Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Columbine Misinformation]]
-Caveat Lector- Robert Tatman wrote: -Caveat Lector- "Howard R. Davis III" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- snip This does not make sense to me. Why wouldn't it be easier for the "oligarchy" to manipulate the media by having just one spokesman? Would this not keep opinions and facts which the "oligarchy" did not wish exposed from coming to light? It seems to me that the more sources of information, the better. Howard Davis More sources of information means more confusion and less certainty for the observer. Information equals the negative reciprocal of probability, I=-(1/P). It's in the interest of the Oligarchy to induce the citizenry (thee and me) to blank out, to overload, to change the channel... Oh look, there's a really good fight going on in the Flyers-Leafs hockey game on ESPN...besides, who wants to watch CNN all the time anyway? If you have one spokesman, even if he's lying to you, you can focus on what he's saying and ask yourself, "Now wait a minute--did that actually make *sense?" The Oligarchy wants us to be confused. As John Brunner has one of his characters in *The Shockwave Runner* exclaim, "Don't give me any more information! I've got more information now than I can cope with, so shut up! Do you hear me? Shut up!" The ESPN example does not seem to me to be one which bears on the question. Of course sports and entertainment do distract from attaining a clear understanding of a given situation since they would distract from concentration on the subject. However, the discussion pertained to multiple spokesmen. Your later argument that if you have one spokesman who is lying you can focus on him and perhaps learn the truth in that manner has some merit. However, it seems to me that most people tend to believe what they are told and do not question it unless they are told several things by several different sources. In that case they must then think about these disagreements and thus may come to discern the truth. Isn't getting everyone to agree on the same story the first thing that people do when they are trying to fool someone? Getting the story straight is a lot easier if you have only one spokesman. If you have several, one might mention something differently than another and cause people to wonder why. Or, each additional person disseminating information increases the chances of one slipping and letting something out. Howard Davis DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] White Anxiety
-Caveat Lector- The article is fairly accurate in describing how whites feel. The feelings are not without foundation. For instance, At the place where I work a white(Danie Du Plessis,white male with 2 young children aged about 8 and 10) has been retrenched. there are plenty jobs in the company which he is very competent to fill, but he is the wrong colour. He goes off into a labour market in which there are quotas against whites and about 500 000 jobs have been lost since the ANC came into power. Also about 134 000 people have been murdered since tha ANC came to power, 350 000 women (officially--unofficial figures much higher) raped and Aids is running rampant. Some groups have done very well(see article below) and for many rural blacks, the government has done many useful things and among blacks there is a mood of optimism. However a multi racial countries economics tend to be based on zero sum gains and the whites(and to a large degree) indians are suffering a sense of alienation and although not expressed quite like this a sense of persecution. At the moment whites are retreating into shell, building the walls higher and hoping they are not the next crime or unemployment statistic. John Business Day 23 April 1999 Class lines will divide SA's Indian vote The middle class has benefited under the ANC government, but many workers fear majority rule, writes political correspondent Farouk Chothia THE Indian middle class is likely to vote for the African National Congress (ANC) in the June 2 election, while the Indian working class will cast its vote in favour of various opposition parties. The reason for this is quite simple: the middle class has benefited since the ANC took power, while the working class believes it is worse off than it was under apartheid. University of Durban-Westville political scientist Sanusha Naidu says that parties, including the ANC, incorrectly see Indians as being a homogeneous community. However, Indians are divided along class, language and religious lines, all of which shape voting patterns. Contrary to popular perceptions, about 60% of Indians in SA are working-class people who earn less than R2500 a month. It is their vote that the ANC needs to capture. According to Naidu, Indian workers feel alienated from the ruling party and fear majority rule. "Despite the ANC's declaration of nonracialism, the Indian working class sees the party as preserving the interests and needs of black people," she says. Other observers say that the ANC's campaign to garner Indian support has revolved around two things: sentimentality and culture. ANC leaders highlight the prominent role of Indians - like Monty Naicker and Yusuf Dadoo - in the anti-apartheid struggle, and the presence of the new generation of leaders - like Kader Asmal and Jay Naidoo - in government. In this way, the ANC touts its nonracial credentials and hopes that Indian voters will see the party as their natural home. The ANC also tries to project itself as a party promoting culture: sari-clad girls dance at ANC rallies, and garland Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki. Sentimentality plays on the emotions of Indians, who will be moved, for example, when ANC activist Babla Saloojee's death in detention is recalled. However, neither sentimentality nor culture is the key to winning the support of the Indian working class. "Within the hierarchy of interests, material gains and security are of primary concern (to them) while the preservation of culture remains secondary. "For the Indian working class, the vote is a symbol of improving a despaired existence, but it is also a way of protecting its own fears against Africanisation," Naidu says. One senior ANC member in KwaZulu-Natal says that Indians have a strong presence (50% to 60%) within the Congress of SA Trade Unions in the province. They are concentrated in affiliates like the SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union, the SA Municipal Workers' Union and the SA Democratic Teachers' Union. With the exception of teachers, many Indians within these unions are unlikely to vote for the ANC. "They join the union for material benefit, but they do not believe there is material benefit in voting for the ANC." The ANC members say a major concern of Indian workers is competition from blacks. "The Indian worker feels threatened by the emerging African worker. The Indian worker is the supervisor, and the African worker is now clamouring for the position. Companies are also under pressure to employ and promote more Africans. The market is now less secluded for the Indian worker. "When it comes to housing, there would be, in the days of the House of Delegates, a waiting list that was 2000 long. Now, there will be a single housing list (for all race groups) which is 15000 long. The prospect of an Indian getting a house is more limited." Naidu says that black workers are poorer and have a greater claim to resources. However, she says, the ANC should place more
[CTRL] Fwd: Re your spokesperson
YOU STAND BY what rosie odonnell said--and so does your company? the ENTIRE national company? So when Rosie says, hey, all people who own guns should go to prison---k-mart goes along with that?? please respond!! do you know what is at stake here?? liz
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: RE: your spokesperson
-Caveat Lector- This is a standard form letter from K Mart; I would send mine, but it was so nasty you might not want it printed on this list. Some guy named Scott signed mine, but it ws the same letter. So, they are standing by Rosie's freedom of speech; fine, they can so do.now I will use by freedom of choice and of speech, and as they say ' up their nose with a rubber hose... colleen DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Question: civilian 747 airliner by Flight 007 tragedy
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Robert Allardyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 12:39 PM Subject: Question: Dear Lloyd, A friend, Dr. David Lotto, forwarded a letter that is being circulated with reference to possible mind control in the Littleton tragedy. Much of the content was a surprise to me. I read it with interest. Mind control, albeit via information control, is a subject that interests me greatly. I've had more than a bit of experience with it. If you punch up my web sight, see below, you will see that I have coauthored a book about the shooting down of a civilian 747 airliner by a then Soviet interceptor pilot. I'm referring to the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 tragedy, August 31, 1983. Though I have carefully and accurately assembled many facts about the debacle, the boys of disinformation have won their war. The general public will remember the KAL 007 disaster as one caused by inattentive and borderline incompetent pilots, which couldn't be farther from the truth. Part of the artful cover-up was to ignore our work while using Seymour Hersh's fairy story and other fantasies as examples that support the notion the pilots screwed up. Good luck with your work, Sincerely, DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Question: civilian 747 airliner by Flight 007 tragedy
-Caveat Lector- Remember, Lawrence McDonald was it that was aboard that plane? Pilots have been given this drug benzio..and I forget how to spell that, but remember pilot who flew into mountain; blue angels like ten little indians.these drugs are dangerous especially if not watched carefully. They were given to troop in Gulf War, and Pilots for jet lag, etc So flight 007why not - it was made to look like an act of neglectbut this drug, a pilot can suddenly lose all reality, not know where he isnor remember afterward what happened Now the kids in Columbine, used one drug tht cannot be used with the above drug without dangerous consequestions...these drugs are behavior modification drugs as well as other side effects which was outlineda book entitled "Melatonin" (remembr John Glenn ws supposed to take thatthey wanted for a substitute for the dangerous drug given to pilots for sure, in Gulf War)written by Russel J. Reiter, Ph.D., and Jo Robinson, forward by David E. Blask, M.D., Ph.D. This book also refers to the cattle pineal glands.and I think this stuff is part of an experiment by persons whom they try to say our aliens.they are alien alright, alien to everything this country stands for. Sofor a hint, read the abovepeople would take the above drug -jbenzodiazepines, seems one of the problems with this one, is that "manycan cause a specifid ind of memory loss called anterograde amnesia. You might not retain any memories of whawt happened hwile you were under the influence of these drugs. For example, manhy people take benzodiazpines to help them sleep duirng a long plane flight...there are numerous reports of people who have awakened the next morning in a sgtrange hotel room with no memory of getting off the plane or finding their wy to the hotelthis is most likely to occur when other factors are involved such as slep deprivation, alcohol, and/or jet lag...". So, further it reads "To help the pilots get their much needed rest (during Persian Gulf War) flight surgeons had the authority to prescribetemazepam (Restoril) the only sleep medication currently approved by the ir force, albeit with reluctance. Temazeam can cause memor and performance problems...as a precautionary measure pilots are grounded for twelve hours aftertaking the drugwith benzodiazepines, you are basically intoxicated...it is more than just being sleepy...". So, this is why they wanated John Glen to try out the melatonin. Now, all the plane crashes; seemingly disoriented pilots crashingthe Stealth bomber that went down.but, the two children who committed the acts of murder - one was on a drug that had many side effects of the one stated above; also, the fact remains that they said these kids were not on drugs - and I simply do not believe that. At the present time, the tendency is to blame Eric Harris, who's father had been a pilot.yet, seemingly are not looking into the other kids backgroundwhy, this kid had grandparents thorugh the mother, who were multimillionairesjewish, and they would have you believe this young man loved Adolph Hitler. Well - so much for programming killers; I wonder how long the military has been reluctantly, passing out the drugs..a fried of my son just died - only 29 years old with the so called Gulf War Syndome; he just went to bed, and did not wake up...the government, did however, give him some type of pension at such an early age. John F. Kennedy before he was gunned down had ordered a complete investigation into all drugs - even patent - from 1930 on..and here we go with that same date again - 1930..and aftfer JFK was murdered, I knew of an individual that made a milliion dollars in the drug business; he kept the neighborhood with p pills from time to time But then look at Viagra; how many men died from that one.and the drug companies used payolla to promote this on tv.it was so obvious which ones were on the take.or is this permitted now. How much money did the drug companies make with the above drugs, that may have resulted in the deaths of numerous children, pilots, air crash victimsmost of the pilots I knew, all loved to drink...on their days they did not fly. So mind control..wish someone would now sue the hell out of some of the drug companies.the drug the kids or the kid Eric Harris took, had not been tested nor was it recommended, for kids...under 18 in particular. Colleen DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests
[CTRL] psychoelectronic threat to democracy
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Mojmir Babacek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lloyd Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 10:39 AM Subject: psychoelectronic threat to democracy "Neuroscience is being increasingly recognized as posing potential threat to human rights" (from the article on the annual public meeting of the French National Bioethics Committee in magazine Nature, volume 391, January 22, 1998) PSYCHOELECTRONIC THREAT TO DEMOCRACY - THE SECRET ARMS RACE THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE USA BUILT RADAR SYSTEMS THAT COULD ENABLE THEM TO CONTROL THE MINDS OF WHOLE POPULATIONS SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION, MILITARY DOCUMENTS, WARNINGS BY CIVILIAN AND MILITARY RESEARCHERS CONTENTS 1. The History the scandal in the USA and electrical stimulation of the brain. 2. Mind stimulating devices can alter our psyche 3. Scientific experiments and patents - effects of electromagnetism on animal and human organisms and brains 4. American military documents on the development of radiofrequency weapons the nervous system function is not much different from the radio receiver 5. The Secret arms race and hushed up scandal in the USSR 6. Thought control and the invention of Igor Smirnov 7. American radar system HAARP could be used for the global control of human minds 8. A secret conference organized by the American National Laboratory in Los Alamos 9. Have the radiofrequency weapons been put to use yet? 10. The Revolution in military affairs may result in the destruction of democracy 11. Warnings by civil and military scientists The missing parts and chapters and the list of those who support the ban of radiofrequency weapons controling the functions of human brain you can find at the address: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/2289/webpage.htm HISTORY - THE SCANDAL IN THE USA IN THE SEVENTIES AND THE ELECTRICAL BRAIN STIMULATION When in 1951 American secret services started work on the project Artichoke they have set their goals as follows: Evolution and development of any method by which we can get information from a person against his will and without his knowledge... Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? The signals in the nerves, in the brain and the whole body are carried by weak electrical impulses. The scientists who experimented since 1930 with the electrical stimulation of the brain inserted tiny wires (electrodes) into the brains of animals and humans and stimulated the nerves in different points of the brain by impulses of weak electrical current. In this way they produced reactions normally aroused by sensory perceptions or events inside of the organism. Jose Delgado, who wrote, in 1969, the book (5) resuming this research, quotes there a man with whom the bending of the arm was stimulated. When asked to straighten it up, he said: "Your electricity is stronger than my willpower." Women, with whom the pleasure centers were stimulated, offered their therapists marriage. The author of another book on this topic, of 1990, John Stanton Yeomans (6), writes that by electrical stimulation of the brain even the complex thoughts were aroused. In 1986 the United States Attorney General held a conference on the Less than Lethal Weapons. In the report on this conference is stated: Participants also discussed the use of various wave lengths and forms of administration of electromagnetic energy as a non-lethal weapon. A substantial amount of preliminary research has been conducted in this area... One conference participant noted that scientific knowledge of human physiology is progressing to the point where it may soon be possible to target specific physiologic systems with specific frequencies of electromagnetic radiation to produce much more subtle and fine-tuned effects than those produced by photic driving (9). SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS AND PATENTS - EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION ON ANIMAL AND HUMAN ORGANISMS AND BRAINS The evidence for the effects of electromagnetic signals on isolated neurons published in 1975 H. Wachtel in the Annals of New York Academy of Sciences (10). The whole volume of this issue (over 500 pages) is dedicated to the Conference on Biological Effects on Non- ionizing Radiation. The introductory lecture was delivered by captain Paul Tyler, director of the U.S. Navy Electromagnetic Radiation Project between 1970 and 1977. Among the reasons for his presence at the conference was an effort to persuade the scientists to hire psychologists on the research teams. In the experiment of H. Wachtel the microwaves in the frequencies of 1,5 and 2,45 Ghz, pulsed and not pulsed induced the activity of isolated neurons. In the experiment by McAffee (13) the microwaves pulsed at
[CTRL] Computer Student Wrote Chernobyl Virus to Humiliate Antivirus Providers
-Caveat Lector- Computer Student Wrote Chernobyl Virus to Humiliate Antivirus Providers AP 30-APR-99 TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- The author of the Chernobyl computer virus told investigators that he created the bug hoping to humiliate and take revenge on what he called incompetent antivirus software providers, police said today. But he admitted he didn't expect it to cause worldwide damage, a police statement said. Chen Ing-hau, 24, looked nervous and was speechless when he was mobbed by reporters after being summoned for police questioning on his involvement in a case that caused at least 600,000 computer meltdowns. The Chernobyl virus -- known in Taiwan as the CIH, for Chen's initials -- had even pressed the Chinese People's Liberation Army to study antivirus programs to prevent it from invading its computers, the police statement said. Chen created the virus last April when he was still a student of computer engineering at the Institute of Technology. Chen has since graduated and has been undergoing Taiwan's mandatory two-year military service. Chen had spent long hours playing computer games since entering college and was a frequent victim of computer viruses when downloading video games and other software from the Internet, the police statement said. "He said he created the highly vicious virus that could avoid detection by available antivirus programs in order to make a fool of the software providers, from whom he had bought antivirus programs that proved useless," the statement said. "He did not expect the virus to cause such a great impact. He regretted his deeds and apologize to all its victims." The unusually destructive virus -- timed to strike on April 26, the 13th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster -- tries to erase a computer's hard drive and write gibberish into its system settings to prevent the machine from being restarted. Under Taiwanese law, someone convicted of spreading computer viruses can face up to three years in prison. Police did not say whether Chen will be charged. Computer experts said Chen might not be charged because he did not intend to spread the virus. But they said Chen might face lawsuits seeking millions of dollars of damage compensation. Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: What's New for Apr 30, 1999
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: What's New [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 30 Apr 99 Washington, DC 1. SPY HYSTERIA: LEGISLATION WOULD CUT OFF FOREIGN EXCHANGES. Amid revelations that large amounts of classified weapons data had been transferred to an unclassified computer system, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) introduced S.887, "A bill to establish a moratorium on the Foreign Visitors Program at the Department of Energy nuclear laboratories." Nothing that has been made public, however, suggests that visitors were the problem. President Clinton warned that the bill would halt exchanges with Russian scientists aimed at safeguarding Russia's nuclear arsenal. 2. EMF: THEY SAY IT'S NOT OVER TILL IT'S OVER WELL, IT'S OVER. The results of a long-awaited Canadian epidemiological study of childhood leukemia were released today. The massive study, covering five Canadian provinces, matched 400 children under 14, diagnosed with leukemia, with 400 controls. Exposure assessments included 48-hour personal EMF monitoring, as well as measurements in the children's residences and 24-hour bedroom measurement. The conclusion was that exposure to magnetic fields was not related to the risk of leukemia. This agrees with the monumental NCI study released two years ago (WN 4 Jul 97). Nevertheless, a group convened by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, many of whom had staked their reputations on an EMF- cancer connection, voted last fall to label EMF "a possible carcinogen" (WN 2 Oct 98), which led the APS to reaffirm its position that there is no evidence of a cancer-EMF link. 3. FREE ENERGY: CONFERENCE FEATURES "OVER-UNITY" DEVICES. Even as this is being written, the much-traveled First International Conference on Future Energy is continuing in a Bethesda Holiday Inn (WN 2 Apr 99). Yesterday, mindful of my responsibility to keep WN readers informed, I attended the opening. As I stood at the back of the room awaiting the start, one of the organizers came up to me and said: "We have a security cop on the premises." Well, OK. Tom Valone of the Integrity Research Institute opened the meeting by telling the audience of about 100 what they came to hear: "A century of energy oppression" is about to end we would have free energy now if it weren't for powerful economic interests. "How many of you want free energy?" Every hand went up mine included. He then led the audience in a chant of: "We want free energy. We want ..." No, I'm not making this up. 4. ECHINACEA: YOU'D BE BETTER OFF TAKING "VITAMIN O." The high- priced salt water might not help, but at least it didn't make people sick (19 Mar 99). A study being presented today at the International Conference on Integrative Medicine in Seattle, claims that Echinacea, the world's top selling herbal supplement, which is taken by millions to ward off colds and flu, has a side effect it increases the incidence of colds and flu. Previous studies had merely indicated that Echinacea was not effective. THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.) DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Police Chief Says Drug Money Corrupts Guerrillas
