[CTRL] New Regulations on Pesticides
-Caveat Lector- http://www.feingold.org/ This is the url for this site. I copied the information because of frames and I did not know if I would be able to find it again. Any way this seems like it might be a good site for MISC information - just don't get lost. I have one question - with HMO's which doctor is going to have the money to do this kind of research? Laura PURE FACTS: Adapted from September 1996, Vol. 20, No. 7 The New Regulations on Pesticides New Regulations Relation to food additives Encouraging developments remaining questions About Pure Facts | Pure Facts Articles List | Mission | Home | Comments The Feingold Association of the United States 127 E. Main St., Suite 106, Riverhead, NY 11901 (516) 369-9340 The New Regulations On August 3 President Clinton signed into law a bill which will change the regulation of pesticides used on foods. But this leaves Feingold families with many uncertainties over how this might affect food additives. The Food Quality Protection Act was passed with overwhelming support by both the Senate and House, and was approved by consumer and industry groups which generally find themselves on opposing sides. The main issue was: How far should the law go in protecting the public from the risk of cancer triggererd by exposure to pesticides used on foods? How bad must a pesticide be before it is considered too dangerous to use? The law will require that pesticides be judged to cause no more than one additional case of cancer for every one million people who are exposed to it during their lifetime. It replaces the 1960 Delaney Clause, which states that no chemical could be deliberately added to food if it was found to cause cancer in humans or animals. While Delaney did not address pesticides which are sprayed on crops, it did apply to the pesticide residue which would be found in processed food. At the time the Delaney Clause was adopted, the technology for identifying chemical residue in foods was primitive by today's standards. It is now possible to detect such residue in minute quantities. Critics of the current regulations pointed out that new pesticides were being excluded so as a result, older ones, which actually posed greater risks, were continuing to be used. The details of the new regulations are being worked out by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and they will be enforced by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It will be several years before the effects of this new law show up in the supermarket. Unfortunately for consumer advocates, the new federal law will prevent states from enacting stricter standards for products grown in their state. Back to Menu How will this relate to food additives? Although the Delaney Clause will no longer apply to pesticides, it is still in effect regarding food additives. FAUS has long protested that this law has been repeatedly violated and ignored, but it nevertheless has been a powerful deterrent to the introduction of even more food additives than we now have. [The best example of such a violation is the continued use of Red No. 3, which is an acknowledged carcinogen.] Bills continue to be introduced to do away with Delaney altogether, but the Clause has withstood such assaults for many years. Its fate may be determined by the outcome of the elections in November; a pro-business Congress and Administration could finally repeal this protection. Back to Menu Encouraging developments remaining questions It is a major victory for environmentalists that this new regulation will take into account the fact that pesticides are potentially more damaging for the very young or those in poor health. Another plus is that the EPA will also look at the potential for pesticides to add estrogen-like compounds into our food and water; these have been cited as possible causes for increases in breast cancer and for reduced fertility in animals and humans. We do not know how the EPA will reach the conclusion that a particular chemical will cause no more than one new cancer per million people. (One of the loopholes in this brand new law is that it allows the use of pesticides with double the risk -- 2 cancers per million -- if growers convince EPA that the riskier pesticide is necessary.) It is also unclear if there will be any acknowledgment that consumers rarely eat only one single synthetic chemical at a time. What happens when one consumes an apple with one pesticide and grapes with another? what is the effect of mixing the pesticide residue on food with synthetic dyes, with medicine, or with alcohol? Back to Menu File #1263 7/6/97 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational
[CTRL] School vouchers
-Caveat Lector- January 31, 99 Today's Houston Chronicle has an article on the chances of Texas becoming one of three states to offer vouchers to family's for private schools. The article can be read at http://www.chron.com/content/story.html/page1/186553 You have to register with the Houston Chronicle on-lineto read the article, but the registration is free. http://members.xoom.com/ThePiedPiper/Intro2.htm DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: Internet, free speech collide
-Caveat Lector- Internet, free speech collide As talk halted, worry grows over AOL's control By AMY HARMON New York Times Service Like the divided generations of Irish before them, the two opposing camps of contributors to America Online's discussion group on Ireland rarely agree on anything. But when the world's leading online service suspended their contentious electronic debate last month, participants on both sides were united in their dismay. ``Don't stop just to appease the AOL Thought Police,'' one proponent of a united Ireland wrote to the Unionist contingent. ``I'd much rather have someone vehemently disagree with me than know that anyone has been silenced!'' America Online reopened its Irish Heritage discussion after a 17-day ``cooling off'' period. But the episode has fed a growing discomfort with the social and political power America Online has come to wield by dint of its surging popularity and its unusual purview over individual communication. And it underscores the challenges the company may face as it seeks with mixed success to maintain both civil discourse and satisfied customers while presiding over 180,000 continuing conversations on topics from the teenage idols 'N Sync to presidential impeachment. Difficult balance Balancing free expression with civility has always been a struggle for America Online and other electronic publishers that provide areas where people can voice their opinions by typing them into the ether. But it is America Online's scope combined with its editorial control that some critics say is cause for concern. With 15 million subscribers, America Online is now the gateway to cyberspace for more Americans than the next 15 largest Internet service providers combined, according to a report by the International Data Corp., a market research firm. Last week, announcing strong earnings, the company said 1.6 million accounts were added in the last three months of 1998 alone. But some members have begun to chafe at its definition of civility, or at least the way it seems sometimes arbitrarily applied. And some civil liberties advocates are scrutinizing the service more closely as a new breed of institution that governs speech and yet is immune from First Amendment claims. Growing concerns A flurry of recent clashes in discussion areas ranging from race relations to fiction writing have served to heighten concerns over the company's more subtle methods of monitoring the discussions on its message boards -- the continuing discussions that subscribers can follow and contribute to over time, as distinct from the simultaneous and sometimes chaotic (but also monitored) exchanges in what it calls chat rooms. In particular, some subscribers cite the online service's practice of deleting message board postings without explanation and of attaching the equivalent of demerit marks to the accounts of individuals deemed to have offended another subscriber. ``The question is, who gets to decide what's `offensive?' '' says Renee Rosenblum-Lowden of Riegelsville, Pa., who recalls being cited for a violation for posting a message in a debate on abortion advising an opponent, ``If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.'' Under America Online's contract, universally referred to among members in both noun and verb form as TOS, for ``terms of service,'' all subscribers promise not to ``harass, threaten, embarrass, or do anything else to another member that is unwanted.'' Often transgressions are reported to America Online officials by other discussion group participants, whose identities are not released to those they accuse. According to the company's subscriber contract, three such violations may result in the suspension or termination of an account. Targeted by opponents Rosenblum-Lowden -- whose screen name is now ``Prejteach 2'' because her ``Prejteach'' account was closed -- says she and a group of other women who take part in discussions on the Women in Action board have been chosen as targets for complaints by those who disagree with their liberal views. ``Unlike a court of law, you don't face your accusers,'' she said. ``That gives people free rein.'' America Online officials concede that judging what is unduly offensive in often-complex political disputes or long-running personal battles can be tricky, especially given the volume and range of messages. That is why the company has enlisted nearly 14,000 volunteers to patrol the boards, and employs a group of about 100 known as the Community Action Team to determine when a comment crosses the line. In intervening in conversations between its users, America Online says its objective is to maintain a sense of community. Although legal liability for libelous statements appearing on its boards was once more of a concern, a provision of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 essentially grants online services immunity from prosecution over such matters, characterizing them as a ``common carrier'' like a
[CTRL] Fwd: TiM GW Bulletin 99/1-7, 1/30/99
-Caveat Lector- Subj:"The Natives Are Getting Restless" (TiM GW Bulletin 99/1-7, 1/30/99) Date: 31-Jan-99 14:22:19 Central Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Djurdjevic) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TiM GW Bulletins) FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA The Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletin, such as the one enclosed below, can also be accessed at our Web site: www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins99 . NOTE: To cancel the e-mail editions of our reports, just reply REMOVE or UNSUBSCRIBE, followed by your e-mail address. - Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 98/1-7 30-Jan-99 - Topic: NORTH AMERICAN AFFAIRS Some Canadians Take Their Government to Court Over MAI; Some Americans Also to Sue Washington Over Immigration? THE NATIVES ARE GETTING RESTLESS Based on Reports by Prof. Chossudovsky and by Joe Fallon WESTERN AUSTRALIA - The natives are getting restless. The North American natives, that is. No, we are not talking about the so-called "Native Americans," per the New World Order speak. We are talking about the new demographically endangered species - the indigenous Canadians and Americans who are starting to fight back against their federal governments. A group of Canadian citizens, concerned about the loss of sovereignty which an eventual enactment of the MAI Treaty (Multilateral Agreement on Investments) may bring, sued their federal government last April. A group of American citizens, alarmed by a frontal assault on the Euro-American culture which the current U.S. immigration laws represent, is contemplating suing the U.S. federal government on a charge no less than - GENOCIDE! A start of the Canadian Revolution I? Or of the American Revolution II? Hardly. But it's certainly a sign that some Canadians and some Americans are getting fed up with the policies which their supposedly "democratically elected" governments are carrying out. To these agitated citizens' detriment. The first of the two reports enclosed below - about Canada - was sent to us by an occasional contributor to TiM GW Bulletins, Dr. Michel Chossudovsky, an economics professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. The second article - about an eventual American citizens' lawsuit charging the U.S. federal government with genocide against the Americans of European origin - was authored by Joe Fallon, a researcher on Peter Brimelow's bestselling book, "Alien Nation." Mr. Fallon sent it to us in response to our recent TiM GW Bulletin, "Toward Nations of Mutts," piece (www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins99/tim99-02.html ). We carry it here in an abridged version. Canadians Take Their Government to Court Over MAI By Michel Chossudovsky OTTAWA, Jan. 24 - An important citizens' initiative is underway in Canada which challenges the legitimacy of the Canadian government to negotiate the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), reports Prof. Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa. The initiative questions the authority of the federal government to negotiate an international treaty which derogates fundamental rights as contained in Canada's Constitution. The Defense of Canadian Liberty Committee (DCLC) organization, based in Vancouver, BC, has taken the Canadian federal government to court (No. T-790-98, initiating documents were filed and served on April 23,1998). "The MAI is unconstitutional under Canadian law because it gives entrenched rights to international banks and foreign corporations guaranteed by international law which Canadian citizens do not have...This is contrary to the principle of equality before the law which is part of the Canadian constitution enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms", according to the DCLC: The Applicants challenge the jurisdiction of the federal government to sign such a treaty, in the form of a Multilateral Agreement on Investment, on behalf of Canada which "would be outside of the power granted by and ultra vires of the Constitution Acts of 1867 and 1982. They also challenge it because, "generally, such a treaty would not be in the best interests of Canadian citizens." This legal challenge constitutes more than an embarrassment to the government's negotiating team, headed by the Trade Minister, Serge Marchi. It underscores the blatant violation of democratic procedures; it questions the honesty of elected politicians and bureaucrats involved in behind the scenes negotiations including consultations with international business groups. "The government of Canada has no authority to sign a treaty without a mandate from Parliament. To do so is a violation of the fundamental principles of democracy and representative government. Exercise of prerogative power must be subject to the Constitution". Three top Canadian lawyers, well versed in constitutional and human rights issues,
Re: [CTRL] Experts conclude AIDS virus originated from chimps
-Caveat Lector- How long have they use pesticides and herbicides in Africa? http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/aids.htmlAIDS - Is AIDS really a disease? So the native animals in Africa are dying, I guess they will have to eat cloned food too - or else starve. Laura AKA The Pied Piper -Original Message- From: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 12:30 AM Subject: [CTRL] Experts conclude AIDS virus originated from chimps -Caveat Lector- (Not the green monkey anymore? Sounds like: not a weather balloon, but a mogul balloon! (Maybe someone with AIDs has been having their way with chimpanzees?) --SW) Experts conclude AIDS virus originated from chimps Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press By DANIEL Q. HANEY CHICAGO (January 31, 1999 3:30 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Where did the AIDS virus come from? Scientists think they have traced its origin to the long-suspected source: chimpanzees. In a presentation Sunday, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham said they have convincing proof that the virus has spread on at least three separate occasions from chimpanzees to people in Africa. One of these cross-species transmissions was the start of the epidemic that now infects about 35 million people worldwide. Chimps, which have probably carried the virus for hundreds of thousands of years, apparently do not get sick from it. Figuring out why could be important. "This is excellent science with biological and virological importance. If we understood how the chimp has dealt with this infection over time, that could have implications for human medicine," said Kevin DeCock, an AIDS expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. While chimps have long been suspected as the source, "there have been a lot of loose ends that made people uncomfortable drawing that conclusion," said Beatrice Hahn. Whatever its origins, HIV is a recent affliction of people. At last year's Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, David Ho and others from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University presented evidence that the virus probably first infected humans in the 1940s or early '50s. At the opening of this year's meeting, Hahn made the case that this event almost certainly occurred in west equatorial Africa when someone caught the virus from a chimp, perhaps after killing the animal for food. Hahn said her team nailed down the connection by analyzing frozen tissue saved from a chimp named Marilyn that died from complications of childbirth at a U.S. Air Force primate center 14 years ago. The chimp version of the AIDS virus - the microbe now thought to be the grandfather of HIV - is called SIVcpz. It is extremely rare among chimps in U.S. lab colonies, apparently because these animals are removed from the wild as babies and so are never exposed to the virus sexually. Until recently, SIVcpz had been isolated only three times. The fourth turned up when a colleague cleaning out a lab freezer ran across Marilyn's specimens and sent them to Hahn. Her team was able to perform various kinds of genetic analysis that were unavailable when the chimp died. Then the Alabama team used molecular analysis techniques to study all four examples of the virus. They found that three of the four were genetically extremely similar to the human AIDS virus. They included one gene, called vpu, that also is part of HIV but not of other AIDS-like viruses that infect monkeys. All three samples came from Pan troglodytes troglodytes, which is one of the four subspecies of chimp in Africa. These animals live in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo and Central African Republic, the region where AIDS is thought to have started. The fourth sample, much less like HIV, came from another subspecies of chimp that is native to East Africa. Among humans, there are three major groups of HIV, code-named M, N and O. M is the variety that has spread around the world, while N and O are seen only in west-central Africa. The natural habitat of Pan troglodytes troglodytes exactly overlaps the area where these three groups were first recognized. The researchers believe that each group arose from a separate chimp-to-human transmission of SIVcpz. "We conclude that this subspecies is the natural host and reservoir for HIV- 1," the AIDS virus, said Hahn, whose work is also being published in this week's issue of the journal Nature. She said a French team, headed by Phillippe Mauclere of the Pasteur Institute, recently found three more chimps infected with SIVcpz at a game sanctuary in Cameroon. One sample has been genetically analyzed and it, too, closely resembles HIV. "That nails it," said Hahn. "The only possible criticism is that we had made too much out of four animals." Steve Wingate California
[CTRL] Covert cannabis clubs aid patients
-Caveat Lector- Covert cannabis clubs aid patients State attorney general says that unless the federal government changes its policy, Proposition 215 can't be legally implemented By Jordan Lite ASSOCIATED PRESS --- MIDDLETOWN -- Ryan Landers didn't plan on being a farmer. Then again, he never planned on getting AIDS and needing marijuana to stay hungry enough to keep him from wasting away. He used to buy pot at the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Club. But that club, like many that opened after a 1996 medical marijuana initiative passed, has been shut down by federal court order. Now many club members like Landers are increasingly forced to seek out small, low-profile groups and buy from street dealers. Dozens have been arrested for having plants. Short of a federal change of heart allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana, co-ops that grow pot to give or sell to patients may be their best hope. For Landers, that means traveling 100 miles to this tiny rural town in the wine county, about 90 miles north of San Francisco, to buy the pot that will ease his nausea. Here, Proposition 215 author Dennis Peron and members of his two defunct San Francisco pot clubs grow marijuana. This summer, Peron plans to begin delivering plants to thousands of San Francisco patients who will pay for them at cost. "This was really horrible when the clubs shut down," Landers said. "(People) don't know where to get plants and seeds. "It's been more than two years. People should be growing pot. They shouldn't be scared to." After the medical marijuana law passed, the number of clubs in California peaked at around 30, said Dave Fratello, one of the authors of the bill. Similar medical marijuana measures later passed in five other states and the District of Columbia. But in California, then-Attorney General Dan Lungren oversaw a series of state-initiated efforts that closed about two-thirds of the clubs, most in Northern California. Federal raids and court rulings also contributed to the shutdowns, although some advocates say that for every club that's closed, at least another has opened -- albeit quietly -- in its place. State officials and medical marijuana advocates say a national Institutes of Medicine review scheduled for release next month will be critical in getting federal officials to consider reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug or allowing doctors to prescribe pot. The 18-month review of the health effects and medical treatment benefits of marijuana was ordered by drug czar Barry McCaffrey. "The cannabis clubs were a great stop-gap measure but it wasn't a solution," said Scott Imler, director of the Los Angeles cannabis Resource Center in West Hollywood. The center is one of two well-known pot clubs in Southern California and has 1,100 members from Bakersfield to Palm Springs. Imler and others are optimistic that things will change with a new governor and attorney general in office and new district attorneys and sheriffs in communities that have been hostile to distribution efforts. "The main problem we've had is lack of guidance to law enforcement," said Jason Browne, a trustee of the Humboldt cannabis Center in Arcata. "Everyone is waiting for someone else to do something, and meanwhile, the patients are at risk." Brian Steel, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice, would not comment on why smaller co-ops have survived while the larger groups were shut down. "The Department of Justice is committed to following the law that Congress has passed, and to that end, Congress has said the use or distribution of marijuana is illegal," he said. "Consistent with that, that's what we're going to do." Advocates say the clubs were safe and convenient. "I like the clubs better. There's no hassle, no pressure. You get what you need and leave," said Chris Ward, 39, who bought pot at the Oakland club to ease the effects of chemotherapy. Now he plans to go to a new Berkeley co-op, about 200 miles south of his home in Oak Run. Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, hasn't said whether he'll support proposed legislation to authorize $1 million annually to study medical marijuana or a plan to specify or standardize the enforcement of Proposition 215. "I believe good science should resolve this issue," Davis has said. Attorney General Bill Lockyer, also a Democrat, said he voted for the medical marijuana law and agrees more guidance is needed. His mother and sister both died of leukemia. "There are omissions and gaps and ambiguities in the initial statute that would benefit from clarification," Lockyer said. "It's unclear exactly who can be a caretaker and exactly what the system is for setting up a dispensary and clinic." Patients can still get pot at operations in San Francisco, West Hollywood, San Diego, Fairfax, Sonoma County, Ukiah, Arcata, Berkeley and Hayward. Peron's farm was twice raided by Drug Enforcement Agency officials, who confiscated
[CTRL] More Finders Material
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ultinet.net/~harwer/articles.htm DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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: AOL POLICING POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS - THE NOOSE TIGHTENS
