[CTRL] Machiavelli: Art of War
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[CTRL] Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
-Caveat Lector- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/4430.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: FC: Canada's largest bank chooses to Know Its Customer Very Well
-Caveat Lector- --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: FC: Canada's largest bank chooses to Know Its Customer Very Well Date: 1/21/2003 12:03:53 AM [It's not new technologies that we have to worry about -- it's governments that are willing to use them. --Declan] --- From: Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Royal Bank shares with U.S. database firm Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:12:56 -0500 Organization: futurePARADIGM.com - Where Visitors Meet Visionaries Not sure about you Declan, but this bothers me immensely. I am investing this with Canada s Privacy Commissioner. Sure, it s public information, but when compiled, does it infringe on Canada s new law of January 1, 2001? I tell you as a technologist, I love advancements. As a privacy advocate, I hate the advancements. Related story: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid= 1035776770410call_pageid=968350072197col=969048863851 Regards, Alexander Weblog Publisher FutureParadigm.com Toronto, Ontario, Canada - POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ - Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search? q=declan - End of forwarded message Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut 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] Images of the Sporting Crowd
-Caveat Lector- http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/01/20/21AUTO.chart.jpg http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/01/20/business/21AUTO. chart2.jpg http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/business/21AUTO.html January 21, 2003 Bush Proposal May Cut Tax on S.U.V.'s for Business By DANNY HAKIM DETROIT, Jan. 20 The Bush administration's economic plan would increase by 50 percent or more the deductions that small-business owners can take right away on the biggest sport utility vehicles and pickups. The plan would mean small businesses could immediately deduct the entire price of S.U.V.'s like the Hummer H2, the Lincoln Navigator and the Toyota Land Cruiser, even if the vehicles were loaded with every available option. Or a business owner, taking full advantage, could buy a BMW X5 sport utility vehicle for a few hundred dollars more than a Pontiac Bonneville sedan, after the immediate tax deductions were factored in. Tax experts and environmentalists say the plan would provide incentives for businesses to choose the biggest gas-guzzling trucks because it takes several years to depreciate the cost of passenger cars and smaller sport utility vehicles. The ramifications of the Bush plan on S.U.V. buyers were reported today in The Detroit News. The potential lift for sales of big S.U.V.'s comes amid rising tension in the Middle East and increasing criticism of S.U.V.'s from environmentalists and regulators. But a top budget official said today that the administration might be open to changes in the tax code that would bring cars more in line with big trucks. We have an open mind about whether the deduction for cars needs to be refined, said Dr. John Graham, the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. The tax code now caps deductions for most automobiles. But the largest vehicles those that weigh more than 6,000 pounds fully loaded are exempt because the relevant portion of the code was written in the 1980's, before the rise of the sport utility vehicle, and was intended to exempt big pickups needed on work sites. Now the tax incentives also give business owners not involved in hauling doctors, real estate agents, accountants more incentive to buy the biggest S.U.V.'s instead of smaller ones, or cars. The proposal makes a glitch in the tax code much worse and it benefits rich businessmen who want to buy massive S.U.V.'s, said Aileen Roder, program director for Taxpayers for Common Sense. In essence we're buying these vehicles for these businesses. But the administration says that greater business deductions will be a potent economic stimulant. Many small businesses have genuine needs for large vans, pickups and S.U.V.'s, whether it be for a farm, sales or industrial application, Dr. Graham said. An updated tax deduction for small businesses is certainly needed. Consider the Hummer H1 as an example of the new deduction. It is one of the largest and most expensive S.U.V.'s, with a base sticker price of $102,581, including destination charge. Under the Bush plan, small- business owners could use all of an annual $75,000 capital equipment deduction toward the purchase; the current equipment deduction allowance is just $25,000. That is in addition to thousands of dollars in other deductions. Under existing rules, a business could deduct 30 percent from the base price left after the capital equipment deduction, a benefit put in place as part of a post-Sept. 11 stimulus package. In the case of the H1, that would be a further deduction of $8,274. Finally, 20 percent could be deducted from what is left, part of the business deductions available for automobiles. For the H1, that would be $3,861 more in deductions. The total would be more than $87,000 in deductions, or about $33,500 in savings in federal taxes alone for buyers in the highest bracket. Under current rules, just less than $60,000 could be deducted. Deals for cars and small sport utility vehicles are much less appealing. Currently, a business can deduct no more than $7,660 for a car in its first year of service, $4,900 in the second year and less in the succeeding years. The Toyota Prius, which uses a fuel-efficient blend of gasoline and electric power, is eligible for an additional $2,000 clean vehicle deduction. That means a business owner could deduct under half of the $20,500 sticker price of the Prius in the first year of purchase, for about $3,700 worth of federal tax savings for those in the highest tax bracket. David Friedman, an engineer and analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental group, said the increased deduction for big vehicles was yet another loophole that the government is keeping open that is increasing our oil dependence. Before, it was large enough to drive a small S.U.V. through, he added. Now it's large enough to drive a Hummer through. Without altering the treatment of cars in the tax code, the Bush plan could run
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Schools Resegregate, Study Finds
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schools Resegregate, Study Finds January 21, 2003 By GREG WINTER CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 20 - Sanetra Jant still wonders where all the white kids went. Only last spring, they made up a quarter of her class, not to mention her friends. And then, poof, they were gone. I don't know why they left, said Sanetra, a fourth grader at Reid Park Elementary School. Last year, before a federal appeals court ended three decades of judicial-supervised desegregation by the district, Sanetra's school was 68 percent black. Now it is almost entirely black, and the many white pupils who once rode in on yellow buses number one in a hundred. Maybe they didn't like it here, Sanetra said, knitting her brow in thought. If there is any one place to witness the changing racial composition of the nation's public schools, perhaps it is here, in the city for which the Supreme Court first endorsed the use of busing to desegregate. Dozens of Charlotte schools have basically changed color in the months since the appeals court lifted the desegregation order, and though few other places have seen swings so rapid, the city offers a time-lapse view of the steady transformation of the nation's schools. According to a new study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, black and Latino students are now more isolated from their white counterparts than they were three decades ago, before many of the overhauls from the civil rights movement had even begun to take hold. Nationally, the shift is a result of several factors: big increases in enrollment by black, Latino and Asian students; continuing white flight from the nation's urban centers; and the persistence of housing patterns that isolate racial and ethnic groups. But another big factor, the Harvard study found, has been the termination of dozens of court-ordered desegregation plans. Spurred by Supreme Court decisions at the start of the 1990's, lower courts have lifted desegregation orders in at least three dozen school districts in the last 10 years. Little Rock, San Diego, Denver and Miami have all come out from under court supervision, and next month a federal judge will reconsider the integration plan in Chicago, the nation's third-largest school district. A chief principle in the voiding of these orders is one established by the Supreme Court a decade ago: that school districts can be considered successfully desegregated even if student racial imbalances due entirely to demographic factors, like where children live, continue to exist. Largely as a result, black students now typically go to schools where fewer than 31 percent of their classmates are white, the new Harvard study found. That is less contact than in 1970, a year before the Supreme Court authorized the busing that became a primary way of integrating schools. Latino students, who have rarely been a focus of desegregation efforts, now attend schools where whites account for only 29 percent of all students, compared with 45 percent three decades ago, according to the study, which draws on Education Department data through the 2000-1 school year. And while white children increasingly come into contact with minority students, mainly because of the tremendous population growth among races that had only marginal representation decades ago, they are still America's most segregated group, the study found. On average, white students, who make up about 61 percent of the nation's public-school population, go to schools where 80 percent of their classmates are white. The consequence is a nation in which every racial group that is big enough to be described as segregated generally is: Blacks, though only 17 percent of public-school children, typically attend schools where they are in a majority. The same is true of Latinos, who are about 16 percent of the student population. Even American Indians, a mere 1 percent of public-school children, go to schools where nearly a third of all students are Native American. Asians, the study says, are the most integrated group, attending schools where the races are somewhat more commensurate with their national representation. But they, too, are disproportionately grouped together, for though they are only about 4 percent of public-school children, they typically go to schools that are 22 percent Asian. We call our schools racially isolated, but it's really just a euphemism for being segregated, said Mary Frances Berry, chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. It has to be regarded as unhealthy. At a time when the society is becoming increasingly diverse, it bodes ill to have increasingly segregated schools. Many researchers cite sweeping demographic changes, not public policy, as the leading force behind racial separation in the schools. The percentage of students who are members of minority groups has almost doubled in the last 30 years, and, whether as a
[CTRL] War Facts that are NEVER REFERRED TO
-Caveat Lector- Excerpt from Harold Pinter's remarks on the occasion of his receiving an honorary degree at the University of Turin: Earlier this year, I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its after effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not drown and I am very glad to be alive. However, I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world. If you are not with us, you are against us, President George W. Bush has said. He has also said: We will not allow the world's worst weapons to remain in the hands of the world's worst leaders. Quite right. Look in the mirror, chum. That's you. America is at this moment developing advanced systems of weapons of massdestruction and is prepared to use them where it sees fit. It has more of them than the rest of the world put together. It has walked away from international agreements on biological and chemical weapons, refusing to allow inspection of its own factories. The hypocrisy behind its public declarations and its own actions is almost a joke. America believes that the 3,000 deaths in New York are the only deaths that count, the only deaths that matter. They are American deaths. Other deaths are unreal, abstract, of no consequence. * The 3,000 deaths in Afghanistan are never referred to. * The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dead through American and British sanctions which have deprived them of essential medicines are never referred to. * The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf war, is never referred to. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood. * The 200,000 deaths in East Timor in 1975 brought about by the Indonesian government but inspired and supported by America are never referred to. * The 500,000 deaths in Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Argentina and Haiti, in actions supported and subsidised by America, are never referred to. * The millions of deaths in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are no longer referred to. * The desperate plight of the Palestinian people, the central factor in world unrest, is hardly referred to. But what a misjudgment of the present and what a misreading of history this is. People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back. The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state terrorism on the part of America over many years, in all parts of the world. In Britain, the public is now being warned to be vigilant in preparation for potential terrorist acts. The language is in itself preposterous. How will - or can - public vigilance be embodied? Wearing a scarf over your mouth to keep out poison gas? However, terrorist attacks are quite likely, the inevitable result of our Prime Minister's contemptible and shameful subservience to America. apparently a terrorist poison gas attack on the London Underground system was recently prevented. But such an act may indeed take place. Thousands of schoolchildren travel on the Underground every day. If there is a poison gas attack from which they die, the responsibility will rest entirely on the shoulders of our Prime Minister. Needless to say, the Prime Minister does not travel on the Underground himself. The planned war against Iraq is in fact a plan for premeditated murder of thousands of civilians in order, apparently, to rescue them from their dictator. America and Britain are pursuing a course that can lead only to an escalation of violence throughout the world and finally to catastrophe. It is obvious, however, that America is bursting at the seams to attack Iraq. I believe that it will do this not only to take control of Iraqi oil, but also because the American administration is now a bloodthirsty wild animal. Bombs are its only vocabulary. Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government, but seem to be helpless. Unless Europe finds the solidarity, intelligence, courage and will to challenge and resist American power, Europe itself will deserve Alexander Herzen's declaration - We are not the doctors. We are the disease. By Harold Pinter A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION
[CTRL] Fake Support for US President - Campaign Revealed
-Caveat Lector- Someone seems to be engaged in faking support for Bush in letters to online editors, with identical wording. :-) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:26:29 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: Confirmed: Google reveals Bush's faux astroturf campaign [Clearly I should have followed the links more carefully last night before sending out the earlier message. Mea culpa. The GOP appears to have been caught. Also, Jack King did a Westnews search and found the identical letter in the Deseret News, The Gazette, The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), and The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA). Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04332.html --Declan] --- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:27:29 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC: Google reveals Bush administration's astroturf campaign? In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, the point is that the *entire letters* are verbatim, word-for-word, identical; searching for the catchphrase is just how you find them on google. Read the links. No matter how big the country is, it doesn't contain a large number of people who independently come up with the exact same 130-word letter. Jon --- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:52:15 -0600 (CST) From: Alif The Terrible [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC: Google reveals Bush administration's astroturf campaign? On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: [I don't think we have nearly enough facts here to make a reasoned conclusion. An explanation could be as simple as Republican direct mail efforts using this phrase, which the recipients echo in letters to the editor. It's a big country; there's bound to be some repetition. --Declan] Declan, If you examine the links, these aren't mere phrases being echoed, they are word for word copies of entire letters. No question these are not the spontaneous utterances of those who are purported to have written them. Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- From: Werberg, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Google reveals Bush administration's astroturf campaign? Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:11:45 -0500 Declan, More than a coincidence here. These identical letters were all sent through the Republican National Committee's letter-to-the-editor service, as pointed out by the Eatthestate.org folks in the first letter below. opinionNothing particularly sinister I suppose, if it represents actual individual citizens voicing their opinions. What is bothersome though it that it's just another sign of people being unable to express and articulate their own opinion. And that is certainly not limited to any one political party./opinion -Sam Werberg __snip___ RNC Zombies Dear Eat the State!, President Bush should be applauded for taking a courageous stand against Saddam Hussein's outlaw regime and its reckless pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. As the President noted in his recent address to the nation, the riskiest option for dealing with Iraq is to do nothing. Inaction would only give Saddam Hussein time to complete his malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons and would embolden tyrants and terrorists everywhere. Acting now to disarm Saddam Hussein, using military force if necessary, is the only way we will keep America safe from weapons of mass destruction that fall into the hands of freedom's enemies. President Bush is right--our nation cannot let world events be dictated by brutal and lawless dictators. Sincerely, --Melissa Whitis, via e-mail G.P. comments: This was one of a number of letters we get regularly through a letter-to-the-editor distribution service run by the Republican National Committee. I couldn't resist printing this one, not just because of the boilerplate nonsense, but because I totally agree with Melissa. I don't want weapons of mass destruction in the hands of freedom's enemies. I certainly don't want world events to be dictated by brutal and lawless politicians. That's why I support regime change in Washington DC. http://eatthestate.org/07-04/Backtalk.htmhttp://eatthestate.org/07-04/Backtalk.htm __ Applause for Bush PRESIDENT BUSH should be applauded for taking a courageous stand against Saddam Hussein's outlaw regime and its reckless pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. As the president noted in his recent address to the nation, the riskiest option for dealing with Iraq is to do nothing. Inaction would only give Saddam time to complete his malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons and would embolden tyrants and terrorists everywhere. Acting now to disarm Saddam, using military force if necessary, is the only way we will keep America safe from weapons of mass destruction that fall into the hands of freedom's enemies. Bush is right --
[CTRL] Replicant theory emerges in US Astroturf scandal
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/28945.html Replicant theory emerges in US Astroturf scandal By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 21/01/2003 at 11:17 GMT A new theory emerged today to rebuff the Astroturf scandal that's the talk of the web. A week ago a weblogger who calls himself Atrios discovered that identical letters praising the leadership of President Bush had appeared in dozens of local American newspapers. Before Christmas, Mr.Atrios - whoever he is - had done much enterprising research to discomfort, and eventually help depose the Republican Senate Leader Trent Lott, after Lott's wistful, pro-segregation remarks at a birthday dinner for centurion racist Strom Thurmond went unnoticed by the poodle mainstream press, here. The identical letters appeared in 29 publications - including, oops - The Financial Times of London, England - and clearly suggested that a co-ordinated but entirely phony grassroots expression of support was swelling behind the President. However Declan McCullagh has a brillant alternative, and surely satirical explanation. Notified of these occurrences, McClunker very wisely warned us not to jump to conclusions. Rather than it being an organized campaign, he wrote on his Politech mailing list, the possibility remained that the phrases could have emanated from Republican mailing literature. I don't think we have nearly enough facts here to make a reasoned conclusion, he noted. Upon receiving these mailings, he posits, dozens of Republicans could have individually made the decision at that very moment, to all walk over to their computers and write a letter to their local newspaper praising the leadership of President Bush:. Or as he put it:- An explanation could be as simple as Republican direct mail efforts using this phrase, which the recipients echo in letters to the editor. McClunker's right: this isn't impossible. However it is exceedingly unusual, and it is a form of behavior - this synchronized groupthink - that is usually attributed to Zombies, or replicant armies in sci-fi movies. Older readers may remember how in The Manchurian Candidate the Frank Sinatra assassin was woken to his mission by the use of subliminal code-words. So in McClunker's witty satire (we charitably assume he's being satirical), the direct mail recipients simply parroted what they'd read in that morning's instructional campaign mail, and responded to the subliminal signal. Now, who's foolin' who here here isn't clear. One important contextual point to note about American politics (for you overseas readers) is that back in 1995 when Gingrich routed the Congress, the libertarian talk-radio right thought of itself as guerillas, and using imaginative tactics, and wit, to scored easy points against a complacent and inert centre-right exemplified by the venal President Pantsdown. Only now, the guerillas have their very own man in charge. So instead of choosing to remain witty or anarchic, they've dropped the guerilla chic, and now rally around in patterns of extreme predictability, making it easy for wittier and much more playful and anarchic writers such as Atrios (or Bob Somerby) to run rings around them. You don't really have to be clever to shoot down groupthink, but you have to have balls to call it when you see it, and Sommersby and Atrios are more than up to task. There's nothing easier than herding sheep. Not all former guerillas have turned into blogsphere mutton, though. There's a libertarian writer I respect very much, a contrarian called Gene Callahan, who's allied with the far-right Mises Institute but who's stayed consistently funny and fair. (And his social satire is hilarious). But Callahan's an exception to the groupthink rule. So you see, you can span alliances of left and right if only you have right minded, and sufficiently smart and skeptical people. For reasons of ambition or sheer laziness, many aspire to conform. For now, though, we can enjoy such fish out of water flounders that that the tide has left behind, and McCullagh's powerful testimony to the power of groupthink ought to leave the rest of us somewhat disturbed. It's too scary to think about. ® A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at:
