[CTRL] Desert Earthquake Hits
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Jun 14, 2002
Desert Earthquake Hits Near Yucca Mountain; No Injuries or Damage Reported
By Ken Ritter
Associated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A mild earthquake rumbled beneath the desert early Friday near
Yucca
Mountain, the federal government's proposed site for a nuclear waste repository.
No damage or injuries were immediately reported.
The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 and hit about 5:40 a.m., 75 miles
northwest of Las Vegas and about 3 miles beneath the surface, said scientists at the
U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo.
Allen Benson, a federal Department of Energy spokesman for the Yucca Mountain
project in Las Vegas, told The Associated Press that about 100 scientists and
employees at the site on Friday were not reporting any damage.
Yucca Mountain, about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, is the site that President
Bush picked in February to store the nation's spent commercial, industrial and
military nuclear waste beginning in 2010.
Benson said that while operations have been scaled back since February,
employees and scientists are continuing to monitor scientific studies and a five-mile
tunnel bored about 1,000 feet beneath the volcanic ridge.
Nevada opposes the Yucca Mountain project, and Congress is debating whether to
override Gov. Kenny Guinn's April veto of the presidential selection.
President Bush in February approved building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca
Mountain, saying 20 years of study had found the ridge of volcanic rock to be a safe
place to store nuclear material.
Opponents of the project have cited the possibility of earthquakes as one reason to
reject Yucca Mountain as the site.
The waste, expected to remain radioactive for more than 10,000 years, would be
buried 1,000 feet below ground. The Energy Department has said the earliest the
Yucca facility could open is 2010.
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[CTRL] U.S. policy shaky
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/06/14/usat-rummy-powell.htm }}}Begin 06/13/2002 - Updated 09:18 PM ET Rivalry can make U.S. policy look shaky By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON At the Pentagon, they call them snowflakes a blizzard of memos from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to his staff. But Rumsfeld also blankets the State Department with unsolicited advice that irked diplomats deride as Rummygrams. Rumsfeld's memos, which he sometimes sends to Secretary of State Colin Powell or directly to President Bush, undercut State Department views, Powell aides complain. One questioned whether Powell should maintain a dialogue with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whom Rumsfeld distrusts. Another expressed concern that the State Department was trying to rehabilitate Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The controversial Rummygrams are a telling sign of the biggest struggle in the Bush administration. Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell are the most powerful members of President Bush's Cabinet. But they often disagree, and no one in the Bush White House seems able to steer the two men toward a comfortable consensus, administration officials say. The result: Bush, an inexperienced hand in foreign policy, often appears to vacillate on critical issues ranging from how to achieve peace in the Middle East to whether to wage war against Iraq. Such wavering contributes to a perception of confusion that worries U.S. allies and could fracture the coalition Bush has assembled to fight the war on terrorism, critics say. New conflict surfaces The latest example of dissension surfaced this week, when the White House undercut Powell by distancing itself from his comments that the administration might recognize a fledgling Palestinian state, a concession to Arafat opposed by Pentagon officials. I'm struck by Bush's unwillingness to force his administration to come to closure, says William Kristol, chief of staff to the first President Bush's vice president, Dan Quayle. There is a real difference of world view that goes beyond Iraq and that has been brought to a head by the events of Sept. 11. Administrations benefit from debate, but it is now hurting the administration to have the debate out there unresolved. They are two 800-pound gorillas, adds Kenneth Duberstein, a Powell confidant and Ronald Reagan's chief of staff when Powell was national security adviser. They are not fighting for the same mate. They are focused on what each thinks is the right policy for George W. Bush and the country. State Department officials grouse that Rummygrams land on their desks at least once a week, sometimes with newspaper clippings and questions attached. One included an article that suggested the State Department favored lifting sanctions against Libya, and asked, Is this true? Another urged giving Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a free hand to curb Palestinian terrorism. When do they do the Defense stuff? says an annoyed senior State Department official who did not want to be named. At the Pentagon, staffers working for Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, an advocate of military force to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, concede they are at war with the State Department. They say Powell is too cautious and that the United States must take risks to prevent another catastrophic terrorist attack. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher downplays talk of a Powell- Rumsfeld feud. The two men are friends of long standing and believe their job is to serve the president by having an open debate on the issues, he says. Bryan Whitman, a Defense Department spokesman, says his boss has been asked about this (conflict with Powell) several times and calls this nonsense. But privately, supporters of the two men say they're frustrated with the day- to-day battles and the unwillingness or inability of the White House to settle debates. Sharp contrasts The different worldviews that Powell and Rumsfeld hold are matched by sharply contrasting backgrounds and personalities. Powell, 65, is an up-by-the-bootstraps American success story who spent most of his career in the Army. Considered one of Washington's most charismatic figures, Powell is viewed by many conservatives as the administration's lonesome dove, a moderate who favors negotiated solutions to global conflicts. Rumsfeld, 69, who was born into a family of wealth and privilege, is a savvy veteran of the political and corporate worlds. Known for his abrasive manner, Rumsfeld is the administration's chief hawk who doesn't shy from situations that could require U.S. military might. Among their disputes: Iraq. Powell came into office pursuing a policy of smarter sanctions that would continue to contain Iraq's development of dangerous weapons but ease the humanitarian crisis afflicting Iraqis. Rumsfeld pushed to draft a plan for overthrowing Saddam even before Sept. 11. Bush seemed to side with his Defense chief by vowing to oust Saddam.
[CTRL] The president's men are at odds
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,738011,00.html }}}Begin Cracks show in Bush's White House The president's men are at odds with themselves Julian Borger Saturday June 15, 2002 The Guardian Something has gone awry in George Bush's White House. The administration's once impermeable self- confidence is beginning to show cracks. A string of blunders has revealed that it is increasingly unsure of itself. Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, who has epitomised the administration's sense of infallibility, embarrassed himself on a visit to South Asia with speculation about al-Qaida's role in Kashmir which he was quickly forced to retract. Back home the White House acidly disowned the views of two senior cabinet members - the attorney general, John Ashcroft and the secretary of state, Colin Powell. The issues at stake could not have been more serious. Mr Rumsfeld was speaking from the hip at the flashpoint of a potential nuclear confrontation. For his part, Mr Ashcroft claimed to have foiled a plot to detonate a dirty bomb, possibly in central Washington. As Americans contemplated the prospect of a radioactive cloud drifting over their capital and sent off for anti- radiation pills, the White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, insisted that the country's top law-enforcement official had over-reached and lurched to the worst-case scenario. For good measure, administration officials told journalists that the White House was furious with Mr Ashcroft for overdoing it. It left him looking opportunistic, ready to risk panicking the population to make the arrest of the suspect Abdullah al-Muhajir look more of a coup. And the administration just seemed confused in the face of the terrorist menace. Then on Wednesday it was the secretary of state's turn to be slapped down. Colin Powell had told the Arabic newspaper al-Hayat that the president would back the rapid establishment of a provisional Palestinian state. Mr Bush had said almost as much himself, and White House officials confirmed yesterday that a declaration along those lines was expected next week. But Mr Fleischer went out of his way to belittle Mr Powell's observations, pointing out drily that the secretary of state had the prerogative to say what he liked. Sapped authority It was the latest of a string of discordant notes from the White House and the state department on Middle East policy which have sapped Mr Powell's authority. European diplomats who have looked to him as a bastion of US multilateralism now question whether he speaks for the administration. One diplomat in Washington said: You get the feeling, more and more, that the real gap is not between us and Powell, but between Powell and the rest of this administration. There is more of a suggestion of incoherence now. Mr Bush can still claim a 70% approval rating, but amid the patriotism there are signs that the administration could be losing its touch at home. The inability of the president's counter-terrorist adviser, Tom Ridge, to restructure the country's civil defences forced the White House to do what it had initially refused to do: create a new government department for homeland security. Leaks are the norm for most administrations, but they are new in a team which has prided itself on loyalty and unity of purpose. It is the team which forced through a massive tax cut, the centrepiece of its domestic agenda, oversaw the rapid military victory over the Taliban, and achieved a striking diplomatic triumph by securing Russian acquiescence in its plan to build a missile defence system. By the standards of American presidential administrations [they] have been pretty together. They show devotion to their leader to a degree that is almost shocking, Stephen Hess, a political analyst at the Brookings Institution, said. But after 18 months in office, two telling policy failures have knocked the administration off balance. Furthermore, the ideological sense of mission which propelled it through its first year is now proving a handicap, making it harder to cope with a set of complex problems. The military campaign in Afghanistan drove out the Taliban much faster than the Pentagon's critics had predicted, but it failed to achieve the primary war aim of eliminating al-Qaida. Only one of the organisation's leaders has been confirmed killed, and one captured. Osama bin Laden and scores of his lieutenants are believed to be still at large and it is the US, not al-Qaida, that is on the defensive. The alerts raised by the justice department have ranged from the bizarre (a warning about terrorist scuba divers) to the plain terrifying, (the dirty bomb scare). The administration increasingly seems to be fuelling rather than managing a climate of fear, and opinion polls suggest that more and more Americans believe the timing of its announcements is determined as much by politics as by security concerns. The second big policy failure is in the Middle East,
[CTRL] The myth of the far right