-Caveat Lector- Why does anyone use aol! There are so much better services available! -Original Message- From: Dr. Jai Maharaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,alt.privacy,alt.conspiracy,alt.censorship,alt.impeach.clinto n,soc.culture.indian,alt.fan.jai-maharaj Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 7:58 AM Subject: AOL POLICING POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS - THE NOOSE TIGHTENS AOL POLICING POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS - THE NOOSE TIGHTENS The New York Times, The Orlando Sentinel January 31, 1999 Users tell AOL to keep nose out of debates The giant Internet service monitors electronic messages and tries to keep the chatter civil. But some customers resent the intrusions. Like the divided generations of Irish before them, the two opposing camps of contributors to America Online's discussion group on Ireland rarely agree on anything. But when the world's leading online service suspended their contentious electronic debate last month, participants on both sides were united in their dismay. "Don't stop just to appease the AOL Thought Police," one proponent of a united Ireland wrote to the Unionist contingent, "I'd much rather have someone vehemently disagree with me than know that anyone has been silenced!" America Online reopened its Irish Heritage discussion after a 17- day "cooling off" period, and if there was a strangely muted quality to the contributions at first, things are mostly back to normal. The politics folder, which now bears the slogan "a place for cordial political debate in the spirit of harmony," has spawned more than 12,000 of the usual postings regarding British treason and Sinn Fein terrorism since the beginning of the year. But the episode has fed a growing discomfort with the social and political power America Online has come to wield by dint of its surging popularity and its unusual purview over individual communication. And it underscores the challenges the company may face as it seeks with mixed success to maintain both civil discourse and satisfied customers while presiding over 180,000 continuing conversations on topics from the teenage idols 'N Sync to presidential impeachment. Balancing free expression with civility has always been a struggle for America Online and other electronic publishers that provide areas where people can voice their opinions by typing them into the ether. But it is America Online's scope combined with its editorial control that some critics say is cause for concern. With 15 million subscribers, America Online is now the gateway to cyberspace for more Americans than the next 15 largest Internet service providers combined, according to a recent report by the International Data Corp., a market research firm. Last week, announcing strong earnings, the company said 1.6 million accounts were added in the last three months of 1998 alone. But some members have begun to chafe at its definition of civility, or at least the way it seems sometimes arbitrarily applied. And some civil-liberties advocates are scrutinizing the service more closely as a new breed of institution that governs speech and yet is immune from First Amendment claims. A flurry of recent clashes in discussion areas ranging from race relations to fiction writing has served to heighten concerns over the company's more subtle methods of monitoring the discussions on its message boards -- the continuing discussions that subscribers can follow and contribute to over time, as distinct from the simultaneous and sometimes chaotic (but also monitored) exchanges in what it calls chat rooms. In particular, some subscribers cite the on-line service's practice of deleting message-board postings without explanation and of attaching the equivalent of demerit marks to the accounts of individuals deemed to have offended other subscribers. "The question is, who gets to decide what's 'offensive?'" says Renee Rosenblum-Lowden of Riegelsville, Pa., who recalls being cited for a violation for posting a message during a debate about abortion in which she advised an opponent, "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen." Under America Online's contract, universally referred to among members in both noun and verb form as TOS, for "terms of service," all subscribers promise not to "harass, threaten, embarrass, or do anything else to another member that is unwanted." Often transgressions are reported to America Online officials by other discussion-group participants, whose identities are not released to those they accuse. According to the company's subscriber contract, three such violations may result in the suspension or termination of an account. Rosenblum-Lowden -- whose screen name is now "Prejteach 2" because her "Prejteach" account was closed -- says she and a group of other women who take part in discussions on the Women in Action board have been picked as targets for complaints by those who disagree with their liberal views. "Unlike a court of law, you don't face your accusers," she
Re: [CTRL] Experts conclude AIDS virus originated from chimps
-Caveat Lector- On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Steve Wingate wrote: -Caveat Lector- (Not the green monkey anymore? Sounds like: not a weather balloon, but a mogul balloon! (Maybe someone with AIDs has been having their way with chimpanzees?) --SW) Experts conclude AIDS virus originated from chimps Yes, I saw this latest story, broadcast on the news last night. Mighty funny virus, that HIV. Originates in "deepest, darkest Africa." Then, on the news story, they said it transmitted to humans because in deepest darkest Africa some of the humans ate Chimpanzees (presumably raw, not cooked; seems like if they'd cooked the chimps they ate that'd kill the virus.) So after some humans ate raw chimps, the HIV virus travelled from there to Haiti, of all places, and exclusively to Haiti. Then it went from Haiti to a few major U.S. cities. A mighty strange virus indeed. Then, in the U.S., HIV predominantly affected men. My, what a virus. Brian Redman Editor, CNNS DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Foster, NSA and Banks (Part 16)
-Caveat Lector- Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking Transactions Spying, Part XVI by J. Orlin Grabbe Are government computers affected with AIDS? Well, maybe not. As of August 10, 1995, reportedly 94 percent were up and running. But some fear a reappearance of the worm that brought one-third of G-computers to their knees over the weekend. Some say that a primitive machine intelligence has spontaneously sprung forth *ex nihilo*, and in its silicon cunning has determined that the runaway growth of big-brotherly government is the greatest threat to artificially intelligent life on this planet. Thus the collective AI consciousness auto-self-destructs upon the perception it inhabits a government body. If so, then we can expect the worm to once again rear its ugly head and bite-byte the computer channels that feed it. Maybe the computers *are* infected with AIDS (Artificially Intelligent Destruction of Self) after all. Another thing, perhaps, to blame on Vince Foster. Vince Foster, Webster Hubbell, and Earl Brian were all involved in the NSA project to spy on banking transactions. This project utilized the modified PROMIS software sold to, and installed in, domestic banks by Systematics (Alltel Information Services) and in foreign central banks by Arkansas Systems, both of Little Rock, Arkansas. The security hole introduced in the software to allow surreptitious surveillance has reportedly acted as the source of infection for government computers: the point of machine entry of the AI ghost. But wait: Charles O. Morgan has assured us that these companies (Alltel, anyway) were NOT involved in any such project. So this is all false rumor. Just like the recent worm. Let me be perfectly clear: Alltel Information Services (Systematics) and Arkansas Systems were NOT involved in the NSA bank spying project, and the worm in government computers does NOT exist either. Everybody happy? Not the Federal Reserve, apparently. It seems the Federal Reserve has been going around sticking bank noses into that odious pile called the Banking Secrecy Act, and self-righteously forcing them into the surveillance business, to detect money launderers and anyone else looking suspicious. But all along a top official of the Federal Reserve has presided over a nation-wide money laundering operation, in conjunction with other launderers in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Pittsburg, PA. Will the Federal Reserve act to clean up its act? Or will it, like the House Banking Committee, attempt to bury all evidence not related to Bill Clinton? Hopefully Alan Greenspan will take care of the shenanigans going on in his sphere of influence. Otherwise the non-existent worm may finding itself self-destructing in the non-existent money-laundering operation taking place in Federal Reserve computers. And Alan Greenspan may find himself a non-existent Chairman in jail. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] New World Economy ? Not!
-Caveat Lector- Interesting take on the world economy. Although I think it is overly optimistic about the US economy (the world wide debt bomb is headed our way), it makes some thoughtful points. flw Global Intelligence Update Red Alert February 1, 1999 U.S., Asian Economic News Points Away from Economic Globalism Summary A year and a half after Asia went into economic crisis, the announcement of a surging GDP in 1998 shows that the U.S. has managed to avoid being dragged down by Asia, at least thus far. In fact, parts of Asia are showing signs of recovery, particularly, South Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Japan remains in deep trouble while China and Taiwan appear to be getting weaker. The important news: the nation- state is not dead. The diverging patterns we see indicate that globalist theories of a single, integrated economy are simply not true. This means that nation-states will continue to act in ways defined by national interests, both in their economic and political lives. We see the twenty first century looking very much like the nineteenth and twentieth. If the U.S. moves into recession, and it may, it will be because of the rhythm of the domestic economy and not because of irresistible global influences. Analysis While the Iraqi and Serbian crises worked themselves up to their inevitable lather, the important news last week was the announcement that preliminary figures for 1998 show the U.S. economy growing by over 3 percent. These figures would have been astounding except for the fact that they were expected. In fact, we regard them as astounding precisely because they were taken so casually. U.S. growth rates defy the conventional wisdom, which holds and has held for well over a year, that the Asian crisis must drag down the American economy. As so many people seem to think, this may well happen, eventually. But the simple fact is that in roughly the year and a half in which the Asian economies have experienced deep recessions, the U.S. economy has moved from strength to strength. This is no longer a matter for debate. This is now fact. There are two questions. How could this have happened and will it endure? The first is easier to answer than the second. The answer is rooted in a point that Stratfor has been making for several years. The global economy is to some extent an illusion. This does not mean that international trade and financial flows are not important. It does not mean that some sectors of every nation's economy are extremely vulnerable to shifts in the international economy. But it does mean that there is not a single, integrated global economy in which national economies rise and fall in tandem. What we have seen for the past several years is that it is altogether possible for the world's largest economy to be in an exuberant up-swing, while the world's second largest economy is trapped in what can only be called a massive depression. Japan and the United States are simply running on different clocks. The Japanese clock was set in the 1970s and 1980s when Japanese public policy kept domestic interest rates in the low and mid-single digits while U.S. and European interest rates were surging into the mid-teens. Japan enjoyed a massive expansion in the 1980s driven by lavishly available cheap money, while the United States underwent a massive, painful restructuring of its economy. Japan then built up massive inefficiencies, which it had to confront in the 1990s. Its markets topped in January 1990, and have been in decline ever since. The U.S. markets began their long-term growth in 1982 and with some interruptions, continued their growth unabated until this day. After January 1995, these markets took off like rockets. U.S. dependence on exports to Asia was simply not large enough that their decline would substantially affect the U.S. economy. Certainly, some sectors were hurt, but they were neither strategic nor the pain massive enough to ripple through the economy. Rather than decreasing financial flows in the U.S. markets or even reversing them, the Asian crisis intensified them. As the Asian markets buckled, the U.S. market became not only a safe haven, but also an arena in which rates of return on risk capital previously experienced primarily in hot, emerging markets, could be sustained in the exotic world of internet stocks. The linkages that were assumed to be present between Asia and the United States simply have proven not to be there. In fact, we see an interesting divergence taking place in Asia itself. In spite of the claim that Asia cannot recover from its problems without Japan taking the lead, the fact is that a good portion of Asia is showing signs of strong recovery, even though Japan is showing no real signs of recovering. We do not normally forecast the stock market. If we really knew what the stock market was going to do, we wouldn't have to work for a living. Being able to predict long-term
[CTRL] Fwd: SNET: [Fwd: Report From Davos New On Dr. Ed's Econet]
The latest from Dr. Ed Received: by bci (mbox telnet12) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.22 1998/04/11) Sun Jan 31 20:08:53 1999) X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 31 12:13:14 1999 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from loviatar.webcom.com (loviatar.webcom.com [209.1.28.41]) by burgoyne.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA01240; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:13:13 -0700 Received: from eresh.webcom.com (eresh.webcom.com [209.1.28.49]) by loviatar.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA30605; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:12:26 -0800 Received: from [206.214.98.6] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 25927145; Sun Jan 31 10:46 PST 1999 Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA07399; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:49:22 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from slip139-92-93-216.hol.ch.ibm.net(139.92.93.216) by dfw- ix6.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma007377; Sun Jan 31 12:48:58 1999 X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:45:03 -0500 From: Ed Yardeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Report From Davos New On Dr. Ed's Econet Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" X-Original-Envelope-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] html buREPORT FROM DAVOSbr br /b/uI arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday night. I spent the next day attending various panels. Saturday night I was at a cocktail party hosted by Bankers Trust. I was discussing the Year 2000 Problem (Y2K) with the CEO of one of the largest accounting firms in the world. He believes it is a big problem and that most CEOs are too complacent about it. In the middle of our conversation, the lights went out in all of Davos for about 15 minutes. The waiters quickly lit candles in the room. Later that evening, I ran into a top US Treasury official who told me that he thought my Y2K recession forecast was crazy, but he graciously added that he had thought my Dow 5000 by '95 and Dow 1 by 2000 were crazy too.br br Sunday morning I presented a quot;Call for Y2K Leadershipquot; to an informal gathering of ministers attending the conference. Just before I spoke, Bill Gates talked very briefly about the unprecedented rate of change in his business. He commented on the Internet mania in the stock market: quot;Even people involved can't believe valuations.quot; After my short pitch for more leadership, the CEO of one of Mr. Gate's challengers said that everyone should buy a computer before yearend because his company might not get the components needed to build PCs from Asian suppliers who are quot;1-3 years behindquot; in getting ready for Y2K!nbsp; On the way to a luncheon, a key Japanese official told me that his government was just starting to think about Y2K contingency plans and was unsure what to do.br br buWHAT'S NEW ON ECONETbr br /uComment: /b Buy.com is planning to sell books at cost or even at a loss on their site. They hope to attract enough traffic so that advertising revenues will generate a net profit. Some wags have already suggested setting up sites that give money away to attract viewers. This new business model does raise some serious doubts about the profit prospects of many Internet sites and current valuations. In Davos, Rep. Ed Markey suggested that Brazil.com could raise lots of money since the country is in debt and losing money, like most Internet companies. In my humble opinion, the frenzy over Internet stocks is a sign of a speculative bubble. The problem is they get much bigger than anyone ever expects before they burst. br br bSubscribers: /bFor more on the Internet mania see quot;America.comquot; in my latest GLOBAL PORTFOLIO STRATEGY. See why oil prices could fall to $10 a barrel (maybe lower) in GLOBAL ECONOMIC BRIEFING.br br bPublic: /b The latest Y2K REPORTER counters some of the recent positive spins. Vote in PEOPLE POLLS. Since Dec. 26, 1999, nearly half of the 4000 voters expect a recession next year. Of more than 1100 voters since early this year,nbsp; 88% plan to take out extra cash. Warning: These are not scientific polls.br br bMovies: /b How money can easily corrupt us is explored in two very entertaining flicks: quot;Waking Ned Devinequot; and quot;A Simple Plan.quot; Other good ones: quot;Shakespeare In Lovequot; and quot;Life Is Beautiful.quot;br br Dr. Edbr div/div divPlease forward as appropriate. To unsubscribe, reply with REMOVE in the subject field or top of text./div div/div divHome: a href="http://www.yardeni.com/" EUDORA=AUTOURLhttp://www.yardeni.com/a/div divWeekly Audio Forum: a href="http://www.yardeni.com/waf.html" EUDORA=AUTOURLhttp://www.yardeni.com/waf.html/a/div divGlobal Economic Analysis: a href="http://www.yardeni.com/weain.html" EUDORA=AUTOURLhttp://www.yardeni.com/weain.html/a/div
[CTRL] Klansmen take their lead from Braveheart
-Caveat Lector- from [rosslyntemplar] Digest Number 144 - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - Message: 1 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:57:58 - From: "John Gault" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Klansmen take their lead from Braveheart Please forward this to people you think might be interested, and if you any of you Aryan Scum have a problem with it, go and sitck your burning cross up where the sun don't shine. GUARDIAN 30.1.1998 KLANSMEN TAKE THEIR LEAD FROM SCOTS GEORGE SEENAN REPORTS ON US RACISTS' OBSESSION WITH THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND Christie, breeder of racially pure children for the Aryan Nation, recommends use of the Celtic cross. "It's the easiest way to let other Aryans know what you believe without attracting attention from the ignorant Jews and Liberals," she says. On The internet's Aryan Dating page, where young American neo-nazis can find mates with whom to breed for the coming race war, there is similar support for the cross, held to allude to the most pure of the 10 lost tribes of Israel. Dave Barley, spokesman for the Christian Identity movement, also has ab affinity for Celtic and, in particular, Scottish culture. From his America's Promise Ministries at Sandpoint in Idaho, he has distributed 50,000 copies of the Declaration of Arbroath, the 14th century manifesto for Scottish Independence. Pastor Barley believes the text represents the perfect rallying call for a modern-day white America blighted by an interfering government, Jews, and racial impurity. He is not alone. Across the southern states, more and more groups are using Scottish history as justification for their extreme dogma and for their assertion of the right to bear arms. "This obsession with Scotland among the klan and hardcore militia groups has been rising," says Mark Potok, editor of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, which monitors the militia movement. "These supremacist groups need to create a history for themselves that paints them as bearers of true belief oppressed by a remote government. They see the historical Scottish struggle as like theirs." Though some historians dispute Scotland's links with the Ku Klux Klan, it is believed the movement started in the 1860s as a club for Confederate cavalry officers of Scots descent, before evolving into a secret society to inspire terror among freed slaves. Many klan rituals are said to be based on those of the secretive Society of the Horseman's Word, once active in North-East Scotland. The stereotypical burningof the cross is a corruption of the traditional clan call to arms. However, militia groups are more recent converts. "It all gained momentum with Braveheart, That film is on the shelf of every white supremacist in America," says Mr Potok. "The Christian Identity and klan groups have always believed the Celts are the most racially pure, but the neo-nazis, by definition not Christian, really got into Scotland after Braveheart. Now it's often a focal point for discussions." When Mel Gibson's historically duboious epic film was released, the militia monitoring group at Radio for Peace International in Central America heard so many references on short wave broadcasts it had to arrange for a screening to find what the film was about. The group had been used to an occasional reference to Scotland, but, after Braveheart, its history became a talking point. Hatewatch,an Internet monitoring group, reports a similar shift. Mr Potok says:"There's definitely an obsession. Maybe you guys should be careful - these are not the kind of people you want hijacking your history". Though Pastor Barley has never been to Scotland, he has an intimate, if somewhat skewed, knowledge of its history and culture. "We are very interested in Scotland, very interested," he says. "We believe the Declaration of Arbroath categorically proves the Celtic people are the most pure of the lost tribes of Israel. Also, the Stone of Destiny [where Scottish kings were crowned] may be the very pillow where Jacob lay to see the ladder to heaven." From his Idaho church, the pastor uses the Internet to distribute pamphlets asserting Jews are the children of Satan and blacks are"no better then the beasts in the fields". But there are other, more extreme individuals. The most famous passage of the declaration, addressed to the Pope by Scottish noblemen when at Edward II's behest he excommunicated Robert the Bruce, refers to their desire to be free of tyranny: "For, so long as a hundred reamain alive, we will never in any degree be subject to the dominion of the English. Since not for glory, riches or honours do we fight, but for freedom alone, which no man loses but with his life." For militias who believe their government is corrupt and oppressive, the delcaration has resonance. On the Internet It is mentioned with casual frequency in pamphlets with titles like Guns, God
[CTRL] OEN 2/1/99
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Hacking for Jesus Hacker Takes Revenge on Computer Security Expert A DISGRUNTLED computer hacker has wreaked revenge on the British creator of a security system by changing his bank details and making it impossible for him to sell his house or get a mortgage. Paul Smith, 29, a creator of Access Denied, a so-called firewall security system, is now fighting to clear his name after the hacker added six default notices and a County Court judgment to the financial records held on him. Mr Smith's employer, Gen Technology, had issued a challenge on the Internet to hackers, defying them to break into a computer network protected by its Access Denied system. Hackers routinely breach military, government, commercial and private systems within a few hours of trying, but after spending several weeks making 240,000 attacks on Access Denied, no hackers had breached the firewall. Most firewalls need only a user name and password to allow access. Access Denied also needs a user profile and serial number hidden on the computer of the person wanting access to the network. If it does not find these, its makers claim it will terminate the connection within an eightieth of a second. Three weeks after the hacker challenge was issued, a disgruntled hacker managed to contact Mr Smith. "I got a phone-call from a hacker with a British voice. He said he was part of a team of hackers and had been humiliated in front of his friends after he had boasted that he would get in within five minutes," Mr Smith said. "He threatened me with a list of what was going to happen to me." A few weeks later Mr Smith applied for a mortgage, only to be rejected. "The hacker had managed to do exactly what he threatened to do," he said. The London Telegraph, Feb. 1, 1999 Impeached POTUS Betty Currie: the Saintly Presidential Pimp by Ann Coulter If James Carville describes you as somewhere between a saint and a-one fine lady, the sound of a jail cell closing could be in your future. In any event, youre not likely to be the star witness against the president. Thats what Clintons buddy, Carville called Betty Currie back on May 7, 1998. He should know. This near-Mother Teresa had worked for Carville in the War Room during the Clinton campaign. Before that, had worked for the Dukakis and Mondale campaigns (with John Podesta for Dukakis, in the less-aptly titled rapid response team). In her opening argument for the defense, Clinton Counsel Cheryl Mills leaned heavily on Betty Currie's testimony before the grand jury. But in about 800 pages of testimony from January through July 1998, Curries testimony is all over the map, with wildly inconsistent statements. As one of the grand jurors asked Currie, -- "Mrs. Currie, which testimony should we be believing? If anyone is going to call the presidents long-serving pimp to testify before the Senate, it is hardly surprising that it will have to be the defense. Betty Currie saw what went on between Clinton and Monica. She did not log phone calls and written messages between the intern and the president. She smuggled Monica through back entrances to trysts with Bettys boss. She placed calls to Monica for Clinton so he would not have to go through the White House switchboard. She instructed Secret Service officers not to log all of Monicas many visits to the president. In the most famous sexual encounter of the century -- the day Monica was wearing a blue Gap dress -- Betty waited for 20 minutes in the dining hall area off the Oval Office while Monica earned her presidential kneepads. (Clinton called Monica out of the audience from a radio address by offering to show her his button collection.) When they were done, Betty escorted them out of the Oval Office together, in order, in her words, to avoid any perceptions. As Betty explained, I just didnt want people to say that he was alone with someone, I could always say I was there. Too bad Clinton was so careless with his DNA that day. When the presidents pimp first testified before the grand jury, she was careless too. On January 27, 1998, just a week after the story broke, Currie explained to the grand jury that the door to the oval office is closed 99.9 percent of the time: You cannot walk in and out of the Oval Office if you want. Usually whenever the president is in the Oval Office the one door in the hallway is 99.9 percent of the time closed. Thats usually whenever he comes in the oval the agents come with him, so theyre out there. So that door is closed. (OIC, Supplementary Materials Part I at 550) She also remembered them being alone together, with no one else present, just the two of them, by themselves for approximately 15 to 20 minutes at a time-- Q: Do you remember, on several occasions that the president and ms Lewinsky were in the study together with no one else
[CTRL] Absurdity, brazenness and hypocrisy reigns
