limited to "strategic planning" and is unable to manage field operations. The EU's military mission in Macedonia currently reports through the Nato chain of command. Le Monde also cited Franco-British-German proposals for the new European constitution which were to be discussed by all 25 foreign ministers of the enlarged EU last night over dinner. These include "structured co-operation" in defence to allow a vanguard of states to press ahead, provided they have the muscle to mobilise troops within 30 days for missions of up to four months. It would take a vote by qualified majority of all EU states to trigger the vanguard force which would then become a permanent EU military arm acting in the name of the EU. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush's Operation Clean Sweep - WW IV In 2004
-Caveat Lector- http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2003/11/7866.php Bush's Operation Clean Sweep por john stanton Friday November 28, 2003 at 04:43 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] World War IV in 2004 Bushs Operation Clean Sweep World War IV in 2004 By John Stanton Even though Bush II will lose the popular vote in the US presidential election of 2004, his electoral college victory seems assured. With Republican party governors firmly in charge of Florida, California, Texas and New York, and supported by a whopping Bush campaign war chest approaching $200 million, dubious electronic voting schemes courtesy of Diebold, Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors (http://www.blackboxvoting.com), it seems certain that Bush will make it back to the Oval Office through the back door that is the Electoral College. And if not the Electoral College then by benefit of a rebel attack on US soil which kills thousands of Americans and leads to the suspension of the US Constitution. That according to General Tommy Franks, USA (Ret.), who opined in the magazine Cigar Aficionado that the US will have to shed its constitution in favor of a military style of government. Even the notorious aristocrat Alexander Hamilton would have been appalled as such a statement, as would Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But these are mediocre times in history; particularly, and dangerously, in America where its people have eliminated those who might have continued to wage a struggle for an equitable form of government in the US, as well as engage the world through international treaty building. Mediocre times produce the very worst that the world has to offer: Reagan, Bin Laden, Bush, Hussein, Sharon, and Blair. None but the feeble minded could draw inspiration from such a ghastly lineup of "leaders". This is the world as it has become absent the shortened lives of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X and Yitzhak Rabin, all of whom were murdered for their beliefs, or, rather, for the threat they posed to the established interests. Even Nikita Khrushchev was removed from power in the then USSR in 1964 for trying to push his country towards a more peaceful coexistence with the rest of the world. The threats these titans of history posed to the established order of their day was not so much monetary as it was ideology. Each of them planted in the minds of those who would listen the thought that the established order of war, racism, poverty, and income and wealth disparity could and should be questioned. However, those who pull the strings could not stand an ignorant populace that questioned the order of things. And so their fate was, it seems, preordained by disgruntled individuals agitated by those portions of business and government who were wedded to the status quo. And so, JFK and Khrushchev, King and RFK, and Malcolm X and Rubin were terminated and Americans, and the world, found themselves at the mercy of Bush and Bin Laden, Hussein and Blair, and Reagan and Sharon. Crippled Opposition With the election of Bush II in 2004, the ideological and economic fracturing of America will be complete and, for the foreseeable future, permanent. The three branches of the US government, corporations, and the majority of state's governors and state houses will be controlled by those Republicans and Democrats who have become indistinguishable in their belief that the government's only role in America is to make it safe and ludicrously easy for small and large corporations to make a profit without the drag of government regulations, programs and taxes that, in their view, steal from the bottom line. With those folks at the helm, 2002 and 2003 saw the US federal and state governments give the business community trillions of dollars of hand-outs in the form of tax cuts, regulatory relief and legislation that allowed businesses to rape and pillage the American landscape and its middle and lower classes. The latter groups struggle is getting worse. Even as its industrial, service and information technology jobs are exported to other countries, these Americans are being forced to work longer hours, endure more expensive privatized health and welfare benefits, and higher prices for feeding, clothing and educating their children. Slowly but surely, Americans from the middle and lower classes find themselves at an increasing distance from their rulers, yet must bear the burden of profit and war for these same dastardly people. But those that rule have in their malleable plebian audience a strange group of middle and lower class acolytes. Among them, the notorious Christian right and an estimated 5 to 9 million American-Muslims who handed Bush II over 90 percent of their vote in the last presidential election. That group, along with neo-con Latinos and Asians, seem to have forgotten the struggles they waged to reach, what once was, a republic with a semblance of representative democracy. Are they trying to recreate the
[CTRL] USC (Trojans) Named Center For Homeland Security
-Caveat Lector- http://cryptome.org/dhs112803.txt 29 November 2003 Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html --- [Federal Register: November 28, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 229)] [Notices] [Page 66842-66843] >From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr28no03-76] === --- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Notice Designating University of Southern California as Center for Homeland Security AGENCY: Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: Notice. --- SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security has designated the University of Southern California as a Center for Homeland Security (HS-Center). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura Petonito, Deputy Director, University Programs, Science and Technology Division, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528; telephone 202-401-1113, facsimile 202-772-9916; e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background Section 308 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107-296, (Homeland Security Act), as amended by the Omnibus Appropriation Act of 2003, Pub. L. 108-7, directs the Department of Homeland Security (Department) to sponsor extramural research, development, demonstration, testing and evaluation programs relating to homeland security. As part of this program, the Department is to establish a university-based center or centers for homeland security. The purpose of these centers is to provide a locus to attract and retain academic scholars in pursuit of homeland security-related disciplines. The Centers are envisioned to be an integral and critical component of the Department's capability to anticipate, prevent, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks. The Centers will leverage multidisciplinary capabilities of universities and fill gaps in current knowledge. Section 308(b)(2)(B) of the Homeland Security Act lists fourteen areas of substantive expertise that, if demonstrated, might qualify universities for designation as university-based centers. The listed areas of expertise include, among others, food safety, first responders, multi-modal transportation, and responding to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction. However, the list is not exclusive. Section 308(b)(2)(C) gives the Secretary discretion to consider additional criteria beyond those specified in section 308(b)(2)(B) in selecting universities for this program, as long as the Department issues a Federal Register notice explaining the criteria used for the designation. Criteria In 2002, the National Research Council (NRC) issued a report entitled ``Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism.'' In this report, the NRC recommended a number of substantive areas for research that could contribute to national security. Among other issues, the NRC report identified the need to perform risk analysis and modeling of vulnerabilities and economic analysis of security enhancements as areas for which research is needed. The Department agrees that research in these areas will contribute [[Page 66843]] significantly to the Department's ability to identify, and select among, options for enhancing national security. Risk-based modeling, and economic analysis, will help the Department understand the impact and consequences of potential acts of terrorism, thus providing decision makers with validated tools to evaluate vulnerabilities and identify countermeasures and response actions. Solicitation of Interest and Designation In August 2003, the Department sought white papers from universities that wished to be designated as HS-Centers. The HS-Centers are envisioned to be an integral and critical component of the new ``homeland security complex'' that will provide the nation with a robust, dedicated and enduring capability that will enhance our ability to anticipate, prevent, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks. The notice, made available on the DHS Internet site (http://www.dhs.gov) and (http://www.orau.gov/dhsuce), identified risk-based economic modeling as one of the areas of expertise (criteria) that might merit designation. The Department received a number of proposals and evaluated them through a process that included the participation of federal government and outside experts. After the panels of experts selected final potential designees, the Department conducted site visits to interview the individuals who would be performing the research. Based on this evaluation, the Department has selected the University of Southern California (USC) as the first HS-Center for this program. USC will conduct research on risk-based modeling, with a particular emphasis on the economic aspects.
[CTRL] Ariel Sharon In His Own Words
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1292 In His Own Words www.voicesofpalestine.org The interview of Ariel Sharon by Amos Oz The Middle East is living a nightmare, notably because of a man of Russian origin who became Prime Minister of Israel: Ariel Sharon. What is the profound thought of this man? This is what Amos Oz, an Israeli writer, help us to discover through an interview published by the Israeli daily Davar in December 17, 1982. Amos Oz reproduced this interview, with others, in his book in Hebrew, 1982: Amos Oz: Poh va-sham be-Erets-Yisra'el bi-setav, 1982, republished by Am Oved, Tel-Aviv, 1986. The interview is on pages 70-82. Amos Oz does not mention the name of Sharon, but uses the abbreviation Z. The facts given by Amos Oz indicate that the person interviewed is Ariel Sharon. [Sharon]: "You can call me anything you like. Call me a monster or a murderer. Just note that I don't hate Arabs. On the contrary. Personally, I am much more at ease with them, and especially with the Bedouin, than with Jews. Those Arabs we haven't yet spoilt are proud people, they are irrational, cruel and generous. It's the Yids that are all twisted. In order to straighten them out you have to first bend them sharply the other way. That, in brief, is my whole ideology". "Call Israel by any name you like, call it a Judeo-Nazi state as does Leibowitz. Why not? Better a live Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint. I don't care whether I am like Ghadafi. I am not after the admiration of the gentiles. I don't need their love. I don't need to be loved by Jews like you either. I have to live, and I intend to ensure that my children will live as well. With or without the blessing of the Pope and the other religious leaders from the New York Times. I will destroy anyone who will raise a hand against my children, I will destroy him and his children, with or without our famous purity of arms. I don't care if he is Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. History teaches us that he who won't kill will be killed by others. That is an iron law". "Even if you'll prove to me by mathematical means that the present war in Lebanon is a dirty immoral war, I don't care. Moreover, even if you will prove to me that we have not achieved and will not achieve any of our aims in Lebanon, that we will neither create a friendly regime in Lebanon nor destroy the Syrians or even the PLO, even then I don't care. It was still worth it. Even if Galilee is shelled again by Katyushas in a year's time, I don't really care. We shall start another war, kill and destroy more and more, until they will have had enough. And do you know why it is all worth it? Because it seems that this war has made us more unpopular among the so-called civilised world". "We'll hear no more of that nonsense about the unique Jewish morality, the moral lessons of the holocaust or about the Jews who were supposed to have emerged from the gas chambers pure and virtuous. No more of that. The destruction of Eyn Hilwe (and it's a pity we did not wipe out that hornet's nest completely!), the healthy bombardment of Beirut and that tiny massacre (can you call 500 Arabs a massacre?) in their camps which we should have committed with our own delicate hands rather than let the Phalangists do it, all these good deeds finally killed the bullshit talk about a unique people and of being a light upon the nations. No more uniqueness and no more sweetness and light. Good riddance." "I personally don't want to be any better than Khomeini or Brezhnev or Ghadafi or Assad or Mrs. Thatcher, or even Harry Truman who killed half a million Japanese with two fine bombs. I only want to be smarter than they are, quicker and more efficient, not better or more beautiful than they are. Tell me, do the baddies of this world have a bad time? If anyone tries to touch them, the evil men cut his hands and legs off. They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don't suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear me instead of feeling sorry for me. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear my madness instead of admiring my nobility. Thank God for that. Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a wild country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go crazy if one of our children is murdered - just one! That we might go wild and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East! If anything would happen to your child, God forbid, you would talk like I do. Let them be aware in Washington, Moscow, Damascus and China that if one of our ambassadors is shot, or even a consul or the most junior embassy official, we might start World War Three just like that!" We are talking while sitting on the balcony of the pretty country house belonging to C. which is situated in a prosperous Moshav. To the west we see a burning sunset and there is a scent of
[CTRL] Bush The Nazis: New Documents
http://www.guerrillanews.com/corporate_crime/doc3469.html Bush and the Nazis: New Documents Herbert Parmet, November 26, 2003 Editor's Note: For the past couple of months, we've been corresponding with a Florida-based freelance journalist named John Buchanan. In October, Buchanan began publishing a series of articles documenting the Bush dynasty patriarch's business deals with Nazi-era businesses. This summer, Buchanan discovered newly declassified documents in the National Archives that he claims shows Prescott Bush (seen in photo), the president's grandfather, was more connected toNazi Germanythan had previously been known. He broke the story in the New Hamsphire Gazette, a small, fiercely independent newspaper founded by the current publisher's ancestor in 1756. But when Buchanan began to reach out to mainstream news organizations, his story was ignored. The Associated Press ran an article,but it largely discounted the new findings' significance. Buchanan went on the offensive, sending belligerent emails to news organizations that refused to investigate (he's something of a loose canon), and has launched a campaign to run for President of the United States on the Republican ticket to publicize his findings (as I said, he's something of a loose canon). Buchanan argues that only through investigating Prescott Bush's connections to the Nazis that we can fully understand the Bush family fortune and the true nature of their political legacy. Does the story hold up? Even if it does, can you hold the son to blame for the sins of the father (or grandfather, in this case)? Recently our new friends at George Mason University's History News Network asked noted historian Herbert Parmet to investigate. This is his report: What Should We Make of the Charge Linking the Bush Family Fortune to Nazism? John Buchanan is a free-lance journalist with a mission. He intends to alert the media, and all who will listen, about how Prescott Bush, the progenitor of two presidents, was in league with some of Hitlers willing helpers. Minimized or totally dismissed by the public, the story was revived from its World War II roots by Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin in their "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography" (1992) and given a strong additional push in John Loftuss sensationalist "The War Against the Jews" (1994). Allegations involving the father of what has become the Bush dynasty relate to his association with Brown Harriman and Company, the Wall Street investment banking firm, which evolved from a 1931 merger of W. A. Harriman and Company and Brown Brothers, which was brought together by George Herbert Walker, president of the former, and his son-in-law, Prescott. The younger Bush, by then, was one of the seven directors of Brown Brothers Harriman, a board that included W. Averell Harriman and his brother Roland. Buchanans charges of a Bush-Nazi past are hard to ignore, largely because of his passion as a true-believer and an effective series of articles in a highly independent New England publication. His enthusiasm for getting at the truth of all this has been further emboldened by Loftus, who has suggested that Prescott Bush should have been tried for treason, because they continued to support Hitler after the U.S. entered the war. Loftus, who describes himself as a former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Departments Nazi-hunting unit, has added the reassurance that he could have made the case. Treasury and Justice department files, including what was then the Office of Alien Property, declassified as recently as September, do indeed show that the U. S. government acted to seize numerous assets held by Harriman affiliated companies. After the war, Buchanan has written, a total of 18 additional Brown Brothers Harriman and UBC-related [Union Banking Corporation] client assets were seized under the Trading With the Enemy Act, which Franklin D. Roosevelt signed right after Pearl Harbor. George Herbert (Bert) Walkers relationship with Averell Harriman went back to 1919, reported Buchanan, when both went to Paris to set up the German branch of their banking and investment operations, which were largely based on critical war resources such as steel and coal. Other corporate entities, all with ties to similar German interests, were then created by UBC, which had Prescott Bush on its board most notably, the Hamburg-American Line, the Holland-American Trading Corporation, and the Seamless Steel Corporation. On October 12, 1920, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat headlined Ex-St. Louisan Forms Giant Ship Merger, explaining that Bert Walker was the moving power behind the merger of two big financial houses in New York, which will place practically unlimited capital at the disposal of the new American-German shipping combine. In the summer and fall of 1942, Congress, under the authority of the Trading With the Enemy Act, seized the first group of entities, the UBC, the Holland-American Trading Corporation, and
[CTRL] The New Alchemy: Turning Murder into Suicide
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1296 The New Alchemy: Turning Murder into Suicide Rowena Thursby - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The title is provocative, and is meant to be. When the slant put on the reporting of a case almost guarantees a suicide "verdict", it is important to focus on the players who seed this interpretation. In the Kelly case, journalists in the mainstream media promoted a suicide bias from the beginning, but many of their cues were taken from professional figures at the Hutton Inquiry. Nicholas Hunt, the forensic pathologist who testified before Lord Hutton in September, is one of only 35 Home Office-accredited pathologists in the UK. We might imagine, being appointed by the British government, Dr Hunt would be of the highest calibre, displaying impeccable professional judgement. Television news and drama, with their frequent references to "DNA evidence", bolster a view of the forensic pathologist as "never wrong". However, this article highlights a number of recent cases where flawed assessments by Home Office pathologists have given rise to unsafe convictions, and explores how professional fallibility may have led to similarly erroneous interpretations from Dr Hunt regarding the death of Dr David Kelly. It also raises the more sinister possibility that Hunt's interpretations were weighted deliberately with the express purpose of convincing us this was suicide. Errors and Omissions One case found to be unsafe as a result of a pathologist's mistake was that of Stuart Lubbock, who died in the swimming-pool of the UK entertainer, Michael Barrymore. A BBC report on the case reads as follows: "A police investigation into the death of a man in Michael Barrymore's swimming pool may have been hampered by a Home Office pathologist's failure to spot crucial evidence.. Dr Heath was brought in when Stuart Lubbock was found dead at the entertainer's Essex home in April last year. He concluded the 31-year-old had drowned. But three other pathologists told the inquest into his death this month that marks on his face indicated he died of asphyxia, possibly from having an arm clamped round his throat during a violent sexual assault." Two further cases showed Dr Heath's findings to be wrong. Steven Taylor, a traveller, spent 10 months on remand facing a murder-charge after Dr Heath said he had strangled his wife. But two other pathologists concluded that marks on Beatrice Taylor's neck were caused by procedures carried out by a mortuary technician. Kenneth Fraser was accused of killing his girlfriend after Dr Heath maintained that she had been hit on the head with a plank of wood. Fraser was released after four other pathologists found she had fallen downstairs. Serious errors like these are not infrequent. In previous cases Dr Heath was also criticised for omissions A further case where a crucial omission was made was that of Sally Clark, wrongfully accused of murdering her two children and sent to prison for life. Her conviction was overturned on appeal after it was discovered that Alan Williams, another Home Office pathologist, had deliberately withheld cerebral spinal fluid test results from the original trial. These indicated one of Clark's children had had bacterial meningitis. Dr Williams, the holder of a distinction award which boosts his salary by an extra 27,000, is currently under investigation by the General Medical Council. Astonishingly, it is not a question of just a few bad apples in the barrel - the very system which investigates professional incompetence and malpractise is itself flawed. A Guardian article relates how, after a lengthy investigation, Paula Lannas, a Home Office pathologist, went before a police advisory board in 2001, accused of botching post-mortem examinations. Paula Lannas's methods of investigation were described as "demonstrating a continuing pattern of inadequate and unsatisfactory examinations and breaches of accepted forensic pathology practice". When the board failed to reach a conclusion due to a 1"conflict of interest or lack of impartiality" -- meaning that members of the board did not feel comfortable passing judgement on a colleague - the case collapsed. Senior Home Office forensic pathologist Nat Cary observed wryly, "It may be a cynical view, but I think they want to keep the lid on things". Given that at least two of these Home Office pathologists were criticised for some years and yet remained in their jobs, it begs the question: were these government professionals huddling together for protection, or were some of these "mistakes" and "omissions" made deliberately, or allowed to pass, for political reasons? With fallibility - and corruption - in mind, it may be instructive to review Nicholas Hunt's testimony to the Hutton Inquiry. Blood What is striking in Nicholas Hunt's account of Dr Kelly's death is the impression he creates of blood everywhere: blood on Kelly's jacket, on his trousers, on his left
[CTRL] Neil Bush Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStoryc=StoryFTcid=1069493552660 Consultant on Iraq contracts employed president's brother By Stephen Fidler and Thomas Catán in London Published: November 27 2003 21:41 | Last Updated: November 27 2003 21:41 Neil Bush, a younger brother of US President George W. Bush, has had a $60,000-a-year employment contract with a top adviser to a Washington-based consulting firm set up this year to help companies secure contracts in Iraq. Neil Bush disclosed the payments during divorce proceedings in March from his now ex-wife, Sharon. The divorce was finalised in April and the court papers were disclosed by the Houston Chronicle this week. Mr Bush said he was co-chairman of Crest Investment Corporation, a company based in Houston, Texas, that invests in energy and other ventures. For this he received $15,000 every three months for working an average three or four hours a week. The other co-chairman and principal of Crest is Jamal Daniel, a Syrian-American who is an advisory board member of New Bridge Strategies, a company set up this year by a group of businessmen with close links to the Bush family or administrations. Its chairman is Joe Allbaugh, George W. Bush's campaign director in the 2000 presidential elections. Other figures at New Bridge include Ed Rogers, its vice-chairman and a senior official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, and Lanny Griffith, with whom he works in the lobby firm Barbour Griffith Rogers. Lord Charles Powell, adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is listed as an advisory board member. On its website, New Bridge describes itself as being created to "take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East following the conclusion of the US-led war in Iraq". In his deposition, Neil Bush said he provided Crest "miscellaneous consulting services". This included "answering phone calls when Jamail [sic] Daniel, the other co-chairman, called and asked for advice". There is evidence that the relationship between Mr Bush and Mr Daniel goes further. Joseph Peacock, Crest's company secretary, is one of the original investors in Ignite, Neil Bush's educational software company based in Austin, Texas. In 1996, Mr Daniel and his wife hosted a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising dinner at their Houston mansion for the Texas Alliance Against Alcohol Abuse. The event was chaired by Sharon Bush, while George H. W. Bush, the former president, and his wife Barbara were to be present, according to the Houston Chronicle in 1996. Other investors in Ignite, which was founded last year, include George H. W. and Barbara Bush, and Winston Wong, a Taiwan businessman who started the Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. The court papers further show Mr Bush benefits from a contract with Grace, a company also backed by Jiang Miangheng, son of Jiang Zemin, the former president of China. Under the deal, signed on August 15 2002, Grace would pay Mr Bush $2m in shares over five years, issued in annual $400,000 increments. In return, according to the Los Angeles Times, Mr Bush agreed to "provide GSMC from time to time with business strategies and policies; latest information and trends of the related industry, and other advice", according to the contract. A call to New Bridge in Houston went unanswered yesterday, a holiday in the US. Previous attempts to contact Mr Daniel through the office were unsuccessful. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Wells Fargo's Little Secret
-Caveat Lector- http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/28/EDGTH39PU41.DTL Wells Fargo's little secret Friday, November 28, 2003 IN JULY 2004, California will have the nation's strongest financial privacy law, though it is weaker than it should be because of the efforts in Sacramento and Washington by industry powerhouses such as Wells Fargo. Until then, the protection of confidential personal information largely relies on the judgment and integrity of the financial institutions themselves. The current federal law provides consumers minimal opportunities to stop banks from sharing your personal financial data with third parties. Wells Fargo found itself with an embarrassing security breach when a computer containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of thousands of its customers was recently stolen from the desk of a consultant who was working out of a small office behind a Concord sports bar. The bank sent a letter about the theft to the affected customers, as reported in a Nov. 21 column by David Lazarus. The computer was recovered this week -- and the suspect claims to be unaware of the bounty of potentially lucrative personal data he had in his possession -- but a gnawing question remains: What, exactly, was this "consultant" doing for Wells Fargo with all this sensitive customer information? Wells Fargo would not say. A spokesman merely disclosed that the analyst was performing unspecified "services for Wells Fargo" in accordance with federal law and the company's stated privacy policy. The spokesman insisted the information "was in no way involved in the marketing of products or services of any third party." In other words, "trust us." The physical security surrounding the handling of this information was obviously inadequate. Wells Fargo's customers have a right to know why this information was in a third-party's hands in the first place. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Is Clear Channel Rush Limbaugh a Money Laundry?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/index.cfm Is Clear Channel Rush Limbaugh a Money Laundry? by CONSPIRACY PLANET In his column, "Money Laundering and Other Cabalist Fun and Games," political analyst Al Martin, author of "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider," writes, "After a short stint in drug rehab, Rush Limbaugh is being investigated for money laundering and that brings into focus the operations of his shadowy employer Clear Channel Communications." Martin, who calls himself a "Recovering Republican Scamscateer" writes that "Rush Limbaugh is being targeted for a money laundering offense called 'structuring,' which means making cash withdrawals just under $10,000." A former associate of Oliver North and General Richard Secord during the Iran Contra era, Martin questions the official media story that Limbaugh was taking massive amounts of Oxycontin. He writes, "According to inside sources, when police raided Rush Limbaugh's house, they found between $100,000 and $200,000 cash. Law enforcement's attitude is that for a private citizen to keep that much money around obviously raises some sort of a red flag. This guy was always paying for drugs with cash, since his housekeeper did everything for him. She met the drug dealers and it was $3000 or $5000 at a time but it was every couple of days. This guy was blowing through a lot of drugs. Of course he was paying street prices, $11 or $12 a pill." "But it still doesn't make sense," continues Martin, "even knowing what the street price of Oxycontin is and what drug dealers sell it for. If you look at the amount of cash this guy kept in his house and you look at what the housekeeper said (she was going out two or three time a week with between $3000 and $5000 at a time). The way they justified it (and the housekeeper said this) is that he was taking up to 100 pills a day. Then Rush comes in and makes those admissions but obviously that's not possible. He'd be dead. A hundred pills a day is enough to kill ten elephants, so that obviously doesn't make any sense." "The implication is that a lot more cash was moving out of this guy's house to buy drugs than he could possibly be personally consuming. Unless... The only way this makes any sense is if this guy wasn't simply consuming prescription drugs, but was potentially consuming a much more expensive drug, like cocaine or heroin." For the complete story and for more infomration on how to subscribe(story is exclusively for subscribers only), click here Money Laundering and Other Cabalist Fun and Games For more background on former Bush Cabal insider Al Martin, author of "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider," click here Doublecrossed: Black Ops, Beltway Bandits and the US Shadow Government Al Martin's weekly column "Behind the Scenes in the Beltway" is published online at Al Martin Raw. To find out more about the site, click here -- Al Martin Raw: Political, Economic and Financial Intelligence AL MARTIN is America's foremost expert on corporate and government fraud. A relentless whistleblower, he has written a book called, "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider," which chronicles his adventures with the Bush Cabal (National Liberty Press, Order Line: 866-317-1390). This detailed account of government criminal operations, namely State-sanctioned fraud, drug trafficking and illicit weapons sales, is unprecedented in publishing history. Al Martin is also well known for his great charm and profound insights into world events, and he is frequently interviewed on many talk radio shows across the nation. His weekly column "Behind the Scenes in the Beltway" is published regularly online at Al Martin Raw, (http://www.almartinraw.com). www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] BBC Proves Israel MURDERED Rachel Corrie
