[CTRL] US Government's View on Ancient Practices?
-Caveat Lector- I just heard a news story about the energy crisis. Here are the exact words of one question asked by Brit Hume of Fox News field reporter Jim Angle, concering how long it's taking to get geothermal plants approved in northern California: Brit: What is the reasoning behind those delays in approving the renewable plants? Jim Angle: Well, there aren't many environmental concerns because it's natural, geothermal energy. One of the problems at one of these sites was that snowmobilers were complaining that a geothermal energy plant might cause noise pollution. But one of the main reasons, and the reason cited by the Clinton Administration energy department in not approving it was that one tribe of Indians out of three (two gave their approval) had people who went out for what's called vision quests in this area. Hard to do with snowmobilers. Nevertheless, the Department of Energy under the Clinton Administration told the geothermal people that their project was not politically correct because these six Indians, these six Native Americans, went out on vision quests. Again, this is in an area where snowmobilers have two permanent camps. Herbs are often used in vision quests, are they not? Okay, so now we know that (a) those snowmobilers are hypocrites since snowmobiles are noisy themselves, and (b) our government laughs at the practices of the Indians. Nice. :-\ Involuntary A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Ira Einhorn - the Unicorn
-Caveat Lector- Lovely story on the Unicorn who was friend to Shah of Iran (Shah was member of Peacock Society according to my old MI6 friend)..and was this man, the Unicorn - Ira Einhorn - spying for KGB or Mossad? Why did he run?? It is said he Murdered his girlfriend, stuffed body in a trunk and nobody would help him move trunk so was put into an attic . when Unicorn arrested the house smelled as Gacy's basement area of a dead body. Only the Unicorn at the time, failed to notice? Was the Unicorn agent for KGB/Mossad? Why do the French refuse to extradite him? His connection to many secret projects with people such as Lt. Colonel Tom Beardon makes me believe he was a spy for something alien, and I do not mean creatures in UFOs. Saba MindNet is no longer active. Back to MindNet Index == MindNet Journal - Vol. 1, No. 91 == V E R I C O M M sm Quid veritas est? == The views and opinions expressed below are not necessarily the views and opinions of VERICOMM or the editors, unless otherwise noted. The following is reproduced here with the express permission of the author. Permission is given to reproduce and redistribute, for non-commercial purposes only, provided this information and the copy remain intact and unaltered. Copy formatted in ASCII. Netscape mail reader format: Options/Mail News Preferences/Appearance = Fixed Width Font. Editor's Note: The following article originally appeared in _Crash Collusion_, No. 7, Spring 1994. == PKD, THE UNICORN AND SOVIET PSYCHOTRONICS By Adam Gorightly December 1993 -- Phillip K. Dick, the late schizoid, Sci-Fi author and Ira (The Unicorn) Einhorn, sixties radical activist turned seventies New Age networker cum fugitive axe-murderer, began a correspondence in early February of '78 centered around Dick's firmly held (on shaky ground) belief that the Russians were beaming psychotronic transmissions via satellite into his already somewhat disturbed mind. According to Dick -- often known for his far-out flights of paranoiac fancy -- these microwave-boosted, telepathic transmissions, as he called them, commenced on March 20, 1974, showering Dick with endless reams and streams of visual and audio data. Initially, this overpowering onslaught of messages Phil reluctantly received were extremely unpleasant and, as he termed them, die messages. Within the following week he reported being kept awake by violet phosphene activity, eight hours uninterrupted. A description of this event in a fictionalized version appears in Dick's brilliant, though demented, anti-drug novel _A Scanner, Darkly_. The content of this phosphene activity was in the form of modern, abstract graphics followed by Soviet music serenading his head, in addition to Russian names and words appearing there as well. The ever speculating Phil conjectured that a radical drop in GABA fluid -- in his brilliant but balmy brain -- might've accounted for these strange voices and images, though he was at a loss to further explain exactly what would have precipitated such a drop in his GABA fluid, which conveniently lent more credence to his original theory, as crazy as it sounded to even his own buzzing ears, tuned into -- as they were -- this foreign frequency that had invaded his mind. In recent years various info on remote mind-control technology has filtered into the conspiracy research community through various fringe publications such as _Full Disclosure_, _Resonance_ and countless others including a Finnish gentleman by the name of Martti Koski and his booklet _My Life Depends On You_. Over the years Mr. Koski has been sharing with our mind controlled world at large his horrifying tale, documenting as it does the discovery of rampant brain tampering committed upon himself and others, including documents concerning one Robert Naeslund, another victim of brain-research. The perpetrators of these evil doings included, allegedly, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RMCP), The CIA and Finnish Intelligence among countless other covert intelligence agencies. (In _Secret and Suppressed_, edited by Jim Keith, a remote mind-control testimonial appears entitled An Open Letter To The Swedish Prime Minister Regarding Electromagnetic Terror, authored by the aforementioned R. Naeslund.) Another legendary figure in the arcane annals of conspiracy research -- and ranter extraordinaire -- Kerry Wendell Thornley claims that while serving in the Marines with his buddy Lee Oswald, he became subject to just this sort of mind-control scenario; having had planted -- unbeknownst to him at the time -- into the base of his neck, some sort of high tech implant which enabled Thornley to receive malevolent transmissions from military
[CTRL] Was Sirhan Programmed Member of Assassins in Disguise
-Caveat Lector- Nice item with story of old Asssassins who used Hash (fom when he word is derived as I recall) to induce initiates to commit murder for them - maybe like Sirhan, and Littleton - drugs, suggestion, the painting of many mental images - TV or a movie to create the - get the picture atmosphere? Good item here...it is said that there were those who believed even David Koresh was The Mahdithe one who will reveal the deep and secret meanings of the bible when he returns.so is like the Alpha and Omega man? Saba This article may not be reproduced in any form without the express permission of Martin Cannon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright © Martin Cannon, 1997 THE PRE-HISTORY OF MKULTRA By Martin Cannon January 1997 The concept of mind control strikes most people as either futuristic or fabulous. In fact, human beings have employed effective thought-processing techniques ever since the first oligarches sought to exploit their underlings, ever since the first mystics sought communion with their deities, ever since man first sought to understand his inner self. Mind control, broadly defined, has been with us in one form or another since the beginning of civilization. The Mushroom Warriors Arguably, the Russians really were the first brainwashers, just as the propagandists of the 1950s alleged. 4500 years ago, the Koyak and Wiros tribes of the central Russian steppes conducted what may be the first experiments in stimulating violence through the use of drugs. They derived from the Amanita muscaria mushroom a drug which reduced the warrior's anxiety and fear while increasing his strength, stamina, mental acuity, and ability to withstand pain. The shamans hit upon a noteworthy method of increasing the drug's potency: The mushroom was first fed to reindeer, and the soldiers would drink the animals' urine on the eve of battle. Viking warriors also depended on chemical stimulants derived from deer urine. (Today's soldiers should ponder this history before complaining about their MREs.) Combatants in India relied on similar drugs, as did Native American tribes of the Southwest. Incan warriors made use of the coca leaf. The tradition continues today: In Vietnam, soldiers sought relief in a veritable pharma-cornucopia, which offered everything from marijuana to heroin. The warring tribes of Somalia, Rwanda and Liberia all routinely partake of the locally-preferred narcotics. In all ancient cultures, the shaman prepared for healing work by retreating to a cave, or some other quiet, intensely dark environment -- a sensory deprivation chamber, if you will. Magic could occur only after prolonged sessions of drumming and chanting: rhythmic sound stimulation. The shaman would visualize descent into a lower world, just as a modern hypnotherapist might use falling imagery during trance induction. As William Sargant, a British psychiatrist, said of these ancient rituals: Some persons can produce a state of trance and dissociation in themselves, or in others, with a decreasing need for strong and repeated emotional stresses, until it may become so much a conditioned pattern of brain activity that it occurs with only minor stresses and difficulties; for example, in the primitive religious context, at the renewed beat of a drum, or the screaming roar of the rhombos... If the trance is accompanied by a state of mental dissociation, the person experiencing it can be profoundly influenced in his subsequent thinking and behavior. Students of occult history maintain that the heirophants of the ancient Egyptian mystery schools practiced a strikingly-advanced form of hypnosis, in which initiates entered profound trances, triggering what we would today call an out-of-body-experience. Even modern-day, scientifically-oriented hypnotists recognize their debt to the Aesculapian priests of ancient Greece, who practiced a hypnosis-based form of medicine and behavior modification they called dream healing. The oracles of ancient Greece, through the breathing of certain vapors and the imbibing of certain liquids, dwelt within an altered state, as did, to varying degrees, those who participated in the mysteries. Sargant does not hesitate to use the term brainwashing to describe the rites of the Oracle of Triphonius. During these mysteries, the initiate experienced sensory deprivation, sudden confusion techniques, selected auditory and visual stimuli, drugs -- and possibly even the proverbial whack on the skull. Unsurprisingly, vivid hallucinations often resulted. Western civilization, we are told, was founded on the Greek model -- but to what degree was Greek civilization itself founded on mind control? Mystery cults expanded throughout the ancient world, always centering (as Dr. Pierre Janet once noted) in the same types of pastoral locales favored by modern centers of Marian devotion. At Eleusis, as at Lourdes, the pilgrim entered craftily-designed alternate world, set amid grottoes, streams, caves and candlelight rites:
[CTRL] Fwd: Not on the 6 O'Clock News
WWW.ALAMANCEIND.COM Matt Maggio, Publisher Editor Email World exclusive - must credit Alamance Independent: While Tim McVeigh and his attorneys continue studying the newly-revealed, illegally-withheld evidence the FBI just turned over to them - and try to decide what, if any, appeals to mount now, at least one lawsuit has just been filed asking a federal court to indefinitely stay McVeigh's execution. Filed last Friday afternoon by a Dallas lawyer representing Jane Graham and V.Z. Lawton, two bombing victims who were in the destroyed federal building at the time, the lawsuit asks the federal court governing Terre Haute prison to stay McVeigh's execution pending a civil suit the victims have filed - claiming that McVeigh is an indispensable witness in that lawsuit, which is now in the discovery phase. Dallas lawyer Harmon Taylor's lawsuit's complaint - plus a subsequent motion and brief he filed - also argues that McVeigh cannot legally be executed now for two other reasons. The strongest is an apparently-clear rule under the Constitution barring trying McVeigh in any other state for crimes committed in Oklahoma - making his Colorado trial null and void; Taylor's brief cites numerous cases in support of his argument that nobody can be tried by a federal court in another state from the one in which the crime he is charged with occurred in. A likely-much-weaker argument in Taylor's lawsuit claims that, absent proof that the land the bombed federal building was on was itself federal property, federal courts never had jurisdiction to try McVeigh for murder. As of this Monday afternoon, Taylor states that no hearing date has yet been scheduled in his lawsuit. Back Matt Maggio Editor Publisher All Stories Copyright © 2000 Matt Maggio International | National | Local | Immigration | Education | True Crime | Editorial | Al Gore
[CTRL] Dan Rather: Clinton is Honest (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- conservativeinfo - Subscribe to the Conservative Information email list at http://conservativeinfo.listbot.com Tonight, in a taped interview aired on the Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly pressed CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather about former President Bill Clinton's honesty. Here's the exchange: O'Reilly: I want to ask you flat out, do you think President Clinton's an honest man? Rather: Yes, I think he's an honest man. O'Reilly: Do you, really? Rather: I do. O'Reilly: Even though he lied to Jim Lehrer's face about the Lewinsky case? Rather: Who among us has not lied about something? O'Reilly: Well, I didn't lie to anybody's face on national television. I don't think you have, have you? Rather: I don't think I ever have. I hope I never have. But, look, it's one thing- O'Reilly, jumping in: How can you say he's an honest guy then? Rather: Well, because I think he is. I think at core he's an honest person. I know that you have a different view. I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things. O'Reilly: Really?!? Rather: Yeah, I do. O'Reilly: See, I can't. I want my government to be honest across-the-board. I don't want people lying. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] US Government's View on Ancient Practices?