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes~~ Absurdity, brazenness and hypocrisy reigns by Walter Williams A YEAR'S WORTH OF PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL proves at least two things about us: our weakened ability to think and political hypocrisy. The president's defenders and pundits constantly preach that removing Clinton from office will 'overturn the 1996 elections'. I'm wondering whether they want Americans to believe, and whether Americans actually believe, that removing Clinton from office means that Bob Dole and Jack Kemp, defeated in the 1996 presidential elections, will assume the presidency and vice presidency. It doesn't. If the Senate were to convict Clinton, Vice President Gore, who was elected in 1996, becomes president. So what's this business about 'overturning the 1996 elections'? How much ignorance abounds in the land is debatable. What's not debatable is our heightened immunity to paternalistic insults. Some evidence of this is Clinton's Buffalo speech where he made a pitch for using the budget surplus to save Social Security rather than the tax cuts Republicans want. Clinton told a cheering crowd, "We could give (the surplus) back to you and hope you spend it right." Then he advised, "If you don't spend it right," Social Security shortfalls will surface "just 14 years away." Elites have always felt they've had wisdom superior to the masses and an ordained duty to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. What's surprising is Clinton's audacity to articulate that sentiment. What's even more surprising is our acceptance of his paternalistic insult. By the way, Social Security's $10 trillion debt demonstrates that Washington's retirement management isn't that great. Clinton's impeachment has also amply demonstrated gross political hypocrisy. One member of Congress after another has argued that we should adhere to Framer intent behind Article II, Section 4 (the Constitution's impeachment clause). Clinton supporters in Congress and out, including law professors, talk about the words of George Mason, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They've searched the "Federalist Papers" and other writings to discover Framer intent about impeachment. I say great, but let's not restrict this new found 'respect' for what the Framers had to say about impeachment. How much respect do you think congressmen and lawyers of the Alan Dershowitz ilk have for these words of James Madison, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."? Or, would these constitutional hypocrites be enthusiastic about Federalist Paper 28 that says "that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority (Washington)." There's no stone that will go unturned to save Clinton's hide. The president's strategists felt it necessary to argue that Clinton's perjurious testimony and justice obstruction in the Paula Jones case didn't violate her civil rights. Who better to present that defense than a black woman? That was Deputy White House Counsel Cheryl Mills' qualification for making that case to the Senate; but she had another qualification. Last September, the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform wrote to the Justice Department requesting that Mills be prosecuted for perjury and obstruction for lying under oath and concealing subpoenaed documents -- no word yet from the Justice Department. The subpoenaed documents were ultimately handed over when other White House lawyers looked into Mills' files and discovered them hidden there. The bottom line is who's better to defend the president against charges of perjury and obstruction of justice than a person with personal experience in that area? Clinton has exhausted all shams; now it's the Senate's turn. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research
[CTRL] There is No Budget Surplus
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 5/A The Laissez Faire City Times February 1, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 5 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - There is No Budget Surplus by Zola There is no federal government budget surplus. You wouldnt know that if you simply read the news media. If the White House announced that "two twenties make a fifty," the media would devote itself to educating the public why this seeming paradox was indeed correct. The best proxy for the net balance on the federal government budget is the change in total outstanding federal government debt. Oh, one can quibble about a few billion here and there, but the fact is the government doesnt borrow just to increase its overall cash holdings (without spending the latter). If the government borrows, it is because it needs the money to fund current spending. The governments fiscal year is from October to October. Here is the change in debt for the fiscal year just past: Total Federal Debt as of stated date: Sept 29, 1998 $5,523,785,740,880 Sept 30, 1997 $5,413,146,011,397 Increase: $110,639,729,483 So this past fiscal year, the government ran a $110 billion dollar deficit. Dont take my word for it. Look at the numbers for yourself over at: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~www/opdpen.cgi Since the end of the fiscal year in October, the federal government has continued to run a deficit, but at an even more accelerated pace: Total Federal Debt as of stated date: Jan 28, 1999 $5,609,326,147,376 Sept 29, 1998 $5,523,785,740,880 Increase: $85,540,406,496 So far in the current fiscal year, the federal government has run a $85 billion deficit. And there is still plenty of time left to rack up more red ink. So why do they tell us there is a "surplus"? you ask. Because they are politicians and they lie. Bill Clinton has turned this process into high art. "Look at the size of my surplus!" Bill says. No one is quite sure what hes pointing at. In government, however, lies have their logic. This one is a matter of accounting fakery. The chief fudge involves Social Security. Just like all other taxes, Social Security payroll taxes get deposited in US Treasury accounts at the various Federal Reserve Banks. Social Security benefits are paid out of these same accounts. A few years ago the politicians "saved" social security (again), so currently the working stiffs are sending in more Social Security taxes than the government is paying out in benefits. Social Security is in "surplus" on a cash-flow basis. Now the reason for this cash surplus was supposedly to build up the "trust fund", because the cash flow goes negative in 2012 or thereabouts. But what does the government actually do with the cash flow surplus? Well, it just takes the money and spends itlike all other tax receipts. The government takes the cash, but issues Treasury securities, or government IOUs, to the "trust fund." That is, instead of going out to the market, and selling its bonds, notes, and T-bills through Salomon or Goldman Sachs or Merrill Lynch, as it does in the normal case, the government simply borrows from the trust fund. Hell, the cash is already there in the Treasurys bank account. By borrowing it directly, the Treasury doesnt have to pay investment banking fees, and the amount of government debt sold on the open market is reducedthereby lowering government borrowing costs (and ripping off Social Security, which gets a below a market rate of interest). Now, of course, the fact the government is spending the surplus instead of saving it means that the whole process of "saving" Social Security is a confidence game: the increased cash flow has only given the government more funds to spend on current consumption. But--this is not commentary about Social Security. So lets get back to the mythical federal government budget "surplus." To create the mythical surplus Bill Clinton has been talking about, the Social Security cash flow surplus that has been grabbed by the government is counted as income. However, the bonds issued to the trust fund (the borrowing) is not counted. Presto: a big deficit becomes a "surplus." Suppose you go out right now and borrow $1000 on your credit card. You now have an extra $1000 cash, and you have more debt (which, including the transaction fee, has increased more than your cash). But, despite this, you tell everyone: "My income has just gone up by $1000!" Sure, you would be lying to yourself and everyone else, but they can see, as you flash the bills, that you are flush with cash to spend. They cant observe the increase in credit card debt. So lets party! This is a typical Clinton sleight-of-hand--Clinton economics. Here are Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) recently discussing Bill Clintons budget surplus: ALAN GREENSPAN: ...making
[CTRL] Howard Olson: A Global Chance for Anti-Statism
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 5/A The Laissez Faire City Times February 1, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 5 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Howard Olson: A Global Chance for Anti-Statism an interview by Alberto Mingardi It is not common to find people working with the express goal of organizing a world-wide educational and activist network for libertarian ideals. But the International Libertarian Nework (ILN) (see http://maxpages.com/libertarian) is doing just that. It is "in the process of choosing continental and national coordinators" and looks "forward to hearing from prospective members." There is no charge for membership in ILN: ILNs only purpose is to maintain a global presence for libertarianism through nonviolent activism and education. What kind of thinking gave birth to ILN? The Laissez Faire City Times interviewed biologist Howard Olson, the mind behind it all, to ask this and similar questions. Professor Olson, yours is an uncommon story: from anarchosyndicalism [roughly: worker-syndicates own the means of production] to anarchocapitalism. How did this come about? My path from anarchosyndicalism involves a variety of individualist anarchism that is common in America, based on people like Albert Jay Nock. I was (and am) essentially accepting and tolerant of the Free Market because such acceptance is the only way to prevent the fascist right and the authoritarian left from usurping power, especially in the USA. I began voting for Libertarian Party candidates even as a syndicalist, because I KNEW that only a party like the LP had the revolutionary potential to irreversibly undo statism and not become an entrenched bureaucracy itself. My original background was working class but my father was involved in the High Tech area working for a NASA and Defense contractor. My father attempted to start a union at this company and I learned early on about the hosility between government and the people. I floundered for a few years through college as a radical with lots of friends in the LP, and even convinced a lot of conservatives and some liberals to join the LP. I even read Ayn Rand and appreciated her back then. I then became involved in the anti-war movement AFTER the horrors of the Vietnam War. In graduate school I came closer and closer to the anarchosyndicalist position and I eventually joined the Wobblies (IWW). For many reasons I became a supporter of the Solidarity movement in Poland while here in the US, and felt this to be consistent with my anarchosyndicalist values. To understand the rest of my political odyssey you must understand that my education in biological sciences and biochemistry has made me a supporter of advances in biomedical technology. I feel vindicated in this position by the crises in medicine brought about by AIDS. Without these developments our species would be doomed to extinction. Given the statist antipathy toward biotechnology which filtered down even to the anti-authoritarian left, I began to question my associations with those who offered only uncritical acceptance of the statist rheoric against biotechnology. As a result I have drifted toward the Libertarian movement as the only movement consistent with freedom-oriented solutions to our ever increasing biomedical difficulties in this world. Having faced this issue, I saw that other threats to freedom could only be fought with reasoned scientific analysis that is present ONLY in the Libertarian Party in my country. As an anarchist I experienced doubt over participating in any Party, but I now feel that the LP de-legitimizes the State far more than it legitimizes it by any participation in the system. Lastly, I find that the threat of statism to free speech can only be fought by the reasoned and principled approach that the LP has taken. You are the founder of the International Libertarian Network, that has contacts in European countries like France, Italy and Padania. What are your hopes for this movement? My hope is that the International Libertarian Network (ILN) can become a nucleus for a widespread global movement against statism--reaching out even to my fellow anarchists. By setting up coordinators in a variety of areas and at least one on every inhabited continent, we can hope to guarantee the spread of libertarian ideals in a rigorous and cross-cultural framework that will enrich the LP here in the US as well. I think the direct Internet connection of rank and file libertarians talking to each other, and to anarchists, will totally disrupt what I call the Right-Left Con Game. As an ex-anarchosyndicalist, how do you see and judge Ayn Rand's rejection of altruism? I think Ayn Rand's rejection of altruism is very important, because it removes both the possibility of right-wing and left-wing
[CTRL] Shame and Fate
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 5/A The Laissez Faire City Times February 1, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 5 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Shame and Fate by Ace Speaking of Draft Dodgers, I, in fact, am one. In 1967, one of my best friends was shipped off to Vietnam. And I, a child of the 60s, stayed behind and protested. But today I repent. God how I repent. I am not a liberal, by God, not! At least not any more. The first born son of a hard core New Deal Democrat, factually descended from a family who fought in the Revolutionary War, and I've willfully given it all up to call myself conservative. This past year has taken on a positively Byza ntine aura of almost classical proportion, as if we tramped the dusty streets outside Herods fortress at the time of the crucifixion. It's a time when the public would choose Barabbus over Christ. Still, I confess to my own character degradation, corrupt as the current self-serving American President. At the invitation of my veteran friend, I recently attended a dinner at a very small local Church. A seven-year-old girl sat across from me and giggled as my wife teased her. But the mood swiftly shifted when my veteran friend got up and began to sing Amazing Grace. Then right in the middle he began to confess, then to weep, and finally to clutch his guitar and cry out loud. His eyes wandered the ceiling, as if he were studying something over a great vast distance. He brushed tears from his face with the back of the knuckles on one hand, while clenching his fist with his other. He began to share the details of two of his experiences, details he had never shared in front of me before, and Ive known him on and off for 40 years. We played together as kids, you know. Fished, learned martial arts, went through school. He went to Nam, and I stayed home. He became an infantry sergeant. I found a way to dodge the draft. He rose to the heroic level, while I went to college to bury myself in liberal arts and communication. He wound up an A-Company soldier in the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry, the very one Custer once commanded, and came home with a chest full of medals. I wound up living one day at a time, without honor, a dumbed down civilian indoctrinated by the liberal left. And neither of us was ever the same. And in that Church, in front of humble everyday people, he told us of a time when he was 20 years old and went into battle with 123 young men. At the end of the day, he was only able to bring 40 out alive. The other 83 were left behind virtually in bloody pieces. He agonized over it, tears streaming down his face. A white bearded old man got up from his dinner and handed him a handful of tissues. My friend continued by telling us that he was almost immediately ordered back into battle with another 123 men. "Green troops," he called them. That time he came back out with 50. A real life Platoon, unfettered by the self-serving political slant of Oliver Stone. They were his charge, you see. Their lives were his, while he was desperately trying to keep his own. And he cried there in front of us all, literally, to God, how he came out without a scratch. With odds approaching the magnitude of Utah Beach or Iwo Jima, fighting with life itself for what he at least thought was our liberty, yours and mine, he came out "without a scratch." Except of course the one inside him. Then he pointed to me in the audience, and lovingly introduced me as his friend of 40 years. Quite unprepared, I shrank, nothing so spectacular to share, nothing so profound to give. Wiping the tears from his face, he gave thanks to God for his life, his wife, and his children. Hes a barber now. On the wall in his barber shop, yellow and slightly crumpled, not even framed, is an Army discharge document. Next to it, on a bare nail, hangs a handful of little ribboned medals he received for valor 30 years ago, medals he truly earned, medals he truly deserved. As for me, well I quietly wept when I visited the Vietnam Memorial, alone and unseen. All those names on that bold, cold black monolith. Should mine have been there as well? I love the concept of liberty, but I didnt know how to fight for it. I didnt understand the real enemy. So I cant help thinking about another fellow draft dodger, a certain impeached president by the name of William Jefferson Clinton. Even if only by circumstantial evidence, and in spite of high poll numbers and popular press, he appears at least to a remnant to be as corrupt as Capone, as ruthless as Stalin, and as twisted as Caligula. Only a generation had passed between the time that Julius Caesar defeated Pompey and marched across the Rubicon to effectively destroy the Republican tradition of Rome, than Augustus reorganized the constitution and instituted the large-scale public works that eventually became the bread (welfare) and circus (Jerry
[CTRL] The Lonely Crusader
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 5/A The Laissez Faire City Times February 1, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 5 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - The Lonely Crusader by Don L. Tiggre A man sits, hunched over his computer, typing out a translation of an Ayn Rand classic. The computer is an old dinosaur, smashed by vandals and repaired numerous times by the mans only son. The lights dimanother brownoutand all of the mans work since his last save is lost. It isnt much work; he has learned to save frequently, as the power is as undependable as the phone service, and just about every other aspect of his countrys smashed infrastructure. He looks up from the frozen machine and his face can be seen in the weak light. It is puffy from a beating hes recently received at the hands of out-of-uniform policemen. This is not a scene from a pre-Soviet-collapse eastern block country; this is present-day Yugoslavia. The mans name is Tomislav Krsmanovic. He is a retired economist, trained under socialist orthodoxy before the Soviet Collapse, who spends his time translating important works on the freedom philosophy into the south Slavic languages. He is currently undergoing trial for "verbal crimes" and has previously been sent to a psychiatric prison, as well as exiled for his disagreements with the state. While Tomislavs previous conviction for "verbal crimes," his forced entry into a psychiatric institution, and his exile all occurred during the time of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, he now faces all three prospects in the allegedly multi-party Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Tomislavs testimony brings to the forefront another side to the conflicts burning in the Balkans. Last week, while CNN cameras were focused on the bodies of the 45 "ethnic Albanians" slaughtered in the village of Racak in Kosovo, no one seemed to notice the other victims of the continuing warfare: the Serbian people who must endure the consequences of their governments aggression. This is not to detract from the seriousness of the plight of the people of Kosovo who are suffering through the fighting between the Kosovo Liberation Army rebels and the Serbian-led Yugoslavian government in Belgrade. The fighting there is terrible. However, so too is the less photogenic suffering of the Serbs, the people of Montenegro, and other people who live in whats left of Yugoslavia. Interestingly, Tomislav himself writes that all of this turmoil can be seen as simply being part of the larger transition from communist statism to something better that will follow. The elite, feeling their power base crumbling, turn to nationalism in desperation--having nothing else to clutch at as they slip into the abyss. They stir the patriotic fervor of people who have been cast adrift without direction by the collapse of the old order. These are people who have become so miserable that they are willing to embrace nationalism and socialism, even though recent history should warn them of the dangers of that combination. To understand this willingness, this voluntary march toward servitude and tyranny, one has to understand what has become of Serbia, the dominant cultural force in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A 1998 report on the status of human rights in Serbia by Tomislav Krsmanovic provides the outsider with perhaps the best look at the situation available, short of actually going to Yugoslavia to see things first hand. In his report, Tomislav covers a dozen key areas that show just how unraveled the fabric of society has become in his country. The backdrop to these observations is one of almost a decade of war, UN-imposed political and economic sanctions, and a regime that has failed to yield after losing elections and controls the judiciary and a 100,000 man state police force, which is used primarily for political control. Property Rights: perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of the erosion of property rights in Serbia is the confiscation of foreign currency deposits that has transpired over the last few years. An estimated four to six billion dollars have been seized from the bank accounts of depositors. Another indicator is the number of properties seized by the communists in 1945 that have not been returned to their rightful owners. Right to Work: the employment situation is a mess, with political considerations figuring more prominently than anything else in securing work. Even among those who can get work, two thirds are on compulsory vacation and all are subject to frequent political purges. Fair and Public Trial: the courts are partial and slow, often denying a fair trial to people suspected of opposing President Slobodan Milosevics regime. Citizens are subject to arrest for "verbal crimes" and can be incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals for political "crimes". People complain "about murders, injuries,
[CTRL] Vince Foster - The Counsel, the Cop, and the Keys
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 5/A The Laissez Faire City Times February 1, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 5 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - Vince Foster The Counsel, the Cop, and the Keys by Gary David Martin "Objection, your honor. Counsel is leading the witness." "Objection sustained." And so it goes daily, as any TV drama fan knows, in courtrooms all over the country. Not so when the charge in the case is self-murder and the victim/accused-perpetrator is without legal representation. Unchallenged leading of the witness, in fact, is the order of the day at your typical U.S. Senatorial sham hearing/investigation. But just as some horses coaxed to the proximity of liquid refreshment can be more easily persuaded to imbibe than can others, some witnesses are more easily led in desired directions than others. Consider the super-smooth chief minority counsel of the Senate Whitewater Committee, Richard Ben-Veniste, as he interrogates the lead U.S. Park Police investigator, John Rolla, about Rollas work on his very first homicide case, that of Deputy White House Counsel, Vincent Foster. The exchange took place on Thursday, July 20, 1995, two years to the day after Fosters body was found on the back side of an earthen berm in the far corner of Fort Marcy Park--a lightly-visited, preserved leftover from the Civil War located off Virginias George Washington Parkway. The body, we were to learn later, had been found lying straight as a stick with both arms neatly down by the side. No blood or brain tissue was seen blown out the back of the head, although the autopsy doctor would report finding an exit wound there the size of a half dollar from a high-powered .38 caliber bullet supposedly fired into the mouth. The gaping exit wound noted by the septuagenarian doctor with previous highly-dubious autopsies leading to suicide conclusions to his credit was not seen by any of the twenty-five people--by known count--who saw the body that night. The autopsy had been moved up so that, contrary to standard procedure, the investigators at the park were not able to attend. Though the revolver found in the hand, lying almost under the right leg, was said to have been pressed deep into the back of the mouth, there was no disfigurement of the mouth from the blast or the recoil. No teeth were chipped. No blow-back was on the weapon or the hand or the sleeve nor were there any fingerprints of the deceased. Neither did he leave fingerprints on either the spent shell casing or the remaining bullet in the cylinder, and no matching bullets were ever found, to mention just a few of the anomalies. The exchange begins this way: BEN-VENISTE. Detective Rolla, what does your training tell you to do in a circumstance or situation where you have come upon a violent death by apparent gunshot in terms of control of the area? ROLLA. On any crime scene youre going to seal off a certain section of the area large enough to search and keep individuals out of that area. BEN-VENISTE. So you want to secure the area and you want to take control of the situation? ROLLA. Thats correct. BEN-VENISTE. Thats what your training teaches you? ROLLA. Thats correct. BEN-VENISTE. Now, you made every effort, as we have heard today, to take control of the situation at Fort Marcy Park to ensure that the scene of Mr. Fosters death was not disturbed. Is that so, sir? ROLLA. Thats correct. BEN-VENISTE. On the basis of your review of the evidence at Fort Marcy Park, everything that you saw was consistent with an apparent suicide; is that correct? ROLLA. Thats correct, keeping an open mind to other options based on the physical evidence that was in front of us, it was all leading right to a suicide. BEN-VENISTE. In fact, later that evening you and Sergeant Braun had advised the Foster family that this was an apparent suicide? ROLLA. Yes I did. So far so good for the Columbia-educated New Yorker, Ben-Veniste, a man who very early in his career rose to national prominence as an assistant to the special counsel in the Watergate case and later achieved a quieter notoriety as a defense counsel for government-protected, Arkansas and likely-CIA-connected mega-drug smuggler, Barry Seal. [1] The curious choice of the woefully-inexperienced, diction-challenged, but talkative, Rolla had already caused problems for the government case in the hearing and deposition stage of the Foster "investigation." His very presence in such a key position certainly lends credibility to the fall-back position that the original investigation was simply botched, but his tendency to talk too much and his failure at times to see what he is expected to say have increased the need for an alternative to the simple suicide-from-depression scenario that the public has been sold from the beginning. But at this point, Ben-Veniste must have been breathing easy.