-Caveat Lector- http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?s=threadid=44899 BBC PROGRAM PROVES ISRAELI ARMY MURDERED RACHEL CORRIE By Christopher Bollyn American Free Press The BBC has released a remarkable film about the killing of three international peace activists by the Israeli army in the occupied Gaza Strip. Documentary evidence provided in the film strongly suggests that the American Rachel Corrie - and two British activists - were murdered. Last spring, within a period of seven weeks, one British and one American peace activist were killed by the Israeli army in Rafah, a Palestinian town at the southern end of the occupied Gaza Strip. A second Briton was shot in the head leaving him brain-dead. In two of the cases the Israeli army is being blamed for murder; the third is considered ?attempted murder.¦ An Israeli military bulldozer crushed the 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was the first to die on March 16, as she tried to prevent it from demolishing a Palestinian doctor-s home. British photographer Tom Hurndall, 22, was left brain dead after being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on April 11. British cameraman James Miller, 34, was shot by an Israeli sniper as he left a house with two other journalists on May 2. A recently released 50-minute ?hard-hitting¦ program produced by the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) investigated the three killings and provides crucial video evidence. ?That-s murder,¦ an Israeli soldier said after viewing footage from the film, ?When Killing is Easy.¦ ?When Killing is Easy¦ was shown 4 times to a worldwide audience on the commercial BBC World television network on November 22 and 23. Some cable television viewers in the United States would have been able to view the program. The three international observers died, or nearly died, at the hands of the Israeli military between the middle of March and the first week of May. Hurndall was shot in the head as he took a Palestinian toddler, who had frozen under Israeli fire, into his arms. Today, Hurndall is brain-dead and is kept alive on life-support equipment. Tom-s father, Anthony, is a lawyer in the City of London. After six weeks of investigation, Hurndall has come to the conclusion that the shooting of his son by Israeli forces is ?a case of attempted murder. If Tom dies, and that is a likelihood, then it will be murder,¦ he said. Jocelyn Hurndall wrote to The Guardian after an Israeli government check for about $12,000, sent to the Hurndall family to pay for ?a fraction of the expenses incurred,¦ bounced. When the check finally arrived after five months of negotiations with the Hurndall family, the Israeli government check was not ?honored¦ by the Bank of Israel, Hurndall wrote. ?Insufficient funds¦ was the reason given. According to evidence provided in Sweeney-s film, the IDF report on the shooting of Hurndall is completely wrong about where he was, what he was wearing, and what he was doing when an Israeli soldier shot him in the head. ?It is a mind-numbing task to understand the morality and to use the logic of the Israeli government,¦ Hurndall wrote. ?What hope do Palestinians have when such profound disregard and disrespect is shown to humanity, collectively and individually?¦ SILENCED WITNESSES The BBC film was produced by John Sweeney, whose article on the killings, ?Silenced Witnesses,¦ was published in The Independent (UK) on Oct. 30. ?Making our film, When Killing is Easy, has been the most harrowing ordeal of my professional life,¦ Sweeney wrote. ?But it is vital that it is evidential - and that is really tough when the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) have refused to speak to us.¦ Rachel Corrie, the first of the three to die, was using her body to defend the home of Dr. Samir Nasser Allah from an American-made bulldozer used by the Israeli army to demolish the homes of Palestinians. Corrie was a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). ISM members stand between the Israeli bulldozers and the homes that the IDF wants to flatten. Israeli bulldozers have razed thousands of Palestinian homes in the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The bulldozers are primarily made by the Illinois-based Caterpillar company. Tom Dale, an ISM eyewitness, had a clear view of the incident: ?He [the driver] knew absolutely she was there. The bulldozer waited for a few seconds over her body and it then reversed, leaving its scoop down so that if she had been under the bulldozer, it would have crushed her a second time. Only later when it was much more clear of her body did it raise its scoop.¦ ?MY BACK IS BROKEN¦ ?My back is broken,¦ Rachel told Alice Coy, a fellow ISM activist who was with her. An Israeli pathologist, Dr. Yehudah Hiss, noted that Rachel appeared to have been run over by the bulldozer, Sweeney wrote. Hiss found the cause of death to be ?pressure to the chest.¦ Her shoulder blades had been crushed; her
[CTRL] Mossad The JFK Assassination (1 of 2)
-Caveat Lector- http://feralnews.com/issues/jfk/piper/piper.html Final Judgment: the Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy Since November 22, 1963 many have spent vast amounts of time researching the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, putting forth a wide variety of theories. Most of the research has been devoted to what one more perceptive critic described as "a consuming preoccupation [with] the microanalytic searching for facts of how the assassination was accomplished," while at the same time, he points out "there has been almost no systematic thinking on why President Kennedy was killed." So while people have focused on how many assassins were involved, and how many shots they fired at JFK and where the shots came from and where the bullets hit, the real question of who was ultimately responsible for the assassination-not who fired the bullets, but who sponsored the assassins who fired those bullets-has been ignored. Thus, to find out who is responsible for JFK's murder, we have to find out WHY he was murdered-what motivated those who orchestrated his assassination. Consider the wide-ranging array of suspects that have been put forth: Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone; The Soviet KGB; Fidel Castro; Anti-Castro Cubans; The "Mafia"; Rogue CIA operatives and anti-Castro Cubans in collaboration with elements of "the Mafia"; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Former Nazi intelligence officers; The Texas Oil Barons; and The Military-Industrial Complex. Ten years ago, in 1992, a new suspect was added to the list. Former Rep. Paul Findley (R-Ill.) made the little-noticed but intriguing comment in the March 1992 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs that "it is interesting but not surprising to note that in all the words written about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, has never been mentioned, despite the obvious fact Mossad complicity is as plausible as any of the other theories." What Findley did not know was at that very time I was in the process of preparing a volume contending that the Mossad role alongside the CIA in the JFK assassination, was, in fact, the big secret-the "missing link"-that explained the entirety of the JFK conspiracy. The Mossad role is what I have also called "the secret picture on the other side of the jigsaw puzzle" of the JFK assassination conspiracy. My book summarizing this theory is entitled Final Judgment. What I find quite remarkable is that while many Israelis today believe that Israeli intelligence played a part in the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, many of Israel's friends in America have reacted quite hysterically to my contention that the Mossad played a role in the assassination of America's president. In addition, although there are many who believe that the CIA had a hand in the JFK assassination, quite a few of those same people are fearful of mentioning the likelihood of a Mossad role. Yet, as journalist Andrew Cockburn has pointed out: "There has been since almost the earliest days of the Israeli state and the earliest days of the CIA a secret bond, basically by which Israeli intelligence did jobs for the CIA and for the rest of American intelligence. You can't understand what's been going on with American covert operations and the Israeli covert operations until you understand this secret arrangement." Cockburn's words are a rough overview of the thesis that I have presented in Final Judgment. Although Final Judgment has never been in any major bookstore since it was first published nearly a decade ago, some 30,000 copies are in circulation-more copies than more widely-publicized books on the topic. It is truly an "underground best-seller." It is now in its 760-page fifth edition, documented with 1,114 footnotes. And on November 9, Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin, the oldest and largest privately-owned publishing house in the Middle East released the first-ever Arabic-language edition. In many respects, Final Judgment is more than a book about the JFK assassination. It also reveals the hidden global power politics of the last half of the 20th century. Final Judgment documents that in 1963 JFK was embroiled in a bitter secret conflict with Israeli leader David Ben-Gurion over Israel's drive to build the atomic bomb; that Ben-Gurion resigned in disgust, saying that because of JFK's policies, Israel's "existence [was] in danger." Then upon JFK's assassination, U.S. policy toward Israel began an immediate 180-degree turnaround. Israeli historian Avner Cohen's new book, Israel and the Bomb, confirms the conflict between JFK and Israel so powerfully that, Israel's Ha'aretz, declared Cohen's revelations would "necessitate the rewriting of Israel's entire history." In any case, Cohen pointed out, "the transition from Kennedy to [Lyndon] Johnson . . . benefited the Israeli nuclear program." Ethan Bronner, in the New York
[CTRL] Mossad The JFK Assassination (2 of 2)
-Caveat Lector- http://feralnews.com/issues/jfk/piper/piper.html Green writes: "In the early years of the Johnson administration the Israeli nuclear weapons program was referred to in Washington as 'the delicate topic.' Lyndon Johnson's White House saw no Dimona, heard no Dimona, and spoke no Dimona when the reactor went critical in early 1964." Thus it was that the critical point of dispute between John F. Kennedy and the Mossad-dominated government of Israel was no longer an issue. The new American president-so long a partisan of Israel-allowed the nuclear development to continue. This was just the beginning. There is an aside to all of this that should be noted: Final Judgment documents a Peking connection to the JFK assassination conspiracy, relating directly to Israel's secret nuclear allliance with China. Not only U.S. policy toward Israel reversed upon JFK's assassination. Although it's virtually forgotten, John F. Kennedy was planning a military assault on Red China's nuclear weapons development facilities in the months prior to his assassination. However, one month after JFK's death, Lyndon Johnson canceled the project and allowed China to proceed with the assembly of its nuclear arsenal. The big secret is that at the time of JFK's assassination, Israel's Mossad and Red China's intelligence service were working behind the scenes on joint nuclear weapons development. The evidence suggests that "the China card" played a critical (secret) factor in Israel's participation in the JFK assassination conspiracy. In fact, the longtime Mossad liaison between Israel and Red China, Shaul Eisenberg, a key player in Israel's nuclear weapons program, was part of the Permindex web linked to the JFK assassination. This is documented in detail in Final Judgment. Where, you ask, does the CIA fit alongside the Mossad in the JFK assassination? By 1963 John F. Kennedy was not only at war with Israel and the Meyer Lansky Organized Crime Syndicate, but he was also at war with their close ally in the international intelligence underworld-the CIA. Final Judgment shows that Israel's chief contact at the CIA, the Soviet-hating James Jesus Angleton, ultimately played a pivotal role in the JFK assassination conspiracy cover-up. In light of the Angleton connection, I should note how he worldwide media has given great play to the release of a new book that purported to "prove" that it was the Soviet KGB that concocted the story that the CIA was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The book purported to be the inside history of the KGB's secret intelligence operations in the U.S. and Europe The Sword and the Shield by Professor Christopher Andrew of Cambridge-described as "one of the world's leading authorities on intelligence history,". The book was said to be based on extensive notes and transcriptions of vast numbers of files from the KGB archives. The notes themselves were supposedly smuggled out of KGB headquarters by former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin who retired from the KGB in 1984 and who then defected to Britain in 1992 after the CIA had rejected Mitrokhin. The problem with the Andrew book is this: while it is quite thoroughly footnoted, with hundreds of references to a wide-ranging amount of material, it is not always clear whether Andrew is purporting to cite the Mitrokhin archives as his source or whether the information he presents is Andrew's own interpretation. While the book is quite skilfully written in such a way that it appears to present the information as having come from the KGB's supposedly purloined file, that is not always necessarily the case. It appears Andrew's book some sort of effort to counter new official histories of the KGB being released by the KGB's post-Soviet era successor, the SVR. For example, Andrew lashes out at Lolly Zamoysky, the SVR's literary editor of the new multi-volume official history, as having been "well known" in the KGB "for his belief in a global Masonic-Zionist plot." Thus, Andrew's book is effectively an attempt to counter allegations of high-level Zionist intrigue that has been documented by the official post-KGB Russian intelligence services. In that regard, it is remarkable to note that in the entirety of this 700-page volume, there is only one indexed reference to Israel and not a single indexed reference to the Mossad, despite the widely-known fact that the Mossad played a central role alongside the CIA in its operations throughout the period that Andrew has purported to describe. Likewise, there are only two indexed references to the CIA's longtime counterintelligence chief, James Jesus Angleton, even though Angleton, best remembered for his strident anti-Soviet stance, having spent decades looking for a "KGB mole" in the upper echelons of the CIA and in allied Western intelligence agencies-was also a devoted Israeli loyalist who jealously guarded his role as the CIA's liaison to the Mossad. Perhaps the most glaring
[CTRL] Deadly suppositions
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rationalreview.com/rlwrights/112603.shtml Deadly suppositions by R. Lee Wrights "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." -- Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution Have you ever been accused of something you did not do? Or even worse, have you ever been punished for something you did not do? Did your Mom ever spank you or ground you for something one of your siblings had done? Have you ever been fired from a job because you got the blame for someone else's mistake? Do you know what it feels like to be judged guilty of some crime or misdemeanor just because someone suspected you of doing something wrong? If you can answer yes to any of these questions then you have experienced injustice first hand. You have known the pain that can only be alleviated by the promise held within our Constitution that a person cannot "... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Presumption of innocence is the very cornerstone of American justice; it serves as a guarantee that no person can be punished on mere supposition based on nothing more than suspicion. Now, while all of this is fresh in your mind I want you read this lead-in to a news report entitled "U.S. levels houses of Iraqi insurgents" that I saw in the November 18th edition of CNN.com, and see if you can spot the injustice. "The U.S. military has begun leveling houses and buildings used by suspected Iraqi guerrilla fighters in a new tactic which is part of a more aggressive strategy aimed at crushing the anti-American insurgency, Pentagon officials said Tuesday." That's right. American troops are now being used to destroy private property of "suspected Iraqi guerrilla fighters." What happened to requiring proof before depriving someone of "life, liberty, or property" as stated in our own Constitution? Evidently that does not apply to people we attack so that we can bring them our way of life. Apparently if you live in Iraq, under American rule, all that is required for you to lose everything you own is to be "suspected" of wrongdoing. And the Pentagon is not being shy about this deadly departure from the very ideals we are supposed to be instilling in the Iraqi citizens. A Pentagon spokesman told CNN in the same article: "Coalition forces are continuing to target any building that may be used by anti-coalition forces to plan attacks, produce weapons or harbor insurgents." Did he really say "any" building that "may" be used by anti-coalition forces? That seems to conveniently include any building in the whole damn country! I mean any building "may" be used for one thing or the other, right? It can apply to literally any structure in the country regardless of who owns the property. This is the "American way" Iraqi citizens are learning about up close and personal. Don't care for your neighbor? Just tell the Americans that you suspect he is using his home for anti-American shenanigans and -- BOOM -- no more neighbor. The guy around the corner giving you a hard time? All you have to do is tell the Americans that he may be using his property for anti-coalition activities and -- BOOM -- the guy around the corner is history. Isn't freedom great? No wonder a growing number of Iraqi citizens say it is hard to tell the difference between life under Saddam Hussein's thumb and life under the thumb of George Bush. To make matters worse, the Pentagon tries to put a good face on the whole affair by pointing out how careful they have been about the operations. CNN reports that: "Pentagon officials stressed that in all cases, the U.S. has gone to 'extraordinary means' to notify civilians that they need to evacuate the area before any attacks were carried out. And before any building was destroyed, nearby roads were closed to minimize the chance of unintended civilian casualties. The United States has used a number of methods to destroy buildings, everything from tanks to air strikes." So we will go out of our way to make sure that citizens are out of harm's way while we destroy their homes; but, we can't be bothered with actually going to the trouble of producing evidence against someone before we blow up everything they have probably worked their whole lives to obtain. All the justification we need to run a tank through someone's living room is a suspicion that they are the enemy or an enemy sympathizer. But, at least we will clear out the
Re: [CTRL] Christ as a myth
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/27/2003 4:17:48 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for some reason Jesus Christ hits a real bad sore spot with you - and fifth - just what is it that you DO believe? M Maurer a soldier for Jesus Christ No sore spot. Believe what you want...just don't push it on others or claim to have the sole "truth." I could care less what fairy tales you believe in. I am into reality, not fable. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Christ as a myth
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/26/2003 12:57:27 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To He has written - You need to tell us all just what spitrituality and enlightenment really is. I`m sure every subscriber to this site would like to know. Also, don`t dictate to me or anyone else who subscribes to this site concerning what we post understood?? M Maurer a soldier for Jesus Christ A little fanatical aren't you? Let me guess, you either "came to Jesus" following problems with alcohol/drugs, the breakup of a relationship, or following incarceration. Those are my guesses. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Are The Israelis Willing To Start WW III?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general44/aretheisraeliswilling.htm Are The Israelis Willing To Start World War III? Exclusive to American Free Press By M. Raphael Johnson 11-8-3 According to a recent article by veteran British military analyst Joseph Vialls, Russia has sent the most advanced and feared missile in the world, owned only by Russia and China, the P270 Moskit, also known as the 'Sunburn,' to Damascus and Tehran. This can only be understood as a counter to the Israeli threats to use nuclear weapons against their enemies. The Sunburn flies at an altitude of 60 feet and is nearly impossible to defend against. A few fired at Israel could make that state 'history.' Add to this a new Russian air force installation near the Kyrgystan/Russia border, coupled with a Chinese base just over their western border with Kyrgystan, and Armageddon may be on the horizon. All Russian jets at this new base just outside of Bishkek are equipped with Sunburn missiles. Vialls writes: The gloves are off, and with America and Israel still unable to steal any oil from Iraq because someone keeps blowing the pipelines, Russian and Chinese firepower buildup suddenly slammed the door firmly shut on Caspian oil reserves in the old Soviet republics. For more than a decade American oil multinationals have been conducting 'joint ventures' in the former Soviet republics bordering the Caspian Sea, with the stated intent of pumping stolen crude oil out through Turkey, then on to western markets. Now this route has been blocked permanently, and America is in no position to do anything about it, because a large part of the U.S. conventional army is currently bogged down in Iraq, being shot at and killed on a daily basis. For many who have been watching this region as a confrontation between the United States and Israel versus Russia largely over the control of the biggest gas and oil deposits in the world, a new front has been opened. As a response to this checkmate, Sharon recently visited Putin on Nov. 3 to meet with him concerning the nuclear issue in Iran. Quickly, Sharon permitted Palestinians to return to their jobs and eased their travel restrictions. Since the end of the Gorbachev era, the Russian oligarchs, nearly all Jewish by ethnicity (with the noticeable exception of Vladimir Potanin), have controlled nearly all key sectors of the Russian economy. This, of course, includes Russia's major ace-in-the-hole, oil and gas. The giant YUKOS conglomerate is presently one of the largest oil companies in the world, valued at about $40 billion. YUKOS is the result of a 'loans for shares' deal brokered through the semi-coherent Boris Yeltsin in 1995. Here, the liberal Russian government swapped loyalty from the oligarchs in exchange for privatization at prices far below that of the market. This $40 billion giant was bought for about $300 million, thus looting the entire Russian economy for the benefit of a handful of Israeli citizens living in Russia. When YUKOS' chair, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested at the end of last month, the American capitalist establishment went orbital. Forgetting the 1999 New York Times's expose on massive money laundering and fraud from YUKOS, the conservative establishment began to lionize oligarchy and, specifically, Khodorkovsky. Recently, The Financial Times weighed in with a giggly piece from Chrystia Freeland, which referred to the oligarch as a 'democratic activist.' About a paragraph later, the writer said - without irony - that the oligarch's model for economics is the robber baron factories of the early American 20th century. Fox News, on Nov. 3, referred to YUKOS as the most progressive corporation in Russia. According to a Nov. 3 Agence France-Presse story, Khodorkovsky made a deal with Jacob Rothschild this year that control of the YUKOS giant would pass to Rothschild in the event of Khodorkovsky's arrest. However, the Russian government has frozen all YUKOS assets for the time being. It is significant that YUKOS's liberal pressure group, the Open Russia Foundation, is completely controlled by Rothschild now that its founder is in jail. As their official mission statement reads, "The motivation for the establishment of the Open Russia Foundation is the wish to foster enhanced openness, understanding and integration between the people of Russia and the rest of the world." Their board of trustees includes Rothschild and Henry Kissinger. The Washington, D.C. launch of the organization included Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Librarian of Congress James Billington, one of the leading voices against Russian traditionalism in the academic establishment. Significantly, the Open Russia Foundation recently provided Yale University with substantial grants to study the Russian economy as well as providing the Carnegie Foundation with 3 percent of its entire operating budget. It seems that the drive to control the globe's energy is
[CTRL] Ron Paul: Conscription - The Terrible Price Of War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/paul/paul83.html Conscription The Terrible PriceofWar Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) November 26, 2003 The ultimate cost of war is almost always the loss of liberty. True defensive wars and revolutionary wars against tyrants may preserve or establish a free society, as did our war against the British. But these wars are rare. Most wars are unnecessary, dangerous, and cause senseless suffering with little being gained. The result of most conflicts throughout the ages has been loss of liberty and life on both sides. The current war in which we find ourselves clearly qualifies as one of those unnecessary and dangerous wars. To get the people to support ill-conceived wars, the nation's leaders employ grand schemes of deception. Woodrow Wilson orchestrated our entry into World War I by first promising during the election of 1916 to keep us out of the European conflict, then a few months later pressuring and maneuvering Congress into declaring war against Germany. Whether it was the Spanish American War before that or all the wars since, U.S. presidents have deceived the people to gain popular support for ill-conceived military ventures. Wilson wanted the war and immediately demanded conscription to fight it. He didn't have the guts even to name the program a military draft; instead in a speech before Congress calling for war he advised the army should be "chosen upon the principle of universal liability to service." Most Americans at the time of the declaration didn't believe actual combat troops would be sent. What a dramatic change from this early perception, when the people endorsed the war, to the carnage that followed and the later disillusionment with Wilson and his grand scheme for world government under the League of Nations. The American people rejected this gross new entanglement, a reflection of a somewhat healthier age than the one we find ourselves in today. But when it comes to war, the principle of deception lives on. The plan for "universal liability to serve" once again is raising its ugly head. The dollar cost of the current war is already staggering, yet plans are being made to drastically expand the human cost by forcing conscription on the young men (and maybe women) who have no ax to grind with the Iraqi people and want no part of this fight. Hundreds of Americans have already been killed, and thousands more wounded and crippled, while thousands of others will experience new and deadly war related illnesses not yet identified. We were told we had to support this pre-emptive war against Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (and to confront al Qaeda). It was said our national security depended on it. But all these dangers were found not to exist in Iraq. It was implied that lack of support for this Iraqi invasion was un-American and unpatriotic. Since the original reasons for the war never existed, it is now claimed that we're there to make Iraq a western-style democracy and to spread western values. And besides, it's argued, it's nice that Saddam Hussein has been removed from power. But does the mere existence of evil somewhere in the world justify preemptive war at the expense of the American people? Utopian dreams, fulfilled by autocratic means, hardly qualify as being morally justifiable. These after-the-fact excuses for invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation direct attention away from the charge that the military industrial complex encouraged this war. It was encouraged by war profiteering, a desire to control natural resources (oil), and a Neo-con agenda of American hegemony with the goal of redrawing the borders of the countries of the Middle East. The inevitable failure of such a seriously flawed foreign policy cannot be contemplated by those who have put so much energy into this occupation. The current quagmire prompts calls from many for escalation, with more troops being sent to Iraq. Many of our reservists and National Guardsmen cannot wait to get out and have no plans to re-enlist. The odds are that our policy of foreign intervention, which has been with us for many decades, is not likely to soon change. The dilemma of how to win an un-winnable war is the issue begging for an answer. To get more troops, the draft will likely be reinstated. The implicit prohibition of "involuntary servitude" under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution has already been ignored many times so few will challenge the constitutionality of the coming draft. Unpopular wars invite conscription. Volunteers disappear, as well they should. A truly defensive just war prompts popular support. A conscripted, unhappy soldier is better off on the long run than the slaves of old since the "enslavement" is only temporary. But in the short run the draft may well turn out to be more deadly and degrading, as one is forced to commit life and limb to a less than worthy cause like teaching democracy to unwilling and angry Arabs. Slaves were
[CTRL] Four Former Heads Of Israeli Security Speak Out