-Caveat Lector- From URL @ bottom Listening to European politicians discuss the 'threat of the far right', you soon realise that they are talking about themselves and their own sense of insecurity. Tony Blair claims that the best way to tackle the far right is to 'make society more secure' and to increase people's feelings of 'safety' - reflecting his own sense that society is spinning out of control. Or if you're an American pResident, you start lobbing cruise missiles or deploying other peoples' kids to hot spots around the world. AER }}}Begin Article12 June 2002 The myth of the far right by Brendan O'Neill Is Nazism making a comeback? According to Martin Jacques, former editor of Marxism Today, 'Not since the 1930s has the threat of racism and fascism been so great in the West'. With 'racist parties of the far right in government in Austria, Denmark and Italy', Jacques warns that 'Europe is sliding into an abyss and it is all happening with frightening speed' (1). According to Richard Overy, professor of modern history at King's College London and described by the London Evening Standard as 'Britain's leading expert on fascism': 'The assassination of Pim Fortuyn [on 6 May 2002] has ghastly echoes of the savage political violence of the interwar years, when politics moved from the ballot box to the street.' Overy concludes that 'fascism is on the march again' (2). Is he serious? That the murder of a cranky Dutch politician by a cranky Dutch vegan is reminiscent of the revolution, counter-revolution, general strikes and descent into world war that marked out 1930s Europe? Overy says we have to 'be alert', because 'history has the unhappy habit of springing surprises'. 'Who, in 1928, with a Europe returning to prosperity could have predicted that only five years away Germany would be plunged into the most criminal dictatorship of the century?', he asks, ominously (3). But there were many signs in 1920s Europe of what was to come - by 1928, Benito Mussolini's fascist party had been in power in Italy for six years, and throughout the late 1920s Hitler's Nazis were gaining strength in Germany. One US commentator reckons Europe is 'heading for a nasty fall', with its 'plague' of far right parties: 'Look at the parties making the headlines there. The National Front in France, the Swiss People's Party in Switzerland, the Popular Party in Portugal, the British National Party in Britain, the Hellenic Front in Greece, the German People's Union in Germany All of them far right, all of them a threat to democratic politics.' According to German Social Democrat chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, tackling 'the advance of the extreme right' should be 'top of Europe's agenda'. He declared on 27 May 2002 that he would not 'let Europe fall into the hands of people like Berlusconi, Haider or Le Pen' (seeming to have forgotten that Berlusconi already runs Italy) - while Britain's Labour Party prime minister Tony Blair urged Europeans to 'rally' against the far right, and called on 'democratic people of all persuasions to stand together in solidarity against extremist policies of whatever kind' (4). Is Europe really heading for a new Dark Age, with its Nazi past coming back to haunt it? Are fascistic far-right parties really 'on the march again' everywhere from Greece to France, from Italy to Holland? In a word, no. The current obsession with the rise of the far right tells us far more about the European elites' crisis of confidence and legitimacy than it does about any Nazi reality. Consider the list of far-right parties that are supposed to be 'plaguing' European democracy. Many of them are so small they are insignificant. The Hellenic Front in Greece is, according to one report, 'a tiny party that didn't even register on the electoral radar in the 2000 elections'. According to the UK Guardian, 'The Hellenic Front's insignificance illustrates the comparative weakness of extreme right politics in Greece' (5). The German People's Union, one of three far-right parties said to be 'gaining ground' in Germany, won just 1.2 percent of the vote in the 1998 parliamentary elections - which, as one report points out, 'is way off the five percent hurdle over which votes can translate into seats under Germany's dual PR/first past the post electoral system'. In fact, 'None of Germany's three minor far right parties has made headway at national level . The postwar far right in Germany has manifested itself largely as a neo-Nazi youth protest movement, with unpleasant rallies by disaffected and racist youths.' (6) As for the British National Party, it might be the subject of numerous hand-wringing editorials and documentary exposes in the UK media, but it wins next-to-no support at the ballot box. The BNP's best-ever electoral showing was in this year's local elections in May, where it won three council seats (out of a national total of over 6000) in the deprived and racially tense north English town of Burnley.
[CTRL] Classical Gas in Britland
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.sundayherald.co.uk/25366 }}}Begin Sunday Herald - 09 June 2002 UK sells chemical weapons to the world Breaking international law, Britain exports lethal TCPs to Iran, Sudan, Libya and Israel Exclusive by Neil Mackay BRITAIN is supplying chemical warfare technology to 26 countries including Libya, Syria, Israel and Iran -- which was labelled part of the 'axis of evil' by the United States. A Sunday Herald investigation has revealed that the UK is allowing the export of the lethal chemicals, which are illegal under international law and controlled under the chemical weapons convention because they can be used in weapons of mass destruction. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which authorised the sales, has admitted that it does not know whether the exports will be used to create chemical weapons once they are exported, or not. Among the countries to which Britain is exporting 'toxic chemical precursors' (TCPs) is Sudan. The US bombed a factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in 1998 with the full support of the Blair government for allegedly producing the deadly VX nerve agent. The UK is also exporting chemical weapons technology to countries that are not signatories to the chemical weapons convention and therefore do not recognise the international ban on chemical warfare. Sudan and Jordan, which the UK also exports to, have signed the convention but not ratified it, making the treaty virtually meaningless there. The other nations Britain exports TCPs to are: Cyprus, India, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda and Yemen. TCPs are known as 'dual-use chemicals' as they can be used for harmless activities like farming or adapted or turned into chemical weapons. The DTI admitted the sales were on-going, but said the weapons were sold 'in the belief' that they would be used 'benignly' in agriculture or as detergents. The DTI said it relied on assurances from foreign governments in the form of 'end user undertakings' that they would not use British TCPs to make chemical weapons. A spokesman agreed that this was in effect nothing more than a promise that could be broken. 'We aim to minimise risk,' the spokesman said, 'but obviously it is very difficult to say what happens to these things once they get to their final destinations. It is impossible to clamp down 100%. It is impossible to know what happens to them in the stages that come after they leave Britain. Labour MP Ann Clwyd, who sits on international development, human rights and arms export committees, is to raise the Sunday Herald investigation with the Prime Minister in the Commons. She wants the Arms Export Bill, which is currently going through parliament, to be amended to give MPs the right to scrutinise and approve all weapons exports before they leave the UK. The government has so far refused to give MPs these powers. She said claims by the DTI that it monitored chemical sales were 'a myth' and 'did not stand up to scrutiny'. Clwyd added: 'We have no idea what happens with these chemicals when they get to their final destination. If we are going to sell these things we have to be 100% sure what happens to them when they are sold. If we can't be sure, we shouldn't sell them.' Clwyd accused the government of having a 'skewed morality', adding that the suspicion now hung over the Blair government that it was 'aiding and abetting dodgy regimes in the development of weapons of mass destruction'. Professor Julian Perry Robinson, a chemist at the Science and Technology Research Unit at Sussex University, said TCPs were the main constituent of chemical weapons. Robinson, who worked on the drafting of the chemical weapons con vention and is a member of its UK National Authority Advisory Committee said reve lations about trade in TCPs were of great public concern. He explained how one TCP, dimethyl methylphosphonate, could easily be turned into lethal sarin nerve gas -- the same agent used by the Aum Shinrikyo cult to kill 12 people on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. Robinson said it was easy for countries buying chemicals from the UK to lie about their end use, and backed calls for parliamentary scrutiny of export licences, saying: 'It is impossible to say whether the current safeguards work.' Richard Bingley, of the group Campaign Against the Arms Trade, warned that Britain was selling chemical weapons technology to regimes that could one day turn the capabilities Britain is giving to them back against it and its allies. l The revelations of Britain's trade in chemical warfare follow an anti-arms trade demo nstration outside 10 Downing Street yesterday. Prot esters were calling for a ban on weapons sales from the UK to India and Pakistan as the two nations teeter on the brink of war. Britain's Chemical Bazaar Should the government step in to stop British firms
[CTRL] More Classical Gas - Britland's Bizarre Bazaar
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.sundayherald.co.uk/25290 }}}Begin Britain's chemical bazaar Investigation: The UK sells the components of chemical weapons to some of the worst regimes in the world. Home Affairs Editor Neil Mackay looks at the dark side of the arms trade ON August 20 1998 American missiles blew the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum to bits. The Clinton administration claimed the factory was making VX nerve gas -- a lethal chemical weapon banned under international law. Britain, in the form of Labour's then defence secretary George Robertson, supported the strikes, claiming there was 'compelling evidence' that the factory was producing chemical weapons. Yet a Sunday Herald investigation has revealed that Britain is now selling chemicals to Sudan -- and others among the most dangerous regimes on earth -- which give them the capability to make weapons of mass destruction. Among the countries to which Britain is selling chemical warfare technology is Iran - - a regime labelled as part of the 'axis of evil' by President Bush. Others include Libya -- long seen by the west as a state sponsor of international terrorism; Israel -- which is involved in one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent times; and Taiwan -- a nation which has been on the brink of war with China for decades. The sale of these chemicals is strictly controlled by the international chemical wea pons convention, to which Britain is a sig natory, and any sale to nations that may use them as a weapon of war is illegal. Libya, Israel and Taiwan are not signatories to the convention. Nor are Thailand and Syria, yet Britain sells them the technology. Another customer is Jordan. Like Sudan, Jordan has signed the convention but not ratified it, making the treaty effectively meaningless for both governments. The other nations to which the UK deals chemicals are Cyprus, India, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Yemen. The products that Britain is selling to these nations are known as toxic chemical precursors (TCPs), a variety of chemicals which when combined with other compounds create weapons such as sarin -- the nerve agent used in the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo cult's attacks on the Tokyo subway which killed 12 people -- and mustard gas. These TCPs are known to chemists as dual-use chemicals. This means they can be used in harmless industries like agriculture or turned into weapons of mass destruction when mixed with other chemicals. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which controls strategic exports, including all forms of armaments and components of chemical wea pons, admitted that Britain was selling TCPs to 26 countries. It also admitted that there was no way they could be sure that the chemicals would not be used to manufacture weapons once they arrived at their destination. Holland considers the sale of TCPs to coun tries like Sudan so dangerous that it has banned the trade in dual-use chemicals for both civilian and military application. Sudan has tried to buy TCPs from Dutch companies for use in fertiliser, but the Dutch ministry of economic affairs outlawed the transactions, saying it had 'indications that [the chemicals] might be used for other ends', including the manufacture of nerve gas. A DTI spokesman said the chemicals were sold overseas 'under the belief' that they would be used 'benignly' for agricultural purposes or for use in detergents. 'If there are concerns about the end use of such chemicals we will closely look at export applications under the consolidated EU national arms export licensing criteria,' a spokesman said. He added that the risk of recipient countries diverting TCPs into chemical weapons was closely assessed. The DTI said the main assurance it relied upon to trust foreign governments that they would not use TCPs bought from Britain for chemical weapons programmes was 'an end user undertaking' -- amounting to a promise that the chemicals would be used for non-military means. 'We aim to minimise risk,' the DTI spokesman added, 'but obviously it is very difficult to say what happens to these things once they get to their final destination. It is impossible to clamp down 100%. It is impossible to know what happens to them in the stages that come after they leave Britain.' Labour MP Ann Clywd, who sits on the commons international development select committee, the backbench human rights committee and the quadripartite committee on arms exports, said she will now press the Prime Minister in parliament to explain the government's policy on sales of chemical weapon technology to 'dubious regimes'. 'If chemicals are being sold to such regimes, questions need to be asked,' she said. 'The DTI's claims that it monitors such exports do not stand up to scrutiny. It is a myth that this takes place. Frankly, we have no idea what
