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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- Please send as far and wide as possible.Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Mark/Cathy Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, February 18, 2003 March 3.. 03/03/03.."333" Hi friends, While ever watchful of our un-elected "chief"' & his cronies work u.s. through the media spins..Cathy & I now are back home & working as many hours in the day to complete our second and last book detailing what exactly happened to us, privately & publicly since that day on February 8th 1988. The following is an observation worth mentioning since the media CANNOT touch it until the fateful day of 03/03/03. Whenever anyone "predicts" a date in the future for something of earth changing importance to happen they are usually either privileged insiders or.. just a bit delusional, and may be setting what credibility they have up for a fall. This is NOT my intent here, nor have I ever been clinically adjudged as delusional..though here goes a prediction based on decades of past personal experience with our Secret Government's time table, which, by all indications past & present is securely & secretly founded on the ancient mystic's Kabbalah/Kabala numerology system. Only Nancy Reagan ever publicly admitted to her beliefs in this ancient so called science of mystic beliefs. PREDICTION: THE US GOVERNMENT WILL ON 03/03/03 DECLARE WAR ON THE PEOPLES OF IRAQ AND/OR LAUNCH THE FIRST MILITARY STRIKE. I could go a little further out on the proverbial limb and predict the exact time of the day, there on the 33rd Parallel , Baghdad time ( NOT US EDT) though that is a bit risky since so many variables - like local weather changes could come into play. Signed, "Mark" Phillips February 18th (CDT), 2003 Well, now that I have risked my credibility with some of you - if I am mistaken then say so on March 4th 2003! Whereas if I am correct.. then just file it away in memory until you read our last book. Some of this seemingly bizarre "mystic science" the Secret Government apparently adheres 'religiously' too will be covered in detail from our own experiences with these pathetic control freaks. And some of it I do not understand whatsoever! This is not a publicity stunt..it is, however strange to some of you, rather it is the result of a personal observation based squarely on verifiable experiences & historical facts and information gleaned just today from a couple of phone conversations with "Beltway Insiders" . I feel confident in making such a prediction. Some of which will be covered in our last book..so those who are reading this now..please don't email us back now asking to explain the details of how we know what we know. We do not have the spare time now. Those will be in our book..soon! Stay tuned. And..remember, for so long as your thoughts remain free - you heard this first from us. Thanks. With Respect, Mark & Cathy www.TRANCE-Formation.com P.S. If I am right.. then maybe you will tell someone else who told you - AND pay special attention to what happens on June the sixth two thousand and six. We will. ***** Liberal-leaning radio network planned By WILL LESTER Feb. 18, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- A group planning a liberal- leaning radio network says the idea hasn't caught on in previous attempts because it wasn't marketed properly and wasn't entertaining enough. Now venture capitalists from Chicago and an Atlanta radio executive are behind an effort to start just such a radio network that would offer an alternative to conservative talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh. "We believe this is a tremendous business opportunity," Atlanta radio executive Jon Sinton said Monday. Sinton, who would be the network's chief executive, added, "There are so many right-wing talk shows, we think it's created a hole in the market you could drive a truck through." The group, led by Anita Drobny, consists of investors who have financially supported Democratic candidates. Hoping to start the network by this fall, they are talking with comedian and author Al Franken about working with the network and hope to attract other entertainers and political guests. Their group will be called AnShell Media L.L.C. and they are initially investing $10 million while hoping for assistance from like- minded entrepreneurs. Sinton said those who lean to the right are great at haranguing Bill and Hillary Clinton, but those who lean left have better connections to the entertainment world in Hollywood and New York. "We want to take an issue and make it funny and engaging," he said. "Our intent is to engage and entertain as a way to enlighten, engage in skit comedy, parody, political satire." Sinton said earlier programs have failed because they were placed in time slots between more conservative programming and weren't entertaining enough. Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo also tried his hand at a liberal-oriented talk show. Sinton said he's confident he can come up with solid content for his network. "My business strategy is that there are underperforming radio stations in all the markets. These underperforming stations are looking for a compelling broadcast day," he said. While questions have been raised about who could be host on a liberal talk show, the bigger question may be the difficulty of mobilizing an audience for such a show. A sign of the liberal dilemma is the code word that they like to use to describe themselves these days - "progressive" - which allows them to avoid the word "liberal," which has become almost an epithet when used by conservative politicians and pundits. "Part of the impetus for this angry conservative bent of talk radio is the notion that the press is unfair, that it's part of a liberal establishment conspiracy," said Tom Rosenstiel, director for the Project for Excellence in Journalism. "Progressives historically don't run in a pack," Rosenstiel added. "There's a kind of independent streak to the left wing in America that there isn't in the right wing." Communications specialist Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who was involved in a study of talk radio in the mid 1990s, said the conservative radio audience is easier to mobilize because it is more likely to see liberals as very distant from their own views. And there are more people in polls who identify themselves as conservative than identify themselves as liberal. "The search for the liberal equivalent of Rush Limbaugh may be misunderstanding how Limbaugh starts from a natural advantage," said Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. "His audience is already polarized. The liberals don't need a host, they need a different audience." ***** Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 112 W. 27th Street New York, NY 10001 ACTION ALERT: GE, Microsoft Bring Bigotry to Life Hate-talk host Michael Savage hired by MSNBC February 12, 2003 The latest hire by the cable news network MSNBC-- co-owned by General Electric/NBC and Microsoft-- is Michael Savage, a radio talkshow host noted for his unabashed bigotry. Savage is scheduled to have his own weekly one-hour show on MSNBC beginning in March. Savage routinely refers to non-white countries as "turd world nations" and charges that the U.S. "is being taken over by the freaks, the cripples, the perverts and the mental defectives" (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9/20/00). In a recent broadcast he justified ethnic slurs as a national security tool: "We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy," he explained (San Francisco Chronicle, 2/6/03). "Turd world" immigrants are a frequent target of Savage's anger: "You open the door to them, and the next thing you know, they are defecating on your country and breeding out of control" (Oregonian, 4/24/02). At times Savage's arguments echo the conspiratorial scapegoating of the white supremacist movement: "With the [Latino] population that has emerged, since they breed like rabbits, in many cases the whites will become a minority in their own nation... The white people don't breed as often for whatever reason. I guess many homosexuals are involved. That is also part of the grand plan, to push homosexuality to cut down on the white race" (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9/20/00). Commenting on the "Million Mom March" in favor of gun control (which he dubbed the "Million Dyke March"), he dismissed organizers' reference to American children killed by guns (5/15/00): "They're not kids, they're ghetto slime... they're the same kids that are in Sierra Leone toting AK47s." Misogyny and homophobia are staples of Savage's show as well as racism. In his book Savage Nation, he argues that Sen. Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor have "feminized and homosexualized much of America, to the point where the nation has become passive, receptive and masochistic." Discussing student volunteers distributing food to the homeless in San Francisco, Savage declared that "the girls from Branson [school] can go in and maybe get raped... because they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a dumpster while giving out a turkey sandwich" (San Francisco Bay Guardian, 9/20/00). In announcing the hire, MSNBC president Erik Sorenson described Savage as "brash, passionate and smart," and promised that he would provide "compelling opinion and analysis with an edge." A recent episode of the channel's Donahue program (2/10/03) featured a full-hour, one-on-one interview with white supremacist Jared Taylor. Does MSNBC believe that promoting hatred is a way for the struggling channel to build an audience? ACTION: If you'd like to express your opinion on Michael Savage hosting a show on MSNBC, you can write to the cable channel directly. CONTACT: MSNBC Feedback [EMAIL PROTECTED] Erik Sorenson, MSNBC President [EMAIL PROTECTED] As always, please remember that your comments are taken more seriously if you maintain a polite tone. Please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your correspondence. ***** September 20, 2000 SFBG.com Savage family values DARTANYAN BROWN, director of instructional technology at the Branson School in Marin, used to make a practice of monitoring hate radio. But nothing prepared Brown for what he heard driving home from school while listening to KSFO-AM's Michael Savage one day last September. Savage was discussing his proposal to round up and incarcerate the Bay Area's homeless when he made reference to a program at Branson through which students volunteer to distribute sandwiches to the homeless in San Francisco. "You can get the kids from Marin to go in there with them at night," Savage said during the Sept. 21 broadcast. "The girls from Branson can go in and maybe get raped ... because they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a Dumpster while giving out a turkey sandwich." Branson was furious and demanded an apology. KSFO general manager Michael Luckoff, who oversees all of Disney's S.F. radio stations, told us he didn't care for the way Savage expressed his opinion, but he defended the comment: "[Savage] had reason to believe this was a dangerous situation to put young people into and didn't