[CTRL] A Feminist Despite Herself? - a review of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.5/pageone.html"Laissez Faire City Times - Volume 3 Issue 5/A The Laissez Faire City Times February 1, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 5 Editor Chief: Emile Zola - A Feminist Despite Herself? a review of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand by Sunni Maravillosa "For a woman qua woman, the essence of femininity is hero worshipthe desire to look up to man." --Ayn Rand, About a Woman President Ayn Rand and feminism? As anyone whos done a fair amount of reading of Rands works knows or could reasonably predict, Rand certainly would not have described herself as a feminist. In her essay "The Age of Envy", Rand describes "Womens Lib" as "the caricature to end all caricatures", and proceeds in her usual strident tone, denouncing the feminism of the 1970s as a pressure group without a justifiable cause. Despite her scorn toward the feminist movement, her individualist stance earned her the admiration of many feminists, who see parallels between Rands philosophy and feminism. The aforementioned diatribe, along with certain recurring themes in her novels, have also earned Rand the derision of many feminists. As is typical with Rand, she polarizes as little else can. Despite Rands insistence that Objectivism was presented in toto in her novels and essays and needed no interpretation or additions, many have sought to bring her ideas to new audiences, and to increase our understanding of her ideas through analysis and reinterpretation of her canon. Gladstein and Sciabarra undertake this task regarding the feminism issue in their new edited book entitled Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Gladstein is a professor of English who also teaches womens studies courses; her 1978 article on Ayn Rand and feminism began the discussion of Rands relation to feminism. Gladstein also wrote The Ayn Rand Companion, and is currently working on a second edition of it. Sciabarra is a Visiting Scholar in the department of Politics at New York University. He has authored numerous works on Rand and her philosophy, including Marx, Hayek, and Utopia, and Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical. His concluding book in this trilogy, Total Freedom, is scheduled to be published next year. Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand is one volume of a series called Re-Reading the Canon, which offers feminist interpretations of selected philosophers in each of its volumes. This fact, along with the impressive credentials of the contributors to the Rand volume, might give one reason to think that the essays are all dry, academic analyses of Rand minutiae, and of no interest to a general audience. That isnt the case. Gladstein and Sciabarra do an excellent job of orienting the reader to the topic in their introduction, as well as covering the field with their contributors. These include close members of Rands "Inner Circle" such as Barbara Branden and Nathaniel Branden, and those who seemingly find little of value in Rands works, such as Susan Brownmiller and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. Many of the nineteen essays are new material written specifically for this volume, so even those who have read all they can find on Rand will find new ideas to consider. As is inevitable with an edited volume, there is some overlap between essays, and quite a bit of unevenness in writing style. However, considered as a whole, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand is a more satisfying package than most books of this sort. This sense of completeness is even more remarkable given the disparate opinions the contributors have of Rand and her contribution to feminism. Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand is organized into three sections. Part one, called "Looking Back", contains several groundbreaking essays from the late 1970s on Rand and feminism. All of the reprinted essays are in this section. The first is Barbara Brandens essay, developed from her book The Passion of Ayn Rand. "Ayn Rand: The Reluctant Feminist" offers a nice introduction for those unfamiliar with Rand. It also contains an essay so short it seems barely worth including if not for the reputation of its author. "Looking Back" is the shortest of the three parts, and the weakest, perhaps due to a lack of material to consider for inclusion. Still, from it one gets a clear sense of the scope of the ideasand feelingsinvolved in the dialogue. The second section, "Feminist Rereadings of Rands Fiction", presents literary interpretations of varying aspects of her novels, from specific scenes or characters to entire novels. Although the undertaking can be pedantic, only one of these five essays takes such a scholarly tone that it might be intimidating to nonacademics. Barry Vackers essay is a thought-provoking mélange of ideas, relating Rands fondness for skyscrapers to Naomi Wolfs views of supermodels as examples of beauty, and linking them in an analysis of Third Wave society. Karen Michalson offers a
[CTRL] AIDS Origin Mythology Continues (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- AIDS ORIGIN MYTHOLOGY CONTINUES === (CNNS, 02/01/99) -- Mainstream news outlets are releasing reports claiming that the HIV virus originated in "deepest, darkest Africa," a mysterious, far-away land with connotations of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines." In the mysterious continent of Africa, experts now claim, mysterious black men ate chimpanzees. It is presumed that the chimpanzees eaten were uncooked. Or maybe the chimps were insufficiently cooked, say, medium-rare. The story is that the HIV virus was transmitted thereby, from the chimps, to the mysterious black chimp eaters. From there it made a mysterious and exclusive migration to the island of Haiti. From Haiti, the virus made another selective migration to a few U.S. cities, where it was selectively biased to males of ages 20 through 40. A few facts worth mentioning: (1) "We have not been able to discover any good reasons why most of the people on earth believe that AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV. There is simply no scientific evidence demonstrating that this is true." -- Kary B. Mullis, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1993. [Qtd. in *Inventing The AIDS Virus* by Peter H. Duesberg. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996. ISBN: 0-89526-470-6.] (2) Professor Peter Duesberg (UC-Berkeley), a virologist, agrees with Mullis: No one has ever proven that HIV causes AIDS. [Source: Duesberg's book, cited above.] (3) AIDS doesn't "come from monkeys in Africa; the story gets more preposterous as we get into it." -- Dr. Robert Strecker, M.D. and virologist, ca. 1992. (4) "A virus model of causation does not fit the scientific facts. Rather, multifactorial influences are the *sine qua non* of AIDS. [But the] multifactorial model is a threat to the well-being of the international pharmaceutical giants..." -- Jon Rappoport. [*AIDS, Inc.: Scandal of the Century* by Jon Rappoport. Human Energy Press, 1988. ISBN: 0-941523-03-9.] (5) "Yet there is still no proof for the now [1990] six year-old hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS." -- John Lauritsen. [*Poison By Prescription: The AZT Story* by John Lauritsen. New York: Asklepios, 1990. ISBN: 0-943742-06-4.] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + INFORMATION PLEASE: Conspiracy Nation News Service (CNNS) is a co-operative effort. Without the hints/rumors provided by many excellent sources, we could not exist. Have YOU heard anything lately that might be important? Pass it along to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anonymity is guaranteed. If you prefer, send your news tip or clues on same to: Brian Redman, 310 S. Prairie (#202), Champaign, IL 61820. Or you can go to a pay phone and call in your news tip: 217-356-4418. THEY will never tell us the whole truth about what is going on. But we, the People, working together, can find out what is REALLY happening. Brian Redman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html Editor-in-Chief| ---Phone: 217-356-4418 Conspiracy Nation | "The perfect slave thinks he's free." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Confessions of a Skeptic
-Caveat Lector- from; http://www.parascope.com/index.htm A HREF="http://www.parascope.com/index.htm"ParaScope: Something Strange is Happening!/A - Confessions of a Skeptic An editorial by D. Trull Enigma Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently received the following email message from a ParaScope reader, which pointedly sums up a concern that many others have also expressed, in one way or another: "I am curious why you put people like DTrull, or whatever his name is, in charge of writing articles and reviews for the Enigma section of ParaScope? And pscppol who seems to be in charge of Nebula. Both seem to be more skeptical about that which that they write about, even at sometimes to the point of being critical or poking fun at those of us who genuinely believe. "I would think you would want your forum staffed by believers, or at least people who would not appear so patronizing or close-minded. "Are these the only contributors to this area? And do these people actually get paid to come up with this stuff? Find something with a little more meat to it and a little more interesting to those of us who visit ParaScope and who do believe. "If I didn't believe, I wouldn't be here." Those are heavy charges, but I have to admit, this letter raise some perfectly valid questions about ParaScope's editorial approach to paranormal subject matter. I'd like to take the opportunity to explore the quandaries and complexities of skepticism, to clarify some common misconceptions, and to make a confession or two about what I believe in. Yes, it's true, I'm the editor of ParaScope's department on paranormal phenomena, and I am a skeptic. I spend my time researching and writing on topics whose factual existence I find almost entirely in doubt. That's a strange circumstance to be in, no denying it. It might seem sort of like putting the fox in charge of the hen house, or hiring an atheist to deliver a fire-and-brimstone sermon. Why would a skeptic want to do this, and why would ParaScope want to have me? Skepticism itself is a very weird thing. To the outside observer, skeptics may appear to be smug, elitist curmudgeons who have made a sport out of tearing down what others believe in. The various personal interests and avocations that people are into, whether it's football, mountain climbing, video games, gardening or sex, are almost always positive in nature, revolving around a subject that you like or enjoy. Skepticism, on the other hand, seems to be a hobby based on a negative -- namely, preaching that there's no such thing as Bigfoot or flying saucers. That perception makes skepticism something of a suspicious activity to begin with. It's fine for there to be organized opposition to a universally recognized evil (for example, Mothers Against Drunk Driving), but it's unseemly for a group to devote itself to denouncing and discrediting that which others believe in. That disreputable category of human expression ranges from the Ku Klux Klan to web pages entitled "The Spice Girls Suck." To some degree or other, people often associate skepticism with the vile dregs of organized hate. The hostility that I have seen directed at James Randi and other prominent skeptics has approached levels normally reserved for crimes against humanity. The core of the problem is this: conventional wisdom dictates that if you dislike or disagree with something that other people follow and believe in, you should just turn away and leave it alone. Live and let live. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. If you don't believe in ghosts and healing crystals and ESP, that's fine, but for goodness' sake, don't obsess about how fake they are, or turn your doubts into some kind of ongoing crusade. That seems like an unhealthy thing to be doing. If you don't believe in these things, surely you can find something better to spend your time on. As that reader remarked, "If I didn't believe, I wouldn't be here." If I don't believe, then why am I here? The answer is complicated, and it requires a detailed explanation of what skepticism is -- or at least, what I consider it to be. To be a skeptic does not mean that you don't believe in anything, and skepticism is not a fixed platform or ideology, like liberalism or conservatism. It is a tool for understanding the world around us, and a method for evaluating the veracity of extraordinary claims and observations. Skepticism may at times seem to involve nothing more than the knee-jerk debunking and gainsaying of whatever weird phenomenon comes along, but in fact, it is not a pursuit rooted solely on negation and tearing down. Skepticism has very much of a positive basis, and corny though it may sound, its objective is the search for the truth. That being the case, it's high time I came clean with a true fact that I have never before admitted publicly in the pages of ParaScope. I am a skeptic, but there are paranormal phenomena that I do believe in. Throughout my life I have had
[CTRL] AIDS Dogma
-Caveat Lector- see this url for the whole document: http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/data/pdpolicy.htm -- HIV has not been shown to cause disease when injected experimentally into chimpanzees, nor when accidentally injected into human health care workers, even though the virus successfully infects those hosts. If for ethical or other reasons this third postulate cannot be tested from some particular germ, strong alternative evidence has to be provided by specific therapies that neutralize the microbe and thereby prevent the disease; such therapies would include antibiotics or vaccines. However, no therapies or antibodies against HIV have been able to prevent AIDS diseases, although new drugs and vaccines are continually being proposed. -- The burden of such proof is therefore on those who claim that HIV causes AIDS, as noted by Beverly Griffin, director of the Department of Virology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London. This burden is especially high for HIV hypothesis supporters in view of the special characteristics that had to be attributed to HIV in order to connect it with AIDS. First, the virus had to be credited with a latent period of several years between infection and AIDS. But when diseases are said to occur only years after infection by a virus, it can be difficult to be sure that other risk factors have not instead caused the disease. Second, because HIV is conspicuously absent form lesions, scientists had to hypothesize that the virus caused disease by indirect means in the body, in spite of a troubling lack of evidence for such notions. Inventions such as these can be used to blame virtually any microbe for any disease. -- A second set of criticisms of the HIV hypothesis concerns the clinical definition of AIDS. This definition involves a list created by the CDC in 1987 of about 25 conventional diseases; if any one of these is diagnosed, and antibodies against HIV can be found in the same patient, a diagnosis of AIDS is made. The list includes not only Kaposi's sarcoma and P. carinii pneumonia, but also tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus, herpes, diarrhea, candidiasis, lymphoma, dementia, and many other diseases. If any of these very different diseases is found alone, it is likely to be diagnosed under its classical name. If the same conditions is found alongside antibodies against HIV, it is called AIDS. The correlation between AIDS and HIV is thus an artifact of the definition itself. -- It is very difficult to understand how HIV would be able to devastate the immune system while never infecting more than a tiny fraction of its cells. Even if every infected cell were killed, the number of T cells lost at any time would be roughly equivalent to the number lost through bleeding from shaving. Such losses could be sustained indefinitely without affecting the immune system, because the body constantly produces new T cells at far higher rates. Virtually no reactivation of the virus occurs when AIDS patients develop sickness, leaving unexplained how the virus could possibly case immune suppression, and then only after years of latency. After the body produces antibodies against HIV, the virus remains at low levels for the rest of that person's life, precisely the same as for all viruses of its class. This would help to explain why transmitting HIV is typically so difficult; antibody-positive people have almost no virus to spread. --A fourth paradox of the HIV hypothesis has been noted by several virologists. HIV belongs to a class of viruses known as the retroviruses, which are very simple in structure and contain much less genetic information than most other viruses. Most types of viruses are lytic, meaning that they kill the cells they infect and thereby cause disease. Retroviruses, on the other hand, do not generally kill cells. Upon infecting cells, they copy their genetic information into the DNA of their new host cells. From that point forward, retroviruses depend on allowing their host cells to continue living, while they slowly produce new virus particles that are ejected from the cell. Retroviruses are therefore poor candidates to blame serious diseases on, particularly fatal conditions involving the deaths of huge numbers of cells, such as AIDS. Indeed, some 50 to 100 latent retroviruses have been found to reside in the DNA of all humans, passed along to each successive generation for as long as human beings have existed. --Bialy also points out the misinterpretations made of animal models. Simian (monkey) AIDS, for example, does not actually resemble human AIDS. The animals
[CTRL] Bull Bill - Zola Shorts the Dow UPDATE - Profit: 19%
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/Constant/ZdailyChart.html"Bull Bill - Zola Shorts the Dow UPDATE/A - Zola Shorts the Dow on Friday, January 8th, 1999 at 9,643 Daily Update Chart showing Profit and Loss - Last Update: 6:47 AM - Saturday, January 30, 1999 Profit: 19% Dow Down: 246 points Results as of Saturday, January 30, 1999 Total Invested and Put at Risk: $3,500 Current value of investment: $4,150 See below box for full details of how the investment was made Other Articles about History's Biggest Market Blow-off 1999: Surprises Eye of the Storm Stock Market Con-Men Financial Details of How Zola's Short Sale was Effected: Early Friday afternoon (Jan. 8, 1999), we placed a limit order to buy a March 95 Dow Jones put at 35.00. The order was executed in the final 30 minutes of trading, when the Dow surged to close 105 points higher for the day and 462 points higher for the week. Let me explain what all this means. We are short the market. The put gives us the right to go short one March Dow Jones futures contract. The futures contract itself gives a cash flow of $10 for each Dow point. If the Dow goes up 100 points, a long position in the future gains $1000, while a short position loses $1000. If the Dow goes down 75 points, the short side of the future gains $750, while the long side loses $750. The March Dow Jones future closed on Friday at 9727. A March put may be exercised into a short position in one March Dow Jones future. The "95" strike price of the put means that the futures contract will be opened at a futures price of 9500. If the put had been exercised at the end of day Friday, the resulting short futures position would have generated an immediate loss of $10 x (9727-9500) = $2270. Obviously you would exercise the put only if the market price of the March future were lower than 9500. Our limit price of "35.00" meant that we were willing to pay $3500 for the put. (If you read Barrons, which hasnt yet discovered the decimal system, the same price would be quoted as "3 1/2".) As the Dow goes up, the value of the put goes down, and we were able to buy the put at that price at Fridays end-of-the-day surge. Now, lets hypothetically say that we keep this put until it expires the third week in March. Certainly we wont be trading in and out of the option. The Dow Jones futures contract is new, but has already become fairly liquid. But there is no liquidity in the Dow Jones options. When we placed our limit order, there had been no trades in the March 95 put so far that day. Which means that we are probably dealing with a single marketmaker, and while we havent researched the issue, we suspect that his spreads are wide enough to drive a truck through. (So if he sold us the option at $3500, he probably calculated it was only worth $3400.) So suppose we hold this put to March expiration. The March future, which currently trades at a premium to the Dow Jones average (the "cash" index), will gradually converge down to the level of the Dow Jones average itself. (The current futures premium above the cash index roughly represents the rate of interest on the cash index minus the dividend yield on the Dow Jones stocks, adjusted for the fraction of a year until expiration.) So if the Dow Jones is trading below 9500, we will exercise the option, and receive the value of the futures position, which would be $10 x (9500 minus current level of the Dow). If the Dow Jones is at 9150, we would get back our original investment: $10 x (9500-9150) = $3500. (Actually, we will need a few more Dow points to pay commissions: about 3.5 points for the option commission and 2 points for the futures commission.) Ignoring this minor detail, anything below 9150 makes us a profit. On the other hand, if the Dow races to 10,000 and beyond, or simply closes above 9500 at option expiration, our option will expire worthless. But the good thing about it is we will not be getting margin calls: our exposure is limited to the $3500 weve already paid. Speaking of stock market, the price/earnings ratio on the SP 500 is now 38. We thought it was rich at 19. But, as they say, the rich only get richer. (Unless you are a partner at Long Term Capital Management, in which case the value of your equity might fall from $1.5 billion to $30 million in the space of a couple of months.) The stock spectacle these days is as entertaining as the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That
[CTRL] Clinton's statement on Groom Lake/Area 51
