[CTRL] Fw: PALESTINIANS, NOT ISRAELIS, KILLED THE 12-YEAR-OLD BOY
-Caveat Lector- Arutz-7 news: PALESTINIANS, NOT ISRAELIS, KILLED THE 12-YEAR-OLD BOY 31 October 2000 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/news/fnews.htm http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/news/fnews.htm An IDF investigation and re-enactment appears to show conclusively that the 12-year-old boy from Gaza, Muhammad al-Dura, was not shot by Israeli soldiers * but was rather the victim of a cruel plot staged by Palestinian sharp-shooters and a television cameraman. The incident in question occurred on Oct. 6, when the boy and his father happened to be walking past the scene of a major battle between Palestinian snipers and Israeli soldiers. Former IDF sniper Yosef Doriel, who initiated the re-enactment, said that he had several reasons to suspect that it was not the Israelis who shot the boy. "For one thing, the boy and his father were hiding behind and to the left of a barrel that was between them and the Israeli forces," he told Arutz-7 today. "In the video clip, you see four clean bullet holes to the side of them. These were not shot by the Israelis - they are 'clean' and full holes, not mere grazes that would have been formed by the 30-degree angle of the Israelis - but rather by Palestinians (stationed more directly in front of the father and son) to make sure that the two would stay put. Suddenly, you see the boy lying down in his father's lap, with another bullet hole in the wall directly behind him - again, it could not have come from the IDF position, which was behind the barrel and to the side, but only from the Palestinian position, which was more directly in front of the father and son. This is the bullet that went through his stomach and out of his back. At that point in the video, you can hear the firing - but the Israeli position was far away! Rather, what happened was that a Palestinian advanced to a spot very close to the photographer, and shot the fatal shot. You can also notice that at that moment of the fatal shots, the photographer suddenly 'shook' and the picture was blurred - a signal that the shots came from close to him." Doriel and a fellow physicist, Nachum Shachaf, proposed that O.C. Southern Command Yom Tov Samiyeh oversee a re-enactment of the entire incident, complete with the barrel and life-size dummies. Doriel concludes: "The Palestinian forces staged the event. The Israelis were firing, for sure - but the fatal shots came not from them, but from the Palestinian position in front of the boy, behind the cameraman." - A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Fw: UFO abductions and otherworldly experiences-all in the mind?
-Caveat Lector- The "sleep paralysis" explanation covers a particular part of the abduction phenomenon but by no means all, or even the greater part of it. And most importantly, to my mind, it doesn't account for the strong phenomenological similrity bewween UFO abductions and near-death experiences -- by no means all of which occur in a state of being near to death, and few if any of which involve hypnosis. On the other hand, Michael A. Persinger has developed a theory that abduction experiences involve microseizures in the temporal lobe, and he has provided a number of empirical studies that support this theory. His theory covers both differences in predisposing factors within individuals and external, precipitating events. His theory does cover the similarity between abduction experiences and NDEs. Furthermore, his temporal lobe theory integrates a host of related phenomena, including hypnotic suggestibility, mystical experiences, and OBEs. He's published over 50 articles on this topic; the following is a nice introductory overview to his research programme: Persinger, M. A. (1983). Religious and mystical experiences as artifacts of temporal lobe function: A general hypothesis. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 57, 1255-1262. -- - -- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Fw: 'Truth test' to uncover false rape allegations
-Caveat Lector- THE INDEPENDENT news | UK | This_Britain | 2000-10 'Truth test' to uncover false rape allegations As number of sex crimes rises but conviction rate falls, 'lie detector' could help police weed out bogus claims By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent 31 October 2000 A "lie-detector" test to help uncover false allegations of rape is being developed by the police and criminologists. Between 10 and 41 per cent of allegations of rape are made up by the "victim", according to previous research. In the new test, a claimant's statement is analysed and points are given from a list of set clues people who have made up a rape allegation get a low score, while genuine complaints get a high score. Using this technique in two studies, police officers and researchers had a success rate of between 72 and 100 per cent in identifying genuine rape victims from liars. All the cases were real-life examples selected because of the existence of strong evidence, such as closed-circuit television footage, to prove the defendants' guilt or innocence. Full text: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-10/truth311000.shtml A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Fw: Multicultural brainwashing in Britain
-Caveat Lector- Prince Charles 'should have married black woman' By Alice Thomson http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003643439617680rtmo=gwSGjNnuatmo=r rvspg=/et/00/10/17/ngav17.html Report of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain - Runnymede Trust Racial equality unit - Home Office Commission for Racial Equality Institute of Race Relations Runnymede trustees stay defiant to shrug off fuss THE Prince of Wales should have married a black woman as a symbol of his support for multi-cultural Britain, according to a member of the race relations think tank the Runnymede Trust. Lady Gavron, vice-chairman of the commission that produced last week's controversial report on the future of multi-ethnic Britain, said the Royal Family should take a lead in promoting racial integration. "It would have been great if Prince Charles had been told to marry someone black. Imagine what message that would have sent out," she said yesterday. She did not want to "get rid of" the Royal Family. "We don't need them but they're fun for tourists to look at." But she said they sent out the wrong message about Britain today. "They're a symbol of our unmeritocratic tendency and, of course, they're all white. It is part of a very unattractive hierarchy." Lady Gavron believes that Prince Charles's stated wish to be defender of faiths rather than Defender of the Faith when he becomes Supreme Governor of the Church of England is not enough. Yesterday she complained that the hereditary peerage was also too Anglo-Saxon. She said: "Anything hereditary is completely anachronistic and illogical; you wouldn't have an hereditary cricket team. At least this government has made some peers from ethnic minority groups." Kate Gavron is the wife of the publisher Lord Gavron, who was made a life peer after donating £500,000 to the Labour Party before the last general election. The report by the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, which was launched by the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, nearly three years ago, suggested that much of Britain's history needed to be reappraised. Lady Gavron said yesterday: "We need to acknowledge that there are different ways of looking at history. The problem with the empire was the inequality of power. It was something we did to the Indians and Africans, not with them." However, she does not believe that British history should be totally rewritten. "We should keep the name Trafalgar Square. If you got rid of everything associated with anything bad you'd have nothing at all. A lot of street names coincided with the height of the Victorian empire and the peak of our colonial power, but we can't scrap all of them. We'd have to start losing the Norman names too if we were being purist." She said she loved hymns such as Jerusalem and I Vow To Thee My Country. "I am embarrassed by the words but the music is wonderful." In an interview with The Telegraph, she said that the Runnymede Trust had received a stream of offensive telephone calls since its report was published. "We've had non-stop hate mail. We had to turn the telephones off, there were so many racist calls. One started, 'Dear creeps, why don't you go and live abroad? Why not France, they're a bunch of bastards there as well.' A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] DEADLY RIOTS the UNITED NATIONS
-Caveat Lector- DEADLY RIOTS the UNITED NATIONS by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst commentator Strangely, most of the members of the United Nations who voted that Israel had used excessive force, themselves have killed attacking rioters in time past. Rioters who are prepared to use and do use deadly force must be stopped before they reach their victims. Clearly, the countries in U.N. feel they may have the right to suppress lynch mobs in their own countries but, they seem to believe that Israel must allow her enemies freedom to commit their pogroms of shooting, firebombs and thrown rocks in order to kill Jews. This was the custom in these European and Islamic Mideast countries. So far this is âonlyâ a mini War of Attrition with the Arab nationsâ Armies standing by to join in if they think Israel is vulnerable enough to fall this time. The Arab nations have always used deadly force with no restraint and no apologies to the U.N. or the world at large. The Egyptians have frequently used deadly force to contain the Muslim Brotherhood who attack Egyptian institutions. When the Palestinians rioted on the Egyptian side of the border with Gaza at the start of the first Intifada in 1989, Egypt had her policemen indiscriminately gun down the rioters with submachine guns and then get back into their vehicles, leaving 20-30 rioters dead on the ground. The Egyptians riots (Intifada) in Egypt ended. (The U.N. did NOT vote condemnation of Egypt.) In Jordan September 1970 King Hussein had his Army kill an estimated 10,000 of Arafatâs Palestinians, with the rest fleeing to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Arafatâs gun-toting PLO was going to take over Jordan but Hussein moved faster and with greater force. This was called Black September with no apologies by King Hussein. (The U.N. did NOT vote condemnation of Jordan.) Later Arafat created a mini-PLO state inside Lebanon while killing more than 75,000 Lebanese Christians and Muslims. Arafatâs law of killing off his enemies to make more room for his Palestinians was his formal foreign policy - which led to a 12 year Civil War and a total of over 100,000 dead. (The U.N. did NOT vote condemnation.) Arafat has initiated an almost identical war against Israel as he did in Lebanon. The U.N. did NOT vote to condemn Syria for ignoring the TAIF agreement wherein they committed to leave Lebanon. The U.N. did NOT vote to condemn Syria for taking over Lebanon with 35,000 to 40,000 troops; for using the Bekaâa Valley in Lebanon as a opium field which produced 20% of the heroin smuggled into America; or for undermining world currency by counterfeiting $100 bills. In 1982 the IDF (Israel Defense Force) came into Lebanon to counter Arafatâs terror attacks and to prevent his âMarch on Jerusalemâ (according to documents and weapons discovered in huge bunkers and deep, long tunnels). The Lebanese people welcomed the IDF with flowers, expecting to be delivered from Arafatâs brutal tyranny. Later Syria, with U.S. and U.N. silent approval, occupied Lebanon with 35,000 troops where they remain to this day. (The U.N. DID vote to condemn Israel and left the Syrians entrenched and in power against the Lebanese.) In Syria Hafez al Assad dealt with those who opposed him with Genocidal deadly force. Who can forget that he and his brother Rifat surrounded the town of Hamma and, with artillery and tank gun fire, leveling the city? Or that Assad went over the rubble with poison gas to insure that survivors would be gassed to death? The nations and media were virtually silent about this massacre killing of an estimated 20,000 Syrians. (The United Nations did NOT condemn Assad.) More recently, Saddam Hussein of Iraq attacked Kuwait, with the assistance of Arafatâs Palestinians who worked in Kuwait. They not only became a fifth column inside their host (Arab) country but they guided Saddamâs troops in their rape, massacre and pillaging of their Kuwaiti hosts. After the Gulf War, Desert Storm, the Kuwaitis paid them back in kind by killing and torturing those they caught. The Kuwaitis ejected more than 300,000 Palestinians into Jordan as untrustworthy and deadly enemies. (The U.N. did NOT vote condemnation for this transfer or killing of the rampaging Palestinians.) At the same time Saudi Arabia deported into Jordan an equal number of Palestinians who had worked there (approximately 350,000) because they were considered a deadly threat to the country and to the Royal Family. (The U.N. did NOT condemn this transfer of Palestinians.) Palestinian Arabs led by Yassir Arafat have been recognized as traitors to their countries of residence and disrupters of nations. All the Arab countries cut off funds and support for Arafat because they considered him the ultimate betrayer and never to be trusted. In brief, these are the same Arab countries who pushed the vote of condemnation of Israel in the U.N. for using âexcessiveâ force against Palestinian rioters who used deadly
[CTRL] How smart are the candidates
-Caveat Lector- http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=128747 How smart are the candidates? Part 1 of 3 Wednesday, 18 October 2000 1:22 (ET) How smart are the candidates? Part 1 of 3 By STEVE SAILER, UPI National Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A recent "This Modern World" comic strip about the presidential debates featured the "Gorebot" admonishing voters: "Foolish humans! Do you not recognize the superior processing capabilities of my advanced neural network?" In reply, a George W. Bush drawn so as to highlight his unfortunate resemblance to Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's "What, me worry?" cover kid, sniggers, "Get a load of the brainiac." As amusing as these widespread stereotypes are, voters need to ask whether Vice President Al Gore really is the closest carbon-based life-form to the supersmart HAL 9000 talking computer from the movie "2001:. A Space Odyssey." And is Bush truly as dumb as a box of rocks? Is there objective evidence to support these clichés? And even if it turned out that Gore's IQ towered over Bush's, would this tell us that Gore would make a better president? Fortunately, in 2000 the public has available more unbiased data on the intelligence of the candidates than ever. A variety of SAT and IQ scores have leaked out, allowing voters to compare candidates to each other or to themselves. But, what do these numbers mean? Can these test results be set in perspective? Part 2 of this series will cover the surprising consensus of IQ experts, political scientists, and historians on just how important innate intelligence is in the making of a good president. Perceptions of candidates' intelligence have long played a major role in American politics, as have attempts to manipulate those perceptions. Misspelling the word "potato," for example, was one of the many mis-steps that doomed former Vice President Dan Quayle's presidential ambitions. Thus, it's hardly surprising that some candidates have cultivated an image of brilliance. For example, Joseph Kennedy Sr. spent heavily on the ghostwriters who largely concocted the two nonfiction bestsellers published under his son John's name. JFK even won the Pulitzer Prize for "Profiles in Courage," which is now known to be mostly the work of speechwriter Theodore Sorenson. In reality, John Kennedy possessed a fine but hardly dazzling brain. According to historian Thomas C. Reeves, author of "A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy," in prep school JFK scored 119 on an IQ test. Although a 10th of the population scores higher than 119, a recent C-SPAN poll of 58 historians rated Kennedy as possessing the eight strongest leadership qualities of all 41 presidents. Similarly, the Democratic nominee in 1952 and 1956, Adlai Stevenson, portrayed himself as an intellectual. The press created the term "egghead" to describe the bald and supposedly scholarly Stevenson. In truth, Stevenson's resume was similar to Bush's. Stevenson was the grandson of Grover Cleveland's second vice president. As a rich socialite, Stevenson barely scraped through Princeton and Northwestern. After a nondescript early career, Stevenson unexpectedly became the popular and reasonably competent governor of Illinois. He then ran for president only four years later. At his death, the only book found resting upon his bedside table was "The Social Register." In sharp contrast, the man who twice beat Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, took pains to hide his considerable brainpower. He found it expedient to present himself as a kindly old duffer interested mostly in golf and Zane Grey's cowboy novels. This masquerade fooled even the historians of the time, who somehow assumed that the organizer of the staggeringly complex D-Day invasion had the IQ of a tree stump. Shortly after Eisenhower left office, a poll of historians rated him one of the 10 worst presidents. After Ike's death, however, a new generation of historians unearthed much evidence supporting the opinion of his vice president, Richard Nixon, that Eisenhower was "The most devious man I ever came across in politics." Therefore, this year's C-SPAN poll of historians rated him one of the 10 strongest presidential leaders. There are many valid objections to relying excessively on the IQ test and its close cousin, the college admissions exam, to judge candidates. IQ critic Howard Gardner, a Harvard professor who theorizes that there are between seven and nine "multiple intelligences," responded to an inquiry about Gore and Bush's test scores, "Many thoughtful people, including me, feel that the IQ test only captures aspects of scholastic intelligence and is quite remote from other important intellectual faculties." For all their limitations, IQ-style tests have a one unique advantage. While they certainly don't reveal the whole truth about someone, they can't intentionally lie. Professional spinmeisters can manipulate their clients' images, but they can't manipulate their old test scores.
[CTRL] Neoconservatism: a CIA Front
-Caveat Lector- Neoconservatism: a CIA Front by Gregory Pavlik Not long after the Central Intelligence Agency was founded in 1947, the American public and the world were subjected to an unprecedented level of propaganda in the service of U.S. foreign policy objectives in the Cold War. The propaganda offensive of the government centered around its obsession with securing the emerging U.S.-dominated world order in the wake of the Second World War. It was a time when Europe lay in ruins and when subservience to U.S. planners, in government and business, was the order of the day. Although it is now widely conceded that there was never any serious threat of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, let alone of the United States, the menace of the Soviet Union was the pretext underlying discussion of foreign policy. To pay for the Cold War, Harry Truman set out, as Arthur Vandenberg advised, to "Scare the Hell out of the American people." A daunting task, considering the years of pro-Soviet accolades that had previously flowing from the executive branch. Nonetheless, the Soviet threat served as a useful chimera to keep the masses in line. What were the targets singled out for demonization in the Cold War propaganda campaign? One of the chief aims of the government was to discredit dangerously parochial attitudes about the desirability of peace. It was also thought necessary to inoculate the public, particularly in Europe, against the virus of "neutralism." Further, since the American government had successfully entrenched the military industrial complex as a permanent feature of American life, U.S. planners were eager to discredit the idea of "disarmament," which meant not only a rejection of the techniques of mass murder developed and perfected by the Allied powers in the Second World War, but also a return to the pre-war days when the union of government and business was more tenuous, government-connected profits were fleeting, and market discipline provided a check on consolidation. The degree to which the press participated as a partner in the rhetoric of the Cold War was no accident. Media penetration was a major facet of CIA activities in both the foreign and domestic context. At its peak, the CIA allocated 29 percent of its budget to "media and propaganda." The extent of its efforts are difficult to measure, but some information has slipped through the shroud of secrecy. One report notes that the media organizations funded by the CIA in Europe included: the West German News agency DENA (later the DPA), the writers association PEN in Paris, a number of French newspapers, the International Forum of Journalists, and Forum World Features. The London-based Forum World Features provided stories to "140 newspapers around the world, including about 30 in the United States, amongst which were the Washington Post and four other major dailies." The U.S. Senates Church committee reported that the Post was aware that the service was "CIA-controlled." German media tycoon Axel Springer had received the then-substantial sum of more than $7 million from the Agency to build his press empire. His relationship with the CIA was reported to have extended through the 1970s. The New York Times reported that the CIA owned or subsidized more than 50 newspapers, news services, radio stations, and periodicals. The paper reported that at least another dozen were infiltrated by the CIA; more than 1,000 books either written directly or subsidized by the Agency were published during this period. The penetration of CIA propaganda into the American press was far more extensive than an occasional distorted report from Europe. By the early 70s, it had been revealed that the head of the Hearst bureau in London was a CIA agent. Some suspicion was aroused among those editors not on the Company payroll, and inquiring minds among them wanted to know if CIA men were currently in their employ. Soon thereafter the Washington Star-News published a report claiming that some three dozen journalists were on the payroll of the Agency. One agent was identified in the story as a member of the Star-News own staff. When the paper went belly up in 1981, the "journalist" in question went directly to work for the Reagan administration. Later, Jeremiah OLeary joined the staff of the Washington Times. Though pressured, the CIA refused for some time to release information on its tentacles in the "free press." Theres little wonder why. When George Bush assumed the role of CIA director, he agreed to a single paragraph summary of each of its journalists for the Church committee. When it submitted the last of its data, the CIA had provided information on more than 400 journalists. The final Church report was a disappointment having been audited by the CIA. A subsequent House investigation was suppressed, though a leak it was published in the Village Voice. The House report indicated that Reuters news service was frequently used for CIA disinformation, and
[CTRL] The New Cold War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.redpepper.org.uk/cularch/xalmeida.html The New Cold War In May 1994, to a packed house at the Almeida Theatre, Islington, London, Noam Chomsky appeared in debate with John Pilger. Red Pepper hosted the event; Harold Pinter was chair. Hilary Wainwright [then political editor of Red Pepper; now editor]: Friends and comrades, welcome to this first Red Pepper forum, and also to the magazine. We wanted a way to present or re-establish the art of public conversation. In a sense it's more creative, particularly in the complex times we're in, than relying on an adversarial debate. It's more participatory than just a lecture, and perhaps more personal and pleasurable than a traditional public meeting. It's appropriate that we're having this public conversation and that the Almeida Theatre is our forum. I'd like to thank Jonathan Kent and Ian McDiarmid for allowing us to have this theatre. I don't need to introduce any of the three participants. They're all people who are fearless in searching out the truth and then finding every possible platform to make it public. But the more they discover the truth, the more public platforms are closed to them. They're individuals who in their particular chosen craft have achieved the highest possible skills, but aren't bogged down by the narrow professionalism that has stifled British political and intellectual life. In that sense they're that desperately scarce resource, an engaged public intellectual. And just before handing over to Harold Pinter I want to remember another exemplary public intellectual - Ralph Miliband - who died last Saturday, and I think that his determination to create an independent and internationalist left will inspire Red Pepper and be one of the spirits behind this conversation. Harold Pinter: Thank you. Let me just say that what I intend to do is embark on this discussion for a while, and then in due course I'd like to invite you to participate and ask any questions of Noam Chomsky and John Pilger that you wish. So let me kick off by saying that John, this title, the New Cold War, was your suggestion because you believe, quite properly I think, that the term the New World Order had been over used and was rather tired. So could you define a little more precisely what you mean by the New Cold War? John Pilger: Well, of course it's heavily ironic: the original Cold War never ended. The Old Cold War was a war of attrition between the great nuclear powers, but it was a rhetorical stand-off, too. So often we were invited and manipulated to see it simply as a conflict between East and West, yet the Cold War always was, and still is, a war against the majority of humanity. It was a war fought with the blood of "expendable" people over strategic position, resources and it was a war of control - it was an imperialist war. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States fought in the Third World was relatively insignificant compared with the war fought by the US against people trying to improve their position in the world. The Soviets never matched the Americans as imperialists; they were lousy imperialists outside their own borders. The US established a network of control throughout the world in the postwar period, and that control has been shored up ever since. Now when the Communist world collapsed, of course the excuse to fight this war against the Third World collapsed with it, so other excuses had to be found, and these have never really been satisfactory. For instance, during the Gulf War, we went through a period of the "demon" excuse. Saddam Hussein was elevated to new Hitler status. This didn't really work but it did for a while; it certainly worked long enough for the US to lead a very considerable force against Iraq and cause the deaths of perhaps 200,000 people, wrecking a large part of the Middle East economy. There have also been excuses of the Noriega variety: the reason for invading Panama was that Noriega was an international drug dealer, child molester and pornographer, and whatever he was, he had to be caught. Well of course, those weren't the real reasons at all. The US was demonstrating its power yet again. Panama began the New Cold War, in which an Orwellian language would be employed that would make war equal to peace. For these actions against dictators who had previously been in the pay of, and with a client relationship to, the US, could be put down in the cause of a new peaceful world. But of course this was so transparent, there wasn't really any basis for people to take this on board, as many people hadn't been able to take on board the Communist threat, so I think we're back now to a more transparent Cold War - we're back to what the Cold War always was, a war against the Third World. There's an interesting description of this, particularly relevant to the recent events in South Africa. One of the
[CTRL] American Voters Should Be Shocked by Treason of Gore
-Caveat Lector- October 25, 2000 - Atlanta Journal Constitution American Voters Should Be Shocked by Treason of Gore Family Benefactor by Mona Charen IT IS HARD to conceive that a figure of such international stature as Armand Hammer, who died in 1990, could have been as contemptible a swindler as he apparently was, but such is the inescapable conclusion of "Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer" by Edward Jay Epstein. A secret agent of the Soviet Union since 1921, Hammer managed to make and lose several fortunes during his long life, along the way skirting investigations of money laundering, fraud, conspiracy, espionage, bribery and countless other crimes by the FBI, the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other government agencies. The tale of his serial betrayals (of his family, his religion, his country), endless self-aggrandizement, and success at courting the rich and famous makes fascinating reading, but there is a contemporary hook: Armand Hammer loomed very large in the lives of one of America's prominent political families, the Gores. Hammer was born in 1898, the son of Dr. Julius Hammer, a committed communist. Julius named his first son Armand for the communist symbol of an arm holding a hammer (Armand would later purchase the baking soda company because of the coincidence of names). While Julius served time in prison for an abortion that led to a woman's death, Armand (who had actually done the abortion) traveled to Moscow in his stead and met with Lenin in 1921. Impressed with his American fan, Lenin gave "Comrade Hammer" a concession to mine asbestos in the Ural Mountains, and also assigned him the sensitive task of distributing (and laundering) money for Soviet agents around the United States. Hammer worked closely with the infamous Feliks Dzerzhinski, the first head of the KGB, known then as the Cheka. Though the asbestos mine never did prove profitable and was later closed, it did provide a window into Hammer's character. Conditions for the workers were so bad that foremen had to carry guns to protect themselves from angry workers, who were half starved. To avert a strike, Hammer called upon the Cheka, who suppressed the workers to Hammer's satisfaction. Later, when railroad workers delayed shipments to the mine, Hammer again called upon Dzerzhinski, who had the local chief administrator shot "as a lesson." Hammer was delighted by this, and pointed out many times in later years that the trains ran more efficiently afterward. To pursue his work on behalf of the Soviet Union, Hammer set up a number of shell corporations, a pattern that would persist throughout a lifetime. To provide hard currency for the Soviets, he styled himself an art dealer in New York, supposedly selling the "Romanoff Treasure." In fact, much of it was bric-a-brac and junk carrying phony identification supplied by the Soviets. Despite a lavish personal lifestyle, Hammer never did make any real money (he was near bankruptcy throughout the 1920s and '30s), until he received another government concession, this time from the United States government, to produce alcohol during the Second World War. Hammer was not actually a very good businessman (though he created a myth in the press that he was a billionaire). But he was utterly unscrupulous and very adept at stroking the powerful. When, through the liquor concession, a wife's fortune and other machinations, he was able to achieve great wealth, he immediately used it to purchase political influence. In 1950, he made Congressman Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee a partner in his cattle-breeding business, which brought Gore a substantial profit. When J. Edgar Hoover considered moving against Hammer for his provable treason, he stayed his hand at least in part because Hammer had friends in high places like Gore. When he became a senator, the elder Gore remained a Hammer ally, and he was rewarded when he lost his bid for re-election. Hammer hired Gore Sr. as an executive of Occidental Petroleum's coal division, at a salary of $500,000 per year. Albert Gore Jr., who claims to be for the people and against the "powerful," controls between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of Occidental stock. In keeping with a tradition begun by his father, Al Gore Jr. invited Hammer to witness the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as his guest. It is not a crime to hold Occidental stock, nor to be wealthy. But it should send a shiver down the spine of voters to consider that the Gore family's comfort is owed to a treasonous scoundrel. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of
[CTRL] THE FOURTEEN POINTS, JANUARY 8, 1918
-Caveat Lector- THE FOURTEEN POINTS, JANUARY 8, 1918 Wilson issued them as conditions of the peace, so that America's entry into the war would not be a blank check for Britain, but rather transfer power to a new international order. The 14 Points were given a lukewarm reception by the Allies, but their apparent idealism weakened morale in Germany. 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. 2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants. 3. [editor's note: Free Trade] The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance. 4. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. 5. A free, open-minded, and abolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined. 6. [editor's note: a welcome to the USSR] The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent termination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy. 7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired. 8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. 9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. 10. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development. 11. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into. 12. The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees. 13. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant. 14. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid
[CTRL] PJB on controlled media
-Caveat Lector- (in the old days it was the council of 300--now we are down to the council of 3? From the _Chronicles_ magazine November 2000 issue: "I'm Liberated; Free at Last!" A Talk With Pat Buchanan by Bill Kauffman (SNIP) K: How do we bust up the concentration of media ownership? B: You have to use the antitrust laws, and I'd certainly be prepared to. Newspapers, for example, should be owned by Americans. I'm not sure what Bill Gates did to me to be attacked by the antitrust division of the Department of Justice. As far as I know, he tried to give me a free browser. Microsoft is a national asset. If they did something wrong, fine them, and tell them, "Don't do it again." But don't smash up this company. Take a look at what's far more dangerous: a concentration of power, in which a handful of companies get control of the mechanism by which ideas and information and political news are spread throughout a society of 270 million people. I thought CNN was a great idea, and frankly I didn't like the idea of it merging with [Time-Warner], and now they're going to merge with AOL. Two or three people in the country are going to be able to decide the career, or the noncareer, of virtually every journalist and columnist and commentator in America. They'll be able to kill all but the biggest, like a Rush Limbaugh; and even there they have enormous power. So I do believe in maximum decentralization of the media. K: What about requiring radio and TV licensees to live in the cities in which they have licenses? B: I think that's a great idea. You should have some kind of preference in the law for folks who live in the town, because these absentee landlords sit up there and own 85 or 100 newspapers and they don't give a hoot about what's going on in Podunk, as long as the _Podunk News_ makes money. They go out there and reformat it and put their bingo games in, and it ceases to be a community newspaper. If every radio station and every newspaper were owned by people who lived in the town, it would be far better than these giant media conglomerates A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Power to Erase Memories
-Caveat Lector- NEW YORK TIMES September 26, 2000 Letters: Power to Erase Memories To the Editor: The experiment discussed in "Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False Memories" (Sept. 19) is exciting because it hints at the neurobiological processes underlying the malleability of memory. But the suggestion that the future clinical value of such findings would be to erase traumatic memories is horrifying. Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/science/26LETT.html http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/science/26LETT.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Pinker on Humanity
-Caveat Lector- The heart is deceitfull above all things-Jeremiah All About Evil A moral philosopher makes the case that the 20th century was even worse than we thought. By STEVEN PINKER Barbarism was by no means unique to the past 100 years, Jonathan Glover tells us, but ''it is still right that much of 20th-century history has been a very unpleasant surprise.'' This was the century of Passchendaele, Dresden, Nanking, Nagasaki and Rwanda; of the Final Solution, the gulag, the Great Leap Forward, Year Zero and ethnic cleansing -- names that stand for killings in the six and seven figures and for suffering beyond comprehension. The technological progress that inspired the optimism of the Victorians turned out also to multiply the effects of old-fashioned evil and criminal stupidity. Glover is a moral philosopher, whose stock in trade is the hypothetical moral dilemma. (A trolley is hurtling out of control. Five workers down the track don't see it and will be killed if it continues. You can throw the switch and save them, but it will cause the death of one person standing on a spur. What should you do?) In this ''moral history of the 20th century,'' Glover deftly analyzes some of its real and terrible moral dilemmas. Is the bombing of civilians ever justified if it would shorten a dreadful war? Should the Allies have accepted Adolf Eichmann's offer to trade a million Jews for 10,000 trucks? What kind of risk to self and family should a moral person be expected to take in opposing a terrifying regime? But when it comes to the choices made by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Milosevic and their henchmen, moral dilemmas are beside the point. Glover wants his profession to help us understand how great evils can happen and how they might be prevented. That requires not just philosophy but history and psychology. Most of ''Humanity'' is history: an account of the major atrocities of the century. In novelistic detail, Glover describes the wrenching realities behind the just wars and the utopian social projects. The descriptions are heartbreaking, enraging, at times unbearable. No matter how bad you thought the century was for human rights, Glover will convince you that it was even worse. The following vignette, though lacking the death and gore of the others, encapsulates for me how the century's political movements could obliterate all that we value in life: ''A French ethnologist captured by the Khmer Rouge . . . befriended a girl of about 3 whose father was marched away to probable death. He played with her and grew fond of her, but she was forced to attend indoctrination classes. Her smiling response to him was replaced by sullenness. One evening, looking him in the face, she tried to insert her finger between his ankle and the rope that bound him. Finding that she could, she called the guard to tighten the ropes.'' Glover's history is not original, of course, but his psychology is, dramatically so. The prevailing wisdom among many intellectuals has been that evil has nothing to do with human nature and must be attributed to political institutions. The anthropologist Ashley Montagu, at a time when the ashes of 35 million victims of World War II were still warm (or radioactive), urged Unesco to declare that ''biological studies lend support to the ethic of universal brotherhood.'' In 1986, Unesco and several scholarly societies resolved that ''it is scientifically incorrect to say that war or any other violent behavior is genetically programmed into our human nature.'' Scientists who have dissented from this saccharine view have been picketed, smeared and likened to Nazis. Glover does not let our species off so lightly. He shows that distinctive patterns of cruelty and callousness pop up repeatedly in history, cutting across times, places and political systems. He insists that ''we need to look hard and clearly at some monsters inside us,'' not to make us pessimists but as ''part of the project of caging and taming them.'' For Glover argues that human nature encompasses not just destructive impulses but ''moral resources'': humane impulses that sometimes recoil from the intentions of the monsters. The course of history, and our hopes for the future, are shaped by struggles among these impulses inside countless minds. The great contribution of ''Humanity'' is a dissection of these motives. This is not, as some might fear, an attempt to reduce history to psychology. Glover makes it clear that the motives are responses to the larger community and manifest themselves in different ways in different social and political contexts. Here are some of the monsters. Pure, amoral self-interest. Sadism and the thrill of the battlefield. Tribalism, which elevates the group above the individual and turns personal enmity into feuding, war and genocide. Ideology, which can convince people that a struggle between groups -- races for the Nazis, classes for the Marxists -- is inevitable and necessary for
[CTRL] The professor of lies
-Caveat Lector- Sent: 28 September 2000 06:53 Subject: The professor of lies THE TRUTH AND EDWARD SAID By Jeff Jacoby September 28, 2000 Edward Said, the world's most renowned Palestinian intellectual, was exposed as a fraud last summer. The experience apparently taught him nothing. For decades Said had passed himself off as an exile-an Arab born and raised in Jerusalem only to be driven out by the Jews in the runup to the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. He had told the story often, lacing his narrative with poignant detail. "I feel even more depressed," he reminisced in March 1998, "when I remember my beautiful old house surrounded by pine and orange trees in Al-Talbiyeh in east Jerusalem." In a BBC documentary he recalled his years at St. George's, an Anglican prep school in Jerusalem; he and a boy named David Ezra, Said recollected, used to sit together in the back of the classroom. He told another interviewer in 1997 that he could still identify the rooms in his family's former house "where as a boy he read 'Sherlock Holmes' and 'Tarzan,' and where he and his mother read Shakespeare to each other." All this was lost when his family fled from Talbiyeh in December 1947, driven out, as he explained, by the "Jewish-forces sound truck [that] warned Arabs to leave the neighborhood." But as Justus Reid Weiner showed in Commentary, the influential journal of opinion, Said's tragic tale was largely a fabrication. The Saids, it turned out, had lived in Egypt, not Palestine. Edward Said grew up and went to school in a posh neighborhood in Cairo, where his father had a thriving business. Now and then the family would visit cousins in Jerusalem; Edward was born during one such visit in 1935. But on his birth certificate, the Saids' place of residence was listed as Cairo; the space for indicating a local address in Palestine was left blank. Weiner looked into the expulsion of Talbiyeh's Arabs in 1947. It never happened. He checked the student registries at St. George's. There was no mention of Edward Said. He even interviewed David Ezra, the student with whom Said sat in the back of the room. Because of his bad eyesight, Ezra told Weiner, he had always sat up front. Said occupies a lofty perch in the world of letters: He holds an endowed chair in English and literature at Columbia University, he is a highly sought-after lecturer, and he has served, at various times, as president of the Modern Language Association, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. But he is known above all as a zealous champion of the Palestinian cause. For many years he sat on the Palestine National Council, the PLO's "parliament in exile," and was a close advisor to Yasser Arafat. He has savaged Israel and pressed the Palestinians' case in every forum imaginable, from op-ed columns to radio broadcasts to congressional testimony. And his words were accorded great moral force, for wasn't Said himself a victim of Zionist usurpation? Hadn't he himself suffered displacement and exile? When the world learned that he wasn't and he hadn't, his moral authority shriveled. It was as if, one observer put it, "we found out that Elie Wiesel spent the war in Geneva, not Auschwitz." One might have thought that the embarrassment of it all would convince Said to stop lying about himself. And yet his fabrications continue. During a visit to Lebanon in July, Said was seen hurling rocks over the border into Israel. Throwing stones at Israelis has been a popular pastime among Arab tourists in southern Lebanon ever since Israel withdrew in May. This stoning has drawn little international attention, even though several Israelis have been wounded, some permanently. But when Agence France Press released a photo of the world's most famous Palestinian intellectual joining in the violence, it made the papers everywhere. Said was sharply condemned, even in quarters where he is normally only praised. The Beirut Daily Star was appalled that a man "who has labored . . . to dispel stereotypes about Arabs being 'violent'" would let himself "be swayed by a crowd into picking up a stone and lofting it across the international border." On Said's own campus, the Columbia Daily Spectator blasted his "hypocritical violent action" as "alien to this or any other institution of learning." His response was to shrug off the incident as merely "a symbolic gesture of joy"-and to lie. His rock, he said, had been "tossed into an empty place." Witnesses told a different story. London's Daily Telegraph reported that Said "stood less than 10 yards from Israeli soldiers in a two-story, blue-and-white watchtower from which flew five Israeli flags." As for the damning AFP photograph, Said professed surprise: "I had no idea that media people were there, or that I was the object of attention." But AFP had a very different explanation-as two Columbia professors, Awi Federgruen and Robert Pollack, found out when they contacted the
