-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: Catherine Austin Fitts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 8:15 PM FW: New Steamshovel Steamshovel Press Electronic Newsletter, March 2000 PRESENTING THE NEW ISSUE OF STEAMSHOVEL PRESS ONLINE... * FEATURE ARTICLE Media, Manipulation and the Cult of Consumerism An Interview with media critic/author Douglas Rushkoff * OFFLINE ILLUMINATION Divide & Conquer: The Jesuit Way A Book Review of Rulers of Evil by Tupper Saussy * ALT.MEDIA BY URI DOWBENKO "Boiler Room" -- Reach Out & Scam Someone * THINGS ARE GONNA SLIDE "Execute Me. Please." An Open Letter from Wayne Henderson * THE LATEST WORD Mass Control Redux by Katherine Sullivan Steamshovel Press. All Conspiracy. No Theory. http://www.steamshovelpress.com Below find two responses to media reports about Richard Metzger's Disinfo Convention in New York City on February 19 (see http://www.disinfo.com), where Steamshovel's Kenn Thomas moderated a panel that included Greg Bishop, Rob Sterling, Jonathan Vankin and ALiens In America author Jodi Dean. To New York Times: Dear Editor, Jon Pareles misquoted me in his report on the Disinfo convention recently held in New York. "Weird and Fun, Anything Goes When It's Cyberpalooza, 2/21 edition of the New York Times.) I moderated a panel on conspiracy theories at the event and Mr. Pareles has me saying "The idea that there's an absolute answer to anything is patently wrong." I actually said "everything", not "anything", an important distinction considering how flaky the newspapers often like to make conspiracy theorists look. In fact, I was quoting Jonathan Vankin, author of The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time and a member of the panel. Mr. Vankin had made the point previously on a TV news program, that absolute proof is not even a legal standard. The courts only require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It is precisely this acceptance of uncertainty that fuels conspiracy "theories" and leads to important discoveries and new facts. Pareles' misquote drops the discussion into a cauldron of relativity that I did not intend. Kenn Thomas Steamshovel Press To Suck (Wired Magazine) Dear Editor: What a petulant little article on the recent Disinfo Con in NYC! ("White Men in Hammerstein Ballroom," Suck, 2/28/00 http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/02/28/) Not enough women and blacks?!? Do observations come more phony and facile? Richard Metzger had a lot of weird shit happening at Disnfo Con but least it got beyond idea number two. That's more than can be said about the writer of this article, who apparently was looking for the Democratic convention or something similar to hold hands, sing "Kumbaya" and hope for a better America. Kudos to Metzger for defying the false dialogue of the PC psuedo-left and presenting some straightforward chaos. Kenn Thomas Steamshovel Press POB 23715 St. Louis, MO 63121 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- The Steamshovel books will be available at the table belonging to The Book Tree at the Internationl UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada, March 5-11. Book Tree published the Cyberculture Counterconspiracy volumes, so look for those in abundance. Contact http://www.ufocongress.com for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Kenn Thomas will appear at the Fortean Times UnConvention in London, April 29-30. Contact http://www.forteantimes.com for more information. 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