-Caveat Lector- Police Chief Says Drug Money Corrupts Guerrillas AP 30-APR-99 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Colombia's powerful guerrilla movement is no longer motivated by leftist ideology after having been corrupted by involvement in narcotics activities yielding an estimated $500 million a year, Colombia's top police officer said today. National Police director Gen. Rosso Jose Serrano, here for meetings with administration and congressional leaders, said the links of the guerrillas to narcotraffickers has cost them support both at home and internationally. "The guerrillas have lost their ideology," Serrano said through a translator. "Narcotrafficking is corrupting. It has even corrupted the guerrillas." Serrano, who is highly regarded here as an effective and honest counternarcotics warrior, spoke to a small group of senators and reporters. He said the guerrillas help the drug cartels and earn large sums by protecting airstrips and drug laboratories and by shooting down military and police aircraft. For some units, kidnaping is the major source of revenue, he said, estimating that guerrillas were responsible for 80 percent of the 2,200 kidnappings recorded in Colombia last year. Serrano expressed concern about growing links between the Russian and Colombian mafias and also about the lack of international enforcement for trafficking in the chemical precursors needed to refine cocaine and heroin. "Many countries which produce precursors don't control their destinations," he said. The prime sources for precursors, he said, are Latin America, the United States and Europe. Serrano said that two weeks ago, a shipment of potassium earmarked for cocaine traffickers was seized in the port city of Cartagena. He said there was enough potassium to help produce 60 tons of cocaine. He said the arrival of U.S. Black Hawk helicopters should enable Colombia to eradicate opium poppy production in three years. But, he said, there is little cause for optimism that the drug scourge on the international level can be eased. "The situation looks bleak as we start the millennium," Serrano said, predicting major advances in synthetic drugs as opposed to those derived from narcotics plants. He said such drugs are cheaper than cocaine or heroin, can be produced in smaller laboratories and cause irreversible damage to addicts. Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] MIL Pentagon stance on DU a moving target
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Sat, 1 May 1999 01:01:38 +0300 (EEST) From: Wasted Mind [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:IUFO: [IWAR] MIL Pentagon stance on DU a moving target (fwd) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:33:58 -0700 (PDT) From: 7Pillars Partners [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g2i list [EMAIL PROTECTED], IWAR list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IWAR] MIL Pentagon stance on DU a moving target Pentagon stance on DU a moving target Amid official attempts to nail down 'protection guidelines' for those confronting depleted uranium, Gulf War veterans press for clarity. And the prospect of DU's use in Kosovo raises the stakes. By Scott Peterson, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor A soldier's boots are often treated with sacred regard, once they carry a warrior safely through combat. But for one US soldier, who volunteered for his Gulf War tour, Mark Panzera, his boots were the first sign that something was very wrong. He was an Army mechanic in the 144th Service and Supply Company of New Jersey, which in 1991 prepared US tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles that had been hit by "friendly fire" for shipment home. This front-line equipment had been inadvertently hit by American gunners shooting radioactive depleted-uranium (DU) bullets at what they thought were Iraqi tanks. For weeks after the mistake, the 144th worked at a salvage site in Saudi Arabia, getting into every corner of every vehicle to recycle equipment, wearing T-shirts and shorts, eating on and sleeping beside the vehicles. Suddenly one morning, Mr. Panzera recalls, before his team began work, two experts arrived looking like astronauts, wearing hooded masks and suits - and carrying radiation detectors. Before the two unexpected visitors approached the vehicles, they first ran their instruments over the awestruck mechanics. Their clothes were contaminated, but Panzera's boots especially set the detectors crackling. The dust left over from the impact of DU bullets hitting the tanks had clung to the cleanup crew. "'You're hot,' they told us, and I asked: 'What do you mean?' " Panzera remembers. "I was angry. Nobody tells you nothing, and the next day you are contaminated." Later, Panzera received an official letter confirming his exposure to DU radiation. He has been seeking government compensation for what he says is DU-related illness. Mixed messages from the top By the Pentagon's own admission, its policy toward use of DU weapons has been inconsistent. Several military and independent reports describe the potential danger of DU particles trapped inside the body, though most deem the overall risk to be "acceptable." Strict federal and military rules govern every aspect of DU use and decontamination. But the Pentagon today calls its own regulations - based on US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) guidelines, which require masks and suits when dealing with DU contamination - "total overkill." In 1993, a report from the US General Accounting Office, the government's investigative arm, found that Army officials "believe that DU protective means can be ignored during battle." Then, in 1995, all four branches of the US military approved a multimedia DU training kit. In January 1998 it was endorsed as "impressive" by the deputy secretary of defense, John Hamre. The kit, obtained by the Monitor through the Freedom of Information Act, said "the greatest threat is during open-air, live-fire testing. We can call combat a great big open-air, live-fire test." An area hit by DU "remains contaminated, and will not decontaminate itself." The kit was never issued, and it is now under review. "They [the NRC] have their own standards. The military's [standards] are under review," says Bernard Rostker, the Pentagon's special assistant for Gulf War illnesses. He first raised doubts publicly only last August. He said the "extremely restrictive" NRC rules are "poorly suited" to war, and "need to be rewritten." Reasons for backing DU Critics say the Pentagon has reasons for its apparent downgrading of DU dangers: The bullet pierces enemy armor like no other, it's cheap, and any confirmed link with health problems could trigger a flood of compensation and reparations claims. And the cost of cleaning up DU residue in the Gulf would be prohibitive, as well. The price tag for removing 152,000 pounds of DU in the now-closed, 500-acre Jefferson Proving Ground in Indiana has been estimated to be $4 billion to $5 billion. More than four times that amount of DU was spread during the Gulf War, over a significantly larger
[CTRL] Fw: Conspiracy Theory Literature FAQ
Conspiracy Theory Literature FAQPosting-Frequency: 21 days Last-modified: Jul 4 1997 Version: 1.1 URL: http://www9.pair.com/xpoez/faq/ctl.html Maintainer: Xavier Poez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright: public domain Archive-name: books/conspiracy-theory CONSPIRACY THEORY LITERATURE FAQ By Xavier Poez, [EMAIL PROTECTED]. HTML version of this file is available at http://www9.pair.com/xpoez/. * introduction * overviews * worldwide conspiracies + secret societies + WW I II, Nazism, etc. + Cold War + United Nations, NWO + government revolutions + terrorism, sabotage + religion + media manipulation * money manipulation + world bankers + Federal Reserve bank, IRS + 1929 Great Depression * assassinations + death of Kennedy + death of Lincoln * US government + NSA + CIA + mind control: CIA's MKUltra + Mena drug trafficking + Vince Foster Whitewater + NASA coverups + Oklahoma bombing, TWA800 + presidential directives * US military + Nazi relocation: project Paperclip + secret weaponry/HAARP + Montauk/Philadelphia experiment + FEMA, Mount Weather + Area 51/antigravity research * other + AIDS + cancer + free energy + aliens/UFOs * real/confirmed conspiracies + radiation poisoning by government in experiments + psychic research and remote viewing by CIA and Soviets + chemical poisoning of Gulf War veterans * how conspiracies work + pyramid structure + pawns dupes + double agents + agent provocateurs + middlemen + elite * aspects of human nature that lead to conspiracies + conspirators: o ego o greed o fear o vice o megalomania + pawns/dupes: o naivete gullibility o closemindedness o black white thinking o cynicism, apathy o moving target mentality o inability to say no o herdlike mentality o short attention span, lack of curiosity questioning o fear * key methods of advancing conspiracies + secrecy + greed, bribery + guilt, anxiety + victimhood + intimidation, terror, paranoia, blackmail + manipulation + infiltration + disinformation, lies, revisionism, coverup + assassinations + suppression/censorship + trojan horse, bait and switch, shell game + frog boiling + pump and dump + plots within plots + decoys, smokescreens + problem, reaction, solution (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) * resources + web sites + newsgroups + mailing lists + periodicals * bibliography _ Introduction This is FAQ that I am interested in further editing and improving. The topic of conspiracies has become more prevalent in the American psyche and I've not found a free compilation or overview of classic references. I don't consider myself an expert in this field, just a hardworking and curious layman, and I would appreciate any insight that others can offer. I know that a FAQ is a very iterative process in which early versions are only marginal and incomplete, whereas later versions can become extremely comprehensive with the help of reader input. With your help, I can really improve the quality of this document. I am committing to keeping it free for unlimited distribution at all times. If you know some good references for any of these sections, in the interest of educating humanity, please send them to me. Note: I am not going to try to collect every reference that exists. In particular I prefer to collect references to other authoritative collections that contain references themselves. I intend to keep a short list of web sites in this FAQ, which I don't intend to be exhaustive either, but which points to the premier sites. If you have one of the most comprehensive sites on the net, I would like to hear about your pointer, however, if you are working with subtopics, please submit your URL to the site maintainers of the more master sites. I will generally not attempt to resolve the truth or falsity of various issues, but simply remark on the contents of conspiracy theory literature or CTL and let the reader decide.
[CTRL] A GREAT MIA site.
-Caveat Lector- Check out www.miafacts.org...for an excellent overview of the conspiracy that IS the MIA lobby... MIA Facts Site by Joe Schlatter This site is published to provide facts about the issue of Americans who remain "missing in action" (MIA) from the Vietnam War. At the conclusion of the Vietnam War, 2,583 Americans did not return. A vast mythology has built up around what really happened to these individuals. Mis-information, pseudo-history, deliberate fabrication are all rampant. As a result, there is a belief that: Not all US POWs were released by their captors at the end of the Vietnam War; The U.S. government knew that all POWs were not released; U.S. POWs remain in captivity today (September 1998); There is a conspiracy within the U. S. government to hide the continued imprisonment of Americans and, whenever the truth emerges, it is debunked. The facts are entirely different. The facts are: All US POWs captured during the Vienam War were released, either at Operation Homecoming (spring, 1973) or earlier. No U. S. prisoners of war have been abandoned by the U. S. government. No U.S POWs remained in captivity after the conclusion of Operation Homecoming. There is no conspiracy within the U. S. government to conceal the abandonment of prisoners of war (who were not abandoned in the first place). No US POWs from Indochina were taken to the Soviet Union, China, or any other third country. Those who promulgate and promote these claims have produced a vast array of half-truth, untruth, hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, personal attacks, and mythology. The accumulated effect of years of nonsense has been exactly what one would expect: And this from a veteran of 'Nam who's sick of the lies Bill DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Third Temple News
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.excel.net/~hoy/t-news/tnews.html A HREF="http://www.excel.net/~hoy/t-news/tnews.html"The Third Temple News /A - The Third Temple News A Peaceful Solution To Building The Next TEMPLE In Yerusalem The Peaceful Solution Talks 1998 1997 (Click On Year) This Generation can be the one to BRING PEACE to Yerusalem, the Middle East and the World! And you, as a leader, can have a part in the biggest PEACE PROJECT ever ventured in the history of mankind. I urge you, as a leader, to DO YOUR PART in promoting the Rebuilding of this NEXT TEMPLE; The Temple Yahweh inspired through the Prophet Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) as written in the Inspired Scriptures and in promoting the 613 Laws which bring Life and Peace. This PEACEFUL SOLUTION will end forever the continual way of War, Sickness and Death which has plagued mankind since the beginning of their rebellion against Yahweh. " The fact that The Dome of the Rock sits SOUTH of the Temple Mount, Dr. Asher S. Kaufman points out in his article (Biblical Archeology Review, March/April 1983, Vol. IX, NO. 2, p. 40-58) that the Mishnah (Middot 2:1) states that the GREATER PART of the OUTER COURT (Har Ha-Bayit) in the Original Temple was on the SOUTH. However, in Yechetzqyah's (Ezekiel's) Temple, THIS AREA on the SOUTH only extends ONE REED--about 10 1/2 feet! Do you realize what this means? This MEANS that The Dome of the Rock was Built On what is known as the SOUTH Outer Court Area! Yes, there are PAVEMENTS extending only on the EAST SIDE and on the NORTH SIDE. There is NO PAVEMENT on the WEST SIDE, because the Building (with the Priests' Kitchens) will take up this area, just as Yechetzqyah 41:12 states. There is NO PAVEMENT on the SOUTH SIDE, because that is WHERE THE MOSLEM MOSQUE SETS! All of these MEASUREMENTS have been checked by us, over and over, And WE DO HAVE these exact MEASUREMENTS of Yechetzqyah's temple: The Excavations; the Gates; the Courts; The House of Yahweh with the Vestibule, the Holy Place, and the Most Holy Place-- ALL ACCORDING to this Prophecy inspired by Yahweh, and according to its EXACT Scriptural dimensions. " Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 40:2, 4, 5 2 In the visions of Yahweh (of the future), He brought me into the land of Israyl, and set me upon the greatly exalted mountain; and on it, like a building of a city ON THE SOUTH (Dome of the Rock etc.). 4 ...for the purpose that I show this to you, were you brought here. Declare all that you see to the house of Israyl. 5 And behold, there was an adjoining separation (a separating wall) around a TEMPLE. In the being's hand was a measuring reed (six long) cubits (about 10 1/2 feet)--each cubit (about 18 inches) with a handbreadth (about 3 inches). So he measured the separation's width to the structure, one reed (about 10 1/2 feet), and the height (rise), one reed (Showing the Dome of the Rock is to the south separated on the north by a dividing separation, Inner Court and Temple). Yechetzqyah (Ezekiel) 43:10-12 10 Son of man, show the House to the house of Israyl, so that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the House, and the arrangement of it--its exits and its entrances; all forms of its ordinances, and all forms of its laws. Write these in their sight, that they may keep the whole form of it with all its ordinances, that they may do them. 12 This is the law of the House: On top of the mountain, and the whole area surrounding it, is most holy. Behold this is the law of the House. This work has already begun. This site documents some of the events and meetings with world leaders which have taken place. We will be updating this site as events unfold in the future. --A HOUSE OF YAHWEH ®TM PUBLICATION-- All Rights Reserved || E-MAIL || || A PEACEFUL SOLUTION OPENING LETTER || || BROCHURE || || ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE TEMPLE INSCRIPTIONS || A Peaceful Solution To Building The Next TEMPLE In Yerusalem YES we can PROVE the Original Temple Location was/is/will be NORTH of the Dome of the Rock! Can We AVOID The Next HOLOCAUST? - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of
[CTRL] Hitchens: Belgrade Degraded
-Caveat Lector- From The Nation- Every now and then it really happens. A "military spokesman" emerges to prove that Joseph Heller was a realist, and Catch-22 a work of reportorial integrity. Right in the middle of the "Military Analysis" column in the New York Times: Indeed, Pentagon and NATO officials have even mused that the complete expulsion of Albanians from Kosovo would give the alliance a big military advantage. "There would be Serb troops primarily left, and we would be able to attack them with more precision and more concentration," a Pentagon spokesman, Kenneth H. Bacon, said recently. Even the name of the spokesman seemed right somehow: Pork-barreled to the roots of his tight and curly tail, the porcine propagandist squeals the inadvertent truth. Throw all the pesky civilians out to make a new life on the rubbish-tips of neighboring lands (it was this same Bacon who instructed us earlier that the mass expulsion had been foreseen and, so to speak, factored in), and we can have our ultimate wargasm--a free-fire zone and a clear field of bombardment. What's the frequency, Kenneth? In a Catch-22 scenario, as well as in the abjectly real world, this would also help insure that the Kosovar refugees had nowhere to go home to. This objective collusion, between the aims of Milosevic and the aims of NATO, is what renders null the current debate between the remnants of the American "peace movement." On one wing are those who say that NATO is doing the right thing by taking an antifascist position at last. On another are those who speak smugly about how all this bombing has upset the Serbian democrats. Such people also describe the bombing as an "aggression" and cleverly ask why we don't bomb to save the Kurds or the Timorese. The other day at a "peace" event in Cambridge, I was solemnly handed a "target" symbol of the kind worn as a fashion statement in Belgrade these days. I threw it away at once. Those who wear such symbols are the self-pitying and not-so-reluctant supporters of a national-socialist demagogue--people who have never said a word about the aggressions and massacres in Bosnia and Kosovo. It was noticeable, at the recent funeral of the murdered Belgrade editor Slavko Curuvija, that none of the mourners displayed this false-populist logo. They were the serious opposition, who understand that the main enemy is at home. One who attended the ceremony told me that the silence, even between friends, was terrifying. "If we could not talk about the fact that he was murdered by the police death-squads, then what could we talk about?" A principled peace movement in this country should at least attempt to contact the few genuine Serbian internationalists, ask them what they think and inquire how they can be helped. I try at least once a week to hold a conversation with either Srdja Popovic or Dusan Makavejev, both of whom have long and honorable records as Serb antifascists. Popovic was the human rights champion of the former Yugoslavia and acted as defense counsel for the leaders of various national minorities, including the Kosovar Albanians. Makavejev, a brilliant film director, is still remembered for his WR: Mysteries of the Organism, one of the defining movies of the seventies and a cultural achievement that earned him a jail sentence until it became clear that the motion picture was also the country's chief cultural export. Popovic says openly that NATO should cross the Hungarian border in strength and remove the Milosevic regime as a precondition for a settlement. He feels terribly torn about the bombing of Belgrade and other cities, because he favors the military defeat of his own government but finds it uncomfortable to take such a position from a place of exile. Clearly unkeen on the actual bombardment, he still fears that if it stopped, the Serbian leadership would claim, and perhaps win, a victory. The worst possible outcome--foreshadowed in the Bacon scenario--is one where the Albanian civilians are dispersed and the Serbian civilians get punished for it. Milosevic would then have confirmed his membership in that exclusive club--founded by Saddam Hussein and ornamented by Manuel Noriega--of despots who can switch between demonization and strategic value. Makavejev used to demand, while actually living in Belgrade, that NATO destroy the Serbian positions that were torturing the people of Sarajevo. (His reward was to be denounced as a Jew, which he said was no insult to a Serb like himself.) But he is entirely against the present bombing and also speaks scornfully of the ineptitude of NATO propaganda. "None of the Serbian democrats--not even the Orthodox bishop in Kosovo who favors coexistence with Albanians--was even invited to the Rambouillet conference. The Montenegrin leadership was also excluded completely. Now Clinton says that Milosevic can pick up the phone anytime and call. This is to treat everyone as if they were puppets." Both men feel that a huge opportunity was lost