-Caveat Lector- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herbs are often used in vision quests, are they not? Yes, and it's perfectly OK, as long the vision quest isn't a medical procedure.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] modest proposal #2
-Caveat Lector- On Wed, 16 May 2001, Aleisha Saba wrote: Water probably wasn't safe even before the blast - I discovered how bad the water was when goldfish died in it from the chlorine. For once we're on the same page, Aleisha... You're correct regarding the quality of water before the factory exploded...I always ran the tap water thru a filter before using it, because directly out of the tap one can actually taste all the chemicals they put into it. It discolors white porcelain a pale blue color... But I don't trust my filter to handle whatever all the stuff is that went into the water supply due to this fire, so I'll be doing the bottled water bit for a while... But with a mess like that - and the water is safe to drink? The local birds don't seem to think so...not only have they stopped eating the fish out of the river, they're not swimming in it, either...just land on the banks and look at the water as if they're asking What IS that stuff? June A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Teachers with guns
-Caveat Lector- From Gun Owners of America (GOA). http://capwiz.com/gunowners/issues/alert/?alertid=2 (Monday, May 14, 2001) -- Republican Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire is giving gun-haters fits once again. Smith has filed an amendment allowing teachers and principals to use a gun on school grounds to prevent a school massacre. Currently, federal law prohibits citizens from carrying a gun within a thousand feet of school property in virtually all circumstances. The Smith provision would protect decent Americans like Assistant Principal Joel Myrick of Pearl, Mississippi, who circumvented federal law when he used a firearm in 1997 to stop a killer's rampage. It is imperative that gun owners contact their Senators right away in support of the Smith amendment. The Senate is currently debating an education bill (S. 1) that has become something of a magnet, attracting all kinds of gun-related amendments dealing with kids and schools. Smith's amendment is the only one that would advance Second Amendment rights. On the negative side, Senator Robert Byrd (D-VA) has introduced the most far-reaching anti-gun amendment, as it would impose a new tax upon gun buyers, who will have to purchase lock up your safety trigger locks with every retail handgun sale. Moreover, the Byrd provision would impose lifetime gun bans for juvenile indiscretions and expand the arcane rules making it virtually impossible to teach your kids the safe use of firearms. The Smith and Byrd amendments to S. 1 could be voted on this week. ACTION: Please contact your U.S. Senators and urge them to support the Smith amendment to prevent further school massacres. [The provision is known as Senate Amendment 547, or SA 547.] Also, urge your Senators to vote against anti-gun provisions like the Byrd amendment (SA 410). Scroll up to the Take Action Now feature to use the provided pre-written text, or call your Senators at 877-762-8762 (toll free) or at 202-224-3121. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Democrats and Media Lapdogs
Free Congress Foundation's Notable News Now Excerpts from FCF Programming and Other FCF Projects May 16, 2001 The Free Congress Commentary Democrats Win at Game-Playing By Thomas L. Jipping Last week President Bush nominated 11 individuals to fill some of the many vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals. All are highly qualified and fit as closely as political circumstances allow the president's substantive standard: judges who will interpret, but not make, law. What's a leftist to do under these circumstances? For eight years, Senate Democrats and their left-wing interest group allies have shoveled coal into the confirmation train's boilers. Well, maybe coal harms the environment too much so maybe they use solar panels. Anyway, for eight years they chanted confirm, confirm, confirm as Clinton nominees rolled through the Senate. President Clinton in fact had a 374-1 confirmation run, even though he had a so-called opposition Senate for six of those eight years. So now it would seem a bit, oh, hypocritical to suddenly apply the confirmation brakes because a Republican is in the White House. They would have to explain all their past ranting about filling vacancies, especially since vacancies are higher now than when all the ranting went on. They would have to find some excuse for the obvious partisan politics, especially since they said for six years that partisan politics had no place in the confirmation process. So they come up with one gimmick after another, anything to throw a wrench in the works. Their latest gem: they did it first!! The current version of this stunt is the claim that Republicans denied confirmation to 167 Clinton judicial nominees. An eager liberal media lap up this dangling statistic and report it without any investigation, without any scrutiny, without a look at all. But as my dad used to say, liars figure and figures lie. What this figure hanging in mid-air is supposed to suggest is that Republicans could have confirmed all those nominees, but chose not to do so. That, in turn, suggests that nominations are all made at the beginning of each two-year Congress, in plenty of time to do all the background checks, hearings, questionnaires, investigations, and follow-ups that are now standard confirmation operating procedure. Not true. When the Congressional Research Service examined nominations that expired at the close of a two-year Congress without receiving a hearing, it excluded nominations made so late that they could not have been considered. Applying that standard knocks out at least eight nominations from the 106th Congress alone. Another problem with the 167 figure is that it double and triple counts individuals nominated in successive Congresses. A dozen of the nominations expiring at the close of the 106th Congress fall in this category and seven, more than half, were confirmed. So Senate Democrats are using as Exhibit A the charge that Republicans prevented individuals from being confirmed who are, in fact, serving as federal judges today. That's a word game worthy of Bill Clinton. The truth is that Republicans never pulled the overt, explicit, in-your-face, partisan obstruction stunts the Democrats are pulling today. Many conservatives urged them to do so, but they never did. Republicans never threatened filibusters - in fact, Republican leaders openly discouraged their colleagues from this approach. Republicans never applied issue-based litmus tests, threatening to deny confirmation to nominees failing to promise to rule the right way on those issues. Republicans never walked out of committee hearings to prevent votes on nominees. Democrats are playing more aggressive, and more partisan, political games than Republican ever did. So even if it were valid to say they did it too, Democrats are still busted. And Democrats still have all their own words to somehow explain away, to pretend that by urging more confirmations they were actually saying the process should slow down. Stay tuned. Thomas L. Jipping is Vice-President for Legal Policy at the Free Congress Foundation. For media inquiries, contact Notra Trulock 202.546.3000 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] For other questions or comments, contact Angie Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coalition for Judicial Restraint To see the Coalition for Judicial Restraint weekly report contact John Nowacki at (e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Visit our website at http://www.FreeCongress.org
[CTRL] Fwd: 4th Company, Foot Guards
Back in 1700 period Roast Beef was England; also they were at the throat of France from time to time. This EU thing gets stronger, but what is the purpose behind EU?? The Advent of a New Hitler? Thought about the importance of beef to England and remembered this old songthis was a warriors song - cattle slaughtered in England when a good percentage had nothing wrong? Someone is trying to corner market on beef - Europe, why in France now they buy horse meat which costs much more. Cattle Mutilations in USA - rustlers used chain saws to mutiliate and get the beef on the spot. EU wants to form own army and nobody has any objections? Is this the UN come home to roost? Will it play in Paree?Isn't the EU doing what Hitler tried to do - Unite Europe only this time they do it and not a shot is fired - like UN sitting in background passing illegal worthless legislation playing Kingmakers? Tell me is Henry Kissinger finally cornering market on beef? That guy is still dropping crumbs from the table for the dogs and kids? Saba 4th Company, Brigade of Foot Guards in America Your hosts for The British Army in the American War of Independence The Roast Beef of Old England When mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's food, It enobled our veins, and enriched our blood; Our soldiers were brave, and our courtiers were good. Chorus:O the roast beef of Old England! And Old English roast beef. But since we have learnt from all conqu'ring France To eat their ragouts as well as to dance, We're fed up with nothing - but vain complaisance; Our fathers of old, were robust, stout and strong, And kept open house with good cheer all day long Which made their plump tenants rejoice in this song: But now we are dwindled to -- what shall I name? A sneaking poor race, half begotten -- and tame Who fully those honours that once shone in fame: When good Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne, Ere coffee, or tea, or such slip-slops were known, The world was in terror, if e'er she did frown: In those days, if fleets did presume on the main, They seldom or never return'd back again; As witness the vaunting Armada of Spain. Oh! then they had stomachs to eat and to fight, And, when wrongs were a cooking, to do themselves right; But now we're a pack of - I could - but good night. Lillies of France The Lillies of France and the fair English rose Could never agree as old history shows; But our Edwards and Henries those lillies have torn, And in their rich standards those ensigns have borne, To shew that Old England, beneath her strong lance, Can humble the pride and the glory of France. What wou'd the Monsieurs? wou'd they know how they ran? Why look at the annals of glorious Queen Anne! We beat 'em by sea and we beat them by land, When Marlborough and Russel enjoy'd the command. We'll beat 'em again, boys! so let them advance; Old England despises the insults of France. Why, let the grand Monarch assemble his host, And threaten invasion on England's fair coast: We bid them defiance; so let them come on: Have at them! their business will quickly be done. Monsieurs, we will teach you a new English dance, To our grenadier's march, that shall frighten all France. Let's take up our muskets and gird on our swords And, Monsieurs, you'll find us as good as our words: Beat drums, trumpets sound, and huzza for our King! Then welcome Bellisle, with what troops thou canst bring! Huzza! for Old England, whose strong-pointed lance Shall humble the pride and the glory of France. saba note: Look at the face of the sleaze in office - Tony Blair, William Jefferson Clinton - and see what the did to Canada and try to do to Australia? Whats the beef? Answer todoy, is what beef? Unless you want Ye Old Horse Meat of France and Dogs and Monkie Meet With Love from Red China? http://members.aol.com/GuardsSite/IndexofSongs.html
[CTRL] Fwd: FEAR: MI: 40 prosecutors reap forfeiture raises
Crime pays, prosecutors profit from prostitution Source: Detroit Free Press Forty assistant prosecutors in Wayne County, Michigan are expected to receive a combined $500,000 in raises paid for by fines on vehicles seized this year, mainly in prostitution stings. Could there possibly be a financial incentive behind the State's confiscations? (05/09/01) http://www.freep.com/news/locway/seize9_20010509.htm To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the body: UNSUBSCRIBE FEAR-list
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Gold futures and stocks move higher
By Lisa Sanders www.CBSMarketWatch.com May 16, 2001 NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Strength in the June gold contract Wednesday gave equities a lift and propelled both of the major metals indices higher by more than 4 percent. The CBOE Gold Index 1.88 to 42.13, while the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index added 2.53 to 61.10. Individually, Homestake Mining rose by 5.7 percent, or 38 cents, to trade at $7.03, and Newmont Mining climbed 7.6 percent, or $1.59, to trade at $22.40. Gold futures prices added value Wednesday on concerns about low short-term supplies, said Larry Baer, gold analyst at Spike Trading. Gold for June delivery added 31 cents to trade at $271.60. Gold lease rates, the borrowing rates for the precious metal, on Wednesday were at 2.3313 percent for one month, at 2.10 percent for six months and at 2.21 percent for one year. Gold's move higher is signaling that the U.S. dollar is on the verge of declining, said John Mesrobian, president of Constantinople Advisors. There are signs that the Japanese and others are selling U.S. assets and bringing them home, which will affect the U.S. dollar. This is bullish for gold and gold stocks. In other metals action, July silver added 7 cents to $4.39 an ounce. On the supply end, Comex gold inventories were down 7,330 ounces at 823,091 ounces compared to the previous session, and silver stocks were unchanged at 96,247,442 ounces. July platinum added $2.50 to $612.50 an ounce, while June palladium tacked on $3 to $643 an ounce. Copper for July delivery declined by 0.35 cent to 75.15 an ounce. As of Wednesday, London Metals Exchange warehouse stocks fell 1,075 tons to 436,975 tons. Late Tuesday, COMEX stocks were up 1,404 tons to 132,925 tons. July aluminum shed 0.55 cent to 69.90. The CRB/Bridge Index, a broad-based measure of commodity futures markets, shed 0.1 percent to 215.87. -END- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [CTRL] Dan Rather: Clinton is Honest (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Dan Rather wants to be loved by all; to be a forgiving man in his twilight time. Still remember him torturing Nixon like tearing wings off butterfly he said How much is it going to take to push this guy over meaning for him to break. And then we had the soft spoken Walter Cronkite on the night J Edgar Hoover was died, and I believe he was done in, telling the people that J Edgar Hoover had given LBJ sex files for nighty night reading. Today Larry Flynt has copies of all those files; Larry Flynt is front for drug - big time drug runners - Larry Flynt did have two big airplanes, God I and God II and we are told he nearly died for Freedon of the Press? What a crock.so Dan Rather plays a role of Mr. Nice Guy - frankly, I liked him better when he was just plain Dan Rather, Brother Rat who intendned to do the President of the United States Psychological Harm knowing he was in his last crisis. It would seem Rather was guilty of Over Kill..sign of a coward. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Lawyers target FBI for losses to families
-Caveat Lector- http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/134/nation/Lawyers_target_FBI_for_loss es_to_families+.shtml A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] We Aren't the World.The Right Takes on the United Nations
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[CTRL] Konformist: Who Will Own the Internet? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Who Will Own the Internet? George Mokray [EMAIL PROTECTED] This comes from a trusted source. Phil Agre [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the redirect option. For information about RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, see http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= Friday, May 11, 2001 Debra Sweezey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telecom Act Nixed -- Feds Hand Bells the Net This is very likely to be a headline you'll read in next week's paper. When it happens -- and it is happening -- ISPs and CLECs are history, and monopolies rule again. You have just a few weeks to change tomorrow's history, and you have the world's greatest tool for change right at your fingertips. Post notices on news groups, use your mailing list, chat, whatever, as long as you CALL FOR ACTION NOW! There is federal legislation that threatens to hand the Bells the Net. It is called H.R. 1542, misleadingly named the Broadband Relief Act of 2001. It is authored by two very powerful Congressmen, House Commerce Chairman W.J. Billy Tauzin (R-LA) and Ranking Minority Member John Dingell (D-MI), and supported - surprise, surprise, by only four companies. Perhaps you've heard of them: SBC, Verizon, Bell South and Qwest. In essence, the bill allows the RBOCs to immediately begin offering long-distance data service, and eliminates the Telecom Act's requirement that they lease parts of their networks -- including equipment used for high-speed Internet service -- to competitors. Out goes the competition, up go the prices. Share this information with your friends, family, customers, colleagues today! Beg them to make their voices heard. Do they really want the local phone monopoly running the Internet? Do they want higher prices, lousy service, and no new technology? USISPA, the US Internet Service Providers Alliance, is comprised of ISPs and ISP state association across the country, and we are working in the trenches trying to protect consumers and the Internet from the Bell monopolies. We need your help in letting Congress know that what they're trying to do, on the Bells' dime, is not okay with America. We willing and ready to help you any way we can. Please call or email Debra Sweezey of the US Internet Service Providers Alliance, and we'll give you all the information you need. We will give you the contact information for your local representative in addition to sample statements or letters, or we're happy to contact your representative on your behalf. Whatever's easiest for you. We hope you will join the fight for a free and open Internet. We need you! This message comes to you through the United States Internet Service Providers Alliance (USISPA), an alliance of state ISP associations and ISP across the country working to ensure a fair and competitive open telecommunications environment nationwide. For more info or to find how you can help USISPA help you, email Debra Sweezey, Project Director for USISPA, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call her at 202-326-0440. = Debra Sweezey Project Director, USISPA 202.326.0440 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001 (Introduced in the House) HR 1542 IH 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1542 To deregulate the Internet and high speed data services, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 24, 2001 Mr. TAUZIN (for himself, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. ENGLISH, Mr. FROST, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. LUCAS of Kentucky, Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. MURTHA, Mr. COLLINS, Mr. BLAGOJEVICH, Mr. FOSSELLA, Mr. DICKS, Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr. KIND, Mr. GREENWOOD, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. CAMP, Mr. BALDACCI, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. HOLDEN, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. BOYD, Mrs. NORTHUP, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. SANDLIN, Mr. EVERETT, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. REYNOLDS, Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. MALONEY of Connecticut, Mr. BUYER, Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. MCCRERY, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. LAMPSON, Mr. VITTER, Mr. BASS, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, Mr. QUINN, Mr. BACA, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. BAKER, Mr. WALSH, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. OXLEY, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. COOKSEY, Mr. CLEMENT, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. SCHROCK, Mr. PETRI, Mr. WATKINS, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. HILLIARD, Mr. OTTER, Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. BRYANT, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. PUTNAM, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. CONDIT, Mr. BURR of North Carolina, and Mr. WYNN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and
[CTRL] The Wimp in the White House