Re: [CTRL] Fascisted Up
-Caveat Lector- On 14 Jun 2002 at 17:35, iggy wrote: i wonder if they can afford all the drugs to keep him working? ;^P iggy Wasn't the Leetle Austrian Fascist Feller (LAFF) hyped up on chloral hydrate or some such thing, rumoured to be? This was the thing that I thought was most coincidental. Besides the three of them (Chaplin, RD, Jr as Chaplin and the LAFF) having the same moustasches at one point or another. AER A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Two Souls
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html }}}Begin Uri Avnery 8.6.02 Two Souls One has to pity this man, Bush. When he was elected, almost by accident, he was a local politician without any international experience. He would have been hard put to locate half the worlds states on the map. Since then he has been sleepwalking around the world, pushed hither and thither, sometimes listening to one of his handlers, sometimes to the other. He moves in circles, zigzags, forwards and backwards. He tells Sharon to withdraw immediately - I repeat, immediately! - and when Sharon laughs in his face he declares that Sharon is a Man of Peace. He calls for an international conference and kills it before it is born. He fantasizes about the vision of a Palestinian state and humiliates the leader of the Palestinians every day. He brings himself and his office into disrepute. Whats happening here? Well, Bush is torn between two mighty forces that are pulling him in opposite directions. On the one side, there is the domestic political pressure. The Jewish lobby is, of course, one of the strongest in the United States. The Jewish community is highly organized on rigid, authoritarian lines. Its electoral and financial power casts a long shadow over both houses of the Congress. Hundreds of Senators and Congressmen were elected with the help of Jewish contributions. Resistance to the directives of the Jewish lobby is political suicide. If AIPAC were to table a resolution abolishing the Ten Commandments, 80 Senators and 300 Congressmen would sign it at once. This lobby frightens the media, too, and assures their adherence to Israel. But nowadays, even the power of this mighty lobby does not match the influence of the Christian fundamentalist lobby, dominated by the evangelist preachers. It puts the fear of God into the leaders of the Republican Party. George Bush Jr. remembers well that his father was forsaken by this lobby, when he failed to obey it. This fanatical religious lobby appears to be extremely pro- Zionist. Appears, because there is a darker side to it. According to its theological beliefs, the Jews must congregate in Palestine and establish a Jewish state on all its territory, so as to make the Second Coming of Jesus Christ possible. The evangelists dont like to dwell openly on whats comes next: before the Coming, the Jews must convert to Christianity. Those who dont will perish in a gigantic holocaust in the battle of Armageddon. This is basically an anti-Semitic teaching, but who cares, as long as they support Israel. The combined might of the two lobbies is being brought to bear on Bush every time he tends in the direction of the Arabs. There other powerful factors are at work: the Arab governments and the Arab oil. The kings, presidents, Emirs and Sheikhs are subservient to the United States, but they are afraid that the suffering of the Palestinians will push their people into rebellion. They infect the Bush family with their fears. The Bushes, of course, are heavily involved with oil. In Washington, as in Jerusalem, all problems are translated into personal struggles. The pro-Sharon faction is headed by the extremist Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, and his even more extreme deputy, Wolfowitz. They have Vice President Cheney on their side, and also, so it seems, the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, whose legs aroused the vocal admiration of Sharon. Opposing them, almost alone, is the Secretary of State, Powell, supported by the experts of his department. Every time Rumsfeld and Co. convince Bush that he has to satisfy the Jewish-Christian lobby in order to win elections, along comes Powell and convinces him at the last moment that the national interests of the United States demand the opposite. This week Bush received Mubarak. Sharon at once invited himself to the Oval Office, obviously believing that Bush is so weak-minded that he is always influenced by the last person he has listened to. That is the struggle that meets the eye. Underneath, perhaps, a more profound struggle lies hidden. My friend Afif Safieh, the PLO delegate in London, believes that two souls have dwelt in the American nation from birth. The one is that of the original settlers, the destroyers of the Native Americans, the slavers, a soul that adores brute force and cherishes the myth of the Wild West, that supports tyrants around the world. This soul identifies itself automatically with the Zionist settlers and the expulsion of the Arabs. Sharon is their man. The other one is the soul of Thomas Jefferson (in spite of the fact that he was a slave-owner, too, of course) and the framers of the constitution; of Lincoln, the emancipator of the slaves; of Wilson, whose 14 Points proclaimed the right of self- determination; of Roosevelt, who helped to save the world from Hitler; an idealist, liberal
[CTRL] Is Buchanan Deep Throat?
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[CTRL] U. S. Summons Experts to Draft Asteroid Defense Plan
-Caveat Lector- http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0607_020607_wi rasteroid.html U. S. Summons Experts to Draft Asteroid Defense Plan Toledo Blade The Cincinnati Post June 7, 2002 The U.S. federal government is summoning the world's top scientists to an urgent conference this summer to plan defenses against an attack that could wipe out an American city or disrupt the whole country's infrastructure. No, it's not global terrorism. The scientists will map ways to combat an asteroid attack, a cosmic sucker punch like the collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and flattened a Siberian forest in 1908. While the world's attention is focused on the real threat of terrorism, the theoretical asteroid menace has been garnering a surprising amount of behind-the-scenes attention. Britain's Royal Astronomical Society hosted an international meeting of experts on the asteroid impact threat in December. In January the world's astronomers petitioned Australia's government to fund a special asteroid-detecting telescope. In February NASA announced the Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids, which will be conducted in Washington in September. In March, NASA activated Sentry, a new system to monitor near-Earth objects (NEOs) and assess their threat to Earth. NEOs are small objectsasteroids and certain cometsthat orbit in the solar system relatively close to Earth and could one day collide with Earth. We've had a couple of close shaves during the past few months, says Brian G. Marsden, with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One asteroid caused public jitters when discovered March 12. Named 2002 EM7, it came from the direction of the sunan astronomical blind spot where objects are hidden in the sun's glare. Astronomers didn't detect 2002 EM7 until four days after it came within 288,000 miles (460,000 kilometers) of Earth, which they regarded as a close encounter. [The moon is about 239,000 miles, or 385,000 kilometers, from the Earth.] The asteroid was about 200 feet (60 meters) in diameterbig enough to fill two-thirds of a football fieldand could have flattened a city, unleashing the energy of a five-megaton nuclear bomb. I think Mother Nature has given us yet another wake-up call, says Donald K. Yeomans of NASA. Objects the size of 2002 EM7 pass as close as this one did every two weeks or so. We just haven't found them all yet. Another scare occurred in January, when a 1,000-foot-diameter (300-meter) asteroid came within 375,000 miles (600,000 kilometers) of Earth. Astronomers detected the mountain-sized rock only a few weeks earlier. Astronomers are detecting more and more asteroids that sped by unnoticed in the past. Copyright 2002 The Cincinnati Post Related Stories Is a Large Asteroid Headed for Impact With Earth in 2880? Comments? Contact the news desk. More Information News Alerts From the National Geographic News Desk Receive regular e-mail alerts about breaking National Geographic news. Send an e-mail to the news desk with the word Subscribe in the header field. We'll let you know whenever we publish an interesting story. Today's Top National Geographic News Stories: Go News Home Write the Editor | Masthead | nationalgeographic.com E-mail Updates | Press Releases | Privacy Policy More to see at nationalgeographic.com © 2002 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Baptist Pastor Attacks Islam, Inciting Cries of Intolerance
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/national/15BAPT.html?todaysh eadlines=pagewanted=printposition=bottom June 15, 2002 Baptist Pastor Attacks Islam, Inciting Cries of Intolerance By SUSAN SACHS A prominent Southern Baptist pastor caused protests this week with a speech condemning American religious pluralism and calling the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, a pedophile. Critics said the remarks by the Rev. Jerry Vines, pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., and a past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, illustrated how hate speech against Muslims had become a staple of conservative Christian political discourse. The speech also briefly united Muslim and Jewish groups in outrage over what they called the Baptists' intolerance of other religions. Mr. Vines called Muhammad a demon-possessed pedophile, asserting that his 12th and final wife was a 9-year-old girl, and declared that Muslims worshiped a different God than Christians. Speaking to fellow pastors on Monday at the Baptists' annual convention in St. Louis, Mr. Vines said pluralism wrongly equated all religions. Allah is not Jehovah, The Associated Press quoted him as saying. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that will try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people. Open scorn for Islam has become a staple ingredient in the speeches of conservative Christian leaders since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Web sites of the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the Christian Broadcasting Network, run by Pat Robertson, have articles that purport to explain Islam. Mr. Robertson, in his television speeches, has called Islam a religion that seeks to control, dominate or if need be, destroy others. The Southern Baptist Convention, with an estimated 16 million members and an active political lobby, has long provoked public protests with its views condemning homosexuality and its open proselytizing of Jews and members of other religions. But the attack on Islam by one of its best-known pastors could have wider political repercussions. It matters a great deal, because it's the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and one that is particularly politicized these days, said John C. Green, the director of the Ray Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. Many in the evangelical Christian community truly believe that Islam is wrong, Mr. Green said. They have been uncomfortable with the Bush administration's efforts since Sept. 11 to emphasize that the United States does not consider Islam an enemy. Evangelicals, including the Southern Baptists, have been very strong supporters of President Bush and he has tried hard to appeal to them, Mr. Green said. But at the same time, Bush has tried hard in his foreign policy to maintain good relationships with moderate Muslim countries. Southern Baptist leaders defended Mr. Vines, saying his statements were based on his research into Islam, although many Muslims have said that his views are inaccurate. Barrett Duke, vice president for research for the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said the comments reflected Mr. Vines's personal convictions. President Bush spoke by satellite to this week's Southern Baptist meeting, praising the group as the earliest champions of religious tolerance and freedom. There was no indication in his remarks that he was aware of what Mr. Vines had said about Islam the evening before. Still, civil rights groups have called on Mr. Bush to distance himself publicly from Mr. Vines's comments. He should not embrace leaders whose message is based on sowing intolerance, said Ralph G. Neas, president of People for the American Way, a liberal lobby in Washington. Criticism of Mr. Vines's statements also came from the Anti- Defamation League, which has urged religious tolerance but has also refused to work on civil rights issues with national Arab- and Muslim-American organizations because of disagreements over the conflict between Israel and Palestinians. The reason we don't stand with the organizations is that they are hypocrites on terrorism, said Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the league. Salam al-Marayati, director of the Muslim Political Affairs Council in Los Angeles, said he was gratified in any case for some Jewish support in protesting Mr. Vines's statement on pluralism. There has been a pattern of escalating hate speech toward Muslims, with people saying that Islam is an evil religion, Mr. Marayati said. We have demanded that the administration repudiate those comments. Muslim groups have also argued that actions by the Bush administration, especially those singling out Muslim immigrants for investigation and detention, have encouraged public hostility toward Islam. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a