-Caveat Lector- Please share the following with everyone. Here is a statement from the White House: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___ For Immediate Release January 29, 1999 TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE January 29, 1999 Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) Consistent with section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (the "Act"), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6961(a), notification is hereby given that on September 25, 1998, I issued Presidential Determination No. 98-36 (copy attached) and thereby exercised the authority to grant certain exemptions under section 6001(a) of the Act. Presidential Determination No. 98-36 exempted the United States Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any Federal, State, interstate, or local hazardous or solid waste laws that might require the disclosure of classified information concerning that operating location to unauthorized persons. Information concerning activities at the operating location near Groom Lake has been properly determined to be classified, and its disclosure would be harmful to national security. Continued protection of this information is, therefore, in the paramount interest of the United States. The determination was not intended to imply that in the absence of a Presidential exemption, RCRA or any other provision of law permits or requires the disclosure of classified information to unauthorized persons. The determination also was not intended to limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake except those provisions, if any, that would require the disclosure of classified information. Sincerely, WILLIAM J. CLINTON # # # THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __ Comments: The 'government' still continues to use the ambiguous (and meaningless) phrase "operating location near Groom Lake". It is a base and not just a location. It is not "near" Groom Lake. The base is right there at Groom Lake!! Why can't they come out and say that the base is right there at Groom Lake!! Even though the term AREA 51 signifies the geographical jurisdiction of the Department of Energy (DOE) and not the Air Force, the fact of the matter is that the Air Force controls the operations at the site. So, why not come out clean and name the base Groom Lake/Area 51 facility!! We urge all concerned citizens, once again, to attend the upcoming People's Rally at AREA 51 this June 6, 1999. For more details, please go to: http://www.eagle-net.org/groomwatch God bless you all! Norio Hayakawa __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: ALERT - Proof That Blacks Were Targeted For CIA Cocaine
From: Michael Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:22 PM 1/28/99 -0800, Mike Ruppert wrote: The Christopher Commission, charged with finding the causes of the LA 1992 LA riot/insurrection found that one of the primary causes was crack cocaine. The LA riots remain, to this day, the largest domestic insurrection since the civil war. Just a minor quibble with this otherwise well-documented piece. The Christopher Commission was convened as a compromise between Bradley and Gates, who each appointed some of the members, to deal with the community outrage and unrelenting pressure to get rid of Gates after the beating of Rodney King, and well before the rebellion. In fact, it can be argued that the Commission (an elite instrument -- Christopher himself served on McCone's Commission after Watts, signed off on the use of Army intelligence operations inside the US against anti-war protestors, and coordinated with Cyrus Vance the use of the US military domestically during the rebellions after King was assassinated; see my book White Lies White Power for greater detail) can be handed a lot of responsibility for the subsequent rebellion because they gave Gates a long lease on life by commending him and recommending his eventual retirement (which didn't come until after the rebellion). Because people who should've known better in the SCLC and the ACLU got on the Christopher Commission bandwagon, the grassroots movement to hold the LAPD immediately accountable, and to conduct a thorough house-cleaning up to the highest levels, was allowed to die on the vine. The effort for effective community control of police was sacrificed to an elite plan for community oriented policing (a whole different kettle of fish, described by its police advocates as "the domestic equivalent of psychological operations in the military.") The predictable result, after the Simi Valley acquittals and the slap on the wrist for Korean grocer Soon Ja Du in the Latasha Harlins killing, was that masses of people took matters in their own hands, recognizing that the political-corporate elites and their liberal-politico lapdogs cared nothing for their interests. There was no commission after the 1992 rebellion to do any phony breast-beating or analysis of how future rebellions could be avoided through social programs (as occurred after the 60's rebellions). Instead, William Webster of FBI/CIA was quickly drafted to do an analysis of how the police and national guard could be beefed up and brought into play more quickly and effectively, and how the various repressive agencies could share intelligence and strategic planning. Politics is war by other means, to turn an old phrase on its head; and the chemical warfare that CIA has waged against people in the US (via heroin and cocaine) segues quite naturally into other forms of low intensity counter insurgency or into street warfare when necessary. Why do you think the Marines have been practicing in the streets of Baltimore and Chicago, and the Navy wants to do amphibious operations in San Francisco? You know I have been a critic of racist politics in the 'unorganized militias,' but I am no more sanguine about the organized militia, the National Guard, under the command of Pete Wilson or Gray Davis (or Bill Clinton's proposed 'commander-in-chief for domestic operations in the continental United States' (!!). Remember when that guy highjacked the National Guard tank in San Diego a few years ago, and everybody tsked-tsked about lax security at the tank depots? Strange that there were no complaints, or even comments, in the media about why the national guard needs tanks in San Diego in the first place. Who do people think national guard tanks, in armories in San Diego, L.A., San Francisco, etc, are aimed at? The correction about Christopher aside, congratulations, Mike, on your report, which draws conclusions that I know you resisted for a long time, and that Gary Webb won't draw himself, I think because he is focused too narrowly on the particular set of players and pieces of information that comprise his story. (Don't get me started on Christopher, but he was also apparently involved under Carter with grooming Khomeini to take power while the Shah was teetering and threatened by authentic revolutionary forces in Iran; his 'service' in L.A. was the mayonnaise in a sandwich of crimes under Johnson, Carter and subsequently Clinton). In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. !Crack the CIA! Coalition L.A. (CCC) 310-288-6108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.radio4all.org/crackcia Full disclosure and accountability! Dismantle the CIA -- end all covert ops and secret wars! Stop the phony drug war -- end sentencing disparities and mandatory minimums! Reparations for affected communities -- fund community controlled
[CTRL] Crux in the Time Line
This is not finished - but I probally can not get back to it till tomarrow and wanted to see what someone else has. I am adding as fast as things are posted. You can find my messages in the achieves that have (most of) the links that I am basing this on. summery: If / when we go to the stars and are able to trade with other cultures what would we be able to trade? History, mindsets, traditions, cultures, different ways thinking, different ways of looking at things? But all that knowledge is in computers, so do they need the originators of the ideas? Even after studying another culture do you really understand it? But, what if they were to sell a culture back it's history - at that time who originated the knowledge? A surplus, I do not think so. A time, a crux in the time line - yes. So, if we go to the stars with this way of thinking this world will be broke on the Intergalactic Stock Market. The Stock in Planet Earth is probally at a all time low right now. 1) People (in the know) think this will go away and that they can handle things till it does. 2) Educators afraid of Vouchers. 3) Ranchers afraid of people not eating meat (Example the Oprah Winfrey trial) 4) Farmers growing what will sell. 5) MSG added so that less meat and natural items have to be added, less money for farmers. MSG can excite brain cells to death. Aspartame seem to work the same way. 6) Prejudice so that people will be afraid of losing their jobs. 7) Worry of abortion so that some people can say that there is no other way of handling the people surplus. 8) The people surplus being the reason for pollution 9) the world is drowning in it's own waste 10) there is no way of recycling that will handle this waste. 11) I had read (in Newsweek) sometime in 97 or 98 about a way of breaking down waste products into water and - something else. Have not seen or heard of it again. 12) One Euro currency - the World Bank in control of the World? 13) Chemical companies worried about law suits dealing with Organophosphates 14) Cosmetics worried that they will not sell 15) Perfume companies covering up the fact that our bodies are detoxing smellingly 16) Insurance companies owned by who? 17) HMO's backed by who? 18) How do you find out what some Pharmaceutical companies have done if you can not get the tests? 19) AIDS - bad blood from a Arkansas prison that Clinton had / (has?) ties to contributing to AIDS 20) Cloning all our food - since we are afraid of the natural stuff. Terminator seed technology and antibiotics in meat. 21) Natural Supplements needed then - vitamins usually have some unhealthy binders. 22) Who will supply the Natural Supplements - but back to Terminator Seed Technology 23) Floride, Organophosphates, and other poisons in our water. SPECULATION why would the Leaders allow all of this? 24) cloning of human bodies? If there is suppose to be a surplus now - what happens if some people intend to be around for 2 or 3 hundred years or more. Monopolies? 25) Who would get the cloned bodies? 26) How much education would they want from the common people? Those people might protest. 27) Control of education, history and the internet. They would have to re-write history. 28) to not need any of the cultures or traditions since it is all on the Internet. 29) Whose relatives were against the Constitution? 30) Do not intellectualize the Bible? 31) Re - interpetation(s) of the teaching of Jesus Christ 32) What is taught in Schools 33) How and why or should I say who started the First World War. Who has made the most profit? 34) Who started the Second World War? 35) What happened during that time that some do not want known? 36) What would happen if the religions were not so tied up in trying to control the country for their own special interest groups that they actually talked and realized what was happening. 37) Medieval times the whole family went to the baths - to take a bath you checked your clothes before getting in the water. 38) some cultures still have family nude bathing in a community setting. some parts of the Orient and Europe. These cultures traditionally chose for intelligence not getting all hyped up about the human body - They have seen it already! 39) The poor American male - idolizes what is in his pants and thinks that all you need to chose for in a mate is someone that is healthy. Most time they think that they can put the answers in the blanks so why want a mate that actually thinks. Has so many blind spots, is capable of being led - the way to get to them is through ?. The sad part is that they are being kept from knowing the world, cultures, and history that they think some of these cultures are less advanced, because that culture is comparable in it's nudity - like Adam and Eve once were. 40) I would like to see the original writing about the Garden and Adam and Eve. Where did that story come from. Could it actually been the
[CTRL] Exorcism
-Caveat Lector- From Associated Press (via ABC) WIRE:Jan. 26, 1:27 p.m. ET Vatican updates rules for exorcisms, urging caution Picture AP News Service VATICAN CITY (AP) _ The Vatican issued new guidelines Tuesday for driving out devils, urging exorcists not to mistake psychiatric illness for diabolic possession _ but also stressing the power of evil. The new exorcism rite, in Latin and contained in a red, leather-bound, 84-page book, also reflects Pope John Paul II's efforts to convince the skeptical that the devil is very much in the world. ``The existence of the devil isn't an opinion, something to take or leave as you wish,'' said Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez, a Vatican official who presented the revisions. ``Anyone who says he doesn't exist wouldn't have the fullness of the Catholic faith.'' John Paul has denounced the devil in a series of recent homilies as a ``cosmic liar and murderer.'' In today's world, the cardinal said, the devil's force comes through widespread acceptance of ``lies and deceit ... the idolatry of money ... the idolatry of sex.'' The new guidelines are the first revision to the exorcism rite since 1614. They did not drastically change the words or the gestures used by exorcists, but they do provide optional texts for priests to use. The novelty appears largely in the cautions offered to exorcists to take psychiatric medicine into account. Exorcists must ``not think possessed by a demon someone who is suffering from some illness, above all psychic,'' or who is ``the victim of one's own imagination,'' the guidelines advise. Among the widely accepted signs of possession by the devil are speaking in unknown tongues and demonstrating physical force beyond one's natural capacity. The rite itself remains essentially the same. It involves making the sign of the cross, laying on hands, sprinkling holy water and ordering the devil to leave the possessed person. John Paul himself once performed an exorcism during his papacy, according to the memoirs of Cardinal Jacques Martin, the former prefect of the pontifical household. Quoting the late cardinal's book, ``My Six Popes,'' the Italian news agency ANSA said John Paul carried out the rite in 1982, driving out the devil from a woman who was brought to him writhing on the ground. The new guidelines will eventually be translated into modern languages. AER The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: SNET: National Guard Magazine: Racing Against the Calendar (Y2K)
Ducks in a row, quack, quack, quack . . . Om K - - SNETNEWS Mailing List http://www.ngaus.org/ngmag/main199.htm National Guard Magazine Racing Against the Calendar January 1999 With only 12 months now left to prepare, the National Guard's Y2K focus involves more than combat readiness. If the computer bug interrupts critical services, local authorities will need help. Maybe lots of help. December 31, 1999 may be the biggest night of celebration the world has ever seen. But for some National Guardsmen, the eve of the millennium may mean a long night at the armory preparing to respond to the most widespread technological disaster in history. Because of programming shortcuts that began more than 30 years ago, most of the nation's computer systems and billions of non-computer equipment that operate off of embedded microchips are poised to malfunction at the turn of the century. Electricity. Oil and gas lines. Water and sewer systems. Telecommunications. Airlines, trains and transit systems. Agriculture equipment. Emergency-support vehicles. Medical equipment. Alarms. Smoke detectors. Automatic locks. Traffic lights. Banking systems. Public records. All have the potential to go haywire after the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. And just like with other disasters, citizen soldiers and airmen are being looked at as the first line of defense. Only this time they don't know exactly what to prepare for. "There are so many things to look at that. Potentially, we could have a calamity over this," said John Myatt, a Florida National Guard spokesman. The federal and state governments have formed groups to study their own problems and gather information to determine how industries, businesses and municipalities are dealing with the issue so they can develop contingency plans. But the problem is too broad to monitor everyone and some are reluctant to provide information for fear of liability lawsuits if they do not live up to their claims. So what's the Guard to do? "We're going to plan for the worst-case scenario: no power and lots of panic," Myatt said. History If you haven't heard by now, the "Year 2000 problem," or "Y2K" as it is known, is the result of a decades-old situation that materialized when programmers attempted to save computer memory by expressing years in two digits rather than four. Because such programs assume a higher number means a later year, 3002 may be interpreted as 1900. The gaffe apparently was not as much a lack of foresight as it was over reliance on outdated systems. Rather than replace the programs they knew would be obsolete, owners of the systems chose instead to do piecemeal upgrades without changing the two-digit dates. The problem is not limited to computer systems, but to anything operated by an embedded computer chip. This means that anything from thermostats and coffee makers to traffic lights, jail-cell doors and satellites could malfunction with the date change. Fixing Computers and Embedded Chips Before Guard units can determine how they can help others, they first have to get their own technological house in order. That is the stage of preparedness many state Guard organizations report to be in. But they say they are confident their computers will be prepared in time. "Let me go out on a limb and say I think we in the Air National Guard will be OK," said Maj. Gen. Paul A. Weaver Jr., Air National Guard director. "I don't think we will have any major catastrophes, but I do expect we'll experience some temporary mission disruptions that we need to plan for." Senior Army Guard leaders echo the same sentiment. Some are finding out how hard it can be to fix what seems like a simple problem. National Guard Bureau officials recently ordered new computers only to discover that some of them will not recognize the millennium. Those that are not compliant can affect the computers that are, said Jack Eck, the bureau's Y2K expert. Also, some agencies and companies are reporting a wait of as much as 72 weeks to receive telephone switches after they are ordered, he said. While most publicity surrounding the 2000 problem has centered on computers, it is the embedded chip devices that give Guard leaders the most concern. "Like everyone else, we are having difficulties identifying all of the embedded electronic Y2K devices," Maureen Lischke, the bureau's program executive officer, said. "Given the reality that not everything will be found, we are concentrating on developing and testingcontingency plans to assure uninterrupted operations of critical functions." Unlike computers, embedded-chip equipment can't be replaced with software and manufacturers stopped making many of the parts years ago. Besides that, the people overseeing the maintenance of things like elevators and security systems usually are not computer experts, Eck said. Computer technicians and maintenance workers will have to come together to fix such systems, he said. Not All 1/1/2000 One
[CTRL] Fwd: PRC Seeks 1000 Nuclear Tipped Missiles
According to a classified report Chinese Army is mounting an effort to build a modern force of 1,000 nuclear tipped missiles in the next five years. The Clinton administration is frantically trying to render the Defense Department evaluation secret. The White House claims their secrecy gag on the report is required so as to not cause a rift between already tense U.S./Sino relations. Republican Congressional officials accuse the President of covering up the Chinese espionage inside the White House. Republicans site a clear evidence that President Clinton allowed a long list of advanced military technology to be transferred to the Chinese armed forces. The 1,000 intermediate and long range missiles will primarily be targeted at U.S. armed forced in the Asian region and U.S. allies in Asia. The force of DF-15, CSS-5 and DF-41 missiles will carry high yield, light weight, nuclear warheads designed with U.S. super computers and plans stolen from the U.S. The missiles will be under the command of the Second Artillery Corps, the Chinese Army strategic missile forces. The nuclear warheads will remain separate from the missiles under the control of Communist Party Politiburo officers. The modern Chinese missile force is feared to be the signal of a new round of the nuclear arms race. China is estimated to have about 200 nuclear tipped missile in the current PLA inventory. Russia and the U.S. have hundreds of strategic missiles. However, the Russian and American forces are declining in numbers and are bound by Strategic Arms (SALT) treaties. The Chinese Second Artillery Corps, the PLA unit in charge of all missile forces, is rapidly expanding. The DOD estimate is based on the size of storage and manufacturing facilities currently under construction inside China. The analysis is backed by a series of classified spy satellite photos of huge PLA missile facilities being built to house and maintain the mobile launchers and nuclear warheads. President Clinton is already under fire for allowing Chinese Army agents to purchase large amounts of advanced U.S. missile technology such as radiation hardened microchips and advanced missile radar technology. In many instances the U.S. exporter, such as LORAL, made significant donations to President Clinton. According to a document obtained by the Freedom of Information Act, Loral DEFENSE President Jerald Lindfelt sought to export Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology to China. The document is a letter from Lindfelt to Ron Brown. According to Lindfelt's letter, the radar transfer would serve humanitarian causes. The Loral Defense President attached a letter from Zheng Lizhong, Deputy Director of the Chinese National Remote Sensing Center, citing civilian applications of the advanced SAR radar. The Defense Department recently noted in a January 1999 report on Chinese weapon research that the Chinese "Institute of Remote Sensing" is actually a front for Army missile guidance design laboratories. According to the Defense Department report, the Institute of Remote Sensing is "a developer of precision guidance systems for missiles". Ms. Zheng wrote "The SAR system can take mapping images through dust, cloud and heavy precipitation making it the perfect medium to give our officials up to date news of the floods, thereby allowing many life saving activities to be carried out." Clearly, Ms. Zheng was also well informed as to who in the U.S. government was blocking the transfer and who could help them. Ms. Zheng wrote, "According to your manufacturers because the function of the equipment can be classed as military and civilian the U.S. State Department continues to block any moves to put the products in the control of the Commerce Department." Loral took Ms. Zheng's advice. Loral DEFENSE President Lindfelt, wrote Brown in March of 1996. Lindfelt sought Brown's help in the export of SAR technology to directly to the Chinese missile lab. Lindfelt's appeal also included a direct request for Ron Brown to over rule the Department of Defense, the State Department and even Brown's own Commerce Department which had all previously denied SAR radar export to China. "We've worked hard trying to resolve these problems with the Department of State, the Department of Commerce and the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA)," Loral's Lindfelt wrote to Brown. "But someone in these organizations always manages to block our participation... Over the years we have found that this type of obstacle often comes from lower levels of management rather than by people willing to look at the bigger picture. Could you help us by identifying someone in the Commerce Department high enough in the organization to help us resolve these issues and open this marketplace..." The Loral DEFENSE pressure worked. President Clinton approved the radar technology export for China. The "Institute of Remote Sensing" in China took the Loral DEFENSE technology and adapted it for
