Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: [MC] The Devil Seekers; Chapter 16; Journey Into Madness]
-Caveat Lector- Nicola Malloy: forgot to thank you for the item.really enjoyed it. Remember, first came the Druids.then the Christians.some of my ancestors were sent to the Isle of Man, supposedly, where they sent the witches and warlocksbut actually, they were just spies and anti government types.some things never change. Colleen 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] CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES TAX EXEMPT STATUS
-Caveat Lector- On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Kathy Moxley wrote: Why not tax churches? Because it's unconstitutional (1st Amendment) and it's double taxation. The First Amendment says nothing about taxation; the only thing it says about religion is that Congress shall make no laws establishing a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... Pertinent Ronnie Reagan Quotes: Quotes from a president who used taxpayer dollars to buy 14kt gold place settings to eat off of The public ridiculed Nixon for his attempts to establish an 'imperial presidency', but the same public rolled over and went to sleep when the Reagans actually DID it... Remember, it was during the Reagan Administration that the savings and loan scandal was brewing, and our current boy Bill was benefitting from a cozy relationship with the Administration and both that savings and loan confidence game, and drug running thru that airport in Mena... Reagan is HARDLY an icon to quote on either morality OR fiscal responsibility... Government exists to protect the rights which are ours from birth; the right to life, to liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A man may choose to sit and fish instead of working -- that's his pursuit of happiness. He does not have the right to force his neighbors to support him in his pursuit because that interferes with their pursuit of happiness. And what of all the people who are ready and willing to work, but find that due to the government being in bed with big business, jobs have been shipped overseas, and those that remain here are now being staffed by temp workers who don't have to be paid what perm workers are paid, plus they don't have to pay for sick days, vacations, insurance benefits, etc.? June *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** 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] CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES TAX EXEMPT STATUS
-Caveat Lector- On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, nessie wrote: Guess who said this: Render Unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's; and to God, that which is Gods.words to that effect, And what exactly WAS Ceaser's? To most people living in Roman occupied Palestine, whatever it was, it wasn't anything of theirs. The statement "Render unto Caesar..." was made by Jesus in answer to a question specifically about paying taxes to Rome...at which time Jesus asked the questioner whose picture was on the coins they used to pay their taxes...and since Caesar's picture was on the coins, Jesus then stated that therefore the money they used was a construct of the government, and not of God... But actually, in studying ancient Biblical texts, a good many Biblical scholars feel that this passage regarding a Christian's duty to pay taxes to a secular authority was inserted later...AFTER Constantine had made Christianity the state religion... ;-) What does this tell Christians about who's on whose side? How many listen? And according the Biblical scholarship, this account of Jesus driving the moneychangers out of the temple seems to have been recounted in even the earliest gospels... While the passage regarding a Christian's 'duty' to pay taxes was inserted after Christianity became the state religion... It seems that it was fine for the early Christians to be taught a philosophy that 'big business', 'big banking', and the secularization of religion to the point that church leaders got in bed with political leaders, or became political leaders themselves, when they were the underdog... But when Christianity became the state religion, and the emporer the automatic head of 'The Holy Roman Empire', then a justification had to be devised whereby a 'good Christian' would duly render under the new, Christian Caesar June ;-) *===* _ _ _ / \ / \ _ _ / \ ,.( O ),,,( X ), / \ _ / \ ,( M )' \_/ \_/ ',( O ), _ _ / \ ,( O ),' \_/ ) ( \_/ ',/ \ / \ ( X ) ' \_/ ( / ) (( A ) ( O ) ' \_/ )\( (\\_/ _ ,\_/ \ ( )\ ( / \ ' ) \ ) ) ( A ) ()/ ,' \_/ ) o) # ( #\ # -cfbd- # \#/ \|/ \\||// \#/ \\\||/ \||///\\#|// \|||/// \|/#\| *===* *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** 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] CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES TAX EXEMPT STATUS
-Caveat Lector- That's what I mean; if Wall Street isn't gambling, what is.some days you win, some days you loseit is legalized gamblingand when they sucker in all the little investors, that is when it goes bust. Thanks though.guess Castro and Wall Street have little in commonbut Christ and Castro? Well in Castro's favor, he did give those gambling Temples owned by Lanskey to the people for orphanages, and we were told Oh, This terrible man turned communist on us.the man was a Marxist all the time...but he has prevailed after all these years...the gang that could not shoot straight, that is. colleen 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] CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES TAX EXEMPT STATUS
-Caveat Lector- By the way June, State Government in Ohio did the same thing; a Rhodes Scholarby the name of Richard Celeste back in early eighties wanted to move from Govenor to President, assisted the Unionin the door.then said there was no more Civil Service Well these idiots said the Union contract would supersede the state laws.and that was there mistake, because evidently they did not know, the Constitution of the State of Ohio set up Civil Serviceand in a case I had I used that one So Union workers in the State, which is nearly everybody, renders unto Cesar and unto the Union, which then takes their money and gives it to candidates whom they do not likebut the Union married the State, what Hoffa would call a "sweetheart" Union.my happiest day was when Celeste got tromped, and didn't have time to spend his war chest... But during the Union.friends of friends go the promotions, and illitrate individuals some who could not read nor write. some of whom stole the Union blind.and got caughtgot jobs - but that finally got tripped up, and I helped do it. What is odd.during the big Union Wars with the Big Railroads - the Unions and the men of Big Business both used the bible, as their authority to do what they didand big business pulled in the Pinkertons who formed the first Secret Service, for hired killers to kill and hurt th workers. There is a season for all things; it seems when one one goes to far to the left, the independent vote comes to the rescue, and when it goes too far to the right, the good old independent vote brings it around again. When a good Union Man dies, it used to be they gave his family a bible; today with women in the Union, when someonedies, they merely take you name off the dues checkoff list - and goodbye old pal. Thats what happens when the Union Heads, the man at the top, joins the CFR and sells out the Union. Joining a Union, is just like when the States joined the Union.try and get out. Colleen 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] CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES TAX EXEMPT STATUS
-Caveat Lector- Wow, that last one got away and I should have used the spell check - I do know the difference between "their" and "there"well, what the hell.nobody to edit my work anymore. Forgive me Juneprobably gave you another or a gray hair on this one. Colleen 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] [Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Fw: End-Times Times]]
-Caveat Lector- So what's your point? It doesn't matter if they know what tribe their from, I'm sure God knows. Jamie -Original Message- From: Das GOAT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Fw: End-Times Times]] -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-06-10 15:46:11 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 144,000 are the Jews that are left behind after the Rapture of the Church. Revelation is clearly speaking of the 12 tribes of Israel as it even names each one. snip quote So, 144,000 aren't the only people going to heaven as you thought.. All or nearly all all the early Christians were Jews, and the "lost sheep" Jesus was sent to regather were the "lost" tribes of Israel, i.e., Greek-speaking Jews of the Diaspora. Never mind the fact that by Jesus' time, when this was written, no Jew knew any longer from which "tribe" he or she was descended, except for certain clans within the tribe of Judah, the house of Levi, and a few from "Benjamin" (like Josephus and Paul). There has probably been quite a substantial number of gentile Christians throughout history whose ancestors were "of" the various "lost" tribes. Israelite by inheritance, Christian by religion. So the explanation here is really beside the point. There are several other objections to this line of argument, but, as you suggest by saying phrase "add a thousand," the whole passage and the "sacred numbers" given in it are purely SYMBOLIC, not LITERAL. (Unless you want to "believe" otherwise ...) 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) [BRIGADE] Sorry George - Free Ride Just About Over
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Linda Muller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:51:41 -05:0 Subject:[BRIGADE] Sorry George - Free Ride Just About Over Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Brigade, "His fusion platform is a confusion platform'' -- Lyn Nofziger - Buchanan adviser. "Bush will try to resist pressure to detail key positions before the fall for fear of being picked apart by critics ... And he is scheduled to make a major address on the New Economy in Silicon Valley on July 1" Hmmm, the "New Economy" I wonder if that's anything like his daddys New World Order? GOOO PAT! Linda -- Business Week June 14, 1999 SORRY, GEORGE -- THE FREE RIDE IS JUST ABOUT OVER BY RICHARD S. DUNHAM AND LEE WALCZAK How sweet it has been for Texas Governor George W. Bush. While lesser contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination had to spend the spring slogging to Iowa hog farms and New Hampshire lunch counters, Bush presided majestically over a state legislative session that presented him with significant victories on tax cuts and expanded spending for education. But as the GOP front-runner prepares to take his still undeclared candidacy to Iowa and New Hampshire on June 12-15, Bush is embarking on more than a typical road trip. He is beginning a journey that will transform him from an idealized candidate whose polls have been pumped up by Republican longing for a winner to a flesh-and-blood politician subject to stumbles on the stump and even more intense media scrutiny. The Bush that Americans are about to take the measure of is a novice Presidential campaigner whose speeches can fall flat, whose grasp of national issues is unknown, and whose competitive streak -- and short fuse -- raise questions about how well he functions under pressure. Still, the demystification of George W. comes as a bit of a relief to the governor's advisers. They realize that his lofty poll ratings are unsustainable and he'll have to fight his way through a crowded GOP primary field for the right to take on Vice-President Al Gore or former Senator Bill Bradley in November, 2000. ''Expectations are out of sight,'' Bush remarked at a June 1 press conference in Austin. ''As my daughter said, 'Hey, Dad, you're not nearly as cool as they think you are.''' Some pollsters put it more bluntly. Although Bush's fund-raising prowess and raft of endorsements make him formidable, his front-runner's status makes him a target of GOP rivals. ''Bush has nowhere to go but down,'' says independent pollster John Zogby. Among the potential pitfalls: THUNDER ON THE RIGHT. Bush's platform attempts to fuse a traditional GOP emphasis on tax cuts, limited government, and individual responsibility with what an adviser calls a ''modern conservative'' emphasis on inclusiveness, improving schools, and providing tax incentives for low-income Americans and struggling middle- class parents. Critics, such as America Firster Pat Buchanan and publisher Steve Forbes, will try to fire up hard-core conservatives by painting Bushism as a pale imitation of Clinton-Gore policies. ''His fusion platform is a confusion platform,'' scoffs Lyn Nofziger, a Buchanan adviser. While Buchanan has a mouth that roars, Bush aides are more worried about a replay of Forbes' self- financed '96 attack ads, which hurt eventual nominee Bob Dole and could weaken Bush by tagging him as another conventional pol. Forbes is about to launch a $ 10 million ad blitz in key primary states. If Bush has to match that kind of checkbook power, he might be forced to reject the federal matching funds that would limit his spending. THUNDER ON THE LEFT. Democrats will portray Bush as a right-wing wolf in kinder, gentler sheep's clothing. They'll zero in on his anti-abortion views, opposition to hate-crimes legislation, and support for legalizing concealed weapons. And they'll depict him as a Texas twin of conservative firebrand Tom DeLay, the House Republican Whip. ''So far, Bush doesn't have his party's negatives wrapped around him,'' frets a friend. ''When you do that, he is not going to look quite as great to independent voters.'' THE CROWDED CENTER. Bush doesn't have mainstream voters to himself. Elizabeth H. Dole is appealing to women and suburbanites with outspoken stances on gun control and health reform. Meanwhile, Arizona Senator John McCain is running as a maverick willing to anger powerful interests on issues such as campaign reform and tobacco regulation. Since these underdogs have nothing to lose, they'll contrast their bold stands with Bush's caution. However, Bush will try to resist pressure to detail key positions before the fall for fear of being picked apart by critics. For example, he'll spell out his thinking on tax cuts this summer but will focus on general
[CTRL] (Fwd) [BRIGADE] Clinton sez GO PAT GO?
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Linda Muller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:50:12 -05:0 Subject:[BRIGADE] Clinton sez "GO PAT GO"? Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Brigade, "To help him, the President's political advisers want to blunt the protectionist message of anti-free traders such as right-wing Republican populist presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. The idea is to be seen to be looking after the losers from global competition..." Yes, that the key: "to be seen" -- it's election time and the DemGops are playin' the old shell game again. It's up to us Brigade, to make sure the citizenry also "see" what these cheerleaders for the NWO are planning behind closed doors. GO PAT GO!! Linda --- Australian Financial Review 6/10/99 Lamb roast as Clinton yields to protectionist push Washington Observed, By Joanne Gray Australian lamb exporters are about to get a nasty taste of American trade policy at its worst. It may be a time of unprecedented national prosperity in the United States record economic expansion shows no signs of flagging, and the unemployment rate and interest rates are at generational lows. Yet an unmistakably protectionist wave has enveloped the Congress and the Clinton Administration. The US is involved in trade skirmishes with most of its trading partners, on issues from steel to beef to magazines. And President Bill Clinton is expected to announce within days that he will introduce tariffs on Australian and New Zealand lamb. It isn't just the trade deficit, approaching $US300 billion ($452 billion) a year, that is driving the protectionist push. It's the backlash from globalisation, in combination with a very weak President. US sheep farmers have been hurt and they want to stop the world so that they can catch up. It doesn't seem to matter that their products are sub-standard. Clinton is listening. Trade has grown in importance for the US economy in the past two decades, helped by lowering of tariff barriers and cuts in transport and communications costs. In 1980, total imports and exports represented 14 per cent of US gross domestic product, but almost 20 years later that figure has doubled. As with many manufacturing industries, American farmers do not have the comparative advantage any more in producing some goods; they are the obvious losers from globalisation. Though they represent a shrinking sector, they are still a potent political force whose influence crosses the political spectrum. Continued farm aid has allowed them to exist without restructuring. While the benefits of reducing trade barriers are widely dispersed across the economy, in lower prices and better-paying jobs, the losers are concentrated; and when it comes to twisting arms, and as election day in November 2000 approaches, they are gaining strength. The US sheep industry has failed to invest in its industry or innovate its products since it lost wool subsidies in 1995. Instead it has apparently spent more time lobbying the US Congress and the Administration, and briefing lawyers to bring trade actions. The lobbying has paid off. The US International Trade Commission has judged that Australian and New Zealand lamb imports have grown so fast that they pose the threat of substantial injury to the industry, and all six ITC members have recommended tariffs or protection of some sort. Thirty-one senators, from farming States such as Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, California and Wyoming, both Republican and Democrats, signed a letter urging the US Trade Representative, Charlene Barshefsky, to impose harsh tariffs on lamb imports. Some of the senators were ostensibly free traders, but they are up for election in 2000. If the Clinton Administration were not so weak it would have
[CTRL] 2 Questions
-Caveat Lector- Dear Friends: 1) Someone recently put executive orders out with a quote from JFK, Can you resend to me? 2) I remember after reelection of Clinton, Hiliary Clinton said something to the effect that people would know what he Clinton's were all about after second term. Can anyone get exact quote of what she said? Thanks Bill Richer 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] [1] The DRUG STORY
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: The DRUG STORYA Factological History of AMERICA'S $10,000,000,000 DRUG CARTEL ITS METHODS OPERATIONS, HIDDEN OWNERSHIP, PROFITS AND TERRIFIC IMPACT ON THE HEALTH Or THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Morris A. Bealle©1949. All Rights Reserved Mrs. Morris Bealle©1976 THE HORNET'S NEST P.O. Box 52 Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 239 pps. --[1]-- Chapter 1 What Nujol Started' "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D. Professor of Medicine at Harvard Thirty years ago the Standard Oil Company became impressed with the methods of the big packing houses which used, processed and sold every part of the hog but the squeal. Their sales research department went 'way back to the 1860's when "Old Bill" Rockefeller, the itinerant pappy of John D. (the first) and a patent medicine showman, used to palm off bottled raw petroleum on the yokels as a cure for cancer. "Old Bill" was an upstate New York farmer until 1850. He moved to Cleveland then, entered the patent medicine racket and had himself listed as a "physician" in the city directory. In selling raw petroleum in a pretty bottle "Old Bill" did nothing new. He merely took a page out of the book of other patent medicine fakirs who were then hawking their wares from the backs of wagons-covered and uncovered. When oil was discovered in northwest Pennsylvania (1850) the jackals of the oil trade found there was more gold in the jeans of the gullible yokels than there was in working for it in the oil fields. They began to bottle the raw petroleum and palm it off under various names as a cure for everything under the sun. The popular maladies of the day were liver complaint, cholera morbus, consumption and bronchitis. Among the names given this raw petroleum were "Seneca Oil," "Rock Oil" and "American Medicinal Oil." "Old Bill" opened up a new field for himself. He called his bottled petroleum "Nujol" (meaning new oil) and sold it to those who had cancer and those whom he could make fear they would have it. This sounded good to Standard's researchists. It sounded even better when they found it cost but $2.00 a barrel to concoct Nujol from crude petroleum. And that from one barrel of the raw stuff they could make 1,000 six-ounce bottles of finished Nujol. Instead of calling it a cure for cancer they called it a cure for constipation. The latest trade catalog lists Nujol as going to the druggist at 28-2/3 cents a half pint (8 fluid ounces). The druggist thus pays about 21 cents for a 6-ounce bottle of Nujol which costs Standard Oil 1/5 of a cent. These breath-taking profits from Nujol make it inevitable that America's largest and most ruthless industrial combine (the Rockefeller Empire) should soon add the drug traffic to its already vast production and sales domain. It wasn't until 1939, however, that the Drug Trust was formed and the upward curve in their drug profits began to assume the present gigantic proportions which today make it a macabre $10,000,000,000 a year business. How the American Drug Trust was formed by an alliance with its opposite number in Germany is almost a story in itself. Soon after the present-day Nujol was put on the market it was discovered by physicians to be harmful. It robbed the body of fat soluble vitamins and caused serious deficiency diseases. Standard Oil checked the loss in sales by adding carotene (one of the fat soluble vitamins) to Nujol and claiming this overcame these injuries. Physicians disagree with the sales department of Standard Oil on this point. And what of Nujol, now being sold to the public as a laxative. For some years before his death Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York used to set up a radio microphone every morning in his Senate Office Building quarters in Washington, furnished by the American taxpayers, and plug this greasy concoctionat $75,000 a year. The New York Senator was a doctor of sorts. Although he possessed a medical degree he was never able to make a living as a bedside practitioner. He went into politics and made medicine pay in a big way. First he became health commissioner of New York City, then a Senator from the Empire State where he used the prominence thus gained to ballyhoo Nujol to unsuspecting radio listeners. Today Nujol is made by Stanco, Incorporated, 216 West 14th Street in New York, listed in Moody's Manual as one of the many subsidiaries of the Standard Oil Company. Stanco's only other product is Flit, well known fly killer and insecticide, made from the same raw materials and by pretty much the same process. When a German beer hall bum named Hitler began to plan his 1,000-year Reich, the powers-that-were in Germany didn't actually know that American politicians were going to solve their acute employment crisis by forcing us into the second world war to again save England's hide and Rockefeller's oil.