think it was a wise idea, and that was the premise for his comments," Luckoff told us. But this was no slip of the tongue. During another show, according to an item in the San Jose Mercury News, Savage referred to the Branson girls as "fresh white nookie." Luckoff apologized to the school, but Savage himself has yet to apologize, and he declined to be interviewed for this story. Here are some more quotes from the guy who claims to have coined the phrase "compassionate conservative." Except where noted, they were taken directly from radio broadcasts during the period of Sept. 6 through Sept. 15. On women "I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional." (as quoted in San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 6, 1998) On whites no longer being the majority in California "Now the liberals are celebrating, of course. They will soon find out they will be shoved aside so that the power can be taken by the Asians and the Hispanics." On how this happened "With the population that has emerged, since they [Hispanics] breed like rabbits, in many cases the whites will become a minority in their own nation.... the white people don't breed as often for whatever reason. I guess many homosexuals are involved. That is also part of the grand plan, to push homosexuality to cut down on the white race." On who's taking over "The nation is being taken over by the freaks, the cripples, the perverts, and the mental defectives." On Bobby Knight and Wen Ho Lee "[Coaching is] the last bastion of the white heterosexual male ... and we need men like Bobby Knight that made America great. If we had a Bobby Knight in the Justice Department, we would know where the hard drives are, and instead of Wen Ho Lee going 'ho ho ho,' Wen Ho Lee would be going sizzle, sizzle, sizzle." On gay parenting "Fat lesbians are anti-family." (S.F. Examiner, Jan. 8, 1996) On gays "Gays bore the hell out of me. They're the least important members of our society." On the gay-rights movement "I'm not going to roll over to the pink swastika; I will not bow down to the pink swastika." For Brown's account of the Savage-Branson School incident, visit www.dartanyan.com/Artopinion/KSFO.html. Daniel Zoll ***** Bolivia and Argentina in flames--IMF to blame 2/20/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bolivia is in flames, its economy shot dead. And I've got my hands on the murder weapon, the same one that killed Argentina's economy: the "Country Assistance Strategies" of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). They are marked confidential. How I got them-well, that's not important. But this is-from this month's Harper's Magazine, my expos� of a batch of these secretive plans for the seizure, control and ultimate ruin of the nations the IMF supposedly seeks to save. Resolved to Ruin, by Greg Palast, Harper's Magazine, March 2003. Green-haired protesters in the streets of Seattle were ridiculed for their belief that the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the world's finance ministers enter into secret agreements to impoverish developing nations. See the March edition of Harper's Magazine for the complete annotated document, based on Chapter 4 of the new US edition of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, out February 25th from Plume/Penguin. Here, in fact, is one such agreement: Argentina's "Country Assistance Strategy Progress Report" from June 2001. This document, nominally produced by the World Bank, represents the interlocking directives of both the Bank and the IMF, as well as, indirectly, the wishes of both institutions' largest patron, the United States Treasury Department. Marked "Confidential" or "Official Use Only," these reports are seldom publicized to the citizenry bound up in their stipulations. And yet for the 100-plus that rely on IMF and World Bank loans- countries such as Argentina, Tanzania, Ecuador, Sierra Leone-such agreements serve as de facto legislation, meticulous in detail and ideological in thrust. Although couched as loan conditions or as helpful development advice, these reports more closely resemble the minutes of a financial coup d'etat.... To reduce its deficit per IMF decree, Argentina had cut $3 billion from government spending-a cut that was necessary, the authors note here, to "accomodat[e] the increase in interest obligations." These obligations, the report did not need to add, were largely to foreign creditors, including the IMF and World Bank themselves. Since 1994, in fact, Argentina's budget deficits had been entirely attributable to interest payments on foreign loans. Excluding such payments, spending had remained constant at 19 percent of GDP. Despite the visible harm caused by cuts, the new plan ordered more. This, the report promised, would "greatly improve the outlook for the remainder of 2001 and 2002, with growth expected to recover in the later half of 2001." The Bank was slightly off the mark. By December 2001, Buenos Aires' middle class, unaccustomed to hunting the streets for garbage to eat, joined the poor in mass demonstrations. How had Argentina arrived at such an impasse? In the 1990s the nation was the poster child for globalization, having followed without question the IMF and World Bank program. The "reform" plan for Argentina, as for every nation, has four steps. The first of these, capital market liberalization, was achieved by 1991's "Convertibility Plan," which pegged the Argentine peso in a one-to-one relationship with the U.S. dollar. This peg was designed both to keep inflation low and to make deficit spending difficult, in hopes of attracting and comforting foreign investors. Liberalized markets free capital to flow in and out across borders. But once Argentina's economy began to wobble, money simply flowed out.... The second step in the IMF/World Bank regimen is privatization. Both at the urging of lenders and out of financial necessity, Argentina throughout the nineties sold off what Argentines now ruefully call "las joyas de mi abuela," grandmother's jewels: the state's oil, gas, water, and electric companies and the state banks. It was quite a fire sale. Vivendi of France won rural water systems; Enron of Texas the pipes of Buenos Aires; Fleet of Boston took the provincial banks.... In 1994, at the World Bank's urging, Argentina partially privatized even its social security system, diverting much of it into private accounts. The U.S.