-Caveat Lector- http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin1.asp Michelle Malkin W. wimps out on guns http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- THE Million Mom March fell about 999,800 bodies short this year. Rosie O'Donnell, a leading anti-gun loudmouth who emceed last year's march and later sought armed security guards for her own children, was a no-show at the pathetically attended protest in Washington, D.C. Similar rallies across the country also fizzled, drawing sparse crowds of liberal activists still sullenly opposed to the Second Amendment. The measly march's message rang loud and clear: Gun-control extremism is a dying movement. Unfortunately, the White House didn't hear it. In Philadelphia this week, President Bush enthusiastically unveiled Project Safe. It's a new gun-policy initiative that will involve gobs of new federal spending and an unprecedented partnership between all levels of government. Unprecedented? Yikes. Gun owners, watch your wallets - and your holsters. The Bush package includes several pet causes of the gun-control lobby, including $75 million for gun locks; $15.3 million for 113 new federal Attorneys to serve as full-time gun prosecutors; and $19.1 million to expand a program by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms aimed at preventing youths from obtaining guns. Although Bush stressed that he simply wants to enforce existing laws, the fine print of Project Safe echoes the gun-grabbing Left's call to ban the importation of high-capacity ammunition clips. There are already 30,000 gun laws on the books. Passing one more law banning ammo clips won't do diddly to reduce gun violence. And I'll bet my .38 that those 113 new federal bureaucrats, under pressure to justify their jobs, will spend most of their day chasing after gun owners guilty of technical violations -- not violent crimes. Kinder Gentler Republicans like Bush who took up the compromise banner of enforcing existing laws have painted themselves into a rhetorical corner. Most of those laws are ineffective in the fight against crime. Instead, they are bureaucratic obstacles that make it unreasonably - if not unconstitutionally -- difficult for law-abiding citizens to purchase, store, and modify guns for protection. Those laws need to be repealed, not enforced. Bush this week cited well-worn anti-gun statistics and condemned the unacceptable number of fatal shooting deaths in the U.S. But like the liberal anti-gun lobby, the GOP president was silent about the untold number of gun shootings committed every year in self-defense. Just two weeks ago, a 12-year-old girl in Clarksdale, Miss., saved her mother's life when she shot and killed an abusive ex-boyfriend who had forced his way into the apartment and started choking her mom. Detective Danny Hill of the Clarksdale Police Department said the brave girl had heard the commotion and she knew from past experience what was going on. So did a Tacoma, Wa., woman who saved her own life in late April after shooting a former boyfriend who invaded her home in violation of two restraining orders. According to police reports, the man had two convictions for domestic violence against the woman over the past year. When he threatened to kill her after breaking into her home, she ran to her bedroom -- where she kept a handgun -- and fired one fatal shot at him. And in Colorado this week, a trial date was finally set for a serial rapist whose terrorism against elderly women ended only after 72-year-old Jean Zamarripa shot him after he broke into her home last fall. When she heard a noise in the backyard, Zamarippa grabbed her loaded .38-caliber revolver. She fired four times when the intruder rammed his shoulder into her back door. I'm just a little grandmother, and I mind my own business, Zamarripa, a retired medical assistant, told the Associated Press. What would I have done if I hadn't had my gun? I would have been just another statistic. What will it take for Beltway Republicans to stop their Clintonesque pandering to Hollywood soccer moms and start representing us gun-owning mammas who don't have Secret Service protection and can't afford to hire armed personal security guards? We refuse to be the statistics you ignore. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis
[CTRL] [BP] Project Gutenberg Needs You! (fwd)
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[CTRL] The Underground Military
-Caveat Lector- The Underground Military William M. Arkin Special to washingtonpost.com Monday, May 7, 2001; 12:00 AM The military facility in Iquitos, Peru is not a U.S. airbase, nor does it appear in any list of U.S. military facilities. The Americans providing real-time tracking information to the Peruvian air force are not government or military personnel. So, who are the gaggle of Iquitos contractors employed by a company named Aviation Development Corporation, a company which is located on Maxwell Air Force base in Montgomery, Alabama, but is not a part of the U.S. Air Force? Who are the contractors operating a specially outfitted Cessna Citation V surveillance plane that flies the U.S. flag but does not belong to the U.S. government? Who are the contractors operating from a hangar built by a Peruvian company paid by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers? They are the fighters in our drug war! The American people are supposed to believe that Peruvian operations to stem the cocaine flow into the United States are innocuous, but we cannot know who the players are or what they are up to until disaster strikes. When the destroyer USS Cole met disaster in Yemen last October, or the Navy EP-3 was attacked off of Hainan island, we were similarly educated about underground activities of the U.S. military. In his election campaign, President Bush vowed to reduce the American military presence around the world. It's a particularly tough task when much of the presence isn't acknowledged or official. Taken individually, each country like Peru or a Yemen may have a justification for secrecy. But when one adds up all the all the Peru's and Yemen's, it becomes apparent that the U.S. military is increasingly everywhere and nowhere. Israel: Capital of Classified Bases At the same time Peru was in the headlines, there were press reports that the United States and Israel had conducted an unusual joint military exercise in the Negev desert. Jane's Defence Weekly called it Israel's first exercise with the U.S. Air Force. The Jerusalem Post called it a marked boost in military cooperation. Neither assertion is true, but that is the problem of an underground military policy. It is hard to know exactly what is going on. In fact, the United States and Israel have a regular series of military exercises, going under the code names Juniper Stallion, Juniper Cobra, Noble Shirley, and other Juniper variations. A month before March's Juniper Stallion exercise, another American contingent was in Israel for Juniper Cobra, a tactical missile defense exercise which included test-firing Patriot missiles while the U.S. Navy Aegis destroyer USS Porter operated off the coast. The exercise, perhaps coincidentally, ended just five days before the February 16 U.S. and British air attacks against Iraqi air defense sites. Last year's Juniper Stallion exercise involved the aircraft carrier battle group USS Eisenhower, and was from March 19-26. Eight U.S. aircraft operated from Nevatim airfield in Israel and U.S. Navy SEALs went ashore to train with their Israeli counterparts. During Juniper Stallion 2000, according to the Eisenhower public affairs office, U.S. aircraft were able to drop live bombs at two desert ranges in Israel, giving crews valuable experience given the temporary prohibition from dropping live ordnance on Vieques Island in Puerto Rico. Juniper Stallion 99, held in August 1999, was an even more extensive, and secret, exercise. U.S. Air Force munitions personnel from Italy were deployed to officially non-existent sites where they inspected and maintained the $500 million worth of ammunition the United States keeps in Israel for wartime contingencies. Their bases, called Sites 51, 53, and 54, don't appear on any map. Their specific locations are classified and highly sensitive. And it's not just munitions. The United States has prepositioned vehicles, military equipment, even a 500-bed hospital, for U.S. Marines, Special Forces, and Air Force fighter and bomber aircraft at at least six sites in Israel, all part of what is antiseptically described as U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation. Such cooperation may or may not enhance American security, may or may not be a prudent part of planning to defend a close friend. The extent of U.S. involvement may or may not be known and understood by U.S. decision-makers and the Congress. But the reason for all the secrecy is clear: All around Israel, in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the Gulf states, the U.S. has newly built up an enormous and yet officially non-existent military presence. Nervous Hosts Here is the web we weave: The Germany-based 22nd Fighter Squadron, the main U.S. Air Force unit to participate in the March Juniper Stallion exercise in Israel, returned from a 90-day tour in Saudi Arabia in late November. The squadron's mission flying the southern Iraqi no-fly zone during its Saudi deployment warranted a press release and a couple of stories in military
[CTRL] Night and Day, Computers Collect Information
-Caveat Lector- http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/washtech/techweek/A26622-2001May14.html Wednesday, May 16, 2001; Page G10 Night and Day, Computers Collect Information By Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer The data collection begins in the morning, when Americans first sign onto the World Wide Web to check the weather or buy a book. It continues during their commute, as cameras and electronic toll booths chronicle their drive to the office. Someone may be monitoring workers at their jobs, recording what they buy at the grocery store, noting their whereabouts while they use their cell phones and scrutinizing their drug prescriptions. From morning until night, the mundane details of life are being tracked, recorded and analyzed. Cheaper computing power and a vastly expanding Internet have enabled businesses, government agencies and many others to watch what was once unwatchable and glean meaning and profit from the ephemera of daily activity. Data giants have created dossiers containing names, addresses, incomes, purchases and other details about 200 million American adults -- and then flashed them to customers on demand. Profile specialists make models of what consumers are likely to do or buy. All the while, information brokers look for data to sell, with rogue operators sometimes using trickery to collect details about bank accounts, stock portfolios, telephone calls and other confidential information. Many Americans believe that data collection has already gone too far. But information experts say this is only the beginning of an era in which more people and institutions will seek access to personal details not available in the past. The tracking technologies we're talking about now are ubiquitous, said Deirdre Mulligan, director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley. It has become so cheap and so easy. The benefits of the electronic aggregation of personal details are considerable -- and often made possible by individuals who actively share data in exchange for discounts, conveniences and the like. Growing files of medical information often help doctors and hospitals provide better treatment. Commuter information gleaned from toll booths can help regulate traffic flow and plan highways. Sales data can help stores control their inventory and keep prices down and profits up. Many companies use their growing stores of personal information to fight fraud. The data that grocery stores collect about shopping habits allow the stores to offer discounts and special promotions to keep profitable customers coming back. In addition, a growing number of companies, including hotel chains, use data collected about visits to personalize their services. Information allows marketers to try and bring the personal touch back in, said Jerry Cerasale, senior vice president for government affairs at the Direct Marketing Association. Part of the vibrant economy is that Americans have all the choices. If we restricted that flow of information, it would reduce those choices. At the same time, citizens and policymakers fear the erosion of privacy, surveys show. They worry that companies will use data to manipulate customers or share data without permission. One tangible threat of the proliferation of personal data is identity theft by fraud artists, who take on the persona of an individual and then run up bills in that name. This fraud has been fueled by easy access to Social Security numbers and other personal data. In a new report, federal regulators estimate that more than 500,000 people are victims of identity theft each year. A recent victim was golfing phenomenon Tiger Woods, surely one of the most recognizable figures in America. Using Woods's Social Security number, Anthony Taylor of Sacramento received a driver's license and credit cards in Woods's name and was convicted of making $17,000 in fraudulent purchases. Privacy advocates also worry about the government's use of personal information. The FBI, for instance, operates a computer system called Carnivore that, under a court order, can monitor the Internet for e-mail sent by suspects or others. To help track down parents who owe child support, the federal Administration for Children and Families has created a computerized data-monitoring system that includes all individuals with new jobs and the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, bank accounts and wages of working adults throughout the United States. One consequence of all this is that Congress has sharpened its focus on the privacy issue, with members introducing dozens of bills to regulate the flow of data. In recent years, Congress has approved restrictions on the use of driver records, financial data and information about children surfing
[CTRL] Who's Who in Intelligence Agencies
-Caveat Lector- May 16, 2001 Who's Who in Intelligence Agencies By The Associated Press Thirteen agencies make up the U.S. intelligence community, an umbrella organization led by the CIA director. It's advised by inside and outside experts who constitute the National Intelligence Council. The National Security Agency is largest of the 13. A look at the others: _Central Intelligence Agency: Foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. Its employment Web site is the only one offering jobs in ``clandestine service.'' _Defense Intelligence Agency: Assesses targets and battle damage in wartime, monitors weapons proliferation and crises in peacetime. Sometimes supports U.N. operations and U.S. allies. _Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy each have intelligence corps. _National Reconnaissance Office: Operates intelligence satellites. Existence of the 40-year-old space-intelligence office became widely known only in the 1990s. _National Imagery and Mapping Agency: Maps and topographical photography for civil and military uses. _Federal Bureau of Investigation. Principal enforcer of federal law is also involved in protecting the United States from foreign espionage and terror. Runs background checks on nominees to sensitive government positions. _State Department: Its intelligence arm provides analysis of foreign affairs. _Energy Department: Intelligence arm monitors foreign energy activity and is charged with protecting U.S. energy secrets. _Treasury Department: Provides liaison between the intelligence community and Treasury's law enforcement arms, and helps prepare intelligence budget proposals. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Top-Secret Agency Breaks 'Silence'
-Caveat Lector- May 16, 2001 Top-Secret Agency Breaks 'Silence' By RON KAMPEAS Associated Press Writer FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) _ Once, the National Security Agency insignia, a bald eagle perched on a skeleton key, surveyed a barren terrain of top-secret letterhead, its forbidding stare known only to a privileged few. Now, it spreads its wings over teddy bears, tie-dye shirts and nail-trimmers sold to tourists, part of an effort to let Americans get a glimpse of what the nation's premier eavesdropping agency does. Competing with a dozen other agencies for intelligence dollars, the largest and most secretive of them wants to spread the word about itself _ without revealing too much. Most of its work _ absorbing intelligence gathered from spy-plane flights like those near China, for example _ is still plenty hush-hush. But its openness around the edges is a departure for the 49-year-old organization jokingly called ``No Such Agency'' and perhaps best known for efforts not to be known at all. ``It's changed all right,'' said author James Bamford. Twenty years ago he faced threats of prosecution for publishing NSA-related documents; recently he faced a crowd of agents at his book launch on the NSA campus. ``Instead of putting me in jail,'' he said, ``they're throwing me a book party.'' The NSA's director, Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, accelerated the change after his 1999 appointment, perhaps most dramatically by making public two lacerating reports on agency deficiencies. ``There are some things that we can say, that we ought to say,'' he commented in an unusual interview with the History Channel. The end of the Cold War led some to question the need for a national eavesdropper and subjected intelligence budgets generally to a harder look. ``Like everyone else in the intelligence community, the NSA is being forced to reveal more than it wants to about itself,'' said Norman Polmar, who wrote ``Spy Plane: The U2 History,'' an NSA-related exploit gone wrong. The internal NSA reports released by Hayden said that ``ineffective leadership'' and ``our insular, somewhat arrogant culture and position'' had led Congress to cut money to the agency, which gets the largest share of the $30 billion intelligence budget. Openness only goes so far. A European Union team angrily left the United States last week when NSA and CIA officials refused to meet with its members. The team is investigating whether the United States engages in economic espionage. NSA agents were once what snoops called ``top secret famous'' _ nameless shadows celebrated only among the select few in the intelligence community. Their coups were legion: Agency eavesdropping allowed President Kennedy to learn Soviet bluff lines during the Cuban missile crisis, and the NSA's Berber linguists linked Libyan agents to the 1986 bombing of a German discotheque that killed a U.S. soldier. But in recent years, the progenitor of information technology in the 1950s has been lagging behind Silicon Valley. In January 2000, the NSA's overtasked computers shut down for three days. Hayden slashed staff _ the agency now has 38,000 _ and hired outside contractors. Last year, Congress increased intelligence funding by 7 percent. To be sure, sleight-of-hand tics persist at the NSA. Gift shop purchases appear on credit card statements credited to a mysterious Civilian Welfare Fund. The NSA museum, vaunted as the hallmark of its new openness, concentrates on World War II codebreaking. ``It's an outstanding tool in helping people understand what the NSA is about without getting into some of the problematic issues,'' said agency historian Patrick Weadon. ``It's too much about war,'' complained Sandro Dallaturca, a Belgian banking encryptologist who had been looking forward to learning about encoding techniques. Missy Spiegl, 15, whose father works for the NSA, thought the museum might give her some family insights. ``I've been trying for years to get out of my dad what he does, but I can't,'' she said. Inside the agency, change has been palpable. The NSA has farmed out some research, allowed an ex-agent to publish an account of how he redesigned an internal communications system and cooperated on Bamford's book, a largely sympathetic history of the agency by an author who favors more spending on intelligence technology. That may have been an astute move on the NSA director's part, Polmar said. ``Honey catches more than a fly swatter.'' Spreading suburbs have brought neighbors close to the agency's long-isolated campus. After a few mishaps _ including a SWAT-team swoop on a real estate photographer _ the NSA reached out to the community. ``They are the hidden powerhouse of the county,'' said Janet Owens, Anne Arundel County leader. She's thrilled the NSA recently enticed General Dynamics to build a local plant. Staffers once forbidden to say where they worked now lead one of the nation's largest blood drives. NSA firemen train local volunteers in how to
[CTRL] LSD Story Causes Flashbacks
