-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors
Modern-Day Slavery Abroad ...excerpt from Sec. of State Colin Powell's speech introducing the Second Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. "...Every year, an estimated 700,000 to 4 million people around the world are victimized by traffickers through fraud, coercion, and outright kidnapping. The overwhelming majority of victims are women and children. Traffickers often force them into pornography and prostitution, subjecting them to terrible mental and physical abuse, and putting them at risk from devastating diseases such as HIV/AIDS....Approximately 50,000 people are trafficked into the United States every year....victims of trafficking toil under inhuman conditions -- in brothels, sweatshops, fields and even in private homes." http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5754 from L. Moss-Sharman Women allege abuse by Jehovah's Witness - Paul McEnroe - Star Tribune - 7/3/02 "Two women who alleged they were sexually abused when they were children by a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Church in Annandale, Minn., filed a lawsuit...in Wright County....when she reported to her parents that she'd been abused, elders ordered her to stay silent or risk being shunned by church members and losing membership in the congregation." http://www.startribune.com/stories/467/3033760.html The Pentagon's Program for Psychopharmalogical Warfare by Edward Hammond "Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD)....The Advantages and Limitations of Calmatives for Use as a Non-Lethal Technique, a 49 page report obtained last week by the Sunshine Project under US information freedom law, has revealed a shocking Pentagon program that is researching psychopharmacological weapons. Based on "extensive review conducted on the medical literature and new developments in the pharmaceutical industry", the report concludes that "the development and use of [psychopharmacological weapons] is achievable and desirable." These mind-altering weapons violate international agreements on chemical and biological warfare as well as human rights. Some of the techniques discussed in the report have already been used by the US in the "War on Terrorism". http://www.counterpunch.org/hammond0702.html http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/usapatriot020701.html www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0701-08.htm Published on Monday, July 1, 2002 by ABC News Patriot Revolution? Cities From Cambridge to Berkeley Reject Anti-Terror Measure by Dean Schabner "Cities across the country have been quietly staging a revolt against the USA Patriot Act, saying it gives law enforcement too much power and threatens civil rights. Over the last three months, the Massachusetts cities of Cambridge, Northampton and Amherst and the township of Leverett all passed resolutions that call the USA Patriot Act a threat to the civil rights of the residents of their communities." http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0702-06.htm Published on Tuesday, July 2, 2002 in the New York Times Everyone Is Outraged by Paul Krugman "Arthur Levitt, Bill Clinton's choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, crusaded for better policing of corporate accounting — though he was often stymied by the power of lobbyists. George W. Bush replaced him with Harvey Pitt, who promised a "kinder and gentler" S.E.C. Even after Enron, the Bush administration steadfastly opposed any significant accounting reforms. For example, it rejected calls from the likes of Warren Buffett to require deduction of the cost of executive stock options from reported profits." <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. 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