[CTRL] [Politics] Mind Control (Propaganda) (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. 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: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:47:27 -0800 (PST) From: Mason Watch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Politics] Mind Control (Propaganda) Do you watch television? How many hours a day do you spend watching T.V.? Have you ever stopped to wonder why is it that ALL OF THE NEWS STORIES ARE THE SAME NO MATTER WHICH CHANNEL IT IS? Have you ever wonderd why they call it Programming, and just who are they trying to program? Who is behind this Programming? Authority is never questioned on Television. Why? Because It Might Cause Us To Think That Maybe The State Has No Authority Over Us. http://www.freedomdomain.com/mindconprop.html = The ideas of the rulers are the ruling ideas __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com === LIST INFO Questions or problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~To unsubscribe, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~To subscribe, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Check out other Hot Topics lists at http://www.topica.com/hot ==^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bz8RyX.babnLr.d2JhY29u Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Replicant theory emerges in US Astroturf scandal
-Caveat Lector- What this really shows is the LEVEL of DECEPTION being practiced by US Government in controlling the American public via media. The US media is under total orchestrated control as this CLEARLY shows, and it is being only more concentrated to bigger corporations. You ARE LIVING in a TYRANNY, with NO FREE MEDIA beside the internet, and even that is being now eroded with TIA. Anyone who truly loves America should be aghast at this. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/28945.html Replicant theory emerges in US Astroturf scandal By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 21/01/2003 at 11:17 GMT A new theory emerged today to rebuff the Astroturf scandal that's the talk of the web. A week ago a weblogger who calls himself Atrios discovered that identical letters praising the leadership of President Bush had appeared in dozens of local American newspapers. Before Christmas, Mr.Atrios - whoever he is - had done much enterprising research to discomfort, and eventually help depose the Republican Senate Leader Trent Lott, after Lott's wistful, pro-segregation remarks at a birthday dinner for centurion racist Strom Thurmond went unnoticed by the poodle mainstream press, here. The identical letters appeared in 29 publications - including, oops - The Financial Times of London, England - and clearly suggested that a co-ordinated but entirely phony grassroots expression of support was swelling behind the President. However Declan McCullagh has a brillant alternative, and surely satirical explanation. Notified of these occurrences, McClunker very wisely warned us not to jump to conclusions. Rather than it being an organized campaign, he wrote on his Politech mailing list, the possibility remained that the phrases could have emanated from Republican mailing literature. I don't think we have nearly enough facts here to make a reasoned conclusion, he noted. Upon receiving these mailings, he posits, dozens of Republicans could have individually made the decision at that very moment, to all walk over to their computers and write a letter to their local newspaper praising the leadership of President Bush:. Or as he put it:- An explanation could be as simple as Republican direct mail efforts using this phrase, which the recipients echo in letters to the editor. McClunker's right: this isn't impossible. However it is exceedingly unusual, and it is a form of behavior - this synchronized groupthink - that is usually attributed to Zombies, or replicant armies in sci-fi movies. Older readers may remember how in The Manchurian Candidate the Frank Sinatra assassin was woken to his mission by the use of subliminal code-words. So in McClunker's witty satire (we charitably assume he's being satirical), the direct mail recipients simply parroted what they'd read in that morning's instructional campaign mail, and responded to the subliminal signal. Now, who's foolin' who here here isn't clear. One important contextual point to note about American politics (for you overseas readers) is that back in 1995 when Gingrich routed the Congress, the libertarian talk-radio right thought of itself as guerillas, and using imaginative tactics, and wit, to scored easy points against a complacent and inert centre-right exemplified by the venal President Pantsdown. Only now, the guerillas have their very own man in charge. So instead of choosing to remain witty or anarchic, they've dropped the guerilla chic, and now rally around in patterns of extreme predictability, making it easy for wittier and much more playful and anarchic writers such as Atrios (or Bob Somerby) to run rings around them. You don't really have to be clever to shoot down groupthink, but you have to have balls to call it when you see it, and Sommersby and Atrios are more than up to task. There's nothing easier than herding sheep. Not all former guerillas have turned into blogsphere mutton, though. There's a libertarian writer I respect very much, a contrarian called Gene Callahan, who's allied with the far-right Mises Institute but who's stayed consistently funny and fair. (And his social satire is hilarious). But Callahan's an exception to the groupthink rule. So you see, you can span alliances of left and right if only you have right minded, and sufficiently smart and skeptical people. For reasons of ambition or sheer laziness, many aspire to conform. For now, though, we can enjoy such fish out of water flounders that that the tide has left behind, and McCullagh's powerful testimony to the power of groupthink ought to leave the rest of us somewhat disturbed. It's too scary to think about. ® A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many
[CTRL] Republicans Astroturf Spam Scandal
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7320 Political parties blanket email newspaper editors And newspaper editors publish the astroturf spam By Mike Magee: tiistai 21 tammikuu 2003, 08:17 IT SEEMS WE'VE OPENED something of a can of worms with our story yesterday, which suggested the US Republican Party blanket emailed different newspaper editors with the same letter praising George Bush. Dozens of editors of newspapers published the letter. On the face of it, the letters were signed by different individuals. See Google hunts down 'President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership' The whole letter reads as follows: When it comes to the economy, President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership. The economic growth package he recently proposed takes us in the right direction by accelerating the successful tax cuts of 2001, providing marriage penalty relief, and providing incentives for individuals and small businesses to save and invest. Contrary to the class warfare rhetoric attacking the President's plan, the proposal helps everyone who pays taxes, and especially the middle class. This year alone, 92 million taxpayers will receive an immediate tax cut averaging $1,083 - and 46 million married couples will get back an average of $1,714. That's not pocket change for a family struggling through uncertain economic times. Combined with the President's new initiatives to help the unemployed, this plan gets people back to work and helps every sector of our economy. Now we learn the practice has already some history, although the US news media -. perhaps out of embarrassment .- does not yet seem to have picked it up. At this web site, there is a fight against killer astroturf which relates to the 2002 Republican campaign. That site says the letters are part of an orchestrated campaign and are word for word identical. Worse -. a whole heap of newspapers took the letter as genuine and published it. Newspapers alleged to have fallen for the spamsters include the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Dallas Morning News, the Albany Pilot, the Green Bay Press Gazette and several dozen others. Yesterday it was suggested that our own august Financial Times had published the latest example of the astroturf. 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] NYTimes.com Article: Slain Jewish Settler Is Finally Buried After Riot, Car Race and a Rabbinical Ruling
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Slain Jewish Settler Is Finally Buried After Riot, Car Race and a Rabbinical Ruling January 21, 2003 By JOHN KIFNER JERUSALEM, Jan. 20 - Nathaniel Ozeri, a Jewish settler slain by Palestinian gunmen on Friday night, was finally buried early this morning, 15 hours after his followers on the far edge of the religious right turned his funeral into a riot that stunned even this normally contentious country. There were a series of struggles over where the body would be buried - including an aborted race with the body in a car toward Jerusalem. His wife and supporters hoped to display the body in front of the prime minister's office there as a protest over the killing of settlers by Palestinians. Mr. Ozeri was finally laid to rest in darkness about 3 a.m. today in Hebron's old city cemetery alongside victims of a 1929 massacre of Jews in that city. The funeral, at noon on Sunday, was preceded by attacks on Palestinian homes by settlers. The attackers broke windows with iron bars, and at one point a young mother with a baby strapped to her chest pounded a Palestinian house with a big rock. There were wild scuffles as the army and the police tried to intervene, and the crowd taunted the police, shouting insults. The eulogies at the funeral were bitter, condemning Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister who was slain in 1995 by a religious extremist who was opposed to his efforts to make peace with Palestinians. Mr. Ozeri's father-in-law, Shaul Nir, demanded revenge and called the police scum. He is a former member of the Jewish underground who was sentenced to life in prison in 1985 for killing Palestinians in Hebron. He was later pardoned along with other members of the group by President Chaim Herzog. Then Mr. Ozeri's elderly father took the microphone and asked that his son be buried in Jerusalem so his mother could easily visit the grave. Wrangling ensued. A rabbi, Dov Lior, was brought in to mediate and ruled that the burial should be in Hebron. But then, urged on by Mr. Ozeri's widow, Livnat, young settlers snatched the body from the bed of a pickup truck intending to take it to the hilltop grave they had secretly dug. Some family members were knocked over in the struggle, and the rabbi was carried to safety on the back of a bodyguard. Soldiers finally managed to block the group, and for a moment it appeared that an agreement had been reached to bury Mr. Ozeri in Hebron. But the car carrying the body suddenly veered off, speeding away. When Israeli soldiers and the police tried to restore order, the settlers left behind continued to battle them and to attack Palestinian homes and set cars on fire. After they snatched his body, Mr. Ozeri's followers raced over hills, fences and vineyards trying to bury it on the isolated hilltop where he had been killed. They struck out for Jerusalem after they were turned away from the site by soldiers. Mrs. Ozeri said later that she had wanted to put the body on display so the whole country can see the results of the terror and what happened when the Jews gave rifles to the terrorists. As Mr. Ozeri's followers in Hebron hoisted his body, on a stretcher wrapped in a blue and white prayer shawl, they pulled back the covering so his face was visible, in the style of Palestinian funerals for what they call their martyrs. It was a clear violation of Jewish religious law and tradition, and the spectacle drew criticism today from leading rabbis. A disgrace, said the chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yisrael Meir Law, another bitter cup of sorrow. The chief Sephardic rabbi, Eliyahu Bakshi-Doran, called the supporters' action very serious, adding, If we leave the most extreme person to decide what is a good deed, what is religious law, all sorts of injustices will be done in God's name. Hebron, home to a group of militant settlers who believe that they have a mandate from God to reclaim the land they call Judea and Samaria, is always a volatile place. In the old city, an enclave of 450 religious Jews is guarded by soldiers and surrounded by 150,000 Palestinians, confined to their homes much of the time by army curfews. Nearby, 7,000 more Jewish settlers live in the sprawling settlement of Qiryat Arba. Tensions were running high even before Mr. Ozeri was killed by two Palestinian gunmen on Friday night, after he answered the door during his family's Sabbath dinner. There have been four Palestinian attacks in Hebron and nearby areas in the last two months in which 22 Israelis have been killed. On Friday, the two attackers, armed with an M-16 rifle, a revolver, grenades, a knife and an ax, were also killed. Mr. Ozeri was a well-known figure on the far right, a leader of the hilltop youth, who have been trying to expand the settlers' presence by building outposts on isolated hills. His family of seven was the only one living on the illegal settlement known as Lot 26. He had returned home
Re: [CTRL] Republicans Astroturf Spam Scandal
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/21/2003 7:12:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Newspapers alleged to have fallen for the spamsters include the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Dallas Morning News, the Albany Pilot, the Green Bay Press Gazette and several dozen others. One can't blame the editors. They are so overwhelmed by the presence of a president so honest and moral, that they don't for a moment doubt that he is a brilliant economist as well. Prudy A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] A washingtonpost.com article from: alamaine@uffdaonline.net
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/21/2003 2:20:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: France would never "associate ourselves with military intervention that is not supported by the international community," de Villepin added. "We think that military intervention would be the worst possible solution." Well, at least someone is making sense. The chicken-hawks in DC can only see all those oil wells. Prudy A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Mexico's Corrupt Oil Lifeline
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mexico's Corrupt Oil Lifeline January 21, 2003 By TIM WEINER CADEREYTA, Mexico - Tony Cantu grew up with the giant oil refinery that Pemex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, runs here in his hometown. He helped build it and operate it, rising from construction worker to computer programmer to chemical engineer. Mr. Cantu gave Pemex a decade of his working life. But he will never work there again. He can explain why in one word. Corruption, he said, gazing at the refinery, 20 miles outside Monterrey in northern Mexico. People being stepped on, forced to be corrupt - I hated that. There were a lot of things you had to shut up about. The bosses would kill to protect themselves. People were subjugated by fear. For more than 60 years, Pemex, the world's fifth-largest oil company, has been Mexico's economic lifeblood. A $50 billion-a-year enterprise, it controls every gas pump in Mexico, and it sells nearly as much oil to the United States as Saudi Arabia does. Today, with some oil producers like Iraq and Venezuela facing nation-shaking crises, Mexico looks like a sure and steady source of oil. The United States may be tempted to rely on it even more. But Pemex is in danger of breaking down. Financially, we are falling, its director, Raúl Muñoz Leos, said in an interview. Nearly every peso of Pemex's profits goes to run the government of Mexico. The company, after paying taxes and royalties, actually lost $3.5 billion in in 2001. Without major restructuring or tens of billions of dollars in foreign investment, Mr. Muñoz Leos warned recently, We would face, in the short term, a collapse. One reason is a rottenness at Pemex's core. The company loses at least $1 billion a year to corruption, its executives say, in a continuous corrosion of the machine that keeps Mexico solvent. Fixing Pemex is as crucial to Mexico's future as it is to American oil supplies. When Vicente Fox became president two years ago after defeating the political machine that ran Mexico for 71 years - the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI - he vowed to make his country more open and democratic and to make Pemex run like a 21st-century corporation. To change Mexico, Mr. Fox must first change Pemex. It has been a cash machine for the government, a slush fund for politicians and a patronage mill for party loyalists since the party created Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, in 1938. After nationalizing American and British oil interests, the party promptly changed the Constitution to bar foreign investment in underground oil and gas. It was a declaration of independence: Expropriation Day is still celebrated each year. Even today, the PRI, which still holds a plurality in Congress, is fighting changes to the Constitution and at the oil giant it created, in part on grounds of patriotism. President Fox's attempts at reform have been hamstrung by PRI resistance - and Pemex's history of corruption. Pemex's last director, Rogelio Montemayor, a former PRI governor, and its union boss, Carlos Romero Deschamps, a PRI senator, each stand accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from Pemex for the PRI's 2000 presidential campaign against Mr. Fox. Both men deny the charges. Mr. Romero Deschamps is battling an attempt in Congress to strip him of the legal immunity he enjoys as a sitting senator. Mr. Montemayor fled Mexico last year and is fighting extradition from Houston. The PRI, struggling to defend them - and itself, is also resisting every effort to transform Pemex. The political will needed to reform Pemex has just not coalesced, said Eduardo Cepeda, the head of J. P. Morgan Chase's Mexico office. Edward L. Morse, executive adviser at Hess Energy Trading Co. and former publisher of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, said by telephone from New York that the effort to reform the beast had failed. President Fox, he said, does not understand how thoroughly ingrained in the national political culture the monopoly of Pemex is. Pemex remains one of the world's few national oil companies with no competition from within or without. Its resulting inefficiencies are stark. Othón Canales Treviño is Pemex's director for competitiveness and innovation - the man in charge of creating the new Pemex. He once ran a company that supplied Pemex with chemicals, and he was often solicited for bribes, he said. Today he sits on a commission on corruption at Pemex, composed of 14 directors. There is corruption, he said. But I think the inefficiency is worse. There is brutal inefficiency. For example, Mr. Canales said, he recently asked how much Pemex paid each year for goods and services - everything for ice packs to helicopters rented to fly engineers to offshore rigs. No one knew. It took four months to come up with the answer - $7 billion. We want to act like a company, he said. Pemex isn't a company. It isn't Pemex Inc. We're not a government
[CTRL] (Fwd) ADL Loses $10.5 Million Defamation Suit
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; From: hengist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 03:36:05 -0800 Begin forwarded message --- Oh the shame of it. Defamation comes home to roost. ADL Loses $10.5 Million Defamation Suit Denver -- A federal jury has awarded a Colorado couple $10.5 million in their defamation lawsuit against the Colorado chapter of the Anti-Defamation League. The 12-member jury in US District Court sided with plaintiffs William and Dorothy Quigley of Evergreen, in their defamation lawsuit against the Denver-based Mountain States chapter and its area director, Saul Rosenthal. The jury on April 28 awarded the Quigleys damages, mostly punitive, of $10.5 million, a figure that astonished defendants and plaintiffs alike . . Full story: http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/000519/row.shtml --- End of forwarded message --- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Images of the Sporting Crowd