[CTRL] [3] The Ohio Gang
-Caveat Lector- An excerpt from: The Ohio Gang Charles L. Mee, Jr.©1981 M. Evans and Company, Inc. 216 East 49th Street New York, New York 10017 ISBN 0-87131-340-5 218 pps out-of-print/one edition --[3]-- VII. The Little Nigger His SCHOOLMATES CALLED him a "little nigger." He had dark hair and a dark complexion, and the rumor was that his great-great-grandfather Amos had been a West Indian black or that some other member of the family had been a mulatto, and Warren could not be sure. Although he denied it, he could not get over the taunting and whispering. Marked from birth as an outsider, he spent his life trying to get in, to blend with the crowd. Whatever complexities of character may have played through him, he smoothed them over, repressed or hid them. He was just another country boy: he swam in the creek, he played sandlot baseball, he painted barns and houses, he milked cows and curried horses. He was always noticed as a boy who was kind to others, who did not believe in name calling, and who was charitable to those who were different or somehow flawed. He attended a one-room schoolhouse in Blooming Grove and memorized passages from the McGuffey Eclectic Readers, and although he seemed to make no special effort at his studies, it was clear that he was smarter than his schoolmates. When his father moved the family to a little yellow house in nearby Caledonia, Warren distinguished himself there in school as someone who was good at spelling long words and who (after those years of nurturing by his mother) "shone at recitations." But his dilemmato stand out, and at the same time to blend inheld him in a particularly tight grip. His first chance to resolve the dilemma occurred when his father brought home a B-flat cornet one day. Warren's father had acquired it in one of his trades. Warren, age ten, was taught to play by a local harness maker, and soon Warren was good enough to join the Caledonia Aeolian Band, which held forth in the local bandstand on Saturday nights and occasionally played a stint in a neighboring town. Harding, said one of his boyhood chums, "could execute No. 24 in the Black Book with personal sangfroid and astonishing musical force. Barring the bass drummer, no other member of the band could make as much noise." = VIll. The Happy Booster IN THE SUMMER of 1875, when Warren was still ten, his father made a keen trade and acquired the ownership of the town's downand-out newspaper, the Caledonia Argus, a journal that appeared whenever its editor was able to scrape together enough money to buy some paper. The editor, Will Warner, who was also the paper's publisher, reporter, typesetter, distributor, and janitor, was kept on the job by Warren's father, and Warren and a friend went in to the newspaper office to help. Will Warner wore a top hat at work and must have looked like an eccentric scarecrow: he was a vision that Harding never forgot. Warren swept the floor, delivered papers, washed down the press, and returned bits of type to the type tray, and occasionally he was allowed to set some type himself and help to print up a page of the paper. Will Warner gave Warren a makeup-rule, a tiny steel ruler, about two-and-a-half inches long, and Harding kept it as a lucky piece-his only such talisman-for the rest of his life. The makeup rule was a memento of his first "grown-up" job (even, to be sure, despite its lamentably modest size, a symbol of manhood); it was a reminder of Will Warner, a man who did not fear to stand out in his top hat; it was a reminder of all of those values of the small-town newspaper-its boosting, neighborly, cheerful, good news, family-praising, commerce-plugging principles that gave Harding, finally, a way to promote himself by promoting others, to stand out without asserting himself. When Harding was fourteen, he went off to nearby Iberia College. Fourteen was not an unusually young age to begin a college career at the time, although not all young Ohio boys aspired to such intellectual heights. The college had a teaching faculty of three-two clergymen and a professor of ancient languages, and Harding graduated-as one of his boyhood chums said, taking the edge off Harding's distinction as a college man-either "first or second in his class," since there were only two graduates from the college that year. He drifted then, like his father, alarmingly. He returned home-his father had moved the family once more, this time a few miles west, to Marion, the county seat-and Warren taught school there for a term and then abandoned it. His father picked up some old lawbooks in a trade, and Harding read those for a while, with the thought of becoming a lawyer, but then gave up on that. Nothing felt quite right to him. He took a job as an insurance salesman for a short time, but he made a mistake in his calculations, sold policies at the wrong rate, became discouraged, and quit. He had a talent for words, and he enjoyed playing with his talent. "Hasn't
[CTRL] [2] Inside The League
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Inside The League Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson©1986 Dodd, Mead Company 79 Madison Avenue New York, N.Y. 10016 ISBN 0-396-08517-2 322pps out-of-print/one edition [re-print/first edition available from: W. Clement Stone, P M A Communications, Incorporated] --[2]-- TWO A good Ustashi is one who can use a knife to cut a child from the womb of its mother. Ante Pavelic Croatian Fuhrer ON A SEARINGLY COLD December day, one of the authors turned into the driveway of a nondescript tract house in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester. A short, elderly man in an overcoat waited for him on the front step, stamping his shoes against the concrete to fight the cold. It was Janos, after months of phone calls and letters, he had finally agreed to the interview. The eighty-year-old emigre ushered the author into the living room of his modest home. "Perhaps we should have postponed our meeting," Janos said, sinking onto the uncomfortable couch. "With these winds, I was worried about you." The wall behind Janos was studded with two dozen framed photographs, medallions, ribbons, and plaques. They ranged from citations from the deposed king of his native country to letters of appreciation from the Republican Party of New York for his selfless dedication. There was even one from Chiang Kai-shek, the late generalissimo of Taiwan. The bright ribbons and shiny metal did not, however, alter the general dreariness of the room, the house, or the neighborhood. The interview lasted nearly five hours, during which Janos's wife produced a steady stream of sandwiches, coffee, and biscuits. Every time this doting, plain woman in her late sixties entered the room, Janos stopped talking, turned to her, and smiled, love showing in his sparkling eyes. The author asked Janos about other emigres. "Chirila Ciuntu? Very strong. Big, powerful arms. Short. Doesn't speak English very much." Yaroslav Stetsko? "Stetsko." Janos sat back, cocked his head, and looked imperious. "Aloof. Not arrogant, but aloof. He always has this took about him. He always looks ... angry." And Stejpan Hefer? "Ah, Stejpan!" the old man cried, leaping to his feet. He puffed out his chest, put his hands on his hips, and strutted about the small room. "This is how Stejpan walked. And when he spoke, he always shouted and waved his hands. Very intense, very emotional." When the author was leaving, Janos resumed his vigil on the doorstep, waving and watching after the car until it disappeared from sight. There was no way one could dislike Janos. His solicitude and warmth, the teenage adoration he showed toward his wife, all gave one a feeling of affection for the old man. Which was disquieting, because Janos was a Nazi war criminal. The friends he had caricatured in his Chester living room were also war criminals. While there is no evidence that Janos ever directly participated in atrocities, his three friends certainly had. Each had played key roles in three different genocide programs, in Romania, in the Ukraine, and in Croatia, that had exterminated at least two million people. The common bond of all four men was membership in the World Anti-Communist League. The League was founded in 1966 as a public relations arm for the governments of Taiwan and South Korea. It has since grown to be something far more important: an instrument for the practice of unconventional warfareassassinations, death squads, sabotagethroughout the world. There is nothing new about the World Anti-Communist League. Its stated purpose, to form a unified front against communism, was first expostulated in Hitter's anti-Comintern policy. Likewise, the means it has chosen to fight communismunconventional warfare, counterterror, political warfare, it goes by a variety of nameswere first employed by the Nazis. While the employment of unconventional warfare is certainly not solely the domain of the ultra-right, as the pogroms in Stalinist Russia and Khmer Rouge Cambodia make clear, it was the Nazis and their collaborators who "best" employed it with such hideous efficiency. The World Anti-Communist League hasn't merely borrowed these concepts or tactics from the Nazis; it has incorporated the Nazis themselves as well. Many of the major figures behind the creation and promotion of the League are men who first practiced their brand of warfare in the streets, ghettos, and concentration camps of World War II Europe. The deserted gas chambers, ovens, and mass graves of Treblinka and Auschwitz are not the only relics of the Nazis' and their collaborators' impact on civilization. There are living relics scattered in every corner of the globe. Even before the dust had settled on Hitler's shattered Third Reich, many of those responsible were escaping to work for the formation of a Fourth Reich. From their havens, they have nurtured their cause and kept it alive, they have recruited younger generations, and they have formed networks for safety and
[CTRL] Fwd: The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #94
The Week Online with DRCNet, Issue #94 -- June 11, 1999 A Publication of the Drug Reform Coordination Network PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE (To sign off this list, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line "signoff drc-natl" in the body of the message, or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. To subscribe to this list, visit http://www.drcnet.org/signup.html.) This issue can be also be read on our web site at http://www.drcnet.org/wol/094.html. Check out the DRCNN weekly radio segment at http://www.drcnet.org/drcnn/. SPECIAL $30 BOOK/MEMBERSHIP OFFER THROUGH JUNE 30: See http://www.drcnet.org/wol/092.html#thanks for details! If you haven't signed our legislative petitions to Congress, please visit and join the thousands who have -- and be sure to use the Tell Your Friends page to get the word out! Asset Forfeiture Reform: http://www.drcnet.org/forfeiture/ HEA Drug Provision: http://www.RaiseYourVoice.com/ . . . . Juvenile Justice alert coming out next week . . . . Geraldo Rivera report on the drug war, NBC, Sunday evening, 6/20. More info to follow next week. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Teens Say Drug War a Failure http://www.drcnet.org/wol/094.html#teensurvey 2. Clinton Issues Executive Order on Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement http://www.drcnet.org/wol/094.html#executiveorder 3. Waters Bill Would End Federal Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing http://www.drcnet.org/wol/094.html#watersbill 4. Legalization Hearings in House Subcommittee, June 16 http://www.drcnet.org/wol/094.html#bloomsday 5. Hawaii Hemp Advocate Wins Right to Sue Prosecutors for Constitutional Rights Violation http://www.drcnet.org/wol/094.html#andersoncase 6. Health Canada Authorizes Patients to Use Medical Marijuana, Announces Plan to Grow Pot for Medical Research http://www.drcnet.org/wol/094.html#healthcanada 7. EDITORIAL: Failing our Teens http://www.drcnet.org/wol/094.html#editorial 1. Teens Say Drug War a Failure A nationwide survey of 981 teenagers, sponsored by Uhlich Children's Home, a social services agency in Chicago, gives adults a D+ in their efforts to stop young people from drinking, smoking and using drugs. The grade, an indicator of performance that would get most young people grounded if they did as poorly in math, English or science, was the lowest of all the marks that teens awarded adults on a variety of subjects. Adults were graded a C- for their efforts to deal with gangs, and a C+ for efforts to keep schools safe from violence and crime. The teens, aged 12-19, gave their elders their highest marks, a B-, for efforts toward job creation, education, fighting AIDS, preventing child abuse and spending time with their families. Tom Vanden Berk, President of Uhlich Children's Home, told The Week Online that there is an urgent need to engage them in a dialogue. "Prior to this survey, my own teenage daughter told me that 'just say no' was not something that she could relate to within the context of her day to day experience. We are preaching to our kids, we are spending billions in tax dollars, and yet we're not asking them whether what we're doing is working. What we found, both in the survey and in the focus groups that we put together to get more information, is that teens want good, solid information." "In talking to the kids in the focus groups, we heard analogies drawn to AIDS education, which got a far higher grade in the survey than drug prevention. The kids noted that with regard to AIDS, they were given the facts in an honest, straightforward manner without the preaching. The teens indicated that they responded to that type of education better than the moralizing 'just say no' or DARE approach. According to the kids, drugs are everywhere around them, in their schools, in their faces. We need to establish a dialogue with kids, to find out what they respond to, what works, and how we can provide them with important information in a context that's relevant to their lives." Bob Weiner, spokesman for Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey, told The Week Online that his office "completely agrees that parents need to do more talking with their kids about drugs." Mr. Weiner also noted that General McCaffrey "has consistently maintained that the most effective action in reducing youth drug use is parents talking to their teens around the kitchen table." Asked whether the survey results were an indictment of drug education in America, Mr. Weiner replied that while the survey might be "fun to use," it was likely that in grading the older generation on things like stopping use drug use, kids might well seek to be "a little revolutionary" thus making it difficult to apply the results to real world situations. The full results of the survey are available online at http://www.uhlich.org/reportcard/. 2. Clinton Issues Executive Order on Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement
Re: [CTRL] [grassrootsreform] Re: eliminate the electoral college
-Caveat Lector- Jim wrote: Meeting in secret, behind locked guarded doors, the representatives of the States, not the of the people, created an addendum to empower the States, through their Agency the United States. This Constitution was adopted by the States for the States. I disagree with the above. Special electors where chosen by ballot to vote on ratification. This made them the peoples representative not the state legislatures. The people remained the ultimate sovereigns here. We have through ignorance surrendered too much power to government at all levels but the avenue to reclaim it still lies open due to the nature of the way the Constitution for the united States was ratified. IMO Jim I couldn't argree more, however, I think the most important issues today are: The most important issues in the country today are: #1 ISSUE. House bill sponsored by Rep.Paul (Tx): # HR 1148 IH. It has to do with termination of the unconstitutional and privately owned and operated: "Federal?" Reserve System. see: [ http://www.cal-neva.com/frb/page01.htm ] Passsage would: a: Eliminate our National debt: $5,584,273,630,778.72 ($20,500.89 per citizen!)In spite of the current budget "surplus", the debt has increased an average of $206 million $ per day since May 29, 1998! Please see: [ http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ ] Secondarily, all needed government funding could easily be derived from US Treasury banking operations. There is absolutely no reason for us to pay private individuals (mostly foreigners) to operate our banking systems. Ref: [ http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ ]. #2 Issue is National Retail Sales Tax. Current NRST bill is H.R. 1467 IH. Sponsored by 18 Housemembers including Billy Tauzin: "National Retail Sales Tax of 1999 [ http://www.house.gov/traficant/apr1599.html ] a: Federal taxation and associated recordkeeping of businesses and individuals will no longer be required. (For taxpaying reasons, anyway). b: The Nat'l debt: $5,584,273,630,778.72 will be nearly eliminated: The estimated population of the United States is 272,391,799 so each citizen's share of this debt is $20,500.89. Despite the current budget surplus, the debt hasincreased an average of $206 mil.$ per day since May 29, 1998![ http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ ]. c: Campaign finance reform will result since taxing favoritism will be impossible! d. The US tax base will nearly triple, since: 1.ALL products sold in the US will pay equal taxes whether manufacturedor grown inside this country or not. 2. Foreign visitors, students, truckers, illegals and everyone who buys anything inside the US or territories will pay equally. Currently all these persons pay nothing! e. Record keeping: depreciation schedules, production costs and related currently "required by the IRS" records for individuals and "non retail" businesses will terminate. f. Federal inheritance records and taxes will cease to exist. and many other benefits. I look forward to finding activist groups whom I can support [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald Wilson) 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] Parties of Power