[CTRL] Hundreds of Christian Arab families fleeing PA areas
-Caveat Lector- JP: Hundreds of Christian Arab families fleeing PA areas By Margot Dudkevitch The Jerusalem Post 25 October 2000 JERUSALEM (October 25) - Since the outbreak of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, hundreds of Christian Arab families have left with the assistance of the Foreign Ministry and foreign embassies, such as those of England, Canada, and Cyprus, Shlomo Dror, spokesman for the coordinator of activities in the territories, said yesterday. In some cases, embassies sent cars to pick up the families from their homes in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Gaza, Nablus, and Tulkarm, granting passports to spouses and grandparents and offering financial assistance or air tickets to leave Israel, he said. In many cases the embassies eased restrictions and granted passports where only one of the couples had citizenship, to assist in their departure. A small number of those seeking to leave were Moslems, he added. "Lately the number of requests has subsided. Those left don't have foreign citizenship, but all those able to have left," said Dror. He recalled the speech made by a Moslem preacher in a Gaza mosque after prayers on a recent Friday, in which he called on Palestinians to attack Israelis and Christians. Shortly afterward, a group of Christians was attacked in Gaza, he said. His statements came as Israeli security officials said that the Palestinian Authority did not choose Beit Jala as the focus of violence by coincidence, but in an attempt to draw the Christian population into the conflict, a step it hopes will generate international support and criticism of Israel for shooting at civilians. Central Command chief of staff Brig.-Gen. Ya'acov Zigdon noted that those shooting at Gilo from Beit Jala are not local residents, but extremists from elsewhere. "What we have here are cells that are not necessarily from Beit Jala," he said. While many of the families have fled the area, those left behind are being held hostage by the situation. "The armed Tanzim enter the village and take over homes and rooftops, and threaten the occupants if they object," one official said. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Cooperation Does Not Work---------------------Pro cantonal anti centrist
-Caveat Lector- "Cooperation Does Not Work" By Michael S. Greve, American Enterprise Institute from the AEI Federalist Outlook, http://www.federalismproject.org/outlook/9-2000.html http://www.federalismproject.org/outlook/9-2000.html The federal systems of Switzerland, Germany, and the European Union . . . all provide that constituent states, not federal bureaucracies, will themselves implement many of the laws, rules, regulations, or decrees enacted by the central "federal" body. . . . They do so in part because they believe that such a system interferes less, not more, with the independent authority of the "state," member nation, or other subsidiary government, and helps to safeguard individual liberty as well. * Justice Stephen Breyer, Printz v. United States (1997) (dissenting opinion) The fact is that our federalism isn't Europe's. * Justice Antonin Scalia, Printz v. United States (1997) (majority opinion) Amerika, du hast es besser. * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wendts Musen-Almanach (1831) American federalism is in practice a cooperative federalism: state and local governments implement federal programs, typically with federal financial assistance. A broad political and scholarly consensus sustains that institutional arrangement. Cooperative federalism is, however, a terrible idea, regardless of the terms of cooperation. Federalist Outlook No. 3 pays a visit to Germany, a citadel of cooperative federalism and, consequently, of economic malaise and civic disaffection. Patient readers will receive what the authors of the Federalist Papers, concluding their inspection of European federations, called a "melancholy and monitory lesson" on the vices of federalism, wrongly conceived. Federalist Outlook No. 4 will address the sprawl of cooperative federalism here at home. I Love You, You Love Me Real federalism's lifeblood is institutional competition. The U.S. Constitution envisions political conflict and functional separation among independently constituted states and national institutions. Contemporary politics and public debate are to that vision what Barney the Dinosaur is to the World Wrestling Federation: federalism, it is not so much argued as presumed, should be consensual and cooperative. The federal government supplies 100,000 police officers, 100,000 teachers, and numberless nannies. Grateful states, cities, and counties employ those faithful servants, whereupon the feds volunteer to put roofs over their heads. (A federal school construction bill is pending as this goes to press. First dibs on the cash will go to the twenty-three elementary schools that somehow missed out on a presidential aspirant's recital of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.) The parties' and the presidential candidates' programs on environmental protection, education, welfare, and crime prevention all rest on the common ground of cooperative federalism: Let the feds provide money and standards ("tough standards," when it comes to education). Let states, cities, and school boards experiment and implement. Yes, the politicians disagree on funding levels and the stringency of federal grant conditions. Cooperative federalism's devil, however, is not in its details but in its design and dynamics. Cooperative federalism in whatever shape or form undermines political transparency and accountability, diminishes policy competition, and erodes self-government and liberty. It is a perversion, not an extension, of the constitutional scheme and its institutional logic. For reasons to be explained, it is not altogether clear what and how much can be done to replace government cooperation with competition. A necessary first step, though, is to crack the consensus on cooperative federalism and to make sober citizens wretch at the thought. We begin that task in Germany-a country that, though traditionally proud of its cooperative federalism, is now conducting a vigorous debate about its defects. Federalism, German-Style Germany is not a happy country these days. Its political leaders and opinion elites lament the country's lagging economic performance, as measured by anemic growth rates and sustained high unemployment. Despite a general consensus that the source of Germany's economic malaise lies in punitive taxes and in labor and welfare laws that have made German labor the most expensive in the world, those regimes seem immune to reform. The high of reunification was followed by recriminations and regrets over the exorbitant costs. Even without a Robert Putnam to ring the alarm over Fussball Allein, the Germans worry greatly over civic disaffection [Politikverdrossenheit], which finds expression in voter disengagement and, more troubling, in growing support for radical parties, left and right. Germany's grumpiness is nothing new, good cheer never having been a hallmark of her politics. What is new and noteworthy is that academics, opinion leaders, and politicians have come to tag an
[CTRL] Poll finds young Brits 'dumber' than oldsters
-Caveat Lector- (I was educated at a Grammar school- after us came the dumbing down of the brits(and the reinstitution of strong class differences in educational opportunity) John Poll finds young Brits 'dumber' than oldsters By JOHN EZARD The Guardian LONDON -- Young 18- to 24-year-old British adults are measurably "dumber" than older age groups, according to a special survey for the Guardian newspaper. British youth emerge consistently as knowing less - sometimes far less - than older people about many of the main events and personalities of British history and culture. Fewer than a third of them can name Winston Churchill, Britain's war-time hero, as a prime minister who served before 1945. Last night, after studying the survey results, the country's culture secretary, Chris Smith, said: "I fear it may represent a slipping of knowledge. They do clearly know about other things such as Internet search engines and rock music. But the fundamentals of what I would call cultural literacy are sadly missing for too many of them. I hope the trend can be reversed." The schools minister, Jacqui Smith, said: "There are worrying gaps in the education of too many young adults." Only 6 percent of young adult Brits can name David Lloyd George, architect of the welfare state, and only 8 percent Neville Chamberlain, architect of the Munich agreement with Hitler. Ninety-three percent do not know William Caxton was the father of printing and that John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost." Ninety percent cannot identify 1815 as the year of the battle of Waterloo. Some 84 percent and 77 percent, respectively, do not know what the Domesday Book or the Magna Carta were. Many results appear to point to a progressive breakdown in the transmission of historical and cultural facts between the six generations questioned for the survey. This breakdown - over a period when educational qualifications have greatly improved on paper -was acute if the events were more than half a century old. The age group that emerged as most knowledgeable was 45- to 54-year-olds, who began their schooling under the post-1945 grammar school/secondary modern school system and finished it as comprehensive schooling was starting to become widespread. This group came top answering 19 of the 40 questions. People over 65, whose education began when rote learning was more common, scored well on some answers but came top on only six. Young adults were top on five questions - all about pop culture or the Internet. (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service. For more Guardian news go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/) A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] DRACULA WAS A GOOD GUY
-Caveat Lector- DRACULA WAS A GOOD GUY Most people believe - as they have been taught - that Dracula was a bloodthirsty 'vampire' from Transylvania. This Hollywood horror fairy tale is not true, or it is at least comparable with another fairy tale closer to our times: the total demonisation of Adolf Hitler. Here we offer you the true story of Prince Vlad Dracula the Impaler, Orthodox Christian Crusader of the 15th Century. FACING THE TURKISH THREAT Mahomed II entered history as an extremely ambitious Sultan. His two main goals were to conquer Central Europe and Constantinople. In order to fulfil his plans he had to occupy Belgrade - the gateway to Central Europe. Thus the Orthodox Romanian Medieval States and the Catholic Hungarian Kingdom became the direct targets of Mahomed II. Amidst the peoples, the idea of a Crusade grows, an idea which will be accomplished by Iancu Corvin of Hunedoara, Vlad Dracula the Impaler and St. Stephen the Great. Iancu Corvin of Hunedoara was a Romanian Catholic military Lord in South-West Transylvania. He also had the jurisdiction of Southern Banat, on the Danube across which the Ottoman threat was coming. In 1440, after the Hungarian King dies, Iancu Corvin helped the application of the Polish King Vladislav III for the Hungarian Crown. After the nomination of the new King in Budapest, Iancu Corvin was named Prince of Transylvania, in 1441. From that moment he started the project of the Crusade, mainly on two fields: 1. By strengthening the military inside Transylvania, working mostly on the middle class; 2. By helping his Romanian Orthodox friends to get into power in Wallachia and Moldavia - across the Carpathians. His first great victory upon the Turks took place in Serbia in 1441. By surprise, in 1442, the Turks attack Transylvania. After the first Ottoman victory, the Christians re-grouped quickly and struck back at the invader's army so harshly that they succeed in killing the Muslim leader together with his son. The dismantled Turkish army ran away Southwards into Wallachia. Iancu followed them, beat them and named Basarab II as Prince of Wallachia. In 1442, two more battles followed in Transylvania and Wallachia; on almost the same frame. Iancu's victories impressed Europe. Poland, Venice, Burgundy and Aragon planned a new Crusade under the rule of Iancu. Trusting the help promised by these countries, he began a long campaign into Serbia and Bulgaria, aiming to free Adrianople and thus to break the siege of Constantinople. But from Europe, only promises came: the material help was too weak. On his own, he fought the Sultan, forcing him to ask for a 10 year peace (the Treaty of Szeged, July 1442). The military preparations didn't cease. The Pope insisted on an attack and the Venician fleet set sail for Byzantium. In this new campaign, Iancu commanded the armies of Transylvania, Croatia, Bosnia and also Wallachia - the last one under the command of Vlad Dracul (the father of Vlad Dracula the Impaler. 'Dracul' was the Romanian for 'Dragon'; Vlad Dracul gained, as a soldier, a German Order of the Dragon; 'Dracula' or 'Draculea' means in Romanian 'Son of Dracul'. This, in short, is the ethimological origin of the name 'Dracula'). In Bulgaria, near Varna, a great battle took place in which the Hungarian King was killed. In 1446, Iancu Corvin of Hunedoara became Governor of Hungary. From this new position he developed strong alliances with Moldavia and Wallachia, shaping a common military defence system. He also established good contacts with Skanderbeg, the leader of the Albanians. In 1448, he fought the Turks at Kossovopolje (in Kossovo); the battle was lost because of treason. Soon afterwards, Iancu placed Bogdan II (the father of St. Stephen the Great) in power on the Moldavian Throne. In 1453, Mahomed II conquered Constantinople. In reply, Iancu fortified the Danube line and strengthened the Carpathian system of alliances. In 1456, Iancu of Hunedoara installed Vlad Dracula the Impaler on the Throne of Wallachia; immediately he supported the crowning of St. Stephen the Great in Moldavia. Looking to stop the Turks in the battle for Belgrade, Iancu formed an army of 30,000 men from Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czech, Germany etc. With this force he crushed the Muslims in a bloodbath. Even Mahomed II was wounded in the battle. While Europe was celebrating, Iancu died of pest in the military camp of Zemun, Serbia, on November 11, 1456. His body was laid to rest in peace in the Catholic Cathedral of Alba Iulia - in the heart of Transylvania, amongst the people he ruled and commanded in battles for Christendom. VLAD DRACULA CONTINUES THE STRUGGLE The political and military program of Iancu Corvin of Hunedoara was continued by Vlad Dracula the Impaler of Wallachia and by St. Stephen the Great of Moldavia. Vlad Dracula's extremely large European popularity was mainly due to his strong personality, to his authoritarian spirit and certainly to his unmerciful
[CTRL] The Phone Call: Why Perot Sabotaged His Own Reform Party
-Caveat Lector- FYI - In the mid-1990s, Tom Pauken was the Texas Chair of the GOP. --- D Magazine Politics The Phone Call Why Ross Perot sabotaged his own Reform Party. by Tom Pauken Happier Days: In 1999, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan were friendly. Although Buchanan was more conservative on social issues, Perot believed Buchanan could save his Reform Party. In the fall of 1999, Ross Perot had seemingly agreed to a plan for his Reform Party. His cohorts had invited Pat Buchanan and his ³Buchanan Brigades² into the party to blunt a takeover attempt by Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota. The loudmouthed, coarse ex-wrestler flaunts his contempt for values Perot holds dear, so it was no surprise that the former presidential candidate would find a means to stop him. Pat Buchanan, on the other hand, is articulate, media-savvy, and, even if more conservative than Perot on social issues, has fought beside him on the issues Perot cares about. With Buchanan as its candidate, the Reform Party would use its $12.5 million in federal matching funds to continue Perot¹s campaign for economic nationalism, campaign finance reform, and the elimination of foreign influence in the nation¹s capital. But by late September 2000, the Reform Party had been wrecked by trench warfare between Perotistas and Buchananites, Buchanan was barely registering 1 percent in the polls, and, after a flurry of lawsuits, the Buchanan campaign was still waiting for the $12.5 million in federal funding. Why did Perot turn with such a vengeance against Buchanan? Even Buchanan is perplexed, as I found when I talked with him in early September. Buchanan wouldn¹t respond when I asked him directly what he thought Perot¹s motives might be for reversing field and derailing his candidacy. Others close to Buchanan were less reticent. From their perspective, Perot¹s ego in the end could not abide giving up control of ³his² party. But, as I discovered, the reason the Reform Party shot at establishing a third party since Theodore Roosevelt November has nothing to do with Perot¹s famous ego. The turnabout can be traced to a phone call made to Ross Perot by a close friend in Dallas. In early July of last year, Perot ally (and 1996 vice presidential candidate) Pat Choate and Perot right-hand man Rus Verney approached Bay Buchanan, Pat¹s sister and campaign adviser, with a proposition. Choate and Verney argued convincingly that Buchanan should abandon the GOP and run for the Reform Party nomination. Buchanan and Perot agreed on many fundamental issues. They both favor a trade policy that puts America¹s interests first. They are opponents of free trade deals like NAFTA and GATT. Both have warned about the loss of national sovereignty to international organizations like the WTO. Perot had even invited Buchanan to speak at a United We Stand conference in 1995, where Buchanan had wowed the audience with a speech echoing many of Perot¹s favorite themes. ³We can deliver the Reform Party nomination to Pat,² Choate told Bay. Buchanan bit. He unleashed his ³peasant army² to help Perot forces fend off a takeover attempt by Ventura. The Buchanan Brigades moved quickly to take over or reestablish Reform Party organizations in states all across the country. Within a few months, the Buchanan and Perot forces had enough votes to take back control of the party¹s national committee (which Ventura¹s forces had captured). The infusion of Buchanan¹s recruits into the party had made the difference. Ventura threw up his hands in disgust and announced that he and his supporters were abandoning the Reform Party for good. Immediately fissions appeared. Verney expected to regain his former post as party chairman. But Buchanan supporters, who had grown to distrust Perot¹s chief political aide, joined with other disaffected Reform Party leaders to place Choate in the top post. This split between the two longtime friends and allies signaled an underlying rift in the party. Choate announced he would do all he could to help Pat Buchanan secure the party¹s nomination at its Long Beach convention in August. For his part, Verney confirmed Buchanan¹s suspicions by announcing he would stop Buchanan at all costs. ³Verney promised a bloodbath,² says Choate now, ³and he delivered one in Long Beach.² Perot¹s hand in this reversal is difficult to verify because Perot isn¹t talking. He refers all Reform Party matters to Verney. But Dallas sources who know Perot well are skeptical that a paid staffer like Verney would freelance on a matter so crucial as the party¹s candidate for president. Something caused Ross Perot to change his mind about Buchanan. And once Perot¹s mind was changed, the Perot people showed they would go to any length to deny Buchanan the nomination. First, Verney tried to recruit Donald Trump to run. After a few weeks of flirtation, played out in the tabloids, Trump declined to go head-to-head against the Buchanan Brigades. Trump¹s dalliance with the headlines
[CTRL] Any volunteers for this research? Men's cerebral G-spot
-Caveat Lector- Of course this has MC implications John THE INDEPENDENT news | UK | Science | 2000-10 Finding men's cerebral G-spot could lead to new treatments for lost libido By Roger Dobson 16 October 2000 Scientists may have found man's cerebral G-spot. Brain mappers have found the part of the brain that gets excited the most when a man is sexually aroused by what he sees. When male volunteers were exposed to blue movies, the little-understood claustrum area of their brains lit up and became highly active. Researchers say this knowledge about the way the brain handles the process of sexual arousal from visual images may lead to better targeted treatments for people with sexual problems. The scientists, who report their findings in the British science journal Human Brain Mapping, say that although there have been theories about how the brain is involved in sexual arousal, there has been no detailed study. Full text: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Science/2000-10/gspot161000.shtml A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Uganda's Gulu Town a Haven for Ebola Outbreak
-Caveat Lector- Tuesday October 17 12:06 PM ET Uganda's Gulu Town a Haven for Ebola Outbreak Reuters Photo By Gavin Pattison GULU, Uganda (Reuters) - Any mad scientist looking to unleash a deadly virus on the world could do a lot worse than choose Gulu in northern Uganda. There is no suggestion that the outbreak of Ebola virus which has struck Uganda is anything other than a natural calamity, but the effect could be just as devastating as if contrived by a Hollywood villain. Gulu, around 180 miles north of the capital Kampala, is the perfect spot for a fast-acting virus to get a grip on a local population and then spread across the country and beyond. It is a major market town at the crossroads of the main northern road from Kampala to Sudan and the western route to Democratic Republic of the Congo, where Ebola was first recognized in 1996. The town is at the heart of one of the most insecure areas of the country, where the rebel Lords Resistance Army has been waging war for over a decade. And although officially denied by the government, the area is known also to harbor fighters from the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) fighting the Khartoum government. The town has an official population of around 40,000 people, but this figure is often swelled by the arrival of peasants displaced by rebel activity or army counter insurgencies. There are also dozens of camps for thousands of Sudanese refugees in the area-many of them with little in the way of sanitation or health facilities. Ugandan officials say 39 people have been officially confirmed to have died from Ebola -- 37 in Gulu district and two others in Kitgum, further south. They have slapped a quarantine on three areas of Gulu where they believe the virus is concentrated, but given that it took two weeks from when the first victim died until Ebola was confirmed, there are real fears the disease may already have slipped through the cordon. Hiv Also Rampant It is not just the location that makes Gulu a perfect breeding point for the virus. Living conditions, traditional customs and Uganda's social fabric could all contribute to the spread of the disease. Communal eating and washing is commonplace in Gulu. Polygamy is still practiced and prostitution is rife. These conditions all contributed to the spread of another deadly virus, HIV, which has killed hundreds of thousands of Ugandans and infected millions more in the last 20 years. Ebola is passed on through contact with body fluids. Victims suffer from aches and fevers similar to flu before developing splitting headaches, stomach pains and diarrhea. The early symptoms are not unlike those for dozens of other diseases endemic in the area such as malaria and cholera, making diagnosis difficult. Only in the last stages-when the virus eats through the victim's veins and arteries causing massive internal hemorrhaging and causing blood to pour out of every orifice-is it clear Ebola has struck. By then it is usually too late. "It is like watching someone dissolve before your eyes," one doctor said. Authorities in the capital Kampala have been put on high alert for anyone showing symptoms of Ebola. Uganda's neighbors Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda have also stepped up checks at border posts and warned hospitals to watch out for Ebola. In the Hollywood version of disease outbreak movies, a hero doctor usually races against time before discovering a vaccine or cure for whatever virus the evil tyrant has unleashed. With Ebola there is no vaccine and no cure. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] The American Academy of Dermatology: Sexually Transmitted Disease s --Treating America's Hidden Epidemic
-Caveat Lector- The American Academy of Dermatology: Sexually Transmitted Diseases- Treating America's Hidden Epidemic PR Newswire - October 18, 2000 -- Wednesday October 18, 12:04 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: American Academy of Dermatology The American Academy of Dermatology: Sexually Transmitted Diseases-Treating America's Hidden Epidemic NEW YORK, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Teenagers are bombarded with images of sex on a daily basis. Whether it be television, movies, music, or magazines, the joy of sex is often glorified while the consequences are rarely addressed. Yet what teenagers need to know is that most sexually transmitted diseases are difficult to treat and many can only be controlled, not cured. Speaking today at the American Academy of Dermatology's Derm Update 2000, dermatologist Libby Edwards, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, discussed three common sexually transmitted diseases and their treatment. Sexually transmitted diseases are infections that are spread by contact of genital skin (penis, scrotum, vagina and skin surrounding these areas) with the infected skin of another person. "While sexual intercourse is the most common way of catching a sexually transmitted disease, oral sex and occasionally even contact with other infected skin, such as a finger, can sometimes spread infections as well," said Dr. Edwards. "Contrary to what people might think, penetration with sexual intercourse does not have to occur for an infection to spread. Using a condom can help decrease the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, but skin contact still occurs around the edges of the condom and can spread the disease." Genital Herpes While genital herpes is caused by one of two very closely related herpes simplex viruses, type II herpes more often occurs in the genital area. The virus infects the skin, generally causing small, painful blisters or open sores. It is estimated that between 20 percent and 25 percent of Americans are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes. "The problem with herpes is that the virus stays in the body forever, hiding out in the nerve under the skin even after the blisters disappear," explained Dr. Edwards. "That's why herpes is such a significant threat to teenagers-once you contract it, you literally carry it with you the rest of your life." Although people can pass this infection most easily when the open sores or blisters are present, the virus can be infectious even when the skin looks normal and people are taking medication to prevent outbreaks. While there are no treatments that cure a herpes infection, there are several medications-such as acyclovir, famciclovir and valacyclovir-that shorten outbreaks and, if taken daily, keep outbreaks from occurring and decrease the amount of virus on the skin. Genital Warts Genital warts are small, skin-colored bumps caused by a human papillomavirus (HPV). They can occur on the outside skin as well as inside the vagina and on the cervix of women, where they are unnoticeable and can pass on the infection. "Warts generally do not appear until weeks or months after the infection begins, making it somewhat difficult to determine how the infection was initially passed on," cautioned Dr. Edwards. "More importantly, some wart viruses can cause cancer of the cervix-making them a potentially serious health risk for some women." Although they usually do not hurt or itch, genital warts can be unsightly and embarrassing. There are no treatments that cure a wart infection, but there are treatments that help the body get rid of the warts-such as freezing, burning, or applying acids that actually destroy the wart itself. However, the virus that causes warts also lives in the skin so warts often recur. A newer treatment, called imiquimod, is a cream that prompts the body to fight off the virus. HIV Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a life-threatening infection that is transmitted by sexual secretions and blood. The infection can make a person feel as though he or she has the flu, which seems to go away, but the infection remains and slowly damages and changes the immune system until the person cannot fight off other infections. A person can be infected with HIV for several years before developing the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). "The only way to avoid catching a sexually transmitted disease is to avoid sexual activity altogether," said Dr. Edwards. "Teenagers need to realize that they can't be cavalier when it comes to having sex. Even using a condom and limiting sexual activity to as few lifetime partners as possible is only partly protective." The American Academy of Dermatology, founded in 1938, is the largest, most influential, and most representative of all dermatologic associations. With a membership of over 13,000 dermatologists worldwide, the Academy is committed to: advancing the science and art
[CTRL] SAfrica-prisons-AIDS: AIDS-linked deaths in S. African prisons s oar
-Caveat Lector- SAfrica-prisons-AIDS: AIDS-linked deaths in S. African prisons soar Agence France-Presse - October 17, 2000 JOHANNESBURG, Oct 17 (AFP) - AIDS-related deaths in South Africa's prisons increased by about 300 percent from 1995 to 1999, and are expected to continue to soar, an official with a prisons monitoring group said Tuesday. Natural deaths in prisons had increased from 186 in 1995 to 737 in 1999, with about 90 percent of the deaths estimated to be linked to AIDS, Gideon Morris, secretary of the group, called the Office of the Inspecting Judge, told AFP. The Office of the Inspecting Judge is an independent organisation which works in conjunction with prisons in South Africa. Already this year, there had been more than 1,000 natural deaths in prisons, he said. "From the post-mortems, they appear to be caused by AIDS in 90 percent of cases," Morris said. An increase in the number of HIV-positive people entering prisons, the high incidence of rape and overcrowding contributed to the dramatic escalation in figures, he said. "It is estimated that between 70 percent and 80 percent of all arrested suspects are sodomised by fellow prisoners before they are even officially charged," Morris told The Star newspaper. "Many suspects are raped wihin the first 48 hours of being detained," he said. Last month Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana said the number of prisoners known to be HIV-positive had increased from 1,094 in July 1997 to 3,209 in July this year. Morris was especially concerned about the high number of prisoners awaiting trial, about 40 percent of whom he said were eventually found not guilty. About 45,000 prisoners awaiting trial were being held, he said. "These guys are arrested and placed in side a cell. Within 48 hours they are usually robbed blind and probably raped," Morris said. Massive overcrowding meant that prisoners could not be properly segregated, for example to keep gangsters away from prisoners awaiting trial, and that guards could not properly ensure control, he said. At the end of September, about 151,000 people were in prisons, which can ideally only accommodate 100,000, he told AFP. The department of correctional services moved to ease overcrowding last month by conditionally releasing 8,500 awaiting-trial prisoners whose bail had been set at under 1,000 rand (140 dollars), he said. This week the release procedures began of another estimated 7,000 prisoners who have served half their sentences and were not found guilty of violent crime, Morris said. According to government, 4.2 million South Africans were at the end of last year living with HIV or AIDS. This was the highest number in the world, according to the UN's AIDS project, UNAIDS. 001017 AF001045 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Harry Oppenheimer left £30 million, a fraction of what he is said to have been worth
-Caveat Lector- London Times FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 2000 CATHY PINNOCK/AP Harry Oppenheimer left £30 million, a fraction of what he is said to have been worth Mining tycoon hides his family fortune FROM MICHAEL DYNES IN JOHANNESBURG HARRY OPPENHEIMER, the South African mining magnate reputed to be one of the ten richest men in the world, went to his grave leaving little trace of his vast personal fortune thought to be more than £3 billion, it was revealed yesterday. The former head of the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers, two of the world's largest mining companies, left a will declaring his personal wealth at a paltry 307 million rand (£30 million), a fraction of his real net worth. Like other billionaires, Mr Oppenheimer, who died in August aged 91 after a brief illness, appears to have deposited the bulk of his vast fortune, accumulated from mining gold, diamonds and other minerals, in a trust to protect his assets for the future benefit of his family. Most of the wealth declared in his will goes to his widow, Bridget, to whom he was married for 57 years, including his extensive art collection, a stud farm in Kimberley, and all his racehorse enterprises, along with properties, stocks and cash. A lifelong collector of art, Mr Oppenheimer is said by friends to have accumulated "the most fabulous collections of art and Africana," including the "most extraordinary collection of Thomas Baines originals." His horse-breeding business at Mauritzfontein, Kimberley, is said to be worth several million dollars. In addition to leaving no clues as to the whereabouts of the missing billions, Mr Oppenheimer's £30 million will, which is only provisional as the value of his estate is still being finalised, also makes no mention of his son, Nicholas, the chairman of De Beers, his daughter, Mary, his five grandchildren, and his two great-grandchildren. All are expected to benefit from the wealth tied up in the Harry Oppenheimer Family Trust. Attempts to minimise death duties through the use of trust funds are legal, but questions are bound to be asked about the ethical implications of South Africa's richest individual protecting his vast personal wealth from taxation in a country where millions of people live in grinding poverty and where the Government does not have the resources to improve their lot. Although Mr Oppenheimer was widely regarded as a great philanthropist, his business interests benefited considerably from the pool of cheap black labour provided under the former apartheid regime. Some critics have insisted that he did not do enough to bring that system down. They are now likely to be outraged that his personal fortune has been placed beyond the reach of the taxman too. Mr Oppenheimer inherited control of the family's already substantial mining empire from his father, Sir Ernest, in 1957, before transforming it into one of the world's greatest mining houses. Harry was born in England in 1908 into a middle-class family that later moved to South Africa. His father was Jewish, but the family converted to Anglicanism. Sir Ernest founded Anglo American - which was valued on the London Stock Exchange last year at £8.4 billion - in 1917 and became chairman of De Beers in 1929. The young Harry was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, and served a tough apprenticeship in the family business during the Depression, before becoming the driving force behind the expansion of the Oppenheimers' worldwide mining interests, which he ran from a small room on the first floor of Anglo American's Johannesburg offices. He was a quiet, polite, even bookish man, with a passion for the Romantic poets, especially Byron. During the 1980s he was credited with taking the initiative to promote negotiations with the banned African National Congress in an effort to bring an end to white minority rule. An avowed capitalist with a social conscience, Mr Oppenheimer played a leading role in ensuring that Anglo American and De Beers ploughed some of their profits back into the community for large-scale development projects. The family also contributes to charity through the E. Oppenheimer Foundation. Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, his successor as President of South Africa, paid tribute to Mr Oppenheimer after his death "for building the economy and creating employment for hundreds of thousands of South African citizens". Overseeing the multibillion-pound business interests has always rested firmly on the shoulders of the men in the family. Mr Oppenheimer's son took over the chairmanship of De Beers in 1998, becoming the third generation of Oppenheimers to run the company. Rumour has it that Nicholas's son, Jonathan, is being groomed to take over the family business. Surprisingly, not one of the seven Oppenheimer women has ever entered or shown any interest in taking over the reins of the dynasty. Mr Oppenheimer's daughter, Mary, who has been married and divorced three times, has gone out of her
[CTRL] Ha'aretz: IDF fears Arafat is pushing for full-scale regional war
-Caveat Lector- Ha'aretz: IDF fears Arafat is pushing for full-scale regional war By Amos Harel - Ha'aretz 20 October 2000 The defense establishment is becoming increasingly convinced that Yasser Arafat does not intend to return to the Oslo process. This leaves him with two choices: The first, and the one he apparently prefers at the minute, is controlled violence that will lead in the end to new diplomatic initiatives, but with increased international involvement. The second, which Arafat has not ruled out, is a full-scale regional war. The hope that Arafat would act forcefully to stop the violence has been revealed as delusional. The populace is pushing him to continue the "Al Aqsa Intifada." He has not yet sent a clear message of commitment to the Sharm understandings, contenting himself with anonymous and nonbinding statements through the Palestinian media. And serious incidents continue to occur. Furthermore, some of the most dangerous Hamas activists are still not back in Palestinian Authority prisons. IDF officers say that "lifting the closure on the territories at this point would be tantamount to madness," given the intelligence information regarding plans to carry out bomb attacks in major urban centers. Nor is it only Islamic radicals who pose a concern. According to the IDF, many of the latest incidents involved members of Mohammed Dahlan's preventive security apparatus, and both Dahlan and his counterpart in the West Bank, Jibril Rajoub, are still refusing to meet with Shin Bet security service chief Avi Dichter. In Arafat's preferred scenario, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would resemble Kosovo: increasing international involvement, foreign observers and troops, and finally an imposed settlement - which would be better for the Palestinians than what the Americans offered at Camp David. The minute parties other than the Americans are involved, Arafat profits. An Israeli mistake (bombing civilians, a massacre by settlers) or a new, more hesitant American administration would also help. And if Plan A does not achieve its goals, Arafat would still have the option of a regional conflict. His hope is that once the smoke clears, a Palestinian state will emerge, perhaps with better borders than Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton have offered him. In the meantime, there are several tactical junctures to be maneuvered. The first is this afternoon, when in Israel's view, the 48 hours allotted for implementing a cease-fire expire (in the Palestinian view, this deadline expired yesterday). Then comes the Arab League summit tomorrow. But the most important will come in the middle of next week, when Israel, finally convinced that Oslo, like Sharm, is a dead letter, will have to decide what to do. For the first time, it will have to consider taking the initiative, rather than merely responding to events. Despite differences of opinion within the general staff, most of the generals still favor restraint. But continued escalation by Arafat would change their mind. "We cannot become reconciled to a reality of daily attacks," said one. "A war of attrition is the worst scenario ... it would be better to sharpen [the conflict]." Against this background, a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state - probably sometime between the end of the Arab summit and November 15, which is Palestinian Independence Day - becomes more likely. Ironically, this would also have advantages for Israel: Israel would be seen as justified in taking steps to guarantee its own interests, such as separating more decisively from the Palestinians, seizing key positions, and even annexing part of Area C (that part of the territories still under full Israeli control). The most worrying scenario is a regional conflict. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been working for restraint, but Iraq, Iran and Hezbollah are working for war. Iraq has already moved a division toward the Jordan border and put its air force on higher alert - exhibitionist steps, but not meaningless - and Hezbollah will do its best to drag Syria into the conflict A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Standard Writing Rules for OBE English Students
-Caveat Lector- STANDARD WRITING RULES FOR ENGLISH STUDENTS FROM THE U.S. DEPTARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects. 2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. 3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. 4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. 5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.) 6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration. 7. Be more or less specific. 8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary. 9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies. 10. No sentence fragments. 11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used. 12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos. 13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous. 14. One should NEVER generalize. 15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches. 16. Don't use no double negatives. 17. Eschew ampersands abbreviations, etc. 18. One-word sentences? Eliminate. 19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake. 20. The passive voice is to be ignored. 21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas. 22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice. 23. Kill all exclamation points!!! 24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them. 25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas. 26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed. 27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." 28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole. Not one writer in a million can use it correctly. 29. Puns are for children, not groan readers. 30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms. 31. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed. 32. Who needs rhetorical questions? 33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. And finally... 34. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] They're killers. They're HIV-positive. And guess what?...