-Caveat Lector- Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts, The Village Voice The Times Digs Up Old CIA Death LSD Story Causes Flashbacks The New York Times Magazine always delivers at least one great story, and last week it was an investigation into the claim that the CIA drugged and murdered scientist Frank Olson in 1953 to stop him from blowing the whistle on their secret experiments in mind control. Kudos are in order for Harvard scholar Michael Ignatieff, who was a wise choice to write the piece. He went to school with Olson's son Eric, and as a human rights expert, he was able to build a credible case against the CIA from the son's point of view. Here are some of the facts, according to Ignatieff: By the early 1950s, the CIA had begun to study LSD as a truth serum for use in covert assassinations. In the summer of 1953, the CIA sent Olson to Sweden, Germany, and Britain on business. According to a British journalist, Olson became disturbed by something he witnessed at a research facility near Frankfurt and confided as much to a psychiatrist employed by British intelligence. Thereupon, someone at the CIA raised the issue that Olson had become a security risk. Enter Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, a/k/a the Timothy Leary of the CIA. At a meeting of CIA scientists in rural Maryland in November 1953, Gottlieb dropped a hit of LSD into Olson's Cointreau. Nine days later in New York, Olson went out the window of a 10th floor hotel room, hit the sidewalk and died soon after. The CIA's position was that he had either fallen or jumped. Although Ignatieff approached the M-word carefully in the Times, waiting until about two-thirds of the way through the piece to suggest that dosing Olson was a prelude to murder, the allegation was clearly on his mindas was the unstated conclusion that an aggressive investigation into Olson's death is long overdue. Instead, what the public has gotten so far is a whitewash, and long stretches of silence from the Times. According to a database search, the Olson story first surfaced in the Times in July 1975. Having learned 22 years after the fact that Frank Olson had been fed LSD, the dead man's family gave an exclusive to the Times' Seymour Hersh. Through Hersh, the family announced its plans to file a wrongful-death suit against the U.S. government. (They later settled.) The revelations about the CIA and LSD begat a flurry of stories in the Times in July 1975, and that month, even the editorial page weighed in, calling the agency's experiment on Olson an example of the arrogance and danger of unchecked power. But for the next 26 years, the Times mentioned Olson only a few times in passing, as when his wife Alice died in 1993. That's when things got hairy. In 1994, Eric Olson had his father's body exhumed and autopsied, a difficult choice that paid off when forensic experts concluded that Olson had been knocked out with a blow to the head, then thrown out the hotel window. So much for the theory that he had jumped. Did the CIA deliberately kill Frank Olson? In the wake of the autopsy, the murder charge became credible enough to attract attention from the likes of the AP, CBS, CNN, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and smaller newspapers across the country. Regardie's reported the story as a feature in 1994; the Daily Mail followed in 1998. But The New York Times was nowhere to be found. When asked to comment on the omission, a Times Company spokesperson said, We certainly can't hope to reconstruct a 1994 news decision tonight. As for coverage of psychedelic experiments by Sidney Gottlieb, the Times' only significant story in 20 years appeared in 1999, when Tim Weiner wrote Gottlieb's obituary. During the 1950s and 1960s, Weiner reported, the CIA secretly tested LSD on human guinea pigs, including U.S. prisoners, drug addicts, and prostitutes. A mental patient in Kentucky was dosed continuously for 174 days. Oddly, Ignatieff's story omitted this piece of context. But what's important is that the Times is finally positioned to help bring an extraordinary case to justice. Eric Olson has besieged the Manhattan district attorney's office to open a new investigation, and Ignatieff suggests that there might be hope yet. With the facts freshly laid out, the Times and other opinion leaders should demand that Frank Olson's death be fully investigated before the few remaining witnesses drop out of sight altogether. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of
[CTRL] SNET: REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT - NOW! (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 01:47:35 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT - NOW! - SNETNEWS Mailing List Repeal The Sixteenth Amendment After eighty eight years, it is obvious that income taxes have metamorphosed into something completely different from what the framers of The Sixteenth Amendment envisioned. The implementation has required the excesses of The Internal Revenue Service which has become the single most feared agency of The United States of America, more feared by the average citizen than the F.B.I. and C.I.A. combined. It is time to reassess the validity of income taxes. They are number two on Karl Marx's agenda for the communization of society in The Communist Manifesto. They are therefore un-American. With slavery, one person expropriates all of another person's earnings. When income taxes take a certain percentage of a person's income, that person is that percentage enslaved by definition whether it be by the government or by an individual. There is no escaping that conclusion. Due to their nature, income taxes require the invasion and examination of every facet of our lives. Economic value can be assigned to virtually any action that a human being takes. These actions, in turn, have potential economic value for which a tax assessment can be made. This is not a false alarm. The Internal Revenue Service threatened that it would tax the fan who caught Mark McGuire's 62nd home run ball. I conclude, as I think any citizen would, that similar lower profile incidents have occurred. The costs of compliance with the income tax system are enormous. Directly and indirectly, it diverts the resources and energies of our people from their true duties, the solution of their day to day problems and the betterment of life for themselves and their families. These simple duties have resulted in The United States becoming the greatest nation in the world. This has been not simply because of our abundant natural resources, which are many, but because of the freedom of its people to pursue their own happiness as advocated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. Nothing can compare with freedom for the betterment of mankind and no nation has had the tradition of freedom that The United States embodies. As a result, we are the world leader in industry, the arts, sciences and sports. Without the distractions and the burdens of this horrible income tax system, there is no telling what our people would accomplish for themselves, their countrymen and the rest of the world. The average citizen, increasingly, sees government as remote and responsive only to the interests of the various National Associations. Whether it is Big Education, Big Business, Big Labor, Big Welfare or Big Medicine, the sense is that the federal government hears only the complaints and requests of the organized. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the massive tax code where incentives for various investments and behaviors are rewarded or discouraged at the whim of the government. There is a reservoir of resentment for government, its costs and the resultant taxes which is building in this country. It must be tapped or it may burst. If it bursts, it could mean violence as we have seen with Timothy McVeigh or the emergence of a demagogue such as Adolf Hitler or Josip Stalin. The income tax is an assault upon the very foundation of this nation. It has within it, the implication for the reduction of mankind's soul to a completely economic entity. This is precisely the Marxist view of our existence and the antithesis of our founding doctrines. Prosperity is not now nor has it ever been the goal of this nation. The goal of this nation has always been the assertion, defense and furtherance of mankind's freedom through the dignity which has been bestowed by a Creator who guides us in decency. Prosperity is the inevitable result but not the goal. The Sixteenth Amendment to The United States Constitution is an affront to all of this and must be repealed. I urge you to act before it is too late. Thank you. Roderick T. Beaman - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?b1ddDh.b2B0gP Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 ==^ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL
[CTRL] Fw: Housing Now: Bill would label jails low-income housing
---Original Message--- Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 09:18:26 AM Subject: Housing Now: Bill would label jails low-income housing "HOUSING FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT"Bill would label jails low-income housingBy Rick Klein, Globe Staff, 5/16/2001It's housing all right, and it sure is affordable - at least to those who are living there.But to housing advocates, there's something amiss and even a tad offensive about a bill sponsored by Representative John H. Rogers, the House's chief budget writer.Rogers wants jail and prison inmates counted as low-income housing units for a range of purposes, including qualifying host towns and cities for state grants and bolstering them against challenges to zoning rulings on affordable housing.Housing activists, however, say the idea is misguided and could harm efforts to expand housing for low- and moderate-income residents in Massachusetts.''It certainly feels dodgy,'' said Ellen Ober, a leader with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization. ''It just doesn't sit well. It devalues the efforts and integrity of the towns that have enacted affordable housing.''The Housing and Urban Development Committee will take up Rogers' bill today, along with a raft of other proposals regarding the state's anti-snob zoning regulations. Rogers did not return calls for comment.An aide said that Rogers, a Norwood Democrat, filed the bill at the urging of his constituents in neighboring Walpole. The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that many residents want Walpole to qualifyfor state housing grants and benefits to help ease the burden of MCI-Cedar Junction, the maximum-security prison in town.Cities and towns that have correction facilities could gain substantially by including those inmates in affordable-housing tallies, said Marc Draisen, president of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations.Adding prisoners to the count would boost a community's ability to get state grants and loans. It would also make it tougher to challenge how a community complies with Chapter 40B, the anti-snob zoning law thatrequires cities and towns to have an appropriate percentage of lower-priced residences.If the proposal passes, Chapter 40B would be almost impossible to enforce in some towns, Draisen said. That's because local decisions on where to build lower-priced housing can be challenged only if a community'saffordable-housing stock is less than 10 percent of its total.A town such as Walpole would easily exceed that threshold if prison cells were included in the count, Draisen said.''Towns are always trying to get up over the 10 percent so that they don't have to build affordable housing,'' he said. ''Inmates are not people who could receive assistance from affordable-housing programs. It's not relevant that they're low-income and that they live in the town. They already have the housing that they're going to get.''In addition, the bill could dampen new construction of lower-priced homes in some communities by creating the illusion that they already have enough, Ober said.Senate housing chairman Steven C. Panagiotakos, a Lowell Democrat, said that cities and towns with prisons already receive compensation from the state, and shouldn't look for more money by manipulating their housing statistics, he said.''To equate prison cells to affordable housing units is wrong,'' he said.Representative Alice K. Wolf, a Cambridge Democrat who serves on the housing committee, said that she'll keep a skeptical eye on any proposals to change the anti-snob zoning law.''In general, Chapter 40B is a very important vehicle that the Commonwealth has for ensuring that some affordable housing is built - and, more than that, that it be spread around,'' she said.Rick Klein can be reached by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]This story ran on page A01 of the Boston Globe on 5/16/2001.© Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company. _Bravenet IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
Re: [CTRL] Helms Wants to Ban Discrimination Against Boy Scouts
Government schools that "adamantly refuse" to provide the Boy Scoutsequal access to school facilities, despite warnings, would risklosing federal funding, Helms said. So much for local autonomy. I have a problem when any federal bureacrat of any flavor starts dictating what local schoolboards can and cannot do. If what Helms is trying to do is acceptable, it is just as acceptable to demand local schoolboards be forced to make their premises available to the KKK, Wiccans, Satan worshipers, Aryan Nation, catechism classes for the local Catholic church. If the BSA has an intrinsic right to these facilities, so do any and all other groups. June _Bravenet IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
[CTRL] Fw: Lost city found off Cuba
I remember back in the late 70s or early 80s, either National Geographic or Smithsonian published an article in their magazine about the 'Bimini Stones'...the article concluded that rather than being a 'road' as the stones were then referred to as, they in fact were the tops of walls enclosing a vast harbor structure that at one time was at the water's edge rather than being below water. The article went on to conclude that the style of the harbor design was very similar to Phoenician harbors... I expected all sorts of 'further developments' from this discovery/conclusion, and always thought it strange that nothing more came of it, and indeed to this day the "Bimini Road" is still debated ---Original Message--- Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 12:53:57 PM Subject: Lost city found off Cuba Very interesting find...http://www.msnbc.com/news/573489.aspSEARCHING FOR A LOST CITY Most intriguingly, researchers using sonar equipment have discovered, at adepth of about 2,200 feet (700-800 meters), a huge land plateau with clearimages of what appears to be urban development partly covered by sand. Fromabove, the shapes resemble pyramids, roads and buildings.ADC is excited but reluctant to speculate until a joint investigationwith the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society takesplace early this summer. "It is stunning. What we see in our high-resolution sonar images arelimitless, rolling, white sand plains and, in the middle of this beautifulwhite sand, there are clear manmade large-size architectural designs. Itlooks like when you fly over an urban development in a plane and you seehighways, tunnels and buildings," Zelitsky said. "We don't know what it is, and we don't have the videotaped evidenceof this yet, but we do not believe that nature is capable of producingplanned symmetrical architecture, unless it is a miracle," she added in aninterview at her office at Tarara, along the coast east of Havana. _Bravenet IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
[CTRL] Airborne Laser Research Grants Awarded By A.F.
http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/ Air Force grants awards for airborne laser research The U.S. Air Force has awarded contracts to several U.S. firms for research and development of applications for an airborne laser. In all, $23 million worth of contracts was awarded in the latest round. Georgia Technology Applied Research Corp., based in Atlanta, was awarded a $4.5 million contract. Raytheon Electronic Systems, Tucson, Ariz, was awarded a $1 million contract. Textron Systems, Wilmington, Mass., was awarded a $13 million contract. "Each contract provides for research and development support in the area of aircraft directed energy laser applications," a Defense Department statement said. The contracts are expected to be completed in 2006. The airborne laser is expected to begin partial deployment by 2008. Meanwhile, an Israeli study has formulated a model to ensure the effectiveness of airborne laser weapons being developed by the United States. The model was completed by a group of scientists from Ben-Gurion University who worked on a project for the U.S. Air Force. The air force has been developing the airborne laser for use against ballistic missiles. The Ben-Gurion University study developed a model that factored air turbulence and suspended aerosol particles in determining the broadening of a laser beam. The wider the beam the weaker and less effective the laser weapon. Natan Kopeika, a professor who heads the Ben-Gurion team of researchers, said that until now scientists focused solely on turbulence in laser beam broadening. The result was that scientists and engineers working on laser weapons developed optics that factored turbulence and ignored aerosol blur. Airborne lasers are being developed to destroy missiles from either a high-flying plane or a satellite at a distance of up to 1,600 kilometers. The Ben-Gurion University study was financed by the U.S. Air Force's ABL program. "While the U.S. Air Force is gathering atmospheric data over Korea and the Persian Gulf, we are interested in parallel information closer to home," Kopeika, who presented a paper at an aerospace symposium in Florida last month, said. "By the time the initial ABL aircraft will be operational, in about 2005, we expect to be a lot more knowledgeable about laser-weapon broadening in our region." Israel has been interested in sharing technology from the ABL program. The U.S. Army and Israel are cooperating in the development of the Tactical High Energy Laser and the two sides are considering development of a mobile airborne laser. Kopeika said his team of researchers would need years to develop a reliable model that predicts beam widening. Such a model would take into account surface weather and aerosol layers during various seasons as well as high-altitude winds and cloud layers.
[CTRL] Bada-Bing! The Stained Dossier Of Berlusconi
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,490979,00.html The stained dossier of Berlusconi Italy's leader has seen off investigators and charges alike Rory Carroll in Rome Tuesday May 15, 2001 The Guardian When Silvio Berlusconi plays host to the leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrial countries in Genoa in July, his guests will be wondering whether the event can match his last international summit for drama. Mr Berlusconi was Italy's freshly minted prime minister in 1994 when world leaders trekked to Naples for a United Nations conference on organised crime. They were followed in the door by an indictment from magistrates charging their host with corruption. His famed smile faltered. In Genoa, Mr Berlusconi will get a chance at redemption on the world stage thanks to Italy holding the rotating G7 presidency. Given his legal tangles the subjects look topical: promoting democracy and fighting poverty. The leader of the world's sixth largest industrialised economy has been accused of degrading democracy by standing for office after amassing a controversial £9bn fortune and influencing public opinion through a media empire that includes three of the main Italian television stations. The man that George Bush, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder will queue to greet has been accused of money-laundering, tax evasion, bribery and complicity with the Mafia. On three of these corruption related charges he was convicted; the verdicts were later quashed on technicalities. Four separate charges are pending. France's foreign minister, Hubert Védrine, said yesterday that Europe would be keeping a "vigilant" eye on Mr Berlusconi's actions in office. A prominent investigating magistrate in Spain is among those who already has his eye on the Italian leader. Baltasar Garzon wants the European parliament to lift the media magnate's immunity as an MEP to facilitate an inquiry into the financial affairs of a Spanish television station, Telecinco, which he partly owned. The nightmare scenario for Mr Berlusconi is that he would be arrested on his next visit to Spain. Mr Garzon would have the nerve. It was he who tried to extradite Chile's former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, from Britain. Another battlefront could be London's libel courts if Italy's next prime minister follows up his threat to sue the Economist magazine for its recent issue detailing his alleged crimes. Convictions He is accused of building his empire through a web of corruption spanning 30 years. His holding company, Fininvest, has stakes in television, financial services, publishing, football and property. Despite three convictions he has not set foot in jail. Under Italy's snail-pace appeals system, two of these convictions - for illegal party financing and bribery - were extinguished under the statute of limitations. A conviction for false accounting was overturned on appeal. Four separate charges - for false accounting, bribing judges, tax fraud and breaking anti-trust laws - are pending. Mr Berlusconi, 64, vehemently denies all the accusations and says he has been the victim of a witch-hunt by leftwing magistrates. His business career has been a model of square dealing, he insists. In the 1960s the bank clerk's son entered Milan's booming property market by developing a garden city east of the city. Its value increased after aircraft from Linate airport were inexplicably diverted. Around £11m in funding for the project came from companies in Switzerland. The Bank of Italy suspected Mr Berlusconi was the real owner of these companies, in breach of a law against holding capital abroad without notifying authorities. The finance police decided against legal proceedings. Their investigator, Massimo Berruti, left the force to work for Mr Berlusconi as a lawyer. He is a now an MP for his party, Forza Italia. In the early 1980s money flowing into Mr Berlusconi's new television empire is alleged to have come from the Mafia. The Bank of Italy investigated in 1997 and its report, according to the Economist, showed Fininvest to be a secretive web of 22 companies funnelling money in circles for no apparent reason. One company, Palina, had blank books and was fronted by a 75-year-old stroke victim. Bettino Craxi, leader of the Socialist party and prime minister in the 1980s, signed a decree consolidating Mr Berlusconi's virtual monopoly in private television. Between 1991 and 1992 a part of Fininvest, called All Iberian, allegedly paid £7m into Craxi's offshore bank accounts. Craxi died last year in Tunisia, a fugitive from corruption charges. Mr Berlusconi was convicted of illegal party financing and sentenced to 28 months' jail. He appealed and the conviction was extinguished under the statute of limitations. Mafia claims Mr Berlusconi was also charged with paying £140,000 in 1991 to an appeal court judge, Vittorio Metta, to clinch a battle for
