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Also below an article about Afghanistan and Turkmenistan's natural gas. This may be heavy for survivors of abuse. This week on the fifth estate - "The Sleep Room" 1/6/98 - When Canadians first learned that CIA brainwashing experiments had been carried out on Canadians... in Canada... with the knowledge of our government, it was tremendous shock. As the fifth estate was first to report in 1980, the work that Dr. Ewan Cameron oversaw at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal was shocking. Now, the story of Cameron's experiments and the victims' struggle for justice have been made into a riveting movie, to be broadcast on CBC Television this Sunday and Monday nights. For the victims of The Sleep Room, the horror has never really ended. VELMA ORLIKOW (patient of Dr. Ewen Cameron): The man who I had thought cared about what happened to me didn't give a damn. I was a fly, just a fly. VOICE-OVER ANNOUNCER: Revisiting Canada's infamous Sleep Room. LINDA MACDONALD (patient of Dr. Ewen Cameron): I was...had to be toilet-trained. I was a vegetable. VOICE-OVER ANNOUNCER: In the 1960s, Dr. Ewen Cameron conducted CIA-funded experiments on troubled Canadian patients he was meant to help...the CIA caved in the day before the trial was to begin. They settled out of court for $750,000 - at the time it was the largest settlement the CIA had ever awarded. excerpt from http://www.radix.net/~jcturner/980106-Fifth-Estate.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19472-2001Nov26.html Liberties Be Damned By Richard Cohen Tuesday, November 27, 2001; Page A13 ...In the name of anti-terrorism, the government has abridged what was once the unquestioned right of lawyers and their clients to confidential consultations. Certain exceptions will be made -- just a few, mind you -- but if there were more, we would not know it. We do not even know how many people have been detained -- and for what. But even if the numbers are few, they are real people, legally innocent and deserving of both an accounting and representation. The Bush administration has also announced that it will have the military conduct the secret trials of certain alleged terrorists. The penalty could be death -- please, Mr. President, stifle your yawn -- by a two-thirds vote of the tribunal. Even in a court-martial, it takes a unanimous jury to apply the death penalty. Bush has done away with that -- and with appeals of any kind.... http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/opinion/26SAFI.html?ex=1007819844&ei=1&en=3f 161331a17f0b99 Kangaroo Courts - November 26, 2001 - By WILLIAM SAFIRE ....Now President Bush, with no such Congressional declaration, is using that Roosevelt mistake as precedent for his own dismaying departure from due process. Bush's latest self-justification is his claim to be protecting jurors (by doing away with juries). Worse, his gung-ho advisers have convinced him - as well as some gullible commentators - that the Star Chamber tribunals he has ordered are "implementations" of the lawful Uniform Code of Military Justice. Military attorneys are silently seething because they know that to be untrue. The U.C.M.J. demands a public trial, proof beyond reasonable doubt, an accused's voice in the selection of juries and right to choose counsel, unanimity in death sentencing and above all appellate review by civilians confirmed by the Senate. Not one of those fundamental rights can be found in Bush's military order setting up kangaroo courts for people he designates before "trial" to be terrorists. Bush's fiat turns back the clock on all advances in military justice, through three wars, in the past half-century. http://www.ombwatch.org/npadv/2001/usapatriot.html Anti-Terrorism Bill Could Impact Nonprofits November 14, 2001 Introduction The "USA PATRIOT Act" (PL 107-56) could pose big problems for nonprofits, especially those that advocate changes in US foreign policy or provide social services to individuals that become targets of government investigations. The central problem is a vague, overbroad definition of a new crime, "domestic terrorism". (The attacks of September 11th are crimes under pre-USA PATRIOT Act law, making this provision unnecessary.) In addition, greatly expanded search and surveillance powers can be invoked under a lowered threshold, requiring only that investigators assert that information sought is relevant to a foreign intelligence investigation. During the last week of October Congress rushed the bill through in a closed process that took place while Congressional offices were shut down for anthrax testing. The House passed the bill 352-66 on October 24th and the Senate approved it the next day 98-1, after just three hours of debate. Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) was the only Senator to vote against it, saying it "does not strike the right balance between civil liberties and security". There was no conference, since lawmakers worked out their differences in behind closed-door sessions prior to the votes. The process was so rushed that a final copy of the bill was not available to the public at the time the votes were taken. President Bush signed the bill on Friday October 26th. The provisions of the USA PATRIOT ACT, combined with recent government actions against foreign nonprofits and our history of using such laws to suppress dissent, raise a real possibility that some nonprofits, their employees and members could be subjected to extensive surveillance, criminal charges or have assets frozen. In a recent article Professor Ira Chernus, a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, suggests that if Dr. Martin Luther King were alive today and leading demonstrations against the bombing in Afghanistan the following scenario could happen: Dr. King leads a group that stages a sit in on a highway to block a truck carrying military hardware. He could be arrested for domestic terrorism, since the prosecutor would only need to allege that 1.) blocking the road is a violation of law, 2.) human life was endangered by having people in the way of the truck, and 3.) the intent is to intimidate or coerce government action regarding the bombing. Examples of nonprofit activity that could become "domestic terrorism": An anti-abortion group plans to heckle women entering a clinic. An environmental group does research on the dangers of nuclear power plants. A peace organization collects funds for Palestinian refugees. Members of a labor union block access to a factory so that scabs cannot cross the picket line.... http://www.stopwar.org.uk/news.htm NEWS RELEASE: Sunday 18 November 2001 Anti-war protest - 100,000 march in London against war in Afghanistan Report by Stop the War Coalition & Media Workers Against the War Sunday 18 November Some 100,000 anti-war protesters marched in London today, doubling last month's turn-out of 50,000, and reflecting the full breadth, depth and diversity of anti-war feeling in Britain. Trade unionists, Muslim organisations, community groups, anti-racists, human rights activists, anti-globalisation activists, students and MPs heard a wide range of speakers condemn the US-led military action in Afghanistan. After a week in which sections of the media indulged in misplaced triumphalism in relation to the war in Afghanistan and subjected anti-war dissenters to misrepresentation and calumny, the huge numbers were particularly significant. After the large demonstration in London on 13 October, the Guardian reported that government ministers were surprised and concerned. Tonight, they will be even more concerned. Some 100,000 people, undoubtedly representing the views of millions, have seen through the hypocrisy and the double-standards, and reject the war being waged in their name. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_156000/156497 .stm 1/22/98 World: South Asia - Trans-Afghan pipeline suspended - Turkmenistan is keen to export its huge gas reserves - The United States oil and gas company, Unocal, has called a halt to plans to build a $2bn pipeline through Afghanistan following the US air attacks on southern Afghanistan and the Sudan. The pipeline had been designed to link a vast gas field in eastern Turkmenistan to Pakistan through Afghan territory - one of the most ambitious schemes to unlock central Asia's energy reserves for the Asian and Western markets. The BBC Central Asia correspondent says the news will come as a severe blow to Turkmenistan, which is desperate to get its huge gas reserves out to market. A Unocal spokeswoman said the company had no plans to cancel the project but she admitted it was far from clear when it would start again. The company will be meeting with its six foreign partners to discuss the situation. Ever since a consortium to build the pipeline was set up 10 months ago, it struggled to achieve funding targets, hampered by the internal conflict and instability that has continued to plague Afghanistan. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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