-Caveat Lector- They're killers. They're HIV-positive. And guess what?... By Thomas Allen Remember the "Lost Boys"? - the gang of child soldiers that the media discovered in the Sudan a couple of years ago? Well, they're coming here. All of them. As part of the refugee inflow authorized by the 1980 Refugee Act and set by the White House in consultation with Congress every year. And they're not all that's coming. Because HIV is so prevalent in Africa, the recent increase in the numbers of refugees from Africa will certainly cause a dramatic increase in AIDS cases in the U.S. The Clinton Administration's masterful response to this threat: it has lowered the bar for admission of HIV positive refugees. A senior Centers for Disease Control official says this was done specifically to allow more HIV positive refugees into the country. And guess who gets to pay for this... The number of African refugees admitted to the U.S. has tripled in the last 2 years, under pressure from the Congressional Black Caucus, the U.N., and various charities. Approximately 18,000 will be admitted as refugees from Africa in the year 2000. According to refugee officials, this number could double again in the next 2 years. All refugee flows - without exception - lead to expanded flows of non-refugee immigrants. The new arrivals simply petition for relatives to come join them in the U.S. under the out-of-control "family reunification" provisions of current immigration law. Similarly, illegal immigration and asylee flows always increase from countries that get refugees into the U.S. All refugees are entitled to welfare/Medicaid 30 days after arrival. Refugee dependence on welfare/Medicaid is staggering. Together with the direct costs of the refugee program, it costs at least $10 billion per year. In some African countries 1 out of 4 adults has HIV. Recently, I was told by two senior CDC officials that HIV screening for refugees and immigrants is not adequate - and this was before the Administration made admission easier for HIV positive individuals. (For comparison, TB screening is felt to be effective. But even with 'effective' TB screening, the foreign-born TB caseload has risen to 42% of total TB cases in the U.S. Individuals with serious diseases that cannot be treated at home, such as TB and HIV, regularly seek to immigrate to the U.S. to receive free medical care. CDC has reported on this phenomenon in its papers on TB and immigration - for example, CDC's Morbidity and Mortality weekly Report, Dec 28 1990, vol. 39, p. 8). Refugee flows and other forms of immigration from Africa could reach 60,000-75,000 a year within a few years. According to both a State Department official and a CDC official, "easily" more than 10% of refugees from many African countries will have HIV. The rate could be even higher. As a result of the refugee program and a poorly-functioning HIV screening system, the annual number of new HIV cases in the U.S. could be higher than the current rate of 40,000 new cases per year by as much as a fifth or more. October 10, 2000 http://www.vdare.com/hiv_africans.htm A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] shutting the internet down
-Caveat Lector- http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2713.html Meet Eater The FBI's Plan for Digital Wiretaps Raises More Questions Than It Answers By Robert X. Cringely There is this moment toward the otherwise forgettable end of "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" when this alien creature patterned after the Wizard of Oz has even Spock convinced that it is God with a capital "G." They are just about to fire-up the Enterprise and take "God" back to Earth when Kirk -- probably hoping to avoid the military protocol involved with having a deity on the bridge -- asks a pivotal question: Why would God need a starship? Couldn't God just blink and instantly be in Times Square looking up at the NASDAQ sign, wondering why they cut windows into a video screen? This scene of the skeptical Kirk flashed in my mind this week as I read about Carnivore, the FBI's system for reading the e-mail of bad guys. Carnivore is a sealed box that is installed at the network operations center of an Internet Service Provider. It filters packets, finds e-mail going to and from identified criminals, and saves that e-mail for later decryption and analysis. What bothers the Internet Service Providers is they have no control over the Carnivore box, and no way of protecting the privacy of all the customers who aren't drug lords or escaped felons. What bothers the American Civil Liberties Union is the likelihood that individuals will not only lose their right to privacy, but lose it in a new and insidious way. What bothers me is the damned box. Why would the FBI need a box? Here's all the FBI will say about Carnivore. It sits on the network at the ISP, is PC-based, is "a kind of a sniffer," identifies and saves packets associated with suspected criminals, is installed under a court order, and doesn't itself act as a decryption device. There are supposed to be around 20 Carnivore boxes, and they have been in use since early this year. You don't need a sealed box to do any of these tasks, most of which are already being done for completely legal reasons right inside the router at every ISP. Routers look at every packet, determine what type of packet it is, where it is coming from and where it is going to, then the router delivers the packet to its intended destination. This is what routers do. Adding the Carnivore task is a simple matter of blind copying every packet to or from a bad guy to a third address at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. It's at most a few lines of code and requires no additional hardware. So why the box? The probable reason is because cops like to be in control. They LIKE boxes, like delivering them in unmarked cars, like the satisfying click of the RJ-45 connector as it slides home. Maybe they don't know that it could all be done without a box. Heck, it IS being done without a box all the time, and that's where the ACLU is missing the point. Sniffers have been running on networks ever since Harry Saal invented the device. Every packet at every ISP already goes through a sniffer at least part of the time. An ISP could do at any time what we fear the FBI might do with Carnivore read the e-mail and follow the surfing habits of every pretty blonde customer. Good ISPs, which is to say nearly all ISPs don't do this, of course, but it happens. So why doesn't the FBI just get a court order making the ISP do the dirty work? That's what the ISPs wonder, too, especially since that's how phone taps are handled. Cops don't really climb poles and attach alligator clips to hear phone calls. That's all done at the central office by telephone company technicians. The FBI, through the use of Carnivore, is trying to grab a little more power. And by doing it themselves with Carnivore, the FBI doesn't have to reveal the identity of the bad guy or extent to which it is using the box. Yeah, right. But wait, it gets worse. There are aspects of this case that the ACLU hasn't even considered. The Carnivore boxes are what's called "co-located" at the ISP. This isn't a rare thing. Many organizations like to control their own Web or mail servers and so co-locate them at an ISP. Colocation puts your server closer to the Internet backbone, eliminates typical T-1 line costs, allows the ISP to monitor and reboot the server, and usually comes with nifty things like redundant backbone connections and diesel generators in case the power goes out. Companies in the co-location business include well-known names like ATT, IBM, and Intel. So there are tens of thousands -- maybe hundreds of thousands -- of computers already installed just like the FBI installs its Carnivore boxes. What keeps those co-located computers from being sniffers, too? Nothing at all. For $300 per month, you too could install your own Carnivore box at the ISP of your choice. Co-location facilities don't really care what you do with your co-located server
[CTRL] Undisclosed Gay Greeks
-Caveat Lector- Undisclosed Gay Greeks by Paul Gottfried On September 23, we are told about a sign of change that the New York Times obviously approves of. The editors of the Loeb Greek and Latin classics (published at Harvard) are now offering translations of ancient authors that do justice to their homoerotic interests. Though the account makes it appear that the new enlightened editors are at last honoring James Loeb, the founder and patron of the series who had no use for "bowdlerized" translations, these comments are both vacuous and hypocritical. The media and the filmmakers doctor reality incessantly to make it fit their escalating ideological agenda. Thus in films we hardly ever see blacks committing violent crimes in inner cities, while media reports of black and Hispanic riots typically attribute them to economic oppression and white racism. Note also the cloying way homosexual activists are presented in the Times, unlike such predictable heavies as (non-leftist) Southern whites, non-media big business, and Christian traditionalists. If disclosing the full truth is what the past Loeb editors failed to do, their sins fall far short of those committed by our national press, including the Times. The two ancient authors mentioned in the news item whose homoerotic interests had been allegedly hidden by prudish or mendacious translators, Aristophanes and Plato, are bad illustrations for a questionable argument. Aristophanes, in his plays, reported the "bawdy" humor surrounding Athenian pedophiles, but it is doubtful this playwright had any sympathy for the libertines featured or ridiculed in his work. A critic of Socrates, whom he thought was corrupting Athenss youth, Aristophanes detested non-traditional morals and beliefs and never, as far as I know, treated homoeroticism in a favorable light. Moreover, Plato was so critical of homosexual acts that he made them a capital offense in The Laws. Though the accuracy of this harsh judgment has been subject to dispute by politically correct classicists, most famously Martha Nussbaum, it is hard to read the disputed text without agreeing with the established translation. When the Eleatic Stranger, who leads the conversation, concludes that homosexuality is para phusin, he does mean what he says, that the act is "against Nature." Platos Symposium is another case in point, a now misrepresented text that offers negative judgments about homoerotic relations. Here the future political adventurer and self-absorbed pedophile Alcibiades recalls a night spent sleeping next to Socrates. This deeply ascetic teacher resisted his advances and acted in such a manner as would "befit a father or older brother." Alcibiades and the other former symposiasts testify to Socratess efforts to contrast homoerotic passions to the yearning for a "higher beauty" that is spiritual. If gay activists and their media boosters are looking for a usable past, they might try such plausible candidates as Ernst Roehms Brown Shirts. On the other hand, misrepresenting the intentions of respected ancient authors does have its propagandistic advantage, especially if scholars can be browbeaten or rewarded into going along. October 4, 2000 Paul Gottfried is professor of history at Elizabethtown College and author, most recently, of the highly recommended After Liberalism. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] stop giving HIV
-Caveat Lector- http://www.africasia.com/ http://www.africasia.com/ New Africa Visit this site SEPT 2000 COVER STORY Aids: Judgement day on the 13th Pusch Commey, reports from Durban, on the good, the bad and the shananagians at the recent 13th International Aids Conference held in that city. Something is killing Africa and the world. What it is, nobody is sure. But for now the medical establishment believes it is HIV. Based on this premise, 12,400 delegates and over 1,500 journalists congregated at the Durban International Convention Centre for the 13th International Aids conference (9-14 July) to debate and compare notes on the most insidious scourge in modern times. These were bad times to be a youth. But all was not solidarity. The run up to the conference itself was characterised by an unrelenting media assault on the person of President Thabo Mbeki. He was variously described as irresponsible, grossly negligent and genocidal. Most thought he had lost his marbles. Columnists suggested that it is perhaps his final solution to the high incidence of poverty and unemployment. His mortal sin was to have exercised his right to the freedom of expression and enquiry that all Western constitutions hold so dear. He had dared question the unquestionable: the inconclusive theory that Aids is solely caused by a virus called HIV. He had dared to threaten the very foundation upon which is built a huge Aids edifice that feeds on the virus. Pharmaceutical companies, Aids researchers, the medical establishment, microbiologists, NGOs, entrepreneurs, you name it. And which replicates as fast as the virus itself as sufficient panic is created to force governments and institutions to fork out more and more cash. The potential catastrophe has been variously described as akin to a nuclear war that will decimate economies and societies, and leave ghost countries or maybe continents in its wake; Africa being the usual suspect. Durban, the current "epicentre" of the invincible virus, was chosen as the venue of the counter-attack primarily for this reason. So far the body count, according to UNAIDS, is 33 million infected worldwide by the end of 1999, 18 million already dead. Africa's share was 24 million infections. South Africa reportedly has the highest number of people living with the virus - 4.2 million. And its neighbour, Botswana, is said to be the worst afflicted, with about 36% of its adult population between the ages of 15 and 49 affected. Delegates echoed a modern day black plague revisited on blacks. They largely blamed African sexuality and gross negligence. It was time to fight back and one huge banner on the highway lamented: "The future is not what it used to be". Alternative views not welcome Break the silence was the chosen theme, partly meant to highlight the "criminal negligence" of governments said to have buried their heads in the sand while the epidemic raged. More importantly it was meant to bring the issue of Aids out into the open. Ironically, this invitation to transparency did not extend to anybody with a view contrary to the official one - that "HIV is the sole cause of Aids". Chairman Mao would have been proud of this huge conspiracy to silence dissenting voices. Legal threats to President Mbeki and a threatened boycott of the conference by anti-Mbeki elements failed to materialise. Delegates came from over 200 countries and paid $800 each for the privilege to attend. For the duration of the conference, the official website (www.aids2000.co.za) recorded 1.4m hits, with promises of a bigger turnout at the next conference in Barcelona, Spain, in 2002. Before the commencement, an agenda had already been set with the "Durban Declaration"; a scroll-like document in the form of the Ten Commandments tablet signed by 5,000 medical practitioners declaring HIV to be the sole cause of Aids. In another manoeuvre, the German drug company, Boehringer Ingelheim, manufacturers of Viramune (also known as Nevirapine) and a major sponsor of the conference, announced without informing the Mbeki government, that it would offer its drug free for five years to prevent South African babies born to HIV-positive mothers being infected. Preceding that, the South African government had come under intense fire from the press for failing to provide pregnant HIV-positive mothers with drugs that would reduce transmission risks, saying they were too expensive and toxic. Boehringer's move, the detail of which was uncertain, was cautiously welcomed by UNAIDS. At best, it was a tactical manoeuvre as well as a Greek gift meant to undermine the Mbeki government's position on anti-retroviral drugs. The big Western drug companies had made major contributions to the sponsorship of the conference and expected returns on their investments. But what drew a lot of interest was the sex workers stand which reported an unprecedented boom
[CTRL] international media inrael
-Caveat Lector- Subject: Please forward this to anyone you know. It exposes the international media Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:43:34 +0200 You need to look at the picture before you read this! Subject: To the Editor Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 00:15:07 -0500 From: aaronnoach mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is actually my son , Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while travelling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were severely beaten and stabbed. That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob. Aaron Grossman, M.D. 6737 N Richmond Chicago, IL 60645 (773) 743-1194 Subject: (no subject) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:54:39 EDT From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Editor, Even the typically biased and slanted NY Times middle east reporting has hit a new low. Since the Times wishes to convey the belief that the Palestinians are all innocent lambs being tormented by an aggressive oppressor, it can not even conceive that the wounded and injured are NOT Palestinians. The current case in point is very personal to me. In the Saturday's Times on page A6, the picture of the "wounded Palestinian" is, in fact, my nephew, Tuvia Grossman, an AMERICAN Jewish student learning in Israel. His only crime was being Jewish. He was not in "crossfire" but merely the target of Palestinian lambs who stoned his cab, dragged him from the vehicle, smashed his head with stones and stabbed him in the leg. The Israeli soldier, whom you obviously wished to portray as victimizing the poor, wounded Palestinian was actually saving my nephew's life. A casual look at the background of the picture can tell anyone that it's not the Temple Mount at all. I believe that a retraction, in a prominent position in the paper, is neccessary and an apology to the parents, forthcoming. Howard Gissinger 2809 Avenue S Brooklyn, New York 11229 718-998-2909 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Is Kevin MacDonald a Scholar?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/salter.htm Is Kevin MacDonald a Scholar? Essay/Review Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements By Kevin MacDonald, Department of Psychology, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840-0901 USA. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998. Reviewed by Frank Salter, Max Planck Institute, Andechs, Germany Human Ethology Bulletin, September 2000 Most readers of this Bulletin will be aware of the controversy that embroiled ISHE member Kevin MacDonald at the recent annual meeting of our kindred organization, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES). At a special session MacDonald was charged with anti-Semitism and his scientific standing questioned. Any review must now be counted as contributing to that controversy since it bears on MacDonald's status as a scholar and evolutionary psychologist. With this in mind I decided to combine the book review with a description of the recent controversy concerning The Culture of Critique among human evolutionists. I shall be arguing that much of the criticism of MacDonald is founded on ignorance of his scholarship and a confounding of political and scientific issues. Charges of anti-Semitism, political motivation, and shoddy scholarship are clearly plausible to many colleagues. The broad political Left, which constitutes the academic establishment since at least the 1960s, views interest in evolutionary accounts of human nature, and even claiming that such a thing exists, as tantamount to fascism (Singer 1998). This prejudice was directed at the pioneers of the evolutionary approach both in the U.S. and overseas, such as the late Bill Hamilton, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Napoleon Chagnon, and many others. The new leaders of America's evolutionary scene have been at pains to dispell this image. The name of a leading journal, Ethology Sociobiology, was changed to an anodyne substitute, and an emphasis was maintained on cross-cultural universals at the expense of human biodiversity. Individual and group differences apart from age and sex are still largely ignored, with race and ethnicity conspicuous by their near absence from America's leading evolutionary academic journals-Evolution and Human Behavior (the HBES home journal), Human Nature, and Politics and the Life Sciences. Given such a defensive posture it is little wonder that a long, cold inspection of Judaism should raise a storm. What is one to make of a scholar who: (1) like so many anti-Semites takes pains to show the great overrepresentation of Jews in radical political movements such as post-WWI Bolshevism in Russia and Central Europe, the Communist Party of America, and the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s (including the claim that in 1928 Jews were 1000% overrepresented among socialist Reichstag deputies); (2) who revives the old Nazi canard about Freud by alleging that he was a Jewish activist nurturing hatred of "Aryan" Europe, leading an essentially Jewish cabal of psychoanalysts intent on subverting Christian sexual standards; (3) who portrays Jensen's hereditarian theory of IQ as mainstream; (4) who maintains that on average Jews constitute a quarter of America's elites and draws attention to 58% representations in the senior ranks of Hollywood (which it "dominates"), 50% of network television producers, and 40% of elite university law faculty; (5) who maintains that since the mid 1960s the media elite has pursued a leftist agenda that includes promoting racial integration through school busing; (6) who goes so far as to question the appropriateness of large Jewish over-representation in a democratic elite; (7) who suggests that European-Jewish intellectual prominence is genetically based and the result of eugenic processes within traditional Jewish communities; (8) who argues that Jewish intellectuals such as Franz Boas, Felix Frankfurter, Harold Laski, Max Lerner, Morris Cohen, and Robert Merton, accelerated the "deChristianization" of America's public life by selectively promoting as cultural heroes Gentiles who advanced their goals, such as Margaret Mead, John Dewey, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes; (9) who agrees with T. S. Eliot's most famous anti-Semitic statement, that any large number of free-thinking Jews is undesirable if one wants to maintain or develop a society in which a Christian, ethnically homogeneous tradition can flourish. Surely it is reasonable to be outraged at such a person being associated with a respectable academic association? Well, not if that person is Stanley Rothman, Mary Huiggins Gamble Professor of Government at Smith College, New York, who makes the first six of these points and is a recent member the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (1974; 1978; Rothman Lichter 1996/1982; Rothman Snyderman 1988; Lerner et al. 1996; Lichter et al. 1986); or Prof. Arno Motulsky,
[CTRL] Who Was Jesus?--A Roman Agent?