-Caveat Lector- See how simple every policy decision can be, as long as the oil companies run the country. Every issue comes down to just one question - does it make Bush and Cheney richer or poorer. Refreshingly simple. on 01/21/03 4:46 AM, Euphorian at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/01/20/21AUTO.chart.jpg http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/01/20/business/21AUTO. chart2.jpg http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/business/21AUTO.html January 21, 2003 Bush Proposal May Cut Tax on S.U.V.'s for Business By DANNY HAKIM DETROIT, Jan. 20 The Bush administration's economic plan would increase by 50 percent or more the deductions that small-business owners can take right away on the biggest sport utility vehicles and pickups. The plan would mean small businesses could immediately deduct the entire price of S.U.V.'s like the Hummer H2, the Lincoln Navigator and the Toyota Land Cruiser, even if the vehicles were loaded with every available option. Or a business owner, taking full advantage, could buy a BMW X5 sport utility vehicle for a few hundred dollars more than a Pontiac Bonneville sedan, after the immediate tax deductions were factored in. Tax experts and environmentalists say the plan would provide incentives for businesses to choose the biggest gas-guzzling trucks because it takes several years to depreciate the cost of passenger cars and smaller sport utility vehicles. The ramifications of the Bush plan on S.U.V. buyers were reported today in The Detroit News. The potential lift for sales of big S.U.V.'s comes amid rising tension in the Middle East and increasing criticism of S.U.V.'s from environmentalists and regulators. But a top budget official said today that the administration might be open to changes in the tax code that would bring cars more in line with big trucks. We have an open mind about whether the deduction for cars needs to be refined, said Dr. John Graham, the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. The tax code now caps deductions for most automobiles. But the largest vehicles those that weigh more than 6,000 pounds fully loaded are exempt because the relevant portion of the code was written in the 1980's, before the rise of the sport utility vehicle, and was intended to exempt big pickups needed on work sites. Now the tax incentives also give business owners not involved in hauling doctors, real estate agents, accountants more incentive to buy the biggest S.U.V.'s instead of smaller ones, or cars. The proposal makes a glitch in the tax code much worse and it benefits rich businessmen who want to buy massive S.U.V.'s, said Aileen Roder, program director for Taxpayers for Common Sense. In essence we're buying these vehicles for these businesses. But the administration says that greater business deductions will be a potent economic stimulant. Many small businesses have genuine needs for large vans, pickups and S.U.V.'s, whether it be for a farm, sales or industrial application, Dr. Graham said. An updated tax deduction for small businesses is certainly needed. Consider the Hummer H1 as an example of the new deduction. It is one of the largest and most expensive S.U.V.'s, with a base sticker price of $102,581, including destination charge. Under the Bush plan, small- business owners could use all of an annual $75,000 capital equipment deduction toward the purchase; the current equipment deduction allowance is just $25,000. That is in addition to thousands of dollars in other deductions. Under existing rules, a business could deduct 30 percent from the base price left after the capital equipment deduction, a benefit put in place as part of a post-Sept. 11 stimulus package. In the case of the H1, that would be a further deduction of $8,274. Finally, 20 percent could be deducted from what is left, part of the business deductions available for automobiles. For the H1, that would be $3,861 more in deductions. The total would be more than $87,000 in deductions, or about $33,500 in savings in federal taxes alone for buyers in the highest bracket. Under current rules, just less than $60,000 could be deducted. Deals for cars and small sport utility vehicles are much less appealing. Currently, a business can deduct no more than $7,660 for a car in its first year of service, $4,900 in the second year and less in the succeeding years. The Toyota Prius, which uses a fuel-efficient blend of gasoline and electric power, is eligible for an additional $2,000 clean vehicle deduction. That means a business owner could deduct under half of the $20,500 sticker price of the Prius in the first year of purchase, for about $3,700 worth of federal tax savings for those in the highest tax bracket. David Friedman, an engineer and analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: GREATEST RED FLAG OF PENTAGON ATTACK !!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- I can't verify anything in a legal sense. The Lt. told me that 'X' told him..so it is all hearsay. The Washington Post article is January 20, 2002, and probably easily verifiable. Lt. Vreeland gave clues that his main contact/control was Jack Punches. From the memorial pages: U.S. Navy Capt. (Ret.) Jack Punches worked in the Pentagon as deputy head, Navy Interagency Support Branch. He earned a B.S. degree from Missouri University, an M.S. from the Naval War College and an M.S. from Salve Regina in International Relations. Designated a Naval aviator in 1975, he was assigned to NAS Jacksonville, Fl. After three deployments he served as an instructor pilot. In 1982, he reported to VPU-1 (Special Projects) in Brunswick, Me. After two years of intelligence duties, he reported to the Navy War College. After graduation, he served as a maintenance officer. He joined the Fleet Logistics Support Squadron in Sicily as the executive officer in 1989. He assumed command of VR-24 in 1991 and deployed to Saudi Arabia in support of Operations Desert Storm/ Desert Shield. In 1992, he reported to United Command as chief, airborne operations. In 1995, he became head of Navy Counterdrug in the office of Chief of Naval Operations and special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. In 1996, he served as deputy director, Operations and Interagency Support division. He retired in 2000 and worked for Blue Stone Consulting of Alexandria, Va. Later that year he returned to the Navy as a senior civilian employee at the Navy Interagency Support Branch... : Note, 1995, head of Navy Counterdrug in the office of Chief of Naval Operations. The CNO then would have been Adm. Boorda (and Lt. Vreeland supposedly an operative.) According to the Lt., Jeremy Boorda was extremely displeased with the CIA using his naval ships and submarines to smuggle drugs. Beyond that President Clinton had some very shady dealings with the Chinese that may have qualified as treason. If so the investigation would be the CNO's responsibility. Vreeland, who considered both Clinton and Bush Sr. to be criminals, described Boorda as not a bad guy. My *guess* for the other contact was: :: CDR William H. Donovan, Jr., USN CDR Donovan was assigned as the OPNAV N-513 Strategy Concepts Action Officer. His prior assignments include VP-11, VP-31, Naval Post Graduate School, CVN-73, VP-1, and OPNAV N-512 (Policy and Doctrine). ::: Another possibility is: :: Otis V. Tolbert U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Otis V. Tolbert, 38, wrote intelligence briefings for the chief of naval operations in the Pentagon... :: or, another intelligence briefer but lower ranked: :: LT Jonas P. Panik, USN LT Jonas was assigned as the Flag Intelligence Briefer, Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot (CNO-IP). His prior assignments include Office of Naval Intelligence and VP-46. The most mysterious death in the Naval Command Center on 9/11 was Lt. Darin Pontell, but at 26, he only graduated as an Intel officer in 1998. From Carol Valentine: DARIN PONTELL CALLS HOME FROM THE GRAVE According to the Washington Post, January 20, 2002, The Last Watch, (front page, Style section), the entire chain of command of the super secret Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot (CNO-IP) were killed in the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. One of the victims was Darin Pontell, who worked in CNO-IP. The Post reported that two days after the attack, Darin's parents were still hoping Darin was alive. Here is an excerpt from The Last Watch, Washington Post, January 20, 2001, pg.F1. 'Where'd I put my cell phone? Where is it?' Marilyn Pontell, Darrin's
[CTRL] Fwd: I L L U M I N A T I News - Project GREEN BIRD - Revealed
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Don't let the NWO lie to your face! The Illuminatiis alive and well -FOR REAL. The Illuminati lives. And this is undoubtedly their most wicked design EVER. There is no conspiracy theory of Triple 6's and Marks of the Beast - Who and/ or what is the Destroyer? Apollyon? Project GREEN BIRD is absolutely UNHOLY - Behold: http://www.disinfo.com/forums/read.php?f=3i=24576t=24568 Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Did The Mossad Assassinate Martin Luther King?
-Caveat Lector- Did The Mossad Assassinate Martin Luther King? New Book Says Revelations Indicate King Had Planned Anti-Zionist Turn 1/20/03 11:20:13 PM American Free Press Washington, DC -- Mossad Linked to Martin Luther King Assassination Celebrations of the life of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. are not likely to commemorate the remarkable revelations outlined in this AFP exclusive. Exclusive to American Free Press By Richard V. London A key player in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. has been linked to a key figure in the JFK assassination conspiracy. Both, in turn, have been firmly connected to joint involvement in a U.S.- based arms smuggling operation intimately tied to Israelâs intelligence service, the Mossad. This revelation appears in a new book, An Act of State, by Dr. William F. Pepper, whichâunless something more explosive comes alongâwill probably be the last word on the subject of who killed King and why. Based on Pepperâs investigations in his longtime role as the attorney for Kingâs accused killer, James Earl Ray, An Act of State does not trumpet the Mossad connection by any means. However, Pepperâs circumspect reference to the Mossad is a lightning bolt of recall to anyone who has already read longtime AFP correspondent Michael Collins Piperâs best-seller, Final Judgment, the first book ever not only to document a Mossad role in the JFK affair but to also raise the likelihood of possible Israeli involvement in the King assassination. Pepperâs assertion involving the Mossad is based on statements made to one of Pepperâs investigators by former Colonel John Downie of the 902nd Military Intelligence Group, a unit based inside the Department of Defense. According to Downie, the mysterious figure âRaulââwhom Kingâs accused assassin, James Earl Ray, claimed had helped frame him (Ray) for Kingâs murderâ was part of a U.S.-based international arms smuggling operation (operating, in part, in Texas) that Pepper had already determinedâthrough other sourcesâ involved Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub keeper who killed JFKâs accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The link between âRaulâ and Ruby was by no means tenuous: âRaulâ and Ruby were placed together by Pepperâs sources on numerous occasions prior to the JFK assassinationâfive years before Kingâs murder. The smuggling operation utilized weapons stolen from U.S. Army bases and armories which were delivered to the New Orleans-based Carlos Marcello organized crime organization which, in turn, delivered those arms for sale in Latin and South America and elsewhere. The proceeds from the arms deals were reportedly split equally with the U.S. 902nd Military Intelligence Group using its cut for financing covert, off-budget, operations. Hereâs the Mossad connection: Downie said that one of the individuals who was a key player in this operation was âa senior Mossad agent working in South America who acted as a senior liaison to the U.S. military and CIA.â It appears Final Judgment has almost certainly pinpointed the identity of the individual described by Pepperâs source In Final Judgment, Piper pointed out that the famous âumbrella manâ who was photographed in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 bore a remarkable resemblance to no less than the now-infamous (but then shadowy) longtime Mossad figure, Michael Harari. In 1963, Harari was in the field as a top Mossadâs assassinations specialist and would have assuredly been in Dallas if, as Piper contends, the Mossad was a prime player in the JFK conspiracy. In addition, the published record documents thatâthroughout his careerâHarari was heavily involved in Israeli intelligence operations in Mexico, South America and the Caribbean, culminating in his later more widely-publicized role as the top advisor to then-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega who was ultimately topped in a U.S. invasion. Was Harari, then, the âsenior Mossad agent working in South Americaâ referenced by Pepperâs U.S. military source? If not, it was certainly someone Harari worked with. That Jack Rubyâwho was part of the Mossad-connected smuggling operation uncovered by Pepperâhad multiple Mossad and Israeli connections is no surprise to those who have read Final Judgment, which pointed out: ⢠That contrary to myth, Ruby was not a henchman for the Italian- American âMafia,â but was, instead, a long-time key narcotics smuggling functionary in the crime syndicate of mob chieftain and Israeli loyalist Meyer Lansky; ⢠That Ruby bragged as far back as 1955âaccording to FBI filesâthat he had been smuggling arms to Israel; ⢠That Luis Kutner, Rubyâs longtime attorneyâdating back to Rubyâs earlier years in Chicagoâhad deep-rooted intelligence connections and was a major player in the pro-Israel lobby; ⢠That Al Lizanetz, a top henchman of Arizona crime boss Kemper Marley (a well-paid front man for the Bronfman
[CTRL] A technical overview of mind control tactics
-Caveat Lector- Mind: How does mind control work?: A technical overview of mind control tacticsPosted by: souljah on Jan 20, 2003 - 01:07 AM Coercion is defined as, "to restrain or constrain by force..." Legally it often implies the use of PHYSICAL FORCE or physical or legal threat. This traditional concept of coercion is far better understood than the technological concepts of "coercive persuasion" which are effective restraining, impairing, or compelling through the gradual application of PSYCHOLOGICAL FORCES. More at http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1675mode=threadorder=0thold=0 * Did one of Buffet's Jets shoot down Flight 93?http://makeashorterlink.com/?K2C024623Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Clash on Medical Marijuana Puts a Grower in U.S. Court
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clash on Medical Marijuana Puts a Grower in U.S. Court January 21, 2003 By DEAN E. MURPHY OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 20 - As a marijuana celebrity, Ed Rosenthal has been on a career roll. The author of a dozen cannabis self-help books and a magazine advice column, Ask Ed, Mr. Rosenthal is the pothead's answer to Ann Landers, Judge Judy, Martha Stewart and the Burpee Garden Wizard all in one. Can't get rid of the powdery mildew on your cannabis seedling? Try a 20 percent skim-milk solution. The feds got you in court on charges of cultivation? Challenge their crop yield estimates. Want a high without the harmful tar? Use a pipe that vaporizes it. Mr. Rosenthal's renown has taken him to the Senate, where he testified about marijuana sentencing laws, and to a dozen foreign countries, where he worked as a consultant to hemp and marijuana growers. Throughout it all, he has carried on with impunity. Until now. On Tuesday, Mr. Rosenthal goes on trial in federal court in San Francisco on charges of marijuana cultivation and conspiracy. The charges stem from a business he ran growing marijuana to be sold for medicinal uses under the auspices of the City of Oakland's medical marijuana ordinance, one of many such municipal statutes in California. If convicted on all counts, Mr. Rosenthal, who is 58, faces a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison; the conspiracy charge carries a possible life sentence. The trial has riled his many fans in the marijuana community, but its implications are far broader. At its core, Mr. Rosenthal's prosecution exposes a deepening rift between the State of California and the Bush administration over the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, with no middle ground for compromise in sight. On one side, federal law enforcement officials view Mr. Rosenthal's arrest and possible conviction as a trophy in the stepped-up war on drugs. There shouldn't be any doubt about our determination to enforce the laws of the United States, said Special Agent Richard Meyer, a spokesman for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in San Francisco. Marijuana is illegal regardless of the intended use, regardless of the person cultivating it and regardless of where it originated. On the other side, some state and local officials regard Mr. Rosenthal's prosecution as an effort by the federal government to subvert the 1996 statewide voters' initiative, known as Proposition 215, that made marijuana legal for medicinal purposes. Since that initiative passed in California, eight other states have approved similar laws. I am just speechless, said Nathan A. Miley, an Alameda County supervisor who helped write the ordinance in Oakland when he was a councilman. What we were attempting to do through the city was put together as tight a medical practice as possible. Ed was just part of that whole effort. A handful of court cases have failed to defuse the federal-state tensions. In the most significant ruling, the United States Supreme Court decided in 2001 that under federal law medical necessity is not a defense to manufacturing and distributing marijuana. But the ruling did not address Proposition 215 and whether it violated federal law. Moreover, it involved an organization, not an individual, and it arose from civil litigation, not a criminal case. And rulings by other courts since then have offered some protections. Last July, the California Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 215 granted medical users of marijuana limited immunity from prosecution under state law. In October, a federal appeals court in San Francisco decided that the federal government may not revoke the licenses of doctors who recommend marijuana to their patients. This is a huge conflict, said Hallye Jordan, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer, California's top prosecutor and a supporter of the state statute. State law legalizes medical marijuana and federal law makes marijuana illegal. Period. In a letter to Asa Hutchinson, the administrator of the federal drug agency, Mr. Lockyer characterized a flurry of federal raids on medicinal marijuana providers last fall as wasteful, unwise and surprisingly insensitive. In pointing a finger directly at the Bush administration, Mr. Lockyer's office reported that federal efforts against authorized California cooperatives began only in 2001. While I am acutely aware that federal law conflicts with California's on this subject and needs to be reconciled, surely an administration with a proper sense of balance, proportion and respect for states' rights could and should reconsider the D.E.A.'s policy and redirect its resources, Mr. Lockyer wrote. In a reply, Mr. Hutchinson rejected the notion of medicinal marijuana as unsound, legally and scientifically. He also mocked the suggestion that a voters' initiative might change that. The Food and Drug Administration, he wrote, has never in
[CTRL] More Details in Former Weapons Inspector's Arrest
-Caveat Lector- http://www.wrgb.com/news/local/local_news.asp#H1 More Details in Former Weapons Inspector's Arrest Channel Six News has learned former UN Weapons Inspector and Delmar resident Scott Ritter was arrested during an Internet sex sting operation. But it turns out police caught Ritter months before, but declined to press charges. Sources tell us Ritter tried to meet a 14 year-old girl he chatted with online. He was instead met by police officers, who let him go. Ritter was arrested in June of 2001 for allegedly trying to lure a 16 year-old girl he met online to a Burger King. But that girl was really an undercover cop- surfing the web as part of a police sting operation. Ritter was charged with attempted endangerment of a child. But the charge was dismissed and the case sealed. That means, essentially, that it never happened. Ritter searched Iraq for weapons in the years following the Gulf War. More recently, he's been speaking out against President Bush's policies on Iraq and is frequently seen on local and national television. 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] Front-line troops disproportionately white, not black
-Caveat Lector- http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030121/4794964s.htm Page 1A Front-line troops disproportionately white, not black Numbers refute long-held belief By Dave Moniz and Tom Squitieri USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- The American troops likeliest to fight and die in a war against Iraq are disproportionately white, not black, military statistics show -- contradicting a belief widely held since the early days of the Vietnam War. In a little-publicized trend, black recruits have gravitated toward non-combat jobs that provide marketable skills for post-military careers, while white soldiers are over-represented in front-line combat forces. The tilt toward white combat troops is recognized by many senior commanders and a small group of scholars who study the military. ''If anybody should be complaining about battlefield deaths, it is poor, rural whites,'' says Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University in Illinois. When Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., called recently for the return of a military draft, he evoked images of inequality raised during the early years of the Vietnam War, when black soldiers died at rates much greater than their share of the U.S. population. Though Rangel is right that blacks and lower-income Americans still serve in disproportionate numbers, that fact misses another significant trend. While blacks are 20% of the military -- compared with 12% of the U.S. population -- they make up a far smaller percentage of troops in combat jobs on the front line. In a host of high-risk slots -- from Army commandos to Navy and Air Force fighter pilots -- blacks constitute less than 5% of the force, statistics show. Blacks, especially in the enlisted ranks, tend to be disproportionately drawn to non-combat fields such as unit administration and communications. They are underrepresented in jobs shooting rifles or dropping bombs. Examples: * Of the Army's 45,586 enlisted combat infantryman, 10.6% are black. * Of the Air Force's 12,000 pilots, 245, or about 2%, are black. * In the Navy, 2.5% of the pilots are black. Senior Air Force officials say they are troubled by the number of black pilots and plan to do better. * The Army's enlisted Green Berets are among the least diverse groups in the military. Only 196 of the Army's 4,278 enlisted Green Berets -- fewer than 5% -- are black. The reasons for the racial divide are unclear, but several theories have emerged, including lingering racism in some quarters of the military and a tendency among black recruits to choose jobs that help them find work in the civilian sector. Copyright 2002 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. 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] Front-line troops disproportionately white, not black