[CTRL] Poll violence flares
-Caveat Lector- Poll violence flares (or alternatively- you can take the man out of the north but not the north out of the man.) after the completely gay american election of last year- welcome to grass roots electioneering- go to the bbc site and watch our deputy prime minister smack out the egg throwing dude- lucky he wasn't armed- he woulda used it! prescott i mean. and tony- what a guy- last thing he wants is some bloody woman with her cancerous husband - berating him for four minutes in front of the whole media! the cheek of it... the staple gunned grin is there the whole time- but you can see the fear in his eyes. erm, fuck voting etc. ~ Poll violence flares John Prescott: I defended myself Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been involved in an angry scuffle in which punches were thrown - only hours after the launch of the Labour manifesto. Mr Prescott hit out after being pelted with eggs outside a Labour Party rally in North Wales. One person was arrested. I was attacked by an individual - in the melee that followed I clearly defended myself John Prescott The trouble followed angry scenes in Birmingham where Prime Minister Tony Blair was confronted by a cancer patient's partner complaining about health spending. John Prescott said in a statement on Wednesday night: I got off my bus into an already hostile crowd. I walked through all the jostling and I was attacked by an individual. In the melee that followed I clearly defended myself. I believe that someone is now being questioned by the police, and it would be quite improper and quite wrong to add any further comment. Eggs thrown Eggs were thrown at Mr Prescott as he arrived at the Little Theatre, in Rhyl, North Wales, to address a Labour Party rally. One eyewitness, farm labourer Ron Ingram, said: Somebody threw an egg and Prescott just turned around and thumped them. I saw it. We were just protesting. The egg hit him and he hit out. There was pushing and shoving going on something terrible. It got quite nasty. Mr Prescott was trapped against a wall before party supporters intervened. He was led to safety by police. Somebody threw an egg and Prescott just turned around and thumped them Eyewitness Ron Ingram Protesters, with placards in support of farmers and hunting, had earlier gathered outside the theatre. Brendan Murphy, Conservative candidate for the Vale of Clwyd, which includes the town of Rhyl, called on the Deputy Prime Minister to resign. Speaking outside the Little Theatre, Mr Murphy said: He's just got to resign and get it over with. Role model What sort of role model is he for young people. We don't want that kind of role model in Rhyl. Mr Murphy said the protesters had every right to air their views outside the rally. Sharron Storer challenged Blair on his NHS record Throwing eggs is almost a time honoured tradition in this country. It might hurt and sting your face a bit but it doesn't harm you. If politicians can't put up with things like that they shouldn't be in the job. Earlier, Mr Blair faced the wrath of a cancer patient's distraught partner at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Sharron Storer, 38, was outraged that no bed had been available on Monday in the hospital's bone marrow unit for her partner, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of lymphatic cancer. Better facilities Would you like to tell me what you are going to do to give these people better facilities?, she asked the prime minister. The prime minister said afterwards that more investment was being put into the health service but that change took time. Education Secretary David Blunkett told Channel 4 News that there were hundreds of thousands of patients were happy with their treatment in the NHS. Would you like to tell me what you are going to do to give these people better facilities? Sharron Storey There is still an absolutely enormous challenge in turning round the lack of investment and neglect. I am very sorry about Sharron Storer's partner. I just wished she'd voted in 97 and I wish she would vote this time. William Hague joined in the controversy during a speech in the Midlands. He said: As Tony Blair discovered in Birmingham today, careful choreography and planted questions cannot shield him from the anger of ordinary voters. ~ foot tapping mentalism for all ages http://www.mp3.com/theehumancannonball A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always
[CTRL] The Colin Powell File
http://www.mediamonitors.net/index.html The Colin Powell file by Ahmed Amr "We burned down the thatched huts, starting the blaze with Ronson and Zippo lighters," Powell recalled. "Why were we torching houses and destroying crops? Ho Chi Minh had said the people were like the sea in which his guerrillas swam. ...We tried to solve the problem by making the whole sea uninhabitable. In the hard logic of war, what difference did it make if you shot your enemy or starved him to death?" (from Collin Powell’s memoir, ‘An American Journey’). I came across the above quote in a series of articles about Powell’s service in Vietnam written by journalists Norman Solomon and Robert Parry. The articles were written in 1996. Yet the material is not dated by any means. Indeed, in light of the recent revelations about ex-Senator Bob Kerrey, the work of these two journalists needs more public attention. In ‘The Case Against Colin Powell" (Toronto Globe Mail, 12/26/2000), Christopher Hitchens accuses Colin Powell of "a direct role in suppressing the inquiry into the My Lai massacre, and into related atrocities against civilians". Reviewing Colin’s performance on a number of major policy decisions, including his failure to confront Serbian ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Hitchens concludes that Powell has demonstrated "a recurring strain of moral cowardice". For a little background concerning the charges leveled at Powell, I will quote briefly from an article by Russ Kick. "The My Lai massacre. On March 16, 1968, US soldiers from the Americal Division slaughtered 347 civilians--primarily old men, women, children, and babies--in the Vietnamese village of My Lai 4 (pronounced, very appropriately, as "me lie"). The grunts also engaged in torture and rape of the villagers. Around six months later, a soldier in the 11th Light Infantry Brigade--known among the men as "the Butcher's Brigade"--wrote a letter telling of widespread killing and torturing of Vietnamese civilians by entire units of the US military (he did not specifically refer to My Lai). The letter was sent to the general in charge of 'Nam and trickled down the chain of command to Major Colin Powell, a deputy assistant chief of staff at the Americal Division, who was charged with investigating the matter and formulating a response. After a desultory check--which consisted mainly of investigating the soldier who wrote the letter, rather than his allegations--Powell reported that everything was hunkey-dory. " Aside from his troubling record while an officer in Vietnam, Powell’s business dealings also raise some serious question marks, should anyone ever cares to pose the question. This ex-General is now a multi-millionaire, partly due to his presence on the board of AOL. His son, Michael Powell, the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, was part of the commission that approved the AOL/Time/Warner merger, while his dad retained his AOL seat. Which brings us full circle to the Kerrey’s atrocity at Thanh Phong and the role of two mass media players, the New York Times and the Washington Post, in ‘holding’ the story for two years. For the full length of a two-year cover-up, Sulzberger and Graham had the option of making the file on Kerrey public. It does not take a stretch of the imagination to assume that Kerrey paid close attention to the foreign and domestic policy edicts marketed by these media titans on their editorial pages. Once he lost his power as a Senator, he became fair game. Over the last few months, the New York Times, with the assist of their partners in media crimes at the Washington Post Company, have waged an intensive campaign to sanitize the criminal war record of Ariel Sharon. These media outfits are as familiar with Qibya and Sabra and Shatila as they are with My Lai and Thanh Phong. So far, they have chosen to expose Kerrey’s file, bury Sharon’s file and keep their options open on the Powell file. As long as the Secretary of State continues to lease out his department to the Israeli lobby, he will be lionized in the press. In the unlikely event that he demonstrates an ounce of interest in Palestinian human rights or political aspirations, Powell will be deflated in a New York minute. One only needs to recall the media circus that came to town on the strength of the accusation that Madeline Albright had been "unaware" of her Jewish heritage. It was enough to generate unending howls across the editorial pages of the gray lady, Sulzberger’s daily ruse. Compared to Albright, the file on Powell is enough to warrant an investigation of a war crime, or at the very minimum, a cover-up of a war crime. Then there is the very serious charge of conflict of interest involving the AOL/Time/Warner merger, a story that is unlikely to air on CNN. It was only a few months ago that the New York Times vigorously reported on the charges that German Foreign Minister
[CTRL] International Aspects Of Drug Wars Undercovered
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/b051601.html International Aspects of Drug Wars Undercovered By Alan Bock The big news in drug reform circles this week is the Supreme Court’s decision that there is no "medical necessity" exception to federal prohibition of marijuana distribution or manufacture that can be claimed by the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative. The court did not overturn California’s law allowing patients with a recommendation from a licensed physician to use, possess and cultivate cannabis, or the similar laws passed by initiative (and by legislative action in Hawaii) in other states, but it does highlight the complex relationships of various levels of government. It is important for those seeking reform to be aware that interrelationships among various governmental bodies can make reform efforts more complicated than they might otherwise be. And it is not quite enough for the people of a state to pass a medical-marijuana law to get a system to serve patients in place – indeed, as my new book, Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana (available here) details, getting enough political support for a reform to have it passed can be only the beginning of a complex and confusing process that is still far from over. And then there’s the federal government with its own attitude and agenda. In a similar fashion, countries that want to diverge from the chosen path of prohibitionism when it comes to dealing with certain drugs can find that international organizations, international treaties, international conventions and international pressure can have a powerful impact on their desire to explore options other than punishment and imprisonment. It’s becoming a growing problem as an increasing number of countries try to find alternatives to the strict prohibitionism many view as a twisted spawn of American puritanism. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM The main international treaty governing drugs policy is the UN Single Convention, ratified in 1961, which binds signatories to have an essentially prohibitory policy toward certain drugs, especially marijuana and heroin. When it was ratified, then-head of the US Bureau of Narcotics Harry Anslinger, the duplicitous father of marijuana prohibition policies, crowed that it meant marijuana could never be legalized, because any country that even thought about doing so would be in violation of a solemn treaty obligation. And, indeed, at various times during the ongoing debate over drug policy, American prohibitionists have cited the treaty as one of the many reasons the United States can’t even think about anything other than strict prohibitionism as an approach to supposedly dangerous drugs. During those debates there was seldom a realistic likelihood that the United States would actually revise its drug laws in a way that might run afoul of the Single Convention. But of late various governments, especially in Europe, have pursued slightly different policies toward drugs and the harms they can cause in a society. Most people are aware that cannabis and the refined form called hashish can be purchased openly in Amsterdam, through "coffee shops" that sell small amounts to almost any comer. While the trade is open and openly tolerated, however, the Dutch government has not actually changed its marijuana laws, it has simply chosen to ignore them in certain ways. The results are generally beneficent: marijuana use by teenagers in Holland is lower than it is in the United States, and while the "coffee shops" are associated with certain low-level enforcement and disturbance problems, they are generally operated so as to minimize disturbances and problems for neighbors. While Dutch government officials are generally pleased with their policies and willing to defend them against falsehoods from such as former U.S. "drug czar" Barry McCaffrey, however, the laws haven’t actually been changed, in large part due to the Single Convention. So Holland is left pursuing a policy its leaders believe to be beneficial, but which is to some extent a lie in that it isn’t formalized in the laws of the country. It’s more that a little Alice-in-Wonderlandish. DE FACTO BUT NOT DE JURE Meanwhile other countries are working out different approaches to potentially dangerous, addictive or demonized drugs, but operating under similar legal constraints. Thus Great Britain has at various times operated heroin maintenance or methadone clinics. Switzerland in recent years has virtually legalized marijuana, allowing not just use and sales but also cultivation. Belgium is on the verge of decriminalizing possession and cultivation for personal use. Germany, led by resolutions from various cities, has more tolerant policies in practice, though not in law, than the United States. Italy and Spain have flirted with de facto legalization of marijuana. All of these countries have been held back from open legalization or full
[CTRL] Live To Be Free, Be Free To Live
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.lewrockwell.com/delemos/delemos16.html }}Begin Home Schooled and Free by Michael Gilson De Lemos Libertarian ideas do seem counter-intuitive to people who believe you have to punish that virtue in. I regularly get letters from people who connect to the LIO website and say we must be kidding when we point to Libertarian solutions or at least discussions such as abolishing police or prisons to cut crime or how arbitration might work or two-year olds reading let alone 12 month olds. They are unaware that these things are already happening even as they theorize on why Libertarianism is OK except just for that. One recurring issue is schools. WHY SCHOOLS? Schools dont. The truth is there is no great social need for schools, but instead for environments at home conducive to learning. Private schools have their points, and some things may be conveniently taught by experts, but in my view children should be schooled first at home and then at their parents side, in the world. Schools are an antique and obsolescent institution and should go. They are based on the mind-deadening presumption of the authoritarian mindset that people benefit only by what they are taught and not by their ability to teach themselves. But self-learning is the real goal of education. The self-learner is confident in the world. The taught person, in contrast, is constantly in search of the next expert like a chick seeking to be fed. And they understand the value and need for freedom and self-discipline. As our little chick, waiting to be told, does not. Schools create the present world in a bizarre take on Rousseau: man is everywhere born naked and free, and now is everywhere, not in chains, but diapers. Among the least pernicious schools are the Sudbury schools. Based on the Libertarian idea of self-management at an early age, and inspired also by not only the older communal libertarianism, but also modern Libertarian attitudes, they undermine every assumption in the educational establishment. The Sudbury students run the schools setting curricula, going about as they please, and hiring and firing the teachers from an early age. Sudbury and similar less startling models, such as Montessori and Summerhill, now under attack in the UK, are not perfect, but they show that superior students can run themselves. In Sudbury, the consumer the child directly hires the teacher. Indeed, I advise Libertarians to get off the school voucher kick and raise the issue of student-run public schools (not to mention Universities). Everyone in the Education establishment says that is an abomination, it cant be done, but there it is. Indeed, firing the teacher is arguably an integral part of the learning experience, inherently unprovidable by government schooling. I know. My kids fire me all the time. HOME-SCHOOLING SELF-TAUGHT Private schools, as I said, have their points, but they are far inferior to the home. Home schooling is easy if you realize three things: first, the child wants to learn far more than you want to teach but at their pace. Second, making self-education decisions is part of the process. Third, a little structure goes a long way, the rest is making it available because you are in the Freedom Business if youre doing education right. Indeed, most of the time the best way to provide structure is to simply review with them what they have achieved thus bringing it to full consciousness and asking what they plan to do next. It is quite something to say, What did you learn today? and get detailed, enthusiastic answers complete with graphs, computer presentations, and origami models. Which is why my kids fire me. Here is how they do it. There I am, resplendent in learning plans, books and syllabi, Yet once they get the drift, they say OK, Dad, go away, or Ill do it myself. I set moderate goals, encourage them to take over, and try and look dignified as they dive into dinosaurs or some other subject that I know little about except to demand they research the answer which about does it. Now they make a little exposition
[CTRL] Evil livE
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.lewrockwell.com/elkins/elkins10.html }}Begin The Face of Evil by Jeff Elkins MSNBC, in its documentary The .50-caliber militia has been kind enough to reveal the true nature of one of the states most noxious congresspersons: Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California. The central figure of the MSNBC Investigates documentary is Bob Stewart, creator of the Maadi-Griffin .50 caliber rifle kit. Very popular with enthusiasts, the Maadi-Griffin retails for under $1,600 compared to $8,000 for a Barrett .50 caliber rifle. The Maadi-Griffin also has the added advantage of having no serial numbers and under current law, buyers do not have to register the kits with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Rep. Waxman wants to change that, pronto. In fact, Waxman wants to reclassify all .50 caliber rifles as either destructive devices or Class III weapons, thus making them effectively unavailable to commoners. Actually, what Waxman really wants is to take away all your guns so he can enslave you or kill you. Id like to illustrate with some choice Waxman quotes, interspersing my comments. Quoting Waxman: I dont think everybody has a right to a weapon that can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States. That could cover something as prosaic as a butter knife. Reagan was shot with a cheap .22 caliber revolver. What Waxman is saying here is that you have no right to any weapon. Quoting Waxman: The legislation were trying to get through would upgrade the classification of .50-caliber weapons to the same level as machine guns and other similar kinds of weapons. Until 1934, it was not at all uncommon for free Americans to own select-fire weaponry. Technically, you still can, but the hoops you have to jump through combined with the inflated cost and waiting period makes ownership of any Class III device impractical for most citizens. Additionally, I would never purchase a Class III weapon under the constraints currently imposed by the State . God only knows what kind of list that would put you on at BATF central. Quoting Waxman: This kind of weapon can blow up a limousine or a helicopter, can take out a vehicle, armored vehicle, maybe even a mile away. It can shoot through seven buildings! This begins to get to the core of Waxmans fear. Who commonly rides in limousines, helicopters, and armored vehicles? Hes afraid of the very citizens he was elected to represent. His fear of the general citizenry lurks behind every word from his statist mouth. In addition to fearing you, he hates you as well. Quoting Waxman: I dont believe we should wait until another tragedy takes place before we act in an appropriate, common-sense way. Another tragedy? Im unaware of any crimes committed with a .50 caliber rifle. No school shootings, bank robberies, assassinations or car jackings accomplished with the aid of a .50 caliber rifle have been reported, to my knowledge. Anyone who can afford a .50 caliber rifle is probably fairly upstanding, at least in an economic sense. Quoting Waxman: If they are militia people who think theyre going to defend America from Americans by having these weapons, and using them for that purpose, I dont think they ought to have them. Im ecstatic that the honorable Representative Waxman was not an attendee for the events following a certain shot heard in Concord many, many years ago. Perhaps his spiritual forefathers were we called them Tories and most of them fled to Canada. They seem to have made a comeback, unfortunately. Quoting Waxman: If I had my druthers, Id go further than legislation. I dont wanna see some people with this weapon at all. I dont wanna see a statist slavemaster like Waxman as an elected official of my country and it is amazing that so-called citizens would elect such a peculiar animal to a position of street sweeper, much less to the United States House of Representatives. It almost makes one think fondly of the poll tax and perhaps a property ownership requirement for voting. And Im curious as to what he