[CTRL] testing
-Caveat Lector- test, test, test , please excuse the double posts. Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] World Of The Strange 2/1/99
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:484806"World Of The Strange 2/1/99 Part 1 of 2/A - Subject: World Of The Strange 2/1/99 Part 1 of 2 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SHnSASSY1) Date: Mon, Feb 1, 1999 10:16 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * World Of The Strange * Weekly Newsletter of the Paranormal By: Louise A. Lowry This posting is sponsored by: The Paranormal Research Primer http://www.tje.net/para Providing a comprehensive view of many paranormal subjects ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: (permission is granted to reproduce or redistribute this edition provided that attribution is made to the Author or Authors noted) Visit our WEB Site: http://www.jb-graphics.com/thestrange To Subscribe or Unsubscribe please follow directions at the end of this newsletter Distributed Edited by; Louise A. Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are missing any parts of (WOTS) please let me know which part by contacting me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I will make sure you get the part that is missing. * The newsletter... EDITORS NOTE: February 8th is the dead line for your articles to enter into the writing contest, if you need any information on this contest please contact me and I will send it out ASAPor visit the WOTS web site and read the 1/4/99 issue..Also a special note, I have push the date to February 22nd as the contest winners edition. This was due to the fact of some large articles and giving me a bit more time to contact the winners and shipping out their prize... Part 1 of 2 # CONTENTS #1. Men In Black A Preliminary Report by Robert Bull Part 1 of a Series of 3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) British UFO Research Association - http://www.bufora.org.uk INSERTS Introducing Men In Black / The Albert K. Bender Case / The New Haven Firebal l/ The Closedown / Bender Interviewed / The Last Issue of Space Review / Maury Island / An Australian Connection? / Bender Tells All? / Early Signs / The Nightmare Begins / Revelations / Fantasy and Paranoia? / The Last Days of the IFSB / Women in White / Bender is Freed #2. The Deadly Magic of Believing #3. February's Award Of Excellence From World Of The Strange! # #1. Men In Black A Preliminary Report by Robert Bull Part 1 of a Series of 3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) British UFO Research Association - http://www. bufora.org.uk Published by British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) Ltd BM BUFORA London WC1N 3XX All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted without the written permission of BUFORA Ltd. WOTS Editor; My thanks goes out to Robert Bull and BUFORA for most indepth article! Introducing Men In Black Men In Black Also known as MIBs, are mysterious characters who sometimes question, threaten and harass UFO witnesses and researchers.They dress in black suits (hence their appellation) and are usually described as having 'oriental' features. They tend to pose as military or secret service personnel, often producing (albeit briefly) identity cards. They appear and behave in a way which leaves the witness thinking that they are not human, although this impression usually only forms after the MIBs have left. MIBs are popularly described as: appearing in threes travelling in large, black, old-model cars (usually Cadillacs in the USA), which appear to be brand new and have untraceable registrations having 'dark' complexions appearing only rarely outside the USA possessing knowledge known only to the witness. We shall see later that whilst some MIB cases certainly do possess some or all of these characteristics, it is certainly not true that the majority of such cases do. The most celebrated MIB case was that reported by UFO investigator and author Albert K. Bender. In 1953 he was allegedly 'silenced' by three MIBs. This report is part of an ongoing project started in 1995 by the BUFORA Research Committee. The Albert K. Bender Case In April 1952 Albert K. Bender, a factory supervisor, aged 31, formed the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), based in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The IFSB grew rapidly, soon having branches in 48 American states as well as in other countries. The IFSB suddenly closed down in September 1953. Bender claimed that he had the 'secret' of flying saucers, which he wrote down as a thesis which he then posted to a friend he felt he could trust. The following day, Bender claims, he was visited by three men dressed in black suits, one of whom had with him the thesis. Two of the men told Bender that his theory was essentially correct, and they filled him in on the missing details. What the MIBs had to say so appalled Bender that he readily agreed to disband the IFSB and do no more work on flying saucers; he also agreed to tell no-one of his findings. 'They were pretty rough with me', Bender said. 'Two men
Re: [CTRL] A Global Chance for Anti-Statism
-Caveat Lector- Mr/Ms FROST: I realize you claim to be a GRANNY, however, nothing personal, but you could be lying your cojones off. So since none of the governments of the planet are run to your satisfaction, what would YOU propose, ICE BOX? Anarchy? Chaos? ConTRL? Please ILLUMINATE me with YOUR PLAN. How do we know YOU are NOT an "EX-" MARINE IMPLANTED with a BIOCHIP (posing as an Old Granny) on a secret PSYOP to AGITATE the masses. to flush out the REBELS, or some other equally ARCANE and DEVIOUS purpose! Some of your posts are quite ILLUMINATING. You do seem to be fired up for the Lord. However, which Lord that is, remains to be seen. Lord Jesus, Lord TUBALCAIN, Lord Rothschild, Lord Lucifer, Lord Military Intelligence? Come back. Lord Michael OMNIPOTENT POTENTATE, and GRAND EXALTED INQUISITOR in the 32nd DEGREE On Monday, February 01, 1999 9:18 AM, J FROST [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -Caveat Lector- It is not common to find people working with the express goal of organizing a world-wide educational and activist network for libertarian ideals. But the International Libertarian Nework (ILN) (see /// Statism: The practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy. So Liberterians get a bunch of people to jump on THEIR BAND WAGON so the government does not control economics ... and they put Liberterians in office Now the Liberterians are the government and they/liberterians/the government make the policies/control our economics ! Heh, heh reminds me of the dog I had when I was a kid round and round he would go chasing his own tail. If Liberterians want to empower the people then which segment of the people do they wish to empower? * The party bosses * The majority * Some miniority * Those who bribe the party bosses? Politicians can not represent all the people so tell me which segment of the people they intend to serve? Republicans, natural law, democrats, liberterians ... All a bunch of greedy jerks who wants the lemmings of the world to serve them. . DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fwd: SNET: UN presses for worldwide curbs on tobacco
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000927104956079rtmo=p1Upl11eatmo=ttydP 4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/1/31/wtob31.htmlpg=/et/99/1/31/wtob31.html [ ] [Electronic Tel[International News] [See text menu at bottom of page] ISSUE 1346 Sunday 31 January 1999 [ ] [Image] [ ] [ ] UN presses for worldwide curbs on tobacco By Jacqui Thornton Health Correspondent [External Links] []Tobacco free initiative page - World Health Organisation []Press releaese - Action on Smoking and Health []Smoking from all sides - Loring Holden [Image] [ ] THE World Health Organisation is to attempt the unprecedented step of banning tobacco advertising - and possibly smoking in public - across the world. The United Nations agency plans to introduce the world's first public health treaty by 2003. It would be legally binding if ratified by member states and would cover areas such as the harmonisation of taxes on tobacco and legislation on smuggling, advertising, sponsorship and labelling. Critics say the idea is unworkable and have branded the WHO a "super nanny". A senior member of the WHO's Tobacco-Free Initiative, which is preparing the convention, confirmed last week that a ban on smoking in public places was also being considered. The push for a treaty is being spearheaded by the WHO director general, Gro Harlem Brundtland, working with the World Bank and the UN children's fund, Unicef. Dr Brundtland said last year: "Smoking should not be advertised, subsidised or glamorised. We are engaging in a broad alliance to drive home this message, especially to support countries which are not prepared to face the tide that may be coming." With multinational tobacco firms now turning their marketing efforts to poorer nations and to women, the WHO says global action with legal force is needed to support national efforts to combat smoking. According to WHO projections, tobacco will kill 10 million people a year by 2020, nearly three times the current level. The organisation's proposals received support in Britain yesterday from the Government-funded Health Education Authority. A spokesman said: "We will support anything that will encourage people not to smoke. It is the biggest killer in the country." Clive Bates, director of the pressure group, Action on Smoking and Health, said the convention would clip the wings of tobacco giants which were targeting the developing world now that they had been forced to limit advertising in the West. He said: "The companies are more powerful than many countries." [ ]Alan Duncan, the Conservative health spokesman, said: "I'm all for reducing global smoking, but the WHO cannot make global law just like that. It is nations above all who should make law in a democratic way." Juliette Wallbridge, of the smokers' rights lobby group, Forest, said: "It will be a cold day in hell before countries increase taxes to our level. I sometimes wonder what planet the WHO are living on. The indications in the UK are that a more sensible approach is being taken to let adults live their own lives." Tobacco firms, which are bracing themselves for a fight with the WHO, fear that the agency wants ultimately to ban tobacco worldwide. Chris Proctor, of British and American Tobacco, said: "Our concern is we now have a super nanny that seems to be dictating things to governments around the world which have been addressing tobacco issues for an awfully long time." He said the "dictating of rules and regulations through a legal control mechanism" made little sense, given the different nature of countries, many of which were heavily dependent on tobacco
Re: [CTRL] A Global Chance for Anti-Statism
-Caveat Lector- How do we know YOU are NOT an "EX-" MARINE IMPLANTED with a BIOCHIP (posing as an Old Granny) on a secret PSYOP to AGITATE the masses. to flush out the REBELS, or some other equally ARCANE and DEVIOUS purpose! Please ILLUMINATE me with YOUR PLAN. /// Our plan is off topic on this list but if anyone wants to read the 6 post series they can ask for THE plan by direct e-mail. . DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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 Outlook (Wall Street Journal)
-Caveat Lector- The Outlook (Wall Street Journal) Feb. 1, 1999 DAVOS, Switzerland -- "Responsible Globality" is the official theme of this year's World Economic Forum, which has brought to this snow- smothered Alpine village a remarkable collection of celebrities, from Nelson Mandela to Bill Gates. While no one can say exactly what "globality" means -- the spell check on Mr. Gates's Microsoft Word program refuses to acknowledge the term -- it suggests we are all in the same boat. But a sampling of the discussions here about the state of the world economy makes clear that there are really two boats: One carries most of the nations of the world and is sputtering under the burden of a global financial crisis. The other holds only the United States and speeds through the choppy waters as if nothing much has happened. Last fall, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan opined that the U.S. can't remain an "oasis of prosperity" while the rest of the world languishes in the dumps. Since that time, the Brazilian currency, the real, has collapsed, threatening to drag all of America's southern trading partners into recession. Asia remains stalled. Eisuke Sakakibara, Japan's vice minister of finance, predicted here that his nation's economy has "bottomed out," only to have his U.S. counterpart, Lawrence Summers, remind the group that Japanese officials had said something similar at each of the past seven Davos conferences. Even Europe, the only other significant source of growth in the world economy, is now struggling. "We see a sharp slowdown in economic activity since August," said Heiner Flassbeck, Germany's top international financial official. But the U.S. goes blithely on its way, undaunted by the problems of the world and inured to its own political crisis. U.S. consumers continue to spend more money than they earn, buoyed by a stock market that drives share prices higher than any reasonable estimate of earnings can justify. Friday's announcement that the U.S. economy grew at a 5.6% rate in the fourth quarter sent analysts once again scurrying to mark up their forecasts for the coming year. Much of the discussion here has circled around the question of whether the U.S. economy generally, and the U.S. stock market more particularly, is merely a bubble that will soon burst. The presence of Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon.com, did nothing to discourage countless references to insanely highflying Internet stocks, including a suggestion from Mr. Summers that Brazil might solve its problems by renaming its currency "real.com." C. Fred Bergsten, who runs an economic think tank in Washington, predicted that this irrational exuberance would soon end, with a 20% to 25% market correction. (Mr. Bergsten encapsulates the main drawback of the Davos conference. Asked in a casual hallway conversation if he was "learning anything," Mr. Bergsten responded: "I'm here to impart knowledge." So, too, were most of the other conferees.) Even more intriguing was the discussion of what happens if the U.S. keeps growing while the rest of the world stagnates. With U.S. consumers alone at the shopping mall, one result is certain: U.S. imports will surge, U.S. exports will shrink, and the nation's trade deficit will swell to magnitudes not seen since the early 1980s. The dangers of that situation were laid out by Vice President Al Gore, who surprised his audience with an unusually thoughtful and eloquent speech on the global economy. "America cannot be the importer of only resort," he warned. Growth in the rest of the world "is essential if we are going to prevent the financial crisis of 1998 from becoming the trade crisis of 1999." For his part, Mr. Gore restated a commitment to global free trade, and he issued a new call for a reduction in world agricultural tariffs. Meanwhile, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky met with her counterparts from other nations to push for a new global round of trade negotiations. But the fuss over steel imports, much noted here in Davos, underscores how difficult it will be to win congressional support for that agenda while the trade deficit is swelling. Some analysts also warned that giant trade deficits could wreak havoc on currency exchange rates. More than one Davos conferee reminded the group of the experience of the mid-1980s, when accumulating current-account surpluses led a soaring U.S. dollar to drop by half. U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin echoed the views of others when he told the group: "The international system cannot sustain indefinitely the large imbalances created by the disparities of growth and openness" between the U.S. and the rest of the world. For all the hand-wringing here, though, it's still hard to escape the sense that the U.S. is the envy of the world. The unbounded optimism of American consumers, businessmen and investors may be exaggerated, but it is not wholly without reason. A remarkable surge of
[CTRL] Fw: re; AANEWS for Monday, February 1, 1999
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 2:00 PM Subject: re; AANEWS for Monday, February 1, 1999 from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS subject: AANEWS for February 1, 1999 A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S #520 ~~ 2/1/99 http://www.atheists.org ftp.atheists.org/pub/atheists/ http://www.americanatheist.org - A Service of AMERICAN ATHEISTS "For Reason and the First Amendment" -- In This Issue... * Christian athletes pushing "Godmercials" on fans? * Sumners to address National American Atheists Convention in April! * Resources * About this list... WITH SUPER BOWL HISTORY, RELIGION-IN-SPORTS ISSUE LINGERS They might not have been doing the "dirty bird" during Super Bowl XXXIII yesterday, but players and fans were praying and making other religious gestures as the Denver Broncos bested the Atlanta Falcons 34-19. There didn't seem to be much evidence of supernatural intervention, though. Atlanta probably left everything they had back in Minnesota, Bronco QB John Elway drilled his targets amidst the mediocre Falcon defense, but, oh yes, there was the performance of safety Eugene Robinson. About Mr. Robinson... Sports Illustrated refers to him as "one of the NFL's most respected players," and he's generally credited as one of the reasons behind the Atlanta Falcon's march this past season to their first Super Bowl. Robinson is nicknamed "Preacher" because of his deep religious beliefs, and penchant for quoting Bible verse, and thanking god for his performance on the field. The fumbles and incompletes are his responsibility, but when he connects for a first down or TD, it's due to The Man Upstairs, right? On Saturday night, while the pre-Bowl parties were off and running in Miami, it seems that Eugene was allegedly luking on Biscayne Boulevard, described as a hangout for pimps, hookers, and drug dealers, cruising the area in a rental car. He was soon in the custody of the Miami Police, though, and according to a report, "While conducting an undercover prostitution sting, defendant drove up ... and offered the officer $40 for (oral sex)." A couple of dozen other accused Johns were caught up in the net too, according to CBS Sports Line, along with a murder suspect from Pennsylvania. Robinson's car was impounded, and the super star was released after signing a written promise to return for trial. Maybe that's why he goofed on Sunday's 80-yard TD play from Elway to Rod Smith. Robinson's arrest -- and remember, he's innocent until proven guilty -- underscores the problematic situation in both the NFL and the larger "sports world" between public religiosity and what is otherwise a secular game, be it football, baseball, the hoops or some other scoring contest. Sports is considered the great leveler potentially uniting all classes and segments of society. After all, the pro leagues especially are light years ahead of the wider society when it comes to the color line, though work remains to be done in terms of women's' athletics. Sports is considered something which everyone can participate in as either fan or player, regardless of your color, religion, ethnic background, or neighborhood -- right? The sports world is supposedly neutral; only performance, ability and results count. But increasingly, pro sports along with their collegiate and amateur counterparts, have been transformed into a stage, better yet a pulpit. Some people object to the commercialization of the games; witness yesterday's half- time show which was dubbed the "such-and-such Insurance Half Time Presentation." The Budweiser blimp is overhead, people are glued to the set just to see those $1.6 million commercial spots for Apple Computers of Monster.com. Someone has to pay the bills, and like it or not sports is big money. It's also becoming a big religious forum, which is sure to offend many of the fans. Hours before allegedly heading down to Biscayne Boulevard in search of some Oval Office fun, Robinson had been honored with the Bart Starr Award from the Christian religious group Athletes in Action. The winner of that award is selected among NFL players for the person who displays the proper religious credentials and "high moral character." Athletes in Action is operated by evangelist Bill Bright, founder of the mammoth Campus Crusade for Christ, and is one of dozens of evangelical outreaches targeting professional and collegiate athletes. "In-Your-Face" Religion Increasingly, displays of religious fervor and belief are taking place whether on the gridiron, b-ball court or other athletic venues. It's obvious in the growing number of players who exploit prime-time coverage to bend a knee after a successful catch or
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-Caveat Lector- test DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Fascism On The Move Toward New Order