-Caveat Lector- Actually what Rangel said was that too few in congress and positions of wealth and power were risking their own children, regardless of race, and thus were far to cavalier about going to a war that would not cause them any suffering. As to the numbers - The jobs that have high prestige - pilots, green berets, etc - are not given to blacks, nor are blacks encouraged to try for prestigious jobs. on 01/21/03 12:47 PM, klewis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though Rangel is right that blacks and lower-income Americans still serve in disproportionate numbers, that fact misses another significant trend. While blacks are 20% of the military -- compared with 12% of the U.S. population -- they make up a far smaller percentage of troops in combat jobs on the front line. In a host of high-risk slots -- from Army commandos to Navy and Air Force fighter pilots -- blacks constitute less than 5% of the force, statistics show. Blacks, especially in the enlisted ranks, tend to be disproportionately drawn to non-combat fields such as unit administration and communications. They are underrepresented in jobs shooting rifles or dropping bombs. Examples: * Of the Army's 45,586 enlisted combat infantryman, 10.6% are black. * Of the Air Force's 12,000 pilots, 245, or about 2%, are black. * In the Navy, 2.5% of the pilots are black. Senior Air Force officials say they are troubled by the number of black pilots and plan to do better. * The Army's enlisted Green Berets are among the least diverse groups in the military. Only 196 of the Army's 4,278 enlisted Green Berets -- fewer than 5% -- are black. The reasons for the racial divide are unclear, but several theories have emerged, including lingering racism in some quarters of the military and a tendency among black recruits to choose jobs that help them find work in the civilian sector. -- To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight--and never stop fighting. - e.e. cummings NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew 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] MRC Alert: Worries About 'Hot Breath of Patriotism Police' (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. 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: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:14:56 -0700 From: Media Research Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Alert: Worries About 'Hot Breath of Patriotism Police' ***Media Research Center CyberAlert*** 12:15pm EST, Tuesday January 21, 2003 (Vol. Eight; No. 12) The 1,419th CyberAlert. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996 CBS Showcases Diversity Strength of Peace Marchers; Williams Worries About Hot Breath of Patriotism Police; Malpractice Victim Uses Morning Shows to Blast Bush; CBS Uses Victim's Emotional Tale to Counter Bush; Cal Thomas Stumps Stahl Who Can't Name a Conservative at CBS; Liberal Bias Not a Concern to New CNN Chief; LA Times Reporter Admits Every Media Bias But a Liberal One; Top Ten Saddam Hussein Weekend Plans Distributed to more than 11,600 recipients by the Media Research Center, bringing political balance to the news media since 1987. The MRC is the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias. Visit the MRC on the Web: http://www.mediaresearch.org. CyberAlerts from this year are at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/welcome.asp For 2002: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/archive02.asp Subscribe/unsubscribe information, as well as a link to the MRC donations page, are at the end of this message. When posted, this CyberAlert will be readable at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030121.asp 1) Add CBS to the list of networks whitewashing Saturday's peace marches by ignoring the far-left agenda of those behind the protests and focusing on how marchers represented a cross-section of America. Young, old, veterans and veteran activists united in the effort to stop the war before it starts, trumpeted CBS's Joie Chen. From San Francisco, John Blackstone highlighted a young boy who came with his father as Blackstone admired how the crowd seemed to span the generations, a multitude that reminded one protester of the anti-war movement's glory days. Blackstone, however, did allow one woman to blast the naiveté of protesters. 2) Late last week CNBC anchor Brian Williams chafed at how the anti-war protesters will feel the hot breath of the patriotism police. 3) Linda McDougal, the Minnesota woman who had a double mastectomy after her biopsy was mistakenly confused with another woman's, used appearances on all three broadcast network morning shows on Monday to denounce President Bush's proposal to impose a $250,000 cap on pain and suffering awards. No morning show hosts challenged her. On CBS's The Early Show she claimed that Bush wishes to harm her as she falsely stated that the Bush plan would impose a $250,000 cap on medical malpractice. On NBC's Today she charged that Bush intends to harm me more. 4) Last Thursday the CBS Evening News found a victim of medical malpractice to denounce President Bush's proposal to set a $250,000 pain and suffering limit in malpractice cases. Though Elizabeth Kaledin allowed an advocate of Bush's position to make dry arguments, she offered a more powerful case for opponents by calling up emotion as she focused on a victim in a wheelchair and the views of consumer groups. She didn't mention how liberal Democrats are compromised on the issue because of their dependence on trial lawyer money. 5) Liberal Media Bias Denial, example one: Stahl stumped. On FNC's After Hours with Cal Thomas, CBS News veteran Lesley Stahl denied the very concept of any liberal bias and claimed that today you have broadcast journalists who are avowedly conservative and that the voices being heard on the networks are far more likely to be on the right. Thomas wondered if she could name a conservative journalist at CBS News? Stahl could not and insisted that CBS reporters steadfastly cleanse our stories of any opinion. 6) Liberal Media Bias Denial, example two. CNN's new chief, Jim Walton, isn't concerned about liberal media bias at his network. The Boston Globe's Mark Jurkowitz revealed last week that of the sentiment that CNN was a bastion of liberal media tilt, Walton said flatly that the bias charge was not an issue with him. 7) Liberal Media Bias Denial, example three. Los Angeles Times media reporter David Shaw argued the media are biased in many ways, but just not in a liberal way. Shaw could see bias in favor of change, bad news, conflict rather than harmony and sensationalism, scandal, celebrities and violence, But, he insisted, we don't, consciously or subconsciously, slant our stories to fit our ideology. He argued that
Re: [CTRL] Front-line troops disproportionately white, not black
-Caveat Lector- Cite references, please. On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 10:16 US/Pacific, thew wrote: The jobs that have high prestige - pilots, green berets, etc - are not given to blacks, nor are blacks encouraged to try for prestigious jobs. 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] NYTimes.com Article: Georgia Gov. in a Pickle Over Flag Pledge
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Georgia Gov. in a Pickle Over Flag Pledge January 21, 2003 By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN ATLANTA, Jan. 20 - Sonny Perdue is in a pickle. The new governor of Georgia has all these big ideas: a fully wired state with high-speed Internet access for all; mentors for students taking the SAT; a saber-toothed ethics commission; more money for legal defense of the indigent. But all the attention keeps coming back to same, single, stubborn issue: the state flag. Since this is partly a pickle of his own making, Governor Perdue has been uncomfortable talking about it. During his underdog campaign, he energized rural white voters by promising a referendum on the state flag, which the Legislature stripped of its large Confederate battle cross two years ago. After he was elected, Mr. Perdue, the state's first Republican governor in 130 years, went silent on the issue. But last week, the day after he was inaugurated, he broached the referendum idea again. And now, in a recent interview, Mr. Perdue said a flag vote is the only way Georgia can move on, though he would not discuss specifics. It's like a family secret, Mr. Perdue said. The only way to heal this is with the sunshine of coming together and dealing with it in a very forthright approach. That's why I committed to a referendum. Many analysts say that if the question is put to voters, the Confederate cross will probably return - and so will the boycotts, the tension and the backwater image Georgia has tried so hard to bury. If there had been a referendum in Georgia in 1860 on slavery, I'd still be picking cotton, said State Senator Vincent D. Fort, a leader of the black caucus. The idea that a referendum will heal the divide is ludicrous. If the Confederate battle flag rises again above Georgia, it would be the first time since the civil rights movement that a Southern state has resurrected a symbol so painful to many. Some here say it could also crush the already-wobbly economy of Atlanta, the South's most prosperous city. We can't afford any more economic losses, said Denise Majette, a newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Atlanta, who is staunchly against a referendum. We can't have this fester. Southern heritage groups say the flag represents valor. Most blacks say it stands for slavery. Mr. Perdue, who grew up on a farm in central Georgia, will not say what he thinks. I'm not going there, he said. I don't want to impugn the referendum process. Yet he is well aware of the emotional impact. At his inauguration ceremony last week, he banned Confederate flags. But he could not block the airspace. All morning and afternoon, three biplanes circled the sparkling golden dome of the Georgia Capitol, towing banners in favor if the Confederate flag. Let us vote, read one. You promised! Who sponsored the banners is a mystery. Two leading groups seeking a referendum, the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Heritage Preservation Association, said they did not have the money to pay for flyovers, which can cost $100 a pass. The planes flew for hours that day and returned the next. Charles Lunceford of the Heritage Preservation Association said his group was fully behind Mr. Perdue - and mobilizing against potential enemies. Any politician who decides to go against Southern heritage is a target, Mr. Lunceford said. People chose to move to this area. When they move to the South, they abandon where they came from. Would it be right for me to move to California and demand that they take the bear off their flag? The flag emerged as a key issue in Mr. Perdue's upset of the incumbent governor, Roy Barnes, a Democrat. Two years ago, when Mr. Barnes sought a new flag design, Georgia was one of the last states displaying a large Confederate cross as part of its flag. Mr. Barnes proposed shrinking the symbol to a small box at the bottom. The Legislature agreed, with Mr. Barnes hailed as a skillful politician, a leading light in the Democratic Party and a possible vice-presidential candidate. Meanwhile, Georgia's rural white voters seethed. You can't imagine the anger, said Dan Coleman, spokesman for the Georgia chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. In the campaign, Mr. Perdue, 56, a veterinarian and former state senator, promised to allow voters the choice of which flag they wanted. Rural voters turned out in record numbers and sent Mr. Barnes away. But then Mr. Perdue seemed to cool to the idea. The flag, Mr. Perdue said, a few weeks after victory, is not really the issue of the day. Last week, though, while posing for pictures, he abruptly shared his plans for a referendum. I think the people of Georgia need to heal this, he said. The best venue to do that is in a referendum. Will the old state flag be an option? Who will come up with the designs? When will it go to a vote? The governor would not say. The importance is in those details, said Merle
Re: [CTRL] Virus Alert: [CTRL] For your attention Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- 1/21/2003 8:35:42 AM, Ozzy bin Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This virus-ridden post was sent to me: This was sent directly from the site, using their -- as in THEIR -- email forwarding applet. Notice the For your attention heading. But -- guess what -- there's something between the source (site) and the destination (list) that is obviously the problem. A:E:R 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] Smells like ...
-Caveat Lector- Let me be the first to apologise for any inconveniences that may have been caused by a For your attention post ... this post was initiated at the site using the site's auto emailer applet convenience window. Since early this morning, I've gotten notification of someone receiving the virus via the method I described AND I got it back via the notification. Between the time I ended my computer session early this AM and started a new one this PM, I ran a full virus check (so it's working when I catch 'em coming back) ... none detected. What's more, I've received email replies from people I don't even know, asking me *why* they received something I initiated. One indicated s/he hadn't been on CTRL for a while. Now, again, all I did was to indicate to the site (as I have many several times in the past) that I wanted the Guardian article forwarded FROM them TO CTRL by entering the latter's address. My email client was not involved therefore -- until I got the message that the virus sent via the list was sent on to me ... Now, obviously (to me), if I am receiving emails from people who are tied into the sent message only by virtue of the list address -- and who I would otherwise NOT know, there's something wrong. Since my virus checker detected a query from Ozzy, and my definitions are up to date, what's at the Guardian or on AOL? Smells like somethings's fishy ... A:E:R 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] Virus Alert: [CTRL] For your attention Alamaine Ratliff
-Caveat Lector- It's not a virus, it's a legitimate file that is a part of the windows operating system. java debugger manager. At 02:56 PM 1/21/03 , you wrote: -Caveat Lector- 1/21/2003 8:35:42 AM, Ozzy bin Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This virus-ridden post was sent to me: This was sent directly from the site, using their -- as in THEIR -- email forwarding applet. Notice the For your attention heading. 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] legal system, Diocese Quietly Paid Man, Church hasn't unfrocked jailed priest
-Caveat Lector- also has half million protesters, car wars (Iraq) this may be heavy for survivors The Experiences of Child Complainants of Sexual Abuse in the Criminal Justice System Dr Christine Eastwood Prof Wendy Patton - Queensland University of Technology "From a theoretical perspective, the report examines why decades of reform have achieved limited gains for Australian children, and why the criminal justice system remains the legally sanctioned context for the abuse of childrenThere is widespread agreement in the literature that child sexual abuse spans all races, economic classes and ethnic groups (Finkelhor, 1993, 1994; Goldman Padayachi 1997; Oates, 1990; O'Donnell Craney, 1982; Peters, Wyatt Finkelhor, 1986). The prevalence of sexual abuse is so extensive that in "no sub-group is it clearly absent or rare" (Finkelhor, 1993, p 67). Internationally, epidemiological studies estimate prevalence rates of 7 to 36 per cent for females and 3 to 29 per cent for males (Finkelhor, 1994) and confirm that sexual abuse of children is an international problem. It is estimated that females are abused at one and half times to three times the rate for males (Finkelhor, 1994). According to Bagley (1995), three aspects are clear. The majority of perpetrators are male (in excess of 95 per cent) against male and female children. Around 80 per cent of the time, the offender is known to the child, and a third of sexual offenders are themselves adolescents. Across all studies it is clear that only about half of the young victims disclosed the abuse to anyone (Finkelhor, 1994; Fleming, 1997). Further compounding the ability of the justice system to prosecute these cases is evidence that for every child who does report, three to five cases are not being reported (Finkelhor, 1991)." http://www.aic.gov.au/crc/reports/eastwood.pdf three from L Moss Sharman Child-sex law in rare test 01/21/03 By Tony Stickley "The man, who has name suppression, is facing around 36 sex charges for acts allegedly committed in this country and on one of the Pacific Islands. Eight young complainants are involved, six of them boys. Some of the counts are laid under a section of the Crimes Amendment Act that was introduced in 1995 to stamp out sex tours by New Zealanders to places such as Thailand and the Philippines. It means the same penalties can be imposed as if the offences were committed in this country. Under the legislation, people who organise sex tours to exploit overseas youngsters can also be jailed for up to seven years." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3097102thesection=newsthesubsection=general Albany Diocese Quietly Paid Man Who Pressed Abuse Claim by Daniel J. Wakin "Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany quietly paid more than $225,000 last year to a sexual abuse victim who was pressing further allegations that priests from the diocese had molested him when he was a boy. The man and the diocese disagree on whether the money was intended to end his claims and keep him quiet, or was the charitable work of a church assisting a member in need." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/nyregion/19BISH.html Church has yet to unfrock jailed paedophile priests by Ruth Gledhill and Dominic Kennedy 1/20/03 "The convicted serial paedophile Michael Hill is still a priest and moves to unfrock him began only a year ago...Hill was first jailed in 1997 for sexually abusing nine boys, but the papers to strip him of the priesthood were not sent to the Vatican until last January." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-548509,00.html http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/Willthomas/action/NotInOurName.htm WORLDWIDE PROTESTS SEND STRONG MESSAGE TO BUSH: "NOT IN OUR NAME" by William Thomas 1/19/03 Braving bitter cold, as many as a half-million Americans rallied outside their nation's Capitol yesterday to tell an unelected President that he did not have the permission of Americans to wage war in their name. Their ranks swollen by anti-war veterans and many more formerly quiet Americans who never before participated in a public protest, as many as one million people voted with their feet in cities around the world to say "No" to imminent war by the United States government against Iraq. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,877203,00.html Car wars The US economy needs oil like a junkie needs heroin - and Iraq will supply its next fix Ian Roberts Saturday January 18, 2003 War in Iraq is inevitable. That there would be war was decided by North American planners in the mid-1920s. That it would be in Iraq was decided much more recently. The architects of this war were not military planners but town planners. War is inevitable not because of weapons of mass destruction, as claimed by the political right, nor because of western imperialism, as claimed by the left. The cause of this war, and probably the one that will follow, is car dependence. The US has paved itself into a corner. Its physical and economic infrastructure is so
[CTRL] Illegal U.S. Funding of Sharon's Likud
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3003likud_usgangsta.html This article appears in the January 24, 2002 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. A Bigger Scandal: Illegal U.S. Funding of Sharon's Likud by Anton Chaitkin EIR's recent series of exposés tracing the dirty money behind Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Likud party, have helped fuel the roaring political scandal threatening to wreck what was once thought to be a certain Sharon win in the upcoming Jan. 28 election. Since the series began, Israeli and American journalists and researchers have provided revealing information concerning the Likud's most important foreign funders, which, upon investigation, has proven to be accurate. Israeli law has, since 1994, prohibited foreign donations to Israeli election campaigns. Yet tens of millions of dollars have continued to pour in from abroad, financing the radical-right Likud political apparatus which is driving the mideast and the world into religious-ethnic warfare. One prominent Israeli jurist told EIR, "Talking about illegal foreign money flows into Israeli elections is like talking about illegal booze in Chicago during Prohibition. Everybody does it, or you just don't survive." But in the case of the money propping up the Sharon regime, its legal prohibition is made more sinister by its sources, primarily in the United States. They include heirs of the Meyer Lansky/ Moe Dalitz mafia syndicate; Michael Milken's junk-bond "monsters," corporate predators, and looters; and the sponsors of terrorists such as Meyer Kahane and the Armageddon-theme racial and religious provocateurs. According to knowledgeable Israeli sources, the following names are at or near the top of the list of perpetrators, whose covert funding of the Likud has brought the Mideast to the brink of disaster. The Lansky-Dalitz LegacyThe most important Likud sources are associates of Michael Milken's multi-billion dollar scams of the 1980s and early 1990s, and of mob bosses Meyer Lansky's and Moe Dalitz's Las Vegas: Jay Zises: (pronounced "zee-sees"), a Likud funder with his wife Nancy. As of 2000, Jay was President of "Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces in the United States." Jay Zises and his brother Selig founded Integrated Resources, a hyper-leveraged tax shelter. The Zises debt pyramid blew out in 1989, defaulting on $955 million. The scheme was financed by Drexel Burnham Lambert's junk-bond kingpin Michael Milken and his family, and by those backing Milken, including Zises' former boss Saul Steinberg, and executives of Carl Lindner's dope-running United Fruit/Chiquita Banana. A Federal judge ruling on a lawsuit against Integrated said, "This case arises from the ashes of what is regarded by some as the most spectacular scam of the 1980s." Milken and others were jailed, but the Zises brothers escaped with a fortune, bought out by Milken's cousin Stanley Zax shortly before Milken was indicted and Integrated collapsed. Jay Zises created the Roundtable Political Action Committee, a U.S. election campaign-financing arm of the Milken clique, operating from Integrated's New York office. His brother Seymour Zises was president of the coordinating "National PAC," which operated from Washington. Run in tandem with AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee), these are the PACs which established, in America, the pattern of dirty-money election financing which rules Israel today. Contributors to Jay Zises' Roundtable included members of the Meshulam Riklis family. Riklis, a mobster go-between for dope-runner Robert Vesco, Vesco's lawyer Kenneth Bialkin, and the Milken group, was Ariel Sharon's personal financial angel. Riklis donated the ranch where Sharon lives today, and where Sharon, Henry Kissinger, Riklis, Bialkin and others planned the West Bank settlement land-scam and rightist offensive. Other Roundtable contributors included convicted Wall Street swindler Ivan Boesky; Saul Steinberg's family; the Milstein family, partners in United Fruit; and the family of Laurence Tisch (of Loews Corp. and Lindner's United Fruit apparatus). Marc Belzberg: Canadian funder of the Likud/West Bank settlers covert nexus. Marc's father and partner, the notorious predator Sam Belzberg, was part of the inner core of the Drexel/Michael Milken junk bond operation, and a sponsor of corporate raider T. Boone Pickens. The Belzbergs bought up large blocks of stocks, and took "greenmail" from companies wanting to avoid their hostile takeovers. Marc Belzberg and his family holding company First City Financial were sued by the SEC in 1986 and forced to disgorge $2.7 million in profits, for "stock parking" with banker Bear Stearns in a takeover-scam against Ashland Oil. The Belzbergs were partners in Zises' Integrated Resources, and arbitrage partners of Roundtable PAC co-founder James Tisch, son of Lawrence Tisch. Marc Belzberg is a director of the Jerusalem Post, the right-wing daily controlled by the Anglo-Canadian rightist