[CTRL] Timeline links
-Caveat Lector- Found these posted at the From the Wilderness Forum: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=45 - http://www.communitycurrency.org/MainIndexMX.html SEPT 11: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS MAIN INDEX by MalcontentX host site:http://www.communitycurrency.org This page is at http://www.communitycurrency.org/MainIndex.html Welcome. This website is dedicated to help discover the truth about what occurred on Sept 11th, 2001. The emphasis here is on an exhaustive examination of fully-referenced fact, rather than speculation, circumstantial evidence, or conspiracy-theory. --- http://www.medienanalyse-international.de/timetable.html Timetable 11. September 2001 according to different newspapers. all times e.d.t. Most times are reported differently, if there are significant differences/gaps we provide the extremes. All aircraft flying over American airspace are monitored and controlled by a network of 20 regional Federal Aviation Authority air traffic control centres, backed up by individual airport control towers. Military aircraft under Norad control can/must intervene with domestic traffic only if called on for help by their civilian colleagues or, as it happened in Tampa/Florida, when they learned by monitoring the radio of the FAA that there might be something concerning the military (here: a cessna stolen by a 15 year old flight student). Although Norad has its own radar system to track aircraft over the US, its prime task is to watch for hostile aircraft approaching America from outside - and to monitor the own military traffic . A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Thus Commences The Vicious Cycle
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- The Daily Reckoning Weekend Edition June 15-16, 2002 London, England By Addison Wiggin MARKET REVIEW: Thus Commences The Vicious Cycle It's the question of the year, says CBS MarketWatch's, Tom Calandra (courtesy of Le Metropole Cafe): When the investing public, already headed for the exits, runs screaming from the U.S. stock market, how will gold mining stocks, and gold, benefit? The answer seems obvious... to some. Since September, mining share indexes have even risen ahead of the spot gold price... no small feat, as bullion is up 28%. In the same stretch, the Philadelphia Gold Silver Index (XAU) is up 49%... and the AMEX Gold Bugs Index has reached as high as 139%. What's more, gold mining stocks, write Calandra, thanks to the weak stock market, nuclear war threats, and reduced forward-selling by miners, are juiced well beyond the pricing models of professional analysts. The Wall Street and Toronto mining analysts almost all use operating cash flows, profit margins, and the level of proven bullion reserves a company has in the ground as their touchstones for value. These valuations are, of course, a far cry from measuring 'eye-balls,' potential payoffs from productivity increases, off-the-book derivative schemes and share buyback programs we've come to know and love over the last several years. With the tepid caution of a 17-year-old entering his first peep-show, investors again belied their wariness of Wall Street's shenanigans this week and left the Dow panting uneasily 171 points lower. The Nasdaq and SP fared slightly better... each losing about 30 for the week. Even in London, from whence I scribble today, Mr. Market-Smith-Jones was left feeling a bit edgy. The 'footsie' shed about 300 points over the last two trading sessions... sliding down to 4630. Uneasiness with regard the US 'recovery' and widespread lack of interest by investors were widely cited as reasons for the drop. In the humble opinion of your editors here at the Daily Reckoning, we have entered the initial phase of what promises to be a uniquely vicious cycle: Foreign investors pulling the plug on Wall Street... an increasing desire by the world's central bankers to STOP using the US dollar as their reserve currency... further turmoil in the markets... driving investors to seek alternative investments outside of the world's major markets... including those, like the FTSE, that generally hold up well during US market weakness. In a nutshell: If foreign investors fail to recycle funds generated by our trade deficit, writes the Prudent Bear's David Tice the dollar could continue to sink, further limiting interest in our stock and bond markets. After all, there are bull and bear markets in the dollar as in any other freely traded commodity. Prior to its bull run over the last seven years, the dollar lost half its value against the yen - from late '84 through '89 - and against the Swiss franc - from '85-'87. Should the dollar continue to drop, as we expect, the price of gold to go higher and higher still, as it is the safest investment for individuals - and governments - when markets tumble. Gold, says the Financial Times this morning, long shunned by professional investors, is back in fashion as a 'safe haven' investment. The Swiss National Bank, which has one of the biggest gold reserves of any central bank, says that private investment demand in Japan, Europe and the US is 'booming'. The investment case for gold, writes Tocqueville Funds John Hathaway, centers on the notion that the over valuation and excessive supply of the US currency has funded a decade's worth of uneconomic investment and unsustainable
[CTRL] Fwd: Confronting the Lincoln Cult
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=973 Confronting the Lincoln Cult An Interview with Thomas DiLorenzo [Posted June 10, 2002] http://www.mises.org/images/DiLorenzo.gif Mises.org: Your book The Real http://www.mises.org/product.asp?sku=B289 Lincoln came out, it was a huge seller, and then this mad controversy broke loose. DiLorenzo: The controversy began even before the book came out. Illana http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26440 Mercer of WorldNet Daily wrote a column about the book, praising it to the skies. That pleased me very much. But then the critics http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26519 started blasting away, without ever having seen the book. One even recommended that people not read my book. They were extremely crude, denouncing Illana's comprehensive ignorance. These Lincoln people were outraged that there was a book out that was less-than hagiographic toward the great man. Once the book appeared, the critics became ever more vehement. But instead of addressing my argument and evidence, they seized on a couple of errors in the book that were carried over from errors in secondary sources. Both of these are changed in the new printing. These errors shouldn't have been there but they were not by any means essential to the thesis. Mises.org: One of the misquotations concerns Lincoln's view of racial equality. DiLorenzo: Yes, I ran across it among the 60 or so Lincoln books in my office, and it sounded quintessentially Lincolnian. Lincoln is on record opposing equality for blacks, and was a lifetime proponent recolonizing slaves back to Africa. This is beyond dispute, even if the Lincoln partisans don't like to talk about it. In the passage I quoted, he was making fun of the idea of racial equality. It turned out that the context of this quote, among so many making essentially the same point, had Lincoln attributing the view to someone else. The misattribution made no difference to the thesis, but these critics began writing 20-page essays flaming me for this, suggesting I had done this deliberately. It is all disingenuous because Lincoln is on record time after time rejecting the idea of racial equality. But whenever anyone brings this up, the Lincoln partisans go to the extreme to smear the bearer of bad news. One critic called me both a Marxist and a libertarian, and probably a member of the White Citizens Council. Meanwhile, my missteps pale in comparison with the inaccuracies that my critics have introduced. David Quackenbush, for example, claims that there is only one quote from Lincoln in my entire book. This is just a kooky assertion that is easy to disprove in about 15 seconds of flipping through my book. Mises.org: And yet, as you say, none of this touches on your central thesis. DiLorenzo: Right, and my thesis is that Lincoln devoted twenty-eight years of his life to an economic agenda of mercantilist high tariffs, pork in the form of internal improvements, and the promotion of a central bank. The basic strategy of this economic agenda was to allow the Republican Party to buy votes from protectionist manufacturers, mining and timber companies that wanted cheap federal land, subsidy-seeking railroad companies, and white laborers who did not want competition from freed blacks or slaves. Mises.org: You have written that Lincoln was the political son of Alexander Hamilton. DiLorenzo: Yes, the founding father who represented the mercantilist, big-government brand of Americanism in contrast to the Jeffersonian spirit of freedom. The long-time debate between Jefferson and
[CTRL] Fwd: Bush Plan
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway Bush Intelligence Plan Meant to Blunt Tough Questions WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 7 President Bush's proposal for a new homeland security department amounts to dropping a fragmentation bomb on Congress to bust up growing demands for an inquiry into who knew what when about 9-11. Put forward in a national address Thursday night, Bush's idea for a centralized anti-terror agency will cause members of the Capitol Hill intelligence committees, who already are bickering among themselves over what their inquiry is about, to get consumed with covering their asses and maintaining control over the spy corps they now supervise. The Senate Judiciary Committee, the one congressional committee somewhat likely to take a serious look at the management of the FBI, will now be taken up with parceling out sections of the Justice Department, such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and other agencies with judicial functions. Most importantly, it puts Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's call for an independent investigatory commission on the sidelines. As his party's leader on the Hill, Daschle must now concentrate on Democratic responses to the Bush plan, along with managing turf battles. And he will have to rejigger his own underground campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. His main competitor, Senator Joe Lieberman, is already taking credit for the new homeland department, since he proposed the same thing before the president took over the notion. Despite all the political heavy lifting the proposal will do for Bush, there remain key security concerns that will go untouched: Bush's idea won't change intelligence gathering from the FBI, CIA, and National Security Agency. These three don't adequately share information as it is. They will have no reason to change their ways under the Bush proposal. It won't take the law enforcement away from the FBI, which will now have to operate with added layers of bureaucracy. Reports such as whistle-blower Coleen Rowley's memo about pre-9-11, or Kenneth Williams's early warnings about terrorists training at flight schools, will be even less likely to see the light of day. The new department would leave the task of spying where it is with the CIA, which has a hard time speaking and reading the languages of countries it is spying on, and with the FBI, which under Attorney General John Ashcroft's reorganization will have more and more power. The NSA stays the same supersecret operation that nobody knows anything about. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research
[CTRL] Fwd: Bush Plan Developed in Silence and Stealth