-Caveat Lector- From www.russiatoday.com June 10, 1999 Analysis: The Coming End Of The 'Party of Power' Economic failures, geopolitical isolation, and electoral experience are combining to bring an end to the rule of the "party of power," one of the most characteristic features of the post-communist transition in the former Soviet republics. An amorphous and non-ideological group consisting of a non-party president, a politicized bureaucracy and a depoliticized government closely linked to non-official groups, the "party of power" serves as a buffer between communists on the left and nationalists on the right in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Moldova, and other post-Soviet states. At the present time, the "party of power" both as a concept and a reality still dominates the political landscape. But as Vladimir Bruger writes in the May 26 issue of the Moscow newspaper "Nezavisimaya gazeta-Sodruzhestvo," its days may be numbered because of forces beyond its control. And he suggests that it is likely to be replaced by a politicized politics and a more pragmatic political style. The first of these forces working against the continued dominance of the "party of power" in these countries is the continuing if not accelerating collapse of their economies. Because the parties of power have justified their remaining in office by pointing to the evils that either the nationalists or communists might bring, they have often escaped public attack even if they have not received much public support. But as the economic situation in these countries has deteriorated, the parties of power no longer can make that argument work to their advantage. "In contrast to ideology or PR," Bruger writes, "economics demands an accounting for everything that is done and not done." And ever more people and politicians are deciding that the alternatives denounced by the party of power may in fact not be worse than the incumbents. The second force undermining the continuation of this form of governance is the changing geopolitical position of these countries. Immediately after the collapse of communism, the first post-Soviet governments -- which included second-level party nomenklatura officials as well as a thing stratum of reformers -- expected that the West would not only provide substantial aid but work to integrate these countries into Western organizations. Neither has happened, at least as far as the population can see, Bruger notes. And as a result, ever more people in these countries are prepared to consider supporting parties of the left or the right that advocate policies that can be variously described as committed to self-reliance or going it alone. And the third force is the growing electoral experience of both politicians and the populace in these states. In all these countries, the parties of power were able to co-opt many politicians, and these ideologically based leaders were all too willing to be co-opted -- because the party of power had all the power -- and all too willing not to challenge the bases of the party of power -- because they hoped eventually to use its levers themselves. One distinguishing characteristic of this tendency, Bruger notes, is that in both Russia and Ukraine, the political parties who form the majorities in parliament have accepted the designation of opposition and have behaved as such. But that pattern is beginning to change as a result of the pressures of electoral politics. Some of those now aspiring to office were themselves earlier cast of the party of power and have changed their views. After being fired as Russian premier, Viktor Chernomyrdin's political party adopted a very different stand on the constitutional arrangements that have allowed the Russian party of power to control all decision making. Even more important, as the populations of these countries gain experience with elections, those politicians who hope to win support are now being forced to distance themselves from the failings of those now in power. Thus, as Bruger points out, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov immediately declared that his new party "cannot be held responsible for everything that was done before us." None of this necessarily sounds an immediate death knell for the parties of power. On the one hand, the authoritarian traditions of these countries mean that many leaders, even those who head more ideologically based parties, prefer the informal and backroom dealings that the parties of power have practiced over the last few years. And on the other, the parties of power in the past have shown their ability to manipulate the media and the political system during elections and successfully maintain themselves in power by portraying their opponents as more dangerous than themselves. But economic collapse, international isolation, and experience with elections have fragmented the parties of power in all these countries,
[CTRL] English Middle Class
-Caveat Lector- From TheAtlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jun/9906class.htm J U N E 1 9 9 9 Picture: BooksPicture: The Making of the English Middle ClassPicture: Illustration by Jonny Mendelsson Under Margaret Thatcher and now under Tony Blair, Britain has become markedly less class-bound. How did this happen? by Geoffrey Wheatcroft -- -- THE RISE AND FALL OF CLASS IN BRITAIN by David Cannadine. Columbia University Press, 293 pages, $29.95. -- -- LAST Christmas wasn't very merry for Tony Blair. On the day before Christmas Eve two members of his government resigned in the wake of a minor financial scandal; one of them was Peter Mandelson, his most trusted sidekick in what has been at once pompously and mysteriously called the "Blair project." After this turmoil, we were told, the Prime Minister thought that his endangered project needed what some called a "relaunch." (Yes, people do use the language of glossy-magazine promotion, and yes, it does say something about modern politics.) And so in January, at a seminar in London to examine center-left political positions for the coming century, Blair began this vaunted relaunch with a keynote speech. Lincoln spoke of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Churchill spoke of blood, toil, tears, and sweat. Roosevelt talked of four freedoms. Tony Blair chose to talk about social class. Discuss this article in Post Riposte. More on books in The Atlantic Monthly and Atlantic Unbound. From the archives: "The Penumbra of Pedigree," by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (February, 1999) After a half century's absence, the fabled Almanach de Gotha -- Europe's official record of noble bloodlines -- is again being published. "Slowly but surely the old establishment is being replaced by a new, larger, more meritocratic middle class,"he said. "A middle class characterized by greater tolerance of difference, greater ambition to succeed, greater opportunities to earn a decent living. A middle class that will include millions of people who traditionally may see themselves as working-class, but whose ambitions are far broader than those of their parents and grandparents." Although this was a prime specimen of Blair's rhetorical style (whose distinguishing mark is the adman's verb-starved sentence), he wasn't the first British Prime Minister to dilate on the subject. When his predecessor, John Major, succeeded Margaret Thatcher, in 1990, he announced as his goal "a classless society," by which he meant a society in which "we remove the artificial barriers to choice and achievement." And Thatcher herself had touched on the topic, albeit to claim, "Class is a communist concept. It groups people as bundles and sets them against one another" (and also, more famously, to insist that "there is no such thing as society"). All political leaders in advanced democracies are concerned with prosperity, economic opportunity, social mobility. But is there any other country where leaders talk quite like this, about what class means (or doesn't mean), and what class the voters belong to, or should belong to? In 1940 George Orwell claimed that England "is the most class-ridden country under the sun"; in an oblique way those politicians' reflections might seem to confirm this, or at least to show that we English are more absorbed by the subject than others. Almost sixty years after Orwell, David Cannadine begins his fascinating and deeply enjoyable new book by addressing this view: that the British are "obsessed with class in the way that other nations are obsessed with food or race or sex or drugs or alcohol." Cannadine is an eminent English historian, now in his late forties, who spent ten years as a professor at Columbia University before recently returning home. He has made a specialty of the subject of class -- or, rather, of "the classes," as they used to be called (in contrast to "the masses"): one of his best-known books is The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990). His perspective on the matter is distinctive. Despite the title of his new book, he knows very well that class can't rise or fall in a concrete sense. Despite John Major, there never has been and never will be such a thing as a classless society anywhere. Cannadine acknowledges that "classes will always be with us, as long as there remain inequalities in income, differences in occupation, and variations in wealth that can be objectively observed" -- which is to say in any imaginable human grouping, past, present, or future. As Cannadine says, the class-based interpretation of history that once held such sway among Marxist historians -- and even those who weren't formally Marxist -- is now endorsed by "almost no one among a younger generation of British
Re: [CTRL] [1] The DRUG STORY
-Caveat Lector- Thanks for the informative post!! A month ago, I heard a news report that claimed approximately forty percent of our population is "on" some kind of medication or other. Since drugs are the ideal commodity-- the customer's mind,body and spirit literally DEMANDS the product--evil human beings will continue to profit from the spiritual/moral/economic degradation of others. But if we are going to get at the root (radicalis, Latin: radix) of the problem, shouldn't we try and understand why so many of our fellow citizens find the real world to be intolerable? What prompts their desire to escape? Years ago, at the turn of the century, alcohol appears to have been a major problem in America The average working person would often stop off at the local tavern for his pail of beer. How have things changed since then? Perhaps, human beings have always been trying to find change their consciousness through drugs of one sort or another. At least, that's the argument of individuals like Huxley, Alpert and Leary (those drug gurus of the sixties, who presumably had ties to the Tavistock Institute). But irrespective of the conspiracy associations, what does the problem say about our "civilization"? 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] Solar explosion - Did NASA erase its tracks?
-Caveat Lector- VANCOUVER - This article by Mitch Battros suggests that NASA may have intentionally suppressed data of the coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 1. That solar explosion was not made public until June 7, in a surprise report by the BBC. If NASA did in fact suppress public data of the June 1 solar explosion, the relevance to the Cassini spacecraft mission may be quite ominous. The June 1 solar explosion provides a substantial, justified scientific reason why the Cassini mission must be re-directed! This Cassini implications of this solar explosion must be presented to international bodies and governments, and made public, immediately. NASA may have in fact covered up the June 1 solar explosion precisely because it know that increased Cassini risks evidenced by such an explosion would force the re-direction of the Cassini spacecraft. If a similar solar explosion were to occur after the June 24 Venus flyby, the results could be catastrophic for Earth. A olar explosion then could disable Cassini's communication equipment, and turn th Cassini spacecraft into a virtual plutonium bomb headed straight for Earth. This is not an exaggeration. It is the probable scientific consequence of another solar explosion. That is precisely why NASA may have covered up - in unprecedented fashion - public knowledge of the June 1 solar explosion. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THERE MAY BE DEEP OFFICIAL MALICE INVOLVED HERE. We urge you to bring this new knowledge forward to international and US channels to stop what is emerging as a travesty in the exploration of outer space, and in the integrity of NASA's obligations to fully report relevant scientific space information. Geri DeStefano, PhD Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD Vancouver, BC = Did NASA Erase It's Tracks Over Solar Explosion?...06/10/99 by Mitch Battros (ECTV) This could be one of the largest cover ups from NASA we have seen in a long time, or, it could be nothing at all. One of our viewers sent in an email stating she noticed NASA had omitted, or erased, JUNE 1ST data on the link below. This just happens to be the date of the C.M.E. (coronal mass ejection). Also take note, it was the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) that broke the story. Nothing from our own national networks. I would like your help in this investigation. If you know of a web site,or perhaps someone working for NASA that can explain the reason for the omission of this date, please forward. Also, send information as to why NASA did not disclose this information to the public at, or before, the time of this event. Is it NASA's policy to NOT disclose potentially deadly, or at least severely disruptive events? It is not only solar flares were we have seen this omission before. It has also occurred with NEO's (near earth orbits) related to Asteroids. Sharon B. wrote: Check out the following web site which is Nasa's 10 day animation of the sun. Notice that June 1 (CME) has been omitted from the animation. You will have to slow down the animation to 2 images per second to see that they skip from May 31 to June 2. http://www.spaceweather.com/java/solar-anim.html Remember, this could be nothing at all. It is possible, NASA was simply taking the day off. After all, it was Memorial Day. Mitch Battros Producer - Earth Changes TV Web Site: http://www.earthchangesTV.com _ Always on-line reporting on health, environment, and sustainable society. !EcoNews! Service: http://www.ecologynews.com geri destefano alfred webremailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 352-1917 West Fourth Avenue Tel:604-733-8134 Vancouver, BC V6J 1M7Fax:604-733-8135 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] [Fwd: Reptoids under NY and deep underground bases in USA]
-Caveat Lector- In 1982, prior to a health fair held at the community center next to St John the Divine cathedral in Manhattan we witnessed several tall, angular hominoids patroling the grounds, with marked reptoidal features. They looked like "homo sapiens sapiens" from superficial appearance, and were quite sinister in appearance; totally in contrast from the crown which was gathering for the health fair. They acted as if the "owned the place", sort of setting out a perimeter for the fair. They disappeared about a half-hour befor the actual opening of the health fair. We do not know if these are "reptoids", but the whole experience was exceedingly strange and sinister. = Hi there, You may have had this one pass your way, but I heard there was an underground base under the Cathedral of St John the Divine at Manhattan. Does anyone know any more about this please. Nicky snip http://www.anomalous-images.com/christo.html Rest of story at this url AC: If Phil is right, and all this hooks up to the deep underground base that he was offered the plans to build back in 1979, and that what this other man told me in private that there is a lot of human slave labor in these deep underground bases being used by these aliens, and that a lot of this slave labor is children. He said that when the children reach the point that they are unable to work any more, they are slaughtered on the spot and consumed. DA: Consumed by who? AC: Aliens. Again, this is not from me, but from a man that gave his life to get this information out. He worked down there for close to 20 years, and he knew everything that was going on. DA: Hmmm. Who do these aliens eat? AC: They specifically like young human children, that haven't been contaminated like adults. Well, there is a gentleman out giving a lot of information from a source he gets it from, and he says that there is an incredible number of children snatched in this country. DA: Over 200,000 each year. AC: And that these children are the main entree for dinner. DA: How many Draconians are down there? AC: I have heard the figure of 150,000 just in the New York area. DA: Underneath New York? AC: Yes. In some kind of underground base there. DA: Interesting. Now, you've seen pictures of these things? AC: I have seen them face to face. DA: You have? AC: Yes. From some information that has been put out by a group or team that also works in these underground bases that is trying to get information out to people that love this country, there is a war that is going on under our feet, and above our heads, that the public doesn't know anything about, and its between these alien forces and the humans that are trying to fight them. DA: What other types have you seen? AC: The ones that I have seen are the big-eyed Greys and the Reptilians. DA: What do these Reptilians look like? AC: There are three different types. DA: Can you tell us how you happened to come into contact with them? AC: When I lived in Florida in Panama City, at that particular time the Gulf Breeze sightings were going on, and the area was virtually a hotbed for strange events. I had neighbors that were into watching UFOs and getting information about them. One night about 2:30 am, my neighbor called me and was absolutely frantic, and wanted me to come over there. I ran over there and went in the front door, and she and her boyfriend, who is a commercial airline pilot, were in the living room scared out of their wits. I looked over at her, and her eyeballs are rolling back in her head and she was passing out and sliding down the wall. Her boyfriend was trying to tell me what was going on, and I was feeling this incredible energy that felt like it was trying to penetrate my head. So, I grabbed both of them and pulled them both outside, where we stood for a while and talked... DA: Some people would say that this is a case of demon possession... AC: Oh, no. There was radiation in the room. The next day all of her plants were dead. So, there was a massive amount of energy focused on that room. Anyway, after about an hour had passed, we had discussed what went on and decided to go back into the house. They had both been in bed and were pulled out of their bed during the night. All they remember is a flash of light in their faces and the next thing they know they're both scared to death. But, when we went back into the house, I noticed that the man had a small palm-print on his side with fingers that must have been 10 inches long, with claw marks on the end that were burned into his side. The next day, that area was so swollen that he could not touch it. I have video pictures of these things on his side. The prints were there from someone bending down from behind him and pulling him out of bed. They had been laking love, and somebody lifted him off of her and left these burns there. Anyway, they were both
Re: [CTRL] 2 Questions
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: drbongo [EMAIL PROTECTED] is it true that JFK really survived the assassination attempt in dallas? a) yes b) no c) unknown d) maybe (yes and/or no and/or maybe and/or unknowable and/or irrelevant) e) I believe Select one === _ 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] Skeptic News - Friday #1