[CTRL] Rummy in NoKor
-Caveat Lector- http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=229391 email this story | download as PDF | print article Donald Rumsfeld was director of company making nuke reactors for N. Korea! (english) xx 12:07pm Sat Jan 18 '03 (Modified on 1:22pm Tue Jan 21 '03) article#229391 Making money from Arming North Korea Orginal story here! http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id= 229314group=webcast ABB was a major partner in the consortium that sold N. Korea those nuclear reactors. http://www.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh251.nsf! OpenDatabasedb=/global/ABBZH/ abbzh250.nsfv=ce=usc= 316DCEEDCA12D32E4125686C00433604 ABB to deliver systems, equipment to North Korean nuclear plants --US $ 200 million in orders awarded under multi-government framework agreement Who was on the ABB Board of Directors before becoming Secretary of Defense? Donald Rumsfeld! http://www.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh251.nsf! OpenDatabasedb=/global/abbzh/ abbzh250.nsfv= 553Ee=usc=D0E90B053BD5AA65C12569F8002A7CB5 Just a few links :-br a href=http://www.abb.com/;The website of ABB/a, an engineering firm. The website includes a search facility. br a href=http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/manager/Donald_Rumsfel d.htm According to this page/a, Donald Rumsfeld was a director of ABB from 2000- 2001. Also mentioned a href=http://www.nato.int/usa/cv/rumsfeld.html;here/a (on NATO's website) and a href=http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/rumsfeld.html; here /a (US Trade Deficit Review Commission).br a href=http://www.power-technology.com/projects/shinpo/; A page about Shinpo nuclear power plant, North Korea./a The plant was based on a design by ABB.br a href=http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/1996/pr96070.html; DOE approves US involvement in the construction of reactors in North Korea./a ABB is mentioned as designing two nuclear power plants in North Korea, third paragraph down.br a href=http://www.atimes.com/koreas/BL13Dg02.html; Investing in North Korea: as easy as ABB?/a From the Asia Times.br add your own comments Links for above corrected. (english) xx 12:19pm Sat Jan 18 '03 comment#229394 Just a few links :-br a href=http://www.abb.com/;The website of ABB/a, an engineering firm. The website includes a search facility. br a href=http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/manager/Donald_Rumsfel d.htm According to this page/a, Donald Rumsfeld was a director of ABB from 2000- 2001. Also mentioned http://www.nato.int/usa/cv/rumsfeld.html here (on NATO's website) and http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/rumsfeld.html here (US Trade Deficit Review Commission). http://www.power-technology.com/projects/shinpo/ A page about Shinpo nuclear power plant, North Korea. The plant was based on a design by ABB.br http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/1996/pr96070.html DOE approves US involvement in the construction of reactors in North Korea./a ABB is mentioned as designing two nuclear power plants in North Korea, third paragraph down.br http://www.atimes.com/koreas/BL13Dg02.html Investing in North Korea: as easy as ABB? From the Asia Times. Bush Seeks $3.5 Million for Group Building N. (english) xx 12:29pm Sat Jan 18 '03 comment#229395 Arming the Axis of Evil http://quote.bloomberg.com/ fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20World% 20Newss1=blktp=ad_topright_topworldT=markets_box.hts2 =ad_right1_windexbt=ad_position1 _windexbox=ad_box_alltag=worldnewsmiddle=ad_frame2 _windexs=APiiJLhTcQnVzaCBT 01/17 17:52 Bush Seeks $3.5 Million for Group Building N. Korean Reactors By Todd Zeranski Washington, Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush is seeking $3.5 million for the international consortium that continues to build two nuclear reactors for North Korea, even as the U.S. confronts the communist regime over nuclear arms. The funding, which must be approved by Congress, would go toward the New York-based Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization's administrative funding, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. The money wouldn't fund reactor construction, he said. ``We're not prejudging the decisions on the organization's future,'' Boucher told reporters. ``Proposals for funds are intended to maintain the flexibility we need to achieve our global nonproliferation goals.'' The sum is the U.S. share of KEDO's $17 million operating budget, including its 40 workers in New York and eight in North Korea, KEDO spokesman Brian Kremer said. As many as 1,500 construction workers remain in Kumho, in northeastern North Korea, pouring the concrete foundations for the reactors, which won't be completed for several years, he said. The 1994 Agreed Framework created the organization, committing the U.S., Japan and South Korea to build the reactors and deliver enough fuel oil for North Korea's energy needs until the facilities were ready. South Korea is paying for most of the reactor project. In exchange, North Korea would scrap reactors tied to a nuclear arms effort and allow international inspectors to verify compliance. Two new 1,000-megawatt, light-water reactors,
[CTRL] ISRAEL'S NEW POLICY OF TERRORISM ON AMERICAN SOIL
-Caveat Lector- http://www.etherzone.com/2003/sans012103.shtml ISRAEL'S NEW POLICY OF TERRORISM ON AMERICAN SOIL By: Joe Sansone A recent UPI report outlined Israelâs new policy of assassinating suspected terrorists on American soil. In other words, Israel is now going to officially carryout terrorism on U.S. soil. Isnât that what murder is? As an American citizen you cannot murder, why should agents of a foreign government have any such right in your country? The UPI report read, âIsrael is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the war on terror that will include staging targeted killings in the United States and other friendly countries, former Israeli intelligence officials told United Press International.â UPI claims to have verified this information with a dozen informants. The report goes on to say that Israel will go forward with this policy, âeven if it risks complications to Israel's bilateral relations." Such a policy by Israel that has no regard for the national sovereignty of the United States requires a reevaluation of an existing allied relationship. It is a callous disregard for not only the laws of the United States, but also the security, safety, and rights of its citizens. What Israel terms as targeted assassinations is really the commencement of a low-grade war against its enemies. By carrying out acts of war on American soil, Israel will be committing acts of war against the United States. Bringing its war to America, Israel is endangering the lives of Americans, including American Jews. Surely, as Israelâs campaign of terror is carried out against its enemies, there will be retaliatory action in the United States by Islamic militants. Are synagogues and Jewish schools immune from such horror? They will likely be the first targets. While less than three percent of Americans are Jews, and respectively three percent are Muslims, do we want them battling it out in our streets? By proclaiming its license to kill on American soil, Israel places itself on the list of rogue nations diametrically opposed to the United States. Terrorism may be acceptable in the third world. It is not acceptable in the United States. This policy by definition is state sponsored terrorism. Maybe there should be weapons inspectors taking a look at Israelâs nuclear program next? How exactly do we determine the innocence of the murdered victims? Since Israel now has no regard for the nation where it murders perceived terrorists, it is safe to say that they would also have no regard for the nationality of the alleged terrorist. What if some of them are American citizens? Are we going to allow a foreign nation to murder U.S. citizens too? The UPI report also says, âIsraeli hit teams, which consist of units or squadrons of the Kidon, a sub-unit for Mossad's highly secret Metsada department, would stage the operationsâ. If Israeli hit teams are in place in the United States, what will prevent them from targeting U.S. officials that arenât willing to send billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel? Far fetched, not really when weâre talking about a nation that is openly planning terrorism in the United States. Yes, openly, because a story this sensitive would have never leaked unless it was meant to be leaked. If Israel is going to have a policy of terrorism on U.S. soil then it is not only plausible that it will kill American citizens that it considers to be enemies, but it is also likely that they will attack American targets and try to blame it on the enemies of Israel.    Itâs bad enough that according to a PBS Transcript Senator Graham of the Select Committee On Intelligence said that classified evidence reveals that foreign governments were involved in the September 11th attacks. Now another nation is threatening to expand its terrorism to America. No ally of the United States can commit act on war on its soil. Theoretically Israeli hit teams could already be here. Remember the DEA report last year about hundreds of Israeli spies posing as art students and stalking federal agents that were deported by the U.S. government. If Islamic terrorist cells may already be here it is entirely possible that Israeli hit squads are in place. The U.S. should immediately pull all foreign aid, both monetary and military assistance from Israel. Immigration should be halted across the board, but especially from Middle Eastern countries, including Israel. Israeli citizens must be deported immediately. If the United States does not have the political will to protect and defend its sovereign territory, then it does not have a right to exist, and probably wonât. Either UPI fabricated the report and manufactured the Israeli government informants quoted in it or Israel is an enemy of the United States. The Bush administration should send a clear signal that if Israel carries out acts of terrorism in the United States then war will follow. A
[CTRL] FORT HOOD REPORT
-Caveat Lector- http://www.stratiawire.com/article.asp?id=850 Tuesday, January 21, 2003 FORT HOOD REPORT JANUARY 21. THE WIRE HAS LEARNED... On this gigantic military base in Texas, something is boiling under the surface. Soldiers are refusing their vaccines. They are not being jailed ot forcibly inoculated. Some soldiers who did take their vaccines are sick. Two weeks before 9/11, all 60 gates at the facility were blocked with concrete barriers and barbed wire. Guard patrols were stepped up. At least a few soldiers there believe that 9/11 was a military OP carried out by the US government. They also believe that the imminent war on Iraq has the clandestine purpose of enlarging the borders of Israel. One could dismiss these latter allegations as random chatter, but the fact that soldiers at Ft. Hood (and other bases?)are volunteering these opinions shows that monolithic and unthinking loyalty is not engraved in stone. A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] David Horowitz Rewrites the Past
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h012302.html January 23, 2002 David Horowitz Rewrites the Past An American Jew, David Horowitz, wrote a 5,000-word article "proving" that "...Israel Is The Victim And The Arabs Are The Indefensible Aggressors In the Middle East." I always enjoy reading the work of an American Jew who defines himself as non-Zionist, but who is nevertheless ready to sacrifice my life in his hatred towards Arabs. I sometimes have the feeling that some American Jews see Israel as their colonial army: they provide us with weapons and money, and we in return should gratefully kill and die, giving our sponsors both entertainment and something to be proud of. And just like the West was more interested in good fiction (books, films) on the colonies than in their actual situation, so these American Jews seem to be more interested in their own imagined Israel and its fictitious history than in the actual Mid-Eastern realities. It's a safe game they are playing. And a nasty one.    The general scheme of Horowitz's argument is too trivial to analyze: the Jews are always good; the Arabs are always bad. Racism is inherent: "the Palestinians are a community of suicide bombers," he writes shamelessly. Some of his arguments are simply repulsive, like the manipulative use of Israel's peace camp: "There is no Arab 'Peace Now' movement, not even a small one, whereas in Israel the movement demanding concessions to Arabs in the name of peace is a formidable political force." The Israeli peace camp would be very grateful to Mr. Horowitz for using its very existence as an argument against peace. Like official Israel, Horowitz offers no explicit solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but he hints again and again at Jordan being the Palestinian state. And like official Israel, Horowitz does have an implicit solution, clearly legible between the lines, as well as between Sharon's battle-lines: ethnic cleansing, either by deporting the Palestinians to Jordan, or by direct genocide, or by a combination of both. Israel is waiting for the right moment to do that, and is meanwhile preparing the ground in terms of international public opinion; Horowitz's article is part of this campaign to prepare the hearts for genocide â not "the Palestinians' genocidal agenda for the Jews," as Horowitz demagogically writes, but an Israeli genocidal agenda for the Palestinians, materializing day after day in front of our blindfolded eyes. Israeli generals hint at it when they repeatedly talk of the present period as "the second part of 1948" â the year he first ethnic cleansing of Palestinians was launched. But above all, it is Horowitz's use of history that deserves attention. Several readers rejected my earlier claim, that distracting the discussion from the present to the past is an ideological strategy. Horowitz's article is an excellent demonstration of what I meant. As Antiwar.com columnist Scott McConnell observes in his "open letter," Horowitz does not use the word "settlements" even once in his entire article. This is symptomatic: the present situation, in which three million Palestinians live under a most murderous Israeli occupation, with no political and human rights, their homes bulldozed at Israel's will, the women giving birth in Israeli checkpoints, scores and dozens of them killed every month, even the wretched infrastructure left by decades of occupation systematically destroyed, an entire people pushed into starving reservations, cut off and surrounded by tanks and barbed-wire, and hundreds of Jewish settlements that control and dispossess â all these are simply swept away under the heavy carpet of a fairy-tale about "3,700 years" (sic!) of Jewish history. "History contains a myriad of details," I wrote in an earlier article; "you can always find some detail that will embarrass your opponent. If not, invent one â who can check?" Well Horowitz is a master in inventing such details, too many for me to check. I hope the following few will suffice to make the point. Just A Few "Mistakes":  =Horowitz counts "more than 1,000 Israelis killed as a result of Palestinian attacks" between 1993 and 1999. Numbers of victims are always an effective argument, but they should be handled with care: by miscounting the dead the writer may undermine his own rhetoric, as he himself may look more interested at making a point than in human lives. The true number of victims, as counted by an Israeli right-wing site not suspected of a bias downwards, is 395. =Horowitz claims that, "During the same period 1993-1999 Israelis were so desperate for peace that they reciprocated these acts of murder by giving the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza [...] 95 percent of the territory their negotiators demanded." In fact, the Palestinian negotiators consistently demanded what all UN resolutions did: the territories occupied in 1967. Horowitz surely knows that they have been given a
[CTRL] War On Hummers
-Caveat Lector- The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 96) January 21, 2002 War on Hummers Edition http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/03/96.html Welcome once again to the Top Ten Conservative Idiots! Democratic Underground is two years old this week, and to celebrate we've got some first-class idiots lined up for you. George W. Bush holds on to the number one slot this week for flip-flopping like a freshly-landed haddock over North Korea. CNN (2) are beating the drums of war and Donald Rumsfeld (3) says that we will attack Iraq if they a) tell us that they have WMD or b) don't tell us that they have WMD. Their choice. Elsewhere Minneapolis City Workers (4) demonstrate what it means to be a true patriot, Bill Frist (5) is getting off to a poor start, and - no sex please! - Robert McDonnell (6) is an idiot. Meanwhile Poppy Bush gets a free ride from ABC (9) and Matt Drudge reminds everybody who he is. Enjoy! And don't forget the key. George W. Bush Three cheers for Dubya's fantastic foreign policy! From breaking off diplomatic relations with North Korea when his administration began, to ignoring and/or insulting them for two years (Bush has said publicly that he loathes Kim Jong Il) the Bush administration's foreign policy seemed to revolve around one simple plan: do the complete opposite of whatever Bill Clinton did. And Since Bill Clinton's foreign policy attempted to keep the peace around the world, it's now no surprise that we're on the brink of Dubya-Dubya-Three. Unfortunately George and The Gang's plans fell apart at the seams last week when it was decided that they might in fact help North Korea with its energy and food problems after all, providing that they stop developing nuclear weapons. Which was, of course, Bill Clinton's plan in the first place. But wait, there's a big difference! See, according to George, inviting North Korea to blackmail the U.S. and then giving in to them in no way means that we're rewarding bad behavior. And just because we're talking with North Korea doesn't mean we're negotiating. Yeah, way to show that evil dictator who's boss, George. CNN It seems that the administration will go to any lengths to make sure they get their oil war with Iraq, and CNN are more than willing to help them if it means more ratings for the desperate cable news organization. Several alert viewers informed us that CNN's Judy Woodruff announced on CNN last week that the Bush administration was encouraged by the UN inspectors' recent discovery of 12 empty rockets, which begs the question, encouraged whaa?!? And also last week CNN were banging Donald Rumsfeld's war drum for him, insisting that Lack of evidence could mean Iraq's hiding something. Yes folks, that was the actual headline on CNN's website. According to CNN, The failure of U.N. arms inspectors to find weapons of mass destruction 'could be evidence, in and of itself, of Iraq's noncooperation' with U.N. disarmament resolution. Why don't they just put up a headline which says Come ON! WAR already! Crispy-fried Iraqis are our top ratings-getter! Donald Rumsfeld On a related note, from the same CNN story referenced above, Donald Rumsfeld has decided that the United States and the United Nations have no obligation to prove that Iraq has continued efforts to develop nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Instead, he said, Iraq must prove that it has abandoned them. Which obviously makes perfect sense, if you're a semi-lobotomized Ignoramosaurus from Planet Braindead. Minneapolis City Workers But it's not just CNN who are doing their best to ratchet up support for the war and downplay the concerns of the average American. It was revealed last week that city workers in Minneapolis have been going around neighborhoods and removing antiwar signs from people's front yards. Damn, if that's not the kind of activity that makes America great, I don't know what is. Nancy Berneking, a Wayzata resident whose signs were knocked down and damaged twice in one week, said, It's like seeing the Constitution being kicked down in your front yard... Why do these people want to silence all dissent? Come on, Nancy - it's because they're true patriots, you god-forsaken Communist. Bill Frist Poor Bill Frist. It seems that the new Senate Majority Leader may not quite have what it takes to run the Senate after all. According to a news story last week, US Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist debuted in his new role by beating a retreat as he accepted a Democratic proposal on committee seat distribution, rather than face a politically costly standoff. Ha ha! Run, Bill, run! That's what we like to see. Perhaps you can ask Chicken Dick Cheney if he's got any spare room in his undisclosed hidey-hole. On second thoughts better not - I'm sure as a doctor you find it really irritating when people start pestering you for free medical advice. Robert F. McDonnell You might want to cover the childrens' eyes for this one! Ahem... thinking of becoming a judge?