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20031126/index.php Four Former Heads Of Israeli Security Speak Out by Charley Reese Four former heads of Israeli security, speaking in Israel, have warned the government that failure to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians will lead to catastrophe. These men are not some starry-eyed peaceniks. They are all former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's secret police, which makes the FBI look like the Boy Scouts. You can be sure these men are not motivated by any compassion for the Palestinians. Yaakov Perry, Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom and Carmi Gilon warned that without a peace deal, Israel is endangering its existence. "We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people," Ayalon said in a newspaper interview. Shalom added, "We must once and for all admit there is another side, that it has feelings, that it is suffering and that we are behaving disgracefully this entire behavior is the result of the occupation." Another hard-nosed Israeli, a former head of military intelligence, warned more than 13 years ago that the alternative to a Palestinian state side by side with Israel was national suicide. I've been repeating his warning ever since, but all I've ever gotten for my troubles was to be called every name in the book and accused of "interfering in God's plans" by a Christian Zionist. I tell you what: That would require a great deal more influence than I have. I couldn't even keep brussels sprouts off the wife's menu. The Israeli prime minister's popularity has dropped far lower than George Bush's. Ariel Sharon's approval rating is in the low 30s inside of Israel. Sharon, who actually started the intifada himself by brazenly visiting a Muslim holy site, thought he could bludgeon the Palestinians into submission. After three years, the Palestinians haven't budged an inch. Oh, they've gotten the worst of it, all right. After all, they are the weak party, with no army and only a lightly armed police force. Here are the latest numbers I can find: 892 Israelis killed and 5,981 injured; 2,570 Palestinians killed (many of them children) and 24,006 injured. In addition, 2,202 Palestinian homes have been destroyed by Israel and another 14,000 and change have been damaged. That's within the past three years. The problem for Israel is that today's young generation of Palestinians knows what happened to an earlier generation in 1948, when those Palestinians temporarily fled the fighting that established the state of Israel. The Israelis have refused to let them return to their homes, and for the past 55 years, they've rotted in refugee camps. These Palestinians aren't going anywhere. They will tell you that they would rather die than leave Palestine. Time and birth rates are on their side. It won't be long at all before there will be more Arabs in Palestine than Jews. At that point, all of Israel's choices would be bad. So, true friends of Israel will pressure Sharon's government to change course. Unfortunately, our president, having been put in his place once by Sharon, seems to be mortally afraid of offending the Israeli prime minister. And most of the Jewish leadership in America, at a safe distance from the conflict, is more jingoistic and uncompromising than the Jewish settlers. "Go get 'em," the leaders shout from New York and Washington to the Israelis. "The check is in the mail." Sort of like all the armchair generals and bar-stool admirals who pound their beer steins on the bar and say, "We have to stay in Iraq." Well, to do that, you gotta go over there first. At any rate, there you have it from the horse's mouth four horses, as a matter of fact. They are four Israeli horsemen preaching peace now lest the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse replace them in the near future. www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CTRL] Christ as a myth
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/26/2003 6:12:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why dont you comment on a persons comments, and not on what position they find themselves in or were in thats just low... honestly and by doin that you only prove to everyone else how un-enlightend and petty you really are... I believe I was commenting on his comments. If I want to be preached to I'd go to church. These religious nutcases ought to be confronted when they insist on inserting religion into every goddamned email. If some fruitloop was on here paying constant homage to the tooth fairy or to Zeus I'd call him on it and when the mythological hallucination happens to be Jesus I call him on it too. A little lithium would go a long way to curing such delusions. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Christ as a myth
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/26/2003 6:47:19 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i feel pity for you and your arrogance. And I for you and your ignorance... Having a nice day. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] All Hail The Jewish Master Race
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general45/master.htm Carter Reveals Begin Viewed Jews As The Master Race All Hail The Jewish Master Race By Texe Marrs 11-25-3 Gene Research Shows Jews Palestinians Almost Identical "Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." If I asked you what group of people embrace a set of doctrines like this, what would your answer be? Most of you would probably answer, "The Nazis." Today, in fact, it is Jews who make all these poisonous claims to racial superiority. No, not all the Jews. But, as I will document, a huge number of leaders among the Jews ascribe to these wicked and dangerous theories of racial and blood superiority. No Basis for Peace In his memoirs of his years in the White House, former President Jimmy Carter wrote that there could have been peace between the Arabs and the Israelis had it not been for the bigoted, Nazi-like racial views of Israeli's Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Begin, Carter recalled, believed the Jews were a Master Race, a holy people superior to Egyptians and Arabs. Begin also believed that God wanted the Jews to own the land, so there was absolutely no basis for peace. The Jews lusted after the land and intended to have it. Period. Jews a Totally Different Species? Rabbi Mendel Schneerson, the late Jewish Lubavitcher and friend of the senior George Bush, also believed the Jews are a superior Master Race. Many Jews today agree with the late Rabbi. Some even believe that Schneerson will himself someday be resurrected and return as the Jewish World Messiah. Schneerson once explained his theory of Jewish racial superiority this way. He said, "We have a case of the Jew...a totally different species." "The body of a Jewish person," Schneerson bragged, "is of a totally different quality from the body of members of all other nations of the world. Bodies of the Gentiles are in vain. An even greater difference is in regard to the soul...A non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness." Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel, whose lies about his holocaust experiences seem to be legion, also claims that Jews are a superior race. "Everything about us is different," Wiesel boasts. "Jews are ontologically exceptional." No Mixed Marriages for the Superior Race This poisonous theory of the Jews impacts their relations with all other nations and peoples. Because they are convinced they are the Master Race, superior, god souls living amongst inferior beasts, Israel does not sanction or allow mixed marriages (The Jerusalem Report, October 20, 1994, p.26). In the U.S.A., liberal Jews scream out for more mixed marriages, but only among Gentiles! Jewish leaders fund civil rights organizations and are in favor of increased immigration of foreign races. But back home in Israel, the Sharon government is now building a Berlin-style wall creating an apartheid nation, to keep "inferior" Arabs in their segregated ghettos. Ze'ev Chafeto, the courageous Jewish editor of The Jerusalem Report magazine, notes that Israeli laws harshly prohibit people of non-Jewish races from immigrating to Israel. The Jews are determined to keep their race "pure" and unblemished, just as the Nazis sought for the Aryans. Christians are especially not welcome, and Israelis frequently use words similar to the condescending slang word "nigger" to describe Christians and Gentiles÷vulgar, Yiddish slur words like "shiksa," "schwartze," and "shegetsz." Since the Jews are claimed to be the Master Race, whose souls are said by the Talmud to be on a far higher plane than the animalistic, "satanic souls" of Gentiles, it is common for Jewish authorities to brand all Gentiles by the derogatory Yiddish term "goy," a term akin to a curse word. Meanwhile, Arabs are deemed so inferior they are even lower than the goy. Jewish Blood vs. Inferior Blood When several of his students were accused of murdering a teenage Arab girl, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg insisted: "Jewish blood is not the same as the blood of a (Gentile) goy." In other words, if a god-like Jew kills an inferior goy, how can that be murder? Israeli Yeshiva (school) students often demonstrate and chant, "Death to the Arabs." Defending their extreme behavior, Rabbi Ido Elba explains, "According to the Talmud (Jewish book of traditions), one may kill any Gentile." Rabbi Schlomo Aviner adds that normal human codes and laws of justice and righteousness do not apply to the Jews. The widely studied Gush Emunim holds that, "Jews are not and cannot be a normal
[CTRL] America's Tradition Of Non-Interventionism
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/031122-9.htm AMERICA'S TRADITION OF NON-INTERVENTIONISM by Chris Leithner The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is nave and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. H.L. Mencken (letter to Upton Sinclair, October 14, 1917) Labels, as Thomas Sowell teaches us in The Vision of the Anointed, are both convenient and dangerous things. Carefully and dispassionately used, vocabulary helps to transmit complex ideas accurately and efficiently. Employed carelessly, however, terminology creates vagueness, ambiguity and misunderstanding; and utilised malevolently, it can obstruct reasoning, obscure corroborating evidence and thereby set the stage for mistakes and sometimes catastrophes. War and related issues "American Isolationism" is a label that has long been used malevolently by its opponents. Non-interventionism, a less emotive phrase, denotes disapproval, ranging from scepticism to outright opposition, with respect to a cluster of related issues: war (particularly ideological wars and crusades) and other government interventions (alliances, "aid," posting of military personnel, etc.) in foreign lands; the eclipse of the authority of the U.S. Congress to declare war, the concentration of authority and discretion in the Executive and the consequent ability of a President to execute war deceptively and secretly; America's abandonment of republicanism and limited government and embrace of imperialism and a welfare-warfare state; the erosion of civil and political liberties for the sake of "security;" and the linkages between a large military establishment and permanent war economy, industry, government and bureaucracy.(1) Congressman Howard H. Buffett, (R-Nebraska), the Midwestern campaign manager for "Mr. Republican" Senator Robert Taft in 1952, was a leading opponent of America's increasingly interventionist policies, foreign and domestic, during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Criticising the proposal of FDR's Secretary of the Interior (whose bailiwick, one would have thought, could not extend beyond the then-forty-eight states) to build a $165m oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Buffett stated on 24 March 1944 "it would terminate the inspiring period of America's history as a great nation not resorting to intercontinental imperialism. This venture would end the influence exercised by the United States as a government not participating in the exploitation of small lands and countries It may be that the American people would rather forego the use of a questionable amount of gasoline at some time in the remote future than follow a foreign policy practically guaranteed to send many of their sons to die in faraway places in defence of the trade of Standard Oil or the international dreams of our one-world planners." Congressman Buffett was a staunch anti-Communist who nevertheless questioned the morality as well as the efficacy of America's Cold War crusade. He declared "our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns. Persuasion and example are the methods taught by the Carpenter of Nazareth We cannot practice might and force abroad and retain freedom at home. We cannot talk co-operation and practice power politics " Patrick J. Buchanan uttered similar sentiments and outlined a stark choice during the 2000 U.S. Presidential campaign. "How can all our meddling not fail to spark some horrible retribution Have we not suffered enough from PanAm 103, to the World Trade Center [bombing of 1993], to the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam not to know that interventionism is the incubator of terrorism? Or will it take some cataclysmic atrocity on U.S. soil to awaken our global gamesmen to the going price of empire? America today faces a choice of destinies. We can choose to be a peacemaker of the world, or its policeman who goes about night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle." lite indignation Yet presently in America, as for most of the past half-century, few things provoke more indignation, ridicule and denunciation from political, academic and journalistic lites (as opposed to consumers and taxpayers) than scepticism towards America's interventionist foreign policy. To be associated with isolationism is, in privileged quarters, to be cast outside the perimeter of serious conversation. American journalist Ted Koppel struck such a note on 2 November 2001. Introducing his Nightline audience to critics of the American bombing of Afghanistan, he said "some of you, many of you, are not going to like what you hear tonight. You don't have to listen." During the past couple of years, leading politicians and commentators and
[CTRL] Pre-Emptive Killing
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20031121/index.php Pre-Emptive Killing by Charley Reese Former Secretary of State George Shultz talked with Charlie Rose a few weeks ago and said this, or words to this effect, in defense of pre-emptive war. "Well, if you knew someone intended to kill you and had the means to do so, you wouldn't wait until they attacked. That would be silly," said the grand pooh-bah of the Eastern Establishment. Sounds sort of logical, but there's a big hitch. If you or I actually followed his advice and pre-emptively killed somebody we knew planned to kill us, we would be arrested, charged with first-degree murder and convicted. The law of no country that I know of condones pre-emptive murder. And international law, toothless though it is, does not condone or permit pre-emptive wars. The problem with pre-emptive wars, which are now the doctrine of the U.S. administration, is that such wars are necessarily based on intelligence. And if we have learned nothing else from the Iraq debacle, it is that intelligence can be way off the mark. It doesn't matter that the intelligence agencies of the United States, Great Britain and Israel all agreed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The fact, as we have so far discovered on the ground, is that he did not. In a backhanded way, the Bush administration now admits this by trying to dream up other reasons why we went to war. Americans need to better understand intelligence. It is an amoral and sleazy business and much more imperfect than you would think from reading the novels of Tom Clancy. Let's look at how intelligence agencies gather information. First, you can translate and read books and periodicals published in the target country. Second, you can take satellite photographs of the country. Third, you can intercept some electronic communications. And finally, you can develop human spies. Satellite photographs can't penetrate forests, caves or roofs. The volume of electronic intercepts is such that by the time you translate and transcribe them, you are several weeks behind. Furthermore, everybody in the world today knows that satellites can be tracked precisely, and thus people can time any movements they wish to keep secret. Everybody knows about electronic intercepts, so they watch what they say. As for human spies, you have to recruit traitors. Now, people will betray their own countries for different reasons. Some are blackmailed into doing so. Some will do it for the money. Some might do it for ideological reasons. All of them, once they take that first step, will try to tell you what they think you want to hear. The reason is plain: Once they betray their own country, you have them by the tender parts. If they are caught, they die; their only hope of escape is you, the spy handler. That's why even human intelligence cannot be regarded as gospel. The same applies to defectors. All I'm saying is that intelligence is imperfect. Spy agencies gather all kinds of bits and pieces of information and then try to analyze them and draw conclusions. But essentially they deal in educated guesses, not in scientific certainties, and quite often their sources are tainted by self-interest and sometimes might be giving deliberate disinformation. Furthermore, the spy agencies themselves are often pressured to tell their political bosses what they want to hear. That seems to be one of the sins of the current administration. It put uncommon pressure on the CIA to find evidence to justify the policy already adopted. What is practically impossible to learn is what the true intentions of the leaders of other countries actually are. Russia and China in particular have made a specialty of strategic deception. Also, penetration of terrorist cells is extremely difficult, if not close to impossible. War is too important a step to take based on nothing more than intelligence briefings, the advice of Mr. Shultz notwithstanding. He has, by the way, always reminded me of the cartoon character Droopy. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory
[CTRL] Snatching VICTORY From the Jaws of Defeat
-Caveat Lector- http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/November2003/1103Richert.html Snatching VICTORY From the Jaws of Defeat by Scott P. Richert On February 7, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Public Integrity revealed that it had obtained a draft of proposed legislation, officially entitled The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 but referred to unofficially, as it made the rounds of Capitol Hill, as PATRIOT II. CPI made a scanned copy of the act available on its website and issued a special report outlining the major provisions of PATRIOT II, including new restrictions on Freedom of Information Act requests regarding suspected terrorists detained by the federal government; similar restrictions on access to any documents filed with the Environmental Protection Agency by companies that use dangerous chemicals, because such documents are required to outline a worst-case scenario, which, CPI noted, the bills drafters refer to as a roadmap for terrorist s; the creation of a DNA database on suspected terrorists, expansively defined to include association with suspected terrorist groups; the abolition of almost all federal consent decrees entered into by state and local law-enforcement agencies before September 11, 2001, because such decrees, which were ordered by courts as a result of police spying abuses, could hamper terrorism investigations; the presumptive denial of pretrial release to those charged with terrorism-related crimes; and the expansion of measures allowing for the expatriation of terrorists. The public response was swift and stunning. CPIs website was swamped with requests for the file; because of the number of measures targeting electronic communicationsparticularly, such things as encryption of e-mailand removing restrictions on federal demands for information from private businesses, particularly internet service providers (ISPs), hundreds of webloggers published analyses of the proposed legislation. Within days, the Department of Justice was claiming that PATRIOT II was merely a working document; within weeks, the proposed legislation was dead, marking perhaps the first major legislative triumph for the denizens of the web. Many of the elements of PATRIOT II might not have withstood judicial scrutiny. For instance, in expanding the federal governments ability to expatriate terrorists, the bill, according to the Justice Departments section-by-section analysis circulated with the draft, would have made explicit that the intent to relinquish nationality need not be manifested in words, but can be inferred from conducta stunning reversal of American tradition, which has always required citizens to renounce their citizenship explicitly (by, for instance, accepting citizenship in another country). The legislation would have amended Section 349(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow expatriation of anyone providing material support to a terrorist organization (as defined by the attorney generalthis could include, for instance, registered non-profit organizations in the United States), as long as that person provided such support with the intention of relinquishing nationality. How, short of an explicit statement, could his intention be determined? Well, the Immigration and Nationality Act would also be amended to provide that The voluntary commission or performance of an act described in subsection (a)(3)(A)(i) or (B) [e.g., a donation] shall be prima facie evidence that the act was done with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality. Note that the government would not even have to prove that the person realized that he was supporting a terrorist organization. You gave money to a terrorist organization with the intention of relinquishing your nationality. How do we know you intended to relinquish your nationality? You gave money to a terrorist organization . . . Such circular logic would likely have faced a court challenge. Still, the popular uprising against PATRIOT II illustrated that judicial scrutiny is not the only roadblock that can be thrown in the path of the national-security juggernaut, and the victory encouraged activists to keep an eye out for similar legislation. They found it in August, when Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) began circulating draft legislation, cosponsored by Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Jon Kyl (R-AZ), entitled the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003the VICTORY Act, for short (though you will search in vain for a Y). Besides implying that there is such a thing as a noncriminal terrorist organization, the proposed legislation took as its stated aims (in the titles of its sections) Combating Narco-Terrorists Who Aid and Support Terrorists or Terrorist Organizations, Preventing and Punishing International Money Laundering, National Drug Sentencing Reform, Protecting Children From Drug Traffickers and Preventing Drug-Related Violent Crime,
[CTRL] Gay Marriage - False Issue
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20031124/index.php False Issue by Charley Reese What in the world is all this flap and hullabaloo about homosexual marriage licenses? Who cares? This is another of those inconsequential red-herring issues designed to distract you while the politicians steal the country right out from under you. You had better worry about why one euro costs $1.19 rather than whether two homosexuals can get a piece of paper at the county courthouse. Logically, to forbid something, one must demonstrate that the forbidden act will cause harm to others. OK. What harm will befall you and me and our children if two homosexuals get a marriage license? Well, I'm waiting. I'm sorry I have nothing to contribute. I can't think of any harm it will cause to anyone. The fact that the state has intruded itself as a third party in every marriage does not add to the sanctity of the marriage. It is just a state license, like a license to be a plumber. As far as the state is concerned, a marriage license is a license for a civil union, since the state doesn't care whether a preacher or a notary public marries you. "Civil union" is a political euphemism for marriage. It allows the politician to get votes from both sides. The politician can be in favor of civil union but not marriage. That's like a legislator being "personally opposed" to abortion but voting to legalize it. We already have a surplus of hypocrisy in this country. Let's not add to it with euphemisms. Well, homosexual acts are against God's law, you say. OK, presumably God will enforce his own laws. You won't find in the Christian Bible any passage that says the responsibility for enforcing God's laws rests with the secular state. There are several acts denoted as sins that are not illegal. Furthermore, Christianity is a personal religion, not a tribal or state religion. If you wish to be a Christian, then you have a personal obligation to obey the commands of the Christian religion. Whether someone else does or does not is of no concern to you. You can be a devout, scrupulously pure Christian in the midst of the most outrageous sinners. Your obligation is to obey God's commandments, not to compel someone else to do it. Protestants in particular have a problem. It was the Protestants who said: "We don't need no Pope or priest to interpret the Bible. Everybody can read it and interpret it for themselves." Well, everybody includes homosexuals. Protestants have been arguing and even fighting over interpretations of the Scripture for centuries, but again, that is a private affair and no concern of the secular state. Some people have acted as if state recognition of homosexual marriages will cause the whole of Christian morality to collapse. I hate to be a bearer of bad news, but traditional Christian morality collapsed in this country long before homosexuals came out of the closet. This is a secular, decadent, even freaky society, or have you not noticed? Watch MTV or go to the movies or watch prime-time television. The elites in this country definitely do not practice morality, Christian or otherwise. You are already living in the dawn of a new Dark Age or whatever the 21st-century equivalent will turn out to be. Don't sweat homosexual marriage licenses. That is the least of our problems. Since I'm not a plumber, the state's policy on plumbers' licenses is not an issue for me. Since I'm not a homosexual, the state's policy on homosexual marriage licenses is not an issue for me. But as a libertarian, I cannot for the life of me understand why so many people have an incurable itch to control other people's lives. If homosexuals want a marriage license, give it to them. It won't have any effect whatsoever on our lives or the life of the nation or the course of world history. And a word to homophobes, most of whom are latent homosexuals themselves: Denying them a marriage license does not convert them into heterosexuals. www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To
[CTRL] Why Zionists Need Anti-Semitism
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=40246 WHY ZIONISTS NEED ANTI-SEMITISM Posted By: ChristopherBollyn Send E-Mail Date: Sunday, 23 November 2003, 5:20 a.m. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ANTI-SEMITISM AND ZIONISM By Christopher Bollyn American Free Press Jewish billionaire George Soros was criticized recently for saying that Israeli policies provoke anti-Semitism. Yet it is well known that Zionist extremists like Ariel Sharon have fomented anti-Semitism over the years for one fundamental reason - Israel needs more Jews. There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe, Jewish billionaire George Soros told the Jewish Funders Network (JFL) in New York on November 5. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that, he said. If we change that direction, then anti-Semitism also will diminish. While most observers would say that Soros was merely stating the obvious, his comments reportedly caused major shock in the Jewish community as American-Jewish leaders reacted with unusual vehemence. Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Soros comments were absolutely obscene. Soros view is a biased and bigoted perception of whats out there, Foxman said. Foxman revealed his own bias during a recent ADL speech when he compared the worlds assembled Islamic leaders to animals, saying, Heads of state, kings, potentates stood on their hind legs and gave him [Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad] a standing ovation. Malcolm Hoenlein, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations said Soros statement reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about anti-Semitism. Its ridiculous and unacceptable to say that attacks on Jews are related to Bush or Sharons policies, Hoenlein said. Mark Charendoff, president of JFL, supported Soros saying he was enormously frank and candid. Soros, however, is not alone. Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive echoed Soros in his Nov. 17 editorial The Return of Anti-Semitism. Distressingly, the hard-line policies of Ariel Sharon are only fueling this anti-Semitism. By repressing Palestinians day in and day out, by continuing to build settlements, and now by building a wall into Palestinian territory, Sharon is providing footage for the next bin Laden video, Rothschild wrote. Sharons policies also breed new anti-Semites every day. Thats the undeniable connection that he ought to examine himself. Rothschild is apparently unaware that Sharon, like all Zionist extremists, understands the undeniable connection between anti-Semitism and Zionism very well. Zionists have long exploited anti-Semitism as a tool to construct an artificial ethnic state for the Jews. While anti-Semitism is generally defined as prejudice or hostility toward Jews it has been redefined in the recent past to mean anything that opposes the policies and interests of Israel, according to Allan C. Brownfeld, editor of Issues, the journal of the American Council for Judaism. This redefinition of anti-Semitism was evinced by Raanan Gissin, an adviser to Sharon, who cited a recent European poll in which 59 percent of respondents said Israel was the greatest threat to world peace as evidence that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe. While it may seem odd, Zionists have fomented and promoted anti-Semitism over the years as a means to compel Jews to move to Israel. What few Americans understand is that there has been a long historical alliance from the end of the 19th century until today between Zionism and real anti-Semites, Brownfeld wrote in an essay Zionism and Anti-Semitism: A Strange Alliance Through History. Theodore Herzl, the Hungarian Jew who is seen as the father of the Jewish state, wrote in his diary: The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends, the anti-Semites nations will become our allies. The Israeli historian Benny Morris said Herzl saw in anti-Semitism a force that could be harnessed for Zionism. The European political establishment would eventually be persuaded to promote Zionism, Morris wrote. Herzl recognized that anti-Semitism would be harnessed to his own - Zionist purposes. The seemingly perverse alliance between Zionists and anti-Semites is based on a shared view that considers Jews to be a race, a foreign people that cannot be assimilated living in exile outside of the Jewish state. Zionism and anti-Semitism share a view of Jews, which the vast majority of Jews in the United States and elsewhere in the world have always rejected, Brownfeld wrote. The late Israel Shahak, author of Jewish History, Jewish Religion wrote: Close relations have always existed between Zionists and anti-Semites. The Zionists, Shahak wrote, use the anti-Semites for their own purposes. As a new global campaign against anti-Semitism is launched, the way Zionists use anti-Semitism needs to be understood: Zionist extremists like Ariel Sharon have always
Re: [CTRL] Gay Marriage - False Issue
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/24/2003 4:06:39 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The issue of homosexual maridge Huh? Is that like porridge? Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Rich Lowry's Lesson In Junk History
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Rich Lowry's Lesson
In Junk History
By William Hughes
11-24-3
How can Rich Lowry, an editorial honcho of the "National Review," and a syndicated ranter, get away with writing junk history?