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990611a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No cancerous tissues were harmed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # BRAIN MAY BE DAMAGED BY BODY'S DEFENSE AGAINST CANCER. Testicular cancer can lead to seizures, memory loss and dementia long before the cancer is detected, shows yet another study linking brain damage to an immune system attack on cancer. Rare brain disorders can provide clues to immunoresponse: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/cancer/9906/10/cancer.brain.attack.ap/index.html : Would you rather be cancerous or demented? Should your health be monitored by humans, aliens, gods, demons, machines? Do you remember being implanted? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OUTRAGE OVER SEX ABUSE STUDY FORCES RETREAT. The American Psychological Association will weigh the potential consequences of publishing research after criticism of a study that concluded the long-term effects of child sexual abuse are not as serious as many believe. Consider implications before publishing: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/10/sex.abuse.study.ap/ : Would you rather be abused by children, adults, aliens, deities, machines, the gov't, animals, random patterns? What research would you like to censor? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Gene map may be completed by 2002. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A federal project to completely map the human genetic pattern could be complete by 2002, a year earlier than last predicted. Researchers around the world trying to catalog all 60,000 to 90,000 genes in human DNA are making fast progress that could speed completion. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559878671-8bb : Do you have correctable genetic problems? Do you want your genes altered anyway? Without a gene map, do you get lost in sex? Is your gene map torn? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** New e-mail computer virus reported. NEW YORK (AP) A new computer virus swept across the Internet, spread by e-mail like the recent Melissa virus, but causing more damage by ruining computer files. Anti-virus teams were trying to determine the severity of the outbreak of "Worm.Explore.Zip," a virus that arrives by e-mail with an attached file that can infect a system. It isn't clear how many computers or networks had been stricken so far. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559881326-aff : Have you been attacked by a virus or worm lately? Have you created a virus or worm lately? Are you infectious? Shall you be quarantined? Are you rabid? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ROCKET SUCCESS ENDS STRING OF U.S. LAUNCH FAILURES. A Boeing Co. Delta II rocket carried four satellites for the Globalstar worldwide phone network into orbit Thursday, providing a much-needed boost for a U.S. commercial space industry reeling from a string of costly failures. Back in the saddle again: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/10/delta.launch/index.html : Why has US space industry been allowed to proceed? Who interfered with it? Have you ever sabotaged a space launch? Was it much fun? Were you well paid? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Bin Laden calls for holy war on U.S. DUBAI, UAE (AP) Millions of Arabs saw Osama bin Laden for the first time Thursday as he called for a holy war on his No. 1 enemy - the United States. In a 90-minute program aired by Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite channel, bin Laden expressed his admiration for the people who bombed American forces in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996 and said that all Americans are targets. "They violate our land and occupy it and steal the Muslims' possessions, and when faced by resistance they call it terrorism," bin Laden said in an interview with the Arab world's most popular TV channel, watched by millions in the MidEast, North Africa and Europe. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559879080-496 # Pope stresses devotion to church. SIEDLCE, Poland (AP) - Pope John Paul II stressed loyalty to the church and cautioned young people not to fall victim to "travesties of religion, or to manipulations of the truth." At a Mass at-tended by thousands of Roman Catholics and Eastern rite Catholics from Bela-rus, Ukraine and Russia, the pontiff urged people to follow the example of 13 martyrs slain in Pratulin in 1874 for resisting conversion to Orthodox Xianity. "These simple people, fathers of families, chose at the critical moment to suffer death rather than yield to pressure in a way untrue to their conscience," John Paul said. "'How sweet it is to die for the faith.' These were their last words." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559874151-cf3 : Would you rather die for your faith, or kill for it? Would you rather that some other poor sucker should die for THEIR faith? If enough people die for their faiths, will the rest of us finally get some peace and quiet? Why not? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # POPE
[CTRL] Gutenberg (was: Re: [[CTRL] Fwd: The Web and the Pentagon])
-Caveat Lector- Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many people know what the first book Gutenberg published was: the Holy Bible. Few ask what the second book was. The answer? Good question. It appears the sole purpose of the printing press was to print the Bible and the Bible alone, and everything else was of little (if any) importance to him. Before the printing press, the Bible was a document in the hands of a select few, a corrupt priesthood centered in Rome. The printing of the Bible (and it's distribution to the masses) was a questioning of authority, an attack on the powers that be, a declaration of war. Well, maybe...this is from http://www.slip.net/~graphion/guten.html Many years of Gutenberg's life are lost to history, but by 1450 he was back in Mainz at work on a printing press. Between 1450 and 1455, while preparing to produce a large folio Latin Bible, Gutenberg is thought to have printed a number of smaller books, a calendar, and a papal Letter of Indulgence. The Bible of 42 lines, the oldest surviving printed book in the western world, was completed by August 15, 1456, and while it is now credited to Gutenberg, he appears to have been relieved of his supervisory position, and his press, before the time of its publication. In fact, no printed material was ever credited to Gutenberg during his lifetime. Gutenberg is also believed to have worked on the Catholicon of Johannes de Janua, an enormous encyclopedia: 748 pages in two columns of 66 lines each. In later years, he received a position as a courtier to the archbishop of Mainz, and was buried in the town's Franciscan church. And this is from the Catholic Encyclopedia, http://www.csn.net/advent/cathen/07090a.htm Johann Gutenberg (Henne Gänsfleisch zur Laden, commonly called Gutenberg). Inventor of printing; born about 1400; died 1467 or 1468 at Mainz. Gutenberg was the son of Friele (Friedrich) Gänsfleisch and Else Wyrich. His cognomen was derived from the house inhabited by his father and his paternal ancestors "zu Laden, zu Gutenberg". The house of Gänsfleisch was one of the patrician families of the town, tracing its lineage back to the thirteenth century. From the middle of the fourteenth century there were two branches, the line to which the inventor belongs and the line of Sorgenloch. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it scions claimed an hereditary position as so-called Hausgenossen, or retainers of the household, of the master of the archiepiscopal mint. In this capacity they doubtless acquired considerable knowledge and technical skill in metal working. They supplied the mint with the metal to be coined, changed the various species of coins, and had a seat at the assizes in forgery cases. Of Johann Gutenberg's father, Friele Gänsfleisch, we know only that he was married in 1386 to Else Wyrich, daughter of a burgher of Mainz, Werner Wyrich zum steinern Krame (at the sign of the pottery shop), and that he died in 1419, his wife dying in 1433. Of their three children Friele (d. 1447), Else, and Johann the last-named (the inventory of typography) was born some time in the last decade of the fourteenth century, presumably between 1394 and 1399, at Mainz in the Hof zum Gutenberg, known today as Christophstrasse, 2. All that is known of his youth is that he was not in Mainz in 1430. It is presumed that he migrated for political reasons to Strasburg, where the family probably had connections. The first record of Gutenberg's sojourn in Strasburg dates from 14 March, 1434. He took a place befitting his rank in the patrician class of the city, but he also at the same time joined the goldsmiths' guild quite an exceptional proceeding, yet characteristic of his untiring technical activity. The trades which Gutenberg taught his pupils and associates, Andreas Dritzehn, Hans Riffe, and Andreas Heilmann, included gem-polishing, the manufacture of looking-glasses and the art of printing, as we learn from the records of a lawsuit between Gutenberg and the brothers Georg and Klaus Dritzehn. In these records, Gutenberg appears distinctly as technical originator and manager of the business. Concerning the "new art", one witness states that, in his capacity of goldsmith, he had supplied in 1436 "printing requisites" to the value of 100 gulden; mention is also made of a press constructed by Konrad Saspach, a turner, with peculiar appliances (screws). The suit was therefore obviously concerned with experiments in typography, but no printed matter that can be traced to these experiments has so far come to light. The appearance at Avignon of the silversmith Waldvogel, who taught "artificial writing" there in 1444, and possessed steel alphabets, a press with iron screws and other contrivances, seems to have had some connection with the experiments of Gutenberg. As of Gutenberg's, so of Waldvogel's early experiments, no sample has been preserved. In the year 1437 Gutenberg was sued for "breach of promise of marriage" by a young
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Air Rage]
-Caveat Lector- Alamaine Ratliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- snip Paul Palumbo, who is one-half of the FBI's Bangor office, is watching the city's air-rage population grow with some amusement. ''We have a whole new wing at the Penobscot County Jail for Englishmen,'' he said. snip Or at least for Englishmen from Manchester, it seems... With a record like that, I'd think twice about allowing British males from that city onto international flights. IIRC, that city also has a bad reputation for football (i.e. soccer) hooliganism. Yes, friends, there is a reason for profiling...and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with racism. Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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] Members Only
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Citation: Harper's Magazine Oct 1998, v297, n1781, p12(4) Author: Lapham, Lewis H. Title: Members only.(satire on careerism and social climbing)(Editorial) by Lewis H. Lapham COPYRIGHT 1998 Harper's Magazine Foundation Only God helps the badly dressed. --Spanish proverb As the editor of a magazine with offices in New York I talk to a good many young people newly arrived in the city with the hope of finding a career--if not in the literary trades then somewhere in Wall Street or television--and over the last ten or fifteen years I've listened to their questions turn nervous and cold. A generation ago the graduates of the country's well-to-do universities might have mentioned the name of a dead poet, or asked about the prospect of adding purpose to their lives, or said something about truth and its untimely betrayals. The philosophical questions appear to have gone missing in action, rendered futile by the prices asked for New York real estate (apartments no bigger than jail cells renting for $1,500 a month) and by the six years of President Clinton's glib smiling in the face of justice and Kenneth Starr. Every now and then I come across a wandering idealist intent upon saving an orphan or a whale, but mostly I meet people to whom the fervors of social protest seem superfluous or quaint. They don't talk about changing the system, only about the means of improving their access to it, and, they smile with their mouths but not their eyes. Impatient with metaphors and bored by sentiment, eager to advance the token of their lives around the Monopoly board of the standard American success, they ask for introductions to Woody Allen and the maitre d' at Balthazar, about the hope of meeting Peter Jennings and where do the editors of the Conde Nast magazines go expensively to lunch. I wish I thought the questions misplaced, but even the dullest students of the American economic scene haven't failed to notice the widening chasm between rich and poor or the increasingly obvious disparities between the civic-minded theory taught in school and the profit-making facts posted on the walls of the news and entertainment media. As was true in the early years of the American republic, the country is governed by a commercial oligarchy, but the oligarchy has become so all-encompassing, and the broad mass of the American people so dependent upon its corporate whim--for work, pension, medical care, club membership, views of Europe--that the business of getting ahead in the world comes to resemble the eighteenth-century practice of "obtaining a place at court." The candidates for a life of privilege and ease offer themselves as apprentices to the art of self-advancement, eager to learn the bows and curtsies appropriate to what both George Washington and Benjamin Franklin would have recognized as the dance of grace and favor. Impressed by their zeal but not always able to address their concerns about the finer points of etiquette, I've made notes over the last few years of their most frequently asked questions. The notes take the form of simple precepts and helpful suggestions, and although the indicated lines of approach don't guarantee anybody's safe arrival on the sunny heights of an American success, at least they encourage a correct posture and a proper tone. The list is by no means complete (nothing about pets, no mention of eye shadow), but I like to think that any supplementary questions can be answered by glancing at the jewelry of the other people in the room. CHOOSING COMPANIONS Seek out the acquaintance of people richer and more important than yourself, and never take an interest in people who cannot do you any favors. The rule admits of no exceptions. When Henry Kissinger was secretary of state, he put it plainly to a woman seated next to him at a Washington dinner party. "A great nation," he said, "is like an ambitious hostess. It cannot afford to invite unsuccessful people to its parties." In the event that you become either rich or famous, you may collect friends in the way that Nike acquires prize athletes or Philip II of Spain collected dwarfs. THE NORM OF MEDIOCRITY A blessing in disguise. Why we're all standing here on the lawn in Southampton, talking to Steven Spielberg and Hillary Clinton about Bosnia and the shiitake mushrooms. If the world arranged itself along the lines set forth by men and women of genius, how would it be possible to elect a president or bestow an Academy Award? Who could anybody invite to dinner? Take to heart the words of the late Paul D. Cravath, patriarch of the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine Moore, who was speaking to a quorum of young and ambitious lawyers: "Brilliant intellectual powers are not essential; too much imagination, too much wit, too great cleverness, too
[CTRL] Coq au vin
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Citation: Harper's Magazine March 1998, v296, n1774, p8(3) Author: Lapham, Lewis H. Title: Coq au vin. (political participation) by Lewis H. Lapham COPYRIGHT 1998 Harper's Magazine Foundation Mere financial dishonesty is of very little importance in the history of civilization. Who cares whether Caesar stole or Caesare Borgia cheated? . . . The real evil that follows a commercial dishonesty so general as ours is the intellectual dishonesty it generates. John J. Chapman Early in January on one of the editorial pages of the New York Post, I came across James K. Glassman, a syndicated Washington columnist, telling his readers that they no longer needed to trouble themselves with politics, and what was wonderful about the announcement was its air of supreme certainty joined with its proof of sublime ignorance. Mr. Glassman was provoked to his drum major's display of furious word twirling by a New Year's Day editorial in the New York Times suggesting that despite the marvelous gains on the New York Stock Exchange and the cornucopia of expensive merchandise in the country's department stores and automobile showrooms, something was amiss in the American scheme of things. The editorialist had worried that too little attention was being paid to politics and then had gone on to say that 1997 might be best remembered as "The Year of Living Smugly." Mr. Glassman found the phrase offensive--deplorable in intent, insulting in tone, and just the sort of professional hand-wringing that one had come to expect from soft-headed liberals who couldn't bear the sight of money. "Americans are happy," said Mr. Glassman, "really happy," and so what if they weren't interested in politics? They were right not to care about politics. Politics had been reduced to "background noise" or, at best, "elevator music," which was "a very good thing" because the happy Americans had better things to do than vote or read the newspapers. Mr. Glassman wasn't of a mind to listen to any quibbling on the point. "We have reached an era," he said, "in which we can turn our attention away from politics and war and toward art, in the broadest and best sense of the word, which includes not just porcelain but philanthropy, aesthetics, religion and family. As the century draws to a close, we seem to be witnessing the death of politics and the rise of something else. Call it the art of living." As pleased with himself as a prize rooster, Mr. Glassman puffed up the feathers of his good news with what has become, if not in all quarters of the society at least among people earning upward of $250,000 a year, the customary crowing of statistics--low rates of inflation and unemployment, business booming, churches reporting record levels of attendance, a bull market in philanthropy, violent crime being scrubbed from city streets like so much graffiti, impressive numbers of people traveling to Europe, attending adult-education classes, swarming through the doors of the country's opera houses and art museums. "Yes," said Mr. Glassman, "there's still poverty and ignorance and pathology," and true, the government might try to "reassert itself, to prove it's still important," but as long as the watchful plutocrat remained "alert to mischief," nothing significant was likely to happen in Washington, certainly nothing serious enough to prevent the fortunate Americans from "fruitfully pursuing happiness the way the Declaration of Independence intended." Although I never before had encountered Mr. Glassman's writing, I recognized the complacent-and pre-recorded voice of what over the last ten or fifteen years has become the sovereign American oligarchy, and it didn't surprise me to learn that Mr. Glassman was a figure of some consequence on the reactionary right, a former publisher of The New Republic, a columnist for the Washington Post, and the host of CNN's Capital Gang Sunday. It could be safely assumed that his opinions kept pace with what was being said in the wealthier quarters of the society, where it is customary to speak ill of big government and all of its misguided works, to suggest that nothing good can come from meddling bureaucrats in Washington, that it's no use cosseting poor people with federal subsidies, that the brutalized forms of public life in the United States no longer can accommodate the promise of freedom or the hope of justice. Because the same oligarchy that owns and operates the nation's banks also owns and operates the nation's news media, variants of one or more of these noble truths constitute the bulk of what now passes as trenchant political commentary not only on network television but also in the journals of thoughtful opinion that circulate the views of reformed feminists, chastened Marxists, and currency speculators who have seen a great light. Together with
[CTRL] Radical chicks