-Caveat Lector- (http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm) Who Was Jesus? The Bible gave a warning about a dangerous, false prophet who would arise to test our faith in G-d. In Deuteronomy 13, G-d describes this false prophet as a member of the Jewish people (v. 2, 7) who would tell true prophecies and would have the power of miracles. G-d Himself would give this false prophet the power to perform miracles and reveal prophecy, but the false prophet would try to seduce the people away from G-d's Law and towards strange gods unknown to Judaism. The purpose would be to test whether we are truly committed to living under the Law, or whether we will be dazzled and fall for the temptation to join a false path to salvation (v. 3-6, 7-8, 11). In this Biblical passage, G-d repeatedly commands the Jews to kill this false prophet, lest the evil spread and destroy many souls. To be accepted by the people, the false prophet would sometimes pretend to be a righteous Jew who fulfills the Law, but at key moments he would turn against certain details of the Law in order to make the breach (v. 6, 7). This is the reason that verse 1 commands us not to add or subtract any details from the Law, and verse 5 warns us to remain steadfast with all the traditions of the Law. In Deuteronomy 17, this false prophet is also described as someone who would rebel against the authority of the judges of the Jewish people, and who should be put to death for his rebelliousness (v. 8-13, esp. v. 12). Who are the judges? The highest court in Israel was the Sanhedrin, which was established by Moses (Exodus 18:13-26; Numbers 11:16-29), and which lasted more than 15 centuries. The members of the Sanhedrin were the rabbis known as "Pharisees" (Pirushim, "those with the explanation"). G-d gave permanent authority to these judges to interpret the Law and G-d's Word, and it is a commandment to follow their decisions without turning even slightly to the right or the left (Deut. 17:11). But the false prophet would challenge the authority of the Sanhedrin, thus revealing himself to be an evil man. In the book of the prophet Daniel, this false prophet is described as a king (the eleventh horn on a terrible beast) who would wage war against the Jews (the "holy ones"; see Deut. 14:2 on this term) and would change the Law including the calendar and the holidays (Daniel 7:8, 20-25). Elsewhere, this false prophet is described as a king who would disregard the G-d of his fathers, exalting himself as a god and giving honor to this new god-head (Daniel 11:36-39). The man known today as "Jesus" fulfilled all these prophecies. He became a "king" (over the Christian church) who changed the original Law, doing away with the Hebrew calendar and the Biblical holidays (Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos the Festival of Tabernacles, Passover, etc.). He disregarded the one, infinite G-d of the Hebrew Bible in favor of a new "trinity" that included himself. And he repeatedly broke the Law by committing terrible sins, while openly challenging the G-d-given authority of the rabbis of the Sanhedrin. Naturally, Jesus did sometimes pretend to respect the Law, but whenever he thought he could get away with it, he turned right around and broke that same Law. In Matthew 5:17-19, he declared that he came to fulfill the Law, and in Matthew 23:1-3 he defended the authority of the rabbis. But the rest of the time, he rebelled against the Law thus showing that his occasional words of piety were meant only to hide his evil agenda. The following sins of Jesus are recorded in the "New Testament": 1) Jesus repudiated the laws of kosher food (Mark 7:18-19). [Compare this to the prophet Daniel's strict adherence to kashrus, in Daniel chapter 1.] 2) He repudiated the laws of honoring one's parents, and called on his followers to hate their parents; he also dishonored his own mother (Matthew 10:34-36; Matthew 12:46-50; Luke 14:26). 3) He violated the Sabbath by picking grain, and incited his disciples to do the same (Matthew 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-26). 4) He again violated the Sabbath by healing a man's arm, which was not a matter of saving a life, and he openly defied the rabbis in his total repudiation of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:9-13; Mark 3:1-5). [Compare this to G-d's view of violating the Sabbath, in Numbers 15:32-36, Nehemiah 10:30-32, and dozens of other places throughout the Bible.] 5) Jesus brazenly defied and disobeyed the rabbis of the Sanhedrin, repudiating their authority (This is recorded in many places throughout the New Testament, but look especially at Matthew 23:13-39 and John 8:44-45). The Talmud (Babylonian edition) records other sins of "Jesus the Nazarene": 1) He and his disciples practiced sorcery and black magic, led Jews astray into idolatry, and were sponsored by foreign, gentile powers for the purpose of subverting Jewish worship (Sanhedrin 43a). 2) He was sexually immoral, worshipped statues of stone (a brick is mentioned), was cut off from the Jewish
[CTRL] Present Israeli troubles
-Caveat Lector- Sent: 02 October 2000 12:32 Subject: The Martyrdom of Joseph The Martyrdom of Joseph On Rosh Hashana, Madhat Yusef became a martyr of the Oslo "peace process" and of the policies of the Israel government of Ehud Barak. Madhat was a nineteen year old Druse soldier serving in Israel's border patrol. He was murdered by PLO bullets, but allowed to bleed to death by the government of Israel. Like many in his Druse town of Beit Jan, Madhat served in the same border patrol in which his father had previously served his country for 25 years. And like American Jews who work on Christmas Day to allow their countrymen to celebrate their holidays, Madhat was doing guard duty at Joseph's Shrine in Nablus/Shechem on the Jewish New Year when he was murdered by PLO stormtroopers sent out by Yassir Arafat. Jospeh's Tomb is a shrine in the center of Nablus. The town lies between the Mountain of Blessings from the Bible, Mount Grizim, and the Mountain of Curses. In the Bible the Israelites are evenly divided between the two mountains by Moses so that future Jew will feel that he is in the center between the two, that the fate of the entire nation is in the balance and depends on his behavior and actions. In the middle, between the two mountains, is the shrine where the bones of Joseph lie, carried to the Promised Land by the Israelites according to Joseph's last will and testament. In this glen, Ehud Barak tipped the balance on Rosh Hashana toward cowardice and national suicide. According to the Oslo Accords (the formal written ones, not the de facto ones where Israel makes endless appeasements for peace and the PLO wages war) it is agreed that Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, like Rachael's Tomb near Bethlehem, should remain in Israeli control and under Israeli sovereignty. The PLO pledges freedom of access and respect for Jewish religious shrines. In reality, Joseph's Tomb has become a sort of Jewish Alamo. It is the scene of daily violence by the PLO. Jews take their lives in the hands to go there. A handful of courageous yeshiva students stay there, guarded by some soldiers and border patrolmen. The students have refused to listen to Israel's Lobotomized Left, urging that they abandon Joseph's Tomb in order to avoid "provoking" the poor Palestinians with their presence. The students live under permanent siege, and PLO "police" routinely attack people trying to enter or leave the shrine. Things are not much better at Rachael's shrine. It is all an indicator of what Jews can expect to happen at the Western Wall if Israel's Left ever has its way and the Old City of Jerusalem is handed over to the PLO. For years the PLO has sought to ruin Jewish holidays with violence. Two years ago Arafat decided to send the Jews a Succos holiday greeting in the form of a pogrom, launched after Israel had decided to allow Jews to visit an old Maccabee Tunnel near but not under the Temple Mount. Arafat fabricated a story of how the Jews were endangering the Al-Aqsa Mosque and polluting it with their proximity, and ordered his stormtroopers to open fire. Purim has for years been the season for Arab atrocities, including bombings. And this year Arafat decided to order pogroms on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. It was all a part of the "Al-Aqsa intifada" as it was officially named by Arafat. For years we have been saying in this corner that the entire Oslo "peace process" will produce, instead of peace, nothing but the metastasis of violence from the "territories" into pre-1967 Israel, where Israeli Arabs will be radicalized, nazified, and will turn to terrorism. The Rosh Hashana pogrom proved how correct this prognosis is. The official excuse for the pogrom was that Likud leader Arik Sharon had gone for a walk on the Temple Mount, where the two Temples of the Biblical era once stood. Jews are allowed to visit the Mount as tourists. They are not allowed to pray there and even silent lip-movement by a Jew can get him arrested. There was not a serious danger that Sharon was about to pray there, as it is doubtful he knows how. The control over the Temple Mount had been turned over to the PLO at the start of Oslo. Even before that the pathetic government of Yitzhak Shamir had ordered that all Israeli flags be removed from the vicinity of the Mount to avoid offending Moslem hypersensitivities. The Mount is de facto under PLO sovereignty and flies the PLO flag. At Camp David, Barak had offered formally to recognize PLO sovereignty over the Temple Mount along with turning over nearly the entire West Bank to the PLO Reichlet. But Barak had balked at handing Arafat the rest of the Old City of Jerusalem, which the PLO is demanding. As a result, Arafat was looking for an excuse to launch pogroms. He has been taught in Pavlovian manner over the past decade that the best way to get concessions from Israel is through violence. On Friday, Erev Rosh Hashana, the PLO-paid and PLO-appointed preachers of
[CTRL] The tyranny within
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/commentary-200092918712.htm THE WASHINGTON TIMES September 29, 2000 The tyranny within Paul Craig Roberts Tyranny is creeping up on us. If you don't believe it, consider the most prominent hallmarks of the Nazi and communist regimes, which sought to supplant democracy in the 20th century. In National Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union, there were no First Amendment rights. No one could voice an opinion contrary to the politically correct views enforced by the Gestapo and the KGB. Media and education were used to instill politically correct thinking and bring denunciation upon anyone who departed from politically correct thinking. This is precisely the situation that exists today in the vast majority of American colleges and universities. Verbal and facial expressions that are contrary to political correctness result in sensitivity training (a form of brainwashing) or expulsion for the offender, who may have done nothing more than laugh. If the source of mirth is an ethnic joke, a blonde joke or a hilarious claim by a multiculturalist, the hapless offender discovers that his constitutional protections do not exist. In Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, there were victim groups that were championed and oppressor groups that were suppressed. In Germany, the "victims" were Aryans, who were said to be under the financial hegemony of Jews. In the Soviet Union, the hegemonic group was the bourgeoisie, who allegedly held sway over an oppressed proletariat. In both countries, victims were permitted to exercise violent language and actions against oppressors. In the United States today, white heterosexual able-bodied males constitute the hegemonic group. Everyone else is a member of a victim group. In Germany and the Soviet Union, the abstract and imaginary group roles of oppressor and victim were given a frightful reality by ideologues. Race and class categories became the basis for discrimination and new legal systems that favored victims' groups with preferences. On American campuses, multicultural ideology has revived the concepts of race and class oppression, and added new ones based on gender and sexual orientation. Men oppress women, and heterosexuals oppress homosexuals. According to multiculturalists, our culture and values reflect nothing but the arbitrary domination of society by white heterosexual males. University of Pennsylvania professor Alan Kors says that, thanks to multiculturalism, "half a century after the defeat of Nazism, we distinguish by blood and we equate blood with culture." We now think like Nazis and explain our society and culture in terms of race (and gender) hegemony. Tyrannical states attack the family. Both the Nazis and communists are infamous for state intrusions in family affairs. In the United States, similar bureaucratic and political intrusions come from family courts. Most Americans are unaware of the existence of these relatively new "courts." Howard University Professor Stephen Baskerville is the leading authority on these courts. He says family courts are "the most dangerous institution posing a threat to constitutional rights in our society. The only parallels are the ideological-bureaucratic dictatorships of the last century." Family courts claim immunity from the Constitution and from scrutiny by federal courts. Mr. Baskerville describes them as follows: "Their proceedings are secret and unrecorded. Their orders are enforced by bureaucratic police who do not wear uniforms and whose sole responsibility is to conduct surveillance over families and private lives. As such, these police are akin to secret police. By the very nature of their jurisdiction, these courts and police are the most intrusive and invasive arm of government, and yet they are accountable to virtually no one. Such an institution is intolerable in a free society." Recently a family court judge ordered the parents of a 7-year-old boy in Berne, N.Y., to put their child on Ritalin, a behavior-control drug. The alternative was to be found guilty of "educational neglect," an offense that would open the possibility of their child being seized by Child Protective Services a Hillary Clinton "village" institution straight from the pages of the Gestapo. The child suffered serious side effects from the drug, but parents no longer have the right to decide what is best for their children. Tyrannical states assault the individual in the inner recesses of his consciousness. He is not permitted to think certain thoughts or to express a prohibited thought privately to anyone. Recently, Janice Barton encountered a Spanish-speaking couple while leaving a restaurant in Manistee, Mich. She turned to her mother and said, "I wish these [ethnic slur] would learn to speak English." An off-duty deputy sheriff overheard the private remark, followed the woman to her car and noted her tag number. Janice
[CTRL] More on smear in anthropology
-Caveat Lector- Copied from another list: This is an open email from Dr. Samuel Katz, sent to numerous individuals, including the original recipients of the Turner/Sponsel email: Because I was the co-developer (with John F. Enders, Nobel laureate) of measles vaccine, I have been the recipient over the past 10 days of numerous phone calls and e-mails regarding the Yanomami and Patrick Tierney's accusations (Darkness in El Dorado). I am neither an anthropologist nor a geneticist. I am a pediatrician-vaccinologist who has spent the past 44 years in studies of various vaccines, especially measles. Among the materials sent me is a memo (undated) from Terry Turner and Leslie Sponsel to Louise Lamphere and Don Brenneis. Their comments regarding Neel's use of measles vaccine are totally incorrect. Edmonston B vaccine which Neel administered at a time when an epidemic of measles was already underway (Amer J Epidemiology, 1970, 91:418-429, Neel et al) was a scientifically established and proven method of attempting to interrupt an outbreak. Nearly 19 million infants and children between 1963 and 1975 in the US and internationally received this licensed (by FDA) vaccine with or without immune globulin. Vaccine virus has never been transmitted to susceptible contacts and cannot cause measles even in intimate contacts. Drs. Turner's and Sponsel's memo indulges in hyperbole as well as errors ("virulent vaccine", "counterindicated by medical experts", "greatly exacerbated and probably started the epidemic of measles", etc.). Who are the unnamed "medical experts" they cite? Once again, I cannot comment on Neel's style, goals or objectives, but the use of Edmonston B vaccine in an attempt to halt an epidemic was a justifiable, proven and valid approach. In no way could it initiate or exacerbate an epidemic. Continued circulation of these charges is not only unwarranted, but truly egregious. Yours very truly, Samuel L. Katz, MD Wilburt C. Davison Professor Chairman Emeritus Department of Pediatrics SLK/bc A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] The professor of lies
-Caveat Lector- THE TRUTH AND EDWARD SAID By Jeff Jacoby September 28, 2000 Edward Said, the world's most renowned Palestinian intellectual, was exposed as a fraud last summer. The experience apparently taught him nothing. For decades Said had passed himself off as an exile-an Arab born and raised in Jerusalem only to be driven out by the Jews in the runup to the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. He had told the story often, lacing his narrative with poignant detail. "I feel even more depressed," he reminisced in March 1998, "when I remember my beautiful old house surrounded by pine and orange trees in Al-Talbiyeh in east Jerusalem." In a BBC documentary he recalled his years at St. George's, an Anglican prep school in Jerusalem; he and a boy named David Ezra, Said recollected, used to sit together in the back of the classroom. He told another interviewer in 1997 that he could still identify the rooms in his family's former house "where as a boy he read 'Sherlock Holmes' and 'Tarzan,' and where he and his mother read Shakespeare to each other." All this was lost when his family fled from Talbiyeh in December 1947, driven out, as he explained, by the "Jewish-forces sound truck [that] warned Arabs to leave the neighborhood." But as Justus Reid Weiner showed in Commentary, the influential journal of opinion, Said's tragic tale was largely a fabrication. The Saids, it turned out, had lived in Egypt, not Palestine. Edward Said grew up and went to school in a posh neighborhood in Cairo, where his father had a thriving business. Now and then the family would visit cousins in Jerusalem; Edward was born during one such visit in 1935. But on his birth certificate, the Saids' place of residence was listed as Cairo; the space for indicating a local address in Palestine was left blank. Weiner looked into the expulsion of Talbiyeh's Arabs in 1947. It never happened. He checked the student registries at St. George's. There was no mention of Edward Said. He even interviewed David Ezra, the student with whom Said sat in the back of the room. Because of his bad eyesight, Ezra told Weiner, he had always sat up front. Said occupies a lofty perch in the world of letters: He holds an endowed chair in English and literature at Columbia University, he is a highly sought-after lecturer, and he has served, at various times, as president of the Modern Language Association, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. But he is known above all as a zealous champion of the Palestinian cause. For many years he sat on the Palestine National Council, the PLO's "parliament in exile," and was a close advisor to Yasser Arafat. He has savaged Israel and pressed the Palestinians' case in every forum imaginable, from op-ed columns to radio broadcasts to congressional testimony. And his words were accorded great moral force, for wasn't Said himself a victim of Zionist usurpation? Hadn't he himself suffered displacement and exile? When the world learned that he wasn't and he hadn't, his moral authority shriveled. It was as if, one observer put it, "we found out that Elie Wiesel spent the war in Geneva, not Auschwitz." One might have thought that the embarrassment of it all would convince Said to stop lying about himself. And yet his fabrications continue. During a visit to Lebanon in July, Said was seen hurling rocks over the border into Israel. Throwing stones at Israelis has been a popular pastime among Arab tourists in southern Lebanon ever since Israel withdrew in May. This stoning has drawn little international attention, even though several Israelis have been wounded, some permanently. But when Agence France Press released a photo of the world's most famous Palestinian intellectual joining in the violence, it made the papers everywhere. Said was sharply condemned, even in quarters where he is normally only praised. The Beirut Daily Star was appalled that a man "who has labored . . . to dispel stereotypes about Arabs being 'violent'" would let himself "be swayed by a crowd into picking up a stone and lofting it across the international border." On Said's own campus, the Columbia Daily Spectator blasted his "hypocritical violent action" as "alien to this or any other institution of learning." His response was to shrug off the incident as merely "a symbolic gesture of joy"-and to lie. His rock, he said, had been "tossed into an empty place." Witnesses told a different story. London's Daily Telegraph reported that Said "stood less than 10 yards from Israeli soldiers in a two-story, blue-and-white watchtower from which flew five Israeli flags." As for the damning AFP photograph, Said professed surprise: "I had no idea that media people were there, or that I was the object of attention." But AFP had a very different explanation-as two Columbia professors, Awi Federgruen and Robert Pollack, found out when they contacted the press agency. What they learned, they wrote in the Spectator, was
[CTRL] more slaves in the world today than at any time in history
-Caveat Lector- THE GUARDIAN Children in chains There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. And tonight, a shocking new documentary reveals the sheer scale of the horror. Mark Morris talked to the film-makers about their fight to reveal the truth Mark Morris Guardian Thursday September 28, 2000 Brian Woods has a single statistic to explain why people should watch Slavery (tonight, Channel 4). "I don't think that anyone who is told that there is more slavery on earth today than there has been in human history can fail to be astonished and appalled by the fact." Sure, there is a flip response available to the terminally cynical: since there are many more people alive now than there have been, there are more people than ever in most categories. But that kind of answer crumbles when you see the film. Full text: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4069079,00.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Soros demands more help for the beleaguered euro
-Caveat Lector- - he almost single handedly caused the eruption of the South east asian regional countries. No wonder he wants to see the euro propped up as he can then speculate against it and make zillions more. Sunday Telegraph ISSUE 1948 Sunday 24 September 2000 Soros demands more help for the beleaguered euro By Richard Fletcher GEORGE SOROS, the international financier who forced Britain out of the exchange rate mechanism in 1992, yesterday called for further financial intervention from the world's leading central banks to protect the sinking euro. Soros was speaking on the fringes of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Prague where finance ministers and central bankers are meeting this weekend to discuss worries over world oil prices and assess the climate in currency markets. The meeting follows last Friday's massive moves by the US Federal Reserve and other central banks to defend the euro. Soros said more action is needed to have any lasting effect. Soros said: "This intervention by itself is not enough to turn the market." The central banks of Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the US spent between $5bn and $8bn propping up the battered euro on Friday. The intervention came just one week before a referendum in Denmark on whether the country should join European Monetary Union. [Ed: Why aren't we told exact figures? - nor who actually finances this - the banks or the tax-payers]. Soros, renowned for his speculation in the currency markets during the 1990's praised the intervention. He said: "It was a much needed move and it was very well done because it caught the market by surprise. I think it will be successful. All the preconditions for success are there." [Ed: Success for who?] Soros argued that the official aim should be to get the euro up to $0.90 which he said "was a sound and defensible level". The single European currency briefly rose above $0.90 on Friday after the intervention took the market by surprise but it had retreated to $0.877 by the time the US markets closed. Meanwhile a spokeswoman for the German finance ministry claimed that the seven finance ministers had reached an interim deal on how to react to the recent sharp rise in crude oil prices. She said: "It was agreed that tax cuts are not the right way to react to oil prices, rather that on the one hand oil producing states must be urged to increase productive capacity and on the other hand to arrive at a more efficient use of energy." Yesterday Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, announced a boost in tax deductions for commuters hit by the higher cost of petrol and compensation payments for the less well-off, to help with the rise in heating oil prices. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Corporate giants now enforce thought control
-Caveat Lector- SAMUEL FRANCIS Corporate giants now enforce thought control September 22, 2000 One of the distinguishing characteristics of a totalitarian system is that not only does the state impose an official ideology throughout society but so do other institutions as well. The "totality" at which the regime aims means that every sector of the society -- the economy and social and cultural institutions as well as government -- tries to make certain that no one and no thing deviates from the pattern of thought and behavior being imposed. In the New Order now being constructed in this country and most of the world, Thought Control is enforced not just by the state ("hate crime" laws, public education and selective condemnation of dissident ideas) but also by the mammoth corporations of the "global economy." Here are several examples of how it's being done. When the Supreme Court ruled recently that the Boy Scouts of America are not required to admit homosexuals as members or hire homosexual scoutmasters, both local governments and "private" corporations immediately started retaliating by cutting off grants and access to important facilities. Several cities denied the Scouts use of parks and other public services, while Chase Manhattan Bank and Textron Corporation "have withdrawn hundreds of thousands of dollars in support to local and national scouting groups nationwide," as the New York Times reported last month. The rationale for this kind of ideological disciplining is, of course, "diversity," in the Orwellian language of Thought Control. "Their [the Scouts'] position," a Chase spokesman says, "is, on the face of it, in conflict with our commitment and our values on diversity." Chase's commitment to diversity apparently does not extend to respecting the Scouts' different views of homosexuality. That's why it's Orwellian. Go into a Barnes and Noble book store these days and you'll discover even more diversity. The giant book chain, which contributes to diversity by driving out of business smaller book stores across the country, now greets customers with a display entitled "Close the Book on Hate." The display is part of a joint project of Barnes and Noble and the Anti-Defamation League, which "have come together to help children better understand the richness and beauty of our multicultural society." That's sweet -- except that the project assumes that anyone who disagrees with multiculturalism and its agenda of subverting distinctively Western values and institutions is imbued with "hate" and "intolerance." "Intolerance," the display piously instructs us, "isn't something children are born with. It's learned. Therefore, it can be unlearned." The way to "unlearn" it, of course, is to buy the books on the display table, which would just happen to be profitable for Barnes and Noble. Most of the books seem innocuous enough, mainly a lot of drippy moralism about the "Holocaust" and several kiddies' books containing cute little lessons in cartoon versions of multiculturalism. Nevertheless, the purpose is clear -- to popularize the idea that insistence on maintaining the cultural integrity of American society is "hate" and "intolerance" and that those who still believe in such integrity have something wrong with them that can and should be "unlearned." Yet another lesson in how "tolerant" the corporate giants really are comes from the behemoth Wal-Mart. Recently in South Carolina a gentleman named Maurice Bessinger, who owns a small barbecue restaurant chain and makes his own barbecue sauce, raised a South Carolina state flag outside one of his restaurants, along with the Confederate flag. It's not the government Mr. Bessinger needs to worry about but Wal-Mart, which used to carry Mr. Bessinger's barbecue sauce nationwide. Wal-Mart has suddenly dropped the sauce from its shelves. When I called the customer complaint number to ask why, I was told that Mr. Bessinger "was involved in activities with which Wal-Mart did not wish to be associated." The munchkin with whom I spoke refused to say what those "activities" were, why they were objectionable or whether the chain also scrutinized the activities of other suppliers to evaluate their "activities" as well. He claimed the Confederate flag had nothing to do with it. My own bet is that you can find plenty of products at Wal-Mart made by slave labor, but slavery -- at least the kind that really exists today as opposed to the kind that has been extinct in this country for more than a century -- apparently is not "an activity with which Wal-Mart does not wish to be associated." Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung could have learned something from these corporate leviathans. The tyranny over the mind their governments imposed required secret police, death camps, genocide and state terror for generations, and still it
[CTRL] the White Ostriches of southern africa
-Caveat Lector- so much for larouches theories---the queen cant even protect her own relatives. The Electronic Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000202011865292rtmo=QxOmwwLRatmo= 9 999pg=/et/00/9/26/nzim26.html [Simon Rhodes said] "The situation is getting worse even though the news story seems to be off the airwave. The farm invasions and occupations by squatters continue. The government is now taking over more than 3,000 private commercial farms - about 75 per cent of the total number." -- The Electronic Telegraph ISSUE 1950 Tuesday 26 September 2000 Queen helps relative's family flee Zimbabwe By Linus Gregoriadis THE Queen is helping one of her relatives to move his family to Britain from his home in Zimbabwe after he was driven out by the continuing violence against the white community. Simon Rhodes's mother is Margaret Rhodes, 74, first cousin of the Queen and a Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He had hoped to stay in Harare with his wife and two daughters despite having been beaten up by police in April. But the former tourism consultant, who moved to Zimbabwe in 1977, is now seeking work in Britain following the collapse of the tourist trade and the imminent seizure by the Mugabe regime of farmland belonging to his wife's family. At the request of the Queen, John Parsons, Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse, is helping to arrange schooling for his daughters - Emma, 14, and Camilla, 10 - who are still in Zimbabwe with their mother. Mr Rhodes, 42, has been staying at his mother's home in Windsor Great Park and with his sister, Annabel Cope, in Bideford, Devon. He now hopes his children and his wife Susan, 40, will join him before the end of the year. He said his family, like many others, was being forced out of Zimbabwe by the crippling effect of President Robert Mugabe's policies. He said: "The situation is getting worse even though the news story seems to be off the airwave. The farm invasions and occupations by squatters continue. The government is now taking over more than 3,000 private commercial farms - about 75 per cent of the total number." The attack by four police officers in the back of a Land Rover, in which he was repeatedly punched, happened after he joined a peaceful opposition march. It prompted his mother to complain to the Queen about the breakdown of law. Mr Rhodes, whose wife's family's farmland has been listed for occupation, said: "Until April, it would never have crossed my mind that I might have to leave."He said he feared the psychological impact of upheaval on his family and other dispossessed Zimbabweans. "My children have known no other life other than being in Zimbabwe. We are getting this bombshell effect of people moving all over the world. Families and friendships are being ruptured and broken." Mr Rhodes said he was fortunate to have the opportunity to return to Britain and the support of the Royal Family. "Obviously the Queen is concerned about our situation. We are returning here to start again and will be arriving with nothing. We will not be able to remove any assets from Zimbabwe. The Queen has asked one of her aides to provide assistance to find suitable schools for the children. It is nothing other than a family pulling together to support other family members who need help - as any family would." Mr Rhodes, who will visit the Royal Family's Balmoral residence this week, said he planned to settle in Edinburgh. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] The Conspiracy Bugaboo
-Caveat Lector- Crackpot Alert The Conspiracy Bugaboo By John McCormack (http://www.libertysoft.com/liberty/features/mccormack52 Paranoia strikes deep. There's a lot to like in the militia movement. The militiamen distrust the federal government. They're willing to resist federal assaults on individual rights. They're hostile to the income tax, the Federal Reserve System, and the regulatory state. They enthusiastically exercise the right to keep and bear arms. Yet the militia movement usually alienates freedom-minded Americans. Some of this stems from the movement's crude rhetoric, frequently ignorant public statements, and more-than-slightly-ridiculous paramilitary exercises. But the problem is more serious than that. It's the militias' propensity for conspiracy theories. The militias attribute almost all major political and economic events to an elite group of "Insiders." Rather than focusing on destructive institutional arrangements, conspiracy believers emphasize the supposed malevolence of small, usually alien, groups. This doesn't just keep them from reaching a more sophisticated understanding of the world; sometimes, it leads them to distinctly illiberal policy prescriptions. This tendency can be seen at its worst in the unfortunate overlap in membership and beliefs between a few of the militias and some racist and anti-Semitic groups. Bo Gritz, a "patriot" leader and former presidential candidate, has insisted publicly that the Federal Reserve System is controlled by eight Jewish families. Linda Thompson, the "Acting Adjutant-General of the Unorganized Militia of the U.S.A.," tells interviewers that the Israeli Mossad is responsible for the American farm crisis. Militia members aren't the only Americans with conspiratorial views of history. The John Birch Society, the Nation of Islam, the Aryan Nations, and such Christian Right leaders as Pat Robertson also espouse variations on these beliefs. And some leftists -- Oliver Stone, Mark Lane, and the Christic Institute come to mind --hold conspiracy views that are distantly related to the militias' and nearly as bizarre. Where did these theories come from? What do they entail? What leads people to believe them? Glad you asked. A Brief History of Conspiracy Theory A particular genus of conspiracy theory has persisted in the U.S. and Europe since the nineteenth century. These theories assert that a secret and sinister circle of international bankers exercises control over major political figures, manipulating financial markets to its own benefit and to the detriment of wage-earners and farmers. This power extends to being able to cause wars and depressions and to profit enormously from both. Having no loyalty to any national governments, the conspirators operate from the world's financial capitals, where they continue to scheme for world domination. Jews often -- though not always -- feature prominently in these conspiracies. Such theories are unlike the various plots posited by Kennedy assassination buffs -- which, however mistaken they may be on technical and other grounds, usually have at least the merit of being limited as to goals, time, and participation. They also differ from the Marxist theory that capitalist control of politics flows inevitably from private ownership of the means of production, and that maintaining control does not depend on the conscious efforts of individual capitalists. These "Endless Conspiracy" theories hold that real political power does not lie in the hands of the property-owning class as a whole, but is wielded by a tiny, self-conscious financial elite. Moreover, the conspiracy is virtually unlimited as to time and place. It is centuries old -- or, in the imaginative theories of Robert Welch and Lyndon LaRouche, millennia old -- and over this period its locus of control has shifted from its origins in Central Europe to London and later to New York. In some accounts, the conspirators maintain their influence through mysterious, almost occult powers. Strictly speaking, conspiracy theories of this sort are neither conspiracies nor theories. They are not criminal conspiracies in the legal sense, because they involve people who (supposedly) have the power to change laws to suit themselves. They are not theories in the scientific sense, because few or none of the claims made can be tested. Perhaps because of this, conspiracy theories have been a persistent but usually marginal feature of American politics. Late-nineteenth-century populists, including presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, attributed the misery of southern and western farmers and miners to nefarious Wall Street and European capitalists. In the 1920s, similarly-minded members of Congress blamed the First World War on munitions-manufacturers such as DuPont, which some theorists had
[CTRL] Shouldn't we repeal the gun laws ... if it'll save a single child?
-Caveat Lector- Shouldn't we repeal the gun laws ... if it'll save a single child? By Vin Suprynowicz web posted September 25, 2000 Jessica Lynne Carpenter is 14 years old. She knows how to shoot; her father taught her. And there were adequate firearms to deal with the crisis that arose in the Carpenter home in Merced, Calif. -- a San Joaquin Valley farming community 130 miles southeast of San Francisco -- when 27-year-old Jonathon David Bruce came calling on Wednesday morning, August 23. There was just one problem. Under the new "safe storage" laws being enacted in California and elsewhere, parents can be held criminally liable unless they lock up their guns when their children are home alone ... so that's just what law-abiding parents John and Tephanie Carpenter had done. Some of Jessica's siblings -- Anna, 13; Vanessa, 11; Ashley, 9; and John William, 7 -- were still in their bedrooms when Bruce broke into the farmhouse shortly after 9 a.m. Bruce, who was armed with a pitchfork -- but to whom police remain unable to attribute any motive -- had apparently cut the phone lines. So when he forced his way into the house and began stabbing the younger children in their beds, Jessica's attempts to dial 9-1-1 didn't do much good. Next, the sensible girl ran for where the family guns were stored. But they were locked up tight. "When the 14-year-old girl ran to a nearby house to escape the pitchfork-wielding man attacking her siblings," writes Kimi Yoshino of the Fresno Bee, "she didn't ask her neighbor to call 9-1-1. She begged him to grab his rifle and 'take care of this guy.' " He didn't. Jessica ended up on the phone. By the time Merced County sheriff's deputies arrived at the home, 7-year-old John William and 9-year-old Ashley Danielle were dead. Ashley had apparently hung onto her assailant's leg long enough for her older sisters to escape. Thirteen-year-old Anna was wounded but survived. Once the deputies arrived, Bruce rushed them with his bloody pitchfork. So they shot him dead. They shot him more than a dozen times. With their guns. Get it? The following Friday, the children's great-uncle, the Rev. John Hilton, told reporters: "If only (Jessica) had a gun available to her, she could have stopped the whole thing. If she had been properly armed, she could have stopped him in his tracks." Maybe John William and Ashley would still be alive, Jessica's uncle said. "Unfortunately, 17 states now have these so-called safe storage laws," replies Yale Law School Senior Research Scholar Dr. John Lott -- author of the book "More Guns, Less Crime." "The problem is, you see no decrease in either juvenile accidental gun deaths or suicides when such laws are enacted, but you do see an increase in crime rates." Such laws are based on the notion that young children often "find daddy's gun" and accidentally shoot each other. But in fact only five American children under the age of 10 died of accidents involving handguns in 1997, Lott reports. "People get the impression that kids under 10 are killing each other. In fact this is very rare: three to four per year." The typical shooter in an accidental child gun death is a male in his late teens or 20s, who, statistically, is probably a drug addict or an alcoholic and has already been charged with multiple crimes, Lott reports. "These are the data that correlate. Are these the kind of people who are going to obey one more law?" So why doesn't the national press report what happens when a victim disarmament ("gun control") law costs the lives of innocent children in a place like Merced? "In the school shooting in Pearl, Miss.," Dr. Lott replies, "the assistant principal had formerly carried a gun to school. When the 1995 ("Gun-Free School Zones") law passed, he took to locking his gun in his car and parking it at least a quarter-mile away from the school, in order to obey the law. When that shooting incident started he ran to his car, unlocked it, got his gun, ran back, disarmed the shooter and held him on the ground for five minutes until the police arrived. "There were more than 700 newspaper stories catalogued on that incident. Only 19 mentioned the assistant principal in any way, and only nine mentioned that he had a gun." The press covers only the bad side of gun use, and only the potential benefits of victim disarmament laws -- never their costs. "Basically all the current federal proposals fall into this category -- trigger locks, waiting periods," Lott said. "There's not one academic study that shows any reduction in crime from measures like these. But there are good studies that show the opposite. Even with short waiting periods, crime goes up. You have women being stalked, and they can't go quickly and get a gun due to the waiting periods, so they get
[CTRL] hidden persuaders
-Caveat Lector- New scientist 12 august 2000 A more effective way of embedding subliminal images in tv programmes is being patented. the normal tecnique for transmitting a message such as 'smoking kills' is to display for a few milliseconds and the replace with a blank screen to stop the image from persisting on the retina. Silingardi's trick is to first flash a trigger imagew-such as someone smoking- which prepares the brain for the subliminal message. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Fw: Power to Erase Memories
-Caveat Lector- NEW YORK TIMES September 26, 2000 Letters: Power to Erase Memories To the Editor: The experiment discussed in "Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False Memories" (Sept. 19) is exciting because it hints at the neurobiological processes underlying the malleability of memory. But the suggestion that the future clinical value of such findings would be to erase traumatic memories is horrifying. Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/science/26LETT.html http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/science/26LETT.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Mugabe survives