[CTRL] Fw: Bombs Away
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: @thequest.net Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 2:21 PM Subject: Bombs Away : - ___ __ :/ |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S : / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East : /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\F L A S H B A C K : http://www.MiddleEast.Org :US-BOMBED COUNTRIES :_ :Call US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia + :5-cents/minute - All days, 24-hours daily. :Go to - http://www.MiddleEast.Org/pp1.htm : Or email to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] for all details. :__ : : :THE USA AND THE WORLD: : : BOMBS, ARMS, COUPS : : MER - WASHINGTON - 29 APRIL 1999: : Here's a list of the countries that the U.S. has bombed since the end of : World War II. Now of course the number of countries where the U.S. has : used the CIA to install regimes, bring about coups, and oftentimes : seriously undermine democratic movements in favor of dictatorships, is : considerably greater -- that shouldn't be forgotten for a moment. Nor : should it be forgotten that the U.S. sells tremendous quantities of arms : to others who in many cases are proxie bombers -- Israel certainly at the : top of that list. : : China 1945-46 : Korea 1950-53 : China 1950-53 : Guatemala 1954 : Indonesia 1958 : Cuba 1959-60 : Guatemala 1960 : Congo 1964 : Peru 1965 : Laos 1964-73 : Vietnam 1961-73 : Cambodia 1969-70 : Guatemala 1967-69 : Lebanon 1983 : Grenada 1983 : Libya 1986 : El Salvador 1980s : Nicaragua 1980s : Panama 1989 : Iraq 1991-99 : Bosnia 1995 : Sudan 1998 : Afghanistan 1998 : Yugoslavia 1999 : : Note: William Blum, author of one of the best books detailing CIA plots : and coups around the world, compiled this list, forgetting as do many, : that the U.S. bombed Lebanon in 1983 when the unstated policy was to help : the Israelis establish a more compliant client-regime in Beirut. : : -- : MER: IF YOU DON'T GET IT, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! : : News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, : and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! : - : To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] : __ :M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S : For past MER articles go to: http://WWW.MiddleEast.Org : (c) Copyright 1999 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Fax: 202 362-6965 / Phone: 202 362-5266 : : AER The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] [13] The Strange Death of FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: The Strange Death of FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A History of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty America's Royal Family Emanuael M. Josephson©1948 CHEDNEY PRESS 127 East 69th Street New York 21, N. Y. --[13]-- CHAPTER XIII SYNTHETIC "LIBERAL" NEW YORKS DYNASTIC GOVERNOR Georgia Warm Springs, Meriwether Reserves Inc. and their principals were munificently provided for by the interests that wanted to use the Roosevelt name for their own political and financial advantage. F. D. R. was groomed to be advanced along the path followed by two of his Dynastic predecessorsMartin Van Buren and Theodore Roosevelt-to the post of Governor of New York State, as a stepping stone to the White House. For almost half a century the Dynasty, with its allies in politics, commerce, industry and the press, had devoted all its efforts and spared no energies in making the name "Roosevelt" a magic word by which to conjure mobs. First Teddy and then Franklin had been made to espouse every rabble-rousing cause and device by the ghost-writers, who thought their thoughts and wrote their speeches for them. Great care was exercised, however, so that their thoughts and acts in the fields that immediately concerned their bosses such as finance, commerce, industry, and raids on the public treasury would be all that they should. The lack of public interests in those vital topics simplified the situation. This made it possible for President Theodore Roosevelt with absolute impunity to further the cause and advocate the views and objectives of Morgan bank. ers who constituted his cabinet; and even to have ghosted such statements of policy as his third annual message by James Stillman, President of the National City Bank. Especial efforts were made by the Dynasty to identify the Roosevelt name with so-called "Liberalism". By "Liberalism" is meant following the pattern of Marxism disseminated by Bismarck, that pretended on interest in the "lower" or working classes and supported warfare by them on the community and the "upper classes". Anyone who questioned the wisdom of such class warfare or the consequences of the adopt. ed measures, in disrupting the unity of community life, was labelled "reactionary". The powers-that-be and the shrewder elements among the banking and commercial fraternity including the Rockefellers and the banker-masters of the RooseveltDelano Dynasty, were quick to recognize, as had Bismarck, that the mechanism of Marxist or Communazi totalitarianism could serve their dictatorships and monopolies excellently, if properly framed and manipu. lated. Thus while the monopoly of industry and commerce was forbidden by law and was raided against by the demagogues and by the "Liberals", a monopoly of labor, through labor unionism, was fully approved by them. And a monopoly of labor is even more effective in attaining a monopoly of industry than monopolist control of industry itself and far more completely enslaves of the worker. Consequently the politicians formed alliances with the labor "leaders" or barons, extended to them privileges which put them above the law, rendered them completely immune from liability for any of the consequences of their monopoly, and extended them the privilege of levying a private tax on workers for the right to work. The politicians in effect preyed on labor through the agency of the Labor Barons, and collected their share of the extra-legal tax levied on the workers, in return for having robbed them of their Constitutional rights and sold them out. To the befuddled workers these malefactions were misrepresented as championing labor's "rights". When industry provides jobs that pay the workers salaries, the "take" runs into the hundreds of millions and possibly bil. lions of dollars; and when business depression deprives workers of jobs and incomes, the politicians can still dip their hands into the pockets of the public, worker and non-worker, through the Treasury and taxes. At the back of the politician, taking the bulk of the spoils, are the real overlords of Labor, the banking element. With their remote control of Labor through Labor Barons, they are in a position to call strikes and manipulate wages to suit their purposes, whether they be crushing a competitor, slowing production so that surplus can be dissipated by industry freed of the need of paying wages, or numerous other malevolent purposes. The ultimate disruption and disintegration of national economy and security which this program implies is exactly the effect that, like Bismarck, the Rockefeller-Standard Oil and the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty allies seek in their plan to attain an American dictatorship and monarchy. Over a period of fifteen years, the Dynasty had thrown its energies and influence into building up its heir apparent and puppet "Ieader", Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, himself, had chosen the husband of his favorite niece as his heir, to carry On in the opposition party when
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990430b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Severe Arctic ozone hole predicted. (BBC) Plummeting temperatures high in the Earth's atmosphere are doubling the rate at which the ozone layer is being destroyed. The destruction is particularly high over the Arctic and Northern Europe and could lead to an ozone hole as large as the one over the Antarctic. Ironically, the cooling phenomenon is being blamed on the world- wide increase in greenhouse gases - usually associated with global warming. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_332000/332213.stm @ Links: Ozone hole tour: http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/ @ UN Ozone secretariat: http://www.unep.ch/ozone/home.htm # Also: Ozone hole recovery slows: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_29/290442.stm # Ozone hole reaches record size: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_183000/183673.stm # Beware, falling sky: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_173000/173351.stm : How much skin cancer can you take? Will this promote fast human evolution? Is ozone depletion Nature's way of saying COOL OUT? Is your skin thickening? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** NASA unveils new Atlantis cockpit. CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) NASA unveiled a modern, Boeing 777-style cockpit inside space shuttle Atlantis, an improve- ment that astronauts say could save their lives. Instead of the usual array of dials and knobs and three old-fashioned screens, Atlantis' cockpit now has nine high-resolution, liquid-crystal computer screens, thus the moniker "glass cockpit." Shuttle pilots say they will be able to obtain information much more quickly during the crucial 8-1/2-minute climb to orbit. Also, the data will be easier to read because of its organization and color coding. NASA expects to keep flying its space shuttles for the next 10 or 20 years, or until something better comes along. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559375620-184 : When will space shuttles adopt Starship Enterprise control systems? When will something better come along? Will Reptilioids aid with the next design? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Smithsonian explores Ainu culture. WASHINGTON (AP) The mysterious Ainu of northern Japan, a people whose culture, language and physical appearance set them apart from other Asians, feature in a new Smithsonian exhibition seeking to tell their story to Americans. Once a large trading and fishing people living across a broad region, Ainu today number only about 25,000, concentrated on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido. In some ways, their story parallels that of American Indians, overrun by outsiders in the 1800s, their lands lost and culture threatened. Starting in January, the exhibit, "Ainu, Spirit of a Northern People," will go on tour around the US. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559368384-84d : What's your favorite endangered native culture? When the Reptilioids take over, who'll preserve human culture? Will your culture be missed? By whom? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: # Fashion Ads Depress Women. TORONTO (Reuters) Canadian women who read maga- zines full of advertisements featuring skinny female models suffer more from low self-esteem than those who don't, a University of Toronto study shows. How-2 motivate customers: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990430/09/odd-skinny # Gore Links Media Sex To Teen Pregnancy Rate. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Al Gore borrowed a tactic from his former political opponent Dan Quayle and took a swipe at the entertainment industry over its portrayals of sex. Like he's ever had any: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990430/09/odd-gore # BLINK IF YOU'RE BIONIC: Docs Design Blinking Bionic Eye. LONDON (Reuters) German doctors have designed an artificial eye which blinks at the same time as the user's healthy eye. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990430/09/odd-eye and http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_331000/331752.stm # City Strikes Ten Commandments. Officials of Manhattan, Kansas, removed an oversized tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments, backing away from a legal battle with civil liberties groups that had sued the city. Pray for Ft. Riley KSU: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990429/08/odd-commandments _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 30 Apr 99 Washington, DC 3. FREE ENERGY: CONFERENCE FEATURES "OVER-UNITY" DEVICES. Even as this is being written, the much-traveled First International Conference on Future Energy is continuing in a Bethesda Holiday Inn (WN 2 Apr 99). Yesterday, mindful of my responsibility to keep WN readers informed, I attended the opening. As I stood at the back of the room awaiting the start, one of the organizers came up to me and said: "We have a security cop on the
[CTRL] [14] The Strange Death of FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: The Strange Death of FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A History of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty America's Royal Family Emanuael M. Josephson©1948 CHEDNEY PRESS 127 East 69th Street New York 21, N. Y. --[14]-- CHAPTER XIV HEARST, DUPONT AND ROCKEFELLER ELECT F. D. R. It is questionable whether in all history a nation has been more completely flim-flammed than in the matter of the supporters and objectives of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By the crudest type of deception, that depends for its effectiveness solely upon the uncritical gullibility, the defective memory and pathetic dullness of the average citizen, the public have been led to believe that Roosevelt was an enemy of the very people whose creature he was, who financed his campaigns and controlled him in office. Some of the ablest perverters of public 0pinion, otherwise known as publicity men, headed by Louis Howe and Charles Michelson engineered this deception. The public have been led to believe that William Randolph Hearst, the Du Ponts and the Rockefellers were F. D. R.'s worst enemies. But it was they who aided the Dynasty and made him President to serve their purposes and do their bidding. Some of the facts can be gained from an examination of campaign contributions. Contributions to clean up 'the debt of the Democratic National Committee including $345,250 owed to John Raskob, a Du Pont associate were: $39,500 by Pierre S. Du Pont in 1931 and 1932; $125,000 by Raskob in 1932. To F. D. R.'s 1932 election campaign there was contributed by: William Randolph Hearst, $30,000; Edward S. Harkness, of Standard Oil Company, $12,000; John J. Raskob, $23,000; Bernard M. Baruch, of the Ryan-Rockefeller-Morgan group, $45,000; Francis P. Garvan, representing the Brady interests, $15,000; and indirectly the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment supported Roosevelt with sums up to S100,000 contributed by Lammot Du Pont; Pierre S. Du Pont, Vincent Astor and William H. Woodin, $35,000 each; Cyrus and Harold F. McCormick contributed $5,000 and Eleanor Patterson, $2,000. William Randolph Hearst's motive in supporting Roosevelt was a matter of urgent personal necessity. Hearst had repeatedly earned the enmity of Rockefeller. In the late 1920's Hearst and Brisbane had expanded their real estate holdings tremendously, financing them through S. W. Straus and Company which they are reputed to have controlled. When the American Bank and Mortgage Company, a competing real estate mortgage house affiliated with the RockefellerMorgan interests, collapsed directly after the 1929 panic, Hearst and Brisbane saw an opportunity to boost S. W. Straus and Company and their bonds. They ran a running campaign which on one day demanded criminal prosecution of the crude frauds perpetrated by the American Bond and Mortgage Company, and on the following day called on the public to buy, as the safest type of investment, S. W. Straus and Company bonds. "Never A Loss In Fifty Years" was the slogan of the Straus Company that they hammered away in their columns. Intensive publicity of the type that Hearst and Brisbane hurled against the American Bond and Mortgage crowd easily might have led to criminal prosecution. To avert that eventuality, the interests involved had to do something to smash Hearst and Brisbane. The readiest way to accomplish the destruction, in view of their extended and highly mortgaged realty holdings, was to smash the real estate market throughout the country. And the quickest way was to force foreclosure of the highest quality real estate, business property in New York City. That was an important function of the Rockefeller Center. Rockefeller's Radio City differs in its legal status from any real estate in the country. By Bill No. 296, the 72nd Congress, rushed through in the last hour of the session by Rockefeller's principal agent in Congress, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Rockefeller Center was made a free-port, the only free-port in the United States. This means that merchants on the west side of Fifth Avenue and Fiftieth Street, in Rockefeller Center, could import merchandise from abroad and display it for sale without paying duty. This law implies discrimination against every other port in the country, which is prohibited by the Constitution. It also implies discrimination against all other property holders. For it enabled Rockefeller Center to lure tenants from other buildings with the inducement that it would require less capital to engage in the import business because the property was a freeport. To make matters worse, the ground on which the Center is built is tax-exempt because it belongs to Columbia University, and its rentals can be corres. pondingly lower. The vacancies resulting from the wholesale exodus of tenants into Radio City from other properties in New York City was equivalent in its effect to "short selling" real estate, and it sharply depressed the property values in New York City. Interested
[CTRL] The Dream Factory
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: The Evolution of Mass Culture In America - 1877 to the Present Gerald R. Baydo, Editor The Forum Press, Inc.©1982 Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 ISBN 0-88273-260-9 - A concise early history. Om K - The Dream Factory The story of the American Film Industry Sheldon Nagel Brilliant men, beautiful jazz babies, champagne baths, midnight revels, petting parties in the purple dawn, all ending in one terrific smashing climax that makes you gasp. Movie advertisement, 1919 It is the only multimillion dollar business in America that has taught more than three generations how to smoke, make love, and believe in happy endings. Worshiping it as art or cloaking it in a gossamer mantle of nostalgia has become a semi-competitive pastime. But the American film industry was nurtured under the tenets of capitalism and spurred by the profit motive. The fantasies it presented on the screen were no more improbable than the struggles, victories and disappointments that took place behind the screen and remarkably, the beginnings were humble and almost haphazard. Thomas Alva Edison, the tyrannical tinkerer of Menlo Park, (whose own affectionate image held by the public would later be aided by two film portrayals; one by Mickey Rooney and the other by Spencer Tracy) produced in 1889, the kinetoscope. This device was a cabinet inside of which was machinery capable of showing some fifty feet of film. By dropping a coin into a slot and looking through a tiny hole, the viewer could see either a man sneezing, a girl dancing, a boxing match, a horse eating hay, or a number of other simple presentations. Each vignette took less than a minute. The great dream factory began as a penny peep show. Edison's interest soon drifted to other projects, and he failed to expend the $150 needed to acquire foreign patent protection. This oversight would come back to haunt Edison and his future associates. Not only did foreign manufacturers duplicate the popular kinetoscope, but their subsequent patents became the basis for a growing number of American competitors who used European imports to challenge Edison's later attempts to monopolize the movie industry. The contenders seized upon Greek and Latin sources to name their devices. Anything suggesting life, action, vision, record, or motion was used, and the result was that muto-scopes, bio-scopes, and bio-graphs competed with kinetoscopes for wall space in penny arcades. The arcade owners quickly realized that these machines were their most profitable attraction, and they quickly absorbed all that could be produced. The cabinets, however, were in short supply as were the cameras used to manufacture the pictures. To fill the demand for films, Edison had constructed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey. This small peculiar building was dubbed the "Black Maria" and it rotated on a track in order to follow the sunlight. Edison, in turn, was dependent upon Kodak (a nonsense word made up by George Eastman as his company's trademark) which had only recently superimposed film on celluloid and as a result now dominated the world market. These limitations on potential profits could be overcome if the projectors could be freed from the cabinets and the images thrown upon a large, single screen. Scores of patrons could then be charged to view the image cast by a single machine and profits would soar. The breakthrough came in 1895 when projection machines were developed almost simultaneously and independently on both sides of the Atlantic. The premier showings of this technological breakthrough were greeted with wild enthusiam, and the unexpected reaction of some early viewers was startling. Scenes of waves breaking against the shore caused a few to become seasick. In Paris, the Lumiere brothers projected a train coming toward the camera. As the locomotive grew larger, members of the audience fled in panic. The Edison Company's Vitascope premiered to such accolades as "tremendous," "sensational," and "enormous." Now the arcade owners became exhibitors. At first, they merely curtained off sections of their arcades, making them suitable for viewing. A few of the more visionary provided chairs for the patrons. The popularity of the ,'movies" was phenomenal. Vacant shops were engulfed by platoons of would-be entrepreneurs who converted them into storeshows. The fare offered was basically what had been viewed in the old kinetoscopes. (The Lumiere cabinet had been called the cinematograph, giving Europe its label for motion pictures.) Audiences would pay to see anything that moved and as a result anyone could successfully produce films. Anyone, that is, who could get his hands on a camera. Edison, who believed that only his own patents were legal, regarded all other film producers as thieves or outlaws, and he began the almost endless litigations that still erupt with amusing regularity in the film industry. By 1900 film was being produced
[CTRL] Spain: Next?