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Citation: The New Republic Oct 13 1997, v217, n15, p16(2) Author: Rosin, Hanna Title: Radical chicks. (conservative Washington women)(The New Conservative Sisterhood)(Column) by Hanna Rosin COPYRIGHT 1997 The New Republic Inc. This fall, conservative Washington women are moving down market. Bored by their power jobs, feeling pinched by their sensible pumps, they're emulating a new icon: the frazzled, J.C. Penney-clad, angry white female. Call it Chenoweth chic, in honor of the gun-toting Idaho Republican congresswoman, Helen Chenoweth. As some ladies on the right have discovered, the great thing about Chenoweth chic is that it offers you a way to experience all the low-cost thrills of working-class life without actually having to move into a mobile home. But, of course, that makes the right-wing version of cross-class sisterhood every bit as suspect as the left-wing incarnation conservative women spend so much time mocking. Consider recent events at the Independent Women's Forum, a gathering place for the female wing of the conservative chatterati. This summer IWF discovered it was all talked out. "Why do we have to be so ponderous and heavy all the time?" sighs Barbara Ledeen, the usually bubbly executive director. "Sometimes it feels like we're just yap, yap, yapping at people." Ledeen floated a few ideas to cure the ennui--a Tupperware party, a "Victoria's Secret" party--but nothing really clicked until she suggested taking up arms. Ledeen had read a pro-gun op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Laura Ingraham, the princess regent of right-wing female punditry. "By disdaining gun ownership," Ingraham had written, "feminists simply add one more brick to their elitist Northeastern, Democratic facade." Ingraham had suggested a feminist group hold an event called "the Annie Get Your Gun Permit," and Ledeen did just that--reserving a morning at a shooting range in suburban Maryland. The day arrived and it was lovely, eighty degrees, and clear. Lunch was packed, the course was clear, ammo and earplugs lay waiting. There was just one problem. Almost none of the women (myself included) knew the first thing about shooting. Ledeen had tried target practice once, to protect herself while her husband was away, but she never got the chance to pull the trigger. (No intruders lurked around her Chevy Chase home during her husband's month-long absence, "Thank god.") Ann Coulter, the leggy blond msnbc commentator, was almost appropriately attired in skin-tight jodhpurs, but then the ammunition belt kept slipping off her invisible hips, becoming entangled in the strap of her Chanel purse. Out on the firing range, bird after orange neon bird whizzed into the air, soared along its parabolic trajectory, and landed, unscathed, in an ever-growing heap of missed targets. Thanks to expert instruction, some women eventually got the hang of it. (I never did.) Grace Terzian, the publisher of IWF's newsletter, scored a few hits, and Becky Norton Dunlop, the Virginia secretary of natural resources, even hit more clay pigeons than her Marine sharpshooter husband. But some in the group simply threw down their weapons and fled. Christina Hoff Sommers, of the American Enterprise Institute, stormed off with her ears covered, complaining about the noise. Mary Martino had no such complaints, but then Martino is not a member of any conservative women's organization: she just showed up at the skeet shoot after spotting an item about it in The Washington Times. A teacher in a middle-class suburb of Maryland, she has never heard of msnbc, and could never squeeze into a pair of size zero jodhpurs. She came because she "loves shooting," and does it every chance she gets, twice a month at least. Martino has been shooting for ten years; when she was young, she practiced firing B.B.'s at those miniature tubs of non-dairy creamer they give out with coffee at the 7-Eleven. Now she goes to turkey shoots (best score wins a free frozen turkey) or bowling pin shoots. She was reluctant to shoot at the IWF event, because ammunition was so expensive--$10 a box, as opposed to $6.50 at Wal-Mart. Suffice it to say that Mary Martino and Ann Coulter do not get invited to the same parties. IWF's skeet shoot was harmless fun--a cheerfully contrived testament to the ironies of the new feminized populism. But sometimes this phenomenon takes a more noxious form. By now you must have seen or heard of Susan Carpenter McMillan, Paula Jones' new "friend and adviser," and now a regular fixture on afternoon TV. In her own way, Carpenter McMillan is also a case study in Chenoweth chic. Decked out in a cotton candy suit and gold medallions, the glamorous "Susie," as she's known in Southern California, has attached herself to Jones, the all-purpose emblem of the hassled working-class woman. There Susie
[CTRL] A Toast to the Sixties
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Citation: The Progressive March 1999, v.63, 3, 46(1)
Author: Ivins, Molly
Title: A Toast to the Sixties.(Brief Article)(Column) by Molly
Ivins
COPYRIGHT 1999 Progressive Inc.
In the end, our long national nightmare took on an eerie resemblance to
Groundhog Day--we had to listen while they kept repeating and repeating the
Tale of the Ten Blow Jobs.
You must admit, this has been the most curious political phenomenon of our
lifetimes. After five years of investigation by Kenneth Starr, one solid year
of media frenzy, and three months of impeachment proceedings, Bill Clinton's
job approval rating rose to 72 percent and Republicans now rank below Larry
Flynt in the public esteem. Their response to all this was, "More! More!"
Kind of hard to know what to say to them. And here I was agreeing with Pat
Robertson: Please, stop!
The latest wrinkle in rightwing spin is to claim this is not a political
phenom at all, but is the final battle in some culture war I didn't know was
going on. I have my doubts about this culture war: Can you be in one and not
know it? Did our side actually vote for Larry Flynt as our standard bearer?
What is our side?
My last effort to grasp what the right wing is on about here was to read
Robert Bork's latest book, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, an experience so
horrifying I have not yet recovered and cannot bear to read any more in the
genre. I give thanks daily the man is not on the Supreme Court. I would not
subject anyone to that book, but take my word for it--Mr. Bork does not have
judicial temperament.
If Bork was the beginning of the culture war, as is sometimes claimed
("payback for Bork" being an occasionally heard battle cry), all I can say is,
I didn't know it was war at the time, but I'm sure glad I was on the right
side.
An alternative theory is that the culture war dates back to the 1960s, and
this is where I get totally lost reading rightwing cultural interpretations.
The old joke is that the sixties were about sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll and
that if you can remember it, you weren't there. (I think that's a P.J.
O'Rourke line.) I was there, and I can remember it.
I remember the decade as being about the Peace Corps, the civil rights
movement, and the anti-war movement. As Margot Adler writes in her memoir of
the period, Heretic's Heart, it was quite possible to be an activist in the
sixties and miss sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll in their entirety. "We Shall
Overcome" remains the song of the decade for many.
That is, until 1968, the year of assassinations, when it all turned very,
very dark.
I could be wrong, but I still think the berserker element of the 1960s was
largely the consequence of Vietnam--the drugs, the craziness, the feeling that
the world made no sense because, Lord knows, that war made no sense. And that
war was not the fault of those who fought it or opposed it. Your famous World
War II generation presented that little gift to us: Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, and Nixon. Long time passing.
Another rightwing interpretation of the sixties is the bizarre notion that
black rage was fomented by white liberal social programs. Bill Kristol has
been alone among rightwing intellectuals, I believe, in consistently and
gracefully conceding that liberals were right about civil rights and
conservatives (a word often synonymous with "racist" in those years) were
wrong. That's most generous of him, but I think it leaves a wrong impression,
a bit like that odd film Mississippi Burning, that somehow white people were
the key players in the civil rights movement.
It was a movement of, by, and for black Americans: Those few whites who took
part--and there were damn few of us here in the South--were just bit players.
As Taylor Branch's wonderful King biography--among many other books--makes
clear, the whites in power, whether they reacted for good or ill at the time,
were just reacting. Reacting to one of the most astonishing, beautiful, and
spontaneous uprisings for justice the world has ever seen.
The movement split in '64, when Stokely Carmichael's "Burn, baby, burn"
stood in contrast to "We Shall Overcome." But to blame that on anything white
liberals did is ludicrous. Race riots had been part of American history for
100 years. They were not unusual before the civil rights movement, and the
roots of the rage underlying them are obvious.
These silly books blaming the sixties for various social evils are so
pathetically truncated in their viewpoint.
Were there symptoms of decline in black family structure? According to
anthropologists, the black family is one of the most durable social structures
in history: It survived both slavery and Jim Crow, and finally was visibly
damaged only by the Depression. Incidentally, the Depression had the same
effect on white families--those who
Re: [CTRL] [Re: [CTRL] CHRISTIAN COALITION LOSES TAX EXEMPT STATUS]
-Caveat Lector- nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Guess who said this: Render Unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's; and to God, that which is Gods.words to that effect, And what exactly WAS Ceaser's? To most people living in Roman occupied Palestine, whatever it was, it wasn't anything of theirs. snip You know, if you look at that story in full historical context, it takes on a somewhat different importance. Because of the prohibition on worship of other gods, the Temple priests coined special money *for use only in the Temple*. The moneychangers were there specifically to change "unclean" coins for "clean" ones that could properly be used by worshippers. Like all moneychangers, of course, they adjusted the exchange rate to benefit themselves and their patrons on the Temple staff...and it was in fact the exhorbitant fees charged for changing money, as well as for sacrificial animals, that Jesus was objecting to when he scourged the moneychangers out of the Temple. Remember, "you have made it a den of thieves"--literally. And there's another element operating. Jesus is sitting *in the Temple precincts*, probably in the Porch of the Gentiles, with his disciples. When that Pharisee poses the question about paying taxes, Jesus asks him for a coin--specifically a denarius, that is, a *Roman* coin. This was, quite frankly, a trap for the Pharisee. Roman coins at that time bore the image of the Emperor Tiberius. And Tiberius had recently been deified in the Province of Syria, which Jerusalem was part of. So this utterly stupid Pharisee pulls a denarius out of his purse...thus admitting openly that he has flouted the Temple priesthood's interpretation of Mosaic law by bringing the graven image of another god into the Temple. And Jesus rubs the Pharisee's face in this faux pas by telling him curtly, "Give Caesar the things that are Caesar's; give God the things that are God's." Yep, you better believe the crowd loved it... Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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] Serbian Cartoonist: Peace?
-Caveat Lector- Sasa Rakezic P.F. 163 26000 Pancevo Yugoslavia (Serbia) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] June 10th 1999 Hello! It finally happened!!! Yesterday, all the media in Yugoslavia were speaking about the peace agreement that was signed by Serbian and NATO generals. It was announced with a lot of triumphalism, like - "We won!". Serbian media even lied that it were the UN representatives who were negotiating with Serbian Army officials, while trying to avoid mentioning NATO as the real partner in these talks... The same kind of logic (newspaper headlines like "Serbia capitulated!") was, as I understood from the letters by friends from abroad, present in the mainstream media of the NATO countries. They were opening champagne at the NATO headquarters in Brussels. After so many ( whatever the real number is) thousands of dead and injured and people left homeless? Yes, yes, it was so predictable. I told you that it will happen, in one of the early messages - politicians will continue to do their "job", they will make speeches, pose in front of the camera, or at worst go to a new duty - no matter what is the result of their fabulous "action". They are the "winners" - Serbian, Albanian, NATO countries leaders, and the busy little administration workers. These guys always win. Everybody else is wounded or dead. Anyway, this is the last of my mass letters, if something don't go wrong again. Yesterday, the "celebration" started with the people from the neighborhood taking their pistols and shooting in the air.They were joined by rockets launched by the Antiaircraft Defenses, even though at first I thought that they were shooting at the pilotless NATO aircrafts (equipped with the cameras), as they usually do when they are shooting between the air raids. I just couldn't believe that they would waste the rockets that they actually missed while combating the mighty NATO bombers... Sure, everybody was happy that the whole thing was over... Even though many were complaining, and many more were aware that this is far from being the end of the crisis - ANYTHING could happen in the months to come. The "victory" celebration in my town was ridiculed by the tall flame from the Oil Refinery, and the giant black cloud which was spreading over the whole area The industrial complex is still burning, even now as I write this, 3 days after the NATO bombing. But still, I can understand the triumph of the common people, who were exposed to the very powerful bombs for 77 days. They are the real heroes! The same is with the common Albanians, who suffered enormously in this big turmoil. Serbia will be the country which will enter the 21st Century with the destroyed factories, bridges, railroads and highways. No matter of the high ideals of our world, the global society is still obsessed with deeply destructive and violent concepts. Isn't it obvious yet? See you around, my friends. Sasa 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] AP News Items June 11, 1999
-Caveat Lector- 1. Mexican Bank Execs Found Guilty of Laundering Drug-Money 2. Bickering at UN over Kosovo: "National sovereignty an archaic concept" 3. Iraq Accuses Iran of Missile Attack 4. Bin Laden on TV, Calls for Jihad Against US 5. Public Television Airs 'Gay Awareness' Film Aimed at Young Children 6. N. Korea / S. Korea Naval Skirmish 7. Yugoslavia Balks at NATO Deal 8. Monsanto Workers "Radiated" Without Their Knowledge 9. Human Genome Project -- Some Genes To Be Corporate "Private Property" 10. Family Sues Russia for $250 Million, for Property Lost in 1917 Revolution 3 Guilty of Laundering Millions By DARA AKIKO WILLIAMS LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three Mexican businessmen were convicted Thursday of laundering tens of millions of dollars for a Colombian drug cartel. Three others were acquitted in the case, which accused 40 Mexican and Venezuelan businessmen and bankers of helping drug cartel members launder their money. The arrests were part of a three-year U.S. Customs sting that spanned several countries. The operation raised tensions between the United States and Mexico, which was kept in the dark about the investigation into its citizens. Agents arrested 167 people, including top Mexican bankers and executives, in the sting. Convicted of conspiracy and money laundering on Thursday were Jose Reyes Ortega Gonzales, a former manager of banking operations for Bancomer in Tepatitlan, Mexico; Manuel Barraza Leon, a Bancomer branch manager in Tijuana; and Alfonso Labrada Gurrola, who worked at a Tijuana law firm that represented banks. Acquitted were Javier Alcala Navarro; Katy Kissel Belfer, a broker at CBI International Securities in Mexico City; and Fernando Barragan Reyes, a stock broker. U.S. customs officials seized $100 million from 14 banks and dozens of individuals who were accused of laundering money for the Cali drug cartel in Colombia, and the Juarez cartel in Mexico. Mexico accused the United States of intruding on Mexican sovereignty by conducting a sting without its involvement. Two of the largest banks pleaded guilty in March to money laundering charges. Last month, seven defendants were indicted for laundering money for the Cali cartel and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy or drug trafficking. Their sentences were pending. Others are awaiting trial. "The Netherlands denounced as "anachronistic" the argument that a nation's sovereignty is more important than the human rights of groups living within it." U.S., Cuba Trade Insults Over Kosovo By NICOLE WINFIELD UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States and Cuba traded insults and accusations Thursday in a Security Council discussion of Kosovo that degenerated into a diplomatic slugfest over colonialism and the battle between big and small powers. Cuba launched the back-and-forth with a rambling speech to the council in support of Yugoslavia and condemning NATO's airstrikes as a genocide that served merely to consolidate U.S. control over the world. ``NATO's war has filled the coffers of smart-weapons manufacturers and producers of silly TV shows,'' Cuban Ambassador Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said. Deputy U.S. Ambassador Peter Burleigh said he was so shocked by the ambassador's ``total avoidance to the human realities in Kosovo'' that he felt compelled to respond. ``Apparently, the well-documented phenomenon of massive ethnic cleansing, the terrorization and brutalization of the civilian population is not allowed to register on the official Cuban mind,'' Burleigh said. The Cuban ambassador responded by saying he only spoke of facts that had been omitted by council members in the day's debate on a resolution authorizing an international peace force for Kosovo. The debate was held, he said, so the United States could use the United Nations to legitimize its attack on Yugoslavia. The Netherlands joined in the acrimonious fight to denounce Cuba for clinging ``pathetically'' to the argument that the sovereignty of a country is more important than the protection of its own people. ``We can perhaps explain the Cuban representative's statement as an illustration of the anachronism that Cuba itself increasingly represents,'' said the deputy Dutch ambassador, Alphons Hamer. Rodriguez Parrilla responded with one last lick. ``The colonial powers of yesteryear cannot come here and give us lessons of humanism today,'' he said. Group in Iraq Accuses Iran of Attack BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iranian guerrilla group based inside Iraq claimed that Iran launched Scud missiles Thursday at one of its camps. The missiles hit the Ashraf camp, 70 miles northeast of Baghdad, said Shahin Gobadi of the Mujahedeen Khalq. It was uncertain how many missiles were launched, and there was no word on casualties. The report couldnn't be independently confirmed.