-Caveat Lector- The white and black tribes of africa can be muderred with impunity. But touch anglo american property and suddenly you realise where the real power lies = BUSINESS DAY, Wednesday, Sept 20 2000 Anglo sugar estate will not seized. Zimbabwe says it was mistakenly included on resettlement list HARARE - The Zimbabwean government has admitted mistakeny listing one of the nation's most productive sugar estates for resettle ment of landless black people. State television reported yesterday that Zimbabwe had assured Nicky Oppenheimer, deputy chairman of Anglo American, that no part of his company's Hippo Valley sugar estate in southeastern Zimbabwe would be confiscated. President Robert Mugabe met Oppenheimer and other Anglo ex- ecutives on Monday and promised to remove 38 OOOha of the estate from a list of white-owned properties targeted for seizure, Oppenheimer told state television. "We were reassured that the president told us a mistake had been made and agroindustrial estates were not intended for resettlement. " Parts of several other lumber, sugar, citrus and horticulture estates have been targeted for seizure, but their fate was not immediately clear. The sugar estate mistakenly ap- peared on a list of hundreds of white-owned fanns the government plans to confiscate, divide in- to small plots and redistribute to landless black people. The Commercial Farmers Union, representing about 4 000 white fanners, says the list con- tains errors and duplications. Properties owned by the state rail- road and forestry companies, several church missions. a petrol storage depot, a golf club and at least two schools have been included. The government has not acknowledged the errors. Ruling party militants and squatters have since February illegally occupied more than 1 700 white-Qwned farms. Meanwhile, Lewis Machipisa reports that Zimbabwe's main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), yesterdayex- pressed "utter shock" at Home Af- fairs Minister John Nkomo's allegations in parliament that the police had found grenades, pistols, rifles and tear smoke at its offices. Nkomo said in parliament that police searches at the MDC sUp" port centre, head office and MDC provincial offices at St Martins and at homes of MDC officials in Harare had proved that the party had stashed weapons of war . The searches came after a grenade was hurled at an MDC of- fice last week, and were conducted on Thursday and Saturday. The MDC said the searches for the weapons of war , which were conducted by the police in full view of local and international media and MDC lawyers, had yielded nothing. Senior officials of the par- ty are due to meet today to discuss the issue. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Love your enemy - he may be your best friend
-Caveat Lector- The Guardian [U.K.] Love your enemy - he may be your best friend Hate figures who do us the power of good Anthony Browne Sunday September 10, 2000 Worried that you have too many enemies? Well, stop fretting, get out the voodoo dolls and stick a few more needles in them. You may hate others, and they may hate you, but it can be good for you - if only in the short term. If you haven't got enemies your life may not be complete. According to a new book by the celebrated psychologist Dorothy Rowe, we don't just need friends, we also need enemies. She counted 24 different benefits brought by having enemies, including making you feel more important, making you feel more virtuous, and simply making life more exciting. 'Having an enemy could be an advantage,' she concluded after research for Friends and Enemies which took her to Bosnia, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Lebanon. It's only in the long term that the drawbacks become clear. The national hysteria over Big Brother's Nasty Nick shows not just how much we all love to have a hate-figure, but how effective it can be in bringing a country closer together. 'If a group has an enemy, that enemy brings the group together - we saw that in this country in World War II' said Rowe. 'You see it in business organisations - if the boss is seen as an enemy, the workers get very close.' 'First, get a common enemy' could be the opening of any leader's rulebook. 'Rulers have always invented an enemy to keep people together. Rulers who want to stay in power always have a war,' said Rowe (think of General Galtieri's decision to invade the Falklands) and it even applies to democracies (think of Thatcher's electoral triumph after defending the Falklands). It even explains much of geo-politics. 'The US is a very diverse group of people, and the way the government held the country together was by having an enemy. But when the Berlin wall came down, the US no longer had an enemy,' explained Rowe. 'So President Bush immediately announced a war on drugs.' The Colombian drug barons, such as Pablo Escobar, have done their bit to keep the US united. Hatred towards Islamic fundamentalists - and public enemy number one Osama Bin Laden - also keeps Americans appreciative of their president. Having enemies can also help combat boredom. Rowe was puzzled by one family where all the members were constantly at war with each other until she realised they actually enjoyed it. 'It made their otherwise dull lives more exciting,' she said. Enemies also have the advantage of being more exciting than friends. 'The enemy is always doing something, or you can always imagine them doing something.' Enemies can also make people feel that they matter. Rowe worked in a psychiatric hospital, where old people knew no one was thinking of them, and found that frightening. They would get enemies, so at least they knew someone was thinking of them. 'Imagine being so insignificant that no one could be bothered to hate you.' Having a hate-figure can also make us feel better about ourselves. People give their enemies all the characteristics that they have trouble with themselves - whether it's being sadistic, aggressive or manipulative. For example, if you're feeling guilty about having some malicious thoughts, it's comforting to believe Saddam Hussein is the embodiment of pure evil and that we are less cunning than Peter Mandelson. A good enemy can also help people cope with their failings in life, by simply taking the blame for everything. At work, people often blame the boss. 'You don't have to take responsibility, and it means you can avoid the really complex questions.' This can also dominate a political culture, such as Hitler blaming the Jews for much of Weimar Germany's problems, or unemployed people blaming immigrants. But Rowe thinks that some of the hatred that many people feel for migrants may be even more primitive. 'When our species first appeared on the planet, there were very few of us and we lived in little bands, and the concept of stranger was the same as the concept of enemy,' she said 'Echoes of that are still with us.' Ultimately, like almost everything in psychology, it seems, it all goes back to childhood. 'The need for enemies is very directly linked to the amount of punishment you had as a child. Most chil dren are hit, or they're made to stay in their room, or spoken to in horrible ways. You need enemies to put your hatred onto,' said Rowe. Enemies allow adults to simply act out the frustrations of childhood. 'If, as a child, we had a bad relationship with our father, you project your idea of father onto any authority figures, and behave towards them as you would have towards your father, but wouldn't dare.' But before
[CTRL] Mbeki attacked for HIV/Aids doubts
-Caveat Lector- Mbeki attacked for HIV/Aids doubts Chris McGreal in Johannesburg Guardian Observer - Tuesday September 19, 2000 -- The South African government's most powerful ally - the country's trade union confederation Cosatu - has accused President Thabo Mbeki of causing confusion and costing lives by questioning the link between HIV and Aids. Mr Mbeki was forced to listen impassively yesterday while trade unionists at the annual meeting of the Congress of South African Trade Unions loudly applauded their leader, Willie Madisha, as he condemned the president on an issue that is causing as much friction between the unions and government as economic policy. "The current public debate on the causal link between HIV and Aids is confusing," said Willie Madisha. "For Cosatu, the link between HIV and Aids is irrefutable and any other approach is unscientific and unfortunately likely to confuse people. As a result, it can undermine the message that all South Africans must take precautions to avoid infection." Click here for full story: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,370167,00.htm l http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,370167,00.ht m l A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Is the Rate of New HIV Infections Rising?: The San FranciscoControversy and Its Lessons for Los Angeles and the US
-Caveat Lector- Is the Rate of New HIV Infections Rising?: The San Francisco Controversy and Its Lessons for Los Angeles and the US Walt Senterfitt Being Alive - October, 2000 - The gay press in California and around the country have spent a lot of ink debating some numbers released just before the Durban International AIDS Conference and an accompanying speculation by San Francisco's chief HIV epidemiologist that "rates of new HIV infections in some parts of San Francisco's gay population have increased to sub-Saharan levels." This news was greeted with loud echoes of everything from "Can't be! It's the health department cooking numbers in a plot to justify more restrictions on gay sex," to "The AIDS crisis is over! This is another detraction from the health needs of the large number of HIV negative gay men and lesbians," to "It's highly suspect! Bogus! A San Francisco plot to keep their unfair share of federal AIDS funding," to "We are not surprised, given the lessening fear of HIV with the advent of HAART and the barebacking craze." Each of these and most other reactions is at best one-tenth true, but the controversy has been valuable. Its context is the hard-to-dispute fact that HIV prevention has not kept pace with the changes in the epidemic. What Are the Facts In San Francisco? It is important to remember that there is no way to count new HIV infections and therefore no way to prove beyond a doubt whether rates of infection are increasing, decreasing or level. New HIV infections are not yet reportable to public health departments in California and even if they were, there is usually no way to tell if a positive test is a new infection or an old one in someone who has not been tested or reported before. Most of all, there is no way of knowing how many new infections occur anew or exist already among people who haven't been tested at all. Thus, the best we can do, and we are getting better at it, is to estimate based on several different kinds of data. The estimates will always be approximate at best, but if we use the same or better methods every year, we can get a pretty good picture of the trends. San Francisco is better than anywhere else in the US at estimating infections (some might say, aided by all that money, its small size and the high visibility of the gay community). There are more studies and surveillance systems to base estimates on and more experts to analyze them. The San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) periodically convenes a panel of these experts and a group of community people living with or working with HIV on the front lines, to develop for planning purposes consensus estimates of people living with HIV/AIDS and the annual rate of new infections. The latest such consensus panel met in May 2000. One new tool to help determine HIV incidence is what's called the "detuned Elisa assay." This takes advantage of the improvement in HIV testing over the years, the improvement that has shrunk the so-called window period (when one might be HIV+ but not yet show up it on an antibody test) from six months to six weeks. The detuned assay tests a person's blood with both the old, less sensitive test and the new, more sensitive one. If one is negative on the old test and positive on the new one, we can conclude that person is within the old "window period" of a new infection. By doing this double test on thousands of specimens, the CDC has concluded that someone can be identified with this system as being within the first four months of infection. So in a high volume testing center, STD clinic or medical care system, one can estimate how many infections are new. By combining these data with other information about the population that uses the testing system, one can estimate the percentage of negative people in the population who are seroconverting each year. The San Francisco consensus panel estimated that the proportion of gay and bisexual men becoming HIV infected rose from 1.1% a year in 1997 (the time of the last consensus panel) to 1.7% a year in 2000. Among the much smaller number of gay and bisexual men who are also injection drugs users (IDUs) the rate and the increase were much greater: from 2.0% seroconverting every year in 1997 to 4.6% a year in 2000. Among heterosexual IDUs the rate declined somewhat from 1.0% a year in 1997 to 0.6 % a year in 2000. Among non-IDU heterosexuals, the estimates are tiny and stable: 1/100th of a percent per year in both years. These estimates from HIV testing sites were bolstered by findings from other sources. There is increased incidence of HIV in a cohort study of young gay men, increased cases of rectal gonorrhea, increased frequency of bacterial sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among gay men living with AIDS, increased total numbers of people with AIDS and HIV (of whom a big chunk are sexually active), increased self-reports of multiple partners and unprotected anal sex among
[CTRL] aids an old disease
-Caveat Lector- This article shows that rather than HIV being a modern disease was rather an existing in a human population at a much earlier stage. Presumably it spread further after the change in morality that occurred after the 60's. (and the increased mixing of population groups and modern transportation) John Subject: Systematic Biology 44(1) Mindell (http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/depts/systbiol/44_1 Systematic Biology 44(1) Mindell.htm A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False Memories
-Caveat Lector- NEW YORK TIMES September 19, 2000 Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False Memories By SANDRA BLAKESLEE Scientists may have found a biological reason to explain why two people who witness the same event will, years later, often have different memories of what happened. It seems that every time an old memory is pulled into consciousness, the brain takes it apart, updates it and then makes new proteins in the process of putting the memory back into long-term storage. The fact that new proteins are made means that the memory has been transformed permanently to reflect each person's life experiences - not the memory itself. Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/19/science/19MEMO.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Book Maps a Nation's Spurts of Clean Living
-Caveat Lector- New York Times September 19, 2000 Book Maps a Nation's Spurts of Clean Living In the fall of 1977 the American Cancer Society organized the first national "Great American Smokeout," urging smokers to quit for a day. Within five years, Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority and Jane Fonda sold millions of aerobics videos. Dr. Ruth Clifford Engs, a professor of applied health science at Indiana University in Bloomington sees a connection. In her new book "Clean Living Movements: American Cycles of Health Reform" (Praeger), Dr. Engs shows how Americans' fervor for self-improvement occurs in spurts. And interest in health and religion usually occurs at the same time. Her book traces the nation's obsessions with food, diet and religion and describes a country of extremists, who embrace preventive health and rigid moral codes one generation only to rail against them the next. So far, Dr. Engs say, Americans have experienced three so-called clean-living movements. Each one involved campaigns against tobacco, alcohol and premarital sex. Dr. Engs tracks the cultural forces that prompt each movement and those that set off each rebellion against health, and the story is told in an appealing way for mass audiences. But it is being marketed for scholars and is listed at $69.50. In a telephone interview, Dr. Engs described her findings: "Our country was founded in an era of ferment. We were founded in an awakening, and we usually have them about every 80 years. They usually start with a conservative religious awakening that goes into health concerns, with alcohol as one thread, another thread is fitness, and another is some aspect of sexuality. There is also a concern about producing the perfect baby." The question, she added, is why the fervor fades. Sometimes, Dr. Engs said, one generation believes healthy living will solve all society's woes, but when problems continue, the next generation loses faith. And eventually, new reformers start the cycle again. Though specifics vary, Dr. Engs shows similarities among the movements. Health zealots through the ages have urged Americans to exercise and avoid greasy food, meat, alcohol and tobacco. Many of these movements, she says, are prompted more by morality than new medical knowledge. In the 1830's, for instance, health reformers pleaded with Americans to quit smoking not so much because it was a health hazard but because it was considered "morally depraved." Whether a reader goes along with her theory, the book is chock full of amusing anecdotes and brief biographies of those she calls health fanatics. Mr. Falwell and Ms. Fonda continue a long American tradition of believers, preaching their gospel of moral or physical fitness. In the first "Clean Living Movement," which the author says occurred from about 1830 to 1860, the Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists preached salvation through healthy living. Charles Grandison Finney, a Presbyterian preacher and lawyer-turned- evangelist crusaded against alcohol, coffee, tea and meat. At the same time, the American Temperance Society and the American Anti-Tobacco Society were founded. These were the days of Sylvester Graham, who started "Grahamism," which advocated hard beds, cold baths, vegetarian diets, wheat bread and gave rise to the Graham cracker. He persuaded followers to avoid fried foods, butter, pastries and salt pork and to drink pure water only. Health advocates also condemned women's fashion of tight corsets and long dresses. They believed the outfits damaged internal organs and debilitated women so much that they would give birth to weak offspring. Amelia Jenks Bloomer, a women's rights advocate, designed a new outfit the "bloomer" suitable for outdoor exercise and physical activity. The Fowlers Orson; his brother, Lorenzo; and Lorenzo's wife, Dr. Lydia Folger Fowler wrote and published books and newsletters instructing couples on how to make better babies. They warned against marrying women with indigestion, liver complaints, melancholia or heartburn. Those kind of folk, they said, should not have children. Truly "superior offspring," they added, could only be obtained when lovers engaged in a "spiritual banquet of love." In other words, the woman had to have an orgasm. The First Clean Living Movement lost momentum to the Civil War. The second movement, from 1880 to 1920, included the founding of the Y.M.C.A., the New Thought Movement, which encouraged believers to replace negative thoughts with positive ones, and a new slew of fitness fanatics. Bernarr Macfadden was the exercise guru of the 1890's. He invented muscle-
[CTRL] post zionist Israel
-Caveat Lector- Ha'aretz: 62% of immigrants first half 2000 from th eformer Soviet Union not Jewish - was 50% same period 1999 Ha'aretz: 62% of immigrants first half 2000 from the former Soviet Union not Jewish - was 50% same period 1999 By Shahar Ilan Ha'aretz Religious Affairs Correspondent Ha'aretz 18 September 2000 Nearly two thirds of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union arriving during the first half of 2000 are not Jewish, according to data presented to Diaspora Affairs Minister, Michael Melchior. The figure is up from 50 percent during the same period last year. Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Melchior said, "I was in Moscow and Kiev, I visited embassies and we could not find Jews. Good people sat there but they had no connection to Israel or the Jewish people. There was a family of eight that had a grandfather who was a quarter Jewish and had died some 20 years earlier." On this basis, Melchior repeated his view that the "grandchild clause" in the law of return should be canceled. According to this, the grandchild of a Jew has the right to immigrate to Israel even though he and his parents may not be Jews. Melchior argues that the "grandchild clause" undermines the purpose of the law of return. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Racism? Or Independence?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates15.html Racism? Or Independence? by Steven Yates Last week the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a series of "Intelligence Reports" purporting to reveal an upsurge in "white supremacist" and "racist" groups during the late 1990s. "A neo-Confederate movement, increasingly rife with white supremacists and racist ideology, is growing across America," cries the bold print of one of the lead documents, Rebels With a Cause. The document proceeds with the (probably true) allegation that a neo-Confederate movement has gained some momentum since July 1 of this year, when the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina State House Dome. But what are the real causes, and the real implications? One of the SPLCs chief targets is the Alabama-based League of the South, the leading group whose leaders speak openly of seceding from the Washington government and creating a Southern Republic. Other targeted groups include American Renaissance, the Council of Conservative Citizens, Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Confederate Society of America, the Heritage Preservation Association, the Southern Military Institute (a private academy that does not as yet exist apart from its website and fundraising efforts), the Southern Legal Resource Center, the Southern Party, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Rockford Institute, and - incredibly! - the Ludwig von Mises Institute. They also target the sole news periodical, a monthly, that presents news and commentary from a staunch pro-South point of view, the fledgling Edgefield Journal, based in the small town of Edgefield, South Carolina, west of Columbia. In fairness, some of these groups I had barely heard of despite my own League membership. I cannot vouch for or rail against the ideas attributed to them by the SPLC, never having seen a copy of American Renaissance, for example (the magazine apparently published by the organization of that name). I hardly need point out the likelihood that the groups in the above list are different from one another, with different aims and possibly different ideological perspectives. This makes tarring them all with the same brush fundamentally suspect. I will concentrate on those I know. Consider the Mises Institute. It was founded to recover from near-oblivion, study and have studied, and further develop, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises, a central figure in Austrian school economics. Mises was the author of Human Action and other paradigmatic works, following a perfectly respectable notion: that the methods of the human sciences cannot legitimately be modeled on the methods of physics. Hence the writings of Austrian school economists employ deductive reasoning from first premises, not reams of statistics and empirical models applicable only to this or that situation, or economy. One of Mises conclusions, for which he produces formidable and very detailed arguments, is that political interference in economic activity by the central state is bound to be destructive in the long run (there might be some short term benefits). The path to genuine prosperity, in the Misesian view, is a free market unhampered by government fetters, regulations, licensure laws, and restrictions. There is now an enormous literature devoted to this approach, including a quarterly refereed academic journal and an annual conference featuring scholars drawn from all over the world. The influence of the Austrian school in economics is being felt practically everywhere. While bound to be controversial and likely to receive more than a few blank stares of noncomprehension in this age of statism and low educational attainment, what we have here is hardly a picture of a "neo-Confederate" organization of "white supremacists" and "racists." Of course, one of the consequences of the idea that central-state interventions are harmful to all concerned is a rejection of such policies as affirmative action preferences - and we know how such rejections are invariably interpreted by left-liberals. Mises, of course, never applauded state-sanctioned chattel slavery any more than his intellectual descendents favor our present-day de facto slavery (paying almost 40 percent of our incomes into taxes). However, we do not find analyses of Mises views or of taxation in the SPLC report, because these would not serve the purpose of tarring all the opponents of Washington-centered statism with a single brush. How about the League of the South? It seems that the SPLC cannot even mention the name of the group without using the adjectives racist or white supremacist (or both) in tandem, or of describing it as a "hate group." This, to a logical mind, is known as
[CTRL] thankfully, this work is banned=Tyranny in Canada?
Subject: "thankfully, this work is banned"=Tyranny in CA http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/letters/story.html?f=/stories/29 15/399623.html Letters | National Post | September 15, 2000 Isn't it ironic | Ellen T. Cole Re: South African Minister Stirs up Controversy over AIDS, Sept. 13. The fight against AIDS is too serious to be sidetracked by the appalling allegations of South Africa's Minister of Health. Manto Tshabala-Msimang, claims it is an anti-African conspiracy. It is even more shocking that she would base her allegation on the book, Behold A Pale Horse, excerpts of which she distributed. In Canada, thankfully, this work is banned from importation as hate propaganda. It is ironic that such pernicious material is both believed and promoted by a minister of the country hosting the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Ellen T. Cole, National Vice-Chair, Community Relations, Canadian Jewish Congress, Toronto. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] The end of mugabe?
Mugabe grabs prime Anglo estates OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe's government has announced that it is to grab another 57 white-owned farms, including large chunks of two of Anglo Americans most intensive sugar and citrus estates - ignoring assurances that it will seize only properties that are under-utilised and which are part of multiple holdings. Notices published in Friday's edition of the state-controlled Herald newspaper brought to 2 011 the number of properties officially earmarked for "compulsory acquisition" by the government for resettlement. The list includes 38 000ha of Hippo Valley Estates, owned by South African-based mining conglomerate Anglo American Corporation, and is 70% of the land owned by one of the country's two large-scale sugar estates. The two estates produce about 500 000 tons of sugar annually, half of it for export. Anglo American is down to lose another 207ha from its Mazoe citrus estate in the fertile Mazowe valley, about 40km north of Harare, where it produces internationally renowned citrus for export. Hippo is in the south-eastern Lowveld area, where thousands of hectares of game ranches were also listed for confiscation. The region has been subjected to lawlessness in the last month, with thousands of trees felled and vast areas of grassland burned by war veterans who have divided the land into plots for local villagers to plant maize. Agriculture Minister Joseph Made last week said the government intended seizing 2 226 farms, a total of seven million hectares or nearly 90% of commercial farms, owned mostly by whites. The Commercial Farmers' Union says land earmarked for confiscation includes intensively farmed horticultural, tobacco and dairy operations vital to the country's earnings of foreign exchange. The listing is the first step in a complex legal and bureaucratic process in which the government has to obtain the approval of the High Court for each confiscation. However, the CFU fears that appealing to the law will have little effect as more than 1 700 farms have already been illegally occupied by war veterans. Dozens of affected farmers have abandoned their properties http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/news.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Gore's in bed with Porno King
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/2913/aponline224808_001.ht m Gore Defends Ties to Weinstein The Associated Press Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2000; 10:48 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON -- Al Gore's campaign on Wednesday defended his fund-raising help from movie mogul Harvey Weinstein who went around Disney in 1995 to release the controversial NC-17 rated "Kids." It's just the sort of film the Democratic presidential candidate has been criticizing. Gore and running mate Joseph Lieberman threatened new federal legislation or rules against the entertainment industry within six months if it doesn't stop marketing violent and sexual products to young people. Nonetheless, Gore is planning to attend a Thursday night fund-raiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall that Miramax co-chairman Weinstein helped organized, capping a week of fund-raising reaching $5 million. "This is not about our supporters, this is not about our opponents, this is about what's right for America's children," Gore spokesman Chris Lehane said in defending the vice president's association with Weinstein. "Al Gore has proposed concrete steps to protect America's kids." Republicans were quick to criticize. "Al Gore with one hand is making promises to voters about how he's going to clean up Hollywood and with the other hand taking money from Hollywood," said Terry Holt, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson planned a news conference in New York on Thursday to "talk about the Hollywood hypocrisy of Al Gore," he said. Weinstein has long been a strong supporter of the Democratic Party, Gore and President Clinton. Gore's appearance at a fund-raiser with Weinstein comes at an awkward time, however, as he's publicly criticizing media violence. It also gives the Republicans and George W. Bush's presidential campaign an opportunity to raise the issue of Gore's credibility, arguing that he has a habit of saying one thing and doing another. In 1995, the Miramax film "Kids" was released under an NC-17 rating. Because of parent company Disney's policy not to release NC-17 films, Miramax set up a separate distribution to release the movie about adolescents using drugs and engaging in sex. The NC-17 rating was created in 1990 to separate films with strong adult content from porno films, which are X-rated. Miramax also has released the violent movies "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs." On Wednesday, Sen. Lieberman testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on a Federal Trade Commission report that asserted the entertainment industry was peddling adult material to underage audiences. He decried a "culture of carnage" surrounding young people and told lawmakers the government should stop the marketing of violent movies, music and video games to children if the industry fails to police itself. © Copyright 2000 The Associated Press A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
Re: [CTRL] Abortion and the English Language
[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: If the "mother" wants an unborn child to live, then it's a "person", Not until it's born. In legal terms you become a person when you are bornbut legally you can define anything . Blacks in america were considerred a part personso in a way is the unborn child. (I sometimes imagine a pessimistic situation in SA where the ANC decides that I am not a person- a full person being defined as someone who is a designated person(ie blackyou cant use the euphinism minority here because the whites are a minority) Together with another party ...say the PAC who went around saying one settler one bullet(ie dont waste your bullets) pass this and hey presto I can be aborted.) I delibrately used these words however not for legal definition but to humanise the unborn child , The point I make again is that definitions have very little to do with it. Rather the world view of utilitarianism has become the dominant one. That means that the all those who believe it in effect say that "I want to maximise my utility (long term pleasure) by destroyng the fetus/ unborn child. Maximising the societies utility, nor that of the fetus/child is not my responsibility" John A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Govt Aids nut linked to Ku Klux Klan
Govt Aids nut linked to Ku Klux Klan Blacks were most likely to upset plans for an alien invasion of earth. As a result they were targeted with Aids, according to the health minister's "expert" on Aids. http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/features/2000sep/08sep-looney.html --- - PAUL KIRK reports. --- - W illiam Cooper, the author of Behold a Pale Horse - the book on Aids that Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has been circulating - is closely connected to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Cooper is often seen at Klan rallies, but denies being a member of the Klan himself, claiming he simply supports the "Christian" ethos of the cult. Speaking on his own radio station Cooper most recently claimed the KKK were "misunderstood" and encouraged "patriots" to join so as to be kept abreast of all the plots being hatched against American sovereignty. The circulation of extracts from Cooper's books sparked an extraordinary exchange between Tshabalala-Msimang and 702 radio host John Robbie this week. After questioning the minister on the book and on her stance on the link between HIV and Aids, the radio presenter said: "Go away. I cannot take that rubbish any longer. Can you believe it? ... I have never in my life heard such rubbish." Robbie has shrugged off African National Congress calls on him to resign. Cooper is also the inventor of the "unified conspiracy theory" - a bizarre concept that explains everything from John F Kennedy's assassination to Aids as a conspiracy between the CIA, the Jews, the Freemasons, aliens and secret societies operating since the Middle Ages. TALK TO US Mail the editor Cooper, the leader of the Arizona Militia - a far-right-wing movement preparing to repel alien invaders - claims to have served in the United States Air Force as well as the United States Navy and to have had unlimited access to secret information. US government records show Cooper serving as the lowest grade of clerk in the navy. His functions would have amounted to little more than sweeping the floors where top secret meetings were held. A trawl through US websites shows that he is most often described as a fraud, a liar and a charlatan. He is currently engaged in a war of words with Vietnam-era war hero Colonel Bo Gritz. Gritz claims Cooper's theories are the work of a madman and cast aspersions on Gritz's distinguished military career. Cooper in turn claims Gritz is a CIA stooge, a 32nd degree Freemason and a Zionist. Cooper makes a fortune selling copies of his three books and charging the equivalent of R100 a head to those who wish to hear his lectures. His latest money-spinner is a top-secret video of the Kennedy assassination that he recently found. The R100 video shows Kennedy's driver turn around and shoot the president in the head. The weapon used is not a pistol, but "a gas pressure device developed by the aliens from the Trilateral Commission". At least that is what Cooper claims. The US television stations he hawked the tape to claim it was a poor-quality fake using chunks of the famous Zapruder film. Cooper maintains Kennedy was killed as he was about to blow the whistle on how aliens had invaded Earth and were in the process of taking over. The Jason Society - one of more than three dozen secret societies mentioned in Cooper's books - had just launched the Galileo probe mission, and Kennedy's whistle-blowing could have ruined the scheme, so Cooper's theory goes. The Galileo mission was not an attempt to examine Jupiter, but a secret attempt to change the universe. The Jason Society - a shadowy cult made up of Jewish bankers, Catholics and drug lords and presided over by Satan - had hatched a plot to ignite the atmosphere of Jupiter using a hydrogen bomb hidden on board the Galileo probe. Cooper's theory is that this would give earth two suns - exactly the same solar system the alien invaders have back home. Soon after this event - which was to have happened last year - the aliens would invade Earth. But for this to happen the races that could "cause trouble" needed to be wiped out. Cooper claims the aliens decided homosexuals, blacks and Hispanics were most likely to upset the plans for an alien invasion. As a result they were targeted with Aids. Once their populations are decimated the aliens will then invade Earth - and the cure for Aids will be made known. Cooper believes his Arizona Militia - who engage in regular training exercises and festivities with the KKK - will be the only humans left who are willing to fight off the alien invasion. According to Cooper the best thing we can do is stock up on canned foods - and buy an assault rifle. The aliens are coming - forget about Aids. -- The MailGuardian, September 08, 2000. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion
Re: [CTRL] Abortion and the English Language
Firstly this is a disussion group and nothing is being forced secondly your response is repeating the political formula's without thought Thirdly/..testing for peoplehood if I suggest that all people who commit abortions should have the responsibility of disposing of the non thing that has just died, what would most peoples reaction be? Also if the unborn baby is part of the mother only why is every cell different from the mother. And if an normal person went to have 3kg of healthy tissue removed a normal hospital would treat them as crazy( you want your heart removed because you dont want it to beat? Also secular religions have not clean hands ..name the secular grouping and some of its offspring will have murder and certainty of purpose to its cause. So murder of babies and old men are acceptable now, because that is the present morality. The level of argument does not lie here however it lies in fundamental philosphies of utilitarianism versus communitarianism / contractualism. Utilitarians want the maximum benefit to existing productive individuals. That is why they can also easily talk about infanticide(peter singer) and euthenasia. The people who control the conspiracy favour this approach because it make people easier to manipulate via the media. (a strong group identity is easier to manipulate from the inside but the one worlders are the perpetual insider/outsiders) John PS I originally sent this in tolook at the use of language not abortion -Original Message- From: nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, September 10, 2000 1:05 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Abortion and the English Language This is bogus logic, based on the a priori assumption that a fetus is a person. That a fetus is a person is not a fact, but a religious doctrine. As such it aplies only to the practitioners of those religions of which it is a tenet. Stop trying to cram your religion down the rest of our throats. Hasn't 1500 years of religious warfare been enough? When are you going to learn? Attempting to force your religion on others leads to violent resistance. Is that what you want? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
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The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order. --- Adolf Hitler, April 11, 1942, in "Hitler's Table-Talk at the Fuehrer's Headquarters 1941-1942", Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaeum Verlag, Bonn, 1951) Hitler also believed that christianity was a jewish conspiracy to destroy Rome--there he agrees with Lloyd. John A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] The War on South Africa-1
This is an old booklet dating back from 1977 giving details of what was being planned for south africa. Apartheid was not a sustainable system for both moral and demographic reasonss but could have developped into something closer to the swiss system.(my prefferred option for SA). However the forces arrayed against the country made sure that there would be war and terror. Be as it may, this gives an interesting if dated look to what happened. John The War on South Africa-Aida Parker Foreword THE SERIES of articles which recently appeared in The Citizen - US Secret War on South Africa - and now collated in this booklet infuriated some readers, delighted others, puzzled many more. Why, they asked, should the rulers of the most powerful capitalist, democratic nation on earth deliberately set out to destabilise the only capitalist, democratic nation in Africa? South Africans are not alone in asking such questions. As far back as July, 1972, Fortune magazine in a special supplement on South Africa commented editorially that there must by now be a lot of businessmen who are puzzled about the unique, emotionally charged character of hostility to South Africa. US and European businessmen who invest there, athletes who represent South Africa at international events, and trade unionists who have represented it at the International Labour Organisation have been treated as pariahs by a considerable body of world opinion. The same body of world opinion seems relatively unconcerned about the whole denials of human and civil rights in the Soviet bloc, in much, if not most the Third World, end across most of Africa itself. It is important to point out that while the Carter Administration has for the first time brought the American attack on South Africcl into the open, agencies of the US have in fact been busy trying to dislodge the established South African Government for many years. Why? The Prusssian General von Claueewitz said the three main causes of war were almost always: - A desire for someone elses territory. -A desire for someone elses markets. - A desire for someone elses wealth. To a great degree this is a war of strategic minerals South Africa has them. America Wants them. But many Informed people today believe there is another and even more sinister motive behind the US secret war on South Africa. Under President Jimmy Carter, almost all key decision-maker posts in the US Administration are held by members of an elite international organization known as the Trilateral Commission; Founded and funded in July, 1973, by billionaire banker Mr David Rockefeller as an offshoot of the enormously powerful Council on Foreign Relations (Americas so-called invisible Government), the Trilateralists believe that the time has come to make an energetic thrust for a New World Order. To achieve this New World Order they are already seeking an accommodation with the Russians. And, as a further move, certain obstacle countries must be removed. These include such fiercely independent sovereign states as Israel and South Africa. Israel has already heard her warning signals. Now South Africa is hearing hers. That is what this book is all about. --- Secret US war on South Africa THE CITIZEN today begins a series of startling disclosures on the secret war which the Carter Administration is waging against South Africa. it is an operation is which: - Opinion against South Africa is being mobilized in such not seen in the US on a scale and intensity since the anti-Vietnam War crusade. - - Foreign Governments, through US embassies are being pressured into withdrawing or reducing investment in South Africa. - Agencies of the US Government are actively trying to destabilise the postion here by generous assistance to resistance movements, Black Consciousness bodies and would be Black leaders. The US electorate generally knows little, if anything, about the ramifications of a campaign organised and sponsored by the liberal-international wing of the State Department and its counterparts in the Central Intelligence Agency. This liberal-international wing is now well-placed in the White House hierarchy and is exercising a decisive influence on the Carter Administrations policies. These elements have decided that the Whites of South Africa are finished. The war now being waged is to ensure that the end of White rule, and the substitution of Black majority rule, is achieved as speedily as possible - and that when the Blacks take over, the US will have a special and friendly relationship with them, whether they are pro- or anti-Marxist. My inquiries prove that: 1. South Africa is now No 1 on the American liberal hit list, ranking higher even than Rhodesia or Chile. 2. Over the past three years, in an attempt to slow or stop the rapid erosion of goodwill between Pretoria and Washington, Pretoria has found it expedient to tolerate gross interference in its domestic affairs, at an