Lowry, in a "NY Post" love feast (11/22/03), on George W. Bush's recent visit to the UK, totally ignored the massive Anti-Iraq War protest action on the streets of London against his badly flawed hero. Instead, he waxed nostalgically about a highly romanticized version of Anglo-American history. I suppose it was a lot easier for him to dig into an imaginary past, than try to defend the Bush-Tony Blair Junta and their mindless decision to invade Iraq.
Lowry's kind of pseudo history only exists in his fertile mind. In his fulsome ode to the Brits, he roared how they had "spread 'liberty' to the world across the centuries." What baloney! His tract is a classic example of a lesson in junk history.
As for the befuddled Bush himself, history is mostly a blank page. He isn't a reader and his knowledge of the Brits, too, is extremely limited. He knows that in old England, that you have to drive on the left side of the road and that the pubs are the place to get a pint of lager and enjoy some pretty good grub. Sadly, this is about it for Junior Bush.
In any event, Great Britain, during its over three centuries on the bloodstained imperial stage, hasn't given a good hoot for "liberty." It has been a ruthless colonial power that believed in dominating people, including the American colonists. In his seminal, "The Slave Trade," Hugh Thomas underscored how the evil of slave trading was one of England's "foremost sources of income until well into the 19th century." Lowry's so called "liberty-seeking" Brits also created the first concentration camp, in the Boer War (1899-1902), where over 26,000 detainees perished.
As for the American Rebels, they really did care about "liberty" and they were willing also to fight and to die for it. Their gallant struggle for freedom, (1775-1783), must never be forgotten or minimized by Lowry or his ilk. And, the American patriots were willing to battle the invading British hordes again in the War of 1812-14. That conflict included a valiant defense of Baltimore City, where the "Star-Spangled Banner" anthem was born, and also a great victory, at New Orleans, led by the gutsy general and later president of the U.S., Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson.
Lowry is simply full of hot air about the Brits spreading "liberty." Genuine "liberty" rarely touched British held territories in China, India, Africa, Australia, Tasmania, the Middle East, Ireland, Central and South America or anywhere else that they so roundly looted. Piracy, opium running and a vindictive divide and conquer policy were just some of the hellish devices of the predatory Brits.
Lowry made a big deal, too, about how the "Anglo-American civilization...is indispensable to the security and freedom of the world." More propaganda! For example, it was the Brits who originally made an awful mess of the Middle East. They created Kuwait out of a wrongly partitioned Iraq. In fact, Great Britain was the first country, not Nazi Germany, to engage in the aerial terror bombing of civilians. It was in Iraq, during the 1920s. It was the British also that gave the Zionist intriguers a stake in Palestine, via the dubious Balfour Declaration, an instrument which some believe brought the Americans into WWI ("Special Report: The Balfour Declaration and the Zimmerman Telegram," John Cornelius, 09/97 and 09/98, "WRMEA"). The fact that the Brits didn't own any of the Middle East land in the first place and didn't consult with the indigenous Palestinians, before giving it away to the Zionist Cartel, still doesn't bother the arrogant London cabal in the least.
Today, if Lowry stood in Coalition-devastated Iraq, at the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, he would be at a source that once "watered Sumeria and Akkad, and nourished the Hanging Gardens of Babylon" (Will Durant's "Story of Civilization"). The peoples of this ancient land, once known as Mesopotamia, (part of which is holy also to Christianity), prepared the first codes of law, under the magnificent Hammurabi. They also taught the West, via the Egyptians, Greeks, Moors, Byzantines, Persians and others, too, the rudiments of mathematics, physics, philosophy, astronomy, medicine and mythology, that are such a well spring of our rich cultural inheritance.
A loud noise, too, was made by Lowry about how the boring Bush-Blair duo are going to lead Mankind in the "War on Terror." The real truth, however, is that these two reckless war hawks have transformed Iraq into a recruitment poster for the al Qaeda terrorist network. Lowry also made much of Bush's speech at Whitehall Palace. He bellowed, "The Americans and the British are brothers." Lowry is wrong, again!
An ugly historical fact was ignored by Lowry. After the Boston Tea
[CTRL] THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR
-Caveat Lector- HOW IT WAS HOW IT WILL BE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR BLOWS IN THE WIND AS RUMSFELD CALLS FOR MINI-NUKES by Gordon Thomas There is no description like it: In the first milli-second, a pinprick of purplish-red light expanded to a growing fireball hundreds of feet wide. The temperature at its core was 50,000,000 degrees centigrade. The flash heat started fires a mile away and burned skin two miles distant. Stone columns were rammed straight down into the ground. People were vaporised. Sixty-two thousand other buildings, out of a total of 90,000, were destroyed. All utilities and transportation services were wrecked. One hundred and eighty of the citys 200 doctors and 1,564 of its 1,780 nurses were dead or dying. Eighty thousand other people were killed instantly. Almost all this happened in the time it took me to blink behind the goggles. Below, on the ground, granite was melting and the shockwave had created fireballs and screaming hailstorms. A seething mass of red and purple began to rise into the sky. The column was sucking into its base super-heated air which set fire to everything combustible. Beside me, my co-pilot, Bob Lewis, was saying my God what have we done. The words are those of Colonel Pat Tibbets, the pilot of the aircraft Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. This week, they are a stark warning as Donald Rumsfeld pushed for mini-nukes to be added to Americas arsenal of nuclear weapons to fight terrorists and rogue states like North Korea and Iran. But Pentagon strategists say it might only take a faulty computer chip to register a missile launch by North Korea and the consequences would be all-out nuclear war. The country has still some way to go to perfect its nuclear capability, said Donald Rumsfeld in Japan this week. The one mechanism that, until now, prevented a nuclear holocaust was the hot-line set up in 1963 between the White House and the Kremlin. It is now in cold storage. A risk not initially anticipated by the US and Soviet commanders had been that of a false alarm an early warning system detecting a missile launch that has not occurred. When it happened several times, and before it was established to be untrue, each side had nervously watched the others nuclear readiness and mobilised their forces. In the early days of the nuclear arms race, a quickly accelerating situation often led Washington or Moscow to considering a pre-emptive strike as the only way to deal with the threat it believed it faced. In 1961, a mechanical breakdown at a relay station in Colorado that handled communications between NORAD, the American Air Defence Command and SAC HQ, Strategic Air Command, generated panic. Military analysts suddenly found themselves cut off from important US early warning systems. Their judgment was the communications breakdown had been the result of an enemy attack. All SAC bases and B52 crews with nuclear bombs on board were put on combat standby. Missiles and planes were readied for take-off when a B52 on normal airborne alert duty reported that no Soviet attack had taken place. The following year, 1962, a nuclear exchange between the superpowers became a real possibility when two operators at an early warning site in the US mistook a satellite in orbit for two Soviet missiles over Georgia. Only when no explosions occurred had the threat been downgraded to the status of low credence. A widespread power failure led to a further false alarm in 1965 when devices at nuclear command sites went red, indicating that there had been nuclear blasts. A full alert was issued by the Office of Emergency Planning HQ. Luckily, the US military did not follow suit. On that occasion, a crisis occurred because of technical malfunction. In 1968, the crash of a B52 bomber with a nuclear payload later led experts to conclude that had its weapon exploded, the blast would have convinced SAC HQ that the Soviets had launched a pre-emptive strike. Fortunately, the B52 crashed on an ice flow off the American coastline and only its fuel tanks exploded. During peacetime, the US nuclear arsenal is in a mode known as defence readiness condition DEFCON 5. When a threat is perceived, its seriousness determines the level of alert which can quickly move to the ultimate posture of DEFCON 1 maximum war readiness. On November 9, 1978, a full-scale nuclear missile attack on the US was detected by operators watching display monitors at four major defence sites, including the Pentagon Command Centre. It was 8.50 am and the state of readiness quickly moved from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 1. Planes carrying nuclear weapons were launched as well as the Presidents jumbo jet housing his nuclear command centre. No one had used the hot-line between Washington and Moscow and the President was not aboard his plane. Rumours later circulated from within the Pentagon were not only had the President been kept out of the loop, but could not be located. During a period lasting no longer than six
[CTRL] Israel embraces Italian neo-fascist
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D677FCD1-9341-405C-AD2C-93E52E8DB77A.htm Israel embraces Italian neo-fascist By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Monday 24 November 2003, 19:15 Makka Time, 16:15 GMT Israeli government officials and opposition leadershave met the leader of Italy's neo-fascist National Alliance party, Gianfranco Fini. Fini, who is also Italys deputy prime minister, arrived on an official visit to Israel on Sunday night. The visit has drawn harsh criticism from leftist politicians and Palestinians. On Monday, he met with Israeli President Moshe Katsav, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom as well as opposition leader Shimon Peres. Finis visit to Israel at the Sharon governments invitation drew angry reactions from leaders of the leftist opposition. Yossi Beilin, a former minister of Justice and one-time deputy-foreign minister, called the visit a disgrace to Israel. It is only because he (Fini) supports the fence that he is receiving a red carpet here. Meretz leader Yossi Sarid also criticised the visit, calling it opportunistic and a concordance of interests. "It's a shame, a real shame," he said."The battle against anti-Semitism has to be waged from a firm base of values and principles. If the world senses that it is a political, cynical and opportunist Israeli fight, its foundations will be shaken and it will completely lose its moral validity." Supporter of Israel Israeli spokespeople contacted by Aljazeera.net refused to explain why Israel decided to invite the Italian fascist leader despite the fact that Jews suffered tremendously at the hands of the fascists in Europe in the past century. One Israeli spokesman, who asked for anonymity, argued that Fini has been reformed. However, when asked whether Fini was still sympathetic to the legacy of Italian fascistic movement, the Israeli spokesperson remarked that the important thing is that he supports Israel. We cant reject or rebuff foreign leaders as long as they support our country. Other aspects of their ideology is none of our business. This view, however,is rareamong Israeli intellectuals and public opinion leaders. Roni Shakid, a prominent writer in Israels popular paper, Yediot Aharanot, suggested that opportunism is the driver of this visit. They are courting him (Fini) because he supports the security wall and the settlements and because he is deputy prime minister and could become Prime Minister one day, Shakid told Aljazeera.net. You know (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon is a close friend of (Italian Prime Minister Silvio) Berlusconi, and he cant refuse to receive his deputy in Israel, he added. Anti-Muslim views Sharon was on a three-day visit to Italy last week, ostensibly to thank Italy for its support for Israel and opposition to frequent EU criticism of Israeli policies. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted foreign ministry sources as citing three main reasons for the Israeli decision to court Fini, who is known for his anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim views. These include Finis objection to anti-Semitism, the fact that the US and other countries have recognised him and the position of the Italian Jewish community which supported the visit. However, another reason for the Israeli governments embrace of Fini seems to lie in his anti-Arab, especially anti-Palestinian, stance, as well his support for Israels repressive measures against Palestinians and territorial expansion in the West Bank. Fini, who once called Italys wartime dictator Benito Mussolini "the greatest politician of the 20th century", repeatedly voiced his support for Sharons repressive policies against Palestinians, including the destruction of Palestinian homes, farms and infrastructure. Fini has alsobacked the apartheid wall Israel is building in the West Bank, which, according to Amiram Barkat, a correspondent for the Haaretz newspaper, makes him the most prominent supporter of Sharons policies in contemporary Europe. Birds of a feather Finis visit to Israel has also drawn the ire of some of the leaders of the Arab community in Israel. Arab Knesset member Talab al-Sanie described the visit as a classical example of similar birds flocking together. I am not surprised at all. We have to remind ourselves and others that this Israeli government is fascist to the hilt. If you examine its policies, ideology and especially its actions, you will reach this conclusion. So this is a fascist government receiving a fellow fascist leaders. Similar birds flock together. Al-Sanie lashed out at Zionism, calling it a movement bereft of moral principles. This visit underscores the huge difference between Zionism and the Jewish people. For Zionism, even fascists and Nazis can be good friends as long as they support Israel and stand against its victims, he said. Al-Saniesaid that Israels embrace of Fini and the Italian fascist camp is consistent with the long-standing Israeli policies of supporting
Re: [CTRL] regarding the Muslims and the Christ myth
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/23/2003 6:51:48 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jesus Christ a myth? He is no more a myth than the sun in the sky!!! A malignant myth at that. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] regarding the Muslims and the Christ myth
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/23/2003 7:36:56 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is only because the actions of Jesus are you able to say he is a myth.. and still he accepts you unconditionally and lovingly That's beautiful, thanks. Hey, I suppose that you still keep an eye out for Santa Claus and the Toothfairy too huh? Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] regarding the Muslims and the Christ myth
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/23/2003 9:47:56 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No need to be silly, be grateful someone you never knew or met was selfless enough to die for YOU. i challenge you to anwser this question. Would you die and be tortured for someone who doesnt know you? You're taking as fact a myth. That's silly. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Mossad/Russian Mafia Plutonium Connection
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general44/maf.htm Mossad And The Russian Mafia Plutonium Connection By Gordon Thomas Globe Intel 11-21-3 Scientists at the European Trans-Uranium Institute at Karlsruhe in Germany, tracking the movements of all fissionable material from the former Soviet Unionís nuclear arsenal, have raised suspicions that Mossad has purchased some of the material to allegedly stop it falling into the hands of Islamic and other terror groups. But there is also the real possibility that Israel has gone into the nuclear black market to buy fissionable material to bolster its own huge nuclear arsenal. Israel already has one of the worldís largest arsenals ñ more than capable of decimating all its Arab neighbours. Its 200 nuclear bombs and missiles are stockpiled in the Negev desert. The suspicion that Israel has also started to buy material stolen from the former Soviet Union surfaced a year ago when a quantity of Uranium-235 was found in the Paris apartment of three criminals known to broker arms deals with terror groups like al-Qaeda. French intelligence officers arrested the men in an apartment rented by one, Raymond Loeb. They found documents confirming the uranium was of weapons-grade quality. Air tickets from Kazakstan were found in the apartment. Loebís partners ñ Serge Salfati and Yves Ekwella were travelling on Cameron passports. The Karlsruhe scientists established the material came from a nuclear storage site at Chelyanbisk-70 deep in the Ural Mountains. A major intelligence operation began to trace the route along which the material travelled to the French capital: out of the Ukraine into Poland and across Germany to Paris. The material was transported by Russiaís top Mafia boss, Semyon Yokovich Moglivich. He is a specialist in every major crime: whole scale drug running, money laundering, trafficking in humans and gun-running. Since 1991, he had positioned himself to exploit the collapse of the Soviet Union. To assist him he had obtained an Israeli passport for himself and 23 of his top associates. The travel documents had been arranged by the former newspaper tycoon, Robert Maxwell, and Edmund Safra, the US-based millionaire banker. Later Maxwell was murdered by a Mossad assassination team after threatening to expose his links to the secret service. Safra died mysteriously in a fire in his penthouse in Monte Carlo. Moglivich still runs the largest criminal family in Moscow, the Rising Sun. Its current speciality is smuggling fissionable material. Graham Alison, a former Assistant Secretary of Defence in the Clinton Administration and director of Harvardís Centre of Science and International Affairs, has summarised how easy it is to smuggle nuclear material. ìA terrorist group could ship enough material through the mails or by a courier companyî. But the Rising Sun is into a much bigger market ñ supplying Israel with fissionable material that would otherwise end up in the hands of terrorists like Osama bin Laden. That bombshell discovery came to light in the wake of finding the five grams of uranium in Paris. Consisting of 85 percent enriched uranium, it was sufficient to make a ìdirty bombî. But before Mossad, on behalf of Israel, could buy it ìout of the marketî, the French had swooped ñ and the role of Mossad had started to emerge. The first clues came from Intel-1. This is a smallish and highly specialised unit in Dutch intelligence. For months before the Paris arrests, it had been investigating Mossadís role in secretly buying up fissionable materials. Intel-1ís investigation has been run out of a deep bunker ñ ironically built to shelter the Dutch Royal Family in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack on Amsterdam. The bunker is near the cityís Central Railway Station. The terminus has been journeyís end for some of the nuclear materials which have been stolen from Russian weapons labs including Arzamas-16 in Nizhnii Novgorod, formerly Gorky. Senior Mossad officers have insisted to Intel-1 that precisely because the deadly materials were stolen, their agents purchased them from the Russian Mafia as ìit was the only way to stop the material being sold to Islamic and other terror groupsî. While conceding that the Mossad claim is plausible, Intel-1 investigators have become convinced that the nuclear materials have been secretly shipped out of Amsterdamís Schipol Airport to Israel to boost the countryís own nuclear weapons manufacturing plant at Dimona in the Negev Desert. That Mossad has been trafficking with the Russian Mafia has rekindled a nuclear nightmare that has never quite gone away. While the chilling Cold War doctrine of MAD ñ mutually assured destruction ñ has gone, in its place has come a more dangerous scenario where nuclear know-how and materials are on sale. ìIt is capitalism, Wild East style, in which organised crime syndicates and government officials work in league to create new markets for
[CTRL] Why not invade Israel?
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=oldion=currentissue=2003-11-22id=3761 Why not invade Israel? If rogue nations are to be brought into line by the US, shouldn't Israel be punished for ignoring UN resolutions? Gerald Kaufman is just asking... The Spectator, Nov. 15, 2003 The unprecedented security measures for President Bush's visit to Britain this week prove that the war against terrorism, launched by the United States two years ago, has certainly not been won. If further proof were needed, the atrocious terrorist acts against two synagogues in Istanbul at the weekend provide blood-spattered confirmation. But if the invasion of Iraq last spring was not about Saddam Hussein's alleged links to international terrorism, what was its rationale and what was its justification? Tony Blair has proclaimed, with total sincerity I have no doubt, that one consideration was the danger of weapons of mass destruction. From the outset, Bush was perfectly ready to rest his case on the need for regime change in Iraq. Both Bush and Blair have argued that Iraq is a better country for the removal of Saddam and his odious regime, and, even taking into account the continuing death toll in Iraq (nowhere near the number of deaths in the Vietnam war, to which certain cynics unjustifiably compare it), only someone either extremely naive or deliberately purblind could deny that the disappearance of that dictator is an indisputable benefit. So, let it be accepted that, despite the death and destruction deplorably concomitant with the process, the removal of Saddam was an indubitably good thing. But, if the removal by armed force of one disagreeable regime under one objectionable head of government is a good thing, why stop there? The world is full of horrible governments. Would it not be a good idea to make a clean sweep of them? Where, then, do we start? There is a multiplicity of horrible or incompetent governments in central and west Africa, for example, in countries where the toll of dead and tortured far exceeds even the total gassed, executed and mangled by Saddam. Their removal, and replacement by genuine democratic governments seeking to reconcile rather than repress, would be an indisputable benefit to humankind. Even a relatively innocuous African government, that of Morocco, has been responsible for driving into squalid refugee camps in neighbouring Algeria the Sahrawi desert people, whose homeland of Western Sahara it has illegally occupied, and, through rigging the electorate by shipping in large numbers of Moroccans, has prevented a genuine referendum taking place to decide the country's future a referendum, moreover, to which the United Nations is fruitlessly committed. And, if we are discussing rigged electorates, what about that in the illegal republic of Northern Cyprus, whose impoverished Turkish Cypriot inhabitants are being prevented from expressing their true will in a forthcoming general election because of the importation by the Ankara government of huge numbers of Anatolian Turks from the mainland, whose wishes and preferences are far removed from those of the Cypriot Turks themselves? While we are at it, we should take a penetrating look at Turkey itself. For nearly 30 years its regime has illegally occupied 37 per cent of the territory of Cyprus, an occupation which has resulted in looting, illegal seizure and sale of precious art objects such as Greek Orthodox icons, and the creation of refugees who despair of ever getting their homes back. The Turkish treatment or mistreatment of the Kurdish people, whom at the end of the first world war they prevented from getting their own homeland, set an example which Saddam was happy to follow. Inside Turkey, there has been persistent violation of human rights. For evidence, get hold of a DVD of Alan Parker's film Midnight Express. South of Turkey, there is Israel. It is true that the United Nations Security Council resolutions of which Iraq was in violation for a dozen years were mandatory and carried penalties, while those criticising Israel were not. That does not excuse successive Israeli governments during the past 36 years for failing to conform to Security Council and General Assembly resolutions. They would have violated even more if the United States, otherwise so assiduous in stressing the importance of international order, had not vetoed them. Since the present regime in Israel came to office, there has been unprecedented repression of the Palestinians who the Israelis govern. The world is rightly horrified at the cruel and bloody deaths of Israeli civilians, including babies and small children, inflicted by terrorist suicide bombers. Grievous though every one of these deaths most certainly is, it cannot be denied that during the three years of the Second Intifada the Israelis have killed three times as many Palestinians, some of them terrorists (in illegal
[CTRL] PYRAMID OF SECRETS
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/Pyramid%20of%20Secrets.html PYRAMID OF SECRETS By Alan Alford The foremost of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza, is unique among Egyptian pyramids not just in the precision of its construction but also in the pattern of its chambers, some of which have been built at an unprecedented height in its superstructure. This exceptional system comprises the Queens Chamber, the Grand Gallery, and the Kings Chamber, which are all connected together by a series of narrow passages. On account of its uniqueness, the Great Pyramid has generated endless speculation on three central issues: Who built it? How was it built? Why was it built? It is the why question arguably the most controversial of all that is the exclusive focus of my new book Pyramid of Secrets. Why did the architect of the Great Pyramid require such phenomenal size? Why did he require such uncanny precision? Why did he require such an extraordinary array of passages and chambers? There are few clues in ancient Egyptian writings, and still fewer in the Pyramid itself, whose uninscribed stones stand in mute testimony to the monuments essential mystery. In search of an answer, the logical first step is to study the civilisation of ancient Egypt, which left behind a legacy of more than one hundred pyramids in all. Such has been the task of modern Egyptology, which has justifiably made the connection between the pyramids and the kings who each, in their personage, encapsulated the mystery of ancient Egyptian religion. Since the death of the king was indisputably a defining moment in ancient Egypt, it is logical to suppose the pyramid may have been a tomb for his mummified body. Moreover, since the rebirth, or resurrection, of the kings soul, or spirit, was an integral part of the same defining moment, it is logical also to suppose the pyramid effected the translation of the kings soul to the sky and other world. Indeed, this second supposition is confirmed absolutely in the names of the pyramids and the inscriptions (the Pyramid Texts) which were included in certain pyramids some two centuries after the Great Pyramid was built (according to the official chronology). Egyptology thus arrived at the same conclusion reached by the ancient Greeks: the pyramids were the tombs of the kings, and the Great Pyramid in particular was the tomb of Khufu (Cheops). But why, if that was so, was the Great Pyramid endowed with such a complex system of passages and chambers? Were all of its chambers the Subterranean Chamber, the Queens Chamber, the Grand Gallery, and the Kings Chamber, required in some regard for the burial of the king? And, if so, how? The initial explanation, derived in the early days of Egyptology, ran as follows. Khufu had at first decided to be buried underground, to which end the Descending Passage had been dug and the Subterranean Chamber excavated from the bedrock. But then the king changed his mind, perhaps on the view this arrangement was vulnerable to tomb robbers. Accordingly, he ordered his architects to amend their plans and build the Ascending Passage a unique development at the time and above it, hidden in the heart of the monument, a new burial chamber, which we know today as the Queens Chamber. But even then, the king was not satisfied with the security arrangements. Once again, he had instructed his architects to revise their drawings. This time, they should build a magnificent sloping hallway the Grand Gallery and beyond it, still higher in the Pyramid, a new chamber made of granite and protected by a portcullis in the same material. This chamber which we know today as the Kings Chamber had then met with the kings satisfaction; and thus he came to be buried in the uppermost of three chambers, all of which had been intended as tomb chambers, whilst the Gallery provided a glorious passageway to the kings tomb of choice. In recent years, however, Egyptologists had a rethink and have rejected the change of mind theory in favour of the idea the Pyramids complex interior was planned that way from the outset. As Rainer Stadelmann has explained: It does not do justice to the architects who designed and executed this unique building so perfectly to suggest that, in the essential element of the pyramids construction, that is the system of tomb chambers, they had proceeded without concept or design. Against this view is a conclusive argument in that the exterior construction and the layout of the chamber system work in perfect accord, and that neither inside nor out is there any suggestion of a change in plan. How, then, is the Pyramid to be understood as a unified design? What was the purpose of the various chambers? The general consensus is as follows. The Subterranean Chamber, it is believed, was probably intended as a decoy tomb, the aim being to persuade tomb robbers that the Pyramid had already been robbed. The