[CTRL] A friend recommends a page from The Onion
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[CTRL] Russian leases
-Caveat Lector- Russia leases nuclear bombers to India http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,12559,878155,00.html £1.9bn arms deal to give India power of mass destruction across Pakistan and China Luke Harding in New Delhi Monday January 20, 2003 The Guardian India last night signed a £1.9bn deal with Russia to lease four long- range nuclear bombers and two nuclear-capable submarines, in a move which campaigners say will dramatically escalate the arms race on the subcontinent. On a visit to Moscow, India's defence minister, George Fernandes, said the agreement - which will also see Russia throw in an ageing aircraft carrier, the Admiral Gorshkov, for free - will be finalised by the end of March. We have agreed that all efforts will be made to complete the three contracts, Mr Fernandes said. India and Russia will also pump more money into a joint programme to develop a new long-range nuclear- capable cruise missile, the BrahMos, he revealed. The massive deal will dramatically improve New Delhi's ability to deliver its nuclear warheads. It follows months of simmering tension between India and its arch-rival Pakistan, the world's newest declared nuclear powers. The two countries almost went to war in June last year, and for 10 months deployed a million troops along their shared border. India is believed to have more nuclear bombs - between 60 and 150, compared with Pakistan's 20-60. It also has a much larger conventional army. But defence experts believe that Pakistan, which secretly acquired much of its missile technology from China and North Korea in the 1990s, has better means of getting them to their targets, and this is an edge which New Delhi wants to eliminate. Last night anti-nuclear campaigners in India said they were dismayed by the nuclear deal with Russia. I think it is terrible, said Praful Bidwai, of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP). We are just going into a vortex that steps up the nuclear and missile arms race. They are actually moving towards a high level of readiness to use nuclear weapons. You are not talking about deterrence. Under the package, India will lease four Tu22 M3 long-range aircraft - capable of dropping nuclear bombs on China - as well as two Akula class submarines, which are nuclear-propelled and can deliver nuclear warheads. India's existing submarine fleet is not nuclear capable. Indian officials say that in the event of a nuclear attack by Pakistan, the new Russian subs, which can hide underwater for months at a time, would be able to launch a devastating response. India has also agreed to pay about £370m to refit the Admiral Gorshkov, a decrepit aircraft carrier which was completely gutted by fire in the early 90s. The purchase has caused much raising of eyebrows in the Indian press, and follows an exposé two years ago of massive official corruption in India's defence industry. Mr Fernandes was forced to resign in the wake of the scandal. He later got his job back. The defence minister put the finishing touches to his procurement spree after spending six days in Russia, where he met his counterpart Sergei Ivanov. The comparative speed with which India and Russia have wrapped up their agreement is in stark contrast to Britain's attempts to sell 66 Hawk jet trainer aircraft to the Indian air force. Tony Blair and other ministers have so far failed to convince the Indians to sign the billion-pound deal, despite more than 15 years of negotiations. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama SutRussia leases nuclear bombers to India £1.9bn arms deal to give India power of mass destruction across Pakistan and China Luke Harding in New Delhi Monday January 20, 2003 The Guardian India last night signed a £1.9bn deal with Russia to lease four long- range nuclear bombers and two nuclear-capable submarines, in a move which campaigners say will dramatically escalate the arms race on the subcontinent. On a visit to Moscow, India's defence minister, George
[CTRL] FBI May Have Aided Pentagon Data Project
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-data-mining0121jan21,0,4473868.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines FBI May Have Aided Pentagon Data Project By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Writer January 21, 2003, 6:29 PM EST WASHINGTON -- Possible FBI involvement in a high-tech Pentagon project that sifts through Americans' personal information raises new concerns about privacy and civil liberties, Sen. Charles Grassley said Tuesday. The Defense Department's inspector general, Joseph Schmitz, told Grassley, R-Iowa, in a letter that the FBI was working on a memorandum of understanding with the Pentagon "for possible experimentation" with the data-mining project. Disclosure of FBI contacts regarding the Total Information Awareness project "only heightens my concern about the blurring of lines between domestic law enforcement and military security efforts," said Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a frequent critic of the FBI. Schmitz also told Grassley he will order an audit to help the Pentagon develop sufficient privacy safeguards that do not exist now to ensure the project has adequate protections for computer security and people's privacy. The project, being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, would collect and mine huge amounts of data, including telephone records, credit card transactions, travel information and medical records. The goal of the effort, headed by retired Rear Adm. John Poindexter, is to spot clues and patterns that possibly could identify would-be terrorists. Grassley asked Attorney General John Ashcroft for detailed information about the possible involvement of the FBI and Justice Department and those agencies' potential uses of the information. A Justice Department official said agency sharing of intelligence, including any produced under the Pentagon project, is essential to fight the war on terror. "We will shield Americans from violations of their civil liberties ... while we work across the government to stop terrorists from killing more innocent Americans," said Justice spokesman Mark Corallo. The proposal has drawn sharp criticism from government watchdog groups and from some Democrats in Congress, who have proposed legislation to shut it down as a threat to Americans' privacy and civil liberties. In the aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks, the government already is using powerful new domestic wiretap and surveillance abilities. "At a time when Americans are calling for more privacy of personal information, this program would provide a backdoor to databases of private information," said the American Civil Liberties Union, the conservative Eagle Forum and seven other watchdog groups last week in a letter to Congress. In his letter to Ashcroft, Grassley said the FBI and Justice Department "may have been less than forthright" to the press and public about potential law enforcement uses of data collected and analyzed under the Pentagon project. "We need to strike a balance between targeting terrorists with everything we've got and also protecting the rights and freedoms cherished by Americans," Grassley said. "Military dollars shouldn't be spent on domestic law enforcement." A HREF=""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=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] BCCI comes up again
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- This is a snip from Libertythink's daily feed: From PBS Frontline: Calls for justice and reform came from a growing number of independent mosques and sheiks, who railed against the government and its Western allies, and advocated the formation of an Islamic state that returned to the ethical principles of Sharia law. Among them was the so-called "blind sheik," Omar Abdel Rahman, who preached jihad.. Then-Egyptian President Sadat clamped down on the militants and in return was assassinated by members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in October 1981. The repression of Muslim activists that followed Sadat's killing precipitated two decades of violence in Egypt. The attacks culminated in November 1997, when militants massacred 58 tourists at the ancient site of Luxor. But Egypt's Islamic militants became headlines again in 2001, when it was revealed that some of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers were Egyptian -- including the plot's leader, Mohammed Atta. In addition, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command in the Al Qaeda terror network was Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian medical doctor. The CIA's "plausible deniability" on foreknowledge of 9-11 becomes less plausible with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad connections to 9-11. The CIA has a long history of using EIJ for covert operations. Omar Abdel Rahman, a CIA "valuable asset," was granted a visa and a green card to come to the US to recruit "Mujahideen" for the CIA's covert wars in Afghanistan in the 1980's and in Bosnia in the 1990's. Rahman was convicted in the 1993 WTC bombing. http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_11.htm ARAB VETERANS OF AFGHANISTAN WAR LEAD NEW ISLAMIC HOLY WAR In October 1994, The Al-Kifah, or Struggle, Refugee Center in New York, which used to recruit and raise funds for Mujahedeen headed for Afghanistan, last year announced it was switching its operations to Bosnia" EIJ leader Ayman al Zawahiri has been very useful to the CIA in the Balkans. His brother just happens to be a key KLA commander! Bin Laden Puppetmasters Smoked Out In Balkans (1/18/2003 6:04:00 AM) When the Riadys came to Arkansas, they became friends with some of the state's biggest-name families,including the Clintons and the Stephenses. But they had their sights on another name: Walton. For more than a decade, the family tried to do business with Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the Walton family's retail empire. Last year, it finally got its chance. In the deal it struck with the nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart agreed to provide merchandise and expertise and, in a rare concession, turn over use of its name in Indonesia. The deal allowed Wal-Mart to expand into a huge new market. It gave the Lippo Group ownership of the Wal-Mart supercenter that is now one of the centerpieces of Lippo Village on the edge of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.. During some of the time that the Riadys sought to link up with Wal-Mart, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton served on Wal-Mart's board... James Riady became co-president of Worthen Bank, and soon drew up plans for expansion into the international marketplace. He opened a new division, Worthen International Bank, with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Nassau, in 1985. Subsequently, BCCI agents, such as Abdullah Taha Bakhish invested in Worthen. And in 1985, "Mochtar and James Riady engineer[ed] the takeover of the First National Bank of Mena in a town of 5,400 with few major assets beyond a Contra supply base, drug running and money-laundering operations." http://www.etherzone.com/1998/reich4.html Jackson Stephens also brokered a BCCI consortium "bailout" of Harken for George W. Bush.
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: Flight 93
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Rarey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While NetJets does not disclose it clients, its website does list its business partners. See list below. The Boeing Company the significance of this one ought to be obvious CIT Group as in citigroup? as in saudi-laundered bundesbank insider money trail? as in gave up ownership of WTC two months prior? as in the imaging satellite business? Cessna Aircraft Company how many of THOSE went down last year? was wellstone in a cessna? Citibank see above on CIT group Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation a denver area UAV co. the link between buffet and the navy Honeywell, Inc. supplied iraq - of course all of those companies that were on the list of those that supplied iraq are companies heavily into the space race Raytheon Company http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/messagesearch?query=raytheon = Spies hide as Bank faces BCCI charges http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,877668,00.html __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: An Invitation to Bob Herbert Felix Rohatyn to debate Chris Sanders Catherine Austin Fitts Live
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Dean Becker Members of the NY Times Drug Policy Forum: I hereby propose that you and the NY Times Drug Policy Forum deliver to Bob Herbert of the NY Times and Felix Rohatyn my invitation to discuss and debate on line, on radio or TV live (their choice) the merits of more federal subsidy for states vs the Solari model (including a cessation of the War on Drugs) with Chris Sanders of Sanders Research and myself. The debate goes to the heart of the economic issues that must be illuminated and resolved if we are to stop the War on Drugs (see the Red Button story in Narco Dollars for Dummies) Here is my response to Herbert's editorial regarding Rohatyn's latest economic proposals: Catherine Austin Fitts The Real Deal Felix Rohatyn's Financial Holocaust A Response to the NY Times Bob Herbert's An Appeal to Uncle SamJanuary 16, 2003 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00080.htm Best, Catherine Austin Fitts Solari = REUNITIING MAGIC AND MONEY On Tour With Caroline W. Casey in the SF-Bay Area http://www.magicandmoney.com Narco Dollars (English) http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars1.html Narco Dollars (Spanish) http://www.narconews.com/narcodolares1.html Picture -- Richard Grasso, Chairman of the NYSE, Hugging a FARC Commander in Colombia: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0202/S00069.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] SHARON, GINOSAR, PERES AND THE LATE WAYNE OWENS
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Original Message From: Barry Chamish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: owens To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHARON, GINOSAR, PERES AND THE LATE WAYNE OWENS by Barry Chamish Of my previous bulletin, a reader notes: Nothing new in what you wrote: it is public knowledge that Duby Weisglass was Rashid's lawyer - so all you need to do is put 2 and 2 together. My reaction: if it is public knowledge that Sharon's Office Manager Dov Weinglass is attorney for Muhamed Rashid, who ran the $300 million plus bank account opened by Yossi Ginosar to hide money Yasir Arafat stole from his people's Treasury, then why hasn't the public put two and two together? That little Sharon connection to the Ginosar scandal has remained buried deep. So let's exhume it for our masochistic pleasure. We begin with the great idea of opening a casino in Jericho to launder Arafat's pilfered treasure. The best plot of land in town was already owned, so Yasir decided to expropriate it by force: 10 May 2000 The Scotsman Mr Hamdouni had bought 40 acres of land in the desert outside Jericho. He had built a petrol station and planned a housing development. Then the reality of Yasser Arafat's rule hit Mr Hamdouni. Accused of the capital crime of treason 18 months ago, he was freed from jail only after he signed over his land to the Palestinian Authority. Within months, a front company for Mr Arafat had taken a secret 28 per cent sta ke in a casino built on what had been Mr Hamdouni's land. The casino now makes $9 million in monthly profits, but Mr Hamdouni sits at home, chain-smoking and lamenting the destruction of all the hopes he had for his people once the long Israeli occupation had ended. Who can help me when my land is taken by the 40 thieves? I mean, Arafat is Al i Baba, says Mr Hamdouni, who lost #3 million on the petrol station and land. We are under Palestinian economic occupation. The dream of a Palestinian state, which sustained the people here through occupation and intifada, has become a nightmare. The state which Mr Arafat promises to declare in September has all the trappings of independence, from uniformed police to postage stamps, but it is run as a fiefdom by a mafia of corrupt officials. ** The dream of Jewish/Arab cooperation in money-laundering for Arafat was almost derailed by attorney-general Rubinstein and Weisglass was hopping mad. ** Israelis may be barred from casino in Jericho Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM - The recently opened gambling casino in Jericho could face a major shortage of customers if Israel's attorney general has his way. Elyakim Rubinstein determined this week that Israelis, the casino's prime source of customers, should be barred from gambling there. In his decision, he cited a regulation that authorizes local courts to try Israeli citizens for offenses committed in the Palestinian self-rule areas. Gambling is illegal in Israel. Dov Weisglass, the lawyer representing the Austrian state-run firm that built and operates the casino, said Israelis already gamble in Turkey, the Red Sea resort of Taba as well as at illegal gambling houses within Israel. Weisglass said he hoped the attorney general would reverse his decision in light of what he called the oasis of peace and friendship operating in the West Bank town. The attorney general has the authority not to enforce the letter of the law when it is considered in the public interest to do so, Weisglass told Israel Radio. I hope he will use his judgment to let this (remain) a place of peace, cooperation and friendliness. ** Criminal cooperation with Arafat
[CTRL] 9-11: Guess Where Bin Laden Was?