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- t r u t h o u t | 06.11 Bush Plan Developed in Silence and Stealth http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.011A.silence.stealth.htm Senators Urge Flexibility in Bush's Plan to Expand Cabinet http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.011B.sens.flex.htm Ariel Sharon | The Way Forward in the Middle East http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.011C.sharon.htm Bernard Weiner | Shallow Throat Reveals BushCo.'s Weak Spots http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.011D.bw.shallow.II.htm Maureen Dowd | Dept. of Political Security http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.011E.dowd.security.htm Immense Financial Fund-Raising Advantage for GOP http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.011F.gop.cash.htm Arianna Huffington | Congress And Enron: Why The Bang Turned Into A Whimper http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.011G.arianna.enron.htm t r u t h o u t - Newsletter Sign-up (Free) : https://www.truthout.org/membership/membership.htm _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 06.10 Nicholas Lemann | The Next World Order http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.010B.lemann.order.htm FBI, CIA, Reagan Illegally Subverted Dissent at Berkeley http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.010A.berkeley.htm John W. Dean | Could Terrorism Result In A Constitutional Dictator? http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.010C.dean.dictator.htm Stocks Hit Eight-Month Lows on Intel Outlook, War Jitters http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.010D.djia.8.low.htm An Open Letter to John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.010E.john.john.htm t r u t h o u t - Newsletter Sign-up (Free) : https://www.truthout.org/membership/membership.htm _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 06.09 James Ridgeway | Bush Intelligence Plan Meant to Blunt Tough Questions http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.09A.vv.bush.plan.htm Bush: No Palestinian State Timetable http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.09B.bush.il.pa.plan.htm GOP 'in Political Shock' Over Card's Magazine Leak http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.09C.esq.shock.htm Bush Seeks Eradication of Estate Tax http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.09D.bush.est.tx.htm Frank Rich | Department of Homeland Insecurity http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.09E.rich.insec.htm t r u t h o u t - Newsletter Sign-up (Free) : https://www.truthout.org/membership/membership.htm _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 06.08 Marc Ash | Will Bush Build an East German Stasi? http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.08A.ash.stasi.htm Conyers Criticizes President's Homeland Security Proposal http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.08B.Conyers.home.htm Leahy Opens Hearing on Events Leading to 9-11 http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.08C.leahy.open.911.htm 75 Members of Congress in a Letter to Hastert Demand end to Enron Coverup http://www.truthout.org/mm_01/4.Hastert_Energy.pdf Full Text of Lt. Col. Steve Butlers Comments About Bush http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.08D.butler.txt.htm Judge Fines Tobacco Firm $20 Million http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.08E.rj.20M.htm Both Israelis and Palestinians Oppose Saudi Peace Plan http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.08F.Il.pa.Opp.htm White House Stonewall: Day 105 http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.08G.stone.105.htm Paul Krugman | Evils of Access http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.08H.krug.evils.htm t r u t h o u t - Newsletter Sign-up (Free) : https://www.truthout.org/membership/membership.htm _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ --- Reader Comments : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are currently subscribed to truthout as:
[CTRL] People expelled/arrested for dissin' Shrub . . .
-Caveat Lector- http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_threa dom=27823forum=DCForumID35 - AngryWhiteDemocrat (961 posts) Jun-14-02, 03:55 PM (ET) Ohio State fascism - What happened today LAST EDITED ON Jun-14-02 AT 03:59 PM (ET) As I sit here before you, I must admit I am truly exhausted from a full day. I've read the thread about Ohio State on LBN, and I am here to tell you it is true...and then some. I'll try to hit all the details. And what happened to us is truly unbelieveable. We arrived at Ohio Stadium at 6am. A rally was scheduled at the Jesse Owens memorial site for that time, and the graduates were to be at their places by 630am. Family and friends were permitted to enter at that time as well. I didn't get close enough to the 6am rally, but in my search for an organizer of Turn Your Back On Bush, I did indeed hear the announcement. Graduating students were told that they would be expelled and arrested if they turned their backs. they were alerted that dozens of staff memebers and police officers would be watching the stands, as well as the Secret Service. A few students asked for the definition of expulsiondid it mean removal from the stadium or refusal of their diplomas, or both? One of the persons at the front said Both. And what will your parents do when they are paged from the crowd to bail out their son? I do not know if this person had an official capacity with the Ohio State University or any police department. I must say, I did not hear that exchange. I was informed of it later when I found outside the stadium protesting. To tell these ADULTS that after 4 years and 80,000 dollars that they would be tossed aside if they didn't face a certain direction? I began to wonder how many of those students went to find their friends who were graduating pre-law. We entered the stadium later with family and friends, and similar statements swirled around the crowd. Please make sure you stand and loudly cheer our President. Our graduates have been requested to do the same, and have agreed to give a loud cheer for Mr. Bush, etc. Once inside, we decided that it might not be a good idea to be too close to the front. We saw the lines of people waiting to get in the stadium.and yes, we saw the yellow buses that carted them all in. I asked one of them where they were from. The woman replied Upper Arlington. However, she could not provide a zip code when I asked her for it (the main zip code for UA is 43221). Figuring on the masses of bussed-in people, we knew it might not be wise to be up front. We went behind the graduates and looked for peace signs on the mortar boards (a sign that was meant to ID the Turn-Your-Backers). It was really difficult to get an accurate count, but there were a LOT of peace signs. I was sure that we weren't the only ones counting peace signs. It didn't take long for our stomachs to turnthe first speaker (I believe teh OSU President) began spouting about how proud they were to have Bush there. He said We have a long tradition of inviting great men and women to speak at our commencements. I quickly responded but since we couldn't get one, here's Georgie. That got the attention of the state trooper in front of us. His eyes were on me the rest of the time. The speech continued to mention that Chimpy was a tireless worker in the field of education and a man who unified this country after the terrible events of 9/11. It was interesting to note that it took a LONG time for the 9/11 applause to turn into a standing ovationthey held out for that one, not continuing the speech intentionally. About 10 minutes later, Shrub was introduced to speak. Before he even got to the stage, we did our about-face. I looked over my shoulder to see how many graduates were doing the same. However, everybody was standing at that point, and in pure black robes, it was impossible to see who was facoing what direction. Furthermore, over that same shoulder, I saw one of Columbus' Finest heading our way. We never got to see how many students participated. We were being led out of Ohio Stadium. To the officers' credit, he realized there wase. When we reached the exit, I asked the SS man why we had been ejected, and he told me we were being charged with disturbing the peace. If we chose to leave, the charges would be dropped immediately. With our daughter in mind, we chose not to fight it. I am sure we will regret it someday when Bush's fabulous economy strikes us and we need a few million in a lawsuit. But our daughter did not need any more irritation on this day. On this day, June 14th, 2002, I came to the realization that we no longer live in a free society. This is rapidly heading in the same way Nazi Germany headed. Questioning our leaders is no longer the most outrageous crime you can be charged with. Not paying attention to them is. As you take in this message I give to you, I would like to add a footnote. Next time, I will not leave
[CTRL] Joseph Farah: Why I'm not a conservative
-Caveat Lector- A MSG I received which I feel is worthy of forwarding to those concerned about the future of our Freedoms. ab - Original Message - From: PJ Blumstein To: Recipient List Suppressed Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:20 PM Subject: [JBirch] Joseph Farah: Why I'm not a conservative http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27945 Thursday, June 13, 2002Why I'm not a conservativePosted: June 13, 20021:00 a.m. EasternBy Joseph Farah© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com I've said it before and I'll say it, again: I am not a conservative. This comes as a shock to some people. We have come to view politics in America in this paradigm of right vs. left, conservative vs. liberal, Republican vs. Democrat. I tell you that is no choice at all. I don't like the label "conservative." I reject the label. With all due respect to my "conservative" friends, I find the description detestable, extremely unflattering, simplistic and an insult. Let me tell you why. Conservatives, by definition, seek to conserve something from the past - institutions, cultural mores, values, political beliefs, traditions. What happens when a society moves so far from righteous values and freedom principles that there is little left to conserve? That is where I believe America finds itself in the early part of the 21st century. Let me give you some examples of why: * the breakdown of the institutions of marriage and family; * the inability of many to distinguish between right and wrong; * the consolidation of power in Washington and in the executive branch; * the breakdown in the rule of law; * the usurpation of power by unaccountable supra-national agencies; * infringements on personal freedoms * increasing vulnerability to weapons of mass destruction and government's unwillingness or inability to address such a basic concept of defense; What do these and other problems our nation is facing have in common? Today we have a federal government that acts without regard for the Constitution. What's the conservative prescription for that? Has "compassionate conservative" George W. Bush reversed unconstitutional government or continued it? Can you defeat unconstitutional government by putting your finger in the dike to prevent more? No, it takes a radical agenda to defeat a radical agenda. Conservatives have no stomach for fighting - the kind of fighting it takes to restore real freedom to America. It's not a time for timidity or compromise. It's not a time for defensiveness and conciliation. It's time to take the offensive in this struggle. I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Conservatives, from my experience, do not make good freedom fighters. They seem to think a victory is holding back attacks on liberty or minimizing them. They are forever on the defensive - trying to conserve or preserve an apple that is rotten to the core. What is the rotten apple? You can see it in the government schools that dumb down American kids. You can see it in the universities that pervert the concepts of knowledge and wisdom. You can see it in the federalization and militarization of law enforcement. You can see it in the proliferation of non-constitutional government. You can see it in the real "trickle-down economics" of confiscatory taxes. You can see it in the unaccountable authorities which give us global treaties. You can see it in the relentless attacks on marriage and the family. You can see it in euthanasia, population control and the phony "right" to abortion on demand. You can see it in the surrender of our national security. It's all got to go. But how? Politics as usual will never get us there. Conservatives, it seems to me, only forestall the inevitable slide into tyranny. I don't want to forestall it. I want to prevent it. I want to reverse that slide. I want to restore the dream that was America. Was George Washington a conservative? No. He was a revolutionary. He is known throughout the world - or was when people appreciated such concepts - as the "father of freedom." Today, those who stand for freedom, justice, the rule of law, self-government and the moral principles of the Bible are not part of "the establishment." We're the rebels. By the world's standards, we're the renegades. The founding fathers knew that even the best designed government wouldn't work if the people were not righteous, moral and God-fearing - if they didn't love liberty and cherish it. To practice self-government again, we must have a people capable of self-government. It takes courage to stand in the gap, to man the barricades, to say "enough is enough" - and mean it. It takes more than a "conservative" vision to lead the way back to
[CTRL] Fwd: The FreeRepublic Wants to Suppress BuzzFlash.com!