[CTRL] What Right Do Zionist Jews Have To Palestine?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/khazars.htm What Right Do Zionist Jews Have To Palestine? by Jason Collett, 2003-11-09 What title-deeds do the Jews of today actually have to the land of 'Israel'? The idea that a people can possess some kind of ethnic ancestral right to a territory supposedly vacated by their forebears some millenia previously, implying a right in perpetuity, can have no legal basis. Or otherwise Americans of European ancestry, to name just one group of people, will have to pack their bags. According to Dr Alfred Lilienthal in his book The Zionist Connection, "The Jewish population of Palestine [what is now Israel and the occupied territories, the West Bank and Gaza] at the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was a mere 7 percent of the 700,000 inhabitants. The rest were Muslim and Christian Arabs. At the time of the (US-dominated UN) partition vote in 1947 there were only 650,000 Jews in Palestine while there were 1.3 million indigenous Palestinian Arabs, either Christian or Muslim. Under the partition plan, 56% of Palestine was given for a Zionist state to people who constituted 33% of the population and owned about 6% of the land. These UN figures have never been in dispute." But there is a further issue, which also (yet again!) demonstrates the fundamentally questionable foundations of Zionism. Jews are actually not even the modern descendents of the Israel of the Biblical Old Testament: According to both the early-20th-century popular historian H.G.Wells and the Hungarian-Jewish intellectual and author Arthur Koestler, amongst numerous others, the people known today as Jews are primarily the descendents of a Turkish tribe known as the Khazars. The Khazars have no historical connection to Palestine. They converted to Judaism between 620 and 740AD, and have no genetic connection to biblical Israel, and hence to the narratives of the Bible and the "Holy Land". Koestler actually devoted an entire book called The Thirteenth Tribe (1976) to the fact that the Jews of eastern European origin, who are known as the Ashkenazi Jews and who make up about 95% of the Jewish population of today, are of Khazar origin. In other words virtually all of the Jews of the modern world have no Hebrew ancestry, and no ancient connection with Palestine. Does it matter? Does world peace matter? Do the human rights of a violently oppressed people matter? Does anything but sport and television sitcoms matter? Arthur Koestler was by no means the first to draw attention to this particular issue. He quotes from 20th-century works on the subject by, amongst others, Professors A.N.Poliak of Tel Aviv University, D.M. Dunlop of Columbia University in New York, and J.B. Bury of Cambridge University. The courageous Jewish anti-Zionist commentator Dr Alfred Lilienthal raised the issue 50 years ago and has continued to do so for decades. In fact, the famous H.G.Wells in the early 1920s in his popular Outline of History described the Jews as "a Turkish people" and stated that "[to the] Jewish Khazars ... are to be ascribed the great settlements of Jews in Poland and Russia" (Chap.XXXII:8) and "The main part of Jewry never was in Judea, and never came out of Judea" (XXIX:1). Lord Moyne, the British secretary of state in Cairo, declared on June 9, 1942, in the House of Lords that the Jews were not the descendants of the ancient Hebrews and that they had no "legitimate claim" on the Holy Land. A proponent of curtailing immigration into Palestine, he was accused of being "an implacable enemy of Hebrew independence." (Isaac Zaar, Rescue and Liberation: America's Part in the Birth of Israel, New York: Bloch, 1954, p.115). On November 6, 1944, Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo by two members of the Stern Gang led by Yitzak Shamir, latter to become premier of Israel. (This assassination was not unique in the history of Zionism. In September 1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, appointed by the UN as mediator between the Zionist settlers in Palestine and the native Palestinians, was murdered on orders from the same Yitzhak Shamir. Count Bernadotte was the head of the Swedish Red Cross and had risked his life to save thousands of Jews from German concentration camps. This set a precedent and encouragement for the Zionist use of assassination as a convenient political instrument, which the US and European governments have in effect condoned since then.) Much old documentary evidence exists on the subject of the Khazars dating from the ninth and tenth centuries and earlier from Arab, Byzantine, Hebrew, Russian and other sources. The conversion of the Khazars to Judaism is described in the so-called 'Khazar Correspondence' dating from the tenth century between Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, the Jewish chief minister of the Caliph of Cordoba in Spain, and Joseph, the king of the Khazars. In this the king traces the ancestry of his people not to Shem, father of the Semites, but to Japheth, Noah's third son. The
[CTRL] Conrad Black The Corruption Of Empire
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html November 21, 2003 CONRAD BLACK THE CORRUPTION OF EMPIRE The War Party they're thieves as well as liars The neocons, we are told by the Telegraph, are "unfazed despite war in Iraq," as the headline put it. The occasion for this reassuring news was an interview with the combative Dark Prince of the neoconservatives, Richard Perle, who complained about all the nasty name-calling on the part of his enemies: "Fascist. Warmongerer. Imperialist. With the smallest of sighs, Richard Perle, aka Prince of Darkness, ticked off a checklist of the insults he has received in recent months." Crybaby Perle starts a war on the playground and then goes weeping and wailing to the teacher when the other kids call him names. The poor thing! Oh, but that's the very least of it: "He saved the most emotive until last: neo-conservative. After all, what greater insult is there in right-thinking circles these days than neo-con that buzzword for all that is 'scary' and single-minded about Bush's America?" Neoconservative is supposed to be just another "buzzword" but it's interesting that the word is now considered an insult. The reason isn't touched on in the Telegraph piece, however, which is meant to give Perle a platform to show off his defiance "'I haven't noticed that we are keeping our heads down,' he commented drily." and crow about the President's inability to separate himself from the neocons' foreign policy prescriptions. "There may be no war next year in the countdown to the presidential election," the Telegraph confides, "but if Mr Bush is re-elected or even if a Democrat takes office battle could be rejoined." Especially if Perle and his fellow neo-Jacobins have anything to say about it, which they did, and do. As Perle quite accurately points out: "On September 11 2001, the president said we will not distinguish between those who committed the acts of terrorism and the countries that harbored them and supported them. And that is now the first principle of American policy. " The neocons' hold on the White House is assured, according to Perle, because the principle of preemption is now "fundamental." This new fundamentalism, he openly admits, will likely end in war: "So, does this entail a risk we will find ourselves in conflict . . . with other governments? Sure, it does." This assessment is indisputable, but surely he meant hope, not risk. Perle has long advocated an American jihad against virtually all Middle Eastern countries but for Turkey, and, perhaps, King Hussein's Jordan. It was Perle, you remember, who brought in the ex-LaRouchie Laurent Murawiec to brief the Defense Policy Board on a strategy to "liberate" Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He's the War Party's traveling ambassador of bad news, a Bizarro World version of a U.S. diplomat, whose objective is to spread ill will instead of good will. One day he's proclaiming that Russia must be expelled from the G-8, the next day he's scolding the Turks, and threatening war with Syria. His latest stunt: a trip to London in tandem with the Bush visit during which he said that, yes, the invasion of Iraq was illegal but so what? As an AEI fellow and free-lance pundit, and a government official with the Pentagon's Policy Advisory Board, his position is curiously ambiguous. Neither official nor strictly unofficial, Perle seems to be conducting his own foreign policy, openly contemptuous of the State Department and heedless of even the White House: "Mr Bush famously said he looked into Mr Putin's soul and found a man he could trust. 'It means he should look again,' said Mr Perle." Perle has often been an embarrassment to the White House, as when his financial interests seemed to be so intimately tied in with his role as a government advisor that he was accused of having a conflict of interest. While several newspapers including those of the Hollinger group, of which Perle is a director headlined the story "Pentagon Clears Richard Perle of Wrongdoing," the Washington Post cited the inspector general's report as follows: "'Mr. Perle arguably represented Global Crossing and Loral in a particular matter which is pending in the department or agency of the government in which such employee is serving,' the report says. But since Perle did not serve in his capacity as head of the advisory board for more than 60 days during the year, he did not run afoul of the ethics laws in question." In other words, he got off on a technicality. And no sooner had he made this narrow escape, but he faced another, potentially far bigger threat. The burgeoning investigation into Hollinger International Inc. once the third-largest English language newspaper empire in terms of circulation, including the British Telegraph, the Jerusalem Post, and the Chicago Sun-Times threatens not only Perle, but several of his cronies. Presided over by Lord Conrad Black, the Canadian media mogul who gave up his citizenship to
[CTRL] Voxfux: Bush Plans Bio Attack On America
-Caveat Lector- http://www.voxfux.com/archives/0095.htm BUSH PLANS BIO ATTACK ON AMERICA GET READY FOR A PRE ELECTION ATTACK by voxfux Absolutely positively, in the months leading up to the next presidential election, a clandestine military/intelligence operations group linked to George Bush Sr. will execute a strategic pre-election terrorist attack in America designed to kill Americans and send this country into martial law. This strategic pre-election attack will be perpetrated by the same group of clandestine military/industrial/intelligence terrorists, linked to Bush Sr., who perpetrated the September 11th attacks. The preparatory memes are surfacing everywhere. Bush Sr. and the military/industrial/intelligence cartel he fronts for, knows that America has had enough of this retarded jerk son of his, he knows that America has had enough with the Bushes and their type, and their murderous war profiteering looting rampage, and so in order to survive, this cartel will execute a strategic pre-election attack on Americans and as usual, make it look like Islamists did it. Then of course their allis (scum) in the media will once again trumpet this idiot son of his as a hero who has once again "come into his own" as he bravely visits the contamination zone live on the CIA controlled disinformation network, CNN. It is a near certainty that Bush Sr.'s private fanatical ultra right wing intelligence operations group has, since the mid 1970's, maintained stocks of biological and chemical agents from strains that this group would have originally acquired when Bush was Director of Central Intelligence. Bush was ousted as CIA Chief by Admiral Stansfield Turner acting on President Jimmy Carter's orders. He knew it was coming. Bush was canned along with 1000 fellow CIA agents. Lots of deadly strains of biological and chemical agents went missing from the sloppily guarded government labs during this period. CIA had a lot of the stuff laying around CIA labs - against Nixon's 1972 presidential order banning the CIA from maintaining such lethal stocks. Considering the psychological profile of Bush (Sr.) and his loyal (desperate) operators and considering the historical background of Bush (Sr.) it is a near certainly he would have assured the acquisition and control of these terrorizing bio-agents to use at some unspecified future date in order to consolidate his quickly building criminal empire. He would not have let the opportunity slip through his criminal fingers to acquire such killing power, because if you know anything about these elitist yuppie establishment sociopaths know that for them, they believe that their "power" ultimately comes from their ability to stealthily kill anyone who could seriously stand between their will to power and the truth. But this 1970's stock of deadly bio-agents may not be necessary, for now with total control of all phases of the military and intelligence command in complete concordance with the plan to take over America, it will be like taking candy from a baby. And with the scum at CNN and FOX broadcasting day and night how eager and willing EVERY AMERICAN is to give up their basic civil and human rights to the new military command there will be no sizable resistance. And with a population whose brains have been so completely numbed by years of television, "programming," many will be, "believe," it's a great idea to cede their rights over to military rule, so long as they are guaranteed the illusion that their precious fat bodies will be spared the fate that will befall their neighbors - the other guy. In the months leading up to the 2004 elections, the Bush crime group will privately witness actual polling data showing WIDE-SCALE DISSATISFACTION with Bush. The numbers will be dismal indeed. (And this is coming from polls that Bush themselves largely control.) As usual, the official published poll results, however, will be completely fraudulent, the complete opposite of reality, and the reported poll results will show wide-scale SUPPORT for Bush or at least a 50/50 split. But in the back rooms of the polling machinery and in any independent polls, the actual truth about how little support there really is in America for this human scum named George W. Bush will be impossible to hide (something like a 90% disapproval.) So once again the CIA / Zionist controlled media will portray the horrendous 90% dissatisfaction of Bush as 49% dissatisfaction - with 51% percent of the nation still firmly behind the president, That's how it is done folks! It's the, "DIVIDED NATION," technique. But there is no division, there is only deception. There is only the illusion of division. AMERICANS ARE FINISHED WITH THIS PIECE OF SHIT IN THE WHITE HOUSE. But if you watch the news (especially CNN and Fox) you will see mythical reports about how EVENLY DIVIDED this country is. It's a fraud. That's how it's done, people. There is no support for Bush. The urban populations in America are
[CTRL] Slander Its Uses
http://www.amconmag.com/11_17_03/taki.html November 17, 2003 issue Copyright 2003 The American Conservative Slander Its Uses By Taki Heres Liz Smith, the syndicated celebrity gossip columnist and the undisputed numero uno of her genre, writing about yours truly recently: The phone rang with an anonymous caller who wanted to say that Taki Theodoracopulos is a neo-Nazi and anti-Semite and that I should be ashamed for mentioning his magazine The American Conservative. The caller added, He has nothing to do with the Conservative Party. Dear, oh dear! Liz has been my friend for close to 30 years and has always reported my shenanigans with humor and a generosity of spirit, but this time she really dropped the ball. An anonymous caller? Puh-leez! Just for starters, Lizs calls are screened, and I think it would have been easier to get through to Ben Bradlee during Watergate than Liz Smith. Second of all, since when does as experienced a columnistover 50 years in the businessrepeat allegations from an anonymous caller? Would my buddy Liz have published charges of child molestation or serial murders? What then? Would the fuzz come after me? After all, an anonymous caller can say anything. That is why anonymous calls remain mostly anonymous and unprintable. What I suspect is that Liz received a call from above and is protecting the caller. Who is the vicious Mr. Big? Fools might try to reason; wise men never try. Like anonymous hate mail, one doesnt give it a seconds thoughtuntil one sees it in a friends respected syndicated column, that is. What I truly suspect happened is that we, The American Conservative, are doing something right. Our stance has been vindicated: in one year we have become the heart and soul of what conservatism is all about. Ergo the cheapest of debating tricks, writing (in this case calling) ex cathedra: I assert, therefore it is. Vladimir Nabokov called such stuff poshlost, corny trash, vulgar clichs, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations. I call it a pathetic attempt to discredit a small magazine that got it right all along, an abuse of anti-anti-Semitism, and an oft-tried wolf cry. Charges of anti-Semitism, like mud, tend to stick, and that was the purpose of the slander. What brought it on? Thats an easy one. My stance for the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, and the fact that Americas support of Ariel Sharons brutal policies has subordinated American interests and values to the vagaries of militant Zionism. Having said that, I have also insisted in print that, in its attitude toward Jews, the Muslim world today resembles Germany of the 1930sa time of state-sponsored hate and caricatures of a people based solely on their religion. Coincidentally, the Liz Smith item appeared the same time Gregg Easterbrook got into trouble over his criticism of Miramax and its parent company Disney for seeking profit by wallowing in gore. (This is handled elsewhere in the magazine.) What I did agree with in Easterbrooks writing was the following: Recent European history alone ought to cause Jewish executives to experience second thoughts about glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice. Actually I thought this passage philo-Semitic, certainly not anti-Semitic. If anything historic applies to present Israeli policies, it is the fact that people who have suffered like the Jews have should know better. But then, as Bill Buckley has written, minority exertions on foreign policy tend to have extortional effects. In other words, our friends the neocons are playing hardball with anyone who has the slightest doubt that Sharon is the Second Coming. Here is Bill again: There are inherited distinctive immunities about Israel and the Jews I agree, but depriving people of the right to equality and freedom and keeping them under occupation is hardly a democratic act. But back to anti-Semitism. I dont know many people who judge ethnic or religious groups as displaying fixed behavior. Sure, there are jokes galore, especially about Jews, mostly told by Jews, and they are very funny indeed. After all, when the joking has to stop, totalitarianism starts. Those who use anti-Semitism as a club for the apostomasis of their political opponents are the very people whom the ADL should go after. Abusing anti-Semitism is the order of the day, thanks to the neocon creed of taking no prisoners. (If any of them had served in the armed forces perhaps theyd understand that taking prisoners is as honorable a duty as resisting the enemy.) Heres Ran HaCohen, a teacher in Tel Aviv and a writer in Yedioth Achronot, on the abuse of anti-Semitism: Nowadays, an orthodox Jew can run for the most powerful office on earth. A Jew can be the mayor of Amsterdam in anti-semitic Holland, a minister in anti-semitic Britain, a leading intellectual in anti-semitic France, a president of anti-semitic Switzerland, or an industrial tycoon in anti-semitic Russia. A converted Jew is even mentioned
[CTRL] A Warning To The Jewish People
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general44/warning.htm A Warning To The Jewish People Jews Against Zionism.com 11-19-3 The Zionists are placing the Jews throughout the world in great danger!! Following the terrible events in Istanbul, Turkey and in other areas in Europe, the leaders of the Zionist state arrogantly proclaim that such events make it necessary for Jews to leave their native countries and move to the most dangerous place on Earth for the Jewish People ö the State of Israel. Zionist representatives such as Sharon have shamelessly announced the blatant lie before Jew and non-Jew in Europe that the ãonly place where a Jew can be a Jew is Israel.ä Ever since the dawn of the Zionist movement a century ago in the days of its founder, Theodor Herzl, Zionists have sought to encourage and thrive on anti-Jewish hostility in order to create the basis for their state. Many great rabbis of the twentieth century warned the Jewish People of the dangers presented by these loose cannons, the Zionists. Among them was the eminent Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum who constantly reiterated the danger facing the Jewish People from the Zionists and their state. It is essential that the sufferings of Jews. . . become worse. . . this will assist in realization of our plans. . .I have an excellent idea. . . I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth. . . The anti- Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friendsä. (From his Diary, Part I, p. 16) Herzl continued: So anti-Semitism, which is a deeply imbedded force in the subconscious mind of the masses, will not harm the Jews. I actually find it to be advantageous to building the Jewish character, education by the masses that will lead to assimilation. This education can only happen through suffering, and the Jews will adapt. (Part I, p. 68 of Part I of his Diary) How different, then, are the words of the current leader of the Zionist regime, Sharon? If Israel is weakened ... the Jews worldwide will not be able to live the lives they live today," Ariel Sharon told the crowd at a Rome hotel. "We are witness to a great wave of anti-Semitism, and apart from the usual anti- Semitism against Jews, there is today the added hate of the collective Jew, which is Israel. "The best solution to anti-Semitism is immigration to Israel. It is the only place on Earth where Jews can live as Jews," he said. (BBC website of Monday, 17 November, 2003 (http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3275979.stm) The Zionists told European leaders that removing the Jewish People from Europe to the Holy Land, where they hoped to build their state, could eliminate the so-called ãJewish Problemä. The Zionists even sought collaboration with the Nazis for this purpose, and it is widely known that they planted bombs in Jewish neighborhoods in places like Cairo and Baghdad to frighten Jews into evacuating to the Zionist state. Today is no different!! The Zionist representatives thrive on anti- Jewish animosity everywhere. It is their oxygen! They will leave no stone unturned to fill the Jewish People with fear and paranoia in order to attempt to realize their goal of moving more Jews to their State so that such unwitting Jews may serve as cannon fodder in the Zionist war against the Palestinians! The Zionists seek every opportunity to realize this goal, and we urgently warn our fellow Jews throughout the world to reject the repulsive propaganda of Zionist representatives and realize the that the abiding source of danger is the anti-Jewish heretical ideology of Zionism! Our Jewish brethren must for once and for all realize, and proclaim to the world, that Zionism and the Zionist State have no relationship to the authentic traditional Jewish religion and its values, and is in fact the antithesis of those values! They have no right to speak in the name of the Jewish people. Therefore, their words, declarations and actions are not in any way representative of the Jewish people. Visit our web site at Jews Against Zionism http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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] Controlling The News (Part 24)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a717.htm Part 24 (November 9, 2003) The mutual funds scandals are growing but there is a frantic attempt to put the lid on. The public is not supposed to get it into its innocent heads that corporate America is nothing but a gaggle of money-grubbing crooks. The books of most banks and major corporations have been cooked for years, the market manipulated ruthlessly and everyone, including the regulators on the serious take.put your cash in the mattress, lads (Nov 10) Bush is being told by his crew that he had best get his sorry old ass out of Iraq before long or he will never get reelected. What a bunch of losers!Now we are taking all of our troops out of S. Korea and shipping them, along with cadre from absolutely everywhere, to Iraq. Its even up that when we leave, the North Koreans will launch an attack. They are nuts enough to do this but Bush cant do a damned thing about it. They are shipping permanent party out of Okinawa to the relief of the locals who are tired of rapes, fatal traffic accidents caused by drunk or stoned GIs (Nov 15) Now the dorks are planning to pull out of our new Vietnam by June. When they leave, Saddam and his men will come back again and scores will be settled. Or, worse, the Iranians will take over the country, set up a Shiite religious dictatorship and we will still be sol. And no oil. Joke here: Bush encountered Lincolns ghost in the White House, recently. The Prez asked the spirit how he could make the American people better off. Lincoln said: Why not go to a play? From all of our sources, Bush is the most hated President in history but you are never to comment on that. (Nov 16) ..we were hashing over coverage of the Imperial visits to the boobery. The crew picks some place safe, the SS goes out and covers the place like a blanket, Bush is not allowed to get anywhere near the public. He is so afraid of being shot that when he goes out, he has more guards around him than Cheney or Hitlerno one is allowed near the Imperial Presence except proofmarked loyalists, many of whom are bussed in form three states away, handed pre-printed signs and told to cheer and wave on cuedisgusting theater. Doesnt fool the camera crews but the Bible Belt laps it up Comment: The following article from The Observer directly addresses the issue of Bushs intense security. 'Shoot-to-kill' demand by US Martin Bright, home affairs editor November 16, 2003 The Observer Home Secretary David Blunkett has refused to grant diplomatic immunity to armed American special agents and snipers travelling to Britain as part of President Bush's entourage this week. In the case of the accidental shooting of a protester, the Americans in Bush's protection squad will face justice in a British court as would any other visitor, the Home Office has confirmed. The issue of immunity is one of a series of extraordinary US demands turned down by Ministers and Downing Street during preparations for the Bush visit. These included the closure of the Tube network, the use of US air force planes and helicopters and the shipping in of battlefield weaponry to use against rioters. In return, the British authorities agreed to numerous concessions, including the creation of a 'sterile zone' around the President with a series of road closures in central London and a security cordon keeping the public away from his cavalcade. The White House initially demanded the closure of all Tube lines under parts of London to be visited during the trip. But British officials dismissed the idea that a suicide bomber could kill the President by blowing up a Tube train. Ministers are also believed to have dismissed suggestions that a 'sterile zone' around the President should be policed entirely by American special agents and military. Demands for the US air force to patrol above London with fighter aircraft and Black Hawk helicopters have also been turned down. The President's protection force will be armed - as Tony Blair's is when he travels abroad - and around 250 Secret Service agents will fly in with Bush, but operational control will remain with the Metropolitan Police. The Americans had also wanted to travel with a piece of military hardware called a 'mini-gun', which usually forms part of the mobile armoury in the presidential cavalcade. It is fired from a tank and can kill dozens of people. One manufacturer's description reads: 'Due to the small calibre of the round, the mini-gun can be used practically anywhere. This is especially helpful during peacekeeping deployments.' Ministers have made clear to Washington that the firepower of the mini-gun will not be available during the state visit to Britain. In return, the Government has agreed to close off much of Whitehall during the visit - the usual practice in Britain is to use police outriders to close roads as the cavalcade passes to cause minimal disruption to traffic. A Home Office spokeswoman said: 'Negotiations
[CTRL] U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' code name 1st used by Nazis
-Caveat Lector- http://www.libertyforum.org/showthreaded.php?Board=news_newsNumber=1040315 U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' code name 1st used by Nazis [ Post 1040315 ] Category: News Opinion Topic: News Current Events Synopsis: You knew it in your gut, didn't you? Source: Reuters Published: November 18, 2003 Author: NA For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use. The U.S. military's code name for a crackdown on resistance in Iraq was also used by the Nazis for an aborted operation to damage the Soviet power grid during World War Two. "Operation Iron Hammer" this week launched the 1st Armored Division's 3rd Brigade into the roughest parts of Baghdad to ferret out the attackers who have killed scores of U.S. troops since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was ousted in April. A Pentagon official said the name was chosen because of the "Old Ironsides" nickname of the 1st Armored Division. He was unaware of any connection to any Nazi operation. "Eisenhammer," the German for "iron hammer," was a Luftwaffe code name for a plan to destroy Soviet generating plants in the Moscow and Gorky areas in 1943, according to Universal Lexikon on the www.infobitte.de Web site. A researcher at Britain's Imperial War Museum confirmed the existence of Eisenhammer. The Nazi's long-range bombing operation was repeatedly postponed and was finally scrapped after an allied air assault destroyed many of the German planes on the ground in 1945, shortly before the defeat of Germany. After it declared war on terrorism, U.S. officials changed the code name for its impending attack on Afghanistan to Operation Enduring Freedom. The original name, Operation Infinite Justice, was jettisoned amid fears that the Muslim world, already leery of U.S. intentions, would object on the basis of Koranic teachings that only God can provide infinite justice. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Istanbul Bombing - What We're Expected To Believe