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research calculated the revenue loss from this decision alone to be almost equal to the nation's budget deficit during the period. The third prong of the laissez-faire putsch is market-based pricing. In Argentina, the main target of this initiative has been labor, that most inflexible of commodities. "A major advance was made to eliminate outdated labor contracts," states this report, noting approvingly that "labor costs" (i.e., wages) had fallen due to "labor market flexibility induced by the de facto liberalization of the market via increased informality." Translation: workers who lost unionized jobs were forced into ad hoc arrangements, with far less protection. Here, the report asks the government to decentralize collective bargaining, a move that would reduce union power. Far from achieving this goal of "unemployment in single digits," the World Bank and IMF saw the jobless figure in the Buenos Aires area rise from 17 percent to a staggering 22 percent in the year after the report's issuance. The violence and looting that rocked that rocked the city in December 2001 thus represents a stage in the "austerity" process that Stiglitz terms the "IMF riot." When a nation, he said, "is down and out, [the IMF] takes advantage and squeezes the last pound of blood out of them. They turn up the heat until, finally, the whole cauldron blows up.".... Step four of the IMF/World Bank program is free trade. The loan terms of the two institutions had required Argentina to accept "an open trade policy." As recession set in, Argentina's exporters-whose products were effectively priced, via the peg, in U.S. dollars-were forced into a spectacularly unequal competition against Brazilian goods priced in that nation's devalued currency. Argentina grows a special kind of long-grain rice favored by Brazilians, and yet even as Brazil faced a hunger crisis tons of rice went unsold.... Before 1980, when the World Bank and IMF set out to rearrange the economies of developing nations, nearly all of them adhered to Keynesianism or socialism. Following the "import-substitution model," they build locally owned industry through government investment, behind a protective wall of tariffs and capital controls. In those supposed economic dark ages, spanning roughly from 1960 to 1980, per- capita in-come grew by 73 percent in Latin America and by 34 percent in Africa. By comparison, since 1980, Latin American income growth has slowed to a virtual halt-to less than 6 percent over twenty years- while African incomes have declined by 23 percent. The IMF itself, in a statement accompanying its April 2000 "World Economic Outlook" report, noted that "in recent decades, too many countries, and nearly one-fifth of the world population, have regressed This is arguably one of the greatest economic failures of the 20th Century." On this, at least, the IMF had it right. To view two of these documents, click here and here. On February 25, Plume/Penguin USA will release the new, expanded American edition of Greg Palast's New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization, Corporate Cons and High-Finance Fraudsters. You can view Palast's reports for BBC Television's Newsnight and his columns for the Guardian papers of London at www.gregpalast.com. ***** Patriot Act, the sequel Tuesday, February 11, 2003 �2003 San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com SOMEONE IN the Justice Department clearly wants to preserve our most cherished civil liberties. Last week, that individual leaked a bill secretly drafted by Attorney General John Ashcroft's staff to the Center for Public Integrity. "The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003," is a chilling sequel to the USA Patriot Act, passed shortly after Sept.11, 2001. It's already been dubbed "Patriot Act II." The draft legislation would reduce judicial oversight of surveillance, authorize secret arrests, create new death penalties and allow the government to revoke the citizenship of any American who is a member of -- or gives material support to -- a group designated as a "terrorist organization" by Ashcroft. Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, speculates that the Bush administration may have planned to introduce this legislation after another terrorist attack or in the middle of a war with Iraq. Congress, moreover, was not consulted. Ashcroft's office only sent copies to House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Vice President Dick Cheney on Jan. 10, 2003. Secret arrests? Expatriation because you belong to a suspicious political group? Unchecked surveillance? These are instruments of repression, used by totalitarian states. They are why American soldiers have fought -- and died -- in wars against fascism and communism. Rep. 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