-Caveat Lector- From wsws.org ""Help for the Kosovar Albanians, through military attacks against Serbian positions, was "inevitable" according to Pujol, because "it is a question of respect for people, for their identity, for them to have their own nation, for justice and freedom." For good measure, he added, "It's always been said that if the democratic countries had stopped Hitler in his stride when Austria and Czechoslovakia were annexed, the Second World War would have been avoided." "" And this is the same Spain that was ruled by Franco who allowed the Germans to test their military rearming in THEIR civil war ??? ""Regionalist tensions dominate Spanish politics today. The "nation of the autonomies" that was created in 1978 to replace Franco's dictatorship is breaking apart at the seams."" WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : The Balkan Crisis Yugoslavia war intensifies political tensions in Spain By Vicky Short 1 May 1999 The right-wing Spanish government has enthusiastically joined in the present NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Spain has so far sent six F18 fighter-bombers to Yugoslavia, and made available one KC-130 Hercules for in-flight refuelling, manned by a total of 180 military personnel. Another C-212 plane is on standby at the Vicenza base in Italy. Two more F18s and a Hercules are stationed at Torrejón and Zaragoza bases and have been placed at the disposal of the Alliance. Spain also contributes the frigate Victoria and the tanker Marqués de la Ensenada to NATO's Mediterranean fleet and the frigate Estremadura to the European fleet. The first military action of the Spanish F18s was to bomb fuel depots in the airport of Podgorica (Montenegro) and military shelters near Belgrade. There are already 1,100 Spanish soldiers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and a further 400 military personnel have been dispatched to Albania, accompanied by an amphibious warship. Military conscription still operates in Spain. The Spanish government of José María Aznar has authorised the deployment by the US of up to 40 KC-135 planes from the base at Morón de la Frontera (Seville). The authorisation extends to over-flying, landing and resting of crews in Torrejón (near Madrid) and Rota (Cadiz). Last month, the majority of the Spanish parliamentary groups gave their full backing to the government and the Secretary General of NATO, Javier Solana, for the decision to bomb Yugoslavia. This was ratified in parliament on April 15 by a full vote in Congress. The parties voting in support of the war were: Aznar's Popular Party (PP), Socialist Party (PSOE), Convergencia I Unió (CiU--Catalan regionalists), Coalición Canaria (Canary Island regionalists) and Nueva Izquierda (a split from the PSOE), as well as some smaller parties. The only exceptions were Izquierda Unida (IU--United Left) and Bloque Nacionalista Galego, who voted against. But both have a very small number of deputies. Spain's government is led by the right-wing Popular Party in alliance with the Basque and Catalan nationalists. It came to power in 1996 as a direct result of the pro-capitalist and anti-working class policies carried out by the PSOE (Socialist Workers Party of Spain) government, under the leadership of Felipe Gonzalez, during the previous 14 years. The bellicose stance of the present government is fully endorsed by the PSOE. But how could it be otherwise--two of its main leaders are directly involved in preparing and conducting the war, with their party's full support. Javier Solana is NATO Secretary General and Felipe Gonzalez is special envoy for Yugoslavia for both the European Union and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Both of them joined the PSOE in 1964. In the early 1980s, while in opposition, they took part in countless demonstrations opposing Spain joining NATO and demanding the removal of American military bases from Spain. Once the PSOE entered government in 1982 they reneged on this stand and five years later ratified Spain's membership of NATO. Today Solana can boast of being the man who "pushed the red button" in the first NATO attack on a sovereign country in its 50 years history. Izquierda Unida is an amalgam of left, regionalist and radical groups led by the Communist Party, and is the only party strongly opposing the bombing. IU called on the Minister of Defence to order the immediate return of the Spanish pilots, to whom it appealed to become war objectors. Their opposition to NATO, however, is based on an uncritical defence of Serbian nationalism. There are big divisions within the United Left. IU federations in Madrid, Asturias and Valencia have criticised the party's support for Milosevic. Julián Fernández, an IU delegate from Navarre, attacked the official stance of the organisation, stating: "NATO's actions can be criticised, but we must make it clear that it is the criminal actions of Milosevic that are responsible for the situation. Now the UN must intervene to provide a civilised
[CTRL] [Fwd: Killer and His Victim Had Sex, Jury Hears]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: Killer and His Victim Had Sex, Jury Hears Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:14:39 -0400 From: Seth Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Hart, Peter" [EMAIL PROTECTED], Janine Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED],Jim Naureckas [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Rendall [EMAIL PROTECTED],Jennifer Pozner [EMAIL PROTECTED],"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Killer and His Victim Had Sex, Jury Hears By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTIAC, Mich. -- A "Jenny Jones Show" guest who said humiliation drove him to kill a gay man who had professed his love had had sex with the victim before the killing, a jury was told Wednesday. Another guest on the show and the mother of the victim, Scott Amedure, said Amedure told them he had slept with the guest, Jonathan Schmitz, after the taping. Amedure's family is suing the show and its distributor, Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner, for $50 million, contending that Schmitz was mentally ill and was lured onto the show believing he would meet a woman, and became enraged when his "secret admirer" turned out to be Amedure. Three days after the taping, Schmitz, who has said he is heterosexual, killed Amedure with a shotgun. Schmitz was found guilty of murder in 1996, but his conviction was thrown out on appeal. His retrial is set for Aug. 19. Lawyers for the show said that Schmitz was told his secret admirer could be a man or woman and that the show was not to blame for Amedure's death. In a videotaped deposition, Amedure's mother, Patricia Graves, said she had not taken her son seriously when he said that he and Schmitz had "had an affair." Defense lawyers also played a tape of the deposition by Ronnie Perez, a guest on the same episode. Perez said Amedure told him in a phone conversation after the taping, "I slept with Jon." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] [18b] Treason in America -- From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman
-Caveat Lector-
Treason in America -- From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman
ANTON CHAITKIN (C)1984
New Benjamin Franklin House
P. O. Box 20551
New York, New York 10023
ISBN 0-933488-32-7
--[18b]--
This book has been out-of-print and hard-to-get for years, but a NEW second
edition is just out. Highly recommended, there are charts, pix and more. Only
$15.00 retail.
Om
K
-
Imperial Conservation
The British forestry chief who told the young Gifford Pinchot that he should
"strike for national forests" was simply reiterating the age-old concern of
the British merchant oligarchy that Americans not violate the Purity of the
Wilderness, or disturb the Tranquility of the Indians native to those areas.
The diary of Albert Gallatin's son James for August 8, 1814, describes the
British sentiment at the opening of the peace negotiations during the War of
1812:
The British Commissioners, as a base of discussion re the treatydemanded
that the Indian tribes should have the whole of the North-Western Territory.
This comprises the States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, four-fifths of
Indiana and the third of Ohio. That an Indian sovereignty should be
constituted under the guarantee of Great Britain: This is to protect Canada.
Father mildly suggested that there were more than a hundred thousand American
citizens settled in these States and territories. The answer was: 'They must
look after themselves. (13)
Though the "Indian sovereignty" demand was never realized, there was later
created a huge undeveloped area further West, interfacing with Canada and
buffering Canada from the spread of American politics and economics.
Gifford Pinchot's British Empire Conservation movement was born in the
British East India Company and the analogous British merchant adventures in
Canada itself, and in South Africa. When the philosophical and operational
roots of the movement are thus located, it will come as no shock to learn
that Pinchot and the other pioneers of Conservation went on to sponsor the
project for race purification ("eugenics") and the Adolf Hitler movement. In
November 1897, Cecil Spring-Rice advised U.S. Assistant Navy Secretary
Theodore Roosevelt that it would be safe to stage a war with Cubaand thus
draw the United States into a junior partnership status with the British
Empire. At that moment, the British Empire was preparing for a bloody
expansion in South Africa, and was looking for some near-term backing from
the Americans against Britain's new Imperial rival, Germany.
Cecil Rhodes, whose covetous will was quoted above, had financed and directed
an abortive uprising against the Dutch-led South African Republic in 1895. In
1899 the British would be fighting a full-scale war against the Boers, the
Dutch settlers, for control of the gold and diamond mines at the strategic
tip of the African continent; they were also nervously looking over their
shoulder to see if Germany would support the Dutch.
Cecil Rhodes personified the new era in British Empire political economy.
From 1888, Rhodes was the chairman of the Rothschild-backed DeBeers
Consolidated Mines, which had incorporated the Kimberly diamond mine; this
was perhaps the largest corporation in the world. The British government of
Lord Salisbury then granted Rhodes a charter in 1889 for the British South
Africa Company, modeled on the old East India Company. Some of the territory
under the new company's control, extending up to the Zambesi River, soon
became known as Rhodesia.
The charters of the British South Africa Company and the DeBeers Company
conferred virtually limitless powers on Rhodes and his imperial cohorts,
powers to annex territories within or outside Africa, to raise armies, and to
get and spend any monies necessary for the maintenance of government over
their fiefdoms. The concept was identical with the East India Company's
experience in India earlier in the nineteenth century: the ownership of
countries or continents by a few private individuals.
When the British won the Boer War and conquered all of South Africa in 1902,
the British High Commissioner, Alfred Milner, faced the continuing problem of
a non-British voting majority among the settlers. His solution was to make
life there attractive to potential British immigrants of the "better sort,"
by importing Chinese indentured servantsslaves to do the unpleasant work in
the mines. Eventually the cheap labor of native black Africans became the
mainstay of South Africa's wealth production.
It is crucial for Americans to understand that the project for raw materials
extraction as the sole or main source of wealth of a vast territory is
colonialism, whether the products come from mines or plantations.
"Conservation" as a concept is derived from this colonial system, because it
is not intended that a skilled labor force advance into ever-new modes of
production, using ever-new resource bases.
Education, science, and culture are dangerous to the looters, so they are
unable to produce
[CTRL] [18a] Treason in America -- From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman
-Caveat Lector- Treason in America -- From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman ANTON CHAITKIN (C)1984 New Benjamin Franklin House P. O. Box 20551 New York, New York 10023 ISBN 0-933488-32-7 --[18a]-- This book has been out-of-print and hard-to-get for years, but a NEW second edition is just out. Highly recommended, there are charts, pix and more. Only $15.00 retail. Om K - -18- How Environmentalism Killed the American Frontier On February 21, 1907, a pathetic resolution from the legislature of the state of Washington was entered into the United States Congressional Record. The resolution protested the withdrawal of public lands into forest reserves, or what are now known as National Forests. The resolution was a last gasp of protest against the closing of the American West to settlement and development: To His Excellency Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America; to the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States; and to the honorable Secretary of Agriculture [the newly created Forestry Service was a part of the Agriculture Department]: We, your memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled . . . most respectfully represent and pray as follows: Whereas the people of the State of Washington, in common with the people of the other States of the Union, are free and liberty-loving; and Whereas arbitrary power and despotism are abhorrent to them; end Whereas the honorable Secretary of Agriculture of the United States of America has usurped the powers, duties and functions of the lawmaking power of the Government of the United States of America in issuing an arbitrary edict, or ukase, promulgated as a criminal code for the government of Federal forest reserves; and . . . Whereas said Secretary of Agriculture, in pursuance of his assumed and usurped autocratic power . . . now threatens to prosecute all citizens alleged to have violated his said criminal code; and Whereas the Congress of the United States has no constitutional power to delegate to any one man the making of criminal laws; and Whereas the Congress of the United States passed an act entitled 'An act to provide for the entry of agricultural land within forest reserves,' approved June 11, 1906 [enacted to fool Westerners into believing they could still make farms within the withdrawn land] . . .; and Whereas . . . Under said act a prospective homesteader (who is generally a man of limited means) coming from the East to the West to make settlement upon lands within the forest reserve, is not permitted to select for himself . . . land . . . satisfactory for a permanent home, but is subjected to long delays, lasting months or years . . . whether or not he will ever be able to select the homestead . . . must be determined by some subordinate of the Agricultural department . . . and said prospective settler, rather than be subjected to endless . . . petty exactions . . . is compelled to migrate to Canada in search of a home of his own for himself and family; and Whereas . . . tens of thousands of families have deserted their homes in the East and now find themselves in a new country among strangers, with limited means, and are confronted with the fact that hundreds of thousands of acres of public land suitable to be taken for homesteads have recently been withdrawn from settlement for forest reserves; and . . . now the-serious question arises, 'What shall such citizens and their families do?'; and Whereas it is a gross injustice to make wholesale withdrawals of public lands from homestead settlement under the guise of "temporary withdrawals," with no regard as to whether or not such lands embrace timber or prairie lands or lands necessary for forest-reserve purposes . . . large portions of such lands so withdrawn are essentially agricultural lands; and Whereas the making of forest reserves out of lands less than 4,500 feet in altitude above sea level retards and prevents the settlement of the West Whereas in 1866 (Congress passed an act . . . which grants a free right of way across the public lands for the construction of highways, and which enables citizens and local State authorities to speedily construct roads as the necessities of new and quickly growing communities require . . . said section does not apply to forest reserves; and Whereas communities existing on opposite sides of a forest reserve are subject to intolerable delays in [building roads] . . . thereby retarding the development and prosperity of the country thus victimized; and . . . Whereas if such lands were in private ownership, they would be subjected to State and local taxations and thereby contribute to the support of government in new States and new communities where public revenues are generally inadequate to meet present needs; and . . . Whereas the Congress of the United States, in pursuance of a wise and liberal policy, in 1875 passed an act granting
Re: [CTRL] Art Bell is GONE
-Caveat Lector- On 30 Apr 99, at 1:37, Don Allen wrote: You are entirely free to believe dis-info. You can call NASA and verify Stephens. In addition, if you have the guts, you can visit the crossfields.com link above and see for yourself what the truth is. It exposes the dis-info campaign for what it is - a pack of scurilous lies. Don, Robert A.M. Stevens *did* lie about being a Navy Seal. I think that says it all... Steve Steve Wingate California Director SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] War Stars]
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- What is the name of this book and who is the author? War Stars : The Superweapon and the American Imagination by H. Bruce Franklin Price: $10.95 Paperback (October 1990) Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0195066928 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 9.02 x 5.80 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195066928/qid=925495712/sr=1-27/002-9005902-1912036 = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Note change below
-Caveat Lector- E-MAIL LOCATION NOTIFICATION My E-mail location is changing. I suspect this has something to do with the server problem of a week or so ago. At any rate, my new E-mail will be: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also want to take this time to thank those who are learning with me, and those who are teaching me. You are all in my prayers. I also want to notice those who do not want to receive my Posts: If you have received this, you need to notify me again, and please, I have had many problems finding locations of people in my lists because you are not notifying me of the EXACT manner is which my mail is reaching you. Believe me, if you do not want to receive my posts, I am happy to eliminate you from my list. Frankly, I am tired of people who are wrapped in belief systems and who have no desire to study FACTS and learn. For the others, I am preparing two posts right now. The first is Post Number 111: Health and Dis-ease. If you never read any other of my Posts, please, for the safety of your family and yourself, you MUST read this one. It is a section from Part XIX of my series, and it is vital to everyone in view of what is coming. You will understand much more after you read it, about health, than ever before. The second post is different. It will be a synopsis of 5 Posts which have never been released before, and you will be able to order the information you desire without having to download all Posts. This was a suggestion from a reader which I think is very good. Frankly, there are dozens of Posts I need to make available, and it is not possible for me to take the time to broadcast then all. There simply are not enough hours in the day! For those of you who have seen the flyer on the Symposium on tax matters to be held in Mexico (which should be everyone), let me bring you up to date just a little. This Symposium is important, in my opinion. What I do is attempt to educate people, and share information. For those who are reading my series, you understand how much I know and am willing to share. For the others, well, take my word for it; I understand much. But, I certainly do not have all information, and the single most damaging thing being done to America is taxes, which are destroying, deliberately, the people of America. And the single most unnecessary thing in America is taxes. You simply do not, by their rules, have to Pay! Well, enough on that part of the subject. If you have any interest, we are going to offer additional discounts for those who bring more people with them to the Symposium. If you bring 6 with you, your attendance is free, and we will pay a commission on others that you sign up past 6. For those who can not attend, but who may wish to participate and promote the Symposium, I am authorized to make a commission arrangement with a few individuals. Please contact me if you are interested. God Bless, David DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The $$$ Road to Recovery
-Caveat Lector- Via http://www.centraleurope.com/ceo/special/rfeapr30.html Updated Fri., Apr. 30, 1999 at: Lon 12:11 p.m. Prague 1:11 p.m. N.Y. 7:11 a.m. Editors' Pick: Kosovo Crisis -- The latest updates on the crisis in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia: Economic Recovery Plans Require Vast Sums By Robert Lyle The economic costs of the Kosovo crisis are getting intense scrutiny in Washington by Yugoslavia's neighbors and the world's financial leaders. No one yet is even considering what the costs will be of rebuilding Yugoslavia and resettling hundreds of thousands of refugees once the bombing is ended and peace has been restored. For now, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are attempting to put some numbers to the costs for the neighboring countries who are handling the refugees, seeing their trade dramatically reduced and tourist income vanish. The difficulty, say bank and fund officials, is trying to get a handle on a very fluid situation to which there is no end in sight. The European Union's Commissioner for Economic, Monetary and Financial Affairs, Yves-Thibault de Silguy, says he's heard estimates as high as $30 billion. He told a press conference in Washington: "It will be a high cost -- by comparison with Bosnia-Herzegovina which was five billion dollars. It will be higher - probably very much higher. How much, I don't know. I said to you I have heard figures past $30 billion, but there is no evidence, just a figure to say it will be perhaps 10, perhaps 20, perhaps 25, perhaps $30 billion. Nobody knows at this stage. " The World Bank and the IMF did a quick study on estimates of costs to Kosovo's neighbors assuming the fighting ended soon. That estimate approached $2 billion and World Bank President James Wolfensohn said it was clearly only an early guess. A report on the study said that if the conflict drags on through the rest of the year, the humanitarian costs alone of dealing with as many as 750,000 refugees could easily exceed $300 million. If the conflict ends quickly, the study suggested that in addition to $139 million in emergency humanitarian aid, the countries of the region would need $668 million in balance of payments help just to keep their economies going. In all, it said, even on the optimistic side, the costs could easily exceed 2.5 percent of the region's GDP. Officials from most of Kosovo's neighbors -- Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Croatia and Hungary -- participated in a special meeting in Washington Tuesday night, called by the IMF, the World Bank and the United Nations, in an attempt to put some real figures to the needs of these nations. The results of that meeting are to be revealed later today Wednesday. De Silguy says the needs of each country are so different that the only way to fully evaluate the situation is to send missions to each country for a complete on-the-ground review. That's what the European Commission is doing, he says, as part of its aid program. The EU has provided 800 million euros in humanitarian assistance and is providing additional balance of payments support in coordination with the IMF of 20 million euros for Albania. A proposed 60 million euro balance of payments package for Bosnia is currently before the EU Council of Ministers, says de Silguy, and packages of 100 million euros for Bulgaria and 200 million euros for Romania are being worked on within the EU. Another way to help the countries which are on the front line of the Kosovo crisis, says de Silguy, is by buying more of their products: De Silguy said: "Economic recovery driven exclusively by internal factors should allow the European Community to absorb more exports from countries on the front line of the crisis." The finance ministers and central bank governors of the group of seven major industrial nations said Monday they would support efforts coordinated by the bank and fund to deal with the serious economic effects of the conflict. Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio FreeEurope/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. http://www.rferl.org AER The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational
Re: [CTRL] Flaw in Capitalist system
-Caveat Lector- Lloyd Miller wrote: -Caveat Lector- Yes, I think that was the point I was making. But, remember America was Statist from the Get Go via the Federalists. Esp. Alexander Hamilton's advocacy of a Central Bank...ie, the First Bank of the United States. Laissez-faire is an ideal, not something that has ever been even approximately acheived. Well, not exactly from the "Get Go". There were a few years before the Constitution was ratified when the US was under the Articles of Confederation. This was a purposely weak confederation. There were over a dozen "presidents" during this time. Their main function was moderating congressional debates, etc. However, there were some problems, especially with money. It may have been a purposeful conspiracy to keep the system from working or there may have been some real problems. At any rate that was the real driving force for federation (originally the Constitutional Convention wasn't - they were only supposed to change a few things in the Articles). Afterwards things did get a lot better financially. Howard Davis DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Comrade Schumer wants to regulate Web sales of firearms.