[CTRL] Hate Crime Follies
http://www.counterpunch.org/ May 14, 2001 Hate-Crime Follies The legal aftermath to an attack on Christopher Columbus in the city of Santa Cruz instructs us in the folly of the current liberal obsession with installing hate crime laws in every statute book. On March 9 James Cosner, 31-year-old self-described "revolutionary freedom fighter" took a hammer to a statue of Christopher Columbus in Santa Cruz's city hall, severely damaging the statue while denouncing Columbus as a perpetrator of genocide. The statue is worth $100,000, according to a deputy DA in Santa Cruz. Cosner is now being charged with vandalism. If convicted he could get up to three years in prison, but the prosecutor has added a hate-crimes enhancement-which could add another three years from California's penal code. So here's a fellow who did something that's a crime, with enough destruction to draw a felony charge. But suddenly that's not enough. Now we're into the issue of his motive, namely the avenging of Columbus's destruction of the Arawaks. In other words, Cosner could get an extra three years because of his ideology, not because he made a mess of city property. An extra irony is that in politically correct Santa Cruz the progressives have been big supporters of hate crime laws. The liberal obsession with installing hate crimes in every statute book is one of the saddest spectacles of our age. Let us now travel to North Side Chicago, to the Shan Restaurant, a Pakistani bistro where South Asians like to hang out, Among them on March 12 was Ifti Nasim, a 53-year-old Pakistani writer and radical who's also a leading light of Muslim gays, many of them mustered in the international gay Muslim organization Al-Fatiha. Nasim has been claiming that he was sitting in the Shan on the night of March 12 when a man at the table called Salman Aftab began verbally hassling him for being "too visible" in his sexual orientation and an "embarrassment" to South Asians. Nasim apparently likes heavy jewelry and displayed himself in drag on the cover of his latest book of poems. Nasim says Aftab told him, "I'm going to stab you up the ass to tell God I'm getting rid of at least one sinner! I want to clean up the planet after your type!" Then, on Nasim's account, Aftab got a knife from the kitchen, yelled out "gandoo," meaning "faggot bottom," declared an Islamic "jihad" against Nasim and gay Muslims and lurched toward the poet. At which point two people in the restaurant restrained Aftab, and Nasim dialed 911. The first Chicago cops on the scene reportedly told Nasim it looked to them like "an ethnic problem" and declined to take Nasim's complaint. Then police Sgt. Mary Boyle arrived and ordered Aftab to be arrested, charged with simple assault, a misdemeanor. The Chicago police have declined Nasim's request that they hit Aftab with a hate-crimes charge, to the great fury not only of many Chicago gays but of the local chapter of the ACLU. And indeed, For Chicago's gays it's become a very big issue issue. The Al-Fatiha Foundation has been urging gays across the United States to call Cook County State's Attorney Dick Devine to demand that hate-crimes charges be filed against Aftab on the grounds that the assault was motivated by Nasim's sexual orientation and ethnicity. The Chicago Anti-Bashing Network has made the same call, and has prompted the ACLU's Pamela Sumner to write a three-page, single-spaced letter to State's Attorney Devine detailing why she felt he should pursue hate-crimes charges in Nasim's case. Devine has refused to do so. The cops and Devine are quite right. It turns out that the initial quarrel between Nasim and Aftab wasn't about the former's sexual orientation but about an article he'd written. Aftab never attacked Nasim with a knife (though Nasim insists he'd gone to the kitchen to get one). And Nasim put up Aftab's bail money, though he still wants him hit with a hate crime charge for calling him an insulting sexual term. The Chicago Anti-Bashing Network supports this position, which only goes to show how dementedly wrong headed progressives are on the hate crime issue. Now CABN has done good work in Chicago on such issues as killings and torture by Chicago's cops. When we called the group to ask for Sumner's letter CABN cofounder Andy Thayer told us he was well aware of our opposition to hate crime laws and indeed agreed that "the promotion of hate crime legislation has generally been a distraction from legal inequalities faced by lesbians and gays," also that the "Democratic Party in particular has very cynically promoted hate crime legislation while conveniently ignoring the Defense of Marriage Act and the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy that had arguably contributed to the climate requiring hate crime laws." After voicing these sentiments, Thayer said he wants Aftab charged with a hate crime because the law is on the Illinois books, and it was a useful way to pressure states attorney Divine, who grandstands
[CTRL] Democrats unveil own energy plan
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! May 16, 2001, 10:01AM Democrats unveil own energy plan By KAREN MASTERSON Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON -- House Democrats unveiled a national energy plan Tuesday that promotes conservation over production and draws battle lines against a White House plan due out this week that calls for more oil drilling and at least 1,300 new power plants. Gathered at an Exxon station 12 blocks from the Capitol, a half-dozen key Democrats attempted to portray President Bush as a friend of Texas oil industries, not consumers. We need the president to learn he doesn't work for the oil companies anymore, he works for us, said Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., referring to Bush's years as an oil executive. But more than anything, Democrats sought to distinguish themselves from the GOP and carve out energy policy initiatives they intend to carry into a crucial political battle over control of Congress in 2002. It's time for us to have an energy policy that listens to the people of this country and responds to their concerns, House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri said outside the gas station Tuesday. A recent Gallup Poll found 47 percent of the public favors a green approach to energy policies, while 35 percent prefers a boost in energy production. And although the public is nearly split on nuclear power, a majority opposes drilling in the Arctic wilderness. However, in a sign that the White House message is catching on, the number of Americans who see conservation as the best way out of an energy crunch dropped from 56 percent two months ago. At issue is which party can portray itself as a friend of the environment, while also appearing to be capable of tackling serious energy problems that range from the California electricity shortage to the country's insatiable thirst for oil. Bush's plan, which Vice President Dick Cheney will unveil Thursday, is expected to call for a combination of tax incentives and relaxed environmental regulations for new power plants, including nuclear power, over the next 20 years. And the Bush plan is expected to call for continued reliance on coal and push for oil exploration in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other federal lands now closed to oil exploration. Bush has said such policies are necessary to meet the country's long-term demand for energy, and to avoid the shortages that already have caused blackouts and brownouts in Western states, and could hit other areas of the country this summer. As for high gas prices, Bush has said there is little he can do in the short term, except to push for retroactive tax cuts that put more money in people's pockets this year. Unlike his education and tax cut proposals that arrived on Capitol Hill with detailed legislative instruction that House Republican leaders have tried to follow almost to the letter, the president's energy policy is not expected to be accompanied by proposed legislation. Instead, administration officials have said that the White House energy policy is designed to nudge Congress toward the easing of complicated regulations that for years have discouraged construction of new power plants and expansion of oil refineries. Bush's plan also is expected to include environmentally friendly recommendations to complement, not replace, production. Those recommendations include tax incentives for hybrid automobiles and research and development of alternative energy sources such as wind and solar energy. The Democrats' plan would surpass Bush's environmental overtures, making them central to answering the country's long-term energy needs. Democrats also would concentrate on conservation by placing emissions standards on sport utility vehicles and air conditioners, and fuel efficiency requirements on all trucks, sport utility vehicles and minivans. To help ease oil shortages and resulting high gas prices, Democrats called on Bush to look toward the country's strategic oil reserves and ask oil-producing countries to release more crude. The Democrats' plan also would place federal caps on the amount utilities may charge consumers, answering a call from California's Democratic governor to help control high prices public utility companies have had to pay for wholesale electricity. The energy plan offered by the Democrats on the Hill has some areas of overlapping commonality with the plan that the president is about to propose, and the president looks forward to working with Congress on those areas, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. But he added that some parts of the Democratic plan do not go in the right direction, including the electricity price caps and tapping the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Cheney defended Bush's plan in an interview with Reuters, absolving OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, of blame for record-high U.S. gasoline prices. Cheney
[CTRL] Iran to buy cruise missiles from Russia
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Iran to buy cruise missiles from Russia SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Wednesday, May 16, 2001 LONDON â Iran plans to obtain ship-born cruise missiles from Russia. Industry sources said the Russian government has agreed to sell the Yakhont cruise missiles to Iran as part of a huge deal now being negotiated between Moscow and Teheran. Estimates of the price for the package range up to $7 billion, Middle East Newsline reported. Geostrategy-Direct.com reported in its April 17 edition that likely customers for new version of the SSN-26 anti-ship cruise missile include the Chinese military which is intensely interested in anti-ship cruises missiles, especially those capable of sinking U.S. aircraft carriers. The missiles use stealth technology, supersonic speed and an advanced fire and forget precision targeting system. They can be launched from coastal patrol boats, ships, submarines and ground launchers. They have a range of 186 miles and fly some 15 to 50 miles before dropping down to an altitude of as low as 15 feet from the water surface before delivering a 553-pound warhead to its ship target, according to Geostrategy-Direct.com. U.S. officials said the Bush administration is concerned by the sale of the Yakhont. They said the missile could threaten U.S. naval vessels in the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz. Sales of the missile abroad would violate Moscowâs commitment to the 29-nation Missile Technology Control Regime. The cruise missile was raised during the visit to Moscow by Iranian President Mohammed Khatami in March. The sources said the issue was also discussed during a subsequent visit by a Russian military delegation to Iran. The Yakhont is designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya and was first displayed at the Moscow airshow in 1997. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER =CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ===Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A ===To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Revisiting perestroika
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Revisiting perestroika -- -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A recent poll asked Americans to identify what they believed was the greatest threat to U.S. security in the world today. For a third of America, the greatest threat American security faces comes from the Chinese. Saddam Hussein was the choice of fifteen percent of those polled. A mere eight percent of those polls cited Russia as our greatest security threat. Of all the nations on earth, no other comes even close to Russiaâs capacity to inflict damage on the United States. China has only a relative handful of nuclear weapons that pose a direct threat to the US -- Russia has 27,000. While Saddam may have chemical and biological weapons enough to kill every living thing on earth, he has no effective delivery system. Russia, on the other hand, could destroy America with a single blow. There are those in the Russian military who believe that since America has changed its response policy from that of launch on warning to one of launch on impact, there may be time enough to deal us a mortal blow before we can retaliate. Indeed, the professed state of the Russian military made such a policy shift necessary. For example, earlier this month, the Russians admitted to losing control of four military satellites that form part of its early warning system. The breakdown was caused by a fire at a relay station, but experts are renewing warnings that Russiaâs decaying infrastructure could eventually result in an accidental missile launch. Adopting a launch on impact policy gives the Russians time to notify Washington in the event of such an accident before it escalates into a nuclear conflagration. But it also opens a window of opportunity -- however slightly -- for a decisive pre-emptive strike. But while its infrastructure crumbles, Russia is going full speed ahead in military research and development projects being conducted under the label of military reform. Following the Kursk disaster, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to revive both the Russian military and the Russian state. One of Putinâs reform plans involved putting old KGB comrades into positions of power. The new head of the Russian defense ministry is former KGB officer Sergei Ivanov. The first question facing Ivanov is how to divide Russiaâs limited resources between its strategic nuclear forces and its conventional military force. The conflict in Chechnya revealed a conventional military force inadequate to the task. Despite that, Moscow remains committed to reclaiming its status as a global superpower. Gorbachevâs perestroika notwithstanding, Russian ambitions have not changed. Defense analyst Eric Margolis writes of a conversation he once had with former Pakistani President Zia in the 1980âs. Margolis related that Zia handed him a book on Russian foreign policy saying, Read this book fifteen or fifty years from now and Russiaâs policy will be the same as it is today, no matter who rules Moscow. Perestroika was and remains a con job of the first order. It was based on principles developed by Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci who developed a new and improved concept of Marxist-Leninist philosophy. Back in 1984, former KGB officer Anatoly Golitsyn wrote a book entitled New Lies for Old that forecast the fall of the Soviet Union as part of a long term plan. Golitsyn alleged perestroika was not a Gorbachev policy invented in 1985, but the final phase of a plan formulated in the years 1958 to 1960. Golitsyn said the plan involved a theatrical display of democratization designed to convince the West a decisive break with the past has taken place. This encourages Western governments to collaborate with former Communists. At the same time, there is the threat of a return to the Cold War if the West does not cooperate. Golitsyn outlined Soviet perestroika policy the year before it was ostensibly even invented. His accuracy rate cannot be explained away by guesswork or some kind of false conspiracy theory. Only a real conspiracy will do. Vladimir Putin rose to power mysteriously, out of nowhere, in what amounted to a bloodless, silent coup dâetat against Boris Yeltsin. (See Rebuilding Russia in the Soviet image.) Under his supervision, Moscow began to rebuild the old Soviet Union. KGB security forces keep the Communist rulers of Uzbekistan, Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan in power. Russian troops are waging a secret war against insurgents in Tajikistan. The KGB is arming Armenia while destabilizing the governments of Georgia and Azerbaijan. Moscow has already crushed independence movements in Ingushetia and Dagestan. And it will eventually reclaim the oil rich republic of Chechnya. Moscow is the driving force behind Indiaâs nuclear
[CTRL] Mutant bacteria biowars threaten apocalypse now
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Mutant bacteria biowars threaten apocalypse now Genetic engineers already have it within their grasp to devise a lethal bio-weapon for terrorists and rogue states, the British science publication Nature warns this week. Small changes in the DNA of well-known bacteria and viruses could turn these agents into mass killers, the journal says. The publication echoes warnings by a pair of Australian scientists, Dr Ron Jackson and Dr Ian Ramshaw, who accidentally created an astonishingly virulent strain of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox, among laboratory mice. They realised that if similar genetic manipulation was carried out on smallpox, an unstoppable killer could be unleashed. They decided to publish their findings in January to draw attention to the potential misuse of biotechnology. Nature warns: Making subtle genetic alterations to existing pathogens to increase their virulence or durability in the environment, or to make them harder to detect or to treat with drugs, is within the limits of today's technology. With the decoding of a pathogen's entire genome now commonplace, and transgenic techniques advancing all the time, some researchers believe that the sinister potential of biology can no longer be ignored. Biowarfare - use of germs or viruses such as anthrax or smallpox - has long been considered by military strategists. However, the risk has increased thanks to advances in knowledge about how genes work, new techniques for moving pieces of DNA around, and the relative ease with which a rogue organisation could build or hire a lab to build such a weapon. Scientists interviewed by Nature ruled out, for the time being, the ability to build new, artificial agents from a set of component parts. A far simpler way would be to tweak the performance of an existing bacteria to make it more resistant to antibiotics, they said. The genetic sequences of bacteria such as tuberculosis, cholera, leprosy and the plague are already in the public domain - as is that of a food poisoning bug, Staphylococcus aureus, that is already becoming resistant to antibiotics. By identifying the genes from Staphylococcus aureus that make the bug resistant, and inserting them into the other bacteria, a scientist could make a killer for which there would be scant defence. Dr Willem Stemmer, chief scientist with Maxygen, a California pharmaceutical research firm, used one of these techniques to explore how resistance genes work, Nature reports. He created a strain of the common intestinal bug Escherichia coli that was 32,000 times more resistant to the antibiotic cefotaxime than conventional strains. He destroyed the superbug in response to the American Society for Microbiology's concerns about potential misuse. It's time for biologists to begin asking what means we have to keep the technology from being used in subverted ways, said Harvard University molecular biologist Professor Matthew Meselson, who has often spoken of the dangers of biowarfare. Agence France-Presse *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Suspected FBI spy Hanssen named in 21-count indictment