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Huge Boycotts Planned US RADICALS, using their anti-Vietnam War tactics and supported by certain top members of the Carter Administration, are busy on a national campaign aimed at stepping up anti-South African business and sports boycotts. I was told from Washington last night: The vendetta against South Africa is picking up speed quickly. The radical groups are organising their opposition to South Africa in exactly the same way in which they organised the civil rights struggle and whipped up the anti-Vietnam war psychosis. The same campaign tactics have been taken out of the cellar, dusted off and launched on a nation-wide scale. The great danger is that some of these militants, men like Vice-President Walter Mondale and Andy Young, are now backed by the White-House. The basic plan will is: First, all universities in the US have been systematically canvassed with a plea to sell shares in any company operating in South Africa: Second, all the city councils with Black majority or a near-Black majority have been approached to adopt resolutions urging officials not to buy products from any company trading with South Africa. Such resolutions have already been passed by a number of leading city councils. An extension of this operation is to demand that State legislatures pass similar resolutions. The labour Committee of the New York State Legislature has already approved such a draft Bill. This is now before the Legislatures Wages and Means Committee. in addition, annual meetings of the larger corporation dealing with South Africa are being systematically attended by radical groups and the shareholders forced to vote on the South African issues. This is only the beginning of a campaign aimed at involving students nationwide. in sport, a vast organisation is being developed along the lines of the very successful British organisation, headed by Peter Hain and Dennis Brutus. US institute used a anti-SA spearhead BECAUSE Pretoria trusted the US, no continuous, concentrated effort has ever been made to monitor overt and covert American activities against South Africa. Today, however, I can disclose details of how one of Americas richest and most powerful establishment organisations - handling huge US Government and State Department funds -has been used as one of their main spearheads by liberals and radicals In their efforts to overthrow what they describe as South Africas White minority regime. This is the New York-based Africa-American Institute (AAI), an organisation which today faithfully reflects the anti-South African stance taken by the liberal-international wings of the State Department, the CIA and the White House hierarchy. In one of its more open moves, the AAI last December organised a five-day indaba at Maseru, attended by 116 delegates, including some of South Africa s most dedicated enemies. Ostensibly the meeting was called to discuss Southern African problems. But the main part of the meeting, held behind closed doors, was to discuss the most effective methods of breaking down apartheid, how to overthrow the White minority regime, and whether this should be achieved through peaceful or violent means. Delegates included the violently anti-South African Mr Charles Diggs; Senator Dick Clarke; Nigerias virulently anti-South African Brigadier Joseph Garba: David Sebelo, the New York-based Director of Foreign Relations for the banned Pan-Africanist Congress; representatives of the banned ANC; and members of the Black Peoples Convention. Much less well known to South Africans is that since 1962 AAI has spent an estimated RZO-million on Black educational programmes, vast amounts of this having been set aside for refugees and members of recognised liberation movements. Many of them have come back to take part in organized militancy. In this particular range of programmes, it has long been claimed that there is a strong connection between the AAI and the CIAs dirty tricks department. AAI is known to be closely connected with Negro radicals in the US, with ANC and PAC expatriates, with many banned South Africans and with White South African exiles in New York. AAI administers, on behalf of the State Department, the Southern African Student Programme (SASP) a shadowy undertaking launched in 1962 with the aid of the CIA to capture the coming revolution in Southern Africa by training exiles for posts in the post revolutionary governments. It handles large numbers of South African Blacks visiting the US as State Department guests, being entrusted with the crucial business of planning their itineraries, arranging cocktail parties and dinners, choosing the people they should meet. Significantly, perhaps, White South African guests are usually handled by other organisations. Although AAI is seldom mentioned in the South African Press, it has never made any secret of its commitment to radical change in this country. The first warning of its activities should
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Campaign to bar SA fmm all sport by 1980 SOUTH AFRICA will have to move - and move fast - if it is not to face total and complete exclusion from world sport before the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. That Is the target date laid down for a US and global sports boycott against South Africa now being swung into action by two formidable new US self-styled task forces. They are Group Action, comprising 74 militant and well-funded US anti-South African organisations, and ACCESS, the recently-formed American Co-ordinating Committee for equality in Sport. This is the first fully-co-ordinated American campaign against South African sporting links. Previous protests were mostly individual group efforts. South Africans should not regard the new threat as exaggerated. Not only do the campaigners include some of the most powerful action groups in the US, but there is good reason to believe that their movement has been sympathetically received by the White House. More particularly, one of the principal campaign advisers is academic-turned-activist Dennis Brutus, a Coloured poet, former Cape Town teacher and founder of SANROC (South African Non-racial Olympic Committee). Brutus, one of the most skilled of international operators and lobbyists and a far more effective campaigner than Peter Hain, has in recent years succeeded in getting South African kicked out of: The Olympics, FIFA, the world soccer body, world athletics and international cricket and rugby. Although he was banned in South Africa in 1962 under the Suppression of Communism Act, there is no real reason to believe Brutus is a Communist. The evidence points to his being a CIA man. His first work was published by the Mbari Writers and Artists Club, an ob-scure organisation maintained by CIA funds through the Farfield Foundation. Two of his closest associates in South Africa were Randolph Vigne and Neville Rubin, both recipients of CIA funds through the Farfield Foundation. Many of his American associations show CIA connections. Although as yet almost completely unknown to most South African sportsmen, ACCESS fields some imposing sponsors. Honorary chairman is Mr Leslie 0 Harriman, Nigerian Ambassador to the UN and chairman of the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid. Support organisations include: the American Friends Sewice Committee, recipient of CIA funds through various US foundations, including Ford and Rockefeller; the American Committee on Africa, 20 000 members, another CIA conduit; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Americans for Democratic Action; ARENA, the Institute for Sport and Social Analysis; Clergy and Laity Concerned; Gray Panthers; Methodist Fedoration for Social Action; Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity); Womens Division of Global Ministries; South African Students Movement; Sports for the People; Womens International League for Peace and Freedom; and Coalition of Concerned Black Americans. ACCESS co-ordinator is Professor Richard E Lapchick, Department of Political Science, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia. Lapchick recently gained his Ph D on a thesis analysing the structure of South African sport. Outlining his campaign programme, Lapchick says: ACCESS will use its network to attempt to block any and all competition with South Africa. While a major effort will be undertaken in tennis, attacks will be made in all sports. Tactics will include educational programmes, propaganda presentations to the spon-soring sports federations, letter-writing campaigns, TV, radio and newspaper in-terviews and, in 8ome cases, non-violent, direct action campaigns. Lapchick says that plans are well ahead to link in the US anti-South African epotts boycott with similar efforts in Britain, Australia, France, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, Sri Lanka and in African States through the OAU. The days of apartheid sports teams competing internationally are numbered, he claims. South African participation in US sport is being rapidly whipped up into a highly emotive political issue by US Negro spokesmen. Dr Jewel1 Handy Gresham, executive director of theCoalition of Concerned Black Americans, described as *a volunteer group of Black academics, lawyers, churchmen and community groups concerned with critical issues affecting Black citizens, says in an official Press release: American tennis. interests are on a collision course with the Black community and wider supporting public if efforts continue to be pressed by the US Tennis Association and its parent organisation, the international Lawn Tennis Federation, to force the acceptance of all-White South African players in international competition on American soil. Dr Gresham, a woman professor of English, discloses that CCBA has already begun negotiation with the US State Department. Mr Edmundson of the State Department ha8 made the point . . . that the President has the power, by proclamation, to suspend admission
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Training for liberation: US institutes key role THERE has recently been a tremendous furore in the US Congress over the fact that South Africa spends R 1,5-million a year on its information services in the US and that a few sugar officials accepted sponsored invitations to visit South Africa. Here again is an outstanding example of the Carter Administrations selective morality. Such indignation over South Africas expenditure of R1,5-million on perfectly open, above-board information services in the US (population, 2 17-million) looks a bit out of perspective when you examine what the American Goverment is spending on destabilising activities through various covert operations in South Africa (population, 24-million). What is more, while the US Government through its Foreign Agents Registration Act knows precisely how every cent of South African money is spent on in-formation and lobby services in the US, in South Africa no American is called to account. Not even the South African Government has the faintest idea how much US money is spent in this country. So trusting have the South Africans been that the Government does not even know the official budget allocation of the US Information Services in this country. To gain some picture of the huge sums of money involved in the US operation against South Africa, The Citizen will today again examine one of the key destabilising agencies: the African-American Institute, an organisation still virtually unknown to most South Africans. The aims of the AAI, operating almost entirely on US Government or tax-exempt foundation grants, in regard to South Africa, are quite simple. To accelerate by all possible means a transition to Black Government. - To ensure through training and educational programmes the availability of trained persons to take over that proposed Government. - To ensure by these means that such a Government would be favourably disposed to the US. The AAI has achieved phenomenal success in its onslaught on White South Africa. In Africa itself, it today probably has firmer links than the Russians with nearly all the major Southern African liberation movements. It has arranged for the technical training and education of hundreds of those now operating inside these movements. Internally and externally, it has masterminded many of the most successful propaganda campaigns waged against this country. 46 It has taken hundreds of South African Black, Indian and Coloured leaders, . many of them militants, to the US, and there ensured that these visitors are saturated with political influence which they, in turn, can spread further on their return. AAI supplies these people with propaganda material for use against the South African Government. Contacts are made on these travels which are maintained and developed so that the work initiated in the US can be continued later by post and further visits. Side by side with this, AAI has played a vital role in promoting the extremely damaging disinvestment campaign now under way against South Africa, and in educating churches, universities, trade unions and political, pressure groups on how to wage economic warfare against the Republic. A report entitled Refugee- Students from Southern Africa - Report of Workshop on the Training and IJtllisatlon of Refugee Students from Southern Africa, sponsored by the African-American Institute and Syracuse University at Lubin House, New York City, 18-19 April, 1967, illustrates the spirit and at-titude of the AAI towards Southern Africa. (AA1 in its literature never refers directly to South Africa. It always refers to Southern Africa or to minority-ruled countries in Southern Africa). Detailing what he calls conclusions from the conference, Mr E Jefferson Murphy, AAls Executive Vice-President, wrote: - It is of vital importance to provide education and training for refugees from ,Southern Africa for humanitarian reasons, because they are symbols of the struggle against racism and for the majority rule in their countries, and because they will be needed in the fight for freedom and in the subsequent process of nation building. ??The objectives of such training should be, first, to prepare students to participate effectively in the struggle for freedom and, second, to prepare them to contribute to their people In exile, to their country of asylum and ultimately to their home country when independence comes. - Scholarships for training should be awarded where possible to students affiliated with a liberation movement, and the training programme and efforts to assure trained students utilisation on return should be planned and carried out as much as possible in co-operation with liberation movements. - Whatever steps are taken to solve short-term problems, there is only one ultimate solution to the overall problem: that is the overthrow of minority regimes in Southern Africa and the liberation of the Southern tier of the continent. Participants
[CTRL] The War on South Africa-6 CIA MI6 funded early armed struggle
CIA MI6 funded early armed struggle 10 MAIL GUARDIAN August 18 to 24 2000 - Barry Streek An extraordinary claim. that Western intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA and MI6, were behind the earliest phases of the armed struggle against apartheid in South Africa, was published this week. The claim, printed in the latest edition of the investigative magazine Noseweek, suggests that the Western intelligence agencies funded the National Committee of Liberation (NLC), later renamed the African Resistance Movement (ARM). The article is based on previously unpublished National Intelligence Services documents in which the former government's intelligence arm says that the liberation movements were being backed by Western intelligence agencies. One of the people named in the article, Randolph Vigne, a key figure in ARM, said from London this week that the suggestion of Western intelligence funding for the organisation was "total and absolute nonsense". NLC-ARM, formed by dissident members of the Liberal Party; initiated its campaign of violence against buildings and strategic installations in 1!*)3, but collapsed after a number of members - including the former president of the National Union of South African Students, Adrian Leftwich - were arrested, and others, including Vigne, left the country. Another member of ARM, John Harris,was convicted for exploding a bomb at the Johannesburg station that killed an elderly woman and injured a number of other people. He was subsequently executed. The Noseweek article quotes extensively from a document, allegedly prepared by another leading ARM member, John Lang, which stated that NLC-ARM had acquired a four-seater aircraft, a 45-ton boat and various other assets. This document is said to have come into the possession of the security police at the time. The article says that with one exception, the late DE Montague Herman, the founders of NLC-ARM were not communists and it then speculates on who would have funded them. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
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Americas prolonged assault on gold 1 , FEW would deny that the US Government has for years worked hard to destabilize the South African economy. The efforts include the current disinvestment policy, an international credit and financial squeeze, pressure on US companies with South African sub-sidies, blocking of loans by international organisations and, most dangerous of ail, Americas prolonged holy war against gold. As recently as last September the American Press was crammed with long learned treatises on the price collapse of the barbarous metal, due to the US-dominated IMF gold auctions. Many were the prediction8 of disaster for the South African economy, culminating in hints of imminent revolution as a result. Simultaneously, a report by the Chiries Rivers ASSOCiates, commissioned by the US Department of Commerce, gave fuel to the US Liberal Estabiisment belief that Marxist and militant governments in Southern Africa would not seriously affect American access to natural resources. Now we come to two fundamental facts about South Africa: - 0 It is the worlds premier producer of gold, providing two-thirds of the wands supply of newly mined gold. ??It is the target of a furious world-wide attack for it8 policy of separate development. What is the link between these two facts? Today I am privileged to quote from The War on Gold, by British-born Professsor Antony Sutton, a former Research Fellow at the Hoover institute for War, Revolution and Peace, and author of a number of major works on the inter-national monetary system. The War on Gold, (Valiant Publishers, Sandton) deals extensively with the US assault on South Africa. in it, Professor Sutton makes a number of disclosures likely to shock South Africans and American8 alike. He contends: The attack on South Africa has little to do with it8 racial Or domestic policies; these are propaganda counterparts to the war on gold. A moments thought wiil suggest that a Kissinger who is unmoved by Soviet persecution of Jews and political dissidents is unlikely to be moved by the lack of voting rights for Black South Africans. Basic to anti-South African hostility is the fact that South Africa is a geological freak, 8 vast storehouse of mineral wealth, an inviting target for every imperialistic cabal in the world, the Soviet Union and the US included. US demands for a war on gold, he says, began surfacing as far back as 1966. In that same year, the tax-exempt Carnegie Endowment for international Peace, 62 ostensibly studying ways to end Black persecution in South Africa, published a study (Ameiio C Leiss, Apartheid UN Collective Measures) detailing how a UN attack could be made on South Africa. The report quoted military calculations including the number of troops required for the attack (93 000), the air power required (3 000 flying hours) and the estimated casualties (18 900 to 37 800). We can set aside the obviously gross underestimates by the presumably amateur generals at Carnegie. More pertinently, how does a tax-exempt peace foundation get tangled up in promoting wars on the worlds largest producer of gold? This Carnegie Report. . .was signed by Joseph E Johnson, President of the Foundation. Johnson is less well known for another position he holds: Honorary Secretary-General ofor the US at the Bilderberger meetings. Prince Bernard (of Lockheed payoff fame) is chairman of the Biiderberger group. The Bilderborgers, otherwise known as The Navigators, are described as global thinkers, supposedly dedicated to strengthening Western ideals. in practice, the group is in the forefront of planning a One-World New Order. Such a New Order would of course be under US (that is, Wail Street) dominance. in other words, it would be the same dollar imperialism that is at the root of the war on gold. The Carnegie Endowment is an integral part of the US Establisment. In many ways it is closer to the centre of policy-making than the Washington bureaucrats. I\ has a vested interest in promoting dollar imperialism. As part of the Carnegie programme to alter the future on behalf of dollar imperialism, the Leiss Report recommended a boycott on gold as a prelude to military action. This 1965 report noted that export of gold and gold by-products accounted for 77 percent of South Africas gross national product. Gold is the most impor-tant single earner of foreign exchange, the report stressed. The study also in-traduced some shaky reasoning contending that gold mining would decline before 1970 and predicted that by 1981 only four of the existing mines on the Witswatersrand may still be in production. The Leiss Report concluded, says Professor Sutton, that it would be next to impossible to prevent gold from moving into trade channels even if complete economic measures were applied. it observed that a successfui boycott on gold would, if followed, either require some extremely intensive policing operations or some method of
[CTRL] not the war on SA- The New Cold War
I send this at the same time to give a slightly different perspective on the NWO from a left wing perspective. It mirrors the other sends in that it shows how the elite have narrowed opportunities inmany different countries(as well as in The Europe itself). I find the Larouchian overtones of chomsky and pilger interesting and shows their allegiances? John http://www.redpepper.org.uk/cularch/xalmeida.html The New Cold War In May 1994, to a packed house at the Almeida Theatre, Islington, London, Noam Chomsky appeared in debate with John Pilger. Red Pepper hosted the event; Harold Pinter was chair. Hilary Wainwright [then political editor of Red Pepper; now editor]: Friends and comrades, welcome to this first Red Pepper forum, and also to the magazine. We wanted a way to present or re-establish the art of public conversation. In a sense it's more creative, particularly in the complex times we're in, than relying on an adversarial debate. It's more participatory than just a lecture, and perhaps more personal and pleasurable than a traditional public meeting. It's appropriate that we're having this public conversation and that the Almeida Theatre is our forum. I'd like to thank Jonathan Kent and Ian McDiarmid for allowing us to have this theatre. I don't need to introduce any of the three participants. They're all people who are fearless in searching out the truth and then finding every possible platform to make it public. But the more they discover the truth, the more public platforms are closed to them. They're individuals who in their particular chosen craft have achieved the highest possible skills, but aren't bogged down by the narrow professionalism that has stifled British political and intellectual life. In that sense they're that desperately scarce resource, an engaged public intellectual. And just before handing over to Harold Pinter I want to remember another exemplary public intellectual - Ralph Miliband - who died last Saturday, and I think that his determination to create an independent and internationalist left will inspire Red Pepper and be one of the spirits behind this conversation. Harold Pinter: Thank you. Let me just say that what I intend to do is embark on this discussion for a while, and then in due course I'd like to invite you to participate and ask any questions of Noam Chomsky and John Pilger that you wish. So let me kick off by saying that John, this title, the New Cold War, was your suggestion because you believe, quite properly I think, that the term the New World Order had been over used and was rather tired. So could you define a little more precisely what you mean by the New Cold War? John Pilger: Well, of course it's heavily ironic: the original Cold War never ended. The Old Cold War was a war of attrition between the great nuclear powers, but it was a rhetorical stand-off, too. So often we were invited and manipulated to see it simply as a conflict between East and West, yet the Cold War always was, and still is, a war against the majority of humanity. It was a war fought with the blood of "expendable" people over strategic position, resources and it was a war of control - it was an imperialist war. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States fought in the Third World was relatively insignificant compared with the war fought by the US against people trying to improve their position in the world. The Soviets never matched the Americans as imperialists; they were lousy imperialists outside their own borders. The US established a network of control throughout the world in the postwar period, and that control has been shored up ever since. Now when the Communist world collapsed, of course the excuse to fight this war against the Third World collapsed with it, so other excuses had to be found, and these have never really been satisfactory. For instance, during the Gulf War, we went through a period of the "demon" excuse. Saddam Hussein was elevated to new Hitler status. This didn't really work but it did for a while; it certainly worked long enough for the US to lead a very considerable force against Iraq and cause the deaths of perhaps 200,000 people, wrecking a large part of the Middle East economy. There have also been excuses of the Noriega variety: the reason for invading Panama was that Noriega was an international drug dealer, child molester and pornographer, and whatever he was, he had to be caught. Well of course, those weren't the real reasons at all. The US was demonstrating its power yet again. Panama began the New Cold War, in which an Orwellian language would be employed that would make war equal to peace. For these actions against dictators who had previously been in the pay of, and with a client relationship to, the US, could be put down in the cause of a new peaceful world. But of course this was so transparent, there wasn't really any basis for people
[CTRL] Conspiracy theories fuel row over Aids crisis in South Africa(Independent, UK)
-Original Message- From: Taylor, John (JH) (Solvents) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Conspiracy theories fuel row over Aids crisis in South Africa (Independent, UK) Conspiracy theories fuel row over Aids crisis in South Africa By Karen MacGregor in Durban Independent On-line - 4 September 2000 -- South Africa's health minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, has fuelled the debate on theHIV-Aids crisis in the country by circulating a controversial theory that claims the virus was introduced into Africa by a global conspiracy intent on reducing the continent's population. The theory is expounded by American author William Cooper in a chapter in his book Behold, a Pale Horse. He claims the Illuminati - a conspiracy to control the world - introduced Aids to Africa via the smallpox vaccine in 1978, even though the last recorded case of the disease was in 1977. He also alleges that a known cure is being kept secret until enough people have died. The health minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, circulated copies of the chapter to the health ministers of South Africa's nine provinces at their last meeting. On her instruction, a local newspaper revealed yesterday, her parliamentary officer also distributed copies to provincial premiers. The Western Cape health minister, Nick Koornhof, says that with it he received an anonymous letter, marked top secret and "for African eyes only", warning that the Aids virus could be in any vaccine coming into Africa from the West. Click here for full story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-09/af040900.shtml http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Africa/2000-09/af040900.shtml A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Globalisation: The Doctrine of Inevitable Revolution in Reverse
ER2000-09-#02 Globalisation: The Doctrine of Inevitable Revolution in Reverse (Economic Reform, Vol. 12, No. 8, August 2000) The Civil Commons Globalisation: The Doctrine of Inevitable Revolution in Reverse by John McMurtry The slogan "Marxism is dead" was proclaimed almost immediately on the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Very soon after, a strange ideological inversion occurred. In place of "the inevitable victory of the proletariat" which Marx had predicted almost 150 years earlier, there was the "inevitable process of globalisation" instead. The victory of the working classes of the world, according to scientific socialism, was inevitable because of historically deepening contradictions between capitalist productive forces and relations, contradictions which would by dialectical necessity issue in socialism (or "the first stage of communism" as Marx put it). This defining certitude of the greatest oppositional movement in the history of capitalism did not, as we know, turn out to be in accord with the facts. Much has been made of the failure of this "inevitable revolution." An industry of post-modernism has arisen to attack Marx's meta-narrative of necessity for violating the contingent, the plural and the free. But a still deeper irony of history has emerged which no-one in the post-modern global order has yet noticed. The certitude of an inevitable world revolution has merely shifted sides. What was once abhorred by liberal theory as the metaphysic of "Marxist economic determinism" has become instead the neo-liberal program of "inevitable economic restructuring." What was formerly condemned as a brutal violation of people's freedom to decide how they live was now declared a matter in which "there is no alternative." All societies on earth have now been issued one decree. "Society must adjust to the necessary changes of globalisation, or perish." As for the reversal of Marxist and market positions on the question of knowing history in advance and the economic necessity of society-wide shock treatments and social re-engineerings, this astonishing transferral of superpower identities has transpired in the dark regions of the Western ruling-class psyche. Its psychopathological projection and re-introjection remains repressed today. But the irony is that no moral anchor was more deep-seated before the fall of "the Marxist state" than repudiation of such "denials of free will" and of "moral choice." No doctrine was thought more objectionable by such cornerstone social ethicists as Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin than one prescribing belief in whole societies' submission to "the external forces of historical necessity." The heroic story of Western civilisation was finally triumphant, most believed, when such scientistic predestinations of world power had been defeated by the free world in the victory over Nazism, and the defeat of "the evil empire" of the USSR But hardly had this last historic victory of global freedom been won than memory of the old enemy of historical inevitability dissolved unremarked into thin air. The "global market revolution" has ever since been declared as an overriding destiny, determining the future as surely as the laws of nature make objects fall and heat rise. Few in this era dare to declare a contrary belief. The test is simply to look at any day's newspapers or television broadcast to see if this ultimate assumption is once overtly questioned by any representative of the world's decision-making institutions or those who comment on their policies. The ineluctable destiny of all societies on earth to compete for survival within this final global order-no alternative is conceived possible-has achieved a status beyond doctrinal dogma. It has become a regulating principle of public consciousness. So occupied with its demands are the mass media across cultures and continents, so commandeered by its funding regime have the academies and sciences of the world become, that one comes to believe that indeed this "new revolution of shareholder value" is inevitable. When Winston finally confesses in Orwell's 1948 novel 1984 that "at last he loved Big Brother," he sounded the tocsin of a time to come. One day soon, in under a half century, all would assume as their home of life what they had earlier set their soul against-an order imposed on them by wheels of a higher, inexorable power whose finally defining command is that there is no alternative but to submit to it. More astoundingly, all human will would be urged to dedicate itself above all to serving its demands. When Margaret Thatcher made the slogan "There is no alternative" so famous that the acronym TINA has since become a transnational watchword of recognition, the backbone of six centuries of British working class struggle first resisted as a battle for the future. But saturation conditioning of consciousness with no other public message permitted reproduction eventually overwhelms the mind. If the mass media's spaces are
[CTRL] Evidence shows cannibalism by ancient Indians
Evidence shows cannibalism by ancient Indians By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, Associated Press (September 6, 2000 2:20 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com http://www.nandotimes.com ) - Piles of human bones burned and boiled, smashed and scraped. Cooking pots smeared with blood. A few years ago, anthropologists in the American Southwest found the grisly remains of what appeared to be an ancient cannibal feast, but they lacked the biological proof - until now. Laboratory tests on some of the artifacts, including a piece of human excrement, have revealed traces of a human protein that scientists say is the first direct evidence of cannibalism among the Anasazi, whose empire stretched into present-day Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. "This proves they put the meat in their mouths," said Richard Marlar, a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver who developed the biochemical tests to detect the protein. "If you didn't eat human beings, this protein would not show up." The excavation site, consisting of three collapsed pit dwellings nicknamed Cowboy Wash near Dolores, Colo., was occupied about 1150 A.D. It was abandoned after seven people were butchered there. The findings were published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. Note how the cannibals are not called Amerindians or Native Indians A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Israel as part of the NWO-
Palestinian textbooks do not encourage cooperation Ha'aretz:Palestinian textbooks do not encourage cooperation Ha'aretz 3 September 2000 Palestinian pupils returning to school in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have received new school textbooks on civics. These books are the first written specifically for Palestinians and are important because they have replaced the Jordanian and Egyptian volumes that the Palestinians have used for years. Many Israelis hoped the new textbooks would emphasize Israeli-Palestinian cooperation and peace partnership. However, the Palestinians claim that the purpose of the texts is their educational and not their political value. Maps in a sixth-grade civics textbook depict a shape separating the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but do not say that the shape is Israel. Nor does the map include Tel Aviv, although it does pinpoint other Israeli cities. Israel is characterized as an "occupier" and treated more like an old enemy than a new peace partner. "The Palestinian people were expelled from their land as a result of the Israeli occupation of Palestine," the civics text says, "and have been subjected to massacres and banishment from their land to neighboring countries." --- Rabin Assassination/Commentary: THE RABIN MURDER EXPRESS ROLLS ALONG- THIS TIME ITS ELIAHU BEN-ELISSAR by Barry Chamish [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Author, "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin" and "Israel Betrayed", both available from [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] MODIIN, Yom Shlishi (Third Day-"Tuesday"), 5 Elul, 5760 (Gregorian Date: September 5, 2000) (Hijri Date: 6 Jumad Thani, 1421), Root Branch: One week after P.M. Ehud Barak fired seven Israeli diplomats, one of them, the Israeli ambassador to France, Eliahu Ben-Elissar was dead. According to the Jerusalem Post, "The circumstances of his death have sparked a number of rumors. 'The rumors surrounding his death are vicious', a Foreign Ministry spokesman said". And why shouldn't they be? Here is what we have been told. On the morning of Shabbat, August 12, Ben-Elissar arrived at the Hotel Atala, a rather obscure and unimposing establishment which for years has been where the Israeli embassy has put up guests and arranged meetings. Ben-Elissar was not accompanied by his bodyguards. As Maariv observed, "In Israel, questions are being asked about the ambassador's security arrangements. The central question is why Ben-Elissar arrived without his bodyguards, which according to regulations, must accompany him every time he leaves his apartment". Missing, also, was Ben-Elissar's French police protection. According to the Jerusalem Post, "A special branch of the French Police usually shadows every move made by VIPs at risk". But Ben-Elissar's Israeli and French bodyguards were not anywhere near him, "apparently at his own request". At noon, Ben-Elissar, aged 68, told hotel staff he wasn't feeling well. By 1:30 P.M. he was dead of a heart attack, though according to one embassy employee quoted by Maariv, "He was in the peak of health. He never complained of poor health and was rarely ill". French police conducted a most perfunctory investigation and within hours declared Ben-Elissar's death natural. Of course, these same police similarly concluded that Princess Diana died in "an accident". Call it a coincidence, but on the day of Ben-Elissar's death, I received the following e-mail, paraphrased because of the halting English: "I just read your article, 'Rigged'. How did you know about the French connection to Rabin's murder? I discovered it three months ago after a discussion with an agent of French Intelligence. It's all true". I suspect that Ben-Elissar also knew about the French connection to Rabin's murder. The only possible reason he would have interrupted his Sabbath to go to the hotel was to meet someone. Yet not one press report reached this obvious conclusion, thus no one is asking who the ambassador met on his final morning. Whoever the person with whom Ben-Elissar met was, he was either a guest of the Israeli embassy staying at the hotel or was familiar enough with embassy habits to choose it for a fatal meeting. The following scenario makes the most sense to me due to the paucity of information available. At least one French intelligence official has been leaking the fact that his government helped murder Yitzhak Rabin in order to place their agent, Shimon Peres, in the Israeli Prime Minister's office. Word reached Barak that Ben-Elissar had been apprised of the truth and Barak had Ben-Elissar recalled. To avert suspicion, Barak also recalled six other diplomats at the same time. But in his last days in Paris, Ben-Elissar continued gathering the facts. Ben-Elissar was lured to the hotel with the promise of additional proofs and told that he must arrive without any security. Once there, the "informant" spiked Ben-Elissar's coffee or utilized another means to initiate a mortal cardiac arrest. One more influential individual, who knew too much about Rabin's
[CTRL] Abortion and the English Language
Abortion and the English Language by Joseph Sobran In his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell analyzed the corrupting influence of dishonest politics on the way we speak and think. There is no better example than the effect abortion has had on our language. Though abortion -- including the killing of viable infants at the verge of birth -- is now a sacrament of the Democratic Party, nobody admits to being "pro-abortion"; they are "pro-choice." This is an obvious lie. The right to choose anything presupposes the right to live. The child, fetus, embryo, or whatever you want to call the entity growing within its mother's womb has no "choice" about being killed. It will never have a choice about anything. The pro-abortion side is pro-abortion in the same way that advocates of slavery were pro-slavery. "Oh," they protest, "but we don't insist that everyone get an abortion; we only want people" -- that is, mothers -- "to have a choice!" Then nobody was pro-slavery either, since nobody insisted that every white man own a slave; they were "pro-choice." They wanted each white man to be "free" to decide whether to buy slaves; or they wanted every state to decide whether to permit slavery. Of course they overlooked the obvious fact that the slaves themselves had no choice; in their minds this was irrelevant. The bad conscience of the pro-aborters shows in their studious avoidance of the word kill to describe what abortion is. Why be coy about it? We don't mind speaking of "killing" when we kill lower life forms. Lawn products kill weeds; mouthwashes kill germs; insecticides kill bugs; mousetraps kill mice. If the human fetus is an insignificant little thing, why shrink from saying an abortion kills it? But the pro-abortion side prefers the evasive euphemism that abortion "terminates a pregnancy." As Orwell noted, dishonest people instinctively prefer the abstract to the concrete. Abstract language avoids creating unpleasant mental images that might cause horror and shame; concrete language may remind us of what we are really doing. This is why military jargon dehumanizes the targets of bombs and artillery: so that soldiers and pilots won't vividly imagine the men, women, and children they are killing. Part of the job of military leadership is to anesthetize the consciences of fighting men. And political leaders (who usually start the wars in the first place) do their part by describing the bombing of cities as "defending freedom." In the modern world people are trained to avoid looking directly at the effects of violence they commit or sanction. If possible, the killing is delegated to specialists, who themselves are increasingly remote from their victims -- as in recent U.S. bombings of Iraq and Yugoslavia, where American casualties were nearly zero. Most of us don't mind if our military kills people on the other side of the world; we feel no pain, even vicariously. We may even buy the official explanation that our bombs are "preventing another Holocaust." It may seem otherwise to the Iraqis and Slavs on whose homes those bombs are falling. But just as the news media refrain from showing us what those bombs actually do, they never show us what an abortion looks like. They even refuse to carry ads by abortion opponents, on grounds that pictures of slaughtered fetuses are in "bad taste." They certainly are in bad taste; all atrocities are. But the media are willing to show some atrocities, as in the killing fields of Rwanda a few years ago. Since we're forever debating abortion, why not let us see one? Why the blackout? The answer, of course, is that the news media themselves are pro-abortion. They adopt the dishonest language of the pro-abortion side: pro-choice, fetus, terminate, and -- my favorite -- abortion provider (to make the abortionist sound like a humanitarian). A few years ago NBC produced a sympathetic movie about a woman seeking an abortion -- Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" of Roe v. Wade. But when Mrs. McCorvey later changed her mind and became an active opponent of abortion, did NBC do a sequel? Unimaginable. We have to keep our guard up at all times against political language, especially in seemingly bland journalism, that is subtly infected with propagandistic purposes. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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.