-Caveat Lector- REQUESTING MAXIMUM DISTRIBUTION: "Gun Laws Alone Won't Halt School Violence." --- Reno (translated this means she and her Socialists colleagues want your "piece".) http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2228265,00.html Bill aims to control Web gun sales Brady Bill author Sen. Charles Schumer wants to regulate Web sales of firearms. By Shannon, McCaffrey, Associated Press, ZDNN March 18, 1999 5:26 AM PT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Charles Schumer, who earned his gun control stripes authoring the Brady Bill, has set his sights on cyberspace with legislation to rein in the sale of guns on the Internet. Schumer said Tuesday that Internet sites hawking everything from AK-47 rifles to pre-1899 Derringers allow virtually anyone to buy guns with the click of a computer button. Internet sales are growing as laws regulating over-the-counter weapon sales tighten, he said. "This blows a hole in the heart of the Brady Bill," Schumer said. "The firepower available on the Internet is chilling." Under current law, guns sold across state lines must be shipped from the seller to a licensed dealer, who performs a mandated background check on the buyer. The laws apply to individuals selling guns, as well as dealers. Web loophole But Schumer, a Brooklyn Democrat, said that Web sites dealing in weapons generally allow the seller posting the ad to connect directly, and discreetly, with a potential buyer. If they chose, they can easily bypass the background check, Schumer said. Schumer's bill would require that all Web sites specializing in gun sales be licensed with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. It would also make it illegal to post any gun sale ad that would allow the buyer and seller to complete the transaction without the involvement of a licensed dealer. Bill Powers, spokesman for the National Rifle Association, said Schumer failed to show that anyone had actually purchased guns illegally on the Internet. "This is the same old 'let me stand up every week and get a headline' Charles Schumer," Powers said. "There's no evidence it's a problem except Charles Schumer saying it is." No numbers Schumer admitted he had no specific numbers to back up his claims of illegal Internet sales. "By their very nature these transactions are secret," he said. Kristen Rand, of the Washington D.C.-based Violence Policy Center, said the area was still too new for any definitive statistics. "It's total common sense though," Rand said. "If the loophole exists, there is someone using it." Schumer pointed to the recent decision by online auction site eBay to discontinue gun sales, admitting on its Web site that it could not be properly monitored. No different from classifieds? One of the operators at the New Hampshire-based Guns America Web site, Paul Helinski, said the site's ads were no different from classified postings in a newspaper or magazine. "We're not doing anything wrong or illegal," Helinski said. "These are law abiding gun enthusiasts." ATF spokesman B.J. Zapora said under current law, those convicted of illegal interstate gun trafficking or dealing firearms without a license face up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. © 1999 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] MEDIA REPORT SELECTIVELY ON GUN USE INCIDENTS
-Caveat Lector- MEDIA REPORT SELECTIVELY ON GUN USE INCIDENTS Access to guns has been a prominent part of media coverage of the Littleton, Colo., tragedy -- as it should be. But some acute observers are noting that press reports on similar horrendous school shootings have made scant mention of the role of guns in subduing youthful killers. o In the October 1997 shooting spree at a Pearl, Miss., high school, which left two students dead, an assistant principal retrieved a gun from his car and physically immobilized the shooter for about five minutes before police arrived. o Out of some 687 articles which appeared in the first month after the attack, only 16 stories mentioned the assistant principal -- and only a little more than half of those reported that he used a gun to stop the attack. o A school-related shooting in Edinboro, Penn., which left one teacher dead, was stopped only after the owner of a nearby restaurant pointed a shotgun at the shooter and held him at bay until the police arrived 11 minutes later. o While at least 596 new stories discussed this crime in the following month, only 35 mentioned the restaurant owner -- but few of those described how he used a gun to stop the violence. The New York Daily News reported that the restaurateur "persuaded" the killer to surrender, while the Atlanta Journal wrote that he "chased (the gunman) down and held him until police came." Defenders of legal ownership of firearms conclude that the media ignores stories which involve the defensive use of guns -- and which studies estimate are five times more common than criminal gun uses. Observers note that there are many cases in which citizens with permitted concealed handguns have stopped both shootings and bombings in public places. But the role of these heroes and their guns are overlooked in a politically correct press. Source: John R. Lott Jr., "Does News Coverage Endanger Lives?" Investor's Business Daily, April 29, 1999. For more on Self Defense http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/crime51.html DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Kosovo Speech Reversals
-Caveat Lector- Speech reversals from David Oates, from his web site http://www.reversespeech.com regarding Yugoslav "conflict". Latest Reversals on Kosovo The following reversals are the first to be found on the Kosovo conflict. May more will be posted over the next few days... [Play Stream][Download File] Evil the weapon. Mustn't show by the sulk (general - nato briefing) [Play Stream][Download File] Erase the sense (nato briefing) [Play Stream][Download File] Seen its sex in a gun (Nato briefing) [Play Stream][Download File] Must remember it / shoot for those ships (Clinton 4/1) [Play Stream][Download File] War must mend the big seal this end (Clinton) [Play Stream][Download File] Theres famine down the way / Elf bomb Serb (Clinton) [Play Stream][Download File] Our friend in the wash / World war hustle [Play Stream][Download File] This jewish Nun with the crime [Play Stream][Download File] Failure in this group [Play Stream][Download File] It helps an old gun, madam [Play Stream][Download File] Serbs give out a slut / Old man leave it, the land - Kissinger [Play Stream][Download File] In their Ireland circle, washes their money - Kissinger [Play Stream][Download File] Shares a fire, I tell 'em / and we face it on your serb - Kissinger [Play Stream][Download File] Serbs, the Lord / Phil we want to get to them (Kosovo14) Clinton [Play Stream][Download File] This will (beeb) honorable crime, I know (Kosovo15) Clinton [Play Stream][Download File] We go with the war (Kosovo16) Clinton [Play Stream][Download File] The plan will sniff the Russan sea / I see awful crime (Kosovo17) (Sen John McCay) [Play Stream][Download File] Lay down the Rome 11 / We shaved the debit (Kosovo 18) (Sen John McCay) [Play Stream][Download File] You love this earth. Hear that dirt / They had to pull them out (Kos 19) Sen Roberts [Play Stream][Download File] Nasty Whore was NATO, yes Kosovo20 (translator) [Play Stream][Download File] Serve the crime, you deal it Kosovo21 (Kissinger) [Play Stream][Download File] I will shelter the snake, we're all united, serving our family Kosovo22 (Ken Bacon) [Play Stream][Download File] All units, we shall nuke em / Burn the sheep Kosovo23 [Play Stream][Download File] He'll surrender yetKosovo24 - William Cohen [Play Stream][Download File] This rule is so secret -- Kosovo25 James Rubin [Play Stream][Download File] One using authority --- Kosovo26 Joe Lockhart (WH press secretary) [Play Stream][Download File] He'll want you dead --- Kosovo27 Cohen [Play Stream][Download File] Talk Military - Kosovo28- Reporter [LINK] Copyright © 1997-1999 Reverse Speech Enterprises DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] LUVOX Sparked Colorado Slaughter?]
-Caveat Lector- Lloyd Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- According to TV (MSNBC), the LUVOX is often taken to counteract severe feelings of embarassment and humiliation, but it is not know why the perp was taking it. -Original Message- From: Kasten, Kathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lloyd Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mind Control List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 8:02 PM Subject: LUVOX Sparked Colorado Slaughter? What was Harris being treated for? This report only provides the name of the drug. Was there a limit regarding the lower age limit for the patient? This still is the complete story. KK -- According to the drug databases I've consulted (Medscape.com and Rxlist.com), Luvox is prescribed for (1) obsessive-compulsive disorder (its primary use); (2) panic disorder; (3) depression with obsessive-compulsive elements. There is about a 1-in-100 chance that instead of suppressing the existing symptoms, the medication will activate manic behavior. This is particularly true if the medication is used in association with others, such as over-the-counter cold remedies containing such ingredients as brompheniramine, pseudoephedrine, or dextromethorphan. In addition, smoking has been demonstrated to increase the activity of Luvox by roughly 25 percent. We still don't know what Eric Harris was being treated for. We don't know if he was on any other medications. We don't know if he smoked, and if so, *what* he smoked (i.e., tobacco or marijuana). Above all, we don't know if he was still taking Luvox. What we *do* know is that this is a very powerful medication, which is used to severe psychiatric conditions which can easily shade over into psychosis. In my own personal experience with an affected family member, unless the medication is used in the context of regular mental-health counseling, and unless family members are involved in the counseling as well, there is no assurance that the medication will have the intended effect. Indeed, it can have quite unpredicted and even unpredictable effects unless used under close supervision...and Eric Harris does not strike me as the kind of person to take kindly to close supervision. Are we dealing with mind control here? Yes, though maybe not the MK-ULTRA variety. Any use of psychiatric drugs is by definition mind control. Was someone manipulating Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Ah, now *that* is an important question, and one which bears close attention. Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Another California City Rejects Fluoridation
-Caveat Lector- http://www.yahoo.com Wednesday April 28, 3:38 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Another California City Rejects Fluoridation as High-Profile Fluoride Advocate Reverses Field SAN DIEGO--(BW HealthWire)--April 28, 1999--The City Council of El Cajon passed a resolution on April 27 to support the safe drinking water position taken by Helix Water District which services their community. Helix Water District, which is listed as No. 1 on California's fluoridation priority list, by unanimous vote of their Board of Directors on April 7, formalized their intent to not accept any funding from any source for the purpose of fluoridation. El Cajon Mayor Mark Lewis introduced his motion for a supportive resolution and reminded dissenting Council Members Todd Keegan and Dick Ramos that the main thrust of Helix's position is that their central mission and focus is to deliver the purest water economically possible to its customers. Period. End of statement. The El Cajon resolution joins similar action prohibiting fluoridation enacted in San Diego county in the last month by the City of La Mesa; Helix, Lakeside and Riverview water districts; and an ordinance by Escondido, listed as No. 4 on the State's fluoridation priority list. The northern California city of Santa Cruz (No. 12 on the list) led the way on March 2, with citizens voting in favor of the ballot initiative to prohibit the addition of any substance to the water that is intended to treat people rather than improve the drinkability of water. The cities of San Diego (No. 18) and Sunnyvale (No. 81) have long-standing laws to prohibit fluoridation, which also conflict with a 1995 unfunded State law that calls for all public water suppliers with more than 10,000 connections to fluoridate as the funds become available. Citizens of Canada awoke to a similarly refreshing no-nonsense view of fluoridation when they read articles published in the Toronto Star on April 25, and the Calgary Herald and Globe and Mail on April 28. All three newspapers detailed the outspoken statements by Dr. Hardy Limeback, long recognized and frequently cited as a leading advocate of fluoride. Dr. Limeback, Ph.D, DDS operates his own dental clinic, and is previous Head of Preventive Dentistry at the University of Toronto, a consultant to the Canadian Dental Association, and the organizer of a special conference on fluoride supplements held in Toronto in November 1997. Limeback's statements appear to be a continuation of the conclusions reached by the conference, which was attended by representatives of all of Canada's various dental health professional associations and agencies. The purpose of the conference was to arrive at an appropriate nationwide policy for recommending fluoride supplements for children, given the extremely high incidence of visible signs of fluoride over-exposure (dental fluorosis in 30-to-65% of all Canadian children). Both the conference and Limeback's personal opinion concluded that any reduction in dental caries was due to fluoride's topical effect rather than as a result of swallowing fluoride, and recommended that if a child used fluoride toothpaste that no additional exposure was necessary even in a non fluoridated community; however, both the conference and Limeback continued to support water fluoridation for the purpose of bathing the teeth with fluoride while drinking. In an interview with Michael Downey of the Toronto Star, Limeback now rejects that conclusion, ``We are now spending more money treating dental fluorosis than we would spend treating cavities if we were not fluoridated. Children under three should never use fluoridated toothpaste or drink fluoridated water. And baby formula must never be made up using Toronto tap water. Never. We tried to get (fluoride supplements) banned for children but (the dentists) wouldn't even look at the evidence we presented,'' said Limeback. Limeback's concerns do not stop with the effects of over-exposure on the teeth. He concedes that fluoride may be destroying our bones, our teeth and our overall health. ``We absolutely know about the tragic consequences of higher levels of fluoride, and we know it builds up over time.'' Limeback is currently studying fluoride buildup in the body. ``What we're finding indicates a trend: Torontonians have double the fluoride levels in their hip bones compared to Montreal, where water is not fluoridated.'' To the proponents of fluoridation that state, ``There is no proof that fluoride causes brittle bones or cancer'' at current concentrations, Limeback responds, ``These people haven't done any studies to find out what effect fluoride accumulation will have at current levels. How can they say it's safe when the studies haven't been done? Right now, we have people who have been ingesting fluoride for 35 years. What happens in another 50 years, when these people have been adding this poison to their bones for 85 years?'' Asked whether he drinks tap
[CTRL] German Views
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.zmag.org/germandocs.htm IMPORTANT INTERNAL DOCUMENTS FROM GERMANY'S FOREIGN OFFICE REGARDING PRE-BOMBARDMENT GENOCIDE IN KOSOVO As in the case of the Clinton Administration, the present regime in Germany, specifically Joschka Fischer's Foreign Office, has justified its intervention in Kosovo by pointing to a "humanitarian catastrophe," "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" occurring there, especially in the months immediately preceding the NATO attack. The following internal documents from Fischer's ministry and from various regional Administrative Courts in Germany spanning the year before the start of NATO's air attacks, attest that criteria of ethnic cleansing and genocide were not met. The Foreign Office documents were responses to the courts' needs in deciding the status of Kosovo-Albanian refugees in Germany. Although one might in these cases suppose a bias in favor of downplaying a humanitarian catastrophe in order to limit refugees, it nevertheless remains highly significant that the Foreign Office, in contrast to its public assertion of ethnic cleansing and genocide in justifying NATO intervention, privately continued to deny their existence as Yugoslav policy in this crucial period. And this continued to be their assessment even in March of this year. Thus these documents tend to show that stopping genocide was not the reason the German government, and by implication NATO, intervened in Kosovo, and that genocide (as understood in German and international law) in Kosovo did not precede NATO bombardment, at least not from early 1998 through March, 1999, but is a product of it. Excerpts from the these official documents were obtained by IALANA (International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms) which sent them to various media. The texts used here were published in the German daily junge welt on April 24, 1999. (See http://www.jungewelt.de/1999/04-24/011.shtml as well as the commentary at http://www.jungewelt.de/1999/04-24/001.shtml). According to my sources, this is as complete a reproduction of the documents as exists in the German media at the time of this writing. What follows is my translation of these published excerpts. Eric Canepa Brecht Forum, New York April 28, 1999 I: Intelligence report from the Foreign Office January 6, 1999 to the Bavarian Administrative Court, Ansbach: "At this time, an increasing tendency is observable inside the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of refugees returning to their dwellings. ... Regardless of the desolate economic situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (according to official information of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 700,000 refugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzogovina have found lodging since 1991), no cases of chronic malnutrition or insufficient medical treatment among the refugees are known and significant homelessness has not been observed. ... According to the Foreign Office's assessment, individual Kosovo-Albanians (and their immediate families) still have limited possibilities of settling in those parts of Yugoslavia in which their countrymen or friends already live and who are ready to take them in and support them." II. Intelligence report from the Foreign Office, January 12, 1999 to the Administrative Court of Trier (Az: 514-516.80/32 426): "Even in Kosovo an explicit political persecution linked to Albanian ethnicity is not verifiable. The East of Kosovo is still not involved in armed conflict. Public life in cities like Pristina, Urosevac, Gnjilan, etc. has, in the entire conflict period, continued on a relatively normal basis." The "actions of the security forces (were) not directed against the Kosovo-Albanians as an ethnically defined group, but against the military opponent and its actual or alleged supporters." III. Report of the Foreign Office March 15, 1999 (Az: 514-516,80/33841) to the Administrative Court, Mainz: "As laid out in the status report of November 18, 1998, the KLA has resumed its positions after the partial withdrawal of the (Serbian) security forces in October 1998, so it once again controls broad areas in the zone of conflict. Before the beginning of spring 1999 there were still clashes between the KLA and security forces, although these have not until now reached the intensity of the battles of spring and summer 1998." IV: Opinion of the Bavarian Administrative Court, October 29, 1998 (Az: 22 BA 94.34252): "The Foreign Office's status reports of May 6, June 8 and July 13, 1998, given to the plaintiffs in the summons to a verbal deliberation, do not allow the conclusion that there is group persecution of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. Not even regional group persecution, applied to all ethnic Albanians from a specific part of Kosovo, can be observed with sufficient certainty. The violent actions of the Yugoslav military and police since February 1998 were aimed at separatist activities and are no proof of a persecution of the whole Albanian ethnic group
[CTRL] Rise Shine
-Caveat Lector- Does this mean that if the U.S. provides a majority of the aircraft assaults, the Europeans get to contribute the land forces? From Chicago Tribune http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,ART-27634,00.html ""After the Cold War, he noted, the U.S. reduced its military manpower to 1.4 million from 2 million, and used the savings to increase its lift capability and other means of projecting force abroad. By contrast, the 14 traditional NATO members in Europe have combined forces of 1.7 million men and women under arms. With the forces of the three new members -- Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary -- that figure rises to 2.1 million."" The combined populations of Brits, Germans, Dutch, and Italians exceed 200 million. Rising to their own defense By Ray Moseley Tribune Foreign Correspondent April 25, 1999 CONTINUING COVERAGE Keep up with updated coverage on the conflict in Yugoslavia. LONDON--The Kosovo conflict may be a European war, but it is no surprise that about four-fifths of the aircraft involved in the airstrikes on Yugoslavia come from the U.S., and all of the cruise missiles -- including those fired by the British submarine HMS Splendid -- are American. And, if ground troops go in, there are no cigars for guessing which country will supply the biggest number of forces. Or for guessing, when it's all over, whose taxpayers will pick up the lion's share of the costs. Most of the 45 years of the Cold War, and the near-decade of Balkans collapse that has followed, have unfolded against a chorus of complaints from Congress and others that Europe does not pull its weight in the common task of trans-Atlantic security. The United States supplies the manpower and the sophisticated weapons and pays the bills, and Europe reaps the benefits -- or so the argument goes. Any suggestion that Kosovo is about to cause that to change is bound to elicit a we've-heard-it-before skepticism in the U.S.; the Europeans sometimes talk a good game, but they are hopeless at getting their act together and can't break their dependence on the U.S. when the chips are down. But this time, experts say, the Europeans really do mean it, and that should become apparent at the NATO 50th anniversary summit in Washington, which ends Sunday. They said a strong statement in support of a European defense initiative would be one of the main results of the summit. "There are reasons to be skeptical," said Dana Allin, an American analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "But the prospects are more serious now than I've ever seen them. The Americans and Europeans understand better than ever before that it is in their interest to have Europe take a bigger role." Allin and other experts point out that Europe already had begun taking steps toward a greater sharing of the burden before the Kosovo conflict erupted, and they say Kosovo has merely given impetus to that. Not many people noticed, but British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac took the lead in this matter in December when they met at the Brittany port of St. Malo and launched what they called the European Security and Defense Initiative. The basic idea was to transform European military forces so they could perform many of the tasks that now only the Americans can handle, and if need be to mount credible military operations on their own. An essential part of the plan is a more unified European defense industry. These are no small goals. The U.S. has military assets the Europeans do not possess -- strategic reconnaissance from high-flying spy planes and satellites, command-and-control facilities, intelligence capabilities, the ability to transport troops and equipment on a large scale -- that are extremely costly and would take time for Europe to build. Francois Heisbourg, chairman of the Geneva Center for Security Policy, estimates the task will take at least 10 years. "The problem in Europe now is that monies are being horribly misallocated," he said. "Too much goes into bloated force structures geared to territorial defense, which made more sense during the Cold War than it does now." Money should be reallocated, Heisbourg said, to enable European nations to project force abroad -- as Kosovo demonstrates -- rather than focusing on defense. He noted that Britain and France have begun work on developing their own cruise missile, but said it would not be ready for another three years. "That most of the aircraft used in the Kosovo operation are American doesn't make sense," he said. "Europe should proportionately have more stuff in there; it's too lopsided for anybody's good. The Americans are impatient, but why shouldn't they be?" Heisbourg stressed that the idea behind the Blair-Chirac initiative was not that Europeans should do all the fighting in a European war while the Americans "are safely behind their computer screens," providing non-combat backup. "Rather, we need more
[CTRL] Gun Grabbers on Self-Defense (don't miss this!)