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Suspected FBI spy Hanssen named in 21-count indictment 14 charges could bring death penalty MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 â Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was indicted Wednesday on 21 counts of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia and causing âgrave injury to the security of the United States.â If convicted, he could get the death penalty. The indictment alleges that Hanssen âbetrayed his country for over 15 years and knowingly caused grave injury to the security of the United States.â THE FORMER FBI agent is due to appear in court Monday for a preliminary hearing. His arraignment was scheduled for June 1. The indictment accuses Hanssen, just the third FBI agent ever accused of espionage, of one count of conspiracy to commit espionage, 19 counts of espionage and one count of attempted espionage. The conspiracy count and the espionage charges carry a maximum penalty of death or life imprisonment. Each charge also carries a potential fine of not more than $250,000 or double what Hanssen gained from the alleged spying. Hanssen was arrested Feb. 18 after allegedly dropping off a bundle of classified material at a suburban Virginia park to be picked up by Russian handlers, officials say. Prosecutors charge that the 57-year-old counterintelligence specialist sold secrets to Moscow over a 15-year period beginning in 1985. Among other things, that information led to the execution of two Russians who were spying for the United States, they say. âBETRAYED HIS COUNTRYâ Discussing the indictment on the steps of the U.S. Courthouse, U.S. Attorney Ken Melton said it alleges that Hanssen âbetrayed his country for over 15 years and knowingly caused grave injury to the security of the United States.â Hanssenâs lawyers have said Hansen will plead innocent. The U.S. Attorneyâs Office in Virginia added a few details to the charges against Hanssen in a press release. It said that Hanssen is accused of compromising secret materials including classified details of â(U.S.) satellites, early warning systems, means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack, communications intelligence and major elements of defense strategy.â FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen used his decades of experience in espionage to succeed as a Russian spy, the FBI charges. According to the government's affidavit, here's how he did it. Hanssen never revealed his real identity to his Russian handlers, protecting himself from possible Russian double agents employed as American operatives. Allegedly, his Russian handlers initially referred to him as B, but Hanssen later used the code names Ramon Garcia, Jim Baker and G. Robertson. Dead drop sites are places where an intelligence officer and his recruited asset can communicate safely and clandestinely without seeing each other or being seen face to face. Hanssen and his Russian handlers allegedly established nine such drop sites, all located under wooden foot bridges in the parks of northern Virginia. To confirm pickups, Hanssen established a signal location -- often nearby signposts -- plus a signal code. One vertical mark of white adhesive tape on a signal location meant that Hanssen was prepared to make the dropoff and ready to receive payment. A horizontal mark of white adhesive tape indicated that the Russians had dropped off payment. A later vertical mark of white adhesive tape indicated that Hanssen had received payment. Hanssenâs seniority gave him access to the FBIâs Automated Case Support System (ACS), a computerized database of investigative files. He allegedly used the ACS to watch for any possible internal investigation that could concern him, running keyword searches that included: HANSSEN, DEAD DROP AND KGB; DEAD DROP AND RUSSIA. Both Hanssenâs seniority and his position in counterintelligence provided him with access to information classified as âtop secret.â His high-level access also meant that his behavior was not monitored the way someone at a lower level might have been. FBI Director Louis Freeh said security measures needed to be tightened, but added that at some point the bureau has to rely on the integrity of its senior employees. An expert in counterintelligence, Hanssen understood that sudden, unexplained deposits of money into his account could trigger suspicion. Hanssen allegedly often accepted payment in diamonds, telling his Russian handlers that he would tell authorities that the diamonds came from his grandmother if they were ever discoved. In addition, the KGB placed funds in escrow in a Moscow bank on Hanssenâs behalf. Source: FBI affidavit -- -- Printable version
[CTRL] Resumed U.S. Spy Flights Meet Chinese Jets
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Spies in the Sky Resumed U.S. Spy Flights Meet Chinese Jets May 15 â Chinese fighters are once again approaching American spy planes as they fly near China's eastern coast, ABCNEWS has learned. In the last several weeks, the U.S. military has conducted three surveillance missions about 50 to 70 miles off the shores of China â and in each instance, Chinese fighters launched and observed the U.S. aircraft, Pentagon sources said. The fighters, however, stayed several miles away, at more than a safe distance. An intercept is defined as coming within less than 5 miles. The first surveillance mission, on May 7, involved an Air Force RC-135, and another RC-135 flew last week. Then the Navy launched an EP-3, similar to the one being held on China's Hainan island where it crash-landed last month after colliding with a Chinese jet. Will It Fly Again? The fate of the stranded EP-3 remains unsettled. It was damaged in the collision and landing, and cannot be flown out in its current condition. American civilian experts who examined it earlier this month said it can be repaired. Washington's latest proposal is to have some 15 workers sent in to repair the plane. The operation would take 10 to 12 days, and a Russian jet would be chartered to fly in the workers and their equipment â to avoid the specter of U.S. military presence. Chinese officials have said they would not allow the plane flown out under any conditions, and have not given any approval for repair work. Some experts believe Beijing's denial is a reaction to the resumption of U.S. surveillance flights off China. Others note the Chinese public would react poorly to officials allowing the plane to fly off Chinese territory after what is largely perceived as an illegal landing. The remaining option is to have workers sent in for several weeks to dismantle the aircraft and ship it out on a barge. Washington's Own Fear of the Skies Meanwhile, Beijing has rebuffed a senior U.S. diplomat's efforts to overcome opposition to President Bush's plans for a missile defense system. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly arrived in Beijing on Monday, hoping to convince Chinese officials that the system would be good for world peace. After meetings today, Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi told a news conference: China's constant position is unchanged. We are opposed to the National Missile Defense because it destroys the global strategic balance and upsets international stability. Kelly responded by saying he was seeking a dialogue with Chinese officials on security and stability that reflects today's world â a reference to the Bush administration's fears of nuclear attack from rogue states â and implying that traditional deterrence ideas held by China are increasingly outdated. The official Xinhua news agency said Kelly's discussions with Chinese Vice Ministers of Foreign Affairs Li Zhaoxing and Wang Yi would continue. ABCNEWS' Barbara Starr at the Pentagon contributed to this report. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER =CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ===Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A ===To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won't Go Away
http://www.almartinraw.com/column17.html The Jeb Bush Affair Story That Won't Go Away by Al Martin Al Martin Raw has once again scored yet another coup in our ongoing effort to bring the truth to the American people. Governor Jeb Bush called a news conference to deny allegations of having an affair with one Cynthia Henderson. Ms Henderson, a former Playboy bunny, is a senior employee at the Florida State Department of Resource Management. The Governor did not however specifically address allegations made on the Al Martin Raw Website that he was aware he been videotaped by an FBI surveillance camera at the 2001 Super Bowl held in Tampa. Nor would the Governor address what was raised on Al Martin Raw that in fact Ms. Henderson was seeking money to keep quiet about her affair with the Florida Governor. Governor Jeb Bush further denied a previous rumor that he had an affair with Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. But that was a different affair altogether. In fact, Al Martin Raw knew it was Cynthia Henderson in this case, and not Katherine Harris, but withheld that information. Governor Jeb Bush said he was responding to increasing media pressure on this subject, more specifically on allegations from a website called Democrats Dot Com. This site has been known to use information from the Al Martin Raw website. After the Governor's denial, the Democrats Dot Com backed down, saying they had perhaps been given wrong information about their allegations. Of course, it should be noted that Democrats Dot Com is nothing more than a recirculator of others' stories and does no independent investigation of its own. However, we at the Al Martin Raw website stand behind the allegations in our story (http://www.almartinraw.com/column6.html. And we will not back down. The source of our story comes from a highly placed individual within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who has a long track record of credibility in such matters and who was in a position to know of this matter, to wit Jeb and the girlfriend at the Super Bowl. The problem with the Democrats Dot Com website is that it gives Jeb Bush an out to say that these allegations are just "political." After Al Martin Raw broke this story, it was on countless newswires. Bush is however insinuating that they are the only ones who made this allegation and so there is a political motive. We thoroughly investigate our information even in this age of corporate journalism in which investigative journalism has become passé. The Al Martin Raw Website continues to vigorously investigate and, yes, even spend money on investigating new stories. And here's more information you won't find anywhere else. Ms. Henderson worked for Neil Bush back in the Iran Contra days when he was running Gulf Stream Realty, the west coast Florida land fraud company. Another source has revealed to Al Martin Raw that the reason the Bushes have carried her all these years and made sure she's earned a living and gotten good appointments is because of things she may have found out about Neil and Jeb when she was working for Neil in the mid 1980s. Ms. Henderson may have found out the extent of the fraud they were committing at Gulf Stream Realty Group. Besides being a counsel, Ms. Henderson also had an affiliation with one of Jeb's artifices - IMC -- the International Medical Corporation Swindle. The reason the Bushes may have carried her all these years is because of something she found out about the extent of the Bush Brothers' frauds during the Iran Contra period. Nobody has investigated this. Why didn't they get rid of Ms. Henderson? She could have been smart. She could have made copies of incriminating documents and squirreled them away. The Bush Brothers, particularly Neil and Jeb, have been known for having many affairs and many women. So why was this woman treated differently? Why have they tried to help her over the years, to make sure she was consistently employed at a $60,000-70,000 a year level? Because she found out, while being affiliated with Neil, during the Iran Contra period, just how much fraud Neil and Jeb had been committing through various fraudulent artifices they were controlling at the time. Maybe Ms. Henderson just knows too much about Neil and Jeb Bush's Iran-Contra profiteering…
[CTRL] AF News 17 May 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 0663. March becoming temporary home for Fairchild KC-135s MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- In an example of total force cooperation, the 452nd Air Mobility Wing here is becoming a temporary home for an active-duty unit this summer. About 380 people from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., will make this Air Force Reserve Command base their temporary home from the end of May through mid-August. Fairchild's runway is undergoing construction, so the 92nd ARW is deploying 17 of its KC-135 Stratotankers here, two more are going to Geiger Field in Spokane, Wash., and the rest Fairchild's fleet is being dispersed to other bases. This summer three components will be flying KC-135 aircraft from March. The Reserve's 452nd AMW flies KC-135s and C-141 Starlifter transport aircraft, and the 163rd ARW, an Air National Guard unit, also has KC-135s. Fairchild will continue its real-world, ongoing mission while they are here, said Col. Peter T. Bentley, 452nd AMW commander. We were selected because Fairchild needed a base on the West Coast that had sufficient quarters, ramp space and a large operational runway. There will be some increase in flying activities during this period. We are actively working with the Fairchild staff to minimize the impact on the surrounding communities. Besides, Fairchild will deploy support staff, including maintenance, transportation, weather and security forces people. March's C-141s will airlift support equipment, such as computers, aerospace ground equipment and security forces vehicles. March is doing a tremendous job supporting us, said Maj. Robin Whybrow, 92nd ARW plans division. Along with airlifting our equipment, they are providing us a building to work out of, helped us out with our site visits and have done a lot of the legwork for us. (Courtesy of AFRC News Service) 0668. AAFES changes overseas gasoline pricing policy CAMP FOSTER, Japan (AFPN) -- The Army and Air Force Exchange Service has implemented a new overseas gas price policy to help minimize annual price fluctuations. Under the new policy, the sell prices for gasoline and diesel fuel are established by grade, based on the Department of Energy averages from the previous month, plus each region's incremental dispensing costs. The purpose of the new policy is to have a consistent pricing policy and a policy that minimizes big price fluctuations from year to year, AAFES officials said. Gasoline is priced in the world market daily. As such, having a yearlong price is antiquated and simply not realistic. This is the reason for the big fluctuations seen in the past, such as 42 cents last year. The new policy will minimize that effect. Though our first price adjustment under this new policy results in a price increase for gasoline, the adjustment for diesel fuel is a reduction, said Col. Les Chang, AAFES Pacific Region commander. We feel over time, this policy will benefit our customers by allowing us to provide more consistent pricing and cost reductions -- when possible -- much quicker than the old policy. On May 10, the gas prices for the remaining month of May became $1.76 for midgrade unleaded and $1.55 for diesel. Before that, prices were $1.62 for gasoline and $1.58 for diesel. The price will be adjusted up or down, on the first of each month hereafter, Chang said. In the past, each AAFES region, (Pacific and Europe) determined overseas gasoline prices. The price and frequency of change varied between the regions, usually depending on local situations. For example, in Japan and Okinawa, we changed the price once a year each October 1, Chang said. This price was fixed based on the market price at that time and not adjusted as prices dropped or raised in the stateside market. The most recent price adjustment in October resulted in a 42-cent increase for gasoline, he said. This new policy should eliminate large fluctuations and provide timely price reductions when possible. It's important for our customers to know that we strive to provide the best products and services at the best prices possible, Chang said. We're confident that this new pricing policy will do that by providing more consistent and timely pricing adjustments. (Courtesy of Pacific Air Forces News Service) 0667. Air Force civilian leadership programs offer career opportunities RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The Air Force is looking for about 164 GS-12 through GS-15 civilian employees who are interested in developing their leadership and management potential. Under the Air Force Civilian Competitive Development Program, the service will select 104 candidates nominated by senior leaders to participate in a variety of management development activities. The Defense Leadership and Management Program will select an additional 50 to 60 qualified Air Force candidates. Together, CCDP and
[CTRL] John Walters Iran Contra Drugs
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Dowbenko051601/dowbenko051601.htm l Drug czar's dirty secret: John Walters and the Iran-Contra drug connection By Uri Dowbenko May 16, 2001—John P. Walters, appointed "Drug Czar" by President George Bush Jr., is uniquely qualified for his new job. He was actually involved in the Iran-Contra Drug Trafficking Cover-up. In a recent interview, whistle-blower Al Martin, who testified before the congressional Kerry Committee and the Alexander Committee about Iran-Contra, stated that "when Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams went to Panama to have a meeting with [former Panamanian ruler] Noriega, he took along Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Michael Kozak, and John Walters, who at that time had been appointed special advisor to the State Department's Office of Inter-American Affairs." Martin says, "They went down to smooth things over with Noriega, who was complaining that he wasn't getting a big enough piece of the pie for allowing Panama to be used as a trans-shipping point for drugs and weapons. We were complaining that he wasn't keeping up his end of the bargain, making facilities secure for the storage of drugs and weapons. His G-2 was pilfering a lot of materiel. Meanwhile Noriega was complaining that he wasn't getting a big enough slice of the pie." "This came soon after Oliver North had ripped Noriega off for $5 million dollars in that boat deal with Donald Aronow [See Chapter 18 of "The Conspirators" by Al Martin]. He was still upset about Ollie taking his money. So the three of them went down to have a discussion. They met at the Intercontinental Hotel in Panama on December 10 to smooth things out." "Noriega was promised a bigger cut of the pie, when he said he wasn't making enough money," Martin continues. "He claimed there were a lot of people on his end within G-2 that had to be paid. Abrams tried to tell him that everybody was not getting the cut they had. The price of cocaine was falling so rapidly because we were importing so much of the stuff. Consequently the whole pie had become smaller than before. And that's what John Walters was all about. Now he's appointed 'drug czar,' which is not only ironic, it's absolutely laughable." "When he went down to meet with Noriega, John Walters was the 'special advisor.' His father Vernon Walters got him the position. His father is very, very loyal to the Bush Cabal and had been for years. You don't see Vern much anymore. Vernon Walters was one of the original post-war Military-Industrial Complexers." A little family history—the father of John Walters is US Army Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters, the deputy director of the CIA from 1972 to 1976 during the Nixon administration. When the Watergate scandal erupted, Walters was very adept at covering the CIA's liabilities. After all, Agency fingerprints were all over the Watergate burglary, and the prime players—the Cubans, Hunt and McCord—were all CIA agents or assets. Later, according to "Silent Coup" author Len Colodny, his old friend General Alexander Haig was instrumental in getting Walters the job of translator for the secret Paris talks between Henry Kissinger and the North Vietnamese. Walters was also the acting Director of Central Intelligence in 1973 (between James Schlesinger's and William Colby's directorship). Later Vernon Walters was appointed Ambassador-at-Large by President Reagan. In his book "The Conspirators," Al Martin describes the real reason why the price of cocaine kept falling in the mid 1980s. In a chapter called "Classified Illegal Operations Cordoba and Screw Worm," he describes how Oliver North planned to distribute "more cocaine into the United States than ever imagined before. 'Operation Screw Worm' was the last and the largest. It envisioned a tremendous expansion of 'authorized' narcotics trafficking." Martin writes, "North had set up the time in May 1986 of the first biweekly policy and planning session of the FDN and this absolutely astounded me. Fred Ikley was there. Donald Gregg himself was there. The usual cast of characters, Manuel Diaz, Nestor Sanchez." "North envisioned an increase of 50,000 kilograms a month which absolutely astounded me," Martin continues. "Jeb Bush [the current governor of Florida], I think, correctly voiced concerns that had already come into play that the Agency [CIA] was dealing in so much cocaine that its street value was becoming depressed. This had already happened. In 1985, cocaine was commanding $30,000 per kilogram. By 1986, it had dropped to $15,000 per kilogram and was continuing to drop." "But North felt it was important to raise the revenues, so there was going to be a tremendous increase in importation," writes Martin. (P.65, "The Conspirators" by Al Martin; 2001; $14.95; National Liberty Press LLC; Order Line: 877–776–9004; Website: Al Martin Raw http://www.almartinraw.com)
[CTRL] It is impossible...