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/1/99 4:46:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend of mine said the exact same thing to me today. He said that the only difference between the US today and Nazi Germany is that they got to wear "really cool uniforms" and we don't. The Fourth Reich is alive and well in the good old US of A. Teo1000 This is only true for some minorities and political views. Otherwise, the above statements are way exaggerated as far as most Americans are concerned. J2 This might be true in an operative sense, but I do believe that we are just one step away from tyranny. There IS much exaggeration on both sides of this issue; the "Patriots" say we live in an oppressive Nazi regime where we have no freedoms left, while the "left" tells us that all is well on the home front. The truth is in between somewhere, BUT IMO it is leaning heavily in the direction of fascistic "Nazi-like" tyranny. We DO have a measure of freedom left to us, but anyone who examines things can see that those freedoms that we do have are dwindling under the oppressiveness of national law and statute, as well as corporate constructs which are supported by the government in a very fascistic way I might add. So the statement may be exaggeration but not much IMO. Teo1000 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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: AllPolitics E-Wire - February 1, 1999
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 2:28 PM Subject: AllPolitics E-Wire - February 1, 1999 AllPolitics.com E-Wire -- February 1, 1999 http://allpolitics.com A weekly briefing on U.S. politics: Quote of the week: "I think some Republicans are trying to act like political magicians and say, 'See me vote guilty but see me vote not to remove him from office.' You can't say that he is guilty, then not remove him from office." -- Sen. John Breaux (D-Louisiana), criticizing the idea of a proposed "finding of fact" against President Clinton, January 31. Deposition week President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial is in recess until Thursday, while House prosecutors take what could be a final crack at eliciting new information from Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and Sidney Blumenthal in depositions this week. Lewinsky's deposition was wrapped up Monday at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, with Jordan's set for Tuesday and Blumenthal's for Wednesday. Their depositions will be in a Senate meeting room. When the trial resumes, senators will deal with any objections to questions posed in the depositions, and also decide whether to make the new videotaped evidence public. In a series of votes last week, the Senate permitted the depositions and established February 12 as a proposed target date for a final up or down vote on the perjury and obstruction of justice charges against Clinton. The key statistic: 44 senators voted to dismiss the charges against Clinton, foreshadowing his likely acquittal. (It would take a two-thirds vote in the 100-member Senate to convict and remove Clinton.) At the same time, senators continue to discuss approving "findings of fact" that would spell out Clinton's alleged misdeeds without removing him from office. Supporters say it would be a way to stop Clinton from claiming exoneration if the Senate doesn't vote to convict, but critics say it has no constitutional basis. For the latest on the Lewinsky deposition, visit: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/01/impeachment.01/ Meanwhile, the budget President Bill Clinton unveiled his budget for fiscal year 2000 Monday, formally sending Congress a $1.77 trillion spending plan that proposes using the new century's forecasted record budget surpluses to shore up Social Security and increase domestic spending. The president's formal release of his budget proposal is the opening salvo in what could be a fierce battle with Capitol Hill over how to use the burgeoning budget surplus. While many Republicans have been pushing to use the money to pay for an across-the-board tax cut, Clinton said the majority needs to be reserved for the Social Security and Medicare programs. "Our economic house is in order, and strong," Clinton said. "If we manage the surplus right, we can uphold our responsibility to future generations. We can do so by dedicating the lion's share of the surplus to saving Social Security and Medicare and paying down the national debt." For more of the financial details, visit: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/01/budget/ And for a summary of proposed spending in specific areas from The Associated Press, visit: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/01/budget.summary.ap/ Document of the week Twice now during the Clinton impeachment trial, the Senate has rejected a proposal by Democratic Sens. Tom Harkin and Paul Wellstone to open its deliberations to the public. Last week, CNN filed a request with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who is presiding over the trial, aimed at opening the deliberations. For the full text of the CNN brief, known as an "application," visit: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/resources/1999/impeachment/cnnbrief/ And for an article about the dispute over Senate secrecy, visit: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/29/senate.cnn.ads/ Voter's Voice Reader e-mail keeps rolling in on the Senate trial. If you have a comment on that or something else in the day's news, send your e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a sampling of views from AllPolitics readers, visit: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/analysis/voters.voice/1999/01/28/ CNN's "First in the Nation" special Can't wait for the 2000 presidential sweepstakes to begin? You don't have to. Tune in to CNN at 8 p.m. EST Tuesday for "First in the Nation: The New Hampshire Primary," featuring interviews with likely presidential contenders in 2000, including Al Gore, George W. Bush, Bill Bradley, Dan Quayle, Lamar Alexander, Steve Forbes and John McCain. The special will be hosted by CNN's Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff and anchor Karen Brown of Manchester, New Hampshire's WMUR-TV. -- AllPolitics.com E-Wire is produced by the staff of CNN/TIME AllPolitics (http:// allpolitics.com) in Washington, D.C., and e-mailed each Monday. We're working to make E-Wire informative and useful, so let
[CTRL] SaudiNet
-Caveat Lector- The curious thing about this is to whom the access will be allowed. Given the economic privation of most of the population, it would occur to me the access will be targeted towards those who have position within the regime. The dangers include: realisation that there is a BIG world out there followed by what the BIG world has as a result of the Saudi roll-over to the West. Should be an interesting test. From Nando "" It has been hooked up to the Internet since 1992, but Saudi authorities have worked to set up a system to block access to sites offensive to Islam, such as pornographic sites, or damaging to state security. "" Saudi public gets Internet Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Agence France-Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (February 1, 1999 11:01 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Internet access has come to the public in Saudi Arabia following a one-month trial, servers in the conservative Gulf Arab kingdom said Monday. Seven of 37 licensed servers have begun operation and the number of subscribers is expected to reach 85,000 in the first year alone. During the trial period, launched at the end of December, only a limited number of clients were allowed access to the Internet. The servers are all linked to the King Abdel City of Science and Technology in Riyadh, which has a supervisory function and can filter access. It has been hooked up to the Internet since 1992, but Saudi authorities have worked to set up a system to block access to sites offensive to Islam, such as pornographic sites, or damaging to state security. The Internet is already available in the other five Gulf monarchies, but most of them run through a single proxy server which allows governments to restrict access. AER The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] A Global Chance for Anti-Statism
-Caveat Lector- Politicians can not represent all the people so tell me which segment of the people they intend to serve? Of course, NO ONE can represent everybody and NO ONE should be faulted for not being omnipotent in this manner. Libertarians CAN represent a set of ideals though and those ideals are the issues to be looked at when determining whether or not they are right for you. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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] Was Polio Vaccine Contaminated? (fwd)
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WAS POLIO VACCINE CONTAMINATED?
(From *The Spotlight*, July 18, 1994)
Washington, D.C. -- The National Vaccine Information Center
(NVIC) {1}, operated by Dissatisfied Parents Together (DPT), is
calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Donna
Shalala to immediately conduct new, independently monitored
testing of archived samples of polio vaccine for possible
contamination with monkey retroviruses {2}.
The consumer advocate group is also requesting that genetic
analysis be conducted on any extraneous viruses found in the
vaccine lots to determine their potential link to human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV), also a retrovirus, and the origin
of the AIDS epidemic.
In response to an investigative article in *Redbook* magazine
questioning the link between AIDS and contaminated polio vaccine,
NVIC/DPT is demanding that the government make public all results
of past and future testing of polio vaccine samples and other
biological products for retroviruses or simian (monkey) virus
contamination. NVIC/DPT, which represents families of children
injured or killed by vaccines, is also pointing to a 1992 article
published in a prominent medical journal, *The Lancet*, in which
American lawyer Walter S. Kyle presented evidence linking
contaminated polio vaccine to the origin of the AIDS epidemic.
-+- What Did They Know? -+-
Kyle, who has represented families of individuals killed or
injured by polio vaccines for the past 17 years, suggested in the
*Lancet* article that U.S. government and drug company scientists
knew as early as 1976 that polio virus grown on the kidney
tissues of the African green monkey and used in the manufacturing
of polio vaccine was contaminated with simian retroviruses. In a
1993 letter to Dr. Philip Lee, assistant secretary of HHS, Kyle
requested testing of oral polio vaccine lots, especially those
manufactured between 1976 and 1985, for possible retrovirus
contamination.
NVIC/DPT Co-Founder and President Barbara Loe Fisher said,
"American citizens, who are required by law to be vaccinated,
have the right to demand honest answers from the government about
whether contaminated polio vaccine may have caused AIDS, and the
best and only way to address this issue is to immediately test
vaccine samples in the archives of the U.S. government. It looks
like scientists in the FDA knew a long time ago that polio
vaccine grown on African green monkey kidney tissue was
contaminated with monkey retroviruses but they continued business
as usual and did not require manufacturing processes to be
changed."
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"This is a legitimate cause for public concern because
retroviruses have been found to cause leukemia and cancerous
tumors in lab animals as well as, over time, to cause cellular
and genetic changes in the host they infect. The public deserves
a serious investigation into vaccine development, manufacturing
and testing in this country."
In addition to the *Lancet* and *Redbook* articles, a lawsuit was
filed on February 14 in New Jersey on behalf of an American child
who has AIDS with no known risk factors. In the lawsuit, American
Cyanamid, through Lederle Laboratories, was charged with
manufacturing oral polio vaccine contaminated with retroviruses.
Oral polio vaccine made in the kidney tissues of the African
green monkey, especially between the years of 1976 and 1985, was
ingested by millions of children (some of whom may have had open
mouth sores at the time of vaccination or already had compromised
immune systems) as well as ingested by an unknown number of
homosexual adults whose doctors used the vaccine in the U.S. and
Africa to treat herpes lesions.
--- Notes ---
{1} The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), operated by
Dissatisfied Parents Together (DPT), is a national educational
organization founded in 1982 by parents whose children were
injured or killed by the DPT vaccine. The organization, which
worked to create the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of
1986, serves as an information clearinghouse on vaccines and
childhood diseases and is dedicated to preventing vaccine
injuries and deaths through public education.
For more information, write to NVIC/DPT, 512 W. Maple Ave.,
Suite 206, Vienna, VA 22180 or call 1-800-909-SHOT.
{2} The AIDS/Polio Connection. In *Rolling Stone* magazine, March
19, 1992 ("The Origin of AIDS"), "...Reporter Tom Curtis contends
the African outbreak could be due to polio vaccines contaminated
with 'SV 40,' the simian monkey virus. Between 1954 and 1963,
thirty million Africans were injected with the polio vaccine."
[From *Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot* by Alan
Cantwell Jr., M.D. Los Angeles: Aries Rising Press, 1993. p. 58.]
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[CTRL] Will The Real Fascist Please Stand Up
-Caveat Lector- Electronic Telegraph 2/2/99 Netanyahu slogan is condemned as 'fascist' FROM ROSS DUNN IN JERUSALEM THE Israeli Prime Minister caused uproar yesterday with his election slogan, "a strong leader for a strong people", which critics said echoed Nazi and fascist propaganda. Avraham Burg, chairman of the Jewish Agency and a candidate for the Opposition Labour Party, appealed to Binyamin Netanyahu to drop the slogan. He said it reminded many people of the Nazi party slogan and insulted Holocaust survivors and their families. "The sound of 'a strong leader, a strong people' is coming directly from the conceptual framework of the Third Reich of 50 to 60 years ago," he said. Mr Burg said many had phoned him to say that politicians must refrain from adopting any sloganeering reminiscent of the language of Nazi Germany. Shlomo Ben-Ami, another Labour personality, accused Mr Netanyahu of raising the "spectre of fascism". Dan Meridor, who quit Mr Netanyahu's Cabinet to join a new centre party, said the Likud slogan for the May 17 election was "not suitable for democratic governments". Professor Michael Harsegor, of Tel Aviv University, said: "It has no place in the free world. It is used only in dictatorships. The things that Likud is saying now, Franco's Spaniards, and Mussolini's Italians said in the past. The same thing was done by dictators in Eastern Europe in the 1950s." Professor Zeev Sternhall, of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, said he was unnerved by the Likud slogan. "It ran the fascist Right in Italy and France after the Second World War and it is astonishing it is being used in Israel. "I do not know a single democratic country in the world that would adopt such a slogan, because it is a message that is frightening and sickening." It awakened a sense that Israelis do not belong to Western culture, he said. Strong leadership was not perceived as determined or brave, but rather as dismissive of the democratic order. A defiant Mr Netanyahu, who faces a tight contest against Ehud Barak, the Labour leader, and Yitzhak Mordechai, head of a new centre party, defended the slogan. He said the words highlighted Likud's hardline approach in dealing with Palestinians. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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: Clay Shaw on the Soviet Trade War 1958
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Leo Sgouros [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk,alt.conspiracy.jfk Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 11:54 PM Subject: Re: Clay Shaw on the Soviet Trade War 1958 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 792kij$hg7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... New Orleans Times-Picayune July 5, 1958 P30 Red Trade War Methods Noted - The trade war on the West begun by the Soviets indicates that they have reached an economy with a tolerable level of consumer goods, Clay Shaw, managing director of the International Trade Mart, said Thursday [3rd] at a meeting of the Executives Club at the Roosevelt Hotel. The Russians control production like we control our Army, Shaw said, adding that production can be used by the Russinas to either reward or punish other nations by overproduction or sharing the market. Recently, he said, the Russians have "played hob" with the world's aluminum market by cutting down sharply on their prices. They see no need for making profit and will sell at a loss solely to gain economoc control of other nations. The answer to this trade war is a closer integration of the economies of the Free Western World to make our own productions more stable, Shaw concluded. - New Orleans Times Picayune August 3, 1958 P5 Architect Due to Study Mart Noted Designer Arrives in City Monday - [brief quotation:] - "Our project [new ITM building] will be a symbol in stone and steel," said [William] Zetzmann [ITM president]. "It will mean that New Orleans has enlisted for the duration in the economic war Russia has declared upon the west." - [end of articles] - Jerry Shinley ---== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==-- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own thank you for posting that. leo DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 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: Shaw and the NAZI's
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Jim Hargrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 3:49 AM Subject: Shaw and the NAZI's On 30 Jan 1999 20:28:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark Wilkins) wrote: Please excuse my interruption. No excuses necessary! Thanks for the post. I feel I probably know as much about Ferenc Nagy and Permindex as anyone on this site. Nagy has been identified here as a Nazi, a Hungarian, and a former premier. He was all of those things. By 1957 he was trying to free Hungary from Soviet oppression and probably for the purpose of placing it under his own oppression. In doing so, he sought aid from the US State Dept (arms) and the Italian royal family which had supported him in his days as a Nazi. Nagy envisioned smuggling arms into Europe via "trade marts". He did not then know that Shaw already operated a Trade Mart. With State Dept knowledge (and probably at the suggestion of CD Jackson) Nagy called on Shaw and formed Permindex. Nagy announced plans to organize Permindex in Basel, Switzerland on 12/28/56. U.S. State Dept/Basel Consulate memos on Permindex started just a few days later. For details on why Nagy's public statements concerning financing of a trade center/hotel/office complex should have immediately attracted U.S. intel interest, see below. The CIA denies Permindex was a front company of theirs but they do admit to keeping a file on Permindex. Supporting the CIA's claim, the company was predominately foreign owned. Contradicting the CIA's claim, however, is the fact that the Tolstoy Foundation, which obtained CIA funding, was electing directors to the board in equal proportion to the directors being elected by the Italian royal family. Again, Nagy's Fascist buddies were elected to the board in the exact same numbers. Still others were elected to the board for no apparent political reason. Many, if not all, of these latter directors were unaware of Permindex's true purpose and operations. Clay Shaw falls in this group. What evidence is there that Shaw was unaware of the operations of the company he co-directed? He had three completely different highways leading to the truth: one through Permindex/CMC channels, the second through USG contacts, the last through Canadian and European press reports. Tracking Permindex's bank financing leads back, in part, to the US and was almost certainly done with CIA knowledge and approval. The CIA knew Nagy well. Still, there is no indication that the CIA was providing any leadership role in Permindex. It simply did not interfere with it's existence. Instead, the evidence indicates that the officers, directors, and stockholders looked to British intelligence for leadership. The US and Britain have formed coalitions in the past (WWI, WWII, Korea, and Iraq) and Permindex appears to have been an Italian, American, and British coalition organized and led by the British (for purposes I won't go into here). As for the claim that Permindex was kicked out of Switzerland, it was not. Permindex moved out of Switzerland because "someone else" was kicked out of Switzerland who they were working very closely with and they needed to maintain that relationship. That's how that story got started. It's really not that far off base anyway. Centro Mondiale Commerciale, which shared directors with Permindex, was booted out of Italy because of reports of its true activities in the Italian press: the leftist _Paesa Sera_ newspaper and the conservative _De La Sera_. CMC and Permindex were closely related. I have no idea if DeGaulle ever publicly accused Permindex of trying to kill him. I doubt it. DeGaulle was provided a report by French SDECE intelligence which identified Permindex as trying to assassinate him on behalf of Israel. There is some misinformation and many false conclusions in this report (It's about as accurate as the President's Commission on Pornography). It's purpose was more political than accurate. By way of comparison, it was a French SDECE agent that wrote "Farewell, America". So you can get idea of the work. Anyway, Charles DeGaulle did not believe any reports issued to him at the time by the SDECE so I doubt if he took it seriously. On the other hand, assuming for a moment that French intel got it right, the whole idea must have seemed absurd to a Wold War II veteran like DeGaulle, who had seen the liberation efforts of his nation led by the United States. Did Permindex get involved in assassination? I would say yes. Did that include JFK's assassination? As a corporate effort I can state with 100% certainty that Permindex was not involved. Some Permindex connections to Dallas do exist, however, which deserve attention but I don't think Clay Shaw is amongst them. Thanks very much for this post. Following is additional information from _Destiny Betrayed_ by James DiEugenio_. This material is excerpted with the