-Caveat Lector- http://www-douzzer.ai.mit.edu:8080/revolution/firearms/quotes/grabbers.html Gun Grabbers on Self-Defense Shogun-Era Japan The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising. -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Shogun of Japan, August 29, 1558. The Shot Heard Around the World Disperse you rebels! Damn you, throw down your arms and disperse. -- British Major John Pitcairn, Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. Joseph Biden on Gun Control Banning guns is an idea whose time has come. - U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden, then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in an interview with AP on November 18, 1993. Jocelyn Elders on Handguns Handguns are a public health issue. - then-U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders in USA Today, Nov. 9, 1993 Feinstein on Gun Control Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe. - Sen. Dianne Feinstein quoted by AP on Nov. 18, 1993 Schumer on Gun Control We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true! ... We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy. We're going to beat guns into submission! - Rep. Charles Schumer on NBC Nightly News Nov. 30, 1993. Hillary Clinton on Guns I'm personally all for taxing guns to pay for health care coverage. - Hillary Clinton quoted by the Nov. 4, 1993 New York Times Michael Gardner on Handguns There is no reason for anyone in this country -- anyone except a police officer or a military person -- to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun ... The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. - Michael Gardner, president of NBC News, in USA Today, January 16, 1992. Clinton on Guns We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles ... that we are unable to think about reality. - Bill Clinton, President of the United States, March 11, 1993 "No blood for blow jobs" --a placard Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Comrade Schumer Attacking web sale of firearms at ABC
-Caveat Lector- Schumer Attacking web sale of firearms at ABC [ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Bachman Guns Buy/Sell WWWBoard Version 2.0 ] [ FAQ ] Posted by Steve on March 16, 1999 at 15:14:37: http://chat.abcnews.go.com/chat/chat.dll?room=new_schumer031699 Follow Ups: That jit bag shumer has the kind of weak tit weasely face that you just want to smash as soon as you see it.VOTE Boxing Glove 03:23:07 3/17/99 (0) Re: Make sure you vote on ABC's poll! Lil Stevie 20:16:07 3/16/99 (0) IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR THIS WEASEL TO START RUNNING ANTIGUN LEGISLATION THROUGH DID IT. TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK...I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU. YOU REALLY KNOW HOW TO VOTE. MAD AS HELL 19:40:47 3/16/99 (1) Most of the people who voted for Schumer can't read english! New York Sucks 02:29:07 3/27/99 (0) Comments: : http://chat.abcnews.go.com/chat/chat.dll?room=new_schumer031699 Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. --- Unknown Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] War Stars
-Caveat Lector- What is the name of this book and who is the author? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Art Bell is GONE
-Caveat Lector- At 12:11 AM 4/30/99 -0400, T Nohava wrote: -Caveat Lector- Source - http://www.stephens-behold.com/index.html Oh, one more URL - http://www.stephens-behold.com/nasa_documentation.html I suppose you're going to TRY to pathetically claim those NASA badges are "fake" too, eh? Hehehe. Bell Cult loses. --- "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] New Anti-Drug propaganda site - by Disney.com ABC.com
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.freevibe.com/ A HREF="http://www.freevibe.com/"Freevibe: Home/A - A real slick, faux-hip bs site. Funneling from propagand to their media muddle. MHO Fed by banner ads on aol. OM K - Welcome to Freevibe! Come in, take a look around, learn a little something, have some fun and let us know what you think. 25% of 8th graders say they have been drunk at least once. 75% say they haven't. What do you say? more... Get the skinny on drugs. What are the facts? What's just hype? Why do people take 'em? How can I say no? What's the latest word? GET THE LOWDOWN Name a drug, ask a question, get the facts. Medical, emotional and social info here. Limber up your typing fingers... it's your turn to talk about drugs. Hear some stories, tell your own, post on our boards, make some friends and answer our polls. THIS WEEK'S QUOTE "Don't let anyone fool you, drugs are not as great as they seem. Just keep that in mind, and don't let anyone trick you into something you don't want to do." John more Enough about drugs. Find out what's up in Hollywood, what's new at the movies, what's hot at the music store. Oh, and play some games. WHAT'S NEW Exercise your brain, and your fingers, with our kickbutt games. Disney.com ABC.com support Freevibe Powered by Concrete Media Construction - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] NATrOcities=www.antiwar.com
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:519225"NATrOcities=www.antiwar.com/A - Subject: NATrOcities=www.antiwar.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Ready) Date: Thu, Apr 29, 1999 7:06 PM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antiwar.com Their "New World Order"--our Global Gulag!! = from: http://www.antiwar.com A HREF="http://www.antiwar.com/"Committee Against U.S. Intervention/A - Updated April 30, 1999 10:40 am EDT House Roll-Call Votes Troop Limit Air War Halt Clinton's Policy Declare War NATO Misses Again, Hits HomesUS Set To Begin Carpet BombingNATO Bombs Serb TV AgainRussia Pushes Peace PlanGreece: NATO's Achilles' HeelNATO Deploys Rockets Toward Kosovo Meet Mr. Massacre by Mark Ames Matt Taibbi Grief, Anger, and a Denial of Reality Refuge Became a TombUS Sending More B-52s 4/30/99 NATO Ignores Pleas, Continues to Bomb Neutral Montenegro Reinventing History in the Balkans by Wesley Pruden The Autoeroticism Of NATO by Arianna HuffingtonTurn Off the War Junkies by Col. David Hackworth NATO's Frightening Power Grab by John DoggettKosovo War Has Gone Terribly Wrong by Bill McSweeneyGlobalism's Police Force by Alan KeyesWhy Kosovo ... Oh, Just Because by Don Feder Why we oppose US/NATO intervention in Kosovo: Michael Allen | Michael Albert | American Friends Service Committee | The American Spectator | Amnesty International | Branislav Andjelic | Anglican Church of Canada | Gerald Atkinson | Augusta Chronicle | Doug Bandow | Rep. Bob Barr | Austin Bay | Art Bell | Belgrade Center for Human Rights | Michael Bliss | Samuel Blumenfeld | Rep. Roy Blunt | Alan Bock | Boston Globe | Linda Bowles | Phil Brennan | Richard Brookheiser | Harry Browne | Pat Buchanan | Rep. Tom Campbell | Ted Galen Carpenter | Gerald Carroll | James Carroll | John Casey | Cato Institute | Jim Chapman | Steve Chapman | Mona Charen | Noam Chomsky | Chattanooga Times Free Press | Rep. Helen Chenoweth | Chicago Tribune | Chronicles Magazine | Citizen Soldier | Citizens for Honest Goverment | Jonathan Clarke | Sen. Max Cleland | Nick Cohen | Charles Colson | Committee to Protect Journalists | Conservative Caucus | John Corry | Rep. Christopher Cox | Glynn Custred | The Daily Republican | Uri Dan | Democratic Party of Serbia | Gary Dempsey | Bob Djurdjevic | John Doggett | Steve Dunleavy | Eagle Forum | Michael Evans | The Exile | Fairness Accuracy in Reporting | Joseph Farah | Don Feder | Fellowship of Reconciliation | Thomas Fleming | Florida Times-Union | Cecil Foster | Kerry Fox | Andre Gunther Frank | David Frum | Amulya Ganguli | Eric Garris | Marcus Gee | Jack Germond | Global Intellegence Update | Green Party | William Norman Grigg | Richard Gwyn | Jeremy Hardy | Michael Harris | James Henry | Edward Herman | James Hill | James Hirsen | Rep. Stephen Horn | Arianna Huffington | Mick Hume | Charles Hunter | Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison | Sen. James Inhofe | Institute for Public Accuracy | International Federation of Journalists | Investors Business Daily | Simon Jenkins | John Birch Society | Diana Johnstone | George Jonas | Zachary Karabell | Hiranmay Karlekar | Rep. John Kasich | Martin Kelley | William Kelly | Jack Kemp | George Kendall | George Kenney | Alan Keyes | Cliff Kincaid | Charles Krauthamer | Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Larry Keuning | Henry Lamb | John Laughlin | Christoper Layne | Rep. James Leach | League of the South | Rep. Barbara Lee | Lega Nord Piemont | Richard Lessner | Libertarian Party | Carl Limbacher | London Times | Ludwig von Mises Institute | David MacReynolds | MADRE | Randall Major | Manchester Union Leader | Robert Manning | Marin County (CA) Republican Party | Chris Matthews | John McLaughlin | Mennonite Central Committee | Geoff Metcalf | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Brian Mitchell | C. Raja Mohan | Michael Moore | Jan Myrdal | Eugene Narrett | The Nation | Lars Erik Nelson | The New American | Newsday | Oliver North | Rep. Charles Norwood | Robert Novak | J.R. Nyquist | Jan Oberg | Orange County Register | David Orchard | Camile Paglia | Pope John Paul | Rep. Ron Paul | Pax Christi USA | Howard Phillips | Kevin Phillips | James Pinkerton | The Pioneer | Wlady Pleszczynski | Maralyn Lois Polak | Richard Poe | Rep. Richard Pombo | Stephen Preston | The Progressive | Dan Quayle | Justin Raimondo | Julia Reed | Charley Reese | William Rees-Mogg | Republican Liberty Caucus | Peter Riddell | James Ridgeway | Pat Robertson | Llewellyn Rockwell | A.M. Rosental | Christoper Ruddy | Ibrahim Rugova | Joe Ruth | Edward Said | San Francisco Chronicle | Debra Saunders | Rep. Jim Saxton | Robert Scheer | Daniel Schorr | Benjamin Schwartz | Scottish National Party | St. Petersburg Times | Alex Salmond | Rep. Mark Sanford | Debra Saunders | Savannah Morning News | Phyllis Schlafly | Benjamin Schwarz | Sunil Sharma | Sen. Bob Smith | Charles Smith | Tony Snow | Joseph Sobran | Norman Soloman | Alexander
Re: [CTRL] Art Bell is GONE
-Caveat Lector- At 12:11 AM 4/30/99 -0400, T Nohava wrote: http://crossfields.com/~watcher/robertamstephenspage.html PHONY SEAL POSTERCHILD '98: ROBERT A.M. STEPHENS Robert A.M. Stephens laid claim to being a SEAL Reservist attached to SEAL Team THREE, a NASA Space Shuttle contractor and a government "BlackOps insider" with information on everything from UFO cow lip research to DoD Kaptain Krunch decoder rings. He foisted his nonsense to hundreds of thousands of listeners on the Art Bell radio program until we hoisted him up by his skivvies on the yardarm. http://the-south.com/TheTeams/fakers.shtml You are entirely free to believe dis-info. You can call NASA and verify Stephens. In addition, if you have the guts, you can visit the crossfields.com link above and see for yourself what the truth is. It exposes the dis-info campaign for what it is - a pack of scurilous lies. In addition, Stephens has posted his CV in two GIF files located at http://www.stephens-behold.com/public_cv_1.html . That too, can be verified. The Cult of Bell loses. --- "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] This Day Will Live In Infamy (And So Should I)
-Caveat Lector- From an article in Naval History magazine? Is that the name of the magazine and what is the date? Howard Davis flw wrote: -Caveat Lector- "I always thought he was no good - he was a smoker wasn't he?" flw HISTORY REVISITED [Helen E. Hamman recalling a conversation with her father, who directed the war service operations of the Red Cross before World War II. From an article in Naval History magazine] "Shortly before the attack in 1941, President Roosevelt called him to the White House for a meeting concerning a top secret matter. At this meeting the president advised my father that his intelligence staff had informed him of a pending attack on Pearl Harbor, by the Japanese. He anticipated many casualties and much loss; he instructed my father to send workers and supplies to a holding area. When he protested to the president, President Roosevelt told him that the American people would never agree to enter the war in Europe unless they were attack [sic] within their own borders. . . . He followed the orders of his president and spent many years contemplating this action which he considered ethically and morally wrong." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] THE ENFOPOL 98 AFFAIR
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6397/1.html"THE ENFOPOL 98 AFFAIR /A - Many embedded links. Om K - The secret hand behind ENFOPOL ENFOPOL 1995 ENFOPOL 98 ENFOPOL 19 THE ENFOPOL 98 AFFAIR Duncan Campbell 29.04.99 Euro police press on ... and America's guiding hand is revealed THE LATEST VERSION of the ENFOPOL 98 interception plan has just been leaked in London. It reveals that although the name of the key document has been changed, European Commission officials still want to make tapping the Internet official European policy by the end of May. They are pressing on, despite strong domestic opposition in Germany and Austria and recent condemnation by the European Parliament. The new document is called ENFOPOL 19. It was obtained this week by Caspar Bowden of the London-based Foundation for Information Policy Research . ENFOPOL 19 was written at a police officials' meeting in Brussels on 11 March, and was issued by the German presidency on 15 March. According to the British government, "the German Presidency has indicated that it hopes to seek agreement to the draft Council Resolution at the Justice and Home Affairs Council in May". The Council will meet on 27-28 May. ENFOPOL 19 still concerns "interception of telecommunications in relation to new technologies". But instead of detailing massive new requirements for tapping the Internet and other new communications systems, the police group is now pretending that it is not a new policy at all. Referring to the first European tapping plan of 1995, ENFOPOL 19 says that "the requirements of law enforcement agencies ... are applicable both to existing and new communications technologies, for example satellite telecommunications and Internet telecommunications". Thus, it claims, the "technical terms" in the 1995 plan "are to be interpreted as applying to ... in the case of the Internet, the static and dynamic IP address, credit card number and E-mail address". In fact, the 1995 policy says nothing about credit card numbers being used to tap telecommunications. The new document points out that when tapping the Internet, it is not necessary to ask for the details of the sender and the recipient, because these are included in every "datagram" or IP packet. So new regulations for the Internet may not be needed. But this is a deceptive manoeuvre. Successive redrafts of ENFOPOL 98 reveal that the original, highly controversial plan exposed by Telepolis has been broken up into at least five parts, which are now being handled separately: Plans for tapping Iridium and other satellite-based personal communications systems have been separated and are being discussed at a high level in the Commission; Part of ENFOPOL 98 which set out new requirements for personal data about subscribers will be included in "other Council Resolutions to be adopted"; Another resolution will require Internet Service Providers to set up high security interception interfaces inside their premises. These "interception interfaces" would have to be installed in a high security zone to which only security cleared and vetted employees could have access. This is not included in ENFOPOL 19; ENFOPOL 19 also suggests that some tapping systems could operate through a "virtual interface". This would mean installing special software at Internet access points, controlled remotely by government security agencies. A fourth new policy concerning cryptography is now being dealt with separately. The police group now plan that the old and new resolutions will be put into a monitoring "manual", together with detailed instructions on intercepting the Internet. This will include "technical descriptions" which have been taken out of the original ENFOPOL 98 . If this manoeuvre succeeds, then ENFOPOL 98 will escape scrutiny by being smuggled through in parts, while the European Parliament is dissolved (because of the June Euro-elections). But the biggest secret about ENFOPOL 98 has never been told, until now. The controversial document wasn't written by European governments or the European Commission. Both ENFOPOL 98 and Europe's 1995 monitoring policy were written by a US-dominated group of security and law enforcement agency experts, called ILETS. This group does not include any industry or human rights and privacy law advisers. Over the last six years, ILETS has single-handedly forced governments and international standards bodies to build in their "requirements" to laws, networks and new communications systems. Their activities have never been reported to national Parliaments, the European Parliament or even the US Congress. Not until Telepolis revealed the ENFOPOL 98 affair has the secret ILETS organisation been exposed or challenged. Read also: The secret hand behind ENFOPOL Copyright © 1996-99 All Rights Reserved. Alle Rechte vorbehalten
[CTRL] SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: ILETS AND THE ENFOPOL 98 AFFAIR
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6398/1.html A HREF="http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6398/1.html"SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: ILETS AND THE ENFOPOL 98 /A - European Police Press On With ENFOPOL Tapping Plans First Telepolis article on ENFOPOL 98 ENFOPOL 98 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: ILETS AND THE ENFOPOL 98 AFFAIR Duncan Campbell 29.04.99 America's guiding hand revealed - the secret international organisation behind Europe's controversial plans for Internet surveillance Europe's 21st century tapping plans were born in an unlikely location. Fifty kilometres south of Washington DC, on the swampy western boundaries of the Potomac river is Quantico, Virginia. Here, on a large military reservation, is the FBI's training academy and research and development centre. Members of the public have no access to the high security site. Between 1990 and 1992, the FBI had tried repeatedly to get the US Congress to pass new laws for telephone tapping. The agency was worried that new digital telephone systems did not allow them easy access to track and intercept their targets. Their goal was to turn every type of modern communications systems into a national and, ultimately, global surveillance network which would give them "real time, full time" access to those whom they wanted to watch. The FBI experts ignored the costs imposed by their demands. They wanted manufacturers and network operators to provide systems at their own expense. Nor were they interested in the checks and balances of laws intended to control monitoring and protect privacy. Lawyers were not invited. Civil society would have to pay its own costs. Seen in retrospect, the title "seminar" is a black joke. Faced with the roadblocks in Congress, early in 1993 the FBI tried a new approach. They invited US allies to come to Quantico. Law enforcement and security agency representatives met there, calling themselves the "International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar". Seen in retrospect, the title "seminar" is a black joke. Acting in secret and without parliamentary knowledge or government supervision, the FBI through ILETS has since 1993 steered government and communications industry policy across the world. In the shadows behind the FBI stood the NSA (National Security Agency), whose global surveillance operations could only benefit if, around the world, users were systematically to be denied telecommunications privacy in the information age. The countries who came to Quantico in 1993 were traditional US intelligence allies like Canada, the UK and Australia. There was also a core Euro group interested in developing extended surveillance systems - Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden (and the UK). Other representatives came from Norway, Denmark, Spain and even Hong Kong. The FBI tabled a document called "Law Enforcement Requirements for the Surveillance of Electronic Communications", written in July 1992. In June 1993, EU ministers meeting in Copenhagen agreed to poll member states on the issues raised by the FBI and by ILETS. After discussions in Europe later in 1993, ILETS met in Bonn early in 1994. By now Austria, Belgium, Finland, Portugal and Spain had joined the 19 member group. "International User Requirements" At their Bonn meeting, ILETS agreed joint policy in a document called "International Requirements for Interception". This said that "law enforcement representatives and government telecommunications experts from a number of countries that attended an international workshop on interception and advanced telecommunications technologies identified the need for this document". It was their "common requirements". Attached to the two page ILETS policy paper was a detailed, four page set of monitoring requirements an d a glossary. This list of "International User Requirements" was identified as "IUR 1.0" or "IUR95". The ILETS meeting in Bonn also instigated two new policies. ILETS wanted international standards bodies such as the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) and ISO (International Standards Organisation) to build in tapping requirements to new system specifications. ILETS also wanted governments to agree on monitoring across international boundaries, so that one agency could intercept communications in another country. In March 1994, the Dutch government proposed that Europe adopt IUR 1.0. But ministers were not told that the document had been written by ILETS. Instead, it was identified as an ENFOPOL document, eventually being called ENFOPOL 90. (ENFOPOL is a standard European Commission classification for documents concerned with Law Enforcement/Police matters.) European Ministers never discussed ENFOPOL 90. It was agreed by a "written procedure", by exchange of telexes. It remained completely secret for nearly two years, and was not published in the Official Journal of European policy until November 1996. Meanwhile, European telecommunications operators