[CTRL] Hermaphrodite Rats and Heavy Metal
-Caveat Lector- MUTATED RODENTS FOUND AT KESTERSON Hermaphroditism baffles scientists at wildlife refuge by Eric Brazil San Francisco Examiner, June 10, 1999 Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge, already infamous as the place where selenium poisoned thousands of birds, has just presented scientists with a startling environmental puzzle: an outbreak of hermaphroditic rodents. A third of the 87 field mice, house mice, deer mice and California voles trapped during the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's annual biological monitoring study at the Merced County refuge had both male and female reproductive organs. "The number of intersex mammals was a surprising finding to everybody," Michael Delamore, chief of the bureau's drainage program in Fresno, said Thursday. "We're not sure what it means, because it's new, and the phenomenon hasn't been widely reported." While the name Kesterson has become synonymous with selenium, field researchers don't think that the trace element, which can be toxic in high concentrations, has anything to do with the increase in hermaphroditism. Nor, according to the report by the Sacramento consulting firm of CH2MHill, is it caused by mutation. "If the intersex abnormality was seen across four species, it is unlikely that it is the result of a genetic mutation and it is probably the result of environmental influences," the report said. Something in the Kesterson environment is causing the abnormality, but no one knows what. Because Kesterson is a fairly closed system and no longer receives drain water from San Joaquin Valley farms, it has no obvious contaminant sources. Consequently, the report says, "naturally occurring agents should also be considered as having a role in this phenomenon." "We're working with the Fish and Wildlife Service, the EPA and the Regional Water Resources Control Board" to find out what's going on, Delamore said. A mouse and vole trapping program is being launched outside Kesterson to learn whether intersex rodents are proliferating elsewhere. "Rarely if anywhere do folks look at critters like we do at Kesterson," Delamore said. Hermaphroditism has rarely been observed in Kesterson's rodent population, according to the report. In 1995, for example, just 3 percent of the rodents trapped showed intersex characteristics. In 1998, 15 of 33 house mice, seven of 30 deer mice, five of 17 harvest mice and two of seven voles showed those characteristics. Deer and house mice also had enlarged left testes. The findings may be conservative, because the test animals were examined when female reproductive structures had not yet enlarged. Kesterson is located 14 miles north of Los Banos in Merced County off Highway 140. For six years, beginning in 1979, Kesterson's 12 shallow evaporation ponds - part of the 80-mile San Luis Drain, managed by the Bureau of Reclamation - were a sump for toxic runoff from farms in the Westlands Water District on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. In 1985, an investigation into the cause of the death and deformation of thousands of birds at the refuge disclosed that selenium, a naturally occurring byproduct of agricultural runoff, was being deposited in the ponds in massive quantities. It was responsible for poisoning and causing birth defects in the refuge's birds. The same year, then-Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel invoked the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and closed Kesterson's evaporation ponds. The San Luis Drain was plugged. In 1988, Kesterson was drained; now standing water occurs there only during wet years like 1997-98. The bureau has spent some $50 million cleaning up Kesterson, which is the only part of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge that does not allow cars. The just-published report disclosed that the refuge still shows higher-than-normal levels of selenium in both invertebrate and vertebrate wildlife, in its soil and water, but that the environment is no longer the toxic sump it was in 1985. 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
[CTRL] White House Fact Sheet on KFOR
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White House Fact Sheet on KFOR
WASHINGTON, June 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released
today by the White House:
KFOR Fact Sheet
KFOR is the international military force provided for under the terms
of the military-technical agreement (MTA) signed June 9, 1999. KFOR
will deploy under a unified NATO chain of command under the political
direction of the North Atlantic Council. Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Jackson
will serve as Commander, KFOR, under the overall military direction of
the SACEUR, GEN Wesley Clark.
KFOR will deploy into Kosovo within 24 hours of confirmation that the
withdrawal of FRY forces has reached the first milestone specified in
the MTA. The MTA requires the full withdrawal of all FRY military,
paramilitary and police forces from Kosovo and sets out the specific
geographic areas from which each phase of the withdrawal must be
completed at each stage of the withdrawal timetable. KFOR will
synchronize its entry into Kosovo to minimize any security gap.
KFOR will ultimately consist of approximately 50,000 troops from more
than two dozen contributing nations, including NATO member-states,
Partnership for Peace nations, and others.
Five NATO nations, under the unified command of Lt. Gen. Jackson, will
split responsibility for peacekeeping. The U.S. zone is in the
southeast; UK in the northeast; French in the north; Italian in the
west and German in the south. They will be joined by forces from the
numerous other participating nations. Provisions for Russian
participation are under discussion.
British forces will likely be the first NATO troops to enter Kosovo.
They will establish the KFOR Headquarters in Pristina. The initial
U.S. deployment will occur within a few days and will consist of 1900
Marines and 1700 other soldiers. Eventually, other U.S. forces will
move in to replace the initial force, ultimately reaching the bringing
to 7000 the commitment of U.S. forces in Kosovo. That will represent
approximately 15 percent of the total force.
The commander of KFOR, Gen. Jackson, has the responsibility to take the
measures to create a secure environment for the return of the refugees
to their homes in safety and self-government. The MTA gives him the
authority "to take all necessary action to establish and maintain a
secure environment for all citizens of Kosovo and otherwise carry out
its mission." This allows him to:
-- ensure that FRY withdrawal proceeds on schedule; -- carry out the
terms of the MTA with respect to the limited activities of the selected
FRY personnel who will return to Kosovo;
-- monitor the use of all facilities and activities in Kosovo that may
have military or police capabilities;
-- protect KFOR and the civil implementation presence; and, -- provide
assistance to other international entities involved in implementing the
peace in Kosovo.
Military-Technical Agreement Between NATO and the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia
The Military-Technical Agreement (MTA) concluded today between Lt.
General Michael Jackson, representing NATO, and authorities of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), specifies the details of Serb
force withdrawals from Kosovo and the roles and authorities of the
Kosovo international security force ("KFOR"). The MTA is based on the
Ahtisaari-Chernomyrdin agreement of June 3 and anticipates the early
adoption of the UN Security Council resolution agreed on June 8 by G-8
Foreign Ministers.
Together, these agreements meet all of NATO,s conditions for ending the
conflict, including the complete withdrawal of all military,
paramilitary and police forces from Kosovo, the establishment of an
international security force with NATO at the core, and the return of
Kosovar refugees to their homes in security and self-government.
Withdrawal of Serb Forces The MTA obligates the FRY, among other
things: -- to cease hostilities immediately;
-- to withdraw all aircraft and air defense systems in 3 days; -- to
withdraw all its forces in a phased but rapid manner, leading to the
complete withdrawal within 11 days;
-- to mark and clear minefields, booby traps and obstacles during
withdrawal.
In accordance with the Ahtisaari-Chernomyrdin agreement, a small number
of FRY forces ("hundreds, not thousands") will be able to return for
limited functions subject to a subsequent agreement.
Deployment of KFOR
The MTA provides for an international security force ("KFOR") that will
operate under unified NATO chain of command under the political
direction of the North Atlantic Council. Lt. Gen. Michael Jackson, who
signed the agreement, will serve as the KFOR commander under the
overall military direction of SACEUR, Gen. Wesley Clark.
The MTA gives KFOR robust authority to use force as necessary to
enforce compliance, to observe and inspect any facilities and
activities in Kosovo that may have military or police capabilities, to
protect KFOR and the civil implementation presence, and to provide
assistance to other international
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Hermaphrodite Rats and Heavy Metal]
-Caveat Lector- Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- MUTATED RODENTS FOUND AT KESTERSON Hermaphroditism baffles scientists at wildlife refuge by Eric Brazil San Francisco Examiner, June 10, 1999 Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge, already infamous as the place where selenium poisoned thousands of birds, has just presented scientists with a startling environmental puzzle: an outbreak of hermaphroditic rodents. Yeesh. There's also a weird outbreak of deformed dragonflies in Northern Minnesota, according to press reports today. The amphibian deformities that were causing such a flap earlier are now attributed to a parasite...but what's causing the dragonfly problems? Something from the mining operations in the Mesabi Range? HAARP? Reptiloid spit? Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.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] is hillary stealing from taxpayers?? [we DEMAND disclosure!]
-Caveat Lector- "If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly." --- THE LAW, by Frederic Bastiat Folks, Why won't "they" disclose how much we taxpayers are being reimbursed?? Bard Published in Washington, D.C. 5am -- June 11, 1999 www.washtimes.com Hillary's appetite for Apple is voracious By Barbara J. Saffir THE WASHINGTON TIMES First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has made 66 solo trips to New York state at taxpayer expense since 1993, 10 of them in the first 5 and a half months of this year, a review of travel records by The Washington Times shows. Over the previous six years, Mrs. Clinton averaged nine solo trips a year to New York. That rate has doubled so far this year as she edges closer to running for the Senate seat being vacated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a fellow Democrat. Spokeswoman Marsha Berry insists the first lady's stepped-up travel to New York is not related to her likely Democratic candidacy for the open Senate seat. "There are a lot of people who have asked her to participate in events in New York," Ms. Berry said. Neither the White House nor the Democratic National Committee (DNC) will disclose how much the first lady's trips cost. Nor will they say exactly how much the government has been reimbursed for the political portions of her travel as she stumps for other candidates and promotes herself. This refusal, despite a federal law mandating such reimburse- ments, infuriates some government watchdogs. "We should know where every nickel goes . . . no matter who is in power," said Charles Lewis, executive -- Continued from Front Page -- director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan research group that has studied the costs of campaign travel. "The average American does not want to subsidize someone seeking partisan office." The Times' review of White House travel summaries and Mrs. Clinton's public schedule shows that she: Favored New York as a domestic travel destination this year over all other states. She traveled to New York 11 times -- just once with President Clinton -- while boosting her trips to neighboring New Jersey to three visits and going only once or twice to 11 other states. Headlined at least 12 Democratic fund-raisers in New York so far this year, including events for five incumbent members of Congress. Traveled to New York without the president a total of 66 times since 1993, more by far than other favorite states such as California, Florida and Illinois. (Counting trips with Mr. Clinton, she went to New York 82 times.) New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a likely Republican contender for the Senate seat, has poked barbed fun at Mrs. Clinton's interest in running for federal office in the state without ever having lived there. "I think that Hillary wanting to come to New York is a really fine thing," Mr. Giuliani said Monday night before a Republican dinner in Niagara County. "She can look around, try to find out something about the state . . . if she wants to live and work in New York like other people, that's terrific. But there's another question whether you should represent a state you never lived in, you never worked in and you know nothing about." The first lady's three next most-popular destinations since 1993 were California (38 trips), her home state of Illinois (28) and Florida (26). Arkansas, her adopted home, warranted 18 trips. On many trips, she accompanied the president. Mrs. Clinton returned Thursday from her 10th solo trip to New York since January. Travel records indicate her official events in New York as first lady continue to focus on issues she has stressed for years -- education, children and health care. But she also is cramming her schedule day and night with political appearances on behalf of Democratic candidates -- stops that could boost her own unannounced Senate candidacy. She appeared Wednesday at a fund-raiser in Binghamton for Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey, New York Democrat, and attended a $5,000-a-plate DNC fund-raiser that targeted homosexual donors and was held at a private residence in New York City. In April, atop the World Trade Center, she helped raise money for Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who supported the president during his impeachment trial. Also this year, the first lady addressed loyalists at the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum and headlined a state Democratic Party event. She helped attract donors for Rep. John J. LaFalce, New York Democrat, and for Rep. Nita M. Lowey, the New York Democrat who last week said she would not challenge Mrs.
[CTRL] Orders From the New Order
-Caveat Lector- from: The WINDS - World Internet News Distributary Source Orders From the New Order http://www.thewinds.org/arc_editorials/newworld/new_order06-99.html Dearest Citizens of the World, I believe the time has come to reveal to you some of the perplexities you have faced in recent decades. It is well for you to understand some of these things so that you might know how to behave in the New Order now taking shape in the earth. We want you to be able to become fully involved and integrated into our new society. After all, this is for your best interest if you will do this. First of all, it is well that you understand some of our purposes so that you may more fully cooperate. I cannot tell you the hard times you will face if you resist us. We have ways of dealing with resisters. I am only telling you this now, since it is much too late to turn things around. The days of putting a stop to us have long since past. We have full control of the earth and its finance, along with the major media propaganda, and there is simply no way any nation or power can defeat us. We have eyes in every level of government in every nation of the world. We know what is being planned, for our ears and eyes are ever present. State secrets are fully known to us. China recently accused the media in the U.S. of lying about Kosovo. Oh, you silly people, of course we lie. In this way we can keep the people unbalanced and always facing controversy which is very helpful to us. Have you not seen the talk show spectacle? Some of you believe we are the liberals and the good people are the conservatives. In reality, both serve our purposes. Each camp merely serves with the stamp of our approval but they are not allowed to present the real issues. By creating controversy on all levels, no one knows what to do. So, in all of this confusion, we go ahead and accomplish what we want with no hindrance. Consider the President of the United States. Even though he regularly breaks every known check on his power, no one can stop him. He goes ahead and does whatever we want him to do anyway. The Congress has no power to stop him. He does what we want since he knows if he does not, because of his rather dark character, we can have him removed in a moments time. Is not that a rather brilliant strategy on our part? You cannot take us to court because you cant see us and the courtsare our servants as well. We run everything, yet, you do not know who to attack. I must say this invisible hand is wonderfully devised and without any known historical precedent on this scale. We rule the world and the world cannot even find out who is ruling them. This is truly a wonderful thing. In our media we present before you exactly what it is we want you to do. Then, as if in a flash, our little servants obey. We can send American or European troops to wherever we like, whenever we like, and for whatever purpose we like, and you dutifully go about our business. How much more evidence do you need? We can make you desire to leave your homes and family and go to war merely at our command. We only need to present some nonsense to you from the presidents desk or on the evening news and we can get you all fired up to do whatever we like. You can do nothing but what we put before you. YOUR VAIN RESISTANCE When any of you seek to resist us, we have ways of making you look ridiculous as we have done with your militia movement. We have delighted to use this movement to show the world how impotent any resistance is. They look so silly marching around with their guns--as if they were some match for our military. Look at what we did near Waco. Did the Davidian's little store of weapons help them? We have generously taxed you and used that money to make such sophisticated weapons you can in no way compete. Your own money has served to forge the chains we bind you with, since we are in control of all money. Some of you think you may escape by buying some land in the country and growing a garden. Let me remind you that you still pay us ground rent. Oh, you may call it property taxes, but it still goes to us. You see, you need money no matter what you do. If you fail to pay your ground rent to us, we will take your land and sell it to someone who will pay us. Do you think we cannot do this? And with your ground rent we pay for the indoctrination of your children in the public schools we have set up. We want them to grow up well trained into the system of our thinking. Your children will learn what we want them to learn, when we want them to learn it, and you pay for it through your ground rent. Those funds are also used for other projects we have in mind and our contractors are paid handsomely for their work. You may doubt that we own your children, or have such control, but you will find that we do. We can declare that you abuse your children when you spank them and have them confiscated. If they do not show up for school
[CTRL] Kapitan Man ['You better take a look' at this!]
