-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: The Progressive Review <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 6:36 PM Subject: UNDERNEWS Mar 11 UNDERNEWS By Sam Smith March 11, 1999 The Progressive Review 1739 Conn. Ave. NW Washington DC 20009 202-232-5544 Fax: 202- 234-6222 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://prorev.com For a free trial subscription to our hard copy edition and e-mail updates send your postal address with zip code. To unsubscribe, reply with the word 'unsubscribe.' Copyright 1999, The Progressive Review. Matter not independently copyrighted may be reprinted provided TPR is paid your normal reprint fees, if any, and is given proper credit. ==================================================== THE WAR AGAINST US Largely ignored by media conglomerates has been a startling increase in domestic military activity. Here is a round-up of some recent developments: -- A year and a half ago, police in Alameda CA got calls from 200 residents, many near an elementary school, who were freighted by the sound of explosives and machine gun fire during a war game exercise. According to Gar Smith in the Bay Guardian, "Alameda mayor Ralph Appezzato apologized to residents and vowed never to allow unannounced military tests on the former [Alameda military] base, which was closed in 1997." -- Now Appezzato, along with Oakland mayor Jerry Brown, "is welcoming another simulated military operation, a four-day event that will involve nearly 1,600 marines, navy sailors, and support personnel, dozens of helicopter trips from Alameda to Oakland, 24,000 rounds of blank ammunition, and about 60 'flashbang' grenades. This time, the plans were announced a full six weeks before the exercise." Brown, who has been unfazed by community opposition, refused even to comment on the Bay Guardian story. His press agent said, "On this subject, our respective positions are so far apart that further discussion would be unproductive." Brown has praised the exercise for bringing at last $4.5 million into the city's economy -- a claim denied in a KPFA debate with the mayor by city council member Nancy Nadel who argued, "The only economic boost is to our prostitutes." Efforts to block the exercise, which is scheduled to begin on March 14, continue. -- Among the troops being used for the rash of urban exercises are the Night Stalkers, who specialize in such theatrics as seeing how far into a town they can fly in their helicopters without any citizens calling 911. It has been confirmed that the Night Stalkers -- despite ridicule by the media -- fly unmarked, black helicopters. -- David Bresnahan of WorldNet Daily, who has done the best reporting on these domestic military exercises, notes that Night Stalkers recently carried Delta Force soldiers in and out of numerous towns in Texas over a two week period. Live fire was used in civilian areas, one building was nearly destroyed, and another significantly damaged. Writes Bresnahan: "Residents, who were not warned of the event, were reported to be extremely frightened. A retirement home only a few hundred feet from the exercise, reported many elderly people were fearful that the world was coming to an end and were under beds crying. The sound of machine gun fire and explosives continued for two hours." -- Bresnahan quotes an Army press agent as saying that "before we even rolled into Texas we did a thorough risk assessment and a safety study to ensure risks to the local population is minimized. ~~~ We do this type of training in urban areas because of the increased urbanization of the world." WORLDNET DAILY http://worldnetdaily.com BAY GUARDIAN STORY http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/23/Features/war.html NIGHT STALKERS http://www.nightstalkers.com/home.html MICKEY MOUSE POLITICS Columnist Norman Solomon reports that Trent Lott has thrown his weight behind a bill that would extend the copyright for Mickey Mouse 20 years beyond what is currently permitted under the law. The copyright is held by Disney, which has sales revenues of $2 billion a month. Disney has been pretty effective at protecting its copyright. Solomon recounts how a book by a couple of Chilean democrats, called "How to Read Donald Duck," sold 500,000 copies around the world, but only a few got into the US after Disney argued the work, which was an attack on corporate cultdure, represented a copyright invasion. In 1975 Customs seized a shipment of the English translation. GETTING BACK TO THE NATION'S BUSINESS Matt Drudge is reporting that the first couple has recently decided on a trial separation. "They have gone through a separation like this before," one former Clinton adviser who has remained close to the couple tells the Drudge Report. "They always come back to each other... however, this time, it looks damn serious." One active secret service agent told the Drudge Report that the Clintons have been fighting almost non-stop. "They may look like they are together, like a couple, they are not." He is planning to retire as a result of the domestic conflict. DRUDGE REPORT http://drudgereport.com Meanwhile Fox News has reported that the abrupt end to the first family's ski trip and Mrs. Clinton's absence from the president's Central America trip was a result of the Clinton's