-Caveat Lector- http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/bin_laden_location.htm 9-11: Guess Where Bin Laden Was? by Michael Gilson De Lemos Being half-Latin from a family that has played a central role in dissolving the intrigues of power for many centuries, I have no trouble looking at the US as a distressed Latin Republic. Its only weakness is when the real Latins get organized and figure they donât want this corrupt nation as the only bulwark against China, and march North, it will be eaten alive. A lot of Latin leaders feel the US is world HQ for a new and perverse form of communistic fascism. And as JFK said, having been the point men in stopping Communism, they are in no mood to find it in new clothes as Big Sister from El Norte. Latin problems are more visible, but thus discussed more openly, than US ones. Unlike the US, it did not exterminate the Indian population and many of its difficulties are due to the slow process of acculturation; the machinations of the Church in concert with various interests more obvious. But all democracies suffer from these ills, the Latins more clearly so. It is a mistake to not learn from their slow march to greater freedom and think that the dynamic they have in the streets does not happen elsewhere in the US. There are reasons why Jefferson recommended that all who would vote study the trials of the Republics of the Ancient World as a doctor gets familiar with the typical maladies of patients. Was JFK assassinated by his own government? No doubt in my mind. Do US Generals connive phony wars? Some do, you bet. Is the US government the fount of laughable propaganda? Yup, just not very visible to the propagandized. Will elements of the US Government create incidents for their own ends? Remember the Maine, Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin, all phony as three dollar billsâand the scholars who revealed the lie hounded from academia. Indeed, some scholars close to the Government boast of the analogy, saying 9-11 was a ânew Pearl Harborâ and saying it was needed [1]. When Reagan was shot, he apparently assumed that his Vice President did it. How do I know this? From the fascinating information that my mother, who volunteered at the hospital where he was taken and was a friend of his from the old Hollywood days, shared with me. It seems that shortly after he woke up, he asked for a DC patrol officer, had this person find a US ship that had just reached the area, and soon sailors with sidearms guarded his bedside while he placed the whole hospital under his direct command and swore all to secrecy. They buffered him from the Secret Service and anyone else. He trusted no oneâand perhaps, by protecting himself with unentangled sailors and officers fresh from sea, saved his own life, and the country from one more black mark of shame. I thought this was all rather fun gossip until I heard on TV that the assassin's father had dinner with the Bush family the night beforeâ¦and the story simply vanished from sight. No one denied it, it was just not spoken of. But everything good Reagan did do, Bush when he came to power tried to reverse. Now perhaps there is more to it or my mother misunderstood something, but my mother didnât think it remarkable except that for a US President, he showed some common sense, especially with Haig and his men boasting they were in control of the government. Indeed, I cannot offhand think of one Latin, no, any assassinated leader in the last century who was not done in by the malfeasance or with the non-feasence of their own guards as higher-ups were involved. That fact is invisible to us in the US, where we are always told it was a lone conspirator so secretive that even his landlord knew nothing except he paid the rent on time. A Phone Call The whole 9-11 business has had an added air of unreality in that Bin-Ladenâs family were bigwig partners of, of all things, Bush family interests, while simultaneously the press seems quite uninterested in the whole history of US Support for Bin-Laden practically up to the day the horror occurred, his espionage involvements, and the fact that he was a has-been on deathâs door from a disease when suddenly he became the Most Wanted Man on Earth. Indeed, people seem to forget that a year and more after he was fingered as the culpritâwe still have not seen the evidence that Bin Laden did anything. The films of him confessing were immediately discredited, yet keep resurfacing like Dracula in growing tones that they are somehow self-evident proof and the matter is closed. On 9-11, my wife wisely kept printouts of e-news lines no longer obtainable. They show the surprising fact that barely 50 minutes after disaster was reported and well before a general alert was called, Bin-Laden was identified as the culprit. On that day I wondered if we were seeing a new Lee Harvey Oswald being created before our eyes while the real truth was being concealed, and I still wonder. Many people
[CTRL] [U-S-A] Can you SEE CLEARLY THAT HE IS NOT DISARMING? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Is lying to the American people to take them into war an impeachable act? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:15:18 -0800 (PST) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U-S-A] Can you SEE CLEARLY THAT HE IS NOT DISARMING? Bush is a filthy, lying, murderous criminal psychopath who is almost rapid at the prospect of plunging the world into war at the behest of his puppet masters. Where is the evidence that Iraq is not disarming? Show the world! POC U-S-A = Usurers, Sodomites, Abortionists. The U-S-A Cult is the ruling power over America-the-Good and now seeks to a establish One World Government of Evil-Doers via the Afghanistan-Iraq domino effect. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 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: [InTheShadows] WORLD WAR III
-Caveat Lector- President Bush and Colin Powell are sitting in a bar. A guy walks in and asks the barman, Isn't that Bush and Powell sitting over there? The barman says, Yep, that's them. So the guy walks over and says, Wow, this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in here? Bush says, We're planning WW III . And the guy says, Really? What's going to happen? Bush says, Well, we're going to kill 40 million Iraqis this time and one blonde with big tits The guy exclaimed, A blonde with big tits? Why kill a blonde with big tits? Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and says, See, smart ass, I told you no one would worry about the 40 million Iraqis. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] America's God
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,879543,00.html God bless America In a poem written for the Guardian, the distinguished playwright Harold Pinter takes the US to task for its seemingly inexorable march towards war on Iraq Harold Pinter Wednesday January 22, 2003 The Guardian Here they go again, The Yanks in their armoured parade Chanting their ballads of joy As they gallop across the big world Praising America's God. The gutters are clogged with the dead The ones who couldn't join in The others refusing to sing The ones who are losing their voice The ones who've forgotten the tune. The riders have whips which cut. Your head rolls onto the sand Your head is a pool in the dirt Your head is a stain in the dust Your eyes have gone out and your nose Sniffs only the pong of the dead And all the dead air is alive With the smell of America's God. © Harold Pinter, January 2003 Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut 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] Hurry Up Wait
-Caveat Lector- The subject is the motto of most if not all great militarians. The problem that Shrub and Blairberry are running into is having all those people prepared for battle but the tide is not going the warpimps' way. To have everyone sitting around and waiting for the word to go creates a strain on morale and resolve. This is the probelm that Ikenhower had before D-Day back in '44 when the invasion forces were kept on alert for an almost too long time. Talk about waiting time in an airport?!? Try existing on adrenalin for a few weeks into months and then having to ramp it up a bit more when the call comes. This makes for sloppiness and recklessness and wreckfulness. A:E:R http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,879663,00.html Blair stand puts strain on coalition France leads threat to veto move to war Patrick Wintour, Julian Borger in Washington and John Henley in Paris Wednesday January 22, 2003 The Guardian George Bush and Tony Blair were yesterday in danger of fracturing the international coalition on Iraq when they declared that Saddam Hussein was not cooperating with the UN weapons inspectors, and time was running out for him. In a significant hardening of the US and UK position, both Mr Blair and Mr Bush claimed that a pattern of non-cooperation will represent a breach of the UN resolutions and justification for military action. With Mr Blair admitting that his task of holding the coalition together was becoming tougher, the French, Russians and Chinese all insisted the UN weapons inspectors needed more time to do their job. All three security council members said that next Monday's report to the UN by the weapons inspectors chief, Hans Blix, must not be taken as a trigger point for war. For the first time the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, talked openly of wielding the French veto if necessary. We believe that nothing today justifies envisaging military action, he said. Revealing the behind-the-scenes diplomatic battle over the timing of any war, Mr Bush said: Surely our friends have learned lessons about the past. Surely we have learned how this man [Saddam Hussein] deceives and delays. He's given people the runaround and time is running out. He's been told to disarm for 11 long years. He is not disarming. This business about more time. How much more time do we need to see clearly he's not disarming? This looks like a rerun of a bad movie and I'm not interested in watching. The US deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, was equally decisive. There is not one sign that the regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of resolution 1441, he said. The options for Iraq are just about exhausted at this point. This regime has very little time left to undo the legacy of 12 years. The British are privately confident the harsher Washington rhetoric does not imply that the US will demand the UN backs war next Monday. The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, will today meet Colin Powell, the US secretary of state and leading dove, to urge the US to show restraint and instead amass further damaging evidence that will make a war more acceptable to a sceptical world. Mr Blair, quizzed on Iraq by the Commons liaison committee for two and a half hours, also insisted that Saddam was not cooperating with the weapons inspectors, saying that no one seriously believed the 12,000- page dossier submitted by the Iraqis on its weapons. He said bluntly: I simply point out that at the moment the inspectors are saying that the Iraqis have not been cooperating properly. He stressed that at some point the security council might have to accept that the Iraqi non-cooperation in itself represented a material breach. There were two different sets of circumstances which could amount to a material breach of resolution 1441, Mr Blair said. There is a set of circumstances in which you find the conclusive proof, and there is a set of circumstances in which a pattern of behaviour develops of non- cooperation. The first is easy to describe as a category. The second requires a more considered judgment ... It isn't a game of hide and seek. It is not a game where the inspectors are supposed to go in and if they find the stuff they win, and if Saddam conceals the stuff he wins. They are not a detective agency. The judgment that you need to make, and it is a matter of judgment itself as to the time at which you need to make this, is: is he co- operating? He repeatedly insisted that Britain will be willing to go to war without UN support, but added it was highly desirable to have that backing. He also expressed confidence that the UN would back a war if clear evidence of a breach was put in front of it. Throughout, he gave the impression of a man completing the final details of preparing for war, including preparations for possible chemical attacks on British troops. In the only glimmer of hope for peace, he suggested that President Saddam's regime was under growing internal
[CTRL] Costliness of War
-Caveat Lector- Comment http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,879652,00.html The myth of the war economy Markets loathe uncertainty and volatility. Conflict brings both Joseph Stiglitz Wednesday January 22, 2003 The Guardian War is widely thought to be linked to economic good times. The second world war is often said to have brought the world out of depression, and war has since enhanced its reputation as a spur to economic growth. Some even suggest that capitalism needs wars, that without them, recession would always lurk on the horizon. Today, we know that this is nonsense. The 1990s boom showed that peace is economically far better than war. The Gulf war of 1991 demonstrated that wars can actually be bad for an economy. That conflict contributed mightily to the onset of the recession of 1991 (which was probably the key factor in denying the first President Bush re- election in 1992). The current situation is far more akin to the Gulf war than to wars that may have contributed to economic growth. Indeed, the economic effects of a second war against Iraq would probably be far more adverse. The second world war called for total mobilisation, requiring a country's total resources, and that is what wiped out unemployment. Total war means total employment. By contrast, the direct costs of a military attack on Saddam Hussein's regime will be minuscule in terms of total US spending. Most analysts put the total costs of the war at less than 0.1% of GDP, the highest at 0.2% of GDP. Much of that, moreover, includes the usage of munitions that already exist, implying that little or no stimulus will be provided to today's economy. Bush's (admittedly wavering) commitment to fiscal prudence means that much, perhaps most, of the war costs will be offset by cuts elsewhere. Investments in education, health, research, and the environment will almost inevitably be crowded out. Accordingly, war will be unambiguously bad in terms of what really counts: ordinary people's standard of living. America will thus be poorer, both now and in the future. Obviously, if this military adventure were necessary to maintain security as its advocates claim - and if it were to prove as successful as its boosters hope - then the cost might be worth it. But that is another matter. I want to debunk the idea that it is possible both to achieve the war's ends and benefit the economy. There is also the uncertainty factor. Of course, this is no reason to invade Iraq prematurely, for the costs of any war are high, and are not to be measured primarily in economic terms. Lives will be lost - possibly far more than were lost on September 11. But the wait for war adds to uncertainties that already weigh on the US, and the global, economy: uncertainties arising from America's looming fiscal deficit and a tax cut that the country cannot afford; uncertainties arising from the unfinished war on terrorism; uncertainties associated with the corporate accounting and banking scandals, and the Bush administration's half- hearted efforts at reform, as a result of which no one knows what America's corporations are worth; uncertainties connected to America's massive trade deficit, which has reached all-time highs - will foreigners be willing to continue to lend to the US at a rate in excess of a billion dollars a day? Uncertainties associated with Europe's stability pact. Will it survive, and will it be good for Europe if it does? Finally, uncertainties associated with Japan: will it at long last fix its banking system, Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut 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
[CTRL] Why Do They hate Us So? The $50 question ...
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,879622,00.html Food Silly burgers Last week a burger war broke out in New York, with two restaurants battling it out to make the most expensive. Oliver Burkeman samples the winner - a $50 hunk of beef with a nugget of foie gras embedded within - and wonders if this craze for overpriced food will last Oliver Burkeman Wednesday January 22, 2003 The Guardian If there was ever a time when it would not have been preposterous and even vaguely obscene for a New York restaurant to introduce the world's most expensive hamburger, priced at $50 (£32), now is not that time. Stocks are down; the internet boom is a memory; the city is in debt; war is on the horizon. This is not the era of Gordon Gekko and Wall Street. It is the era of the dollar menu at McDonald's. But New York food fads obey no known economic laws, and DB Bistro Moderne, the restaurant owned by French-American chef Daniel Boulud on West 44th Street in midtown Manhattan, exists in a parallel universe where the Dow is always high. The four jowly businessmen at the table next to ours spoke of strip clubs, high-end restaurants, and the new Lexus SUV. The waiter took us through the specials, lingering on a mouthwatering dish involving merguez sausages, but pretty much everyone eating was there for the same reason. I think we've already decided, I said, a bit apologetically. Two burgers, he said. It wasn't a question. The Manhattan burger frenzy began last week, when the Old Homestead, a renowned steakhouse in the Meatpacking District, broke with decades of tradition and put its first hamburger on the menu. It costs $41 and is made from Japanese Kobe beef. Kobe cows are massaged daily, causing the fat to mingle with the meat, and resulting in a burger of unsurpassed tenderness. They also drink beer. Beer and massages: it is not clear that any philosopher ever defined the good life more accurately than this. Apart from the getting killed part, obviously. But the Old Homestead's moment came to an end when news of Boulud's rival started to circulate. The DB Burger Royale is heartstopping, in both the literal and figurative sense of the word: a fresh-baked, toasted Parmesan-and-poppy-seed bun encasing three inches of beef and short ribs braised in red wine, with a nugget of foie gras embedded within. Either side, along with the tomato confit, chicory and fresh horseradish, is a sliver of black Périgord truffle - which, at $350 per pound, accounts for much of the price. The resident chef at DB Bistro Moderne, Jean-François Bruel, is putting a brave face on the burger explosion, said Georgette Farkas, Boulud's marketing director. He's an award-winning chef in his own right, so I think he was just a very little bit frustrated - he would love people to try the other things he does. But the Frenchmen who are successful in America are the ones who embrace the best of what is American and what is French and combine it. Ironically, Farkas said, it was Jose Bove, sworn enemy of the fast-food burger, who inspired Boulud's first adventure into the archetypal American meal. His original $29 burger happened, she said, because Daniel was asked in an interview what he made of the unfortunate attacks against McDonald's in France. He said, 'The French are just jealous that they didn't invent the hamburger themselves.' That gave him an idea. He decided he would make his own version. It's not a typical American burger, not at all - it's equal parts French and American. Indeed, there are those who have argued that Boulud's creation is not really a hamburger at all - though it has been spared a judgment such as the one that Ed Levine, author of the city food shopping bible New York Eats, delivered on the Old Homestead burger in the New York Times. It is genuinely lousy, he wrote, a mushy, gray thing of loose consistency and little flavour. But Manhattan's passing culinary frenzies have rarely been about strict definitions, or even the quality of the food. The compact geography of the place, its residents' relative wealth, and its diners' reliance on a tiny handful of opinion-forming publications, combine to create fads that electrify the city for a day, or a week, and then vanish as fast as they arrived. Just last year, gastronomes scoured Chinatown for tubs containing illegal snakehead fish, the terrifying but allegedly tasty monsters capable of crawling out of rivers and slithering over land, surviving outside the water for up to three days. Vendors started charging even to photograph them. And price is just another selling-point. You can't buy publicity like that received by the French chef Alain Ducasse when he opened his restaurant of the same name in New York in 1999. Rumours of dinners for two costing $600 attracted the city's newspapers, and with a prix- fixe menu costing upwards of $160, plus wines weighing in at $100 and more, with after-dinner coffee at $8, the rumours turned out to be true.