[CTRL] UK whites to be minority by 2100
They should change the name of england to NWO1.. John Whites will be an ethnic minority in Britain by the end of the century. Analysis of official figures indicate that, at current fertility rates and levels of immigration, there will be more non-whites than whites by 2100. http://www.guardian.co.uk/racism/0,2759,180308,00.html -- Chris Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh. Psychorealist and author of 'THE g FACTOR' [Wiley DePublisher,* 1996]. Fired 1997 for resisting ignoracism, feminazism, environmentostalinism and paedohysteria. Extracted UKP12,000 payout 1999 from Edinburgh University -- the maximum obtainable in UK 1997 law for unfair dismissal. Entirely vindicated by new academic researches published 1998-2000. Shown to have been 18 years ahead of the times in ideas about the biology of lesbianism (Guardian 30 March 2000). From July 2000, appointed UK Public Policy Consultant for Woodhill Foundation (USA). For Curriculum Vitae, psychology articles and latest news, see home page http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/index.htm. LATEST PICTURES OF BRAND AND PRINCESS ARE NOW SHOWING. For last press publicity and picture, see http://www.sunday- times.co.uk/ 23 vii 00 ('Sacked race row lecturer offered job by millionaire') and 30 vii 00 ('Addicts to be offered cash for sterilisation'). For an active website opposing the feminazism which is the main plank of PeeCee religion and Neosocialist politics in Britain, go to http://www.ihatefeminism.com. * Unlike Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', 'THE g FACTOR: General Intelligence and Its Implications' cannot be purchased in bookshops. Modern peecee censorship really works -- unopposed by the West's risible state-dependent 'universities.' -- "If they could ever be made to understand the American notion of diversity, Asians would politely wait until we had left the room and then die laughing. Any discussion of the real advantages of ethnic diversity usually manages to establish only one benefit people really care about: good ethnic restaurants. a large-scale survey called the National Study of the Changing Work force found that more than half of all workers said they preferred to work with people who were not only the same race as themselves, but were the same sex and had the same level of education. Even more probably felt that way but were afraid to say so." Jared TAYLOR, 1997, 'The myth of diversity.' American Renaissance, vii/viii. __ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
Re: [CTRL] William Cooper,AIDS and South Africa
Acout 30-40% of blacks believe that Aids is a white conspiracy to kill them. It may or may not be true that the CIA did such things(see the other side of deception-ostrovsky), but I dont believe it. However the accusation will have an effect similar to the blood libels against the Jews in the middle ages. (Remember that most blacks still feel closer to the witch doctor than the priest in southern africa) The minister was interviewed on the radio on tuesday and refused to say even upon repeated questioning if she believed HIV causes Aids. She also got very upset half way through the interview that the interviewer(a mhlungu) was calling her by her first namethe interviewer just ended up calling the whole thing bizarre and ending the interview. The ANC has now called on the interviewer(John Robbie ) to be sacked and said in effect that the radio station (owned by Mr Katz) will now strugle to get anyone from government to be availlable for interview. John John -Original Message- From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:54 AM Subject: [CTRL] William Cooper,AIDS and South Africa Tuesday, September 5 3:47 AM SGT S. Africa in hot water over AIDS again CAPE TOWN, Sept 4 (AFP) - The South African government is in hot water once again over AIDS -- this time for circulating a chapter of a book which claims international conspirators introduced the killer disease to Africa in a bid to reduce its population. Patricia Lambert, spokeswoman for Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, maintained Monday that the minister had circulated the chapter from William Cooper's "Behold, a Pale Horse" to provincial health ministers as part of a routine exchange of information. The fact that the minister had passed on the document, which was sent unsolicited and anonymously to the ministry, did not mean she identified with it, Lambert told journalists in Cape Town. "We've seen pretty odd stuff, and this was some of it," she added. Cooper claims the Illuminati, an alleged international conspiracy to take over the world, introduced AIDS to Africa in 1978 through the smallpox vaccine in an attempt to reduce the African population. The minister's spokeswoman was speaking after Sandy Kalyan, a spokeswoman for the main opposition Democratic Alliance, said she was shocked the minister appeared to be taking Cooper's views seriously. Kalyan said Cooper was responsible for a bizarre conspiracy theory pulling together the assassination of US president John Kennedy, alien invasions and AIDS into a plot by renegade Central Intelligence Agency members to reduce world population. The distribution of the document follows controversy earlier this year over President Thabo Mbeki's courting of foreign AIDS dissidents, some of whom believe AIDS does not exist, and others who believe it is caused by poverty and poor hygiene, not by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Western Cape provincial health minister Nick Koornhof has urged Tshabalala-Msimang to distance herself from the theory. Kalyan said the minister's office had also distributed copies of the document to all provincial premiers. "The minister has not given an indication of her intentions, but it is greatly worrying that this document, which rightly belongs in a rubbish bin, should be distributed with apparently serious intent at a high level," she said. Lambert said that under the constitution, provincial and national ministers shared responsibility for health issues. "The minister receives a great deal of information from many sources, which she distributes to the provinces. "As far as we're concerned there's nothing unusual at all (in this case), because it's part of stuff she routinely sends to the provinces so they can be aware of the kind of stuff that's coming into her office." Asked if there was any vetting of material being circulated,Lambert said that in the light of the current debate on AIDS, Tshabalala-Msimang sent "everything" on. "It certainly doesn't mean the minister is persuaded by this theory," Lambert said. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Who Are The Scumbags?-money and the NWO
http://wealth4freedom.com/ELITE.html WHO ARE THE SCUMBAGS? from an article by Roger Thibault I spoke with Robert Henry Goldsborough this morning, 9/23/98, to add a capping touch to this article on Who Controls Clinton. Robert H. Goldsborough is a former staff investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and is president of The American Research Foundation, in Baltimore, Maryland. Undoubtedly, Mr. Goldsborough is the worlds leading authority on the dangers of the New World Order. He is a devout Catholic and graduate of Mount Saint Marys and Georgetown University. As if to forestall the heart of our discussion, I did not start off by asking Mr. Goldsborough who he specifically thought were the top four elite wealthy who controlled the world. I wanted to build up to that! Certainly, the guesses of many readers would be correct in regards to just who this group of power elite were. However, Robert added the follow-up information, and background info to give a very succinct short article on what they were about. For some reason, I was not expecting Mr. Goldsborough to be so open in his discussion with me. He went right to the heart of every question I asked him. He told me, in his best estimate, who the top four world elite were whom he thought controlled the world. After explaining the nature of my call, I asked Mr. Goldsborough if he believed that it was possible for those who have most recently come into great wealth (from oil, software, computers, etc.) to rise to this echelon of world control. Now, the riches of the four elite at the top have more properly come from Old World Wealth , or wealth amassed early on in this century by the international banking families. I spoke for example of Bill Gates - was it possible for Mr. Gates to rise to the top with his great wealth? Mr. Goldsborough explained that weighing the assets of Bill Gates as opposed to J.D. Rockefeller Sr. against the GNP of the country, the wealth of J.D.R. far outweighed that of Bill Gates. Bill Gates, worth perhaps 59 or 60 billion dollars, still paled in the shadow of the GNP corrected wealth of J.D. - perhaps 200 billion dollars. He did indicate that Bill Gates has made some movement toward the goals of the New World Order, primarily in the area of population control, with a 2 ½ million dollar gift to John Hopkins University somehow related to Planned Parenthood. Robert indicated that this was a mere trifling compared to Ted Turner in these regards. In these same regards - New World Money (oil, computers, etc.), Mr. Goldsborough told me that Hewlett Packard left between 1-2 billion dollars towards endowments for those groups spearheading birth control and education. So, again, we have modern wealth working towards the New World Order, but still paling in comparison to the money available and held by the power elite. Certainly, J.D. Rockefeller Sr. has been one of the controlling elite dominating the world. The Rockefeller wealth was discussed above. There have been divisions in the Rockefeller money, however, and Mr. Goldsborough does not seem to believe that J.D. Rockefeller III is currently one of the top four power elite. Yes, the money of Mr. Carnegie, a Scotsman and Socialist at heart was discussed, as well as the riches of the Mellon family. On the Mellon side, we have the connection to/ownership of Gulf Oil, and the Mellon National Bank. We also have the foundations that have sprung up from these families that have helped to promote Socialism and in effect the New World Order. Even here though, we have just a sampling of real wealth, of real control. Yes, we discussed Ted Turner in brief, and earlier pioneers in world domination such as Jacob Schiff and Otto Kahn, but Jacob and Otto are long gone, and we will save Ted and his wannabe aspirations for a later time. Certainly, Ted is helping pioneer the way for trails of dead babies through his unprecedented support of the UN and population control. Still though, we have to look further for the power elite. Enter Edward Bronfman, leader of the World Jewish Congress, head of Seagrams, leading shareholder of Dupont, and most recently a mover and shaker in Hollywood finances. Consider Edward Bronfman number one power elite, at least one of four. Edward and I have a lot in common. I used to work for Dupont. Edward tells Dupont what to do. Enter Robert Rubin, Secretary of Treasury for the United States. Enter number two in the power elite club of four. Robert Rubin has incomparable power. He controls the disposition of the funding from the IMF. This is largely your money folks, and Robert wants you to ante up some more. While at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Rubins largest customer was the Government of Mexico. While Secretary of the US Treasury, Mr. Rubin saw to the bailing out of the failing Mexican economy by the US and the IMF. Yes, this IMF, Robert s client. Maybe Mr. Rubin was not necessarily looking out for the poor Mexican families, but was protecting
[CTRL] SHIRAZ ON THE POTOMAC
ON THE POTOMAC Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:32:18 +0200 SHIRAZ ON THE POTOMAC The Trial of the Shiraz Jews and The Pollard Case Jewish Press (NY)- Sept 1 2000 by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein [Note: The characters in this story are fictional. All the facts cited about the Pollard case are true.] [Truncateds Extract only: for full article contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Ali Mostophi, second officer at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations of the Islamic Republic of Iran smiled to himself when he saw Jack Ferguson approaching. As often as protocol and the rule book allowed, the young American, a junior officer in the diplomatic corps, sought out Mostophi at the 13th floor lounge at the UN. Ferguson enjoyed prying off-the-record observations and analysis from him. Nothing earth-shattering, but it made Mostophi feel like a bit of a mentor to someone, and it had been a long while since young people in the full bloom of their idealism looked up to him. Anticipating their usually friendly banter, Mostophi was taken aback by the edge in Ferguson's voice. "You know that I've never swallowed the conventional line that paints Iranians in shades of black. But after this Shiraz fiasco, how can any educated person see your people as anything but primitive fanatics?" The news headlines that morning had announced the sentencing of 10 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel. Mostophi understood. "You are troubled, no doubt, over the sentences of the Shiraz Jews. Do you want to vent, or do you want to learn something?" "Learn? What's to learn? You violated every rule sacred to modern judicial systems!" Unruffled by the young man's sharp tone, Mostophi offered, "Stop right there, let me finish for you. I will tell you exactly what you find ugly and offensive. You were about to tell me, of course, that the Shiraz Jews were convicted without benefit of effective counsel. You want to moralize about how there was no jury, only a judge who had reason to be, shall we say, 'biased.' And of course you will certainly point out that the Shiraz Jews were convicted on the basis of evidence that was never shown to them. Correct, so far?" The wind taken out of his sails, Ferguson said only, "Yes, but you've left out the most upsetting element of all." "That," said Mostophi, "would be the anti-Semitic thrust of the whole episode. When you hear that a government would fan the flames of prejudice against the world's favorite scapegoat, you are reminded of Czarist Russia, right?" "Precisely," countered Ferguson, although with a bit of hesitation about what was to follow. Mostophi spoke quietly and confidently. "First let me assure you that your whole premise is incorrect. The trial has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. Ferguson sensed that something important was coming. "So why the show-trial?" Mostophi settled back into his chair. "Nothing against the Jews per se. They do, however, serve a useful function." "A useful function?" Mostophi nodded. "Our country is on the verge of some relaxing of restrictions, the first in many years. People get drunk with a little freedom. Remember how quickly the Soviet Union crumbled once people sensed that their freedom was increasing? We aren't ready for that. We needed to broadcast a message that we are still prepared to rein people in, if they gallop too quickly." Ferguson frowned. Mostophi explained, "Of course," said Mostophi firmly. "The trial of the Jews effectively sent a message aimed more at the rest of our people than the Jews." "So you really don't hate the Jews. You are just prepared to sacrifice a few of them to make a point." Mostophi sighed, "And you, my dear Ferguson, have missed the entire point." He let Ferguson stew for a moment, "It is natural for governments to take cues from others, to see how far they can go in pushing their own interests." "What are you getting at?" Ferguson prodded. "Do you recall what Hitler told his generals before invading Poland? He said, 'Go, kill without mercy . . . who today remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?' " "So?" "What one nation does is a trial balloon for the plans of the next. In other words, if the United States, the supposed world paragon of judicial virtue can callously deny the rights of one person to suit its own needs, then some of the rest of us can go a good deal further." "Just what are you driving at?" "I should think that you would have caught on by now," Mostophi said. He leaned towards Ferguson and pointed an accusing finger, "You Americans led the way with your famous Pollard case." "But Pollard was guilty! And your defendants are innocent!" "Guilty of what?" Mostophi shot back., "Of spying for a friendly country? Yes, to be sure! But see how his treatment has been disproportionately severe, relative to
[CTRL] Say it ain't so, Joe
From the Wall St Journal: Joe Lieberman, Radical Historian By Ira Stoll. Mr. Stoll is editor of Smartertimes.com, North American editor of the Jerusalem Post and a contributor to OpinionJournal.com. So you thought Al Gore's book "Earth in the Balance" was flaky? Check out his running mate Joseph Lieberman's little-noticed 1970 volume on arms control and the origins of the Cold War, "The Scorpion and the Tarantula." It's a masterpiece of moral equivalency in which Mr. Lieberman draws a parallel between Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and the American Monroe Doctrine of maintaining influence in the Western hemisphere. The book's title comes from a quote from Cold War historian Louis Halle, who contended that the Cold War "is not fundamentally a case of the wicked against the virtuous. Fundamentally, it is like the case of the scorpion and the tarantula in the bottle, and we may properly feel sorry for both parties, caught as they are, in a situation of irreducible dilemma." In the preface to his 1970 book, Mr. Lieberman wrote that "this is the spirit in which I have recorded what my research has revealed." The only problem is that, as most Americans have by now realized-and as those stuck behind the Iron Curtain at the time knew all too well-the Cold War was a case of the wicked against the virtuous. The Soviets were the wicked ones, depriving the Russian people and those in their puppet states of freedom of the press, of religion, of emigration. Mr. Lieberman interpreted the communist talk of international domination as mere bluster, and he wrote that Americans should have known better than to take it seriously: "One of the primary causes of the failure to achieve international atomic control and the concurrent failure to prevent the cold war was the inability of America's statesmen and people to see through the avalanche of Communist rhetoric and deal with Soviet foreign policy as something shaped by Russia's unique history and guided by the Russians' conception of their national interest. In this more accurate light, Russia's goals are seen to be more limited and less in conflict with America's." When it came to American activity in Latin America, Mr. Lieberman sounded like a campus radical, or at least George McGovern. "Consistency was not one of the characteristics that marked America's side of the argument over the fate of Eastern Europe," he wrote. "While protesting the creation of a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe on the theory that it would constitute a return to the evil days of international power politics that has caused two world wars, the United States nevertheless zealously protected its own sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere. From the earliest enunciation of the Monroe Doctrine right down to the twentieth century, America has proved itself willing to resort to arms to keep anti-American governments out of power in Latin America." Has Mr. Lieberman reassessed his views, or does he still see the Cold War as a battle between a scorpion and a tarantula, a war that America shared equal guilt for starting and in which American calls for democracy and Soviet talk of world domination were each merely rhetoric? After I inquired about the matter, the senator issued a statement that distanced himself from the book without totally disavowing it. "Few of us view the world through the same lenses in our 50s as we did in our 20s," the senator said. "The Scorpion and the Tarantula was written more than 30 years ago and certainly does not reflect my thinking about foreign policy or our national security today. As the Cold War progressed, and the actions by the Soviet Union to subjugate the people of Eastern Europe intensified and the Soviet military build-up increasingly threatened the United States and the free world, I became a strong advocate of military readiness and of using our military power when necessary to oppose any such tyranny. My voting record since I have been in the Senate much more accurately reflects my positions than does this 30-year-old book." Mr. Lieberman's statement is somewhat reassuring. But rather than admitting he was wrong at the time he wrote the book, he tries to explain it by suggesting that the Soviets somehow worsened their behavior after 1970. In fact, the crushing of the Prague Spring, the construction of the Berlin Wall and Stalin's forced collectivization campaign all happened before Mr. Lieberman wrote his book. The Soviet Union threatened the free world from the very inception of that totalitarian state in a coup by a group of Bolshevik thugs, not as a result of some post-1970 increase in aggressiveness imagined by Mr. Lieberman. The Cold War is over, and there are other issues to vote on in November. But there are still plenty of scorpions and tarantulas out there on the international scene. And when it comes time to deal with them, you get the sense that the
Re: [CTRL] joke
That is the way we are in this country. We are fond of eye service and white-washing. Because a big man, an international figure is visiting Nigeria, all of a sudden, NEPA workers have woken up to their responsibility," Segun Adepoju, a trader had said on Friday. "I have always said that the problem of NEPA is more of a human factor that technical. " http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headline s/000831/world/afp/Darkness_descends_on_Nigeria_after_Clinton_s_visit.html Thursday, August 31 6:14 AM SGT Darkness descends on Nigeria after Clinton's visit LAGOS, Aug 30 (AFP) - Power supplies to many parts of Nigeria, especially economic capital Lagos, which surprisingly improved last week ahead of US President Bill Clinton's visit, have returned to their erratic performance shortly after his departure, residents said Wednesday. In Ijeshatedo district in central Surulere part of Lagos, has been experiencing several hours of electricity supply disruption since Monday after Clinton ended his two-day state visit to Nigeria, residents said. In Anthony village in northern residential district of Ikeja, power supply was disrupted on Tuesday for more than six hours, they said. The same story is replicated in Mushin, Agege, Iyana Ipaja, Yaba, Ebute Meta and posh residential and commercial districts of Ikoyi and Victoria Island, they added. A spokesman of the state-run electricity company (NEPA), Inuwa Garba, denied that the improvement in power supply recorded last week was because of President Clinton's visit. He attributed the improvement to the installation of new equipment and maintainance of old ones. "It is sheer coincidence that power shortages are being experienced shortly after Clinton left The current problem is technical and we are trying to rectify it," said another spokesman who demanded anonymity. NEPA officials said on Friday that power supply in the country was boosted last week by more than 300 percent ahead of US President's visit to the country. Power distribution shot up from 600 megawatts to 2,000 megawatts, a spokesman of the company, Inuwa Garba, had told AFP by telephone. "That is the way we are in this country. We are fond of eye service and white-washing. Because a big man, an international figure is visiting Nigeria, all of a sudden, NEPA workers have woken up to their responsibility," Segun Adepoju, a trader had said on Friday. "I have always said that the problem of NEPA is more of a human factor that technical. Let us see what happens at the end of Clinton's visit," Emmanuel Chiejina, a sociologist also said. Power supplies, which improved tremendously when Nigeria co-hosted with Ghana this year's African Cup of Nations, slumped again immediately after. The company is notorious for its inefficiency though and its critics have derisively turned its acronymn to "Never Expect Power Always." The new civilian government of President Olusegun Obasanjo has pledged to boost NEPA's generating and distributing capacity and then break up and sell off the company. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] :Buckley backs off
Peter Brimelow here: I've just posted, at http://www.vdare.com/buckley.htm , a report on William F. Buckley's recent admission he's abandoned National Review's historic position that maintaining ethnic balance is a legitimate concern of immigration policy. This is interesting to me because it partly explains why I was purged as a Senior Editor in 1998; and to h-bders because it illustrates the extraordinary pressures currently brought to bear on weak and fashion-conscious journalists to avoid race-related issues. (Not that immigration is purely a race-related issue). I am now inclined to agree with Dan Seligman that the publication of The Bell Curve was, in the short run at least, devastating to debate. (Not that there was any alternative.) The VDARE report links to a remarkable article by James Lubsinkas in Jared Taylor's American Renaissance analyzing National Review's changing positions on race over more than four decades. I know there's a concerted effort to place Taylor beyond the pale - Steve won't allow him on hbd in case some of you get upset - but my position is that truth is an absolute defense. And, certainly in this area, as far as I can see, Taylor is truthful. It's worth your time. Now is the time that tries mens' etc etc. yrs.purgedly, pb A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] 'Useful idiots'
Thomas Sowell August 31, 2000 'Useful idiots' Lenin is supposed to have referred to blind defenders and apologists for the Soviet Union in the Western democracies as "useful idiots." Yet even Lenin might have been surprised at how far these useful idiots would carry their partisanship in later years -- including our own times. Stalin's man-made famine in the Soviet Union during the 1930s killed more millions of people than Hitler killed in the Holocaust -- and Mao's man-made famine in China killed more millions than died in the USSR. Yet we not only hear little or nothing about either of these staggering catastrophes in the Communist world today, very little was said about them in the Western democracies while they were going on. Indeed, many useful idiots denied that there were famines in the Soviet Union or in Communist China. The most famous of these was the New York Times' Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer prize for telling people what they wanted to hear, rather than what was actually happening. Duranty assured his readers that "there is no famine or actual starvation, nor is there likely to be." Moreover, he blamed reports to the contrary on "rumor factories" with anti-Soviet bias. It was decades later before the first serious scholarly study of that famine was written, by Robert Conquest of the Hoover Institution, always identified in politically correct circles as "right-wing." Yet when the Soviets' own statistics on the deaths during the famine were finally released, under Mikhail Gorbachev, they showed that the actual deaths exceeded even the millions estimated by Dr. Conquest. Official statistics on the famine deaths in China under Mao have never been released, but knowledgeable estimates run upwards of 20 million people. Yet, even here, there were the same bland denials by sympathizers and fellow travellers in the West as during the earlier Soviet famine. One celebrated "expert" on China wrote: "I saw no starving people in China, nothing that looked like old-time famines." Horrifying as the pre-Communist famines were, they never killed as many people as Mao's famine did. Today, even after the evidence of massive man-made famines in the Communist world, after Solzhenitsyn's revelations about the gulags and after the horrors of the killing fields of Cambodia, the useful idiots continue to deny or downplay staggering human tragedies under Communist dictatorships. Or else they engage in moral equivalence, as Newsweek editor and TV pundit Eleanor Clift did during the Elian Gonzalez controversy, when she said: "To be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami and I'm not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously." Apparently totalitarian dictatorship is just a lifestyle, like wearing sandals and beads and using herbal medicine. It apparently has not occurred to Eleanor Clift to ask why poor people in Miami do not put themselves and their children on flimsy boats, in a desperate effort to reach Cuba. Elian Gonzalez and his mother were only the latest of millions of people to flee Communist dictatorships at the risk of their lives. Some were shot trying to get past the Berlin wall and hundreds of thousands of "boat people" were drowned trying to escape a Communist Vietnam that many useful idiots were celebrating from inside free democracies. Many who escaped from the Soviet Union to the West during the Second World War were sent back by American authorities, except for those who committed suicide rather than go back. Yet none of this has really registered on a very large segment of the intelligentsia in the West. Nor are Western capitalists
[CTRL] Pediatrician = Pedophile?
Thursday 31 August 2000 'Ignorant' paedophile slur By Richard Savill Daily Telegraph: Paedomania A PAEDIATRICIAN said yesterday that "total ignorance" was behind an attack on her home by vandals who mistook her for a paedophile. Dr Yvette Cloete, 30, who works at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, South Wales, woke to find the word "paedo" daubed on her home. She said: "It is just unbelievable. It's terrible that people think they have the right to vandalise your property like this." The South African-born doctor added: "I am shocked because this is a quiet village and there are a lot of nice families living here. It looks as if this was done through total ignorance. It looks as though it was just a question of confusing the job title for something else." Dr Cloete, who has moved in with friends, intends to sell her home in St Brides, near Newport, where she lived with her brother Andre, 24. The yellow Graffiti was has been cleaned from the front door, porch and windows. Dr Cloete said: "Nobody knows where I live now. I have learned one lesson and that is I will be ex-directory in future." Rosemary Butler, the Welsh Assembly member for Newport West, described the attack as appalling. It appeared to be carried out through "sheer hysteria, bravado and ignorance". Chief Insp Carl Close, head of the investigation, said he did not know who was responsible but that it maybe someone more 'sinister' than children. He said: "It is appalling that a professional woman who cares for children has been forced from her home." A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] In Plain English (Not German): It Ain't Necessarily So
In Plain English (Not German): It Ain't Necessarily So Washington Post By Robert Cullen Saturday, August 26, 2000; Page A17 Graham Greene once wrote about an elderly and somewhat whimsical priest named Monsignor Quixote. A central theme of the novel, which takes place in Spain in the early 1980s, is that Don Quixote--the famed adventurer who battled windmills--is the priest's ancestor. Almost everyone in the story seems to accept this genealogy at face value, except one skeptic who openly questions how somebody could be descended from a fictional character. I felt similarly bewildered while watching the Rev. Jesse Jackson address the Democratic National Convention. With characteristic vigor and passion, Jackson asserted, "One vote decided that America would speak English rather than German in 1776." That statement, part of Jackson's litany of how one vote can make a difference, refers to a U.S. history lesson about something familiar, interesting and attention-getting. It also never happened, although Jackson is far from being the only person to believe it did. We have all come across such tidbits--those persistent historical myths or inventions masquerading as facts. National party conventions are especially fertile ground for them. Eight years ago, for example, at the Republican convention at which President George Bush was renominated, his predecessor Ronald Reagan took to the podium and quoted a series of one-liners that he attributed to Abraham Lincoln. The problem was that the platitudes credited to our 16th president actually appeared first in a 1916 pamphlet printed by a Pennsylvania preacher named William J. H. Boetcker. The incident that inspired the myth about our almost becoming a German-speaking nation occurred not in 1776 but two decades later, during George Washington's second term as president. More important, there was neither a vote nor even a bill to replace English with German as the official U.S. language. Here's the real story. In March 1794, a group of Germans living in Virginia presented a petition to Congress asking that certain federal laws be printed in their native language. A committee of the House of Representatives responded by formally recommending that 3,000 sets of laws be printed in both German and English and distributed to the states. The full House debated this recommendation on Jan. 13, 1795. Unable to reach a decision, the members instead considered a motion to adjourn that day and revisit the proposal later. It was this that was defeated by one vote, 42 to 41. The House, which that day named a new committee to further study the proposal, debated it again on Feb. 16. This time it decided to approve the publication of federal statutes in English only. The Senate subsequently passed this bill as well, and George Washington signed it into law. So what was merely a limited translation request has mushroomed into today's tale that German was an also-ran in our national sweepstakes for an official language (never mind that not even English has that status). More than a half-century after congressional actions on this matter, Franz Loher published "History and Achievements of the Germans in America," which did much to perpetuate the myth of the German-language vote. In due time, other German Americans likewise promoted the story as an example of their influence in the republic's early days. The myth has since taken on other identities, from a tidy lesson about the importance of a single vote to yet another argument against bilingual education. Jackson is only the latest in a long and distinguished line of individuals who have unwittingly helped extend its already-long shelf-life. Others who have done so include Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, "Ripley's Believe It or Not," well-intentioned teachers and various political activists. Thanks to the Internet, the myth now has new opportunities to circulate farther and faster than ever before. More than a few Web sites feature it without qualification. To be sure, some sites at least acknowledge that the myth might be folklore and still others debunk it. But I worry about the ones that discuss the myth uncritically and as an article of our civic faith. They guarantee new converts well into the 21st century. There are those who would insist that myths such as this one are harmless tales that encourage and instruct. I think a stronger case can be made that such figments of our national imagination only manage to diminish and even trivialize how we remember and understand our shared past. All things considered, we're probably a lot better off focusing more on what actually happened and less on the historical mirages along the way. Robert Cullen is a Baltimore writer. A
[CTRL] Kosovo happenings-
You don't hear about what they do to the Kosovo Serb population in the media do you?!?- Oh and nato admitted recently that it had exaggerated serb crimes in Kosovo I suppose killing serbs is allright so long as it is for a good cause (a good cause being defined by media of course) Serb boy killed on the Liplian-Kosovo Polie road August 28, 2000 Kosovska Mitrovica, August 27 - At about 1 pm today an 8-year-old Serb boy was killed and four other boys severely injured by an ethnic Albanian driver on the Liplian - Kosovo Polie road in the village of Skulanovo, Center for Peace and Tolerance in Kosovska Mitrovica stated today quoting amateur radio operators. Nikola Talic (8) died from wounds, while Marko Talic (4), Srdjan Talic (15) and 9-year-old Ivica whose last name is not known are unconscious. Jovica Talic (16) also suffered severe injuries and is conscious. All injured have been taken to the Russian hospital in Kosovo Polie. == REPORT FROM THE VILLAGE OF SKULANOVO: ONE SERB CHILD KILLED, FOUR OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED Today, on Sunday, August 27 at approximately 1:45 p.m. in the village of Skulanovo (between Suvi Do and Lepina), Liplian municipality, an Albanian attacker who remains unknown at this time seriously injured five Serb children aged 8 to 16 years located near the road at the outskirts of the village with his vehicle, a red Opel Kadet Suza, without license plates. The attacker drove his vehicles into the group of children, whose names are listed below, with the obvious intention of running them over. As a result, the children sustained serious physical injuries, broken arms, legs, head injuries and are currently hospitalized in Kosovo Polje. The youngest child, an eight year-old boy, died as a result of inflicted injuries shortly after the attack. The child killed is 1. Nikola Nikolic, age 8 years Seriously injured are: 2. Marko Talic, age 14 years 3. Jovica Talic, age 16 years 4. Ivica Talic, age 16 years 5. Srdjan Krstic, age 13 years The child killed, Nikola Nikolic, was a refugee from the Serb village of Babliak near Urosevac who was staying with relatives in Skulanovo. The sources of this report are radio amateurs from Skulanovo and the priest serving in Kosovo Polie, Father Radivoje Panic. This informaiton was received in Gracanica Monastery at 2:15 p.m. on Sunday, August 27, 2000. The Serb National Council of Kosovo and Metohia most strongly condemns this terrorist attack which according to eyewitness testimony was not a traffic accident. After the attacks on Serb children in Crkvena Vodica and Staro Gracko, this is the third attack on Serb children in the vicinity of Pristina during the past week and shows that the goal of the terrorists is to encourage the Serb people to leave by creating confusion and panic as a result of threats directed against children. PRESS RELEASE Pristina, August 27, 2000 AN ALBANIAN KILLED 1 AND WOUNDED 4 SERB CHILDREN IN KOSOVO Today, around 13.45 CET an unindentified Albanian killed 1 and wounded 4 Serb children in Skulanovo village 15 km south of Pristina. Driving his red Opel Kadet Susa without registration plates an attacker hit into a group of Serb children who were walking by the village road. The witnessess say that the attacker had a clear intention to kill the children. The attacker immediately left away the scene of his crime with his car. All 5 children got serious wounds and fractures. The youngest, Nikola Nikolic (8) did not survive and died on the way to the hospital. The wounded children are: Marko Talic (14), Jovica Talic (16), Ivica Talic (16), Srdjan Kristic (13). Serb National Council of Kosovo and Metohia has resolutely condemned this cowardly and disgusting crime which is the third attack of Albanian extremists against Serb children in Kosovo in the last week. Two days ago, SNC requested more intensive KFOR patrols and protection in the areas frequented by Serb children. 75 YEAR OLD SERB KILLED BY ALBANIAN TERRORISTS IN KOSOVO TODAY After today's terrorist attack in which 1 Serb child was killed and 4 wounded a new terrorist attack occured in Crkvena Vodica village 8 km west from Pristina. It was the same village in which Albanian terrorists threw three grenades on Serb children last week wounding 15 children, 8 of them seriously. At 18.30 CET 75 year old Serb PAVLE NEDELKOVIC from Crkvena Vodica was killed by a machine gun fire from an unindentified car which immediately disappeared in direction of Albanian dominated Obilic. Nedelkovic was in his field very close to the village and the road when he was suddenly killed at the spot. This terrorist attack of Albanian extremists has created even more uneasiness, fear and confusion among the local Serbs who have not recovered yet from the last week's attack on their children. Although Bishop Artemie and the Serb National Council requested immediate additional deployment of Norwegian KFOR troops in the area
[CTRL] Fear Memories: Made to Fade
Friday August 18 03:05 AM EDT Fear Memories: Made to Fade By Adam Marcus HealthSCOUT Reporter THURSDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthSCOUT) -- When crime witnesses mistake what they've seen, they may not be lying; their brains may just be reinventing a fluid memory, says new research. New York scientists have shown that fearful memories -- at least, in rats -- hover on the brink of collapse when recalled and can be easily erased by blocking the protein girders that support their shape. The discovery of this personal elixir of forgetfulness undercuts previous memory dogma that says that memories are pretty solid once filed away in the brain. Instead, the scientists claim, some memories must be chemically reinforced each time they are conjured up or they will be lost. This also may explain how false memories are created and may even lead to a way of "deleting" memories so traumatic that they interfere with a person's life. Full text: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/hsn/2818/hl/fear_memories_made_to_fade_1.h tml A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] potty training men
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000821/21john.htm US News John Leo on More PC Folderol (8/21/00) An excerpt Now sit, Ingvar, sit. Young women in Sweden, Germany, and Australia have a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from concerns about hygiene- avoiding the splash factor- but, as Jasper Gerard reports in the English Spectator, "more crucially because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading women." One argument is that if women can't do it, then men shouldn't either. Another is that standing upright while relieving oneself is "a nasty macho gesture," suggestive of male violence. A feminist group at Stockholm University is campaigning to ban all urinals from campus, and one Swedish elementary school has already removed them. In Australia, an Internet survey shows that 17 percent of those polled think men ought to sit, while 70 percent believe they should be allowed to stand. Some Swedish women are pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak. Yola, a 25-year-old Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on standing. "What else can I do?" said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits. - A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Brief exposure to nicotine makes lasting mark on the brain
FOR RELEASE: 24 AUGUST 2000 AT 00:01 ET US University of Chicago Medical Center http://www.medcenter.uchicago.edu/ Brief exposure to nicotine makes lasting mark on the brain Brief exposure to low levels of nicotine, as little as that provided by a single cigarette, can cause lasting changes in the brain's "reward" areas, report two University of Chicago scientists in the August 2000 issue of the journal Neuron [ http://www.neuron.org/ ]. The finding is a major advance in understanding the process of nicotine addiction. The researchers discovered that nicotine uses a mechanism responsible for learning and memory to enhance the connections between one set of nerve cells that are sensitive to the drug and other nerve cells that register pleasure. They also demonstrate that the first exposure to nicotine can induce an enduring "memory trace," which amplifies the pleasing effects of the drug -- and boosts the desire to repeat the exposure. By uncovering the precise cellular mechanisms of nicotine's effect, this study suggests new and more precise targets for drugs designed to block this powerful craving. "This appears to be the crucial first step in the process of addiction," said neurobiologist Daniel McGehee [ http://neurobiology.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/McGehee.htm ], Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago and director of the study. "Now that we know how this happens, we can begin to search for better ways to intervene." The reinforcing effect [ http://www.bmjpg.com/data/tobarch/autumn98/fromama.htm ] of nicotine is the primary reason people cannot quit smoking, despite widespread awareness that smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, emphysema, bronchitis, vascular disease, cataracts, impotence and many other health problems. Nicotine dependence has been estimated to cause 70 times more deaths in the United States than all other types of drug dependence combined. Nearly 25 million Americans alive today will die prematurely from smoking-related illnesses. "Nicotine addiction makes millions of people suck carcinogens into their lungs over and over again, day after day," said McGehee. "If this knowledge leads to new ways of helping people quit successfully, it will be an important step for public health worldwide." The brain reward areas serve to acknowledge and reinforce beneficial behaviors, for example eating when you're hungry. The system encourages the body to repeat pleasing behaviors by releasing dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with the pleasant feelings, in the reward areas. "That was good," is the basic message of increased dopamine levels. "Do it again." Unfortunately, drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, can usurp those pathways, providing the same sort of encouragement for some very harmful actions, such as smoking. They also do this by stimulating the release of dopamine. McGehee and his colleague, post-doctoral researcher Huibert Mansvelder, PhD, working with brain tissue from rats, demonstrated how nicotine takes control of the reward pathways. Nicotine alters the connections between neurons using a process that is similar to the cellular mechanisms underlying the creation of memory. "In this way," Mansvelder said, "the brain erroneously learns that the intake of nicotine was good and remembers the sensations it caused." The ability to remember things, such as pleasant sensations, is thought to depend on the strengthening of links between neurons. Nerve cells communicate with each other at synapses, junction points where chemical signals mediate communication back and forth. When a synapse is used a lot, there is a persistent strengthening of the communication. In effect, the more that one side of the synapse 'talks,' the better the other side 'listens,' and the more effective the communication becomes. Nicotine appears to cause addiction by strengthening the excitatory connect ions on the neurons that make dopamine, which are found in the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) of the brain reward center. Thus, the neurons are more excited, which means that more dopamine is released within the reward areas. This cellular locus of addiction is farther "upstream" in the reward pathway than anticipated. McGehee and Mansvelder demonstrate that nicotine's lasting effects result from the drug's interaction with a receptor on the synaptic endings, the part of the cell that sends the signals. When these endings are exposed to nicotine, there is a direct increase in the excitatory signal transmitted onto the dopamine neurons, which then increases dopamine release. Nicotine stimulates neurons by attaching to a specific structure on the neuron, known as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. There are many different types of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, performing various roles throughout the body. The addictive process fortunately appears to involve only one subtype, acetylcholine receptors containing the alpha7
[CTRL] Fw: Evangelism Outlawed -- Proposed French Law
Evangelism Outlawed -- Proposed French Law PARIS, France (BP) July 3 -- Missionaries and laypersons who share their faith in Jesus could be imprisoned for up to two years under a proposed French law that accuses religious proselytisers of 'mental manipulation' of the public. French Justice Minister Elisabeth Guigou last week called the bill "a significant advance giving a democratic state the legal tool to efficiently fight groups abusing its core values." (©2000, Baptist Press). A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] MRS. BUSH TELLS GEORGE ...FIGHT FOR OUR RACE.