marital problems. Fox's Rita Cosby: "Sources tell Fox News the first couple had a shouting match, which left Hillary Clinton storming out of the room saying she wanted her bags. ~~~ A Clinton family friend tells Fox News that the first couple barely speak in private, that quote, 'They have nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing they have in common is Chelsea.'" Prosecutor Mark Barrett mentioned the president and Hillary Rodham Clinton 10 times during his 35-minute opening statement in the Susan McDougal trial. He pointed out that aside from McDougal, "the other two people who might know about these events ... reside in the White House." Paula Jones cases investigator Rick Lambert has told Carl Limbacher of the NewsMax of a strange conversation he had with former Clinton bodyguard Barry Spivey, who -- Lambert says -- remains a Clinton loyalist. Spivey insisted on meeting Lambert on a deserted road deep in the Arkansas backwoods. There he told of a time he was flying with Clinton over southeast Arkansas. Writes Limbacher: "The trooper noticed a blackened patch amidst the greenery below that, surprisingly, Clinton recognized. That patch was all that was left of an estate that had burned to the ground in the mid-80s. According to the trooper, Clinton began reminiscing about rumors of his involvement with the woman of the house, a onetime 'Penthouse pet.' Her husband, Spivey said, was involved in a pornography ring. Clinton explained to Spivey, ' You know that mansion just burned down right on top of them.' Years later, Spivey remains struck by one thing: the eerie expression that crossed Clinton's face as he spoke those words." IT'S CATCHING CNN's WOLF BLITZER: What do you have to bring to this that [Bill Bradley] doesn't necessarily bring to this process?" AL GORE: I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins, and it'll be comprehensive and sweeping, and I hope that it'll be compelling enough to draw people toward it. ~~~ I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. ~~~ During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Wired points out that Gore was 21 at the time and would not enter Congress for another eight years. LOOSE CHANGE -- Increase in US unemployment if all incarcerated people were included among the unemployed: From 4.3% to 5.6%, or 1.3 points. -- Increase in US black male unemployment if all incarcerated black males were included among the unemployed: From from 6.7% to 16.5%. [Left Business Observer: http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/] LAND OF THE FREE Sidney Gottlieb, who directed CIA drug experiments on hundreds of unwitting prisoners, mental patients, and college students in the 1950s and 60s, has died at the age of 80. The project, called MKUltra, killed one subject, drove others mad or left still others with psychological problems. Gottlieb later admitted that the experiments had been useless. Gottlieb also was involved in various CIA assassination attempts during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. The National Writers Union has called upon the NEA chair William Ivey to reverse his abrupt cancellation of an already approved $15,000 grant to help a small El Paso publisher print a bilingual edition of a children's book written by former university professor Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente, the masked pipe-smoking "Subcomandante Marcos" of the Zapatista movement. NWU president Jonathan Tasini noted that the grant had gone through NEA's normal year-long approval process, including review by a board that includes six federal lawmakers. All NEA funds were to go to the publisher for printing and graphic expenses and none to the Zapatistas. The illustrated children's book, "The Story of Colors," was originally published in Spanish in Mexico in 1997. Its message of tolerance of differences in colors and ideas, conveyed through a Mayan elder's folk tale of how the gods gave the world colors and pinned them on the tailfeathers of the macaw parrot to remind people of how many different colors there are, has won praise on both sides of the border. NATIONAL WRITERS UNION mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] THE MEDIACRATS JOURNALISTIC OBJECTIVITY: Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad -- Headline in the New York Daily News, July 6, 1969, the year of the Stonewall Riot. FIELD NOTES APB ON-LINE: A fascinating site dealing with crime and police matters. Among other things, you can listen in on major city police radios. Recently added are FBI files on famous people ranging from Billie Holliday to Vincent Foster. APB reports: "The most mysterious parts of the file are two documents from the FBI's electronic surveillance database -- or EARS (ELSUR automated records system), a system that tracks all electronic monitoring. These heavily censored pages reference surveillance, telephone or video records that were not released by the FBI. In addition to the censored portions of those other released documents, 56 pages are being withheld entirely. Some of the report is being withheld at the request of independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr. The remaining 592 pages cover material dating back as far as 1966. 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