-Caveat Lector- fwd A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- The FreeRepublic Doesn't Like BuzzFlash.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/700284/posts?q=1page=1 Someone should suppress Buzzflash. They are a threat to this country and are the most unamerican place on the web. Besides the DNC. 41 posted on 6/14/02 11:14 PM Pacific by TLBSHOW [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies | Report Abuse ] That reminds of what the Wall Street Journal Editorial page wrote about us last year: BuzzFlash.com is the shrillest and most dimwitted political site on the web. They also called us chuckle headed. Well, BuzzFlash will take compliments wherever we can get them from, but we need your financial support to continue battling the likes of the Freepers and the Wall Street Journal Editorial page. We are, contrary to our detractors, a tenacious voice for truth justice and the American way, unlike our disproven critics who stand for their own selfish interests before they will stand up for American democracy. Go to: http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/ Our list is opt-IN only. PO Box 618354 Chicago, IL 60661-8354 To remove yourself from further mailings, please click the link below to unsubscribe. - This email powered by EmailFactory The Web-Based Precision Opt-In Email Marketing Solution. BR BR To UNSUBSCRIBE from this mailing list, go to: a href=http://bye.emf3.com/handler.cfm?idAddress=L9635656637.41086;http://bye.emf3.com/handler.cfm?idAddress=L9635656637.41086 /a If you are unable to click, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://bye.emf3.com/handler.cfm?idAddress=L9635656637.41086 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] LIBERTY TREE RADIO
-Caveat Lector- The BEST Patriot Music Online! http://libertytreeradio.4mg.com/ POKER FACESTEVE VAUSRANDY CRAIGCARL KLANGHERITAGEDAVE RIDDELLAPOLOGETIXRAY BOLTZWAYLON JENNINGSCHRIS DE BURGHJOHNNY CASHNOT GUILTYROBERT LLOYD "Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives - and his last one was a nine-year-old girl. And I will tell you Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people." -- Rev. Jerry Vines, pastor of First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla. ab A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fatherland Security [must read]
-Caveat Lector- The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws -Tacitus WAKEUP, Folks!! ab Worshiping The god That Failed By Michael Gaddy Published 06. 14. 02 at 22:25 Sierra Time Amazing by any standard is the blind faith placed in government by the citizens of this country. No matter how many times this government lies and obfuscates, the majority of Americans meet their next story with blanket acceptance. This government, worshipped by many with more fidelity than that accorded the creator, has a miserable record when it comes to integrity. The 300 billion dollar per year defense industry failed us utterly on 9/11. The White House initially told us this was a surprise attack, a cowardly act, directed against American Citizens because the "enemy" hates our freedom. Now they tell us there was a plethora of intelligence, but because our intelligence agencies do not share information, the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon were unpreventable. Well, what is the truth? Our media, enjoying their incestuous relationship with government, is not in any way concerned with investigating the issue. Even more egregious is the fact our government knew four planes were hijacked and yet the Pentagon was struck 40 minutes after the last plane hit the World Trade Center. What in the name of freedom, were our leaders doing for 40 minutes with all this information? Should this not prove to even the most doting lover of government that it is at best impotent in the protection of its citizens? Do not forget for a moment that a scant 9 miles away at Andrews Air Force Base, USAF F-16's were sitting idle on the runway and scrambled only after the Pentagon attack. Americans, why do we trust this freedom-eating monstrosity with our safety and that of our children? How many catastrophic failures do we need to awaken from this apathetic slumber? FBI Director Mueller on June 6 told Congress, that fears of being politically incorrect did indeed impede the investigations of Arab men that might have prevented 9/11. With this admission that the agency was too politically correct to protect us from terrorism, he then assured Congress, the FBI "is, has been, and will be, against any form of racial profiling." Was this not an admission the FBI views being politically correct more important than protecting Americans from future terrorist attacks? There is little wonder our leaders keep insisting more attacks are inevitable. Yet, we Americans place our very lives in the hands of this bureaucratic abyss. We trade our rights, granted by our creator, to some representative of this new police state for convenience, or out of fear. Why do the people in Washington allow unconstitutional searches of their belongings just to cross on a ferry? If everyone there refused, what would the bureaucrats do? Is the crossing of that ferry the price Americans are willing to pay for their freedom? How soon would the airline industry demand the relaxation of these idiotic security procedures that allow the search of little old gray haired ladies, while turban adorned Arabs walk freely onto the same plane, if we refused to fly? We have the power. Do we have the courage to use it? It is my firm belief we are at the point of no return. If we continue to allow "Fatherland Security" to enslave us in the name of freedom, we are "toast" as a free society. As Butler Shafer so poignantly said in his article: When didn't they know it and what about you. "The same issues that were placed before the German people in 1933 are now before us, and our grandchildren may one day implore us to explain our silence in the face of a vicious tyranny." Permission to reprint/republish granted, as long as you include the name of our site, the author, and our URL. www.SierraTimes.com All Sierra Times news reports, and all editorials are © 2002 SierraTimes.com (unless otherwise noted) SierraTimes.com A Subsidiary of J.J. Johnson Enterprises, Inc. http://www.sierratimes.com/02/06/15/edmg061502.htm This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm A small percentage of the world population know that the elites in control of big business and government, trans-nationally, are, and for at least several decades have been, planning and running the planet to suit THEIR interests, not the interests of the peoples of the world. This hidden aristocracy of the rich are forming a global monopoly on planetary resources/wealth and governmental powers. The United Nations is a front or 'cut-out' for those seeking this world empire. Gradually - as rapidly as public opinion will allow - national sovereignty is being handed over to this global monopoly government.In part because this same power elite control most of the world centers of power, including the mainstream
[CTRL] Mexican military incite violence on border ...