[CTRL] www.citiesforpeace.org
-Caveat Lector- http://www.citiesforpeace.org/ 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] Hurry Up Wait (Some More)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23983- 2003Jan21.html washingtonpost.com Bush Scolds U.N. Member Nations on Iraq By Ron Fournier AP White House Correspondent Tuesday, January 21, 2003; 6:50 PM WASHINGTON President Bush on Tuesday scolded world leaders who are demanding more time to search Iraq for illegal arms, and a top U.S. diplomat warned that war is fast approaching as America's only option. This business about more time how much time do we need to see clearly that he's not disarming? Bush said, acknowledging frustration with both Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and reluctant U.S. allies like France and Germany. Surely our friends have learned lessons from the past. Surely, we have learned how this man deceives and delays, Bush said. This looks like a rerun of a bad movie, and I'm not interested in watching it. The chiding was part of an administration-wide effort to counter rising opposition to war that could jeopardize Bush's fragile anti-Saddam coalition. With tens of thousands of U.S. troops massed near Iraq, the president is expected to decide in a matter of weeks whether to end diplomatic efforts and wage war. Our other options are just about exhausted at this point, said Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in a Washington speech cleared by the White House. This regime has very little time left to undo the legacy of 12 years. There is no sign, there is not one sign that the regime has any intent to comply fully with the United Nations. France complicated Bush's task by telling the United Nations Security Council there is no reason yet for military action, hinting it may veto any resolution authorizing an attack. Other nations including Russia, Germany, China and Chile have backed the French contention that U.N. inspections are starting to work and Iraq can be disarmed peacefully. I think the sense of the council is that the majority is against military action, Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador, Gennady Gatilov, told The Associated Press. Britain, America's closest ally, is the only major military power committed to joining the United States. Other countries with smaller armies, such as Australia, Canada and Bulgaria, could play supporting roles in a coalition of the willing that Bush has pledged to lead if the United Nations won't join him. Turning up the heat on allies, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer warned anew that the United Nations' very relevancy is dependent on its ability to disarm Iraq. The Bush administration says Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction beneath the desert and in mobile facilities. Though no proof has been made public, Armitage said the 16 empty chemical warheads discovered recently in Iraq are the tip of the iceberg. Where are the other 29,984? Because that's how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had, and he's never accounted for, Armitage said. And where are the 550 artillery shells that are filled with mustard gas, and the 400 biological weapons ... and the 26,000 liters of anthrax, the botulism, the VX (nerve agent), the sarin gas that the U.N. says he has? Armitage said. Some people may say there is no smoking gun, but there's nothing but smoke, the diplomat said. To put this fire out, Saddam is going to have to work. White House officials said Armitage's argument previewed the case Bush will make against Saddam in next week's State of the Union address. They said Bush won't declare war or impose a deadline next Tuesday night, and they played down the prospects of new evidence being revealed. In addition to Armitage's speech, the White House released a 29-page report entitled Apparatus of Lies that purports to document Iraq's brutal record of deceit. It accuses Saddam of enriching himself at the expense of his people, using the bodies of dead babies for staging funeral processions and exploiting Islam. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz plans to discuss models for disarmament in a Thursday speech designed to further build the case against Saddam. While the president said Saddam has been given ample time to disarm, he gave no hint of how soon he would decide whether diplomacy has run its course. Time is running out, Bush said. The Bush administration said world leaders don't need to await evidence that Saddam is hiding weapons of mass destruction. The world came together, including the French, to say he must disarm. He is not disarming, Bush said. He is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. Secretary of State Colin Powell, meeting with his Italian counterpart at the State Department, said Iraq must stop playing games and get rid of its weapons of mass destruction. Iraq must be disarmed if not peacefully then by force, Powell said. Powell also conferred by telephone on Tuesday with French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, who on Monday raised the prospect of a French veto of any resolution to
[CTRL] 0.16K From GW1
-Caveat Lector- http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/article.asp?id=303 * Veterans for Common Sense * Home | Signers | Add Your Name | Mailing List | Opinions War Stories | Contacts | Donate | Debate Back Most Media Ignore 160,000 U.S. Casualties from Gulf War I Robert L. McMahon Soldiers for the Truth http://www.sftt.org/dwa/2003/1/15/7.html January 17, 2003 ... In one of the strongest editorials yet about the Gulf War, Soldiers for the Truth demands a better account from our government explaining why nearly 160,000 U.S. soldiers from Desert Storm have a service- related medical problem. Yes, some medical problems are related to the Gulf War, and some aren't, but the sheer number of disabiled veterans is very troubling ... With war clouds gathering over Iraq, it is amazing to see the mainstream U.S. news media continuing to ignore a vital and controversial issue of direct consequence to the troops who are now being rushed to the Persian Gulf region: The incredibly large number of troops who after service in Gulf War I became stricken with serious health disabilities. With the exception of The Washington Post and reporter Richard Leiby's timely piece on Dec. 30, 2002 (The Fallout of War), there has been a very loud silence throughout the American media regarding the issue of troops who became disabled by their service 11 years ago. One would think that for those in the news media or politics who might want to challenge the Bush administration over its Iraqi policies, this would be a timely and relevant issue with which to debate the onrushing conflict. It would be an absolute showstopper for the Sunday news talk shows. I confess to being totally baffled over this. The only explanation that makes sense comes from a Japanese custom that I learned about years ago: killing it with silence. But the moral implications of this issue cannot be ignored. The federal government's own statistics confirm that 159,238 Gulf War veterans have been determined eligible for receiving medical disability payments from the Department of Veterans Affairs. For those members of the news media who have difficulty with basic mathematics, let me spell this out: If the names of all 159,000 disabled Gulf War I veterans were inscribed on a black wall similar in design to the Vietnam Memorial, it would be three times as big as the original Wall. For reporters and editors who have even a minimal knowledge of military history, the facts are more troubling yet: That number (159,000) is only 13,000 less than the 172,000 Korean War veterans receiving disability benefits. The Korean War, remember, lasted three hard years and killed 54,246 Americans, in stark contrast to Gulf War I, which lasted less than seven weeks and ended with a total of only 269 combat and non-combat fatalities and 458 wounded in action. (There were over 33,742 American killed in action in Korea and an additional 2,835 who died of exposure, disease, accidents and other non-combat deaths. There also were an additional 17,669 American servicemen who died out of theater - perishing as a result of combat wounds, infections and training mishaps). An unanswered question from Gulf War I is, just how, in God's name, did 458 troops wounded in Gulf War one subsequently balloon to 159,238? That number is equal to roughly one-half of the 259,000 American fatalities suffered in the entire 44-month duration of World War II - a conflict that saw Americans in battle from the western Pacific to central Europe. Should any editor or reporter with basic math skills sit down with a hand calculator, this is what he or she could determine in only a few minutes of effort: The U.S. government itself has determined that 28 percent of American troops sent to the Persian Gulf region during 1990-91 later suffered medical disabilities. Let's look at it this way for perspective: The United States sent over 6 million troops to Vietnam over the eight-year period of our ground war. What is 28 percent of 6 million? Had the same thing happened to the Vietnam troops that happened in Gulf War I, we would have over 1.6 million Vietnam-era veterans getting medical disability payments. During the height of the Vietnam War, in 1968, America endured 87,388 combat wounded in Southeast Asia. It's a paradox. The bloodiest year in Vietnam wounded over 87,000 Americans and a four-day land war in Iraq produced 159,000 disabled. Is it me? Or doesn't anybody find this odd? It is my fervent hope that the American news media will start to pay attention to this subject. There are emerging signs of interest, such as the The Wall Street Journal article by reporter John J. Fialka on Jan. 2, 2003 that addressed the health implications of exposure to depleted uranium (DU) munitions (U.S. Debates Dangers of Depleted Uranium, available to subscribers only). And on Jan. 13, 2003, The Baltimore Sun published an excellent article by reporter Erika Niedowski (Veterans Ask If Gulf Illnesses Could Happen Again In
[CTRL] Rummy's Dummy Flummummery
-Caveat Lector- http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/article.asp?id=305 Rumsfeld Smears Veterans, Extends Marines' Enlistments Mark Shields CNN http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/ column.shields.opinion.rumsfeld/index.html January 20, 2003 ... US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld alleged that Vietnam War draftees added no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services In addition, Rumsfeld ordered all Marines to remain on active duty 12 more months past their discharge date ... Washington - Known primarily through his combative, and self- confident, press conferences on C-SPAN, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won boffo reviews from critics who rarely agree. Rumsfeld's wit and charismatic candor were praised on the liberal New York Times op-ed page, while the editorial page chief of the conservative Washington Times, proclaimed as most charismatic of the year the defense secretary who's the heartthrob of neo-cons and mature women around the country, and Republicans everywhere. Well, this is a different year, and in his first 2003 press conference, Rumsfeld shamefully smeared American veterans and then deliberately fibbed about how there is absolutely no need to consider reinstating the draft because the nation's all-volunteer military was, he assured us, working perfectly. First, the smear of veterans. Speaking of the 11 million Americans who, during the Vietnam years, answered their country's draft call and the 2 million who served in Vietnam, Rumsfeld alleged that these draftees added no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services over any sustained period of time, because the churning that took place, it took enormous amount of effort in terms of training, and then they were gone. I'll say then, they were gone! Of the 58,152 Americans who gave their lives in Vietnam 20,352 of them were draftees. How dare the secretary of defense say these good and brave Americans added no value, no advantage, to the United States armed services? Why would he slander the sacrifice of these brave men, dishonor their memory and rub salt in their families' wounds? Certainly a man as smart as Rumsfeld knows that the draft was specifically intended to trigger volunteers. Faced with the certainty of a future draft call, many young men chose to volunteer because then they could select which branch of the service they preferred and, if qualified, the specialized training they desired. So, the overwhelming majority of the American veterans -- from 1940 to 1973 -- had entered the service directly -- or indirectly -- because of the draft law. Rumsfeld, himself, was drafted. He chose, after graduating from Princeton in 1954, to serve three years on active duty as a Navy aviator. More than two out of three of his Princeton classmates, also motivated by the reality of the draft, served on active duty. Two years ago -- with no draft -- exactly two members of the Princeton graduating class chose to become officers in the United States military. Now to Rumsfeld's fiction about the all-volunteer service. Asked about legislation introduced to re- institute the draft on the eve of war, Rumsfeld was emphatic: We're not going to re-implement the draft. There is no need for it at all. ... We have people serving today -- God bless 'em -- because they volunteered. They want to be doing what it is they're doing. Sounds good, except that it is not true. Two days after these unequivocal words, the United States Marine Corps -- which reports to the secretary of defense -- froze for the next 12 months every one of its 174,312 members currently on active duty. Marines who had completed their voluntary enlistments or their 20 years and had chosen to return to civilian life or retirement will instead remain, involuntarily, in the service. Marines being Marines, they will answer their country's call. But let us be clear: This action, along with other more limited freezes affecting other thousands in uniform imposed by the other services, means the volunteer U.S. military is no longer all-volunteer. The unavoidable question that now must be answered by Rumsfeld and the president is not whether Americans ought to be drafted to defend the country, because we are already doing that, but exactly which Americans will be drafted. Maybe the war-hawk Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill can now explain why it is more just to retain on active duty involuntarily an American who has fulfilled his voluntary obligation to his country than it would be to bring to active duty involuntarily those Americans -- including the sons of senators and CEOs -- who have yet to serve. Now before the bullets fly and before the bombs drop and before the brave young widows again climb the hill at Arlington Cemetery, we must face that test of whether we have the will to stand together on individual sacrifice for the common good and determine whose brothers, whose sons and whose fathers will fight in
[CTRL] George of Mesopotamia
-Caveat Lector- SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Lawrence of Arabia Redux by Matthew Rarey I deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time. We shall never see his like again. His name will live in history. It will live in the annals of war. It will live in the legends of Arabia! ~ Winston Churchill Like a mirage, the best film of the season appeared suddenly, without fanfare, out of a desert of ephemeral flicks destined for the cinematic cemetery. Just as suddenly it vanished. It won't be winning any Academy Awards next spring, either. No sore bones about it, though: Lawrence of Arabia swept the Awards in 1962, winning Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Score, Cinematography and then some. No mere nod to nostalgia, the fortieth-anniversary re-release of David Lean's haunting masterpiece about the Englishman who fought for Arab freedom in World War I could not have re-appeared on the big screen at a more apt time. Lawrence is an artistic tour de force, affirming great cinema's pedagogical role of teaching through images and words that linger in the mind. Since the images and lessons of Lawrence are nothing but subtle, they might make the less-than-subtle minds of the men and boys in the War Party reconsider making the Middle East safe for democracy through military conquest. Of course, this presupposes that the historically innocent, younger hawks could skip Friends for an evening and watch Lawrence. Second, it presupposes the sincerity of the older hawks' public commitment to democracy and such enigmatic concepts as peaceful Islam. Two big presuppositions, surely. But first, on to the feature presentation. I saw Lawrence twice during its week-long run in Washington, D.C., before it exited for Harry Potter. The theater was packed each time, mostly with older movie buffs. Where were the children, I wondered, who were being denied something exponentially greater than the boy wizard of banality? Then the lights dimmed, the velvet curtains swept back, and Lawrence opened to a staccato outburst of kettle drums as memorable as the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth. How to describe the movie before exploring its salient lessons? Imagine sensuous excitement and heraldry on par with a Nuremberg rally orchestrated by Elgar to depict the beauty of British martial discipline on one hand, and on the other, the romance, brutality and savage honor of Arab tribesmen and their desert, an ocean in which no oar is dipped. Flesh this out with a poignant script enlivened with performances by some of the era's finest actors from old-timers Alec Guinness, Claude Rains and Jack Hawkins, to ascending stars Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole as Lawrence and you have a movie grander than anything imaginable today. (True to its masculine subject, there is not one female speaking role. Surely there would be a love interest inserted nowadays, as improbable as that would be: Lawrence, a strange bird, did not even like being touched except in flagellation, but that's another story.) The movie's correlation to historical truth is neither clear nor simple. This being the general state of truth in the Middle East, it seems fitting. For Thomas Edward (T.E.) Lawrence (18891935) was a complex and peculiar man, perhaps best described in the opening scene at his funeral: He was a poet, a scholar, and a mighty warrior. He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum and Bailey. Though Lawrence's feats were legendary, he did not bother to separate the myths that inevitably shrouded them. Indeed, he even invented some quite a few, actually himself, out of an overgrown schoolboy's sense of mischievous, but basically harmless, fun. History isn't made up of truth, anyway, so why worry? he confessed. While scholars debate the particulars, a few things are certain. An Oxford-trained scholar who was at an archaeological dig in modern-day Iraq when war broke out, Lawrence accompanied an expedition to assess the situation among the Bedouin Arabs, who had revolted against the Ottoman Empire and become, ipso facto, British allies. He became enthralled with the Arab cause and set to win them independence from the Turks and prevent their subjugation by the British. Donning Arab robes and accused by some of going native, he gave them victory in conducting a guerrilla warfare that exploited their natural fighting ability. (Like al-Qaeda, they would strike unexpectedly then disappear into the desert, leaving the modern Turkish army bogged down and bewildered.) When his idealistic crusade collapsed amid Arab in-fighting and the British took control as colonial overlords, he despaired. By then he was famous thanks to a press that had grown disillusioned with the Western Front and found in Lawrence a romantic hero inconceivable in the trenches. Like the American hero Sergeant Alvin York, Lawrence refused to profit from celebrity hood. In the early Twenties he enlisted as a private in the Tank Corps and later the
[CTRL] Nat'l Sanctity of Life
-Caveat Lector- PRESIDENT DELIVERS NATIONAL SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE DAY STATEMENT TO ASSEMBLED AMERICA-HATING PROTESTERS Remarks by the President http://whitehouse.org/news/2003/011903.asp THE PRESIDENT: Today is National Sanctity of Human Life Day, as decreed by me early last week in a breathlessly dramatic proclamation that Karl Rove threw together to assure the Christian right wing I'm still the man to overthrow Roe vs. Wade no matter if I did pay to illegally vacuum a big ole womb booger out of this sweet underaged slice of tang I was plugging back in the late 60's. Of course, today is also noteworthy for another reason - that being the fact that you people here - all 250,000 of you - have conspired to stage the largest organized anti-war protest since the Vietnam War. Now I've never pretended to understand hippies, what with your ugly clothes and greasy hair and stupid little Volkswagen Hitler vans you people caravan around in, but I have to say that today, you freakazoids have me even more stumped than usual. I mean, why would anyone want to ruin a perfectly good day celebrating the sanctity of human life by bellyaching over my plans to go waste a few hundred thousand good-for-nothing camel jockeys? (Boos.) Yeah, boo is right. Boo-hoo-hoo! While you deadbeat America-haters are parading around crying like a bunch of women and dancing the funky chicken to moldy cassettes of some dead junkie fatso jamming out on LSP, I'm busy doing everything in my power to launch a completely necessary and totally non-personal war against Saddam Hussein. You see, this indescribably dangerous tin pot dictator, whose army we crushed within hours back in 1991, and who has been crippled and impoverished by U.N. sanctions ever since, is nevertheless somehow poised to miraculously dispatch vast omnipotent hordes of Godless Arabiac monsters halfway around the planet to invade America and devour our blue-eyed babies whole! And that, my worthless long- haired friends, is something my approval ratings cannot allow. Never mind all this pansy Hans Blix nonsense about evidence and inspections. This White House respects the sanctity of American life - even at the cost of killing every last crybaby non-American on the face of the earth. But no, you people wouldn't understand that. And you say I'm the dumb one? Well here's some more top-secret intelligence for you: when you've got B.O., and you smear patchouli oil all over yourself, it doesn't mean the B.O. goes away - it just means that instead of just stinking like ass, now you stink like Joan Baez's ass instead. Oh, and while I'm at it - Tom's of Maine doesn't work either. All you holier-than-thou Tom's of Maine eco-consumers out there, every last one of you has furry teeth and reeks like a Pakistani cab driver. Truth is, how you can come out here and say you love America, yet can't even be bothered to pick up a real goddamned stick of soap or deodorant simply boggles my mind. In closing, both Karl and Ari wanted me to thank so many of you for infusing this protest with all the laughably dismissible trappings of clichéd 60's counter-culture. By transforming a potentially persuasive act of mass civil disobedience into a dumb geriatric flower-power circus, you folks made 21st century pacifism look about as appealing to today's kids as a PBS marathon of Lawrence Welk reruns. (Boos.) Yeah, well the truth hurts. At least that's what I'm told. The truth and I have never come into contact directly. Thank you, and God Bless America. » E-MAIL THIS PAGE TO A FELLOW REPUBLICAN « ### back career opportunities | privacy policy | accessibility | links | reader mail | link to whitehouse.org | web team ©2001-2003 - a chickenhead productions parody - disclaimer terms Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sut 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