-Caveat Lector- "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence then an armed man." --- Thomas Jefferson Published in Washington, D.C. 5am -- May 17, 1999 www.washtimes.com Book Excerpt Clinton wouldn't back Navy officer after laser attack By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, details the motives and dangers of the Clinton administration's national defense policies in a new book, "Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security" (Regnery Publishing Inc.). he phone rang in the middle of the night at the Canadian home of U.S. Navy Lt. Jack Daly. "The Kapitan Man is inbound about to enter the strait," the watch officer told Lt. Daly over the phone from the joint intelligence center at Canada's military base near Esquimault, on Vancouver Island. The Kapitan Man for years had masqueraded as a merchant vessel but actually was one of two Russian spy ships that tracked nine U.S. nuclear submarines based nearby in Bangor, Wash. Now the Kapitan Man was at the mouth of the 100-mile Juan de Fuca Strait, heading into Puget Sound. Lt. Daly's orders: secretly photograph it from above with a digital camera as part of the crew of a Canadian helicopter. It was 3:30 a.m. April 4, 1997. The mission would change Lt. Daly's life -- and his opinion of the U.S. government and the Navy he loved. He showered, grabbed his flight suit and headed for the base as reports on the Kapitan Man's movements continued to flow from the Coast Guard. Lt. Daly sat in a jump seat on the port side of the CH-124 helicopter, hooked up to a safety line, as the aircraft took off about noon and flew southeast from Victoria International Airport. "We've got an outbound boomer on the surface," Capt. Pat Barnes, the pilot, announced as they reached the water. The huge, black submarine was the USS Ohio, which had dropped off an ill crew member at its home port, Bangor. Because its missions are secret, the nuclear sub was not supposed to be on the surface. It had just had a direct encounter with the Kapitan Man. "If we had launched five minutes sooner, I would have been able to photograph both vessels in the same frame," Lt. Daly said. Three merchant ships came into view, the Kapitan Man in the middle. At Lt. Daly's direction, Capt. Barnes made a single circle over the U.S.-flagged container ship President Jackson and then headed east for three passes of the Kapitan Man. After three circles, the chopper flew directly over the top of the ship. It was about 12:30 p.m. "As far as I knew," Lt. Daly said, "the camera was working and the mission was successful." 'You better take a look' Lt. Daly, a foreign intelligence liaison officer, was assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific, a joint command staffed by about 1,500 Canadian navy, air force and army personnel who defend Canada's West Coast and work closely with the U.S. Navy. In an informal debriefing back at the airfield, the crew reported having seen someone on the bridge of the Kapitan Man holding what appeared to be binoculars. A Canadian intelligence officer saw a man on deck, his arms crossed over his head. About 4 p.m. at Esquimault, Lt. Daly handed the digital camera to U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Scott Tabor, who was trained in imagery technology and analysis. Chief Tabor downloaded the images to an office computer. About 5:30 p.m., Chief Tabor walked into Lt. Daly's office. "Are you having any problems with your eyes?" he asked. "Yeah, my right eye is bugging me," Lt. Daly replied. "I guess I must have gotten something in it when I stuck my head out the door because of the wind." "Are you experiencing any kind of headache?" "Yeah, I have a real bad headache." "Well, I think you better take a look at this." Chief Tabor handed him a photo. It showed a red dot of light on the bridge of the Kapitan Man. "I think you may have caught a laser beam in this picture," Chief Tabor said. "I know this is supposed to be the running-light area, but the signature of the light in this picture just doesn't look right to me." 'Definitive evidence' The former Soviet Union often used lasers for military purposes. During the Cold War, the Russians fired lasers at pilots. Air crews had been warned to don protective eye gear, but pilots spotting intelligence ships nevertheless were injured. In 1998, Human Rights Watch obtained a declassified
[CTRL] FWD: Some fixes defy common sense
-Caveat Lector- **Some fixes defy common sense By Alan Mertz Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a new breakthrough in preventing, diagnosing or treating illnesses. Driving these tremendous advances in our modern health care system is information. Without information, new life-saving drugs and technologies go undiscovered, better ways to deliver patient care go untested, and the promise of our health care system remains unrealized. At the same time, patients expect that their personal health information will remain confidential and used only where appropriate. The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), representing a cross-section of the health industry, believes a federal law that balances the goals of confidentiality and responsible use of information is needed and achievable. The HLC supports the following principles for legislation: Patient information should be protected, safeguards should be provided, and patients should have access to their own records; clear boundaries about the use of patient information should be set; tough penalties for violating these requirements should be imposed; information in medical records should be available for research within a system requiring confidentiality protections; and a national, uniform set of standards should replace the "crazy quilt" of conflicting state laws. Some of the proposals before Congress go far beyond these common-sense principles and would construct layers of unnecessary bureaucracy and erect barriers even to appropriate, life-saving use of information. They would follow the lead of the state of Minnesota, which enacted a medical-records confidentiality law so onerous and fraught with red tape, it potentially hindered the research Mayo Clinic has conducted for nearly a century. Some would also follow the state of Maine, which enacted a law essentially requiring a separate authorization each time medical information is accessed for health-care activities. Such "multiple-authorization" schemes could grind integrated health care to a halt. Maine suspended this law just 14 days after it took effect, calling the potential unintended consequences a public health "emergency." We need to get the balance right in federal confidentiality law. People's lives and health hang in the balance. Alan Mertz is acting president of the Healthcare Leadership Council [http://www.hlc.org]. See http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/ncoppf.htm --snip--- ** FOR 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] Reed Irvine's Letter to the Chairman of CNN [***** Big Lie *****]
-Caveat Lector- "If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly." --- THE LAW, by Frederic Bastiat * Big Lie * Reed Irvine's Letter to the Chairman of CNN From: Accuracy In Media June 16, 1998 Mr. Thomas Johnson Chairman CNN P.O. Box 105366 Atlanta, GA 30348-5366 Dear Thomas: The establishment media are questioning Matt Drudge's right to claim to be a journalist because he "published" a story about Sidney Blumenthal that turned out to be false. Drudge admitted his error and apologized the day after he put the Blumenthal story in his report. I hope that after you examine the evidence laid out in this letter you will follow Matt Drudge's example and retract the false charges about Operation Tailwind made in the segment titled "Valley of Death" on NewsStand CNN/TIME on Sunday, June 7 and essentially repeated on June 14 and issue an apology. I would go further and suggest that those responsible for this journalistic atrocity should be given their walking papers. CNN took the story of an incredibly dangerous operation in which the Special Forces exhibited the courage, stamina and skill for which they are famous and converted it into a defamatory attack on the Army, the Special Forces and the United States. You made three charges: 1. The purpose of the operation was to find and kill American defectors working with the enemy in Laos. Comment: We have talked to seven of the men who were on the Tailwind team. All deny that the mission had anything to do with finding and killing American defectors. All agree that the purpose of the mission was to blow up a bridge and disrupt traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail. The idea was to create a diversion that would relieve pressure being put on CIA-backed Hmong tribesmen by the North Vietnamese army. They also say that the base camp they destroyed on the fourth day was stumbled upon by accident when they were trying to get to the landing zone where helicopters were to evacuate them. To justify the charge that the mission was to kill Americans, you rely on a statement by James Cathey, who claims to have been an Air Force enlisted man in charge of coordinating resupply of the Tailwind team. His claim to have done this from on the ground in Laos is considered ludicrous by Special Forces veterans, but that aside, he was in no position to know the purpose of the mission, and he admitted that what he told you was only speculation. You have not named a single person who is in a position to know the purpose of the mission who has confirmed Cathey's speculation. Inexcusably, you failed to report that those who were in a position to know all reject it. 2. Deadly sarin nerve gas was used against a village, killing women and children. Comment: You do not cite a single source for either the claim that sarin was dropped on this "village" or that women and children lived there. No one who was there that I have talked to saw any women or children. I am told that the word for this camp in Vietnamese is binh tram. That translates as logistical sub-headquarters and they were located all along the Ho Chi Minh trail. It was not a village. No one that I have interviewed believed that the camp had been bombed, strafed and gassed the night before they discovered it. The Tailwind team camped overnight very close to the camp. One said as close as 200 yards. They discovered it because they heard dogs barking. They moved in, shot up the camp and killed everyone who did not escape by fleeing. Had there been any bombing, strafing or gassing the night before, not only would they have known it, but they would have been in grave danger of being killed by it. That alone is evidence that it didn't happen. 3. Sarin was dropped on North Vietnamese troops who were trying to prevent the evacuation of our commandos, many of whom lacked usable gas masks and inhaled the lethal gas that drifted in their direction. Comment: This charge is supported by only one member of the Tailwind team that I have spoken to, Michael Hagen. He insists that the gas was sarin because in recent years he has experienced serious health problems that his doctor says are the result of exposure to organo-phosphates, which is what sarin is. Hagen is bitter because the government refuses to accept this diagnosis. He says some of the other team members have experienced health problems which his doctor also attributes to organo-phosphate exposure. He mentioned Jim Brevelle, who had already told me that he was sure the gas was CS. Sarin is regarded as an effective weapon because it is supposed to kill quickly, not 30 years after exposure. Gen. Walt Busbee, the Pentagon's expert in chemical weapons, says that tracking of those who have survived exposure to sarin shows that they do not experience any long-lasting
[CTRL] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- From Sex to Superconsciousness - http://www.truthbeknown.com What a complete dork! And now the rest of the story . . . . Paul Harvey's brains were obviously sucked out some time ago by reptilians. If I were the Prince of Darkness, I'd use Paul Harvey to spread ignorance. Subject: RE: Fw: Quote from PAUL HARVEY, Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:47:38 -0500 STAND BY FOR NEWS, this was from Paul Harvey. "If I were the Prince of Darkness, I would want to engulf the whole world in darkness. I'd want all of the world I could get, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree--America. So, I would set about to take over the Christian countries, beginning with the United States. I would begin with a whispering campaign. With the wisdom of the serpent, I would whisper to all as I whispered to Eve, "Do as you please". To the young I would whisper that "the Bible is a myth". I would tell them that man created God rather than the other way around. I'd tell them, "what's bad is good, and what's good is 'square'." To the old I would teach them to pray after me, "Our Father, who art in Washington, give me .." I'd educate authors in how to make lurid literature acceptable, and I'd educate television producers how to ridicule all that is decent and honorable. I'd peddle drugs to whomever I could, and I'd sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I'd tranquilize the rest with prescription pills. I'd have families, marriages, churches, and nations war with themselves until each, in turn, was consumed. I'd encourage schools to train intellects but neglect to discipline emotions--just let them run wild. Before they knew it, there would be drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door. Soon, I could evict God from the courthouse and the schoolhouse and then, from the houses of congress. In His own church I'd offer the words of men for religion and deify science. I'd make the symbol of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd take from those who earn and give to those who want until I killed the incentive of the hard work. What do you bet that I could get an entire state to promote gambling as the way to riches. I wold caution against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, and in moral conduct. I'd convince you people that marriage is old-fashioned, and what you see on TV is the way to live. Thus I could lure scores into bed and they'd wake up with diseases for which there is no cure. I guess, if I were the devil, I'd keep right on doing what he's been doing. Paul Harvey 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] Skeptic News - Friday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990611b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No ponderous appendages were amputated during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Alcubierre Warp Drive. "Two years ago Alcubierre published a remarkable paper [with] a very unusual solution to Einstein's equations of general relativity, described in the title as a 'warp drive', and in the abstract as 'a modification of space time in a way that allows a space ship to travel at an arbitrarily large speed'." http://mist.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw81.html # Also: IS LIGHT-SPEED IN YOUR FUTURE? www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20152.html # Warp drive possible: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_364000/364496.stm : Are you in a hurry? Which galaxy would you like to visit first? Will hoo- mans infest the universe soon? Do warpers suffer from time contraction? If not, is it really faster-than-light travel? Why quibble over terminology? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EVOLUTION VS. CREATION, ROUND 2. A group of creationists challenge the curriculums of Kansas schools, claiming the theory of evolution is highly speculative and confusing to religious children. Education officials mull: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20147.html : Have cretinists not noticed that diseases evolve? Does cretinist thought continue to evolve? Is religion more or less speculative than evolution? # ONLINE PHARMACIES BUSTED. The State of Kansas is suing several doctors, online drugstores, and individuals for dispensing drugs without prescrip- tions. Watch out, say state regulators. More sting operations are coming. www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20151.html : Why is all this happening in Kansas? Do you buy drugs online? Who's your dealer? Is it good shit? Can you score me a kilo of Prozac? How much? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GENE THERAPY FOR THE BALD. Forget the Hair Club for Men. Gene therapy may someday help bald men to grow new hair. Scientists graft tiny bits of human scalp to mice in an effort to develop a method to deliver genetic material to hair follicles. TV advertising revenues will drop drastically, of course: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20142.html # Marines deny charges in vaccine case. 29 PALMS, Calif.(AP) - 5 US Marines who refused anthrax shots pleaded innocent to charges of disobeying orders. They're among dozens of US military personnel shunning vaccinations intended to protect them if anthrax is used in BioWar. A growing number of service personnel have refused the vaccine due to questions of side effects, inclu- ding sterility. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559883608-e8f : Would you prefer anthrax, sterility or baldness? Can anti-baldness therapy deliver debilitating diseases to hair-challenged senior military officers and planners? What's your favorite vaccination? Earthly or extraterrestrial? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PC EXPORTS: 'LIKE BANNING AIR' Tech industry leaders tell Congress that limiting computer exports is a risky move that may harm nat'l security: www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/20150.html # Computer 'worm' turns nasty. (BBC) A highly destructive bug that has hit computer systems across the world reaches the UK via e-mail. Git bit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_366000/366822.stm : Is your security more threatened by worms or bans? Do you have more to fear from hackers, regulators, aliens? What software is used against you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Judge makes ruling in cannibal case. RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) A former teacher who confessed to killing a teen-ager and eating some of his body parts must remain in psychiatric care, a judge ruled. Albert Fentress has been confined to mental hospitals since he was found innocent by reason of insanity for a 1979 killing. Recently retried, jurors found he was mentally ill, but they ruled he was no longer a danger to society and should be freed. Hunger for freedom: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559884265-abf : Would having one or more cannibals in your neighborhood depress property values? Are you now or have you ever been a cannibal? D'ya wanna be? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pollution cloud threatens Asia. (BBC) Scientists say a cloud of pollution over the Indian Ocean is as big as the United States. Where there's smoke: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_366000/366816.stm # Ministers 'will ignore dioxins'. (BBC) Conservationists say a Europe-wide ministerial meeting plans to ignore the Belgian food scandal. Ostriches: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_364000/364985.stm # Also: Belgium returns meat to stores, shrugs off
[CTRL] Fw: SciCentral News Alert for Friday, 11-Jun-1999 12:27:35 PM EDT