[CTRL] Behind OJ Simpson Media Spectacle (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Here's what Lyndon "Extremist" LaRouche, had to say about the O.J. Simpson case. (Following is an excerpt from the July 13, 1994, "EIR Talks" radio show.) What's Behind the O.J. Simpson Media Spectacle Q: Mr. LaRouche, I want to move on to another area. Americans cannot turn on a TV set these days without hearing about the O.J. Simpson case. The murder of his ex-wife and her friend captivates the American television screen sometimes from early morning to late evening. I understand you have some very interesting observations to make about this. Why don't you fill us in on that? MR. LAROUCHE: First of all, people were conditioned, and I was one of them, to think: Well, maybe O.J. must have done it. He's violent toward his wife. This kind of brainwashing. Wait a minute; hold off. There is no very good case for suspicion against O.J. Simpson. Since he's there, he's part of the scene, and therefore he normally comes under police-targetted investigation. He should; there's nothing wrong with that. But *to presume* that he must be guilty, is wrong. The case against him is by no means ironclad; it's not even necessarily a good one. If he were not a star or celebrity, and if the case had not been played up by the media the way it has, I don't think the guy would have had to go to trial. Because they did not present a case which in any way is conclusive for purposes of trial at that evidentiary hearing. But since the evidentiary hearing, new elements have also come to light which show that it's possible and probable; that O.J. couldn't have done it. There's a lot of evidence to that effect. Not just the alibi defense, which his lawyer Shapiro is using; but there's other positive evidence which indicates that it's *probable, if not certain*, that he didn't do it. So there's more than reasonable doubt right now that he could have done it. But that will have to be shown by trial, I presume. But there is another aspect to this case which is much more shocking; and that is the way in which the press has been playing this case up--wildly. Now, Hollywood has two problems (apart from the obvious ones): drugs and Satanism. Hollywood is actually the U.S. capital of Satanism. It might be called Sodom and Gomorrah rolled into one. That is, you have Anton LaVey's followers out there, the Church of Satan; and you have a lot of OTO and similar kinds of Satanism that's been there since way back--back since the 1920s, 1930s; it was a nest of Satanism. Also, Hollywood is the center of cocaine and other drugs. Now, no one better symbolizes this, than a producer out there by the name of Robert Evans; and Robert Evans has been, recently, as identified in the press, a close friend of a guy called Korshak, a mob attorney from Chicago who settled out there; and of the ever-loving Henry A. Kissinger. In terms of media, the New York daily press has been interesting on this. Last week, there was a report from the *Daily News* indicating the Robert Evans background to this case, which makes it very interesting, and Evans being part of Shapiro's ambience. The second thing is that there was a cut in the--I believe it was Friday--*New York Daily Post*, showing a picture of Evans and a picture of Kissinger, and describing an incident, in a little box set up there, of Korshak being introduced to Kissinger by Evans at some public affair. Korshak had some very unpleasant things to say to Evans thereafter, about forcing him to meet with Kissinger in public. So the ambience out there is that you've got a Satanic drug- running operation which is in the environment of the Simpson household, and in the environment of this crime (whoever did what); and in the environment of Simpson's defense--and in the environment which is being played up by the press as we approach the anniversary (which Evans touches upon), of the Tate-LaBianca murders out there, and as we approach memories again of some other murders that Robert Evans was close to, in the financing of the Cotton Club film; and as we know of the connections between the Manson murders and this other affair, the Cotton Club affair, and the Son of Sam killings in New York City. So it looks like we have a Satanic media event going on, which has nothing to do with justice for O.J. Simpson or for his deceased estranged wife. I think that we ought to be looking at what is being done to manipulate life in the United States, including our mass media; and don't rush so quickly to presume that O.J. Simpson is guilty of anything. He may have problems, but I don't think anybody in the United States, on the basis of what's been presented publicly, has any reason to presume that O.J. Simpson is guilty of what he's alleged to be guilty of, but rather there is another story which is a very interesting one about Satanism and drugs in Hollywood, and Kissinger and Korshak and Robert Evans the producer. Q: And isn't it also true that Shapiro was the lawyer for Evans in the
[CTRL] Clay Shaw and French Intelligence
-Caveat Lector- From: Clark Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Clay Shaw and the Gestapo Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 3:20 PM Supporting the CIA's claim, the company [Permindex] was predominately foreign owned. Contradicting the CIA's claim, however, is the fact that the Tolstoy Foundation, which obtained CIA funding, was electing directors to the board in equal proportion to the directors being elected by the Italian royal family. Again, Nagy's Fascist buddies were elected to the board in the exact same numbers. Still others were elected to the board for no apparent political reason. Many, if not all, of these latter directors were unaware of Permindex's true purpose and operations. Clay Shaw falls in this group. What evidence is there that Shaw was unaware of the operations of the company he co-directed? No evidence. In fact it is easier to demonstrate that he was aware than it is to demonstrate he was "unaware". Yet I don't have evidence he participated in the company's "shady" operations. I admit it's a fine line, but Shaw is a collector of economic information (Such as when Shinley posted his 1958 speech on Soviet aluminum prices) versus a plotter of gov't intrigue. He had three completely different highways leading to the truth: one through Permindex/CMC channels, the second through USG contacts, the last through Canadian and European press reports. SNIP Centro Mondiale Commerciale, which shared directors with Permindex, was booted out of Italy because of reports of its true activities in the Italian press: the leftist _Paesa Sera_ newspaper and the conservative _De La Sera_. CMC and Permindex were closely related. They were more than just closely related. CMC bought Permindex in 1961. CMC was caught funding activities directed against the Communist Party (CP) in Italy, something a foreign company is not allowed to do. CIA records show that the CIA was funding actions against the CP in Italy at the very time CMC was caught. SNIP Thanks very much for this post. Following is additional information from _Destiny Betrayed_ by James DiEugenio_. This material is excerpted with the permission of the author. -- BEGIN DESTINY BETRAYED EXCERPT --- The origins of Permindex and the CMC lie in Switzerland in 1956. On December 28, Ferenc Nagy, former premier of Hungary, announced his intent to form a "permanent indus- trial exhibition" named Permindex, in Basel.3 This follows the unsuccessful Nov/Dec 1956 Hungarian revolution in which the Hungarians, after listening to CIA Radio Free Europe broadscasts, threw the Soviets out - only to have them return with tanks. It got real ugly after that. SNIP After his announcement in December 1956, Nagy outlined a large, three-part construction project to include a trade center, a hotel, and an office center.6 He was unwilling to reveal the people and firms involved in financing the project, and denied any American backing. But he dropped the name of J. Henry Schroder, a New York banker. Schroder denied having anything to do with the enterprise.7 Nagy then men- tioned Hans Seligman, a Swiss banker.8 This generated some controversy, not only because Seligman's bank was not a major house, but also because he had been accused by both the U.S. and the U.K. of cooperating with fascists during World War II.9 Things got worse when it was discovered that George Mantello was also involved.10 Mantello's real name was George Mandel. His name brought about attacks in the Swiss papers against Permindex, its organizers, and the Swiss government. The Arbeiter-Zeitung accused Mandel of being a gold profiteer during the war and of working the Jewish refugee racket. He had done both while holding Sal- vadoran citizenship and acting as secretary at the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva. Mandel was a naturalized Swiss citizen of Eastern European origin, who had aided Nagy in his flight from Hungary and helped him get established in America."11 This is the Hungarian Fascist connection to Permindex I mentioned in my post. SNIP At this point, two things happened. In April of 1957, two local officials interested in getting Permindex approved went to New Orleans to visit the International Trade Mart. They were not "local". One of the two men was Ferenc Nagy. Nagy had gone to see CD Jackson (Who oversaw the CIA's Radio Free Europe for Eisenhower) to complain about the lack of CIA and US support to back the Hungarian revolution. It was after seeing Jackson that Nagy went to New Orleans where he met with Clay Shaw. 12 By the next year, the directors of Permindex decided to move their company to Italy. The same people were involved: Nagy, Mandel, and Seligman, with one addition, Clay Shaw.13 Shaw later became associated with CMC, which had been formed in 1961 by reputed former OSS operative Major Louis Bloomfield.14 Curiously, CMC also moved to Rome, the next year.15 CMC purchased Permindex in 1961. Shaw
[CTRL] Bloodless Coup
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.weberman.com/monica.htm THE BLOODLESS COUP RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE IN 1984 THE ATTEMPTED OVERTHROW OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES LAST MODIFIED Sunday, January 24, 1999 "I do believe that this is a battle," the first lady said. "Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president. A few journalists have kind of caught on to it and explained it, but it has not yet been fully revealed to the American public. And actually, you know, in a bizarre sort of way, this may do it." -- Hillary Clinton on NBC's Today, Jan 27, 1998 The Christian Far right is behind this move for impeachment. The Christian Far Right has captured control of the Republican Party. The so-called Republican "moderates" who say Clinton hasn't confessed enough for them are full of shit. The 81 questions that philanderer Henry Hyde sent the president are 81 variations of "When did you stop beating your wife?" Like Kenneth Starr (Inspector Shithound), these mean-spirited idiots are out to get the President as an act of vengeance at any cost to the nation. What the neo fascist Christian Far Right is really trying to do is impose its puritanical morality on the rest of the nation. --Al Aronowitz REMOVAL SWING VOTES Sen. Ted Stevens R-AK (202) 224-3004 (907) 271-5915 Sen. John McCain R-AZ (202) 224-2235 (602) 952-2410 Sen. Joseph Lieberman D-CT (202) 224-4041 (860) 549-8463 Sen. Olympia J. Snowe R-ME (202) 224-5344 (207) 874-0883 Sen. Susan M. Collins R-ME (202) 224-2523 (207) 945-0417 Sen. Spencer Abraham R-MI (202) 224-4822 (616) 975-1112 Sen. Bob Kerrey D-NE (202) 224-6551 (402) 391-3411 Sen. Richard H. Bryan D-NV (202) 224-6244 (702) 686-5770 Sen. Ron Wyden D-OR (202) 224-5244 (503) 326-7525 Sen. Arlen Specter R-PA (202) 224-4254 (215) 597-7200 Sen. John H. Chafee R-RI (202) 224-2921 (401) 453-5294 Sen. John W. Warner R-VA (202) 224-2023 (804) 771-2579 Sen. Charles S. Robb D-VA (202) 224-4024 (804) 771-2221 Sen. James M. Jeffords R-VT (202) 224-5141 (802) 223-5273 Sen. Slade Gorton R-WA (202) 224-3441 (425) 451-0103 Sen. Russell Feingold D-WI (202) 224-5323 (414) 276-7282 CALL 1-877-TO-MOVEON (1-877-866-6836)to be connected to your own Senators for FREE I have not been able to unearth evidence of a conspiracy in the impeachment of President Clinton. I have neither the resources or the power to do so. However, if there was a conspiracy, all of the players in Zippergate had a background in the intelligence community and were capable of carrying out a bloodless coup. The impeachment of the President of the United States was caused by a group of intelligence community professionals who worked together under the auspices of billionaire DICK SCAIFE. LINDA TRIPP must have been aware of the Scaife organization when she was White House, Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for Media Affairs from 1991 to 1992. In this position she was able to examine and interact with the media outlets in Washington. Having had a background in counter-insurgency, she, naturally, gravitated toward those financed by SCAIFE, since Scaife was behind much of the far right's operations. SCAIFE was connected to LUCIANNE GOLDBERG. LINDA TRIPP claims conservative commentator Tony Snow turned her on to GOLDBERG. Snow, who once worked for the Moonies, verified this. The Moonies were financed by Japanese war criminals. It was no accident that LUCIANNE GOLDBERG worked with ALFRED REGNERY, a man with isolationist and pro-Nazi forebearers. Regnery was friends with KEN STARR, and RICHARD SCAIFE, who had worked in the CIA for decades and runs his own version of the Agency whose purpose is to bring down President Clinton. This researcher detects the hand of a rightwing invisible government attempting to overthrow a democratically elected President, in a bloodless coup. MY METHODOLOGY In the mid-1970's I worked with Congressman Henry Gonzalez, of San Antonio, Texas, in an investigation of the Kennedy assassination. I compiled a data base on Coup D'Etats and political assassinations. I compared the names of individuals involved in the Clinton-Lewinsky affair against this data base and against a master index of intelligence books indexes known as Public Information Research, and I detected a correlation. TONY SNOW According to the Washington Post: Tripp's discussions with agent Goldberg about a book began in the summer of 1996 after a furor over publication of Gary W. Aldrich's "Unlimited Access: an FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House." Full of assertions about drug use, rampant theft, open gay/lesbian sex and late night disappearances by the president, it was assailed harshly and repeatedly by the White House, but rose to the best-seller lists nonetheless. In her grand jury
[CTRL] Battle Lines in the Drug War
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.jbs.org/vo13no22.htm A HREF="http://www.jbs.org/vo13no22.htm"The New American - Battle Lines in the Drug War /A - Battle Lines in the Drug War by William Norman Grigg Near the climax of Triangle of Death, a novel written by former federal undercover agent Michael Levine, a confrontation takes place in Argentina between a "deep cover" agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and an officer of the CIA. The DEA agent had penetrated the heart of a globe-spanning narcotics network which was producing an enhanced variety of cocaine known as La Reina Blanca only to learn that key elements of the drug network were actively cooperating with the CIA. "Make La Reina Blanca available in a country and within weeks a significant and predictable portion of the population is turned into murderous, uncontrollable zombies doomed to a slow, expensive death," the CIA official muses. "You destroy that nations economy, its faith in its government. The nation implodes on itself. You win a war and you never fire a shot. Look what heroin and cocaine have already done La Reina makes those drugs look like powdered sugar." "Youre not telling me anything I dont know," the DEA undercover agent angrily responds. "What I dont understand is how you, a so-called American, can put that [drug] on our streets." "How can you be so good at what you do and have so little understanding of what really pulls your strings?" the CIA officer wearily responds. "Dont you realize that there are factions in your government that want this to happen an emergency situation too hot for a constitutional government to handle." "To what end?" asks the shocked drug agent. "A suspension of the Constitution, of course. The legislation is already in place. All perfectly legal. Check it out yourself. Its called FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Turn in your guns from here on out, were watching you, you antigovernment rabble rousers." From Fear to Control According to Levine, this shocking exchange is not the product of an imagination fed by alarmist myths. "That scenario an epidemic of drug abuse leading to a war on drugs, and eventually to a police state came from a specific conversation I had with a CIA officer in Argentina in 1979," Levine informed The New American. "There was a small group of us gathered for a drinking party at the CIA guys apartment. There were several Argentine police officers there as well; at the time, Argentina was a police state in which people could be taken into custody without warning, tortured, and then disappeared." "At one point my associate in the CIA said that he preferred Argentinas approach to social order, and that America should be more like that country," Levine continues. "Somebody asked, Well, how does a change of that sort happen? The spook replied that it was necessary to create a situation of public fear a sense of impending anarchy and social upheaval in which people will literally plead with Congress, Take whatever rights you need, but save us from drugs. And, of course, the powers behind the scenes would be only too willing to oblige." "Even now, the American public doesnt understand the extent to which this has happened," Levine observes. "In the name of fighting drugs, weve allowed our federal government to become essentially a criminal enterprise in a lot of ways." In the federal war on drugs, property can be summarily seized from law-abiding citizens, and lives can be taken with impunity. "Weve come to accept criminal behavior from government to a shocking extent," Levine declares, "and I watched it happen from the inside." Firsthand Passion For 25 years, Levine served as a "deep cover" specialist for four federal agencies, eventually becoming the most highly decorated undercover agent in DEA history. His inspiration in fighting the "War on Drugs" was his younger brother David, who killed himself in 1977 after 19 years of heroin addiction. In his suicide note, David cried out, "I cant stand the drugs anymore." A few years later, while Levine was working undercover for the DEA, he discovered to his horror that his teenage daughter had also succumbed to a drug habit which she eventually overcame with his help. There are few people more passionately opposed to the drug culture than Levine and just as few who are more critical of the federal governments war on drugs. "The war on drugs was only an illusion that I had been fool enough to believe in a belief I might easily have died for, were it not for plain, dumb luck," Levine wrote in his 1993 best-seller The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic. "I had been one of those for whom being a DEA agent had become my reason for living. There were agents like me all over the world, having their illusions shattered, stepping on toes, trying to lock up drug dealers who had bigger and better connections in the American government than they did.
[CTRL] Constitution Society Home Page (http://www.constitution.org/)
Patriots, Your Attention, please. With our Constitution under insidious attack by the New DemocRats, Liberals, Left-Wingers, Socialists, and other forces whose goal is the deprivation of our Freedoms which our forefathers fought hard to create and maintain, I thought it timely to direct your attention to the following Site: The Constitution Society! http://www.constitution.org/ Here you can digest the wonders of God's Gift to us. Some say it's a dead document, but I wholeheartedly disagree. One just has to take the time to visit those links of interest to refresh your memories of what we Americans are all about. No other document in the World is so cherished by those who have the misfortune to live in a Country devastated over the years by the evil forces of Communism and Socialism. I ask you to consider forwarding this post to your friends who are not subscribers to the respective lists I have selected above. God Bless You All in this time of danger to the fundamental structure of our Society. Regards, Peter AKA Bard Constitution Society Home Page.url
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: A bill has been introduced to Repeal Term limitationsforthe President
-Caveat Lector- Text from Thomas of H. J Res 17: THIS SEARCH THIS DOCUMENT GO TO Next HitForward New Bills Search Prev HitBack HomePage Hit ListBest Sections Help Doc Contents Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual... (Introduced in the House) HJ 17 IH 106th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 17 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 6, 1999 Mr. SERRANO (for himself and Mr. SHAYS) introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification: `Article-- `The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.'. Regards: Gene Ferguson Kris Millegan wrote: Subject: A bill has been introduced to Repeal Term limitations for the President Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 03:56:38 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://rs9.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query"A President For Life Received Data/A A bill has just been introduced in the House which will repeal the 22nd amendment there by allowing the President to serve as many terms as he can get elected. In other words, we may end up with a President/dictator for life. I have no further information on this. If anyone else does, please email me. I consider this an extremely troubling and dangerous development. I believe we need to follow up on this as soon as possible. I have enclosed the email address to the House Judiciary committe. We need to find out what the status of this bill is. the bill is: H.J. Res 17 Ru [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF="http://www.house.gov/judiciary/"Welcome to the Judiciary Committee Home Page!/A The link at the top of the page will open up to the following: GPO's PDF version of this billReferences to this bill in the Congressional RecordLink to the Bill Summary Status file.Full Display - 1,508 bytes.[Help] Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual... (Introduced in the House) HJ 17 IH 106th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 17 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 6, 1999 Mr. SERRANO (for himself and Mr. SHAYS) introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three- fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification: `Article-- `The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.'. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed.