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general44/expect.htm Istanbul Bombing - What We Are Expected To Believe Commentary By Margita Lukkarinen Helsinki, Finland 11-18-3 Dear Jeff, Since Israel went to 'help' Turkey in solving the Istanbul bombing, the story seem to be turning upside down and all vital data seem to be 'forgotten'. I am enclosing an article from Israel: 1. We are expected to believe that ONLY 3 people did it. 2. Haaretz forgot that a brother of a cousin is a cousin too. 3. We are expected to believe that even thought the two bombers could walk away. they preferred to die in the vans , probably because they were too tired to fight the Zionists :-) 4. We are expected to forget that ALL initial reports indicated that the vans were parked. 5. We are expected to forget that all initial reports clearly said that the drivers were observed by local people walking away from the van. 6. We are not allowed to ask who put the bodies inside the vans before exploding them. 7. As usual, we are told that there is a link to Afghanistan even though this country has been already evaporated. 8. As usual 'they' 'found' a 'link' to Syria to justify attacking Syria soon. 9. We are expected to believe that the 'suicide' bombers whom we were told repeatedly produced VERY sophisticated bombs, decided to use their own vans so that the rest of their family could be implicated and arrested. 10. We are expected to believe that the Turkish government, which until now insisted that there is clearly another government behind this bombing, changed its opinion this morning after getting 'help' from Israel, and decided that only one family is involved. 11. We are expected to believe that the Turkish police were lying when they told us initially that they have a security video showing clearly the bombers walking away from their vans. 12. Again, we are expected to believe that bin-Laden is alive, and he is behind all the evil of this world. Someone said that the biggest achievement of the Devil was that he made us believe that he does not exist. It was clear that most western media is now controlled by the Devil, but, I am very surprised to read that now most 'Arab' AND Israeli 'news' are also under his control. Yours, Margita Lukkarinen Helsinki Finland === http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/362079.htmlhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/362079.html Last Update: 18/11/2003 20:24 Turkey: Man who dispatched Istanbul bombers fled to Syria By mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Jonathan Lis, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Yossi Melman and Zvi Barel, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and News Agencies Turkish investigators are reportedly close to uncovering the full story behind the terror bombings of two Istanbul synagogues on Saturday morning in which 25 people were killed and over 300 wounded. Their probe has thus far revealed that the World Islamic Jihad was behind the attack. The bombings were apparently carried out in cooperation with Al-Qaida and other terror organizations. It became clear on Tuesday that the terror cell that carried out the attack was primarily made up of members of one family. The two suicide bombers were cousins and the brother of one of the bombers headed the planning and execution of the attack. The brother fled to Syria immediately following the Saturday morning attack. Turkish government figures on Tuesday accused Syrians not connected with the ruling regime of assisting the Istanbul terrorists in carrying out their double attack. The investigation has also revealed that all four individuals involved in the planning and execution of the suicide bombings came from the city of Bingul in southeast Turkey. All four were considered extremist Al-Qaida activists. They trained in Afghanistan and Iran and fought in Chechnya and in the Balkans. They were also previously active in Muslim organizations made illegal by Turkish authorities. Turkish intelligence authorities and police said Monday that they had identified at least one of the suicide bombers from the attacks. The suspected bomber is Azad Ekinci, from southeast Turkey, whose older brother has been called in by Istanbul police to provide a DNA sample. The license plate on the vehicle that blew up outside the Beit Yisrael synagogue in Shishli was registered to the older brother. Meanwhile, six Jewish victims of the attacks, including a young girl, were laid to rest Tuesday. The six were named as eight-year-old Anita Rubinstein and her grandmother Anna, 85; Avraham Idinvarul, 40; Yoel Cohen Ulcher, the 20-year-old security guard at one of the two synagogues; Berta Usdawan, 34, who was killed along with her Muslim husband, Ahmed; and Yona Romano, 50, who died of a heart attack as a result of the bombing. Their coffins were draped with Turkey's red-and-white flag emblazoned with a crescent and star, an honor
[CTRL] Skolnick: The Public Execution Of John F. Kennedy
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general44/overthrow.htm Overthrow Of The American Republic - Part 42 The Public Execution Of John F. Kennedy By Sherman H. Skolnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] SkolnicksReport.com 11-17-3 Circulating for many years in the alternative media underground have been the notes of what some contend were the true perpetrators of the political assassination of John F. Kennedy. Some of these reports had titles such as "The Gemstone Files", and "The Torbett Document", and were copied and re-copied, and shared as background by various political assassination researchers. These details were often discussed when such researchers got together at meetings. According to some alternative commentators, these notes were to be read and considered in conjunction with the book "Farewell America". Published in Europe about 1968, and circulated in about fourteen languages, the book was not permitted by U.S. postal and customs authorities to be imported into the U.S. to be sold in bookstores. This censorship in the U.S. ended about 2002, when amazon.com began selling a paperback edition of the book now listed on their website. Until 1973, I was only one of two researchers in the U.S. who found a way to get "Farewell America", in English, in hardback, into the U.S. At nationwide college seminars by me, I gave them away to students in return for small donations to support our work. Here are matters necessary to understanding the political wipe-out of JFK: Starting in 1841 and continuing until the first year of the 20th Century, were the visible results of violent struggles between the Vatican/the Jesuits and the Protestant Church in America as well as the efforts of Great Britain to take-back the American continent, reverting the inhabitants to being mere subjects, not U.S. citizens, of the British Monarchy and returning this land to being puppet colonies of the Crown. In furtherance of these ends, five U.S. presidents were assassinated for the benefit of Great Britain and the Vatican/the Jesuits. ===William Henry Harrison, killed by being poisoned, in 1841, a month after being inaugurated as President. U.S. Senator Thomas Benton in his book stated as to President Harrison, "that the deceased President had been closely preceded and was rapidly followed by the deaths of almost all of his numerous family, sons and daughters." Only one of President Harrison's eight children, a son, was permitted to live. "Thirty Years' View: From 1820-1850" by Thomas Benton. ===Zachary Taylor, like Harrison, killed by being poisoned 1850, during the slavery controversy, called the Compromise, instigated by Great Britain to divide up and conquer the United States. These efforts by England eventually led to the American Civil War, also called The War Between the States, in which England financed and outfitted with weapons the Jefferson Davis Confederacy, breaking away from the United States of America. ===Abraham Lincoln,, assassinated, as a symbol, on Good Friday, April, 1865, a few days after the South surrendered. Part of the plot against Lincoln included the guard at the door of Lincoln's box at Ford's Theater. The guard fled to the Vatican and was sheltered as part of the Vatican Guard. The Vatican, through various strategies, including making their presence and power known to a U.S. jury, effectively kept the guard from being convicted and jailed for being part of the plot against Lincoln,upon the guard returning to the U.S. ===James Abram Garfield, murdered 1881. He was against England interfering with the industrial development and finance of the U.S. ===William McKinley. Prior to his first term as President, he promoted U.S. industrial and financial interests in opposition to Great Britain by the McKinley Tariff. In his first Presidential term, he promoted U.S. imperialism, in the U.S. war against Spain, in opposition to England. Like Garfield, he was opposed to Great Britain interfering with U.S. industrial and financial development. He was assassinated in 1901, a few months after being inaugurated President for the second time. ===John F. Kennedy. The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified January 16, 1919 and repealed by the 21st Amendment, December 5, 1933. It prohibited the manufacturing, sale, and importation of intoxicating liquor within the U.S., and exportation of the same from the U.S. The period was called "The Prohibition". John F. Kennedy's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, during Prohibition, made the British royalty beholden to him for financial benefits. The Brits controlled the manufacturing and export of booze from England and Scotland. Joe Kennedy arranged to smuggle into the U.S. the British royal products through a transit point, being a small French island in the mouth of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Old man Kennedy distributed the spirits in the U.S., in violation of Prohibition, mainly through his financial arrangements with gangsters,
[CTRL] For Israel, We Didn't Know Will Be No Excuse
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1252 "We Didn't Know" Will be No Excuse James Brooks - Counterpunch.org November 10, 2003 Israel's occupation of the Palestinian Territories passed through a profound transformation during the last several months. Through a series of policy changes and military orders, the West Bank "security fence" has gradually revealed itself to be the backbone of a comprehensive new system of land theft, imprisonment, collective punishment...and worse. The question is not whether it is a "political fence" or a "security fence", but whether it is an engine of ethnic cleansing. In the past ninety days Israel has established a clear pattern of using its "security fence" to deny Palestinian farmers access to their own lands. Much of the olive harvest in the northern West Bank hangs dead on the trees because farmers have been 'caged' for weeks at a time. Entire villages have been issued permits to farm that give them as little as two days outside the barrier - for the entire year. Even if you have a permit, you must hope the soldiers open the gate for a few minutes on your appointed day, and open it again when you return from your labors. In the past sixty days, Israel revealed its willingness to use deadly force to protect its "fence". It relaxed its rules of engagement, and shot an unarmed Palestinian dead for disobeying orders; he touched the wall. In the past thirty days, Israel issued new military orders that obliterate the rights of Palestinians left outside the barriers to live in their own homes. The orders expropriate their land, and all Palestinian land west of the "security fence", to create a "closed zone" open only to Jews and citizens of Israel. All others, including the people who live there, must apply for a permit from the Israeli army. By the end of next year, at least 210,000 Palestinians are expected to be subject to similar orders. No longer content to chop away at Palestine until it eventually disappears, Israel is now using the "security fence" as a vehicle for the more rapid and overt methods of large-scale ethnic cleansing. This grave step ushers in the terminal stage of the cleansing process, in which years of organized persecution, brutality, bigotry and theft, all the patriotic acts required in the effort to dehumanize another people, finally succeed in radically dehumanizing the perpetrators. At this point, it is simple to use the bureaucracy of the state to erase a people's very existence. With the stroke a pen, an entire region can be "Judaized", with assurance that the necessary consequences will follow in time. They wouldn't actually do this, right? They wouldn't push another quarter of a million Palestinians right off their land, not now. The people will get their permits. Right? Let's put it in perspective. By the end of this summer, Israel's occupation had reduced the Palestinian people to the poverty and malnutrition levels of sub-Saharan Africa, according to studies by the UN, the World Bank, and CARE International. The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food said in mid-October, "The occupied Palestinian territories are on the verge of humanitarian catastrophe as a result of extremely harsh military measures...There can be no justification for harsh internal closures that prevent people from having access to food and water; otherwise the imposition of such military measures amount[s] to what has been called a 'policy of starvation'.." Israel's incredibly dense network of army checkpoints, "flying" checkpoints, roadblocks and barriers has made travel for Palestinians in the West Bank almost impossible. A five-mile trip can take all day, waiting at checkpoints for hours on end out in the open, no shelter provided. It often doesn't matter if you're having a baby or bleeding to death from an Israeli-inflicted wound - you wait. So far, thirty-one "checkpoint babies" have perished. (On the other hand, any Jew can use the bypass roads and get from one side of the West Bank to the other in minutes.) Since Israel signed the Oslo Accords, the settler population has doubled to 390,000, strewn over a thick web of at least 145 settlements and their interconnecting Jewish-only roads, blanketing the Palestinian West Bank. Since the beginning of the Second Intifada three years ago, the Israeli army has been systematically wrecking Palestinian infrastructure throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Water mains, wells, and pumping stations, sewage systems, telephone and internet hubs, markets, airports, police stations, roads, civic buildings, mosques and churches, all have felt the special attentions of Israel's bulldozers, bomb teams, helicopter gunships, and F-16s. It's a slow-motion version of what Gulf War I did to Iraq. The army goes virtually everywhere, usually raiding two or three cities or villages every day and night, leaving a string of casualties and appalling human rights abuses rarely reported by the
Re: [CTRL] For Israel, We Didn't Know Will Be No Excuse
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/15/2003 11:59:33 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ahhh, all we need is that the Palestinians to be required to wear yellow arm-bands, and we will know that the Nazis are alive and well and living in Israel. Never fear; brown-shirts are here. It's all come full circle. Prudy It's clear that the Zionists learned much from their former partners in crime. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] For Israel, We Didn't Know Will Be No Excuse
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 11/15/2003 4:32:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In your true love, one world government under fascist control, there will be no boundaries between countries. That's your fantasy Dot...one-world socialist government and then Israel who would of course be above any laws. Bill. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Armageddon Coming?
MER WEEKEND READING: ARMAGEDDON POSSIBILITIES ARISING FROM TODAY'S MIDDLE EAST SHARON'S TOP AIDE 'SURE WORLD WAR III IS COMING' "Where the CIA goes, Mossad goes as well. Israeli and American interests have come together in the dominance of the Central Asian region and therefore, so have liberal ideology, the Beltway set, neo-conservatism, Ivy League eggheads, Christian Zionism, the Rothschilds and the American media. Afghanistan through the Caspian Sea through to Georgia, Azerbaijan and into the Balkans (not to mention pipelines leading to oil-hungry China), have become one single theater of war over trillions of dollars in oil and gas wealth, incorporating every single power center in global politics. The battle against the New World Order is being decided in Moscow." MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 15 November 2003: The Christian Fundamentalists, Pat Robertson in the lead, are sure they see God's hand in all this. Ironically, in their truly dangerously radical theological view, they see in today's "Jewish State" the second coming of Christ which then results in the conversion of the world's remaining Jews to Christianity! But the cynical Israelis want and need the political support, the money, and the tourists; so they play the Christian Fundamentalists for the fools and cash in. But even so, the largely white Christian right is not all mezmerized by the Jewish State. Another group on the far right is actually leading a counter anti-Israel crusade. Long associated with the now defunct 'Spotlight' newspaper this group is now much more amorphous and leaderless, spanning across a wider spectrum that includes another Pat (Buchanan), such groups in the American heartland as "We Hold These Truths", elements associated with The Washington Report, and the reincarnation of the Spotlight in its latest new form called Free American Press. On the whole the following of these groups is middle-class middle-aged Christian Whites formerly extremely patriotic and flag-waving though these symbols have now been taken over by others, including the White House itself. Like many ideologically-centered movements, you have to be careful to watch out for the twists and turns that go off tract. But even so occassionally there are some interesting and provocative and revealing articles that emerge from these circles -- such as the one that follows "Countdown to Armageddon". With the 'mainstream' corporate media in both the US and Europe so afraid to raise serious and tough questions relating to Israel and 'The Jews' and what former Prime Minister Mahathir terms how "the Jews now run the world by proxy"... a major vacuum has opened for others whose journalistic and intellectual credentials are now always what we would hope for. We do know, and we have said for some time, that Israel and the Jewish community have been playing with fire, acting extraordinarily arrogantly and hypocritically, and that a day of backlash and reckoning could eventually come in a big way. We don't know just how much of the analysis in the following article is right on the money, how much distorted by ideological blinders or inadequate or twisted information. We do know that these topics are now, especially now, of the greatest importance to the future of our world; that we cannot rely on the 'mainstream' media to give us either the facts or the crucial perspective; and that we should read and consider articles like this one in this overall context. Oh yes, on the topic of World War III. Now what can be more important than that! But when non other than Walter Chronkite, about a year ago now, gave a carefully prepared speech in which he clearly stated that he feared this is where the US was leading the world, once again the 'mainstream' corporate media refused to focus on or follow-up on such a warning -- even coming from one of the most establishment and credible American journalists of the last century! And when Ariel Sharon's top spokesman made a comment to a Jewish American gathering, unaware there was a journalist in the audience, that he was "sure World War III is coming" and everyone should now prepare...once again the 'mainstream' media spiked the story. Furthermore we do know that the Israelis clearly decided some time ago that they were willing to repeatedly risk an escalating conflict and the radicalization of the entire region in order to pursue their own territorial, economic and domination goals. That too is part of the crucial historical context in which to read and ponder the following article: Countdown to Armageddon? Are the Israelis willing to start World War III? Exclusive to American Free Press - Washington - By M. Raphael Johnson: According to a recent article by veteran British military analyst Joseph Vialls, Russia has sent the most advanced and feared missile in the world, owned only by Russia and China, the P270 Moskit, also known as the Sunburn, to
[CTRL] Russia Ready to Vaporize the Jewish State (Part 2)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.joevialls.co.uk/myahudi/sunburn2.html Russia Ready to Vaporize the Jewish State Part 2: Vladimir Putin hammers the final nail into Israels coffin Copyright Joe Vialls, 16 November 2003 When Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in Russia and his Yukos oil assets seized, the process represented far more than simple payback against the most powerful Zionist Jew in Moscow. At a single stroke, President Vladimir Putin ensured future Russian national security, consolidated several former republics of the old Soviet Union, and most important of all, eternally blocked Israels attempts to use free Yukos oil to drive its engines of war across the entire Middle East. Within hours of Khodorkovskys arrest in Siberia, his principal Yukos lieutenants fled Russia for Israel, whining in Tel Aviv about expedited Israeli citizenship rights, and offering officials of the Jewish State unlimited quantities of Russian crude oil if they were guaranteed swift sanctuary. In their desperation to save themselves, the Yukos lieutenants accidentally lifted the veil on a top-secret Israeli big-bore oil pipeline network. Partly funded by Baron Edmond Rothschild in the fifties and sixties, the pipeline was initially designed and built to import vast quantities of free crude oil from Iran, courtesy of Zionist puppet Reza Shah. Officially of course, the main pipeline running from Eilat to Ashkelon was designed to allow Iranian crude oil to bypass the Suez Canal for sale in Mediterranean and other European markets, but this was only a cosmetic cover. Most of the oil imported at Eilat never left Israel again, but found its way instead to major refineries within the Jewish State. We will return to the intriguing skullduggery of the early years later in this report. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the free oil ended abruptly, and the pipeline lay effectively idle for more than twenty years. But now principal Yukos lieutenant Leonid Nevzlin was effectively offering the Jewish State the same deal all over again, this time with free Russian crude oil smuggled by Yukos and reverse flowed in the other direction from Ashkelon to Eilat, ostensibly to allow Russia easier access to Asian markets. The temptation was overwhelming, and without stopping to think it through, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promptly claimed that Israel and Russia had a common interest in exploiting the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline. "We want to make money from this (through transit fees) and the Russians want to send oil through it," said spokesman Raanan Gissin, forgetting momentarily that the only Russians to suggest the plan were Zionist Jews who had fled Moscow for Tel Aviv. Back in the Kremlin, those who really controlled the oil flow from the Caspian and from Russia, watched the charade with grim amusement. The Jewish State was truly desperate now, and grasping at straws which no longer existed. The Russians [and Chinese] know very well that without oil, Israels obscene engines of war will eventually grind to a sudden halt, making the Jewish State more vulnerable than at any other time in its existence. Having already stalled Israeli and American pre-emptive nuclear strikes by deploying the much-feared SS-N-22 Sunburn missiles to Syria. Iran and China, the Kremlin decided to turn the military wick up the same week as the Yukos debacle, by discreetly leaking a report showing the devastating Sunburns would be progressively replaced in 2004 by the even more devastating SS-N-25 Onyx. Though at first glance it might seem impossible for the Russians to improve on the unstoppable Sunburn, they have managed to do so, thus ensuring absolute Russian and Chinese supremacy in the Eastern Hemisphere for at least the next two decades. Though Sunburn can fly 150 kilometers at Mach 2.1 [1,520 mph] at an average altitude of 60 feet, Onyx leaves this performance for dead. Using the same launch tubes as Sunburn, Onyx streaks along its extended 200+ kilometer flight path at a blistering Mach 2.9 [2,100 mph], while hugging the ground even closer at an average altitude of only 45 feet. Onyx is 100% Fire and Forget, meaning that once out of the launch tube, flight management is entirely automatic, and you can forget the doomed 93,000-ton aircraft carrier sitting meekly down range, only minutes away from being converted into environmentally-friendly heat and light. Though SS-N-25 deployment might seem like giant overkill, this is far from being the case, because Onyx differs from Sunburn in one utterly crucial way. So great is the kinetic energy at the point of impact on the target, that Onyx can sink an American aircraft carrier using only a conventional penetrating warhead. Those boffins who might doubt this should calculate the impact energy of 5,500 pounds of missile striking a carrier at a terminal velocity of 2,460 feet per second. Onyx means that Russia or China can sink American aircraft carriers at will without ever having
[CTRL] Hafnium-178
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/28/MN23720.DTLtype=science Superbomb ignites science dispute Pentagon advisers challenge experiments behind nonnuclear weapon Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer Sunday, September 28, 2003 The Pentagon's pursuit of a new kind of nonnuclear super-weapon has sparked a behind-the-scenes revolt among its elite scientific advisers, some of whom reject the scheme as pseudoscience. The military's goal is to develop a bomb that might be far more powerful than existing conventional weapons of the same size. Precisely targeted, such a weapon could take out targets -- such as underground caverns that conceal weapons of mass destruction -- without posing the severe political risks of using nuclear bombs. The key to the concept is a little known element called hafnium. By figuring out how to unleash the abundant energy from a hafnium isotope, called hafnium-178, the military hopes to develop a new generation of weapons. According to a Defense Department Web site, such a weapon might "revolutionize all aspects of warfare." The Pentagon is now quietly investigating ways to mass produce the isotope. Late last year, it created the 12-member Hafnium Isomer Production Panel (HIPP). Its purpose: to assess ways to mass-produce the isotope for military uses ranging from bombs to advanced forms of propulsion. Yet some of the nation's most distinguished scientists and military advisers say that such futuristic dreams of tomorrow's battlefields are premature at best and nonsense at worst. For four years, working largely behind the scenes, they have advised the Pentagon that claims by hafnium-178 enthusiasts -- led by physicist Carl Collins of the University of Texas -- defy sound physical theory and have not been reproduced in lab experiments by other researchers. For the first time, some of these skeptics are going public with their concerns. Last month, in a memorandum to Pentagon and Energy Department officials obtained by The Chronicle, five of the 12 members of the military's own advisory panel on mass producing hafnium-178 and other top experts warned against prematurely proceeding to develop weapons "applications that may not make physical sense." "In my opinion, this matter is worse than cold fusion," said panel member Bill Herrmannsfeldt, referring to unconfirmed claims by scientists in the 1980s that they had generated nuclear fusion energy at low temperatures. Herrmannsfeldt, a physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is leading a revolt against hafnium-178 weapons work within HIPP itself. Although Herrmannsfeldt regards claims for hafnium-178's super-energy powers as nonsense, he fears that other nations will take them seriously, triggering a new arms race. Recently, he successfully urged numerous top scientists to co-sign a letter to Washington officials citing experts' reservations about the scientific credibility of hafnium-178 claims and asking for a review of those claims by independent experts. HIGHLY RESPECTED SKEPTICS Among the signatories to the Aug. 13 letter to officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Energy Department are Stanford's Wolfgang Panofsky and Sidney Drell, both grand old men of the American weapons advisory establishment. The letter urges the federal government to create an independent panel to resolve the scientific community's dispute over claims made for the hafnium- 178 "nuclear isomer," as it's called. The government should do so, they stress, before spending any more money to develop weapons "applications that may not make physical sense." Jan Walker, a spokeswoman for DARPA at its Arlington, Va., headquarters, said the agency is reviewing the letter but declined to discuss the issue. Walker noted that in conducting advanced research and technology development for the Defense Department, DARPA has been involved in producing the technical underpinnings of the Internet, the stealth fighter and bomber, and unmanned air vehicles such as Global Hawk and Predator. Some isotopes can experience high-energy, or "nuclear isomer," states in which they retain abnormal amounts of energy. One of these isotopes is hafnium- 178; its nuclear-isomer state is technically known as hafnium-178m2. Normally, this nuclear isomer has a half-life of 31 years, meaning half of it decays away in 31 years. That's way too slow to heat and ignite a firecracker, much less a super-bomb. Hafnium is a bright, natural metal. For weapons purposes, the Pentagon would need large quantities of the particular type called hafnium-178. The known amount of hafnium-178 nuclear isomer in the world is so small that the Pentagon would have to mass produce it. No one has a good idea how. The Pentagon appointed the HIPP panel to try to find out. One possible way would involve bombarding elements in a giant particle accelerator, then developing
[CTRL] China-Israel ties worry US