-Caveat Lector- If I lived on the Border, I'd use these varmits as target practice. ab Immigrants shot in Southern California desert Associated Press Published 06. 15. 02 at 6:49 Sierra Time SAN DIEGO Eight illegal immigrants were wounded when a sport utility vehicle carrying 23 people was fired upon in a remote desert wash in northern Mexico and again after it had crossed over the border into the United States, authorities said Friday. Officials in Mexico and the United States were investigating a claim by at least one of the victims that it may have been a Mexican military unit that fired on the SUV in Mexico, said Sgt. Manuel Garcia of the Imperial County Sheriff's Department. The immigrants from Mexico, Central America and South America were attempting to cross illegally into the United States when their Chevy Suburban was struck with bullets from what appeared to be a large caliber weapon about 12:30 a.m. Friday, Garcia said. Border Patrol agents came across the immigrants shortly after the shooting on a dirt road about 75 yards north of the international boundary in the desert about 100 miles east of San Diego. "They were in a panic," Garcia said. "Thank God the Border Patrol was so close." Three of the immigrants remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds Friday afternoon, including two who had been taken by helicopter to San Diego because of the severity of their injuries, said Border Patrol Agent Dionicio Delgado. They were listed in stable condition, he said. All of those injured were men. Among those inside the van were six women and one young child. The Chevy held 17 immigrants from El Salvador, one from Ecuador and five from Mexico, said Border Patrol Agent Manuel Figueroa. The immigrants told authorities they came upon a second vehicle that at least one of them said may have been a Jeep or Humvee military-style vehicle, Garcia said. Both vehicles had their headlights off when they first encountered each other in a desert wash on the Mexican side of the border just after midnight. The immigrants sped off when the headlights in the second vehicle suddenly came on. A short lime later, they were hit with the first burst of gunfire. It appears that the immigrants were fired upon again after they had crossed into the United States. But by analyzing tire tracks, authorities determined that the second vehicle did not cross the border, Garcia said. U.S. authorities have contacted the Mexican Attorney General's office to request assistance with the investigation, he said. The Mexican Consul in the Imperial Valley did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Raul Ramirez Baena, the human rights ombudsman for the border state of Baja California, said his agency had received a report that the Mexican Army was involved in the shooting and investigators planned to interview the victims when they returned to Mexico. Permission to reprint/republish granted, as long as you include the name of our site, the author, and our URL. www.SierraTimes.com All Sierra Times news reports, and all editorials are © 2002 SierraTimes.com (unless otherwise noted) SierraTimes.com A Subsidiary of J.J. Johnson Enterprises, Inc. http://www.sierratimes.com/02/06/15/arap020615.htm This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm A small percentage of the world population know that the elites in control of big business and government, trans-nationally, are, and for at least several decades have been, planning and running the planet to suit THEIR interests, not the interests of the peoples of the world. This hidden aristocracy of the rich are forming a global monopoly on planetary resources/wealth and governmental powers. The United Nations is a front or 'cut-out' for those seeking this world empire. Gradually - as rapidly as public opinion will allow - national sovereignty is being handed over to this global monopoly government.In part because this same power elite control most of the world centers of power, including the mainstream information-delivery and opinion-shaping systems, such as mass media and schools at all levels, the people by and large are not aware of "the shape of things to come".-Archibald Bard A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts,
[CTRL] Fwd: $7Billion class action v Bush re 911
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING IDIOT BOX WARS CATV NEWS with John Lee http://idiotboxwars.org Raising heck on TeeVee very soon HEADS ON SILVER PLATTERS http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.lawyer.0611w 06/11/2002 S.F. ATTORNEY: BUSH ALLOWED 9/11 BY DAVID KIEFER San Francisco Examiner Stanley Hilton now figures his case is stronger because of a coalition of attorneys, victims' families and bipartisan legislators who gathered in Washington on Monday to condemn the government's lack of action in preventing the Sept. 11 attacks. Hilton is the San Francisco attorney who filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3 against President Bush and other government officials for allowing the terrorist attacks to occur. Among Hilton's allegations: Bush conspired to create the Sept. 11 attacks for his own political gain and has been using Osama bin Laden as a scapegoat. Hilton said he has information that bin Laden died several years ago of kidney failure. I hope it will expose the fact that there are numbers of people in the government, including Bush and his top assistants, who wanted this to happen, Hilton said. His class-action suit named 10 defendants, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Hilton said he represents the families of 14 victims and that 400 plaintiffs are involved nationwide. White House spokesman Ken Macias and Department of Justice public affairs officer Charles Miller each said their departments were unaware of the lawsuit. Hilton, Sen. Bob Dole's former aide, has been publicly critical of conservatives in books he has written about Dole and the Clinton sex scandal. Hilton, who said he has sources within the FBI, CIA, the National Security Agency and Naval intelligence, demands Bush's impeachment and believes the truth will come out in trial. Hilton claims the Bush administration ignored intelligence information, refused to round up suspected terrorists beforehand, and during the hijackings refused to disable pilot controls and switch to a ground-based remote system. He claims the government benefited from installing a puppet Afghan government friendly to U.S. oil interests. Hilton also says
[CTRL] Everyday conversations filled with lies,
-Caveat Lector- Everyday conversations filled with lies, study finds Last Updated Wed Jun 12 16:56:39 2002 AMHERST, MASS. - Lying is so common that people often don't realize they're doing it, a psychologist has found. http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/partnerview.cgi?story=/news/2002/06/12/lying020612^layout=MSN A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Astronomers say new planet system
-Caveat Lector- Astronomers say new planet system looks like ours Last Updated Thu Jun 13 19:34:22 2002 WASHINGTON - The world's leading planet hunters announced the discovery of 13 new planets on Thursday, including one with an orbit similar to Jupiter's. http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?category=Canadastory=/news/2002/06/13/jupiter_like020613 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WHERE DID ALL THE GUNS GO?
-Caveat Lector- MINISTER OF JUSTICE AGAIN EXTENDS FIREARMS TRANSFER FEE WAIVER AND AMNESTY PERIOD FOR FIREARMS OTTAWA, June 25, 2001 The Honourable Anne McLellan, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced that the $25 firearms transfer fee waiver and the amnesty for prohibited handguns and unregistered restricted firearms will both be extended. Question - how can it be an amnesty if we have done nothing wrong? http://www.crgunclub.bc.ca/c-68.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN CANADA:
-Caveat Lector- CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN CANADA: IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE GUNS by Dr. Paul Gallant and Dr. Joanne Eisen Reprinted with author's permission from the Idaho Observer, August 2000.All rights reserved. One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust...is in reality expressing the highest respect for law...We will not obey your evil laws... - Martin Luther King, http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=1265 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Dow 8,800 in the next 18 days?
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- The Dow is half empty... and draining fast! The next wave could take us all the way back to October 1998! - Adam Lass The Q-Wave Trader Dear Daily Reckoning reader, His analysis is complex. His charting system is convoluted and mysterious. The picture he paints is grim. So... why are we inclined to listen? In a word: success. Using a proprietary trading system he calls Wavestrength, Adam Lass' predictions have consistently called market moves within a dozen points. And together with trading partner Bryan Botterelli they've produced remarkable returns: 100% gains in 2 days on their very first trade using the system... followed up by a string of 8%, 21%, 23%, 6%, 11% and 23% profits in an average of 4 days each...86% profits in 3 days... and a 104% profit in 8 more... Then profits of 69%... 25%... 104%... 12%... 28%... 23%... 55%... 38%... 67%... 21% and 72%... ...all in a row and all in an average of 6 trading days. With a track record like this, we thought it at least worth your while to point out Adam's latest prediction: Here's my call, says Mr. Lass, no frills, no hedging, no two ways about it. Expect the Dow to hit 8,800 in August. Let's take a look: Since May 31's peak at 10,074, the Dow has peeled off almost 700 points. But that's only the beginning. The Dow's breakdown below the short-term rising trend is now well established. Worse yet, its penetration below the falling trend's 50% mark has greatly increased the probability that the Dow will drop another 800 points off current levels... ...and not in the next six months either, but rather the next 18-36 days. If you're a Q-Wave Trader, what happens next is pretty straight forward. Bryan Botterelli, fresh from the trading pits of the Chicago Exchange, lines up a quick trade consistent with Adam's prediction. If the prediction proves to be right, and Bryan's trade lands in the money, you stand to profit handsomely. As I've shown, gains of anywhere from 8% -- 104%, in an average of 6 trading days, are common. Click on the following link and take a look at the Q-Wave Trader yourself. It's worth a look. The Q-Wave Trader, click here: http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/QWV/HugeFortune Regards, Addison Wiggin, The Daily Reckoning P.S. Another reason to listen to Adam's predictions? Subscriber praise: What can I say but thank you... thank you... thank you! I'm out of my first ever trade with a 43% profit in a couple of days! --Bruce T. FANTASTIC call on NDX 1140!!! Missed by 10 points. I am impressed. -- Rick W. Based on your most recent prediction, I bought the November 35 QQQ calls for $1! A few days later, I sold them for $3.20... and made a $2,300 profit! -- Charles H. P.P.S. Of course, I should also warn you: If you ask him, Adam will explain at great length and detail exactly how he comes to make these predictions. We don't mind so much... so long as he stays on target. Click on the following link. I urge you to at least take a look at Q-Wave yourself. It's fascinating. Remarkable. Or as Bill Bonner said earlier this week after I showed him Adam's findings: Incomprehensible. But even if you can't follow the system, Adam says: Your readers can take it on faith that I have done my homework, or they can watch as their capital dwindles to nothing, because the Dow isn't going to stop here... If you can follow Adam and Bryan's trades, you could even find yourself in position for similar trading successes as reader Peter A., who wrote in: Hey Bryan and Adam - great call! Today I sold all my positions. What a return! I made $163,700. Use me as a testimonial if you like. -- Peter A. Give the
[CTRL] Why I Will Not Obey California's Gun REGRISTRATION
-Caveat Lector- A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION The Democrat-controlled government of California has recently issued two edicts, one that bans ownership of SKS rifles with detachable magazines and requires their surrender to the state, and one that bans buying, selling, or lending of so-called assault weapons and that requires present owners of such arms to register them. The edicts take effect January 1, 2000. For all those who have in the past stated that, When the state starts confiscating guns, then I'll know it's time to fight back, that time in California will be January 1, 2000. Many people oppose registration because it precedes confiscation. Indeed it does, as those who were foolish enough to register their SKS's are now discovering. However, that is a practical reason to oppose registration, not a legal reason. And while avoiding confiscation is tangentially a moral reason to oppose registration, neither is it a legal reason. Refusing to obey a law because of what might happen or what has happened in other cases will not stand up in court. But there is a reason not to register or turn in any firearm that is practical, moral, and legal. http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=1052 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Behaviorism, Advertising, and the Rise of the American Empire