[CTRL] OEN 4/30/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Der Fuher Invades Yugoslavia Yeltsin Orders Plans for Battlefield Nukes Yeah! Nuclear war! That the ticket! Come on, NATO! Attack Russia! Russia Thursday ordered its military to draw up plans for the development and use of tactical nuclear weapons in what may be a response to NATO's heightened profile, and at the same time began a new diplomatic initiative to end the war in Yugoslavia. The nuclear order was given at a highly secretive meeting in Moscow between President Boris Yeltsin and the advisory Security Council, according to a Russian news agency quoting Security Council Secretary Vladimir Putin. Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller than strategic weapons and are intended for battlefield use. State Department and Pentagon officials said they were still studying the report and had no immediate comment. At the same time, Russian Balkan envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin set out for a round of meetings in Western European capitals carrying what he said were new proposals to end the war in Yugoslavia. Analysts said the proposals called for NATO to first halt its air strikes, something the alliance has refused to do. Mr. Yeltsin also met in Moscow with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to discuss that plan and other ideas to end the fighting. Reuters news agency said Mr. Yeltsin signed three documents including one on tactical arms during his Security Council meeting, which was held in such secrecy that even the chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces left the room. Russia's RIA news agency, monitored by Reuters, quoted Mr. Putin as saying the presidential decrees "covered the development of the nuclear weapons complex and a concept for developing and using non-strategic nuclear weapons." Mr. Putin specifically ruled out any link between the council meeting and the alliance's bombing of Yugoslavia, Reuters said. But it said defense experts noted that Russia was eager to respond to NATO's Yugoslav campaign and to last weekend's summit in Washington. At the summit, the members adopted a document on strategy that reaffirmed NATO's intention to maintain a "credible nuclear posture [with] flexibility and survivability" and for the first time extended the alliance's mandate to areas outside the geographic territory of its members. "Don't take [Mr. Yeltsin's decree] seriously," a Russian arms expert told Reuters. "It's a game, so the West gets upset." Defense experts told Reuters that Russia's army has about 10,000 to 12,000 tactical nuclear weapons already, but they are largely in storage. The Russian rationale has been to keep them for perceived threats from the south and east rather than from the west. On the diplomatic front, Mr. Chernomyrdin traveled Thursday to Germany and Italy to outline his proposals for a Kosovo peace settlement. He was due in Belgrade Friday for talks with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. "It's too early to speak about a breakthrough in the Yugoslav settlement, but there is a certain progress," he said in Berlin after a meeting with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Mr. Chernomyrdin's plan provides for Mr. Milosevic to pull his forces out of Kosovo and allow the deployment of an international peacekeeping force that would be under U.N. control and have substantial Russian participation. NATO would have to halt its bombing of Yugoslavia before the Serbian pullback began, the former Russian prime minister said. At his Moscow meeting with Mr. Annan, Mr. Yeltsin warned that "the stakes are very high now not only for the Balkans and Europe, but for the entire world," according to wire service reports. "Either law and order will be restored, or lawlessness and the unlimited force of one country will rule the world," he was quoted as saying in what appeared to be a reference to the United States. Russia has been treading a delicate line since the bombing of Yugoslavia began, torn between the need for Western help with its economic crisis and the sympathy of its people for the Serbs, with whom they share a Slavic background and Orthodox Christian religion. On the one hand, Moscow has delivered repeated assurances to American and NATO leaders that it does not intend to be drawn into the war. Yet it has taken several highly visible steps to show support for Yugoslavia, beginning with a pledge to send a fleet to the Adriatic Sea to shadow NATO vessels operating in the area. In the end, just one ship was sent. Russian leaders exploded in anger when NATO proposed a military blockade to stop all oil deliveries to Yugoslavia last week and vowed to defy any such action. Moscow sold the nation about 12,000 barrels of oil a day before the air war began. "We will continue delivering oil in keeping with our international commitments," Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said last Saturday. And Mr. Chernomyrdin was quoted as saying nations embroiled in the oil dispute
[CTRL] Fwd: The Economist Business News - UK
: US downturn forcasted, whatelse is new. Roger. == The Economist. If you can read this message, but the rest of the e-mail is in computer language, your e-mail program is not capable of reading HTML mail. To solve this problem you can do one of the following: 1) Use your browser to read Business this week at http://www.economist.com 2) View this newsletter in HTML by using a different e-mail program, such as the one in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, which can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Ie/Download/default.asp , or Netscape Navigator version 3.0 or Netscape Communicator version 4.0, which can be downloaded fromhttp://www.netscape.com/download/selectplatform_1_1.html . Or you can use a free web-based e-mail service, such as Hotmail (from http://www.hotmail.com/) or Yahoo! (from http://mail.yahoo.com ). 3) Change your Business this week subscription from the HTML version to the plain text version. If you are a registered user at The Economist website, you can subscribe and unsubscribe to the text and html versions of this newsletter or change your e-mail address by amending your details at: http://www.economist.com/tfs/registration_tframeset.html If you are not registered at The Economist website, send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a request to receive the plain text version.--> Business this weekhttp://ads.economist.com/click.ng;spacedesc=bus_2col_left_3> http://ads.economist.com/click.ng;spacedesc=bus_1col_right_3> The end of privacy All the marvels of the information age come with a hefty but probably unavoidable price: the loss of privacy http://www.economist.com/l.cgi?f=/editorial/AC/1-5-99/index_ld5357row.html>Leader http://www.economist.com/l.cgi?f=/editorial/AC/1-5-99/index_sf1247.html>The surveillance society http://ads.economist.com/click.ng;spacedesc=bus_side_3> http://www.economist.com/contentframeset.cgi>FULL CONTENTS http://www.economist.com/tfs/archive_tframeset.html>ARCHIVE (http://www.economist.com/tfs/registration_tframeset.html>Registered users only) http://www.economist.com/tfs/shop_tframeset.html>BOOKSHOP http://www.economist.com/tfs/sub-index_tframeset.html>SUBSCRIBE to The Economist Taking the weight America cannot continue to drive the world economy alone. That was the message that emerged after the spring meeting of the Group of Seven rich countries. The official line was that the worst of the global financial crisis is over for the emerging economies. Beyond that, however, America is worried that its economy may cool even as Japan and EU countries remain unable to take up the slack. http://www.economist.com/l.cgi?f=/editorial/AC/1-5-99/index_fn6256.html>See article: IMF meetings, America v Europe As if to confirm this, six German economics institutes cut their forecast for German growth in 1999 to 1.7%, down from the 2.3% estimate made last autumn. In Britain, there was relief that the economy managed growth in the first quarter of 0.1% over the previous quarter, but this is the lowest figure since 1992. The beef trade war between Europe and America intensified. The EU said it may ban all American beef imports from June 15th unless they can be proved to be hormone-free. The EU looks increasingly unlikely to comply with a World Trade Organisation ruling against its existing ban on American hormone-treated beef, which is supposed to be lifted by May 13th. The telecoms race Americas ATT is continuing to expand its cable reach. Barely had it completed its $55 billion purchase of the second-biggest cable firm, TCI, giving it cable coverage of a quarter of America, than the telecoms giant leapt in with a $58 billion bid for the fourth-biggest, MediaOne, which last month agreed a $48 billion merger with Comcast. Comcast hopes to find a white knight (perhaps Microsoft or America Online) concerned about so much cable being controlled by one company. http://www.economist.com/l.cgi?f=/editorial/AC/1-5-99/index_ld5396.html>See article: Beware the Internet gatekeeper Bermuda-based Global Crossing is paying 550m ($890m) for the undersea cable-laying operations of Britains Cable Wireless, as it continues to build fibre-optic networks round the world. The business is one of Cs oldest, going back 150 years, but the company is shedding units to concentrate on business-communications services. Another British company turning rapidly to telecoms is GEC, which two months after buying one American maker of telecoms
[CTRL] Press Communique 99/17
-Caveat Lector-
From
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/ipresscom/iPress1999/ipresscom9917_19990429.ht
m
Press Communique 99/17
29 April 1999
Yugoslavia institutes proceedings against ten States for violation of
the obligation not to use force against another State and requests
the Court to order that the use of force cease immediately
Hearings on provisional measures to open on Monday 10 May 1999
THE HAGUE, 29 April 1999. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) today
instituted proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
against (separately and in the following order) the United States of
America, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Belgium, Canada, Portugal and Spain, accusing these States of bombing
Yugoslav territory in violation of their obligation not to use force against
another State.
In its Applications, Yugoslavia maintains that the above-mentioned States
have committed "acts by which [they] have violated [their] international
obligation[s] not to use force against another State, not to intervene in
[that State's] internal affairs" and "not to violate [its] sovereignty";
"the obligation to protect the civilian population and civilian objects in
wartime, [and] to protect the environment; the obligation relating to free
navigation on international rivers"; the obligation "regarding the
fundamental rights and freedoms; and the obligation[s] not to use prohibited
weapons [and] not to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to
cause the physical destruction of a national group".
Yugoslavia has requested the Court to adjudge and declare inter alia that
the ten States against which it has instituted proceedings are "responsible
for the violation of the above[-mentioned] international obligations", that
they are "obliged to stop immediately" that violation and that they are
"obliged to provide compensation for the damage done".
According to Yugoslavia, the above-mentioned States, "together with the
Governments of other Member States of NATO, took part in the acts of use of
force against the FRY". Yugoslavia asserts that both military and civilian
targets have come under attack during the bombings, causing many casualties
("about 1,000 civilians, including 19 children, were killed and more than
4,500 sustained serious injuries"), enormous damage to schools, hospitals,
radio and television stations, cultural monuments and places of worship, the
destruction of a large number of bridges, roads and railway lines, as well
as oil refineries and chemical plants, resulting in serious health and
environmental damage.
As the legal basis for its claims, Yugoslavia cites the obligations not to
use force against another State and not to intervene in its internal
affairs, the provisions of the Geneva Convention of 1949 and of the
Additional Protocol No. 1 of 1977 on the Protection of Civilians and
Civilian Objects in Time of War, the 1948 Convention on Free Navigation on
the Danube, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the
1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Yugoslavia further points out that the activities of the States involved are
"contrary to Article 53, paragraph 1, of the Charter of the United Nations".
Yugoslavia also filed today, in each of the cases, a request for interim
measures of protection (provisional measures), asking the Court to order the
States involved to "cease immediately [their] acts of use of force" and to
"refrain from any act of threat or use of force against the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia".
It maintains that if the proposed measures are not adopted, there will be
"new losses of human life, further physical and mental harm inflicted on the
population of the FRY, further destruction of civilian targets, heavy
environmental pollution and further physical destruction of the people of
Yugoslavia".
At a meeting held today, the Court decided that hearings on provisional
measures would open on Monday 10 May 1999 at 10.00 a.m. They are expected to
last two days.
Vice-President Weeramantry will exercise the functions of the presidency in
all ten cases, President Schwebel being a national of one of the Parties.
The full texts of Yugoslavia's Applications and requests for the indication
of provisional measures will be available shortly on the Court's website
(http://www.icj-cij.org).
NOTE FOR THE PRESS
1. The public sittings will be held in the Great Hall of Justice of the
Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands. Mobile telephones and beepers
are allowed in the courtroom provided they are turned off or set on silent
mode. Any offending device will be temporarily retained.
2. Members of the Press will be entitled to attend on presentation of a
press card. The tables reserved for them are situated on the far left of the
public entrance of the courtroom.
3. Photographs may
[CTRL] Fwd: Another Coverup - Columbine
This will be my only Columbine H.S. related Posting to this list. I just wanted to explain my opinions developed over the past few years of School Killings. Perhaps someone in Politics or law enforcement on this list is of some influence to help Stop the killing! I don't buy that guns, violent movies, bad music, video games, the Goth culture, Marilyn Manson, etc caused these kids to do those unspeakable crimes.Certainly the general cultural background has some influence in lowering natural human inhibitions against unspeakable and horrific acts. However in Europe they have the same cultural elements, but without the level of violent outburst that we have here in the U.S. So I asked my associates and friends if they would have done the same murderous things in their generations. All of us grew up with guns, listened to driving evil Heavy Metal music in High School, we never abruptly did such acts as we see now. Sure there were rotten kids among us, but their descents into criminal acts were more gradual, a stolen candy bar at the store, a drug arrest there, possession of stolen merchandise, then a bank holdup, and then time in Prison. All predictable for intervention by authorities before the lethal developments. In contrast todays School killings appear more abrupt, violent and thus unpredictable. I even spoke to my parent's generation, they had guns as children on the farm and during the Great Depression, they had never seen anything like today either. There IS a common denominator, something that wasn't around when we were young. I feel that the particular element is psychiatric anti-depressant drugs. Several years ago I visited a friend who worked as a Union Steward in a large metropolitan U.S. Post Office employing hundreds of people. Privately he described to me the 'cases' the he had to process on a daily basis. He told me personally about fellow employees showing up at work with guns and their literally 'going postal' with the guns along with various other violent act tirades. What seemed to be a common denominator for those at the time, were the use of prescription psychiatric drugs. Certainly like today's School killer children, there also existed other disturbing factors. We felt that the pharmaceutical industry was engaged in a coverup. Billions of dollars ride on these drugs. Many famous people use these drugs from George Stephenopoulous to Monica Lewinsky. The use of these is very prevalent even at our workplaces. I remember a few years ago a friend came up to my office cubicle and started telling a 'Prozac Joke'. I am African-American and when he finished it, a deadly silence came over the whole office area. We looked around and it was as if we had told a Rascist, a Sexist, or Anti-Jewish Joke or something, you could hear a pin drop. It dawned upon us that our fellow office workers did not like what we were saying, as they were probably taking medication. We became chilled at the pervasiveness, even in workplaces with extremely intelligent engineers. We are a drugged society. Some of us discussed this pervasiveness later, thinking that this will be the civil rights agenda of the next decades, ie... a laws to protect employees from discrimination because of the use of various psychiatric medications. What could numb a normal person to the natural senses of human compassion, caring and concern that I believe exists in all humans? Drugs. These drugs are designed to disconnect both the good and the bad overwhelming and depressive emotions, while maintaining rational logic processes. http://www.drudgereport.com/matt.htm X X X X X REPORT: KILLER REJECTED BY MARINES DAYS BEFORE SHOOTING; MEDICAL CONDITION KEPT STUDENT OUT OF CORPS Columbine High killer Eric Harris had hoped to join the Marines but he was on psychiatric medication, according to published reports out of Littleton on Tuesday evening. Harris was recruited as part of a telephone canvass and did well at a preliminary interview, but he was nixed after a meeting at his home April 15 -- just days before he went on a wild rampage -- after his parents "divulged a medical factor." X X X X X If you look back and research all of the School Killings of the past few years, you will find that nearly all of the perpetrators took prescription psychiatric medications, from Jonesboro, Arkansas to Springfield, Oregon. To me this is a single predictor that when coupled with the other variables could be used to isolate other Child killers. However, the companies that make these drugs have considerable political power and would resist efforts to expose these medications. That is my strongest belief toward a solution to these tragedies. That said, what I say next is even less credible, but yet should also be investigated: Now if you think in the conspirational mindset, one could take this one step further. There are a remarkable series of
[CTRL] Fwd: The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #89
The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #89 - April 30, 1999 A Publication of the Drug Reform Coordination Network PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE (To sign off this list, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line "signoff drc-natl" in the body of the message, or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. To subscribe to this list, visit http://www.drcnet.org/signup.html.) This issue can be also be read on our web site at http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html. Check out the DRCNN weekly radio segment at http://www.drcnet.org/drcnn/. Patti Smith giving benefit concert for Drug Policy Foundation in NYC this weekend! See item 9. Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis protest in NYC, forfeiture reform conference in DC, next week, see item 10. Sign DRCNet's petition at http://www.RaiseYourVoice.com! TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Arizona Supreme Court Study: Proposition 200 Has Saved the State Millions http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#prop200works 2. Renting While Non-White http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#hotelmotel 3. Canada: Heroin Prescription Experiment Debated in Parliament http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#libbydavies 4. Canadian Police Chiefs Call for Decriminalization of Marijuana Possession http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#canadachiefs 5. Swiss Panel Calls for Decriminalization of Cannabis Possession, Sales http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#swisspanel 6. Heroin in Australia, Part Two: A Conversation with Michael Moore, ACT Health Minister http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#michaelmoore 7. Government's Drug Test Ruled Inadequate, Todd McCormick Remains Free Pending Trial http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#toddmccormick 8. Media Alert: May Issue of Harper's Magazine Cover Story: Good Drugs, Bad Drugs http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#harperscover 9. Patti Smith to Play NYC's Bowery Ballroom to Benefit the Drug Policy Foundation http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#pattismith 10. Forfeiture Reform Conference in DC, Justice Reform Protest in NYC and Nationwide http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#events 11. EDITORIAL: Arizonans Ignore Rhetoric, Reap Benefits http://www.drcnet.org/wol/089.html#editorial 1. Arizona Supreme Court Study: Proposition 200 Has Saved the State Millions When the voters of Arizona overwhelmingly passed Proposition 200 in November of 1996, United States Senator John Kyl stood in the well of the Senate and told his colleagues that his constituents had been "duped." By December of that year, Arizona's state legislature had passed bills which essentially gutted the measure. A signature drive got the measure placed back on the ballot, however, effectively blocking the state's government from overturning the will of the voters until another election had been held. In November of 1998, Arizona voters once again approved the measure which forbids the incarceration of first and second- time non-violent drug offenders, and provides funding for treatment, allowing judges to divert other offenders, whose primary problems are linked to substance abuse, into treatment rather than jail. This week, the Arizona Supreme Court released a study of the impact of Proposition 200 which provides solid evidence that the people of Arizona knew very well what they were doing when they went to the polls -- twice. According to the study, diverting first and second time drug possessors to treatment and drug education courses saved the state over $2.5 million in its first year of operation. "And those numbers are conservative" says Sam Vagenas, director of "The People Have Spoken," the group that put the initiative back on the ballot in 1998. "The study only calculated the savings from first and second time drug possessors, who make up about 25% of the people diverted to treatment under the law. What it didn't count was the savings from diverting other non-violent offenders into treatment." Proposition 200 provided for a $4 million fund for drug treatment, with that money coming out of taxes on the sale of alcoholic beverages. "One of the important lessons that we've learned here in Arizona is that treatment itself de-incarcerates," Vagenas told The Week Online. "Judges, who see the impact of the drug laws, and who don't have to face elections, are predisposed to send someone to treatment rather than prison where appropriate, assuming that there's a treatment slot available." Proposition 200's impact in this regard was felt immediately. When it was passed in 1996, there were more than 200 people sitting in Arizona jails because there were no treatment beds available. Opponents of the new law argue that the report does not truly reflect the impact of the new policy. Broderick Lotstein, a special assistant Maricopa County Attorney, told the Arizona Daily Star that the report's findings were "silly. No judge will send a first-time offender to
[CTRL] Belgrade Answers
-Caveat Lector- From http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/converse.htm This is only the beginning ... the remainder of the answers to questions is at the site. AER begin quote A Conversation with the University of Belgrade Law Faculty JURIST Exclusive [Pittsburgh, April 7] Last week, in the midst of the widening conflict between NATO and Yugoslavia, the professors of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade took the extraordinary step of agreeing to answer questions from JURIST: The Law Professors' Network on the legal aspects of the situation. In the belief that throwing the conversation open to our readers would be the most effective way to keep the international and Yugoslav legal communities in touch with one another during the present crisis, we issued an open call for questions and then selected ten of those questions for forwarding to Belgrade. Here are the final questions and the answers given to JURIST by the members of the Belgrade Law Faculty. JURIST readers wishing to comment on any of these answers should e-mail JURIST at [EMAIL PROTECTED]: please include the words "Belgrade Answers" in the Subject line of your message. For more information, including the latest e-mail from Yugoslavian law professors, lawyers and other academics, international and American responses, and academic commentaries on the legal aspects of the Kosovo situation, see JURIST's Legal Guide to the Kosovo Conflict. end quote AER The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Columbine Misinformation
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 04/30/1999 7:27:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know about the names, but for them to have heard about the shootings on the radio makes good sense. Almost everybody has scanners going these days, and they know everything the police know, even when the police try to use codes. Prudy Many PDs no longer use ordinary analog voice radio, but have gone to spread-spectrum or digital signals, which are NOT easily inter- cepted. We'd have to know what type of commo system the Littleton PD had in place before being able to make a judgment about this. Devil's in the details, eh? Apparently the budget around here doesn't extend to the new technology. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Comrade Schumer's Jar!