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1370mode=order=0thold=0 China-Israel ties worry US by Harvey Morris One element of the diplomatic crisis that erupted between Washington and Beijing this spring, after a US surveillance aircraft narrowly survived a close encounter with a Chinese warplane, went almost unnoticed in the drama surrounding the fate of the American crew. Photographs released by the Pentagon of two Chinese jets that had shadowed the EP-3E Aries II on April 1 showed they were armed with Israeli-made Python air- to-air missiles. It was the first public proof of what had for years been an open secret in the defence community that Israel is a supplier of sophisticated modern weaponry to the Chinese military. This unlikely relationship has been a persistent cause of friction in the otherwise close US-Israeli relationship over the years. China's relationship with Israel has existed for 20 years and long predates the opening of diplomatic relations between the two countries and Israel's readiness to supply the Chinese with sophisticated weaponry some of it developed in co-operation with the US is something that increasingly concerns Washington... On one level the relationship is financial. In the early days, China paid for the supplies with raw silk which the Israelis used for products sold into the international market. For Israel, however, there may be a wider strategic interest: as China moves towards superpower status in years to come, it will be as well for the Jewish state to have maintained intimate ties with Beijing in the hope of influencing its policy towards the Middle East. When the then Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Peking in 1998, he noted that: "We are very fortunate that China and Israel the Chinese people and the Jewish people that are two of the oldest people on earth have developed the capacity to develop dynamic societies that can seize the future. And we believe that the co-operation between us can bring prosperity and peace to our peoples and to our neighbours as well." What worries US strategic planners is that, as a consequence of these apparently warm ties, high-technology weaponry that leaks from Israel to China could, in turn, find its way to what the US regards as rogue states in the Middle East. Israel itself appears aware of the risk and is understood to set strict conditions on how China uses the technology it acquires. At the end of 1999, Israel publicly raised for the first time its concerns that China was transferring missile technology to Iran. This came after US officials expressed concerns that Israeli advanced technology supplied to the Chinese might end up in Iranian hands. Already in 1997, the New York Daily News carried a report suggesting that US pilots patrolling the skies over the Iraqi no-fly zones faced the risk of being shot down by Chinese PL-8 missiles, developed in Israel. Such reports help explain the motivation behind the setting up of a House of Representatives sub-committee to investigate the relationship under the chairmanship of the Republican, Christopher Cox, which made its findings partially public in May 1999. The Cox report noted that recent years had been marked by increased Sino-Israeli co-operation on military and security matters. It also noted that Israel had given China "significant technology co-operation" in aircraft and missile development, most notably in developing the F-!0 fighter and airborne early warning aircraft. The F-10 is closely modelled on Israel's Lavi fighter, a project dropped in 1987 after it had been funded by the US to the tune of some $1.5bn. Later, shortly after the second Gulf war, the administration of George Bush Sr, acknowledged it was investigating Israel's secret transfer of Patriot missile technology to China. Patriot batteries had been set up in Israel amid great fanfare during the war as a first line defence against Saddam's scud missiles in a move also designed to keep Israel out of the conflict. Israel's most recent planned sale of high-tech weaponry to Beijing was the cause of a rare public spat with the US during the premiership of Ehud Barak, Mr Sharon's predecessor. The dispute last year involved Israel's contract to supply Beijing with the Phalcon airborne early warning radar system developed by Elta, a subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries. The deal was frozen after a congressional committee protested, amid threats to cut military aid to Israel, that the sale would give China a military edge over Taiwan. Israeli military analysts say that, while Mr Sharon is eager not to revive the dispute, some officials and defence industry executives are smarting over what they regard as US interference in Israel's affairs and still hope the sale will go ahead. "The project was frozen but not killed," said Gerald Steinberg, a Middle East arms expert at Israel's Bar-Ilan University. "Some people in the military
[CTRL] Lansky's Complaint
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1246 Lansky's Complaint Joe Sobran October 28, 2003 In the old joke, chutzpah is exemplified by the man who murders his parents, then asks the court to show him mercy as an orphan. A less amusing but more timely illustration would be a Zionist inveighing against prejudice. The publisher Mortimer B. Zuckerman has just written a cover story for one of his magazines, U.S. NEWS WORLD REPORT, on "The New Anti-Semitism." What's "new" about this anti-Semitism? Zuckerman tells us immediately: "its twentieth-century version, anti-Zionism." This implies that many Jews are anti-Semites, since many Jews oppose Zionism in principle. What principle? The principle that all men are created equal. Israel is based on the principle that some are more equal than others. Jews have rights non-Jews don't have. But Zuckerman avoids all mention of the long debate over Israel among Jews themselves. He treats the Jewish claim to Palestine as self-evidently right and denial of that claim as perverse and malignant. He also ignores the crimes by which Israel is necessarily maintained. This is altogether typical of Zionist polemics: while the Israelis kill women and children, destroy homes, and drive people out of their native land, they want the subject of discussion to be the dark motives of their critics. The worse Israel gets, the more they squeal about anti-Semitism. The Zionist polemical strategy is always to treat the critic as the defendant. His merely verbal "offenses" must be regarded as more serious than the innocent blood -- real blood -- that stains Israel. Hence Zuckerman cites, as an instance of "scurrilous anti-Semitism" the flat statement of the leftist British paper THE GUARDIAN that "Israel has no right to exist." Well, since when does *any* state have an unqualified right to exist? States have to be justified by the way they act toward their subjects. And a leftist paper can hardly be expected to endorse a state, which, while claiming to be a democracy, is directly and fundamentally based on racial discrimination -- as well as the permanent expulsion of the country's original majority. If you're an American Jew who has always lived in Brooklyn, you can become a privileged citizen of Israel any time you want. If you're a non-Jew who was born in Jerusalem and driven out by the Zionists, you can never reclaim your home. According to Zuckerman, only a bigot could object to this. Others might call it institutionalized bigotry. Or just tyranny. The elastic concept of anti-Semitism really means that in every conflict, Jews must be considered innocent victims. It's reminiscent of the similar concept of "McCarthyism," which allowed Communists to pose as victims while Communism was still murdering and oppressing untold millions. McCarthyism was in fact a bloodless, if bungling, attempt to get Soviet agents out of government jobs. Yet we still hear about the piteous "victims of McCarthyism." Joe McCarthy was ruined because he couldn't back up all his charges of Communist affiliation. But nobody pays any penalty for making false charges of anti-Semitism. Of course if you define it broadly enough, practically everyone becomes a potential anti-Semite. In the realm of thought crimes, as Stalin realized, precise definitions are an annoying inconvenience. When you hear "anti-Semitism," think "anti-Soviet activities." Why talk about Israel's deeds, when you can talk about its critics' motives? I'll never forget the first time I saw Ariel Sharon interviewed on television, about twenty years ago. He was being asked about the charge that he'd arranged the slaughter of more than a thousand refugees in Lebanon. Since he looked like a tough old soldier, I expected him to speak with a leonine roar. Instead, he spoke in a high-pitched, plaintive whine. He saw himself as an innocent victim! He still does. But the classic whine of all time came from Meyer Lansky, the old mobster. He'd applied for Israeli citizenship as a Jew, claiming the "right of return," but the Israeli government decided that in this case the claimaint was simply too notorious. Lansky was refused. "When you're a Jew," he sighed, "the whole world is against you." There spoke a highly cultivated sense of victimhood. Ultimately, a Jew may even be a victim of Israel! I once quoted Lansky's reflection to an anti-Zionist Jew, and he nearly fell off his chair laughing. If you quoted it to Zuckerman, I suspect he'd nod in solemn agreement. Even Jewish humor has its limits. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
[CTRL] Woman Who Filed Sex Suit Against Bush Dead
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general44/deaad.htm Woman Who Filed Sex Suit Against Bush Dead Clipped from a Yahoo board: 11-10-3 Woman who filed sexual assault lawsuit against bush confirmed dead, cause of death listed as "gunshot wound to head"... I finally got some confirmation from an obit in the Houston Chronicle that Margie Schoedinger, the woman who filed a sexual assault lawsuit against Bush last year, died in September. I called the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, which lists her cause of death as a "gunshot wound to the head" and "suicide." Anyone versed in CIA/Mafia lingo knows that "suicide" sometimes means "murder" or at least carries with it some pressure to commit suicide by outside parties, such as those against whom that person has filed a lawsuit. I'm not yet saying this is a murder - you draw your own conclusion. When I talked to Schoedinger in July she sounded in good health. She was only 38. It's another weird tragedy surrounding the Bush administration - and this one has received NO mention from the media. Here is the info and link from the paper: Paper: Houston Chronicle Date: Saturday 09/27/03 Section: A Edition: 3 SCHOEDINGER MARGIE D. SCHOEDINGER expired Monday, 9/22/03 . Visitation: Friday, 9/26/03 , 7 to 9pm, McCoy Harrison Chapel. Funeral Service: Saturday, 9/27/03 , 1:30pm, McCoy Harrison Chapel. Interment, Houston Memorial Gardens. http://www.chron.com/class/obits/archive/qsearch.hts?operation=getdocdatabase=Obituaries%3B databases=Obituaries%3BObituaries%3BObituaries%3BObituaries%3Bdocid=76532docids= 76532%3B76200%3B76168%3B46566%3Bquery=schoedinger+NOT+3:RSECpos=1numhits= 25start=type=user=houstonsview=1hview=2dview=1 Here are the two stories about the lawsuit which were widely circulated on the net: http://www.rense.com/general32/charged.htm http://www.rense.com/general32/bhh.htm www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Controlling The News PART 23
-Caveat Lector- http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a708.htm Part 23 (October 28, 2003) The White House advisors have been making discreet inquiries on the Hill about the Bush plan to reinstitute a universal draft in Americathis in spite of the potentially deadly reactions that could blast the President out of the White House. Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld are pushing this in spite of repeated warnings, even from inside the Pentagon, that this would be political suicide. We need this and we are going to get it Wolfowitz said to one of our senior editors on Monday. (October 29) although statistics show an increase in spending, it appears that this is only a rush of pre-Christmas buying stimulated by retailers dropping prices. The White House is claiming that the economy is roaring back but it is not. Hedge bets on this one, however. We do not want to be seen putting a damper on a recovery but we do not want to be seen as a toady for White House cheerleaders either. (November 1) One of our people in Baghdad was roughed up and had his camera and film confiscated by MPs yesterday because he dared to film two dead GIs. That is the new policy direct from the PresidentNo, repeat, no, pictures of dead Iraqi civilians and most surely, no dead or wounded GIs. Two foreign reporters have been shot very dead for disobeying these orders. We are deciding about pulling our people out and letting the Pentagon supply its faked pictures in the future (November 1) Our private polls indicate that if the elections were held today, Vietnam George would have his sorry ass kicked by Dr. Dean. Kerry has the Vietnam killings dragging him down, no one is going to support Lieberman because he cant do business on Saturdays and the rest of the Demo pack are sorry losers (November 2) In spite of the resistance of the White House, we are going ahead with our plans to do human interest bits on the families of dead GIs. We have no choice on this because of pubic pressure. Look for cries of filtering from the President. My God, statements like that about the press from him are rank hypocrisy. The current Administration will never tell the truth if a lie will suffice (November 5) A recent confidential report from the NSC sounds like something out of Alice in Wonderland! These rabid warmongers are obviously nutty as hell and the rest of us will have to suffer from it. November cannot come soon enough (November 6) Everyone is keeping their mouths officially shut over the Jessica Lynch/John Wayne film. Here were have a dumb hillbilly truck driver from East Jesus, Tennessee being put forward as a cross between Joan of Arc and John Wayne shooting her way through battalions of terrified Iraqi Elite Guards when in fact the poor bitch was smashed up in a truck crash and cant remember a damned thing...surprising Bush doesnt give her the Congressional Medal of Honor. Wasnt he put up for one for his heroic sorties in the air over Vietnam? (By God, he shot down 60 MiGs in one afternoon while reading the Bible with one hand) Or was that for hiding in a roadhouse in Louisiana when he was supposed to be in Texas learning to be a flyboy like his dad? Did I say Alice in Wonderland yesterday? Something by L. Ron Hubbard would be more to the point (November 8) Now that they put the feeding tube back in the human turnip, lets not have any more sob stories about unplugging the brain dead. FBI to Website Owner: "We Are Watching You" by Elaine Cassel Counterpunch 10.11.2003 Cryptome is a web site dedicated to investigating and publishing accounts of government improprieties, particularly as they relate to secrecy and First Amendment violations. On November 4, FBI agents visited the website's New York City office and met with site owner John Young. Both agents, who are identified on the site and who left their official cards, said that they had information that Cryptome was a source of information that could be used to "harm the United States." Prior investigations by the FBI, the agent admitted, had not found any evidence of criminal wrongdoing, but the FBI was fearful that information on the site would end up in the "wrong" hands. Cryptome was asked to report to the FBI any "gut feeling" they had that its information would be a "threat" to the U.S. One agent said that visits like these are increasingly common as the government seeks out information on threats to the U.S. The agents said they would "write up" a report on their visit. The agents asked that their names not be published, but Cryptome refused to honor that request. One reason for their request of anonymity is so that information about them cannot be pulled from one of many databases available online. (Funny how government agents don't want to be the source of data mining, but they certainly want to use it against us.) Cryptome has a host of documents on its website, most government documents obtained from various sources. The site says it will not remove any document without a valid
[CTRL] ALLEGED MOSSAD OFFICE BOMBED IN IRAQ
-Caveat Lector- http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=3591 ALLEGED MOSSAD OFFICE BOMBED IN IRAQ An office bombed in the Iraqi town Kirkouk has been reported as belonging to Israels Mossad intelligence agency (the equivalent of the CIA). The number of dead and wounded in Monday nights bombing is still not final, according to the Egyptian-based Middle East News Agency, but they included Mossad people and a number of local Kurds, who were reported as collaborating with the Israeli agents. The injured were rushed to a nearby American military base in Kirkouk and some were transferred to a hospital in Mousul. Local Kurds and American soldiers rushed to the building immediately after the explosion and attempted to hide anything that may reveal the true nature of the so-called Mossad office, MENA reported. The identity of the aggressors remains unknown, according to the report. Israel refuses to comment on its covert operations overseas. By The Media Line Staff on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 www.ctrl.org 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://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Facility 1391 - Israel's Guantanamo
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.org/cook11122003.html November 12, 2003 Facility 1391 Israel's Guantanamo By JONATHAN COOK FACILITY 1391, a concrete fortress in central Israel on a rise overlooking a kibbutz, is almost obscured by high walls and fir trees. Two watchtowers give armed guards extensive views of surrounding fields. From the outside it looks like many other police stations built by the British in the 1930s across the Mandate of Palestine. Today many serve as military bases, their location revealed by signposts showing only a number. Facility 1391, close to the Green Line, the pre-1967 border between Israel and the West Bank, is different. It is not marked on maps, it has been erased from aerial photographs and recently its numbered signpost was removed. Censors have excised all mention of its location from the Israeli media, with the government saying that secrecy is essential to "prevent harm to the country's security". According to lawyers, foreign journalists divulging information risk being expelled from Israel. But, despite government attempts to impose a news blackout, information about more than a decade of horrific events at Facility 1391 are beginning to leak out. As a newspaper described it, Facility 1391 is "Israel's Guantanamo" (a reference to the Camp X-Ray prison for al-Qaida and Taliban captives run by the United States on occupied Cuban territory). In October 2003 a panel of international legal experts, led by Richard Goldstone, a judge in South Africa's constitutional court who has also been chief prosecutor of the international tribunals for former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, called Camp X-Ray "a black hole" into which inmates disappeared, to be stripped of basic rights under the Geneva Conventions. The report added that "states cannot hold detainees, for whom they are responsible, outside of the jurisdiction of all international courts". Although Facility 1391 has received none of the publicity of the US prison, it more flagrantly violates international law. Unlike Camp X-Ray, its location is not publicly known; there aren't even long-distance photographs of its inmates of the kind taken at Guantanamo Bay. Unlike the US prison, Facility 1391 has never been independ ently inspected, not even by the International Red Cross. What happens there is a mystery. Justice Goldstone was able to declare that inside Camp X-Ray there were "662 people without any access to due process" of law, but no one, apart from a few senior Israeli government and security officials, knows how many inmates there are in Facility 1391. Testimonies from former inmates suggest it is crowded with detainees, many of them Lebanese captured during Israel's 18-year occupation of south Lebanon. Four months after the first revelations of its existence, the Israeli courts have yet to make the government reveal any substantial information about it. "Anyone entering the prison can be made to disappear, potentially for ever," says Leah Tsemel, an Israeli lawyer who specialises in advising Palestinians (see Israel: beyond hope) "It's no different from the jails run by tinpot South American dictators." What little information is available suggests that interrogation methods using torture are routine. A high-profile detainee, Mustafa Dirani of the now defunct Lebanese Shia militia Amal, has alleged that he was raped by his interrogators. Israel recently admitted that he had been moved to Facility 1391 after he was kidnapped from Lebanon by Israeli agents in 1994. The first chinks in the secrecy about the prison were prised open by Tsemel last year, after the Israeli army's reinvasion of West Bank cities in Operation Defensive Shield, April 2002. Until then it seems to have been used almost exclusively for captive foreign nationals, mainly Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians, Egyptians and Iranians. It is not known how many of them have been held there. The Friends of Prisoners Committee in Nazareth claims 15 Arab foreign nationals have gone missing from Israel's prison system. There are many instances of kidnappings, particularly from Lebanon, assumed to have been carried out by Israel. Four Iranian government officials who disappeared in Beirut in 1982 have never been accounted for. In recent prisoner exchange negotiations between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hizbollah, their families have requested information from Israel. But after the mass arrests in April 2002, which stretched Israel's detention facilities to bursting, a number of Palestinians were also sent to Facility 1391. For a while the disappearance of these detainees was concealed in the general chaos after the army sweeps. By October 2002, however, Tsemel and an Israeli human rights group, Hamoked, were demanding information in the courts. They presented habeas corpus writs, effectively demanding that the missing Palestin ians be produced to prove they were alive. Cornered, the Israeli authorities admitted that the missing men were being
[CTRL] War On Iraq To Protect ISRAELI Interests?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wrmea.com/archives/October_2003/0310006.html October 2003, pages 6, 79 Special Report The U.S. War on Iraq: Yet Another Battle To Protect Israeli Interests? By Delinda C. Hanley Why did President George W. Bush invade Iraq? Some very curious developments in the U.S.-occupied nation are making Iraqis and their Arab neighbors very uneasy as they question Bush's motives. These amazing tales should also infuriate Americans who are beginning to suspect they've been hoodwinked into fighting yet another battle on behalf of Israel. On the eve of war, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair told their people that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction posed a real and present danger to Americans, their British cousins, indeed the entire planet. If Saddam Hussain didn't use his weapons himself, the Anglo-American leaders argued, he might pass them on to terrorist groups. U.S. and British citizens believed their leaders were looking out for their safety and that they had evidence of Saddam Hussain's evil intentions which they could not yet divulge. Some 1,500 American investigators are now searching Iraq for evidence to back up those controversial claims. Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter doubts the investigators, known as the Iraq Survey Group, will have much luck. For one thing, he points out, every Iraqi government record relating to the weapons program was stored in metal containers at a complex in downtown Baghdad's Jadariya. This archive was the basis for the 12,500-page declaration Iraq compiled for the U.N. in 2002. On April 8 U.S. troops took possession of the complex. They never interviewed the scientists who continued to report for work or tried to examine the archives. Instead the U.S. soldiers simply withdrew after two weeks, leaving all the evidence: computers, disks, video records of U.N. interviews with Iraqi scientists throughout the 1990s, and the carefully organized documents. Looters ransacked the facility and destroyed any evidence of a weapons program. Anyone who watches TV knows that, in investigating a crime, it first is necessary to secure the crime scene. One has to wonder why U.S. forces never bothered to do thisor to guard from looters the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, or six other nuclear sites in Iraq. Did coalition leaders know all along there were no weapons of mass destruction? It's beginning to look like anti-war protesters were on the right track when they declared: "No War For Oil!" Iraq, one of the world's largest oil producers, has a potential output of 2.5 million barrels a day. Would the U.S. really attack a nation for its oil? Perish the thought! The coalition promised that Iraq's oil would finally benefit its own people, instead of lining its leader's pockets. Today Iraqis are beginning to doubt that message as well, as fuel shortages and gas lines at petrol stations make them wonder if they'll ever be able to return to normal. And now another horrible suspicion is crossing their minds. Did Bush's Israel-first advisers invade Iraq in order to assure that Israel would have easy access to oil? A March 31 Ha'aretz article reported upcoming plans to reopen a long-unused pipeline from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Israeli port of Haifa. Israel's National Infrastructure Minister Joseph Paritzky suggested that after Saddam Hussain's departure Iraqi oil could flow to the Jewish state, to be consumed or marketed from there. "The pipeline [of Iraqi oil] to Haifa is considered a 'bonus' the U.S. will give to Israel." According to John Cooley's April 23 article in The Christian Science Monitor, "The idea is economically tempting for Israel and some of its friends, especially those whose firms might profit from such a project. Oil-poor Israel, MEES [Middle East Economic Survey] reports, wants high-quality Kirkuk crude oil for its Haifa refinery. Israeli refineries currently use Russian, West African, Egyptian, and other crude oils. "Politically, the scheme is a potential bomb," Cooley warned, because Israel and Iraq have been implacable foes since 1948. "Its implementation could ignite a new explosion in the chain of reactions to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, now beginning to reverberate throughout the troubled Middle East." Nevertheless, according to a Ha'aretz article the following day, "a senior Pentagon official" sent a telegram to a "top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem" to check the logistics of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa and rebuilding the Kirkuk-Mosul-Haifa pipeline. According to the telegram, "The pipeline to Haifa is considered a 'bonus' the U.S. will give to Israel in return for its support for the American-led campaign in Iraq." In early September, Paritzky will travel to Washington, DC to present Israel's pipeline plans, along with a cost estimate, to U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. Israel's National Infrastructure Ministry estimates
[CTRL] Cheneygate! Timeline Of Attempts To Shut Down Investigation
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2003/031108timeline_ssci.html TIME-LINE OF EFFORTS TO SHUT DOWN CHENEY-GATE INVESTIGATION in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Wednesday, October 22 Democratic Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche told an international webcast audience: "If you want to get through to next year, to the next election, get rid of Cheney now! Tell that man to go!" Thursday, October 23 At request of former CIA officers Larry Johnson and Jim Marcinkowski, SSCI held special, closed-door session on the Valerie Plame Wilson leak. Friday, October 24 The Washington Post ran planted lead article, claiming that SSCI investigation on Iraq intelligence is "95% complete," that the SSCI is preparing a "blistering report" blaming the intelligence community, and the CIA in particular, for "overstating" the case on Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and his alleged links to al-Qaeda terrorists. The chairman of the Committee, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), was quoted as saying that "the Executive was ill-served by the intelligence community" and its "sloppy" intelligence product. By Friday afternoon, it was being reported that Vice President Dick Cheney himself had pressed Roberts to put the blame on the CIA. "A senior administration official, who agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity, said Roberts' CIA comments were issued with Cheney's encouragement," reported the Knight-Ridder news service. "The official said Cheney is trying to shift the blame for the lack of progress on Iraq, which is becoming an issue in next year's Presidential and Congressional elections, from the White House to the CIA." Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, held a press conference to denounce Roberts for "saying the blame is with the intelligence community, and there will be no questions about the White House." Rockefeller said that the resolution that created the Senate Intelligence Committee "specifically gives us jurisdiction to look into the matter of use," and that the investigation must cover not only the collection and analysis of intelligence, but how it was used by policy-makers. Rockefeller made it clear that he is prepared to utilize a special SSCI rule to conduct his own investigation of how top Administration officials such Bush, Cheney, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, used or exaggerated Iraq intelligence. "All I have to do is to get five signatures that we want to investigate a subjectthe use of, for example, of intelligence, the shaping of intelligence, the manipulation of intelligence, or whatever," Rockefeller stated. "And there's no way that the Chairman can say that we cannot do that." Prior to Rockefeller's press conference, a special briefing was conducted by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, featuring three retired CIA officials: Vincent Cannistraro, Larry Johnson, and Jim Marcinkowski. They highlighted the severe damage to U.S. national security resulting from the Wilson leak, and attacked the overall faking of intelligence to justify the Iraq war. They also rebutted an Oct. 21 story in USA Today, which had reported that the Senate investigation "has found no evidence that the Bush administration pressured CIA analysts to tailor their intelligence to suit the White House's view on the threat posed by Iraq." They said that currently-serving CIA analysts were in fact under heavy pressure from Cheney and others to produce intelligence that supported the Administration's push for war against Iraq. The officers cited the repeated, and what they called "unprecedented," visits to Langley by Cheney and Libby. "This is the first time in 27 years I have ever heard of a Vice President sitting down with desk analysts," Cannistraro said, "and pushing them to find support for something he believes. That is pressure." They also disclosed that analysts interviewed by the SSCI had "minders" from their agency with them when they were interviewed by Roberts's SSCI staff. Later in the day, Sen. Roberts backed off the statements attributed to him by the Washington Post, and said they had been "mischaracterized." The CIA also held an usual press confererence with four senior CIA officials speaking on background, refuting the claims of CIA failure made by Roberts. Saturday, October 25 Sen. Roberts, speaking in Kansas, said that Congress would have voted against the Iraq war authorization, if they knew at that time, what they know now. Sunday, October 26 Senators Rockefeller and Chuck Hagel (R-NE), also a member of the SSCI, appeared together on "Meet the Press." Both expressed anger at the Administration's failure to produce documents to the SSCI. Rockefeller indicated that the Committee would focus attention on the Pentagon units that provided intelligence outside of normal channels, to justify the war. Monday, October 27 A senior retired CIA official told EIR that