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related New Paradigms Posts at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html Rare Book Searches - Ruling Class/Conspiracy Experts: http://a-albionic.com/search.html * Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html * Misc Shopping On-Line http://a-albionic.com/ads/srch.html ** http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/torches.html The Torches of Freedom Campaign: Subject: Behaviorism, Advertising, and the Rise of the American Empire by E. Michael Jones, Ph.D. SNIPPITS (from long article): . What Miss Hunt did not tell the reporter is that she was the secretary of a man by the name of Eddie Bernays, nor did she tell him that Mr. Bernays was now a self-styled expert in the new discipline of Public Relations who had just received a handsome retainer from the American Tobacco Company to promote cigarette consumption among women. What billed itself as a feminist promotion of the emancipation of women was in reality a public relations ploy to open a new market for tobacco by getting women addicted to cigarettes. . Like the behaviorists, Eddie might have felt that human beings were infinitely malleable when subjected to orchestrated public opinion, but his insight needs its proper historical context to be understood correctly. What he was really talking about was the erosion of custom by the manipulation of passion. Throughout the century, tradition and morals would prove vulnerable to publicity campaigns which gave 'scientific' justification for succumbing to passion. Feminism was no exception to this rule. It entailed the systematic re-engineering of the morals of women as a way of moving them out of the home and into the workforce, thereby lowering wages and weakening the power of organized labor and the working class family. . Eddie Bernays...was a fervent feminist, but his was a feminism with an ulterior motive. Eddie, like the feminists of the '70s, wanted to break the woman's connection with tradition and the home because, once that connection was broken, women were more open to suggestions emanating from the mass media and those who controlled it -- the people, in other words, who paid Eddie's handsome retainers. Eddie promoted smoking among women because he was paid to do so by American Tobacco. But promoting smoking was also a way of breaking tradition's hold over women's minds, and this was important because once that hold was broken these women were more amenable to his suggestions. . The Torches of Freedom campaign was a classic instance of using sexual liberation as a form of control. It proposed addiction as a form of freedom. In this, it was an early version of the Virginia Slims, 'You've Come a Long Way, Baby' campaign, which made repeated reference to the suffragette movement as a way of associating cigarettes with freedom. . Since Watson had been peddling his theories to big business since 1916, Resor saw an opportunity to integrate behaviorism and advertising as a way of controlling and homogenizing an increasingly unruly population in the interests of the business community. Liberalism had to come up with a solution to the social chaos its policies created and Watson's behaviorism, combined with the propaganda techniques evolved during the War, seemed like the answer. But there was another reason Resor found the prospect of hiring Watson appealing. The industry had its own ethos, which was overwhelmingly liberal. Advertising executives were a remarkably homogeneous lot, oftentimes the sons of Protestant ministers, who had the fervor of their fathers without their faith. These were men who believed that science was a better guide in life than morals, and they were enamored of the possibilities it offered for creating a brave new world in the image of their passions. Man was what the conditioners made him. There was no soul, no essence, no human nature. Man was nothing but responses to stimuli, which were increasingly under the scientist's control, first of all because Watson had discovered the conditioned reflex as the 'building block' of personality, but secondly because the instruments for manipulation were now available in the new media, particularly cinema. . The ironies of the world proposed by Resor, Bernays, and Watson become evident with some hindsight. Watson's need to replace 'traditional guides for human conduct' was inevitably followed by a regimen of social control. The consumer, who is seen as driven by irrational passion, most notably sex, can only be manipulated by appealing to authorities which are 'scientific' as opposed to the discredited authorities of tradition, which are portrayed as 'irrational.' Science is the solvent which, in the name of 'reason,' dissolves the traditional bulwarks against the passions and allows them to
[CTRL] Colin Powell To Quit?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/06/15/wpow15.xmlsSheet=/news/2002/06/15/ixnewstop.html Speculation that Powell may quit caps bad week for Bush cabinet By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 15/06/2002) Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, is becoming so frustrated at being undermined by the White House that he may stand down after the mid-term elections, according to some American diplomats. The damaging speculation sweeping Gen Powell's Foggy Bottom headquarters has been dismissed as unfounded by senior State Department sources, but it caps a very bad week for President George W Bush's cabinet. Gen Powell could become a powerful focus of discontent outside the Bush cabinet John Ashcroft, the attorney-general, was reprimanded for his announcement of the arrest of an alleged "dirty bomber". Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defence, was forced to make an embarrassing retreat over claims of al-Qa'eda activity in Kashmir. But the biggest problem has been the simmering internal dispute over Middle East policy, which burst into the open when Gen Powell contradicted Mr Bush and Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, appeared dismissive of the secretary of state. Gen Powell, who led US forces to victory in the Gulf war, is a towering figure in American politics. His domestic approval ratings top even those of Mr Bush. The Foreign Office and continental diplomats view him as the "moderate" and pragmatic face of a unilateralist Bush administration. "It's fair to say that Powell is the one we can do business with," said one British official. His premature departure would be seen as disastrous by the White House, not least because he could become a powerful focus of discontent if he were outside the administration. The tensions between Gen Powell and senior figures such as Mr Rumsfeld have been exacerbated by the White House contradicting the State Department on key foreign policy issues. Officials at the Pentagon privately accuse Gen Powell of a tendency to "freelance" and consider himself the most important figure in the administration. The trouble began on Monday when Mr Bush gave unequivocal backing to Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, and appeared to rubbish Gen Powell's proposed ministerial conference on the Middle East. "It totally undercut what we were trying to do and was very damaging," said a State Department source. "We have spent the rest of the week trying to reassure Arab nations that the president was misinterpreted." There was also considerable State Department anger directed towards Mr Fleischer. On Wednesday, Mr Fleischer answered a question about whether Mr Bush supported Gen Powell's stance on a provisional Palestinian state by saying the president was "listening to a variety of people who have some thoughts to share". He added: "The secretary [Mr Powell] from time to time will reflect on the advice that he gets, and do so publicly. Which is his prerogative, of course." Mr Bush is expected to announce next week that he is in favour of establishing a timetable for an interim Palestinian state. But a titanic battle is going on within the administration, with Mr Rumsfeld's allies saying Mr Sharon should be given a free hand. This appears to be Mr Bush's instinct but, as a president with limited foreign policy experience, he can tend to be pushed one way and then the other by competing advisers. Mr Rumsfeld, who is described by his enemies within the administration as abrasive and arrogant, has annoyed the State Department with his "Rummygrams" - notes that question Gen Powell's policies or offer unsolicited advice. One recent note from Mr Rumsfeld cited a newspaper article suggesting that Gen Powell's officials favoured lifting sanctions against Libya. "Is this true?" he asked. The Pentagon chief has been overhead correcting Mr Powell's pronunciation of Kabul - the stress should be on the second syllable, he insisted - and poking fun at him for describing Afghans as "Afghanis". Officials dismiss this as nothing more than jocular banter and it is true that there seems to be no personal animus between the two men. But this means that the dispute is ideological - which could be more damaging to the Bush administration in the long term. Since September 11, Mr Bush has tended to tilt towards conservative hawks such as Mr Rumsfeld on important issues such as withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and targeting Iraq. "He is intensely loyal to the president but there may well come a point when Gen Powell will wonder whether it is worth being secretary of state if he cannot shape American foreign policy," said the State Department official. "After all, he can earn millions of dollars a year on the lecture circuit and still spend three times as much time with his wife." A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange
[CTRL] S. Carolina orders police to stop plutonium [shipments]
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[CTRL] Fwd: [global_news_net] GNN-WHY SULZBERGER IS BAD NEWS FOR THE PALESTINIANS
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- My Groups | global_news_net Main Page June 15, 2002 WHY SULZBERGER IS BAD NEWS FOR THE PALESTINIANS By Ahmed Amr Editor, www.NileMedia.com (June, 2, 2002) In his classic account of the last Presidential election, Crashing the Party, Ralph Nader devoted a whole chapter to exposing the role of the mass media titans in determining the political destiny of the nation and the world. As these media giants become ever more global, along with global advertisers, their self-importance and impact become almost unreal. On the occasion of announcing Time Warner's merger with AOL, Time Warner CEO, Gerald Levine declared exuberantly that the global media is fast becoming the predominant business of the 21st century and is more important than government, its more important then educational institutions and non-profits. (Ralph Nader, Crashing the Party). During the campaign, George Bush walked over to one arrogant New York Times reporter and inquired if Sulzberger (the publisher) had worked his way to the top. Four decades earlier, Bob Kennedy had raised the same question about the family that has a Stalinist iron grip on the Gray Lady. A little over a month ago, I gave a lecture in Portland and passed around a picture of Sulzberger and not a soul in the crowd recognized him. I went on to ask how many folks knew the name of the publisher of the New York Times. And I got the same blank stare. Earlier that week, I had walked around New York and asked a number of professional looking individuals if they could name the publisher of the city's largest paper. No one knew. I then asked what they thought Sulzberger looked like. The majority imagined him to be an old man. He is actually a rather short pudgy man in his early fifties. More recently, I sent an article to a publisher and he sent it back asking me to add a few words to identify Sulzberger to his readers. He had a valid point. You have to explain to Americans that a mere mortal publishes the New York Times. To digress for a moment, when was the last time the Supreme Court made a decision that affected your life as a citizen? Some will respond that it was the last election, but others will correctly point to Wade versus Roe and the school desegregation ruling. That was a mere thirty years ago. For all practical purposes, the Supreme Court is now just a court of last appeal for those facing capital punishment. Sulzberger, with a bully pulpit like the New York Times, does more to fix the public agenda than the Supreme Court and any random group of thirty senators. Note that the Sulzberger clan also owns the Boston Globe and thirty other newspapers. If journalism is the first draft of history, Sulzberger's first draft usually ends up being the last say in the history books. If his journalists misinform the public on a certain subject, they do so with the deliberate intent of distorting the political agenda and the historical record. The point is that Americans ought to know a little bit about a publisher with so much political muscle. Knowing the Sulzberger clan goes a long way in explaining the media bias on important issues of public policy, including foreign policy. On the subject of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Sulzberger's crew is a de facto party to the conflict. A little bit of New York Times history will serve to remind us all of why their journalists take such a belligerent view of the Palestinian struggle for liberty. The more you know about the Sulzberger clan, the more you will understand why they are apologists for