Caption for the .jpg attachment: Damn..If only I had a gun, I could shoot my way out of this jar. Guess I'll have to stay here till my NYC permit goes through! -- The Shot Heard Around the World- Disperse you rebels! Damn you, throw down your arms and disperse. --- British Major John Pitcairn, Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! schumpissjar.jpg
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990430a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Canada firm clones goat triplets to make spider silk. QUEBEC CITY, Quebec (Reuters) - News that a Canadian biotechnology company has cloned goat triplets prompted warnings that the technology involved could lead to the cloning of humans. The company, Montreal-based Nexia Biotechnologies Inc., said that the cloning was a first step in its plan to produce spider silk in goat's milk and turn it into a super-strong material for medical use. http://cnn.com/NATURE/9904/28/spider.goats.reut/index.html : Would you like to be cloned to make spiderwebs? Will you drink silky milk? If you take LSD what patterns will you weave in your web? Make it colorful? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Singer-priest Sinead O'Connor withdraws donation. In her first week as a Catholic priest, singer Sinead O'Connor has generated a controversy within her church and has decided to withdraw a 150,000-pound (US$200,000) donation to the bishop who ordained her. O'Connor and Cox have previously said the money was meant to support a healing center in Ireland. But another Bishop in the Latin Tridentine Church, Pat Buckley, says it smacked of simony, the buying of something sacred. Recalling donation 'for protective reasons' - http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9904/29/showbuzz/index.html#story2 : Would you rather bribe a Tridentine bishop, a Pope, an Ayatollah, a Grand Boo-Hoo, a Metropolitan, a Goddess, a Televangelist, a Cuarandero, or me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dinosaurs more like cows than giraffes. Forget the images of graceful din- osaurs browsing like giraffes among tall trees; it is more likely that they ate off the ground. Biomechanical tests on the bones of such swan-necked creatures as Apatosaurus (a.k.a. Brontosaurus) and Diplodocus show their necks would have worked best when angled slightly downward. Not 'Jurassic Park': http://cnn.com/NATURE/9904/29/dinosaur.necks.reut/index.html : Are you more comfortable browsing on trees or grazing the ground? Are you Jurassic, Cretaceous or Diabetic? Do Reptilioids get sore necks as they eat? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Legendary aphrodisiac draws mobs of Turkish lovers. MANISA, Turkey (CNN) Hoping a centuries-old secret recipe will inject new romance into their lives, more than 14,000 people flocked to the western Turkish town of Manisa this week to grab a piece of a legendary aphrodisiac. Local authorities planned to throw hundreds of kilograms of a mysterious paste, known as Mesur Macunu, from the top of the Sultan mosque in Manisa's main square. See: http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9904/26/fringe/turkey.aphrodisiac/index.html : Do you prefer aphrodisiacs that are solid, liquid, vaporous, pasty, icy, boiling, tasty, bland, sweet, sour? Do you prefer ancient or modern recipes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SansComment: *** Gov't overthrow plot trial nears end. LITTLE ROCK (AP) Nearly 1.5 years after being accused in a violent plot to overthrow the gov't and establish a whites-only republic in the Northwest, two men will have their fates decided by a jury. Chevie Kehoe Danny Lee could get the death penalty. Prosecutors said the men pursued their dream to set up the Aryan People's Republic by stockpiling military-style weapons and robbing and murdering several people. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559360710-520 # Cloning may damage long-term health. (BBC) The type of cloning that produced the sheep Dolly may result in serious long-term damage to health. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331793.stm # First transatlantic dinosaur found. The same flesh-eating dino terrorised creatures in both Europe and N.America; finding challenges plate tectonic theories. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331346.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # LOCKHEED: IKONOS FELL INTO SEA - imaging satellite sees only fish: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19403.html http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559351585-744 # EVIDENCE OF PLATE SHIFTS ON MARS - once contained water maybe life: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19404.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331535.stm # BUBBLE BATHS ARE FOR THE BIRDS - dry clean birds caught in oil spills: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19390.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_33/330616.stm # CIH VIRUS CULPRIT PEGGED? Chen Ing-hau wrote the hard-drive-eating bug: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/19397.html http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559356880-69a http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_332000/332147.stm # British military convoy gets lost - Greeks hide highway
Re: [CTRL] Columbine Misinformation
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Prudence L. Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stone had told the AP that he was suspicious of the three because they had claimed to have heard of the killings on the radio -- and were able to name the gunmen -- before the names had been released. I don't know about the names, but for them to have heard about the shootings on the radio makes good sense. Almost everybody has scanners going these days, and they know everything the police know, even when the police try to use codes. Prudy Many PDs no longer use ordinary analog voice radio, but have gone to spread-spectrum or digital signals, which are NOT easily inter- cepted. We'd have to know what type of commo system the Littleton PD had in place before being able to make a judgment about this. Devil's in the details, eh? DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Flaw in Capitalist system
-Caveat Lector- Yes, I think that was the point I was making. But, remember America was Statist from the Get Go via the Federalists. Esp. Alexander Hamilton's advocacy of a Central Bank...ie, the First Bank of the United States. Laissez-faire is an ideal, not something that has ever been even approximately acheived. *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/formaddress.html For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text in body: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: http://a-albionic.com/search.html ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Video Finder, Free Catalogs, Links, Sweepstakes, What-Not: http://www.msen.com/~daugh/store.htm *** -Original Message- From: Cristo1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.politics.democrats.clinton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 10:55 PM Subject: Re: Flaw in Capitalist system Obviously this response is only true of STATISM not CAPITALISM!!! which this country only knew for a period of about 100 years, before being converted slowly at first but more rapidly in the last 30 years to STATISM!! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] More: LUVOX sparked Colorado Killings???
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 4:35 AM Subject: Re: Littleton Drug Side Effects On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:49:49 -0400, Ian Goddard wrote: The Washington Post (4/29/99, A1) reports that Columbine gunman Eric Harris was on a prescription antidepressant, a new drug called "Luvox." A net search finds that Luvox "can activate mania in susceptible patients" (source: http://www.begin.com/redoak/medications/luvox.html) The manufacturer's prescription insert says: "LUVOX Tablets should be used cautiously in patients with a history of mania." http://www.ocdresource.com/ocdresource.nsf/pages/Diagnosis+Luvox Symptoms of "mania" include: "Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behavior" (see: http://mentalhelp.net/articles/grohol/bipolar.htm) It's important to note that The Washington Post article says Eric Harris was the leader of the two dead gunmen. So Dylan Klebold was following his friend who was on a psychotropic drug that's known to activate mania, which can manifest itself as aggressive behavior. Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, author of "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?," lists "aggressive or violent behavior" as a side effect of antidepressants such as Luvox. Dr Tracy states that long- term users of antidepressants can loose the distinction between reality and dream. She says some patients enter an "anesthetic sleep state" where they do things that later they can't believe or recall they did (see: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/3568). Searching the MEDLINE database at the National Library of Medicine website (http://igm.nlm.nih.gov) I found a study by doctors from the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel that came to this conclusion about Luvox, or fluvoxamine: "Our case series suggests that fluvoxamine may have the ability to induce or unmask manic behavior in depressed patients. Clinicians are alerted to monitor for this 'switching' effect..." TITLE: Fluvoxamine-associated manic behavior: a case series. AUTHORS: Dorevitch A; Frankel Y; Bar-Halperin A; Aronzon R; Zilberman L SOURCE: Ann Pharmacother 1993 Dec;27(12):1455-7 CITATION IDS: PMID: 8305775 UI: 94138126 Some other studies I found @ http://igm.nlm.nih.gov : TITLE: Mania and fluvoxamine. AUTHORS: Burrai C, et al. SOURCE: Am J Psychiatry. 1991 Sep;148(9):1263-4. CIT. IDS: PMID: 1909099 UI: 91353783 TITLE: Fluvoxamine-associated mania/hypomania in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. AUTHORS: Jefferson JW, et al. SOURCE: J Clin Psychopharmacol. 1991 Dec;11(6):391-2. CIT. IDS: PMID: 1770160 UI: 92121482 There are a dozen or more studies on Prozac-induced mania (http://igm.nlm.nih.gov). Both Prozac and Luvox are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI). GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm -- Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/ For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: http://a-albionic.com/search.html ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Please Patronize PRJ's Advertisers: http://home.msen.com/~daugh/store.htm Many Pay Even If You Just Look and Don't Buy! Video Finder, Free catalogs, Health Products, Sweepstakes, Etc. *** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html
Re: [CTRL] HOFFMAN ON THE COLORADO MASSACRE
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 5:10 AM Subject: Lloyd: [MC] HOFFMAN ON THE COLORADO MASSACRE--David Lloyd: This is the missing link--honest! Have you ever had the experience of trying to solve a multi-faceted problem, where there is a tantalizing aspect just beyong grasp--until someone says something, and then it all fits together? This goes to the heart to the proof, or "documentation" issue that has been discussed on and off here. Several excellent points have been made--including a ruthlessly objective appraisal of what would constitute scientific evidence with respect to--documents (ostensibly through the FOIA,) scientific factual presentations of the available technology and the means by which it can be detected/publically demonstrated , previously accepted heurestics/methodologies, and sympathetic expert opinions. The argument here appears to be a high-level although totally responsible one. On it's face, it is hard to conceive of the American public being sophistocated enough to accept it--but that is an insult to the American people. They love their families. They are struggling to understand. They are not trying to avoid it. It is the media-slime, such as Chicken Noodle News et al, that would entertain their ignorance with such offerings as the "troubled youth" school of Social Psychology. Perhaps this is a golden opportunity not only to present this as a dynamic with which they should concern themselves, but also to put to them the Social Psychological methodologies by means of which this can be investigated, measured and "documented". Edith Efron did this years ago when, in attempting--and succeeding--to demonstrate liberal bias, counted the number of words and terms of a positive and of a negative nature, written with respect to the liberal and to the conservative thought. The evidence was undeniable. Why can't we do the same? This is admittedly not LTL technology. No. This is MTL. (I just made that up.) Admittedly, the zappers, implants etc. are hard to prove, as Judith, Karen Sandy and others have poignantly demonstrated (to me, at any rate. I'm a father. I have a daughter who was mentally destroyed in a similar manner.) But the core of the reactor of the Devil is--the subliminal alteration of public thought. Without this alteration, it is highly unlikely that their technologies--any of them--can conquer the American people. --David In a message dated 4/25/99 3:08:55 PM, you wrote: Michael A. Hoffman II, Editor === The Mirror World of Columbine Media Bypass Talk-show host Pat Shannan recently had Michael A. Hoffman II as a guest HOFFMAN REPLIES: There is no evidence of a CIA or MK-Ultra influence. Most programming cues are now in our mass media culture itself. Watch Wesley Snipes in the gruesome and despicable 1998 film, "Blade" and Keanu Reeves in the current "Matrix," both blazing away in their trench coats. The Trench Coat Mafia was made in Hollywood, in spite of these films' do-gooder facades, which only fool adults who want to be fooled. The dark and bloody symbolism is paramount. The medium is the message. The best and brightest kids will not take New World Order bureaucratic regulation. Our centralized mega-schools have become immense factories not only of anti-white indoctrination, but of micro-management of young people's lives, preparing them for more of the same in the adult world -- Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/ For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: http://a-albionic.com/search.html ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Please Patronize PRJ's Advertisers: http://home.msen.com/~daugh/store.htm Many Pay Even If You Just Look and Don't Buy! Video Finder, Free catalogs, Health Products, Sweepstakes, Etc. *** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by
[CTRL] Remember to say Guns save lives...
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wizard.net/~kc/gunssavelives.com/ GunsSaveLives The Group Dedicated to the Unquestionable Human Right to Keep and Bear Arms at All Times "Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence." --- Mohandas Gandhi "When the strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace." --- Jesus Christ [Luke 11:21.6] The Shot Heard Around the World- Disperse you rebels! Damn you, throw down your arms and disperse. --- British Major John Pitcairn, Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. --- "WE have in the Congress permitted our Presidents too much leeway in waging war..." --- US Rep. Ron Paul http://www.house.gov/paul/ Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Russia: The end of a world power
-Caveat Lector- From wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Russia Russia: The end of a world power What lies behind the domestic crisis? By Patrick Richter 30 April 1999 The arrogant attitude of Washington towards the Russian government during the bombardment of Serbia marks a turn in relations with Russia and gives cause to assess the real character of the liberal reforms which have been carried out there since 1991. These policies were aimed at completely destroying the Russian economy as a potential competitor and turning the country into a market and source for cheap raw materials. With the many big collective corporations bought by Western businesses--above all in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries--productive plants were closed while the retail networks were retained as an outlet for Western products. Following the financial crisis last summer, apart from the chocolate factory "Red October", no larger profit-making "Russian" factories have survived. Coal and steel companies are subsidised by the government and the contracts for the arms industry have dropped dramatically. Only the raw materials industry is able to yield a profit. The type of future perspectives regarding foreign investment, in which so much hope is still invested by the Central European countries, has been summed up by the American banker and industrialist Thomas Wainwright: "Where should they [the foreign investors] go with their money? Who would they produce for? The international market is in a depression and foreign competitors would reject products manufactured in Russia with all sorts of protectionist measures." Steel and aluminium are already now being threatened by such anti-dumping measures. Last August's financial crisis burst the bubble of the overblown Russian credit market, which on the one hand expressed the boundless and naive illusions in a capitalist upturn but which was also consciously inflated in order to increase Russia's dependence on the West. The credit policies of the IMF since 1991 served the purpose of strengthening particular layers in Russia whose job was to carry out such a policy. Its chief supporters were chosen amongst the most corrupt and ruthless economic and political climbers who, under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin, could bring the most profitable parts of the economy under their control--the finance and oil sector--and then build up very influential media empires. At the height of their power these men were reputed to control over 90 percent of the economy and were known as the so-called oligarchs: Boris Berezovsky (who built his empire with LogoWAS, the Lada distribution network; owns newspapers, television stations and shares in oil companies and the Russian airline Aeroflot), Vladimir Potanin (of Oneximbank; one of the richest men in Russia, according to Forbes, with $1.6 billion), Alexander Smolensky (SBS-Agrobank), Vladimir Gussinsky (Mostbank group), Vladimir Vinogradov (Inkombank), Vagit Alekperov (Lukoil) and Michael Chodorovsky (Yukos-Oil), to name just a few of the most important ones. Their elevation came relatively easily. During perestroika the mathematics graduates and young members of the Communist Party's youth organisation founded private banks with party money, or just took over privatised parts of the national banking system. In the unstable situation in the first years after 1991 they were given cheap state credits which they could use to speculate during a period of hyperinflation. On this basis they were able to rack up their first millions of dollars. In the following period, the oligarchs gradually acquired shares in industry through their banks--nearly always at underrated market value--above all in the raw materials sector. In 1995 the head of privatisation at the time, Anatoli Chubais, enabled them to carry out their biggest coup with the help of the so-called "shares against credit" privatisation program, which privatised the most profitable key industries. In the name of a few of the oligarchs, Oneximbank head Potanin organised a loan of $2 billion in exchange for shares of the Berezovsky company due to be privatised. This is how Berezovsky and Smolensky gained the majority of shares of Russia's seventh biggest oil company, Sibneft. After the privatisation program had been carried out, this handful of super-rich controlled the lion's share in the companies. They continued to receive help from the state right up to the financial crisis. The short-term government loans with which the state financially met the demands of its private national and foreign creditors came onto the market through the above mentioned banks. Up until the crisis, state provision and free loans constituted the bank's main source of income and strengthened the position of the oligarchs. In a study dealing with the lives and intentions of this layer, Maxim Boyko, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny established that they "have absolutely no