WWW.ALAMANCEIND.COM Matt Maggio, Publisher Editor Email MRS. BUSH TELLS GEORGE "...FIGHT FOR OUR RACE." By H. Millard (c) 2000 REUTERS reported on August 2, that George Bush told a cheering crowd in Philadelphia that his mother had told him to "fight for our race." Where were the front page headlines about racism, bigotry, insensitivity and prejudice that one might normally expect to follow from such a statement? Apparently there weren't any. Why? Well, because the George Bush who got cheered for telling the audience what his mother told him about race, wasn't presidential candidate white George W. Bush, but his nephew brown George P. Bush, the son of George W.'s brother Jeb and Jeb's Mexican born wife Columba. George P., one of the brown Bushes, was, as you probably have guessed, not speaking in English before an audience of evil white people; rather, he was speaking in Spanish to an audience of good brown people. Now you understand, right? Browns, blacks, reds and yellows can say things that would be considered racist if the same things were said by whites. Most whites understand this, but are afraid to demand that they be treated equally lest they be called racist. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Be Happy
Source: Fitness Online, Aug. 16/00, by Annie Murphy Paul Studies show that our belief that wealth doesn't buy happiness is, well, right on the money. "People who go to work in their overalls and on the bus are just as happy, on the average, as those in suits who drive to work in a Mercedes," according to David Lykken, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. Lykken is the man who introduced the "happiness set point," his theory that our emotional peaks and valleys eventually return to a more stable set point. The storm of publicity that surrounded the introduction of this idea four years ago may have convinced you that your happiness level is forever fixed. But the man behind the theory now says that's just not so. "I said some dumb things [in the Psychological Science journal, 1996] that I regretted as soon as it came out in print," confesses Lykken. Our general sense of well-being is influenced by our genes, he explains, but we can learn to sail above that set point by deliberately appreciating the things that make us happy and overcoming the things that make us unhappy. Researchers today believe that extreme ups and downs don't determine how happy we are. "We humans have a remarkable capacity to adapt to changing circumstances," says David Myers, Ph.D., psychology professor at Michigan's Hope College and author of The Pursuit of Happiness (Avon Books, 1993). In his research, Myers has found that happy people share four main characteristics: 1. They have high self-esteem. 2. They feel that they're in control of their lives. 3. They're positive and optimistic. 4. And they're sociable and extroverted. Good for them, you think. But there's more: Myers has also found that we can make ourselves happy by acting as if we already are. "Going through the motions," he says, "can generate the emotions." By following the example set by happy people (see box on previous page), you'll soon be able to count yourself among them. And that, in the end, may be the biggest news yet about happiness: It's always been right within reach. How You Can get Happy Researchers offer these tips: - Take control of your time. Set long-range goals, then break them down into manageable smaller projects. - Savor the moment. It's little pleasures that keep us happy. - Nurture your close relationships. Give them the attention they need to grow. - Exercise. It relieves mild anxiety and depression. - Challenge yourself. Sharpen your skills, at work and at play. - Explore your faith. Studies suggest that religiously active people are happier. - Smile. Reserach shows that it automatically improsves mood. - Rest. Make sure you get enough sleep and time alone. - Act as if you're happy. The motion can generate the emotion. [Home page: http://www.fitnessonline.com/] A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Stasi supported West German neo-Nazi groups
Th London Times London, August 14, 2000 Stasi supported West German neo-Nazi groups FROM ROGER BOYES IN BERLIN THE Stasi, the East German secret police, supported and sponsored neo-Nazi groups in the West throughout the 1970s and 1980s, German newspapers reported yesterday. The prime aim of the Stasi, according to documents found in the Gauck archives, which guard the communist secret police files, was to destabilise West Germany. In cities with large concentrations of guest workers - mainly Turkish and Italian immigrants - thousands of leaflets were circulated bearing the headline: "Germans defend yourselves!" Using phrases reminiscent of the Hitler era, the leaflets urged West Germans to drive foreigners out of their country. The leaflets, crafted by the Stasi, bore the signature German People's Union - DVU - which is a real, far-right party with headquarters in Munich. The subversion began in 1961 when Israel started its trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal responsible for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews. The East German police dreamt up an operation called "Forget Me Not", which was intended to stir neo-Nazi violence in West Germany and make plain to the world the links between new and old Nazis. Chain letters, composed in East Berlin, were circulated in West Germany: "The Eichmann trial is an attempt by the Jewish underworld to taint our honour. We have taken up the struggle again. Our comrades are already launching a counter-attack against the Jews." The Stasi followed up this campaign with hate letters aimed at German Jews: "Obviously you Jews have not understood that you must disappear from West Germany." The East German establishment considered these campaigns to be a success. Anxious West Germans started to write letters to the East German press. The West German Foreign Minister at the time, Gerhard Schröder, was even forced to make a statement denying that Bonn was lurching towards national socialism. By the 1970s the campaign was under the supervision of the spymaster Markus Wolf. It was decided - according to an anonymous Stasi major quoted by Welt Am Sonntag - to take an active part in helping the paramilitary Hoffman Combat Sport Group, essentially an organisation of armed neo-Nazis. The East Germans encouraged members of the group to go for training with the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Lebanon. In 1982 one of the group killed a Jewish publisher, Schlomo Lewin, in the West German town of Erlangen. "In these groups we had a particularly dense network of informers," the Stasi major said. "They ensured that the activities of the far Right were always pointed in the correct direction and never against East Germany." Above all, the Stasi operations allowed East Germany to present itself as an "anti-fascist state", morally superior to West Germany. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] interesting website
http://www.servtech.com/~grugyn/tlc-2.htm on the right wing however. John A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Take the Red Pill
FEED MAGAZINE Take the Red Pill A new wave of anti-anxiety drugs are challenging our sense of identity the way prozac did in the mind nineties. Is this Brave-New-World-style mind control, or a liberating medical advance? Eric Davis investigates. 14 August 2000 YOU PROBABLY HAVE SEEN the ads on TV (if you haven't, you can check one out at BuSpar.com): a cartoon thirty-something female, animated with bland, funny-pages strokes, mopes against a white background, her glasses pushed distractedly back on her head. "I can't concentrate," she complains. "I feel anxious." "I'm so irritable." The words materialize around her, heavy text that she throws onto a mounting pile of other phrases, like "out of control" and "slipping." Meanwhile, the kind and understanding female voice-over informs us that if we have experienced "excessive worry" or similar symptoms for six months or more, we may be suffering from the same plaint that apparently troubles Ms. Cartoon: generalized anxiety disorder. Full text: http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr373_master.html http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr373_master.html -- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] review-A MAGICK LIFE: A Biography of Aleister Crowley
August 13 2000 BOOKS: BIOGRAPHY He had a devil of a time A MAGICK LIFE: A Biography of Aleister Crowley by Martin Booth Hodder £20 pp507 BRYAN APPLEYARD © Aleister Crowley "was a fake," wrote Somerset Maugham, "but not entirely a fake . . . " The hero of Maugham's novel The Magician is Crowley, concealed only by the name of Oliver Haddo. G K Chesterton thought he was a genuine poet, but W B Yeats loathed him, both as a magician and as a man. He inspired Dennis Wheatley's occult novels and he was Scorpio Murtlock in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. He may also have been the model for the villain Le Chiffre in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. Love him or hate him, the literary imagination could not ignore him. Crowley's mother, a fiercely religious woman who thought that Brunel's ship The Great Eastern was a new Tower of Babel, called him "the beast". He scorned the Plymouth Brethren religiosity of both his parents and embraced Satanic revolt, deciding at an early age that he was indeed The Great Beast 666, whose coming was forecast in the Book of Revelation. The remainder of his life was a mad succession of rituals, invocations, bisexual excess, bankruptcy, weirdly fascinated women, hopeless men and an unknown number of casually conceived children. There was also a torrent of mostly terrible prose and poetry. In the 1930s, when he became involved in some crazy litigation, the British courts concluded that it was impossible to libel Crowley, his life having been so ludicrously extravagant and wicked. The casualties of his beasthood were numerous. He acquired, drugged, abused, and often loved, but then always cruelly dumped, a succession of "Scarlet Women". He did much the same with men, one of whom, Norman Mudd, was so devastated by the experience that he killed himself on Guernsey by walking into the sea with the legs of his trousers filled with stones held in place by bicycle clips. They don't make trousers like that any more - or, come to that, cycle clips. Something wicked: Aleister Crowley was a man hell-bent on transcendence © Crowley's guardian angel was Aiwass, a messenger of the Devil. Under his tutelage, he wrote the Book of the Law, a prose poem announcing a new age, The Aeon of Horus, beginning in 1904. The law was the Law of Thelema, whose principal doctrine was, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." He was also an adept of the Abramelin Operation (the purifying of the magician through the invocation of various angels and demons), he had the ability to make himself invisible and, through the power of his mind, he could make men fall over in the street. Many are said to have died as a result of his sorcery, and the tabloid press knew him as the most evil man in the world. As a direct result he was hounded out of Italy by Mussolini. On the bright side, he does seem to have advised the British government on the use of the occult against the Nazis, advice that may have had something to do with the defection of Rudolf Hess. If none of this makes sense, then that is because it doesn't make sense.Crowley was a florid enigma whose cult status to the hippie generation of the 1960s served only to intensify the multiple confusions of his life. Compulsively lying and exaggerating himself, he was succeeded by at least two generations of Crowleyite fantasists. Martin Booth has now appeared on the scene to set things straight; to present "the facts of his remarkable life, stripping away the myth and leaving the reader to decide whether Crowley was a sage and a seer, a charlatan and a very clever con man, a character with a true occult ability - however that may be defined - or simply an opportunist and a fake . . . " His book is a fine, fair and gripping piece of work that places Crowley before the reader in all his bizarre immensity. This was a man hell-bent on transcendence. He was a world-class mountaineer, coming close to being the first man to conquer Kanchenjunga, and a fine chess player. Occasionally, insists Booth, he wrote very well indeed. He used drugs in doses that would have killed others - becoming seriously addicted to heroin - and he pursued sex with both men and women with a demonic intensity. He was successful in this even in later life when, fat and bald, he seldom washed and had numerous missing teeth. Truly this man had powers of some kind.But of what kind? Booth reports the results of Crowley's rituals in matter-of- fact terms. Occasionally, he indicates scepticism, but, on the whole, he simply records the claims of Crowley and the testimony of those present. This is fair enough; we cannot honestly know whether those claims were fantasies or that testimony the result of drugs or coercion. All we can know is that Crowley made believers out of many sane and intelligent people. That belief, as Booth insists, was not the vulgar Satanism of which he was so often accused and
[CTRL] loyal to america-so long as it is a proposition
Whitaker Online 0.8.12 by Robert W. ("Federal Troops") Whitaker. Bob welcomes your comments. E-mail him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: www.palmetto.org/whitaker.htm ONLY THE RIGHT ACCEPTS WOODEN NICKELS August 12, 2000 Respectable conservatives allow liberals to be loyal only to the left, and to claim to be patriotic. As I pointed out on October 31, 1998, in FIVE WORDS AND EMMA LAZARUS, leftists wave the American flag and say that they are loyal to "all men are created equal" and open borders, but not to America or Americans. Respectable conservatives are always saying how patriotic their liberal opponents are. Not only is liberal flag-waving not patriotic, liberals insist that anyone who is loyal to America as a land or a people is anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews (See July 29, 2000, ANOTHER WRITER IS PROUD TO HAVE NO FEELING FOR HIS HOMELAND OR HIS PEOPLE). So when leftists wave the American flag it is absolutely meaningless, and conservatives are always grovelingly grateful to them for making even this token gesture. Liberal patriotism is a wooden nickel, and conservatives gobble it up. Liberals, however, will not accept such fake currency when a symbol is important to them. For example, when you saw the Mexican flag being used as a symbol of the leftist grape boycott, it is meant to represent the interests of MEXICANS. Likewise, when Mexican music was played and the first all-Spanish speech was spoken at the Republican Convention, it was not a meaningless token like Democrats waving the American flag. The media said over and over that they didn't want to be betrayed by Bush. They demand that this mean that Bush will do things for the PEOPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO. It means no more talk of protecting the US borders. It means no more English-only initiatives. When Colin Powell got up there, he did not ask for symbols, either. He said he wanted affirmative action from Bush. He said Bush was trying to enforce affirmative action in Texas universities despite the fact that the Federal courts had outlawed it. The crowd roared. Another fascinating thing that Powell demanded was that conservatives abandon any effort to reach out to any minority "leaders" who are not firmly liberal. He said that today's black leadership, which is owned outright by the left, is the "real" leadership of the black community. Republicans, he said, must only deal with these NAACP types. CNN had talks with a group of "typical American voters." Most of the questions were aimed at the two black members of the tiny panel. They asked what these gentlemen wanted if they were to vote Republican. One said "affirmative action." The other said he might consider voting Republican if Republican Senators would confirm the Federal judges appointed by Clinton and blocked by the Senate. Naturally CNN did not ask why your average American voter -- especially one who might vote Republican -- would just happen to be solely interested, not in education or taxes, but in the quick approval of Democratic judges. But that is not my point. My point is that both blacks, with perfect predictability, wanted specific liberal policies. If you wave a Mexican flag at the left, you had better give something Americans have to Mexicans. If you talk about blacks, you had better be ready to give something white people have to blacks. The left wants American jobs for Mexicans. They want university slots and jobs for blacks in place of more qualified whites. They also accept hard cash. By contrast, the right will take liberal flag waving and other wooden nickels and cry with gratitude. Those wimps wouldn't last five minutes in the hard left. PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LEFT WING ARTISTS August 12, 2000 Hollywood is very worried about computer sites that give away music without paying for the copyrights. Right now it's music, but as technology advances, it will be easier and easier to reproduce and send everything on the net that Hollywood puts out. So the same Hollywood money machine that pours out money against everybody else's property rights now has its own rights threatened by technology. Sometimes there IS poetic justice. I am very much a free market type, but that is my academic and economic side. But I am also a thoroughly political creature, and when liberals get torn up by the leftist institutions they built and they promote, I go from being a reserved intellectual ex-professor to a happy, vengeful Pontiac, South Carolina redneck. (For proof, see the May 7, 2000 article - MICROSOFT CASE: A LIBERAL GETS MUGGED). To show that other serious political beings think exactly the same way that I do, I point to a recent congressional action on our trade
[CTRL] The hand-wringing Hamlet from Hartford
Jewish World Review August 11, 2000 / 10 Menachem-Av, 5760 Ann Coulter The hand-wringing Hamlet from Hartford http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- AT LEAST we know Al Gore is still breathing. Choosing Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate may not be the amazingly bold stroke that the press is hyperventilating about, but it does show the presence of brain waves. At last -- Gore did something! Gore has received wide acclaim for his "risky" move in putting a Jew on the ticket, amid none too-subtle insinuations that anyone who votes against Gore is an anti-Semite. Echoing other Gore campaign staffers, ABC's Cokie Roberts casually remarked on NPR the other day that any "hard-core anti-Semites" are not "likely to vote for the Democratic ticket" anyway. She must be referring to all those registered Republicans like Louis Farrakhan and Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson. Indeed, in light of recent allegations about her potty mouth, the only vote Al Gore may have lost by putting a Jew on the ticket is Hillary Clinton's. The press has been demure in listing Lieberman's many accomplishments. He is not only the first Jew on a national ticket, but also has the distinction of being a member of the World's Smallest Group: Orthodox Jews for Partial-Birth Abortion. No doubt he's troubled about sucking the brains out of a half-delivered baby. Lieberman spends half his life being troubled. Always troubled, but never troubled enough to do anything. He was, of course, famously troubled about President Clinton "willfully deceiving the nation about his conduct," -- conduct Lieberman called "not just inappropriate," but "immoral," "harmful," "sad" and "sordid." Lieberman said his "conscience" compelled him to express his "concerns forthrightly and publicly." His conscience did not, however, compel him to vote to remove the source of his troubles from the office of the presidency. This is the way liberals always avoid taking action against other liberals. They furrow their brows and dutifully register some vague consternation, for which they expect great admiration. With their impeccable consciences duly placed on the record, they believe no further action should be required of them. Sen. Joe Lieberman is the master of agonizing before inaction. Explaining his acquittal vote to Tom Brokaw on "NBC Nightly News," Lieberman suggested he had seriously considered voting to remove Clinton, noting that "every time I've been forced to go into the facts of this case, I get repulsed, and I get troubled and torn up." Gee, thanks for that display of scruples. When asked on "Fox News Sunday" about a passage in the Starr report in which Clinton and Monica discuss the possibility that their phone sex was being tapped by a foreign government, Lieberman said: "Yes, that part of the report troubled me deeply." At a National Press Club lunch on Oct. 1, 1998, Lieberman allowed as to how even his daughter was "troubled" by the president's behavior, and a woman he had met on the beach was also "very troubled." But of course, amid all this sense of "trouble" in the world, he voted to keep Clinton in office. Lieberman was also troubled by Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas. (If Hill's unsupported allegations against Thomas had been all Clinton were forced to admit to, he would have been dancing a jig). But somehow Lieberman managed to emerge from his anguish and vote the party line. In a letter to constituents explaining his vote against Thomas, Lieberman assured them that he had spent "many agonizing hours of deliberation," before casting his vote. In 1995, Sen. Lieberman signed a letter with Bill Bennett urging corporations to establish standards of decency for the airwaves. They wrote they were "deeply troubled" by trash TV. Then a year later, Lieberman joined with Rep. Lamar Smith in a similar campaign against Fox -- this time saying they were "especially troubled." The one great thing about Gore's choice of Lieberman is that it is now beyond cavil that claims of Clinton's invincible popularity have been greatly exaggerated. Gore can't go to the bathroom without taking a poll, and somehow he ends up with a running mate who is the most vociferously anti-Clinton Democrat in the U.S. Senate. How did that happen? It happened because the polls were wrong -- maybe wrongly interpreted or wrongly reported, but wrong. Clinton never got 50 percent of Americans to vote for him. But according to the polls, upon discovering that Clinton was molesting interns and hiding evidence, suddenly 80 percent of Americans adored the man. That's not possible. Because Clinton was never punished, there's a deep sense of unfinished business in the country. This election is the Fred Goldman civil suit of politics. Gore
[CTRL] The Revolt of the Masses
Here's a short discussion of the book from Jerry Pournelle, best known for his science fiction novels, but also for his writings on computers and civilizations. Lessons from the Revolt of the Masses by Jerry Pournelle Thursday, April 13, 2000 http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue364/item 9054.asp The 20th century was and remains instructive, and we will be examining its lessons for a good part of this ambiguous year that is not quite part of the last millennium nor yet part of the next. Some of the lessons were foreseen, although like Cassandra our prophets spoke truth but were not believed. Other lessons are only now emerging. Controlling the masses You can characterize the 20th century in many ways, which is to say there are many lenses through which we can look at history. Choosing one and only one is a great mistake. Any one view is certainly wrong in some to many particulars, but we can learn from all of them. Marx and Freud had much to teach, but choosing either as one's master is folly. One observer not much remembered now is the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, whose best-remembered book, The Revolt of the Masses, is still worth reading. The title is as good a one-line summary of the 20th century as any: a century in which the 18th-century notion of individualism held sway. That notion, as Ortega puts it, is that "every human being, by the mere fact of birth, and without requiring any special qualification whatsoever, possessed certain fundamental political rights . and these rights, common to all, are the only ones that exist." These notions kicked around in the 19th century, but it was only in the last half of the 20th that they came into their own. Now everyone believes in that philosophy or at least purports to. The consequences are grave. A few are obvious. When I was young, it was uncommon to put citizens accused but not convicted of crimes in chains. Only if the accused proved to be unruly was he handcuffed, and only if especially unruly was he put in full chains. Now we see elderly ladies led into the courtroom in handcuffs, leg irons, waist chains, looking for all the world like Jean Valjean being led to the galleys. When the absurdity is pointed out, we are told that because some people are unruly and violent and cannot be controlled even with handcuffs, equality demands that we do it with all. Even traffic stops often result in citizens with no criminal record and accused of no more than unpaid traffic tickets being taken to the stationhouse in handcuffs. We have learned the lesson: If you treat everyone equally, then you must treat everyone as the worst possible villain. To retain civilized equality we must give up civilization, or at least civility. Ortega thought the fundamental danger of the century was the supremacy of the state over society. Mussolini's fascism was a mere extension of the notion of liberal democracy that all social problems are amenable to action by the state, with the result that spaws the question: "Can we help feeling that under the rule of the masses the State will endeavor to crush the independence of the individual and the group, and thus definitely spoil the harvest of the future?" Certainly David Koresh and his followers in Waco would have understood that. Power at all cost On the other hand, Ortega was wrong in one particular. He believed that the old-fashioned kind of dictatorship was impossible. One could not rule by Janissaries or Mamelukes if only because the dictator needed the approval of his security apparatus: If you will rule through a gang of thugs you must retain the loyalty of the thugs. That has been proven wrong again and again. After Stalin died there was not a Stalinist left in the leadership of the USSR (although there were plenty among the faculty of American universities). Modern methods of social control are quite efficient. Rome endured centuries of civil war as legion after legion revolted to raise their commander to the purple. Nothing like that happened in the USSR so long as it endured, and nothing like that has happened in Cuba. Castro rules supreme and can still make mischief as he will, the suffering and privation of his people notwithstanding. And that is another important lesson for dictators taught by the last century: If you are a dictator, never let go. Hang on to the last. Contrast the declining years of Augustin Pinochet and Fidel Castro if you want a dramatic illustration. Of course, that advice may be easier to give than to take. Once again the 20th century teaches a stark lesson for dictators: If you want to remain in power, get nuclear weapons. You do not need many, but you must have some. It used to be that you didn't need any of your own; a firm alliance with a power that had them would do. Both the United States and the USSR protected unsavory regimes with their nuclear umbrellas.
Re: [CTRL] NEWS: USA: The USA's hour of shame
So what if the death penalty deters? Steven Goldberg National Review, June 30, 1989 v41 n12 p42(2) Opponents of the death penalty have many reasons for their opposition that innocent people may be executed, that the death penalty is 'uncivilized',- that the state should not take lives. But what these arguments come down to is. DOES THE THREAT of the death penalty deter people from murderous behavior more than the threat of imprisonment for life? We do not yet know with anything even approaching certainty whether the death penalty does or does not deter. The question is clearly empirical; and it is likely that sophisticated statistical techniques will eventually permit us an answer. Professor Isaac Ehrlich and his colleagues, utilizing his statistical techniques, argue that there can be little doubt about the ability of the death penalty to deter. Ehrlich concludes that each additional execution prevents about seven or eight people from committing murder. All statistical arguments on the death penalty are, however, excruciatingly complex. Some critics, for example, have argued that increased likelihood of execution leads juries to convict fewer people, thereby offsetting the deterrent effect. If anything, the empirical evidence is that the death penalty does deter. But this is inevitably open to dispute. As a result, firm conclusions that the death penalty either does or does not deter are unwarranted and usually determined by one's psychological and moral leanings. In academic and media circles, psychological and moral resistance to the idea of the death penalty usually leads to the assertion that it does not deter. These people's conclusion may or may not be correct, but it does not follow from the arguments they deploy. Since many murders result from emotional impulse (e.g., the angry husband who kills his wife), the death penalty could have, at best only the slightest deterrent effect, If the death penalty deters, it is likely that it does so through society's saying that certain acts are so unacceptable that society will kill someone who commits them. The individual internalizes the association of the act and the penalty throughout his life, constantly increasing his resistance to committing the act. Note that there is no implication here that the potential murderer consciously weighs the alternatives and decides that the crime is worth life in prison, but not death. No serious theory of deterrence claims that such rational calculation of punishment (as opposed to no rational calculation, or calculation only of the probability of getting caught) plays a role. There is no a priori reason for assuming that this process is less relevant to emotional acts than rational acts; most husbands, when angry, slam doors, shout, or sulk. Neither the death penalty nor anything else deterred the husband who did murder his wife, so the question is not what deterred the person who did murder (nothing did), but what deterred the person who didn't. If the death penalty deters, it is, in all likelihood, primarily because it instills a psychological resistance to the act, not because it offers a rational argument against committing the act at the time that the decision is being made. In short, it is only legislators who calculate (or at least should calculate) the deterrent effect of the death penalty. Potential murderers simply act; the deterrent effect of the death penalty, if there is one, acts upon them. If it acts with sufficient strength, it prevents their becoming murderers. The legislator is the physicist studying the forces that move particles; the potential murderers are the moving particles. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters. This is simply untrue. Ehrlich's complex statistical techniques establish a real case that the death penalty deters. But here let us assume, for argument's sake, that there was no such evidence. The more important point is that there is a crucial difference between there being no evidence that two things are correlated and there being evidence that two things are not correlated. The latter means that we have good evidence that the two things are not related; the former means simply that we have no evidence on either side of the case. Now, it is quite true that we must have some sort of evidence in order to even entertain the idea that two things are related. Our reason for not believing that tall Italian men are smarter than short Italian men is not simply that we have no direct evidence, but also because we have no informal evidence suggesting that this is true-and so we do not bother to even investigate the possibility. It is the lack of relevant informal evidence that permits us to ignore the difference between not having evidence that the hypothesis is true and having evidence that the hypothesis is not true. But, in the case of penalties, we have an enormous amount of both
Re: [CTRL] Poli. Sci. 101
The other side of a republic is that the Law is sovereign and the people are under the law. In traditional america this had strong christian connotations(and euro/ jeffersonian-it is certain that all will be free, but being free that they can not live together ) . Everything not explicitly prohibited was permitted. Weapons were freely availlable. When I saw a rerun of the alamo they had John wayne extolling the virtues of the the republic, democracy. Democracy has the 'people' as sovereign- this was initially restricted to responsible(property owning) citizens. Introduced principally by fundamentalists to limit the power of the aristocrats. Now we have NWO democracy, based on a religion of human rights, equality of outcome, and america being a propositional state, with no loyalty to its peoples, but only on loyalty to its human rights religion. The power has moved to the people who control the mass media(ie who owns CBS, ABC, NBS, CNN ,FOX) and who can mobilise its lobby groups---the law is now a means of social engineering. and weapons restricted. John PS In South Africa White males can vote but have no power and are excluded from most of the centres of power (except for token whites) except business, and the government has introduced legislation so that they are powerless to associate freely even there. Okay, people, let's go back to freshman political science class and review some definitions. The United States is a democratic republic. The term "republic" means ONLY a country which is not a monarchy. The term "democracy" means ONLY government by the people--the word does not prescribe how that government is organized. Specifically, the government of the United States is described as "representative democracy," which means ONLY that the citizens of the country, as individuals or in combination, choose representatives to run the country for them. The government of the United States is also a "constitutional republic," which means that the role filled in a monarchy by the king or queen is instead filled by the codified body of law which controls the organization and functioning of the government. These terms have changed in their meanings since the United States was founded. Many of the Founders, especially Hamilton and the Federalists, were true elitists, who did not trust the "mobile faction" or "mob"--what Marxists call the *Lumpenproletariat*. Modern American political theory is far closer to the views of Thomas Jefferson and even more Andrew Jackson than to those of Washington, Adams, and Hamilton. If you limit your understanding of the original Constitutional debate to *The Federalist Papers*, you're only getting one part of the story--an important and eloquent part, but only a part. The argument that this country is a republic, "not a democracy," is a disingenuous statement which belies a desire to destroy the freedom of all those who are not white, Christian, and male. The truly revolutionary thing about the Constitution is that it institutionalizes revolution, making it possible to completely change the system of government without *overthrowing* that government. The United States has quite regularly changed its political philosophy, roughly every generation or every other generation. The last such change was the so-called "Reagan Revolution" (more correctly the "Reagan-Bush reaction") of the 1980's; the country appears poised for another paradigm shift today. Unfortunately, the nature of a paradigm shift is that it can never be fully recognized until nearly complete, which means that we won't know the nature of the new system until it has come about. I suspect that it will be populist, but the choice seems to be between Left and Right populism, with the Left beginning to coalesce around the Greens and the Right edging toward a crypto-fascist nationalism (if that's not a tautology) focused on Buchanan. Robert F. Tatman Information Technology Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jenkintown, PA, USA *Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.* A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] Gore tendency to totalism
"Gore Doesn't Seem to Trust People to Handle the Truth" by John R. Lott, Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School from the Hartford Courant Vice President Gore is battling with Green Party candidate Ralph Nader for the hard-core environmentalist vote for president. In response to environmentalists' claims that Gore is taking their votes for granted, Gore's campaign points to Gore's recently re-released book, "Earth in the Balance," as evidence of what his administration would do. Indeed, if the book is a good indicator, the extremes to which it goes in supporting the environmentalist cause should give even the most radical environmentalists comfort. The book paints a grim future of overpopulation, mass starvation and death from disease and pollution, and suggests that only drastic changes in our lifestyles can prevent such a global nightmare. The American automobile is, for example, "more deadly than that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront." Gore expresses such great fear that he even proposes dispensing with the usual goal of an impartial press: The media should not give "equal weight" to both sides in environmental debates such as global warming, for "it undermines the effort to build a solid base of public support for difficult actions we must soon take." Self-censorship is also justified because "98 percent of the scientists" share his view that man-made pollution is responsible for global warming. His 98 percent figure, of course, represents just one of the book's many exaggerations. At the time that he wrote the book, a Gallup poll revealed that only 18 percent of climate experts thought identifiable man-caused warming had occurred (whereas 49 percent held the opposite view and 33 percent did not know). Opinions today are similar. Gore advocates self-censorship on yet another ground: People are addicted to consumption and will desperately grasp at false hopes to maintain their addiction. The trouble supposedly started when God's importance in peoples' lives diminished due to the start of the "scientific era." In Gore's own words: "But with God receding from the natural world to an abstract place, the patriarchal figure in the family (almost always the father) effectively became God's viceroy, entitled to exercise godlike authority when enforcing the family's rules. As some fathers inevitably began to insist on being the sole source of authority, their children became confused about their own roles in a family system that was severely stressed by the demands of the dominant, all-powerful father. . . . "One of the ways dysfunctional families enforce adherence to rules and foster the psychic numbness on which they depend is by teaching the separation between mind and body and suppressing the feelings and emotions that might otherwise undermine the rules." How exactly fathers create this separation between their children's minds and bodies is never explained, but the resulting cleavage supposedly produces an emptiness that is alleviated only through consumption. This "mental illness," as Gore labels it, has created for people the illusion that they want "the food on the supermarket shelves, the water in the faucets in our homes, the shelter and sustenance, the clothing and purposeful work, our entertainment." He writes of "a false world of plastic flowers and Astroturf, air conditioning and fluorescent lights . . . frozen food for the microwave oven." But even more worrisome is Gore's perspective of those who hold opposing views. After classifying "denial" as a serious mental illness, Gore charges that those who criticize environmental programs are themselves suffering from "a well-established form of denial." Those who oppose him are not just wrong, but sick. Largely because of people's inability to make the right decisions, Gore wants centralized government regulations to solve environmental problems. Take his example of California's water shortages during 1987-92. While ignoring the oft-noted claim that extremely subsidized prices reduce farmers' incentives to carefully economize on water, Gore blames the shortage on farmers watering their crops so much that they stunt plant growth. Gore's remedy is detailed watering regulations to keep apparently misguided farmers from harming their crops while simultaneously freeing up water for others. As with essentially all environmental problems, Gore sees the proper regulations as painlessly making everyone better off. Possibly Gore's view of most people not being able to handle the truth justifies his book presenting exaggerated claims and distorted evidence. After all, he is only following the advice that he has already given the media: Make things look as bad as possible. Yet there is a nagging fear of what he might do if elected president. What other policy issues are so compelling as to justify withholding evidence from voters? When else will he discourage a free debate in the press