[CTRL] GEORGE W. BUSH, TROTSKYITE
-Caveat Lector- http://antiwar.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=""> November 10, 2003 GEORGE W. BUSH, TROTSKYITE Is the U.S. really launching a 'global democratic revolution'? by Justin Raimondo It's just a coincidence that George W. Bush gave a speech announcing that the U.S. was leading a "global democratic revolution" on the eve of Leon Trotsky's birthday, but it is one that neatly illustrates the militant revolutionism at the core of American foreign policy in the post-9/11 era. The proximity to Trotsky's birthday was fortuitous, but the venue of this revolutionary proclamation was not: it was a speech commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the brainchild of neoconservative ideologues, many of whom have their roots on the Trotskyite Left. Having given up the dream of revolutionary socialism for the more practical project of global "democracy," the troublesome little sect of neoconservatives, not so affectionately known as "neocons," is at last having its moment in the sun. The NED was a sop thrown to the neocons during the Reagan administration, so they could have a little domain of their own, a small but strategically placed contingent of "Socialists for Reagan" embedded deep in the bowels of the U.S. government. The first President of the group, Carl Gershman, was a longtime member of the Social Democrats, USA, formerly the Socialist Party, a group dominated by the legendary Max Shachtman. The founder of "third camp" neo- Trotskyism, Shachtman broke with Trotsky in the 1940s and evolved, over the years, into a firm supporter of U.S. military intervention worldwide, while retaining like Sidney Hook his dedication to the "democratic" socialist cause. As top advisors to the Lane Kirkland wing of the AFL-CIO, Shachtman and his followers burrowed deep in the labor movement, and lobbied extensively for the establishment of a government-subsidized "quasi- private" foundation that would help them extend their labor connections internationally, The effort bloomed in the Carter years, when the two parties agreed to share in the spoils, and bore fruit at the start of the Reagan years. The legislation establishing the National Endowment for Democracy mandated that most of its funding, at least initially, would go to the Free Trade Union Institute (FTUI), an arm of the AFL-CIO's International Affairs Department. Aside from the subsidy, however, the benefits to the Shachtmanites were also ideological: from their perch at the NED, they could egg on the administration to confront the Soviet Union and agitate for the prosecution of the cold war to the fullest all at taxpayers' expense. When the Soviet Union imploded, however, so did the rationale for the NED and it narrowly escaped the budget ax. But post- 9/11, the NED along with the neoconservative movement was given a new lease on life. Certainly George W. Bush's conversion to Shachtmanism, as evidenced by his NED address, represents the apotheosis of neocon dominance in Washington. The odd combination of Soviet-style phraseology with ostensibly conservative rhetoric made for a speech of unsurpassed weirdness. On the one hand, the President celebrated the victory of capitalism, hailing the triumph of "democracy," "free enterprise," and "markets," and yet somehow managed to do it the style of a socialist orator out of the 1930s. The U.S., according to Bush, was no ordinary country, nor even one especially blessed, but an "inspiration for oppressed peoples," whose acolytes worldwide "knew of at least one place a bright and hopeful land where freedom was valued and secure" kind of like the Soviet Union was to the Commies of yesteryear. Here, too, are references to the necessity for "sacrifice" a favorite theme of the old Soviet rhetoricians including this Orwellian formulation: "By definition, the success of freedom rests upon the choices and the courage of free peoples, and upon their willingness to sacrifice." Freedom is, "by definition," slavery. War is peace. And Ignorance, as we all know, is Strength. The speeches of the Soviet leaders, and their American imitators, were always filled with new "turns," announcing the most recent twist in the party line, and the Bush speech displays the same grandiose tic: "We've reached another great turning point and the resolve we show will shape the next stage of the world democratic movement." America as the leader of a "world movement" the idea is positively Leninist. Full of revolutionary resolve, the U.S. must now focus on the Middle East "for decades to come," said Bush. For some strange reason, Mesopotamia does not yet share Montana's enthusiasm for democratic governance, and this is impermissible: "Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in
[CTRL] Ludwig Fainberg - Modern Slave Trader
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1240 Portrait of a Modern Slave Trader, Ludwig Fainberg Victor Malarek I wanted to find out just how difficult it is to purchase young Slavic women for the sex trade. It is, as I discovered, really quite easy. All that's needed is a connection and cold hard cash. The meeting took place in an apartment in Ottawa, Canada's capital city, on a brisk, snowy night in early January 2003. I was a bit nervous. The man I was to meet was no ordinary low-level thug. Ludwig Fainberg is a notorious Israeli mobster with a hair-trigger temper and a penchant for extreme violence. According to FBI documents, he was the middleman for an international drugs and weapons smuggling conspiracy linking Colombian drug lords with the Russian Mafia in Miami. Fainberg's claim to fame was that in the mid-1990s, he ventured onto a high-security naval base in the far northern reaches of Russia. His mission was to negotiate the purchase of a Russian Cold War-era diesel submarine -- complete with a retired naval captain and a twenty-five-man crew -- for the Columbian cocaine cartel. The price tag: a cool $5.5 million. The vessel was to be used to smuggle tons of white powder along the California coast. The deal fell through. >From 1990 until he was arrested and charged in Miami in February 1997 for smuggling and racketeering, Fainberg ran an infamous strip club called Porky's. The pink neon club on the fringe of Miami International Airport was a magnet for Russian hoods and sleazy East European émigrés with misbegotten fortunes and visions of untapped criminal proceeds. Fainberg's rise through ROC [Russian organized crime] ranks is the stuff of Hollywood B-movies. He was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1958. When he was thirteen he and his parents immigrated to Israel. Later, he tried out for the Israeli Marines, wanting to become a Navy Seal. He flunked basic training. Then he wanted to become an officer in the Israeli Army but failed the exam. His over-inflated ego bruised, he decided to try his luck elsewhere. In 1980 he packed a suitcase and headed for Berlin, where he earned his stripes as a street-level goon in extortion and credit card fraud. Four years later he set out for the United States -- a land he fondly refers to as "the Wild West because it is so easy to steal there!" He settled in the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn, which had become the seat of the Organizatsiya, as the Russian mob is often called. There he linked up with the mob and specialized in arson -- torching businesses competing with those that were Russian owned. 1990 he moved to Miami to run Porky's. Nine years later he was convicted on racketeering charges and sentenced to thirty-seven months in prison. Since he had already spent thirty months in jail awaiting trial, Fainberg was deported to Israel. The next year he turned up in Canada with dreams of making it rich in the flesh trade. Not long after his arrival he married a Canadian and moved into a comfortable apartment along the Ottawa River with his new bride and his ten-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. I entered the well-appointed two-bedroom flat and Fainberg stared hard into my face as we shook hands. He's a burly man with a thin goatee and short-cropped hair, and he was clearly sizing me up. I must have passed. He gripped my hand firmly and escorted me to the living room, which was outfitted with the latest gizmos in video and audio entertainment. I sank down into a soft, black kid-leather couch while he retreated to the kitchen to get a couple of imported beers. "You can call me Tarzan," he began as he burst back into the room. With a proud boyish grin, he tossed me one of his business cards. The cover of the custom-made two-fold card sported the caricature of a mop-topped muscular man under the name of Porky's. The inside featured a cartoon of an ample nude woman bending over in knee-high stiletto-heeled boots. Underneath was his name -- "Tarzan Da Boss" -- and on the opposite side "Welcome to Planet Sex, Land of Fantasy." According to Fainberg, he was nicknamed Tarzan because he once sported a wild mane of hair and acted as though he was straight out of a jungle. These days, for travel and immigration purposes, he's known as Alon Bar. The former strip-club owner legally changed his name during his last pit stop in Israel. The man is a consummate braggart. For the better part of the evening he crowed about his illicit escapades and nefarious underworld connections and boasted that his life would make a spectacular Hollywood movie. He even talked about penning his memoirs. "It would be number one on the New York Times bestseller list." But there's one aspect of his life he probably wouldn't want revealed in any book. Fainberg relishes putting women in their place. In one violent incident in Miami, undercover agents with the FBI and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency watched from a safe distance as he chased a stripper
[CTRL] Iraqi Resistance - It's Not Foreign and It's Well Prepared
-Caveat Lector- http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1110/p09s02-coop.html from the November 10, 2003 edition Defining the resistance in Iraq - it's not foreign and it's well prepared UN weapons inspector saw 'blueprints' for Monday's insurgency By Scott Ritter DELMAR, N.Y. In the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib is a compound on an abandoned airstrip that once belonged to a state organization known as M-21, or the Special Operations Directorate of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. As a UN weapons inspector, I inspected this facility in June of 1996. We were looking for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). While I found no evidence of WMD, I did find an organization that specialized in the construction and employment of "improvised explosive devices" - the same IEDs that are now killing Americans daily in Iraq. When we entered the compound, three Iraqis tried to escape over a wall with documents, but they were caught and surrendered the papers. Like reams of other documents stacked inside the buildings, these papers dealt with IEDs. I held in my hands a photocopied primer on how to conduct a roadside ambush using IEDs, and others on how to construct IEDs from conventional high explosives and military munitions. The sophisticated plans - albeit with crude drawings - showed how to take out a convoy by disguising an IED and when and where to detonate it for maximum damage. Because WMD was what we were charged with looking for, we weren't allowed to take notes on this kind of activity. But, when we returned to our cars, we carefully reconstructed everything we saw. What I saw - and passed on to US intelligence agencies - were what might be called the blueprints of the postwar insurgency that the US now faces in Iraq. And they implied two important facts that US authorities must understand: The tools and tactics killing Americans today in Iraq are those of the former regime, not imported from abroad. The anti-US resistance in Iraq today is Iraqi in nature, and more broadly based and deeply rooted than acknowledged. * * * IEDs are a terrifying phenomenon to the American soldiers patrolling Iraq. The IED has transformed combat into an anonymous ambush, a nerve-racking game of highway roulette that has every American who enters a vehicle in Iraq today (whether it be the venerable, and increasingly vulnerable, Humvee, or an armored behemoth like the M-1 Abrams tank) wondering if this ride will be their last. Far from representing the tactics of desperate foreign terrorists, IED attacks in Iraq can be traced to the very organizations most loyal to Saddam Hussein. M-21 wasn't the only unit trained in IEDs. During an inspection of the Iraqi Intelligence Service's training academy in Baghdad in April 1997, I saw classrooms for training all Iraqi covert agents in the black art of making and using IEDs. My notes recall tables piled with mockups of mines and grenades disguised in dolls, stuffed animals, and food containers - and classrooms for training in making car bombs and recruiting proxy agents for using explosives. That same month, I inspected another facility, located near the wealthy Al Mansur district of Baghdad, that housed a combined unit of Hussein's personal security force and the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The mission of this unit was to track the movement and activities of every Iraqi residing in that neighborhood straddling the highway that links the presidential palace with Saddam International Airport. A chilling realization overcame us when we entered a gymnasium-sized room and saw that the floors were painted in a giant map of the neighborhood. The streets were lined with stacked metallic "in-box" trays - each stack represented a house or apartment building. A three-story building, for example, contained three levels of trays; each tray contained dossiers on each citizen living on that floor. Similar units existed in other neighborhoods, including those deemed "anti-regime." Hussein's government was - and its remnants are - intimately familiar with every square inch of Baghdad: who was loyal, where they live, and who they associated with. (The same can be said about all of Iraq, for that matter, even the Kurdish and Shiite regions.) This information allows officials from the remnants of Hussein's intelligence and security services to hide undetected among a sympathetic population. Indeed, a standard quotient among counterinsurgency experts is that for every 100 active insurgents fielded, there must be 1,000 to 10,000 active supporters in the local population. Though the Bush administration consistently characterizes the nature of the enemy in Iraq as "terrorist," and identifies the leading culprits as "foreign fighters," the notion of Al Qaeda or Al Ansar al Islam using Baghdad (or any urban area in Iraq) as an independent base of operations is far-fetched. To the extent that foreigners appear at all in Baghdad, it is likely only under the careful control of the pro-Hussein
[CTRL] What Right Do Zionist Jews Have To Palestine?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general44/rightdo.htm What Right Do Zionist Jews Have To Palestine? >From Jason Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11-9-3 What title-deeds do the Jews of today actually have to the land of 'Israel'? The idea that a people can possess some kind of ethnic ancestral right to a territory supposedly vacated by their forebears some millenia previously, implying a right in perpetuity, can have no legal basis. Or otherwise Americans of European ancestry, to name just one group of people, will have to pack their bags. According to Dr Alfred Lilienthal in his book The Zionist Connection, "The Jewish population of Palestine [what is now Israel and the occupied territories, the West Bank and Gaza] at the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was a mere 7 percent of the 700 000 inhabitants. The rest were Muslim and Christian Arabs·At the time of the (US-dominated UN) partition vote in 1947 there were only 650 000 Jews in Palestine while there were 1,3 million indigenous Palestinian Arabs, either Christian or Muslim. Under the partition plan, 56 % of Palestine was given for a Zionist state to people who constituted 33 % of the population and owned about 6 % [six percent] of the land· These UN figures have never been in dispute·" But there is a further issue, which also (YET AGAIN!) demonstrates the fundamentally questionable foundations of Zionism. Jews are actually not even the modern descendents of the Israel of the Biblical ÎOld Testamentâ: According to both the early-20th-Century popular historian H.G.Wells and the Hungarian-Jewish intellectual and author Arthur Koestler, amongst numerous others, the people known today as Jews are primarily the descendents of a Turkish tribe known as the Khazars. The Khazars have no historical connection to Palestine. They converted to ÎJudaismâ between 620 and 740AD, and have no genetic connection to biblical Israel, and hence to the narratives of the Bible and the ÎHoly Landâ. Koestler actually devoted an entire book called The Thirteenth Tribe (1976) to the fact that the Jews of eastern European origin, who are known as the Ashkenazi Jews and who make up about 95% of the Jewish population of today, are of Khazar origin. In other words - virtually all of the Jews of the modern world have no Hebrew ancestry, and no ancient connection with Palestine. Does it matter? Does world peace matter? Do the human rights of a violently oppressed people matter? Does anything but sport and television sitcoms matter? Arthur Koestler was by no means the first to draw attention to this particular issue. He quotes from twentieth-century works on the subject by, amongst others, Professors A.N.Poliak of Tel Aviv University, D.M.Dunlop of Columbia University in New York, and J.B.Bury of Cambridge University. The courageous Jewish anti-Zionist commentator Dr Alfred Lilienthal raised the issue fifty years ago and has continued to do so for decades. In fact, the famous H.G.Wells in the early 1920âs in his popular Outline of History described the Jews as Îa Turkish peopleâ and stated that Î(to the) Jewish Khazars.. are to be ascribed the great settlements of Jews in Poland and Russiaâ (chapt XXXII:8) and ÎThe main part of Jewry never was in Judea, and never came out of Judeaâ (XXIX:1). Lord Moyne the British secretary of state in Cairo declared on June 9, 1942, in the House of Lords that the Jews were not the descendants of the ancient Hebrews and that they had no "legitimate claim" on the Holy Land. A proponent of curtailing immigration into Palestine, he was accused of being "an implacable enemy of Hebrew independence."(Isaac Zaar, Rescue and Liberation: America's Part in the Birth of Israel, New York: Bloch, 1954, p. 115). On November 6, 1944, Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo by two members of the Stern Gang led by Yitzak Shamir, latter to become premier of ÎIsraelâ. (This assassination was not unique in the history of Zionism. In September 1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, appointed by the UN as mediator between the Zionist settlers in Palestine and the native Palestinians, was murdered on orders from the same Yitzhak Shamir. Count Bernadotte was the head of the Swedish Red Cross and had risked his life to save thousands of Jews from German concentration camps. This set a precedent and encouragement for the Zionist use of assassination as a convenient political instrument, which the US and European governments have in effect condoned since then.) Much old documentary evidence exists on the subject of the Khazars dating from the ninth and tenth centuries and earlier - from Arab, Byzantine, Hebrew, Russian and other sources. The conversion of the Khazars to Judaism is described in the so-called 'Khazar Correspondence' dating from the tenth century between Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, the Jewish chief minister of the Caliph of Cordoba in Spain, and Joseph, the king of the Khazars. In this the king traces the ancestry of his people not to Shem,
[CTRL] Rothschilds Conduct Red Symphony
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1235 Rothschilds Conduct "Red Symphony" Henry Makow Ph.D. Incredible and bizarre as it sounds, humanity is indeed the victim of a diabolical conspiracy. War, depression and genocide in the past century were not accidental or inevitable but the result of a malevolent design. Shocking evidence is a 1938 Stalinist police (NKVD) interrogation of a founder of the Communist International, Christian G. Rakovsky, 65, who was facing the firing squad for plotting to overthrow Stalin. The 50-page transcript of his interrogation, dubbed "The Red Symphony," was not meant to become public. It confirms that the Rothschild-Illuminati planned to use Communism to establish a world dictatorship of the super rich. This is perhaps the most extraordinary political document in modern history. It reveals why, to widespread consternation, Stalin made a pact with Hitler in 1939, opening the way for World War Two. Christian Rakovsky was a veteran Communist insider. Born Chaim Rakeover in 1873, he studied medicine in France before becoming a revolutionary. He was the leader of a terror group that attacked government officials. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSrakovsky.htm In 1919, Lenin put him in charge of the Soviet Ukraine government. He successfully kept the area for the Bolsheviks during the Civil War. Stalin appointed him Russian ambassador to Paris in 1925, Rakovsky belonged to the powerful Trotskyite faction that took their orders from the Rothschilds. Many of this group were shot in Stalin's 1937 Communist Party purge. Midnight Interrogation Thus the circumstances of the midnight interrogation Jan. 26, 1938 were very dramatic. What could Rakovsky say that would save his life? Rakovsky appears to use the tactic of "deceiving with the truth." He wins trust by revealing the truth but leaves some of it out. He tries to impress Kus'min that he and Trotsky represent an invincible power he calls the "Capitalist-Communist Financial International." He confirms that the "revolutionary movement" was designed to enlist support by pretending to serve mankind's moral and collective ideals. The real aim, however, is to divide society, undermine established authority and create totalitarian rule. "Revolution" really means, "overturning" Western civilization. "Christianity is our only real enemy since all the political and economic phenomena of the bourgeois states are only its consequences," Rakovsky says. (Griffin, p. 264) Peace is "counter-revolutionary" since it is war that paves the way for revolution. Rakovsky refers to the Illuminati as "they" or "them." He claims he does not know them but I suspect he does. He explains that the "Illuminati" is a Masonic secret society dedicated to Communism. Significantly, its founder Adam Weishaupt took the name from "the second anti-Christian conspiracy of that era, gnosticism." (249) How This Gripping Account Surfaced The interrogator was one of Stalin's cleverest agents, Gavriil Kus'min known as "Gabriel." Apart from him and a hidden sound technician, a doctor Jose Landowsky was the only other person present. Conscripted by the NKVD to help "loosen the tongues of detainees," Dr. Landowsky was sickened by the many tortures he witnessed. The interrogation of Rakovsky, however, was cordial. Dr. Landowsky doubts if the mild euphoric he put in Rakovsky's drink had much effect. The interrogation, conducted in French lasted from midnight until 7 a.m. After, Kus'min ordered Landowsky to translate the interview into Russian and make two copies. The content was so mind boggling that Landowsky made an additional carbon for himself. "I am not sorry that I had the courage for this," he wrote. (279) (The Bolsheviks had shot Landowsky's father, a Tsarist colonel, during the 1917 revolution.) A Spanish volunteer later found the manuscript on Landowsky's dead body in a hut on the Petrograd front during World War Two. He took it back to Spain where it was published as "Sinfonia en Rojo Mayo." in 1949. A person with the nickname "Yamaguchi" has posted the first half of "Red Symphony" on the Internet at http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com/symphony/red1.html The whole transcript was published in English in 1968 as "The Red Symphony: X-Ray of Revolution." You can find it in Des Griffin's "Fourth Reich of the Rich." (1988) I recommend this book. Revelations Rakovsky gives his interrogator an astonishing inside view of modern history in order to prove that his sponsors control the world. "Money is the basis of power," Rakovsky says, and the Rothschilds manufacture it thanks to the banking system. The "Revolutionary Movement" was an attempt by Meyer Rothschild and his allies to protect and extend this monopoly by establishing a New World Order using the "revolutionary movement." According to Rakovsky, "The Rothschilds were not the treasurers, but the chiefs of that first secret Communism...Marx and
[CTRL] Zionist Intel Ops Within Pentagon
-Caveat Lector- http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2003%20Opinion%20Editorials/November/7%20o/Iraq%20How%20did%20we%20get%20here%20John%20Anast.htm Iraq: How did we get here? John Anast Al-Jazeerah, 11/7/03 As the battle rages in Iraq what do we really know about the reasons for the war? The weapons of mass destruction "WMD" have become harder to identify and as mysterious as UFO sightings. In fact a disturbing aspect of the hunt for WMD was the admission by Mr. Kay, who has no academic background in any scientific discipline, was that no "program" could be found supporting the claim that Iraq had attempted to reconstitute a nuclear capability. As investigations continue within the US Congress as to the nature and quality of intelligence provided to decision makers within the Bush Administration, a few well placed leaks and a few scant news articles are beginning to identify what actually happened. It seems that a small group of Zionists created and operated their own intelligence service within the Pentagon which came to be known as the Office of Special Plans "OSP" run by Douglas Feith, Mr. Shulski and Mr. Luti, under the supervision of Mr. Wolfowitz. According to a July 17, 2003 story in the Guardian by Julian Borge which is an expose on OSP, Israeli's were admitted to the Pentagon on occasion without having to show identification or sign-in, allegedly as directly authorized by Mr. Feith. The now defunct OSP is at the center of the storm. It is suspected of rewriting Intelligence as well as providing information known to be false directly to decision makers in the Bush Administration without being vetted or reviewed by seasoned intelligence analysts at CIA. The Guardian in the same article also reported that OSP had "parallel ad hoc" sister organization within Sharon's office in Israel -- a separate function from " Mossad " . It was later leaned from sources in the UK that a similar office was operating out of 10 Downing Street. The speculation is that Zionist agents in the US, Israel and the United Kingdom under the direction of Israel, directly and through surrogates, planted false intelligence in official Pentagon channels for use by the Bush Administration as a means to deceive the US Congress and the American people. There is further speculation that the Zionist agents were all too eager to circumvent US law and had no hesitation to provide false information to the US Congress. One may note that last statement is not surprising given some of these very same Zionist agents were convicted in the United States of that very offense in the past. It does not take much to assert that they placed the interests of Israel well above the interests of America. CIA reports resolving that Iraq would become a quagmire fuelled by Iraqi resistance to occupation were promptly discarded by the Bush Administration in favor of the ridiculous notion that the US Army would be welcomed as liberators. There is currently an effort emanating from the Vice President's office and from within the Pentagon to wholly blame CIA for faulty intelligence, as the "perpetrators" are attempting to find solace in another lie for the ghastly loss of American lives in Iraq and the economic toll yet to be felt in America. Sources mentioned that the task of rationalizing the intelligence product was well beyond the capability of Dr. Rice at the National Security Council "NSC" who could not handle the task. It may well be that Rice, et al seem more interested in covering-up their errors than in setting forth exactly how their Zionist mentors subverted and co-opted their work. Some were surprised that these same Zionist fanatics went as far as to out a CIA operative in the press as an alleged slap against her husband Ambassador Wilson. More likely it was a salvo meant to stop similar leaks in an effort to cover-up the connections between prominent members of the Bush Administration, NSC staff and the Israeli operation to deceive the President of the United States, the Congress and the American people, which was apparently not that difficult. It should be no surprise to anyone that Israeli agents in America would disclose information harmful to American interests when their actions are directly responsible for the deaths of over 350 (and rising) US military personnel in Iraq (as well as 1,000 wounded) and have thus far cost the US over $150 Billion (and counting). I have heard it said that within the Administration there is a strategy to wait until after the 2004 presidential election to take action quietly against some people at Pentagon and within the White House itself. It seems that they do not wish to appear "stupid" before the American people. As to the real reason for the war in Iraq, well that is all too easy to answer. The Iraq war which is spiraling out of control was actually about oil, but not oil destined for the United States. Israel, through deception, instigated the conflict in an attempt to gain