-Caveat Lector- Air Force Brigadier General (Ret.)Benton K. Partin has a long list of credentials and qualifications. He is one of the foremost experts in the world on the subject of bomb damage assessment. I hope you will read and consider his analysis of the bombing in Oklahoma City. At least read these few lines: The Murrah Federal Building was not destroyed by one sole truck bomb. The major factor in its destruction appears to have been detonation of explosives carefully placed at four critical junctures on supporting columns within the building. J.C. PART ONE: Bomb Damage Analysis Bomb Damage Analysis Of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Oklahoma City, Oklahoma July 30, 1995 by Benton K. Partin Brigadier Gen. USAF (Ret.) 8908 Captains Row, Alexandria, Virginia 22308 703-780-7652 On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was bombed, causing extensive damage to the structure, the loss of 168 innocent lives, the victimization of the families of those who lost loved ones, hundreds of non-fatal injuries, and substantial property damage in the vicinity. The media and the Executive branch reported that the sole source of the devastation was a single truck bomb consisting of 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate, transported to the location in a Ryder Truck and parked in front of the building. It is impossible that the destruction to the building could have resulted from such a bomb alone. To cause the damage pattern that occurred to the Murrah building, there would have to have been demolition charges at several supporting column bases, at locations not accessible from the street, to supplement the truck bomb damage. Indeed, a careful examination of photographs showing the collapsed column bases reveals a failure mode produced by demolition charges and not by a blast from the truck bomb. To understand what caused the damage to the Murrah Building, one needs to understand some basics about the use and nature of explosives. First, blast through air is a very inefficient energy coupling mechanism against heavily reinforced concrete beams and columns. Second, blast damage potential initially falls off more rapidly than an inverse function of the distance cubed. That is why in conventional weapons development, one seeks accuracy over yield for hard targets. That is also why in the World Trade Center bombing (where the only source of blast damage was a truck bomb) the column in the middle of the bombed-out cavity was relatively untouched, although reinforced concrete floors were completely stripped away for several floors above and below the point of the bomb's detonation (see Time Magazine, 3-8-93, page 35). By contrast, heavily reinforced concrete structures can be destroyed effectively through detonation of explosives in contact with the reinforced concrete beams and columns. For example, the entire building remains in Oklahoma City were collapsed with 100-plus relatively small charges inserted into drilled holes in the columns. The total weight of all charges was on the order of 200 pounds. The detonation wave pressure (1,000,000 to 1,500,000 pounds per square inch) from a high detonation velocity contact explosive sweeps into the column as a wave of compressive deformation. Since the pressure in the wave of deformation far exceeds the yield strength of the concrete (about 3,500 pounds per square inch) by a factor of approximately 300, the concrete is turned into granular sand and dust until the wave dissipates to below the yield strength of the concrete. This leaves a relatively smooth but granular surface, with protruding, bare reinforcement rods__a distinctive signature of damage by contact explosives. The effect of the contact explosive on the reinforcement rods themselves can only be seen under microscopic metallurgical examination. (The rods are inertially confined during the explosion and survive basically in tact because of their much higher yield strength and plasticity.) When a reinforced concrete structure is damaged through air shock coupling and the pressure is below the compressive yield strength of the concrete, the failure mode is generally compressive structural fracture on one side and tensile fracture on the other__ both characterized by cracks and rough fracture surfaces. Such a surface texture is very different from the relatively smooth granular surface resulting from contact explosives. Read the rest of this report at: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/PARTIN/ok2.htm __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are
[CTRL] Indian Prophecies
-Caveat Lector- Does any body know where I can find all 8 (or is it 9?) Native American Indian prophecies? I only have the one below. Thanks. White Feather, Bear Clan: : : And this is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear : of a dwelling-place in the heavens, above the earth, : that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear : as a blue star. Very soon after this, the ceremonies : of the Hopi people will cease. : These are the Signs that great destruction is here: : The world shall rock to and fro. The white man will : battle people in other lands -- those who possessed : the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns : of smoke and fire such as the white man has made in : the deserts not far from here. Those who stay and : live in the places of the Hopi shall be safe. Then : there will be much to rebuild. And soon, very soon : afterward, Pahana will return. He shall bring with : him the dawn of the Fifth World. He shall plant the : seeds of his wisdom in our hearts. Even now the seeds : are being planted. These shall smooth the way to the : Emergence into the Fifth World. -- Those who want to hear the voice of pagan gods in wind or thunder, who want to see the fairies dance in the moonlight, who can believe that faith can move mountains, can follow the thread on the pages of this book. It is a fragile thread; it cannot bear the weight of facts and dates -Kate Seredy, The White Stag ICQ: 9815080 Operator Taliesin_2 of #SacredNemeton on IRC PaganPaths A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Indian Prophecies
-Caveat Lector- http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/prophecy/prophecies.html - Original Message - From: Taliesin2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:06 PM Subject: [CTRL] Indian Prophecies -Caveat Lector- Does any body know where I can find all 8 (or is it 9?) Native American Indian prophecies? I only have the one below. Thanks. White Feather, Bear Clan: : : And this is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear : of a dwelling-place in the heavens, above the earth, : that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear : as a blue star. Very soon after this, the ceremonies : of the Hopi people will cease. : These are the Signs that great destruction is here: : The world shall rock to and fro. The white man will : battle people in other lands -- those who possessed : the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns : of smoke and fire such as the white man has made in : the deserts not far from here. Those who stay and : live in the places of the Hopi shall be safe. Then : there will be much to rebuild. And soon, very soon : afterward, Pahana will return. He shall bring with : him the dawn of the Fifth World. He shall plant the : seeds of his wisdom in our hearts. Even now the seeds : are being planted. These shall smooth the way to the : Emergence into the Fifth World. -- Those who want to hear the voice of pagan gods in wind or thunder, who want to see the fairies dance in the moonlight, who can believe that faith can move mountains, can follow the thread on the pages of this book. It is a fragile thread; it cannot bear the weight of facts and dates -Kate Seredy, The White Stag ICQ: 9815080 Operator Taliesin_2 of #SacredNemeton on IRC PaganPaths A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Paramilitary is suspected of kidnapping in Colombia
-Caveat Lector- May 16, 2001 From the Los Angeles Times Paramilitary is suspected of kidnapping in Colombia Email this story Printer friendly format By Ruth Morris Times Staff Writer Published May 16 2001, 9:16 PM CDT BOGOTA, Colombia -- Suspected paramilitary gunmen went on a kidnapping rampage through the tropical lowlands of eastern Colombia, plucking nearly 200 people from buses, bicycles and farmhouses, the armed forces said Wednesday. Most of the victims worked on plantations near the hamlet of Villanueva and were heading home from work Tuesday afternoon when men wearing fatigues intercepted their caravan. Locals said the gunmen numbered about 40 and that they focused their attention on youths. Gen. Fernando Tapias, the head of the armed forces, said the hostages included 53 minors and at least one woman. This is a collective kidnapping with characteristics that we've never seen in this country, Tapias said. Colombia has long been dubbed the kidnapping capital of the world, and leftist rebels have pulled off several spectacular mass abductions in the last two years. But Tuesday's kidnapping involved more victims and is being attributed to the rebels' right-wing paramilitary foes. The gunmen didn't identify themselves, but authorities speculated that right-wing death squads mounted the attack to forcibly recruit new troops. To back up this claim, they said members of the so-called United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, known for massacres of suspected rebel sympathizers, were operating in the region. The only delinquents in that area are members of the Self-Defense Forces, a regional military spokesman said. There were 190 people kidnapped in total, some of whom were traveling in buses, some on bicycles, others by foot, he said. Some of the victims were reportedly also taken from the plantations. If militias were indeed involved, Tuesday's kidnapping will mark a new chapter in terrorist violence in Colombia. Until now, Colombia's second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army, or ELN, has been the principal actor is such high-profile attacks. For example, it was the ELN that apprehended more than 140 churchgoers in the city of Cali in 1999, herding them off to a mountain hide-out in broad daylight. Villanueva, with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants, is 80 miles east of Bogota, the capital, but access is hampered by poor roads and faulty telephone connections. As a result, news of the kidnapping was slow to reach the national media. Preliminary reports Tuesday evening put the kidnapping figure at just 27. But by the following morning, the Villanueva mayor's office was handling nearly 200 missing persons reports filed by frantic family members. Colombia's armed forces have been fighting Marxist rebel factions for decades, but in the late 1980s paramilitary groups emerged as a third actor in the country's complicated conflict. Copyright © 2001, The Los Angeles Times A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: York mayor to face charges in race riot slaying
-Caveat Lector- Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:06 PM Subject: York mayor to face charges in race riot slaying I thought all racists lived in the South. At least, that's what some of you have implying repeatedly to me. Hey! Ya'll haven't been LYING to me, have you?? This sounds every damn bit as racist as anything I have ever encountered down here. Amelia http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/05/16/penna/16YORK.htm York mayor to face charges in race riot slaying York City Mayor Charlie Robertson acknowledges his supporters. (AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS YORK, Pa. - Mayor Charlie Robertson said today he will surrender to prosecutors tomorrow to face a murder charge stemming from the shooting death of a young black woman during the city's 1969 race riots. Robertson was a police officer at the time. Robertson, who just won the Democratic nomination for election to a third term yesterday, fought back tears at a news conference on the steps of City Hall where he said he expects to be arrested and handcuffed. Murder is the charge, he said. I'm being advised by the district attorney's office that, as your mayor, it's necessary to be handcuffed, he told reporters. The district attorney will inform you as to where I'll be handcuffed for your photo session. Robertson maintained his innocence and said he intends to continue campaigning for re-election despite the expected criminal charge. Phone messages seeking comment from prosecutors on the mayor's statements were not immediately returned. Shortly before the mayor's news conference, a fifth white man was charged with criminal homicide in the shooting death of Lillie Belle Allen on July 21, 1969. William C. Ritter was ordered held at York County Prison following a brief appearance before District Justice Barbara Nixon. Robertson, 67, has admitted to yelling white power at a rally on the night before Allen was killed, but has denied involvement in her death. Robertson has hired two defense lawyers to represent him. Amid speculation that he could be among 11 people recommended for indictment by a grand jury reinvestigating Allen's death, Robertson canceled all public appearances late last week as a respite from the media attention. He re-emerged this week, campaigning door-to-door. Court papers charging the first two suspects refer to an unnamed police officer who screamed white power! at a rally in a park. The papers say the same officer provided ammunition to at least one of the men who fired on Allen's car, and urged commando raids in black neighborhoods. Robertson denies giving away any ammunition or making the commando raids comment. In addition to Ritter, four other white men are charged with criminal homicide in Allen's death. Each of them has been released on $100,000 bail. Police said Allen, 27, a native of Aiken, S.C., and family members were in a car that had strayed into the neighborhood of a white gang during one night of rioting. Allen got out of the car, waved her arms and yelled don't shoot before being hit by a bullet, investigators said. Allen was one of two people killed in the riots. Henry Schaad, a white rookie police officer, was shot days before Allen was killed during the 10 days of rioting, which also injured more than 60 people and burned down whole city blocks. Robertson and his attorney have said the mayor is being politically targeted. Republican District Attorney Stan Rebert's office is leading the investigation. Although Robertson has denied any responsibility for Allen's death, he admitted that he had racist feelings since his father was mugged by three black men in the 1950s. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL
[CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won't Go Away
ROTFLMAO!! If you REALLY want to have a SECRET affair, take your lover to . .. . . . THE SUPER BOWL!! Yeah! That's the ticket. Nobody gonna see you there! Al Martin is losing it! ~Amelia~ - Original Message - From: William Shannon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:36 PM Subject: [CTRL] The Jeb Bush Story That Won't Go Away http://www.almartinraw.com/column17.html The Jeb Bush Affair Story That Won't Go Away by Al Martin Al Martin Raw has once again scored yet another coup in our ongoing effort to bring the truth to the American people.
[CTRL] Feds Probing Russia-Colombia Cocaine Link
-Caveat Lector- Feds Probing Russia-Colombia Cocaine Link NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, May 16, 2001 SAN DIEGO (UPI) - U.S. investigators Tuesday were looking into the chance that a record haul of cocaine intercepted by the Coast Guard off Mexico was bound for Europe rather than the United States. The Coast Guard seized a fishing trawler flying the flag of Belize this month after some 13 tons of cocaine worth an estimated $500 million was found hidden in a fuel tank. In a somewhat surprising twist, a crew of 10 Russians and Ukrainians, rather than Latin Americans, was found aboard the Svesda Maru. The nationality of the sailors, who spoke both Russian and Spanish, led to suspicions that the cocaine was bound for the European drug market as part of an arrangement between Russian organized crime gangs and Colombian cocaine traffickers, the San Diego Union-Tribune said Tuesday. The newspaper said that, according to unnamed U.S. officials, Russian mobsters and Colombian traffickers have joined forces in an arrangement that swaps cocaine for a wide variety of Soviet-bloc weapons and aircraft. The Coast Guard boarded the Svesda Maru on May 3 off Mexico's Pacific Coast, north of the Panama Canal, which would indicate the vessel was headed for a North American port unless it intended to sail all the way to Russia's Pacific coast. Mexican media has said that the Tijuana-based Arellano-Felix gang probably would have had to sanction the Svesda Maru's final voyage, if its destination was Mexico or California. : NewsMax.com Privacy Statement All Rights Reserved © NewsMax.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] FBI Ignores Info from Jayna Davis and 24 sworn witnesses
-Caveat Lector- ~Amelia~ Transcript: Has the FBI Ignored Information About the OKC Bombing? Tuesday, May 15, 2001 Email this Article This partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, May 14, 2001 was provided by the Federal Document Clearing House. Click here to order the complete transcript. BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the Unresolved Problem segment tonight, investigative reporter Jayna Davis told us a few weeks ago that she tried to deliver information to the FBI about others involved in the Oklahoma City bombing but was rebuffed. Ms. Davis joins us now for an update from Oklahoma City. Well, we finally got the FBI to tell us why they didn't take your stuff, Jayna, and they said they didn't want to have it on file so that they would have to turn it over to McVeigh and Nichols' attorneys in discovery because they couldn't check out what you said, and that seemed to make sense to me. Does it make sense to you? JAYNA DAVIS, FORMER KFOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Absolutely not. This was turned over initially in June of 1995 and I made several attempts in the following months, in the spring and summer of '95, to share this information with the FBI and they were very interested initially and I was talking to an FBI agent regularly in May and June of 1995. So I don't understand why it's... O'REILLY: Yeah, but they came to the conclusion if we take information from this woman and we haven't checked it out and McVeigh and Nichols' attorneys want it, we have to turn it over to them and that's going to hurt our prosecution. DAVIS: Yes, but they lost interest, Bill. In September and -- I'm sorry, in the spring and summer of '95. I went back to them in September of '97 to turn it over. But they had plenty of time between the spring and summer of '95 and September of '97 when I returned. O'REILLY: To check your story out. DAVIS: Yes, they did. O'REILLY: Right. Well, they didn't want to do that, obviously. All right, now, you believe that there's a Middle Eastern connection here to McVeigh and Nichols. You also believe that Osama bin Laden's money may have been involved here. Briefly, tell the audience what you think happened. DAVIS: I believe that a Arab terrorist cell operating in the heart of Oklahoma City funded and operated and backed by Osama bin Laden acted in collusion with Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols and I have 24 sworn witness affidavits to back that up from witnesses who saw Arab men in the presence of these two prime suspects, and now the bombing convicts, at various stages of the bombing plot. O'REILLY: All right, now, your own station has kind of turned on you and, you know, discredited you. Why did they do that? You used to work for KFOR TV in Oklahoma City. Why did that station turn on you? DAVIS: They actually didn't turn on me. O'REILLY: Well, they're suing you, I think, aren't they? DAVIS: No, they are not. No. The station was sold... O'REILLY: The lawsuit was eventually thrown out by the judge. OK. DAVIS: Yes, it was. Yes, it was. O'REILLY: Right. And so they did but they don't like you, Jayna, you know that. DAVIS: Well, to better explain it, when I left the station in the fall of 1997 I took with me all the confidential witness statements and informed station management that I had it in my possession. The New York Times purchased KFOR Television some time in the summer of '96 and when I left in the winter of '97, I informed them that I took my confidential witness statements. They sued me for those statements. O'REILLY: Why? Why did they do that? DAVIS: I don't understand. They were interested in the material and they said I needed to turn it over. However, I just wanted from them a signed release that they wouldn't publish those statements without the express written consent of the witnesses and the judge upheld my first... O'REILLY: So you wanted to protect your sources is what you wanted to do? DAVIS: Yes, I did. I wanted to protect my sources. O'REILLY: OK, so you... DAVIS: As I had promised. O'REILLY: I asked you this question the first time around. We have a minute left so I'm going to ask you again. Do you have any idea why the FBI wouldn't want full disclosure, if your theory is correct, of Middle Eastern involvement? DAVIS: I cannot speculate. I cannot get into the mind of the FBI. I, as I told you before, that is a question for the former attorney general and for the people in the Department of Justice that were in a position to make the decision whether or not they would take this evidence and thoroughly investigate it. O'REILLY: All right, do you think, are you going to take this any further? You got anything else down the road that you can put pressure on them? DAVIS: Well, I have direct knowledge of a prior warning that was issued on February 27th of 1995 that contained the language that there would be an Iran-sponsored Islamic attack and the first potential target was Washington, D.C., the White House and Congress and I don't believe
Re: [CTRL] Fw: Housing Now: Bill would label jails low-income housing
-Caveat Lector- I guess next they will consider military barracks to be low income housing since in some cases the room a military member is forced to live in is smaller than the room area allotted to people in prisons. I have been retired for 9 years, hopefully conditions in the barracks have improved. Regards, Bob Stokes A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Al Gore Gave Order to 'Take Out' Katherine Harris
-Caveat Lector- May 17, 2001 New Book: Gore Tried to Steal Election Cheaper Than Amazon! Links · MoneyNews With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Wednesday May 16, 2001; 4:43 p.m. EDT Al Gore Gave Order to 'Take Out' Katherine Harris One of the more intruiging details to emerge in the wake of last year's Florida election fiasco is the news that former Vice President Al Gore personally masterminded the strategy to attack Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who ultimately certified President Bush's victory. In his new book At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election, Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon has broken some new ground on this point, as he explained Wednesday afternoon to WABC Radio's Sean Hannity. (Gore) was actively micro-managing this right down to the smear campaign against Katherine Harris, Sammon said. He personally directed his press secretary Chris Lehane and his top political aide Mark Fabiani to take Katherine Harris out. Within a matter of hours, Sammon reports, Lehane was on TV comparing Harris to a Soviet commissar. Next Harvard law professor and Democratic Party booster Alan Dershowitz chimed in, calling Harris corrupt. Within a day or two, Harris told Hannity, the Washington Post was writing an article that said, 'she applies her make-up with a trowel, her eyelashes look like caterpillars, her mouth is set in a crooked edge.' I mean, as if her make-up had something to do with how she discharged Florida law, observed Sammon. Just days after the election, NewsMax.com reported that senior Gore campaign officials were privately telling reporters they planned to get Harris, making threats about mounting an investigation into her conduct that would make Whitewater look like a picnic. Get a copy of Sammon's At Any Cost at an unbeatable price at NewsMax.com's bookstore. Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Al Gore Inside Cover Stories Craig Livingstone: Hillary May Have Hired Me Gas-Guzzling Gephardt Wants You to Conserve NewsMax.com Privacy Statement All Rights Reserved © NewsMax.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