-Caveat Lector- SCICENTRAL NEWS ALERT Generated for CobolMage on Friday, 11-Jun-1999 12:27:35 PM EDT [1]SciCentral: http://www.scicentral.com _ Friday, June 11, 1999 Edition _ References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/ BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES * [1]Selected Articles: + Crimes of Passion (infanticide in langur monkeys) + NIAAA-Led Study Verifies Environment-Dependent Behavioral Variation in Genetically Identical Mice + Researchers Pinpoint Thinking Pattern of Chronic Self-Doubters + Bluster and Battle: It's in the Genes + Animal Altruism Myth Exposed References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-behavs.html#articles BIOTECHNOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + Academic Researchers and Industry Associations Agree Reports on Bt Crop Impact on Monarch Butterflies Overblown + Lexicon Genetics Announces Agreement for Knockout Mice with Academic Institutions + Small Peptides Generating Large Scientific Interest References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-biotec.html#articles ENVIRONMENT ECOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + UT Austin Researcher Presents Hot New Evidence of Global Warming + Reading the Signs (measuring the various forces driving global warming) + "America's Environmental Regulator Goes Astray" + Scientists Help New York Prepare for Climate Changes + Biologists Work to Preserve Rainforests Endangered Plants References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-enviro.html#articles EVOLUTION PALEONTOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + French Team May Have Found Europe's Oldest Footprints + An 11,000-Year-Old Spearhead and a Race Against Time + Computer Scientist to Explore Evolution + The Power of Sex (exploring the origins of mating) References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-evolut.html#articles FOOD SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + Recipe for Disaster: PCBs Make a Late Entry in the Belgian Dioxin Scandal References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-foodsc.html#articles IMMUNOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + New Marking System Gives Scientists First Real View of Immune Memory Cells + Monkeying Around with Immunity (hu5C8 therapy in unmatched-transplant monkeys) References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-immuno.html#articles MICROBIOLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + St. Jude Scientists Unlock Mystery of Why Pneumococcal Bacteria Become Antibiotic Tolerant + Waterways Carry Antibiotic Resistance References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-microb.html#articles NEUROSCIENCES * [1]Selected Articles: + Discussion About Learning Processes Reopens (neuronal long-term potentiation and learning) + Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Study Identifies for the First Time a Molecular Mechanism Behind Hormonal Response to Stress + A Sharper Look at the Brain: High-Resolution Pictures of Stimulated Brain Regions + Aging Alone Does Not Affect Brain System Related to Memory Loss + False Recall in Older Adults and Alzheimer's Linked to Attention, Not Memory Breakdown References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-neuros.html#articles PHYSIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS * [1]Selected Articles: + Does Artificial Light Have the Same Effect as Natural Light on the Biological Clock? + A Sharper Look at the Brain: High-Resolution Pictures of Stimulated Brain Regions References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-physio.html#articles VIROLOGY * [1]Selected Articles: + We Hope It's Harmless The Mystery Virus Contaminating Blood Supplies References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-virolo.html#articles WILDLIFE, FISHERIES, BIODIVERSITY * [1]Selected Articles: + Endangered Species on Road to Recovery + Wildlife Corridors Benefit Some Species + Gone but Not Forgotten: Bring Back North American Elephants + Africa's Endangered Wild Dogs Rebound + Fighting Against the Tide to Save Freshwater Dolphins * [2]Special Reports: + Turning Up the Heat: How Global Warming Threatens Life in the Sea References 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-wildfi.html#articles 2. http://www.scicentral.com/B-wildfi.html#reports ASTRONOMY * [1]Selected Articles: + A
[CTRL] Fw: What's New for Jun 11, 1999
-Caveat Lector- WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 11 Jun 99 Washington, DC 1. SUPPRESSION OF "NEW SCIENCE": BUDDY CAN YOU PARADIGM? Those attending last weeks Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration in Albuquerque (WN 4 Jun 99) take pride in "thinking outside the box." Talks on such uh, diverse topics as divine intervention, cold fusion, biological transmutation, precognitive dreams, psychosurgery, after-death communication, alien breeding experiments, clairvoyance, electronic signaling from the dead and prayer healing, were all accepted as serious science. There is no internal criticism in a community that believes it is under siege. Convinced that powerful vested interests, including the scientific establishment, are conspiring to hold back a scientific revolution, speakers complained that "new" science is denied funding, rejected by journal editors and even subjected to ridicule, just because it doesn't fit some outdated paradigm. Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right. 2. PERSEUS: JEREMY STONE OFFERS AN APOLOGY TO PHIL MORRISON. In his memoirs, Stone, the President of the Federation of American Scientists, linked Morrison, one of the founders of FAS, with a Soviet spy code-named Perseus (WN 14 May 99). Stone based his identification on two Russian articles by a KGB officer. Oddly, however, the description of Perseus in the articles did not even remotely fit Morrison. Perseus, for example, was said to have served in the Spanish Civil War. But Morrison was a graduate student at Berkeley at the time and hardly infantry material--he suffered polio as a child and walks with the aid of a cane. Stone had previously "accepted" Morrison's denial that he was Perseus (WN 14 May 99), but stopped far short of an apology. In a letter to Morrison, Stone now stiffly apologizes "for the unfavorable publicity, which raised unfortunate questions of your innocence." 3. SPY HYSTERIA: SIR RUDOLPH AND LADY PEIERLS ACCUSED OF SPYING. Unsubstantiated accusations of spying at Los Alamos are nothing new. In 1994 Pavel Sudoplatov, an admitted Stalin era assassin, resumed his former trade, asserted without documentation in his memoirs that Bohr, Fermi, Gamow, Oppenheimer and Szilard had all passed secrets to Soviet spies. None were around to answer the allegations. Now, the British magazine, The Spectator, dated May 29, accuses renowned physicist Rudolph Peierls of being a spy code-named Vogel and identifies his wife Eugenia as an agent code-named Tina, also a nuclear scientist. Peierls, who was knighted in 1968, died in 1995 at the age of 88. It was left to one of their daughters to point out that her parents did not fit the profile of Vogel and Tina. Her mother was a housewife at Los Alamos, not a nuclear physicist, and had no access to the lab. 4. THAAD: ARMY MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM FINALLY SCORES A HIT. On its seventh test, the hit-to-kill missile finally hit. THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.) 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] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- I would have to say that Paul Harvey has hit the nail squarely on the head. Kinda In a message dated 6/11/99 3:48:48 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From Sex to Superconsciousness - http://www.truthbeknown.com What a complete dork! And now the rest of the story . . . . Paul Harvey's brains were obviously sucked out some time ago by reptilians. If I were the Prince of Darkness, I'd use Paul Harvey to spread ignorance. Subject: RE: Fw: Quote from PAUL HARVEY, Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:47:38 -0500 STAND BY FOR NEWS, this was from Paul Harvey. "If I were the Prince of Darkness, I would want to engulf the whole world in darkness. I'd want all of the world I could get, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree--America. So, I would set about to take over the Christian countries, beginning with the United States. I would begin with a whispering campaign. With the wisdom of the serpent, I would whisper to all as I whispered to Eve, "Do as you please". To the young I would whisper that "the Bible is a myth". I would tell them that man created God rather than the other way around. I'd tell them, "what's bad is good, and what's good is 'square'." To the old I would teach them to pray after me, "Our Father, who art in Washington, give me .." I'd educate authors in how to make lurid literature acceptable, and I'd educate television producers how to ridicule all that is decent and honorable. I'd peddle drugs to whomever I could, and I'd sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I'd tranquilize the rest with prescription pills. I'd have families, marriages, churches, and nations war with themselves until each, in turn, was consumed. I'd encourage schools to train intellects but neglect to discipline emotions--just let them run wild. Before they knew it, there would be drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door. Soon, I could evict God from the courthouse and the schoolhouse and then, from the houses of congress. In His own church I'd offer the words of men for religion and deify science. I'd make the symbol of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd take from those who earn and give to those who want until I killed the incentive of the hard work. What do you bet that I could get an entire state to promote gambling as the way to riches. I wold caution against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, and in moral conduct. I'd convince you people that marriage is old-fashioned, and what you see on TV is the way to live. Thus I could lure scores into bed and they'd wake up with diseases for which there is no cure. I guess, if I were the devil, I'd keep right on doing what he's been doing. Paul Harvey 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] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- Well Kinda (that's a strange name!), That makes one of us... Bill. 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] SAY HELLO TO COMET C/1999 H1 (LEE)
-Caveat Lector- Has anyone heard about this comet? http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm SAY HELLO TO COMET C/1999 H1 (LEE) -A GREAT AND MARVELOUS WORK- A MILLENNIUM GROUP SPECIAL REPORT Earl L. Crockett, Writer THE TRUTH IN SCIENCE TEAM Jim McCanney, Alexey Dmitriev, Gary D. Goodwin, Ray Ward Hal Blondell, Don Carros, Wayne Moody, James B. Ervin "It is difficult for those to see whose paycheck depends on them not seeing." (Upton Sinclair) Seemingly, we are about to begin a journey of discovery similar in many respects to that of C/1995 01 (Hale-Bopp). During late 1996 and early 1997, you may recall that the official NASA funded and paid for astronomical community (our tax money) attempted to come down on us like a ton of bricks for asking what, in retrospect, was all the "right" questions. We were less organized in those days than we are now so we're going to state a few things "up-front" before they get any ideas about operating another disinformation scam on us; which they may attempt despite our efforts. Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee), (C/Lee), is not a periodic comet (such as Halley) nor is it a long-period comet (Hale-Bopp). In fact it really has no "period" at all as it is coming almost straight into our Solar System from interstellar space. This means that C/Lee's "orbit" (period) can only be determined with any certainty (using official NASA approved gravity only celestial mechanics) after C/Lee has reached perihelion (crossed over the Sun), and exited down below the orbital path of the planets (the ecliptic). Gravity only celestial mechanics is the only method of orbital calculation allowed by the Big Bang cosmology priesthood of NASA. Consequently we are already observing a wild-shift in official orbital predictions; initially projecting C/Lee exiting beyond the orbit of Jupiter but, currently projecting the exit near Mars. Why is this happening in the short time span between its initial discovery in mid April 1999, and today some six weeks later? Possibly because all of the official orbital software, running on all of the official super-computers, by all the king's men, is based nice behaving little periodic comets like Halley. And to make things even worse the official dirty snowball comet theory states that comets are heated by the Sun and shed (sublimate) their icy dust thereby loosing mass: which in "good-old" Newtonian physics means that their orbits should expand outward rather than tighten inward. Guess what folks? That's not what is happening even at this very moment as C/Lee approaches. So what is going on? Jim McCanney's Plasma Discharge Theory of Comets is directly opposed to NASA's dirty snowball comet theory. McCanney's theory states that comets are highly charged electromagnetic objects that suck-up space plasma materials in the manner of a giant vacuum cleaner. When comets enter the plasma rich domain of our solar system, and break the solar capacitor (not to different than a bug flying into a bug zapper), the dinner bell rings, and they begin to chow-down big time; becoming brighter (notice how that's already "surprised" them), and heavier. So, if C/Lee continues to brighten due its interaction with the solar capacitor (which creates tail drag thereby slowing it down) and adding material, as is entirely probable under the comet plasma discharge theory, then it is reasonable to conclude that its orbit might substantially arc inwards towards Earth. The battleground of this matter rests on a simple proposition: Official NASA funded and controlled astronomical science wants you to believe that they know everything that there is to know about all comets and what their behaviors will be, at all times. Furthermore, they will tell you and me everything we need to know when, and if they and their NSA/NSC controllers decide that we need to know. In sharp contrast we, at The Millennium Group, are attempting to state, as loudly as we can, that all is not known about comets, that comets are not dirty snowballs, and consequently they can behave in manners heretofore unseen or predicted by traditional uniformatarian astronomical sciences. Cases in point: Shoemaker Levy 9's breakup, and as yet unexplained gigantic explosions into Jupiter, and Hale-Bopp's perihelion crossing electromagnetic exchange with the Sun which sparked off the totally out of nowhere full halo coronal mass ejection (CME) of April 7, 1997; to provide several examples. Our motto is "Truth In Science". The truth of the matter about C/1999 H1 (Lee) is that nobody can project its path, and that the observed rapid increase in brightness in connection with the officially supplied orbital modifications provide a strong indication that it's going to progressively bend inwards towards the orbital plane of Earth. We are saying that all possibilities should be considered; now! We, at The Millennium Group think that the strength and future of this country of ours, as well
Re: [CTRL] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/11/99 4:43:56 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well Kinda (that's a strange name!), That makes one of us... Bill. Hi Bill..just in case you are saying my name wrong, it rhymes with Linda ;) To each his own Bill Kinda 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] E-Mail Reports on Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee)
-Caveat Lector- from http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm One of the great joys of operating The Millennium Group web page is the people who seem to show up out of no where that are instantly recognizable as kindred souls in the pursute of Truth In Science. James B. Ervin fits that category. Here is the rapidly unfolding story of comet C/1999 H1 (Lee). ** Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 22:12:28 -0400 Hi Earl, I have been receiving and reviewing your electronic newsletter for roughly 3-1/2 months now. I am very impressed with the content of your material. So much so, that I now feel a real need to avail myself of your staffs brain pool. This, in regard your knowledge of Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee). Why? Because this comet is beginning to raise eyebrows in certain circles. Therefore, I would sincerely appreciate your take on the following set of questions. I hope you can, or will, provide me with a few sound theoretical answers. 1. This comet will pass relatively close to the Earth during the time period of mid September through early November, according to its current ephemeris. What factors or perturbations are there that could bring this comet much closer to Earth than now indicated? 2. When C/1999 H1 (Lee) enters its perihelion phase around the Sun on July 11, 1999, could a Coronal Mass Ejection or Solar Flare alter its course? If so, by what degree? 3. Thus far, this comet has exceeded all pre-plotted magnitude estimates. While I have read that this is not unprecedented, I'd like to understand why this is so. Can you explain this to me? 4. On June 16, 1999 C/1999 H1 (Lee) will pass to within 1 Degree of the Moon. Astronomically speaking - what distance is meant by 1 Degree. 5. I have heard that C/1999 H1 (Lee) will pass through a newly discovered polar asteroid belt. Is there any truth to this rumor? If so. Where is this asteroid belt located? Please respond numerically. Best Regards, James B. Ervin * Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 20:46:34 -0700 Dear James: We're just getting up to speed on Comet Lee so I'll need to pow-wow with my associates. In the meantime can you tell me how long you've been following the action and where? Earl Crockett ** Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 17:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Hello Earl, For reasons that are purely personal, I have been following reports on C/1999 H1 (Lee) since its discovery in mid April. This, because I believe there is ample evidence to suggest that it will pass much closer to Earth than originally anticipated in early ephemeris plots. Especially, if H1 Lee is hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection during its perihelion passage. Initially, my concerns were raised when I noticed there were conflicting ephemeris plots posted at the IAU (Minor Planet Center) and at the Japanese astronomy website: http://www.astroarts.com/ So, I decided to plug the ephemeris numbers into Astroarts online orbital simulator. When I did so, I was shocked to discovered that H1 Lee has a high solar (northern) passage over the Earth around November 6/7. This, of course, begs several questions, not the least of which are: Why isn't this comet's close passage being reported in the media? What happens if the orbital ephemeris is altered by an un-anticipated Solar event? ect,ect ... Thanks for your quick reply, James B. Ervin CLICK HERE TO SEE JAMES B. ERVIN'S FULL REPORT ** Date: Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 02:38:45 -0500 Earl: I have done some initial work on this (am working through the night) and holy ** batman** this is looking serious! How long have you known about this Comet (Lee) ? Because this could be the comet that proves the electrical discharge nature of comets I want to be very precise and screen anything going on the page regarding "predictions". Fasten your seat belts, Jim McCanney *** Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 13:42:30 -0700 Dear James: I forwarded your email to the group last night and Jim McCanney stayed up all night calculating. The bottom line: He's very very concerned about what he calls a big "curve ball" inbound that could wind up having devastating consequences here on Earth, and if certain factors come into play like the location of the other planets and the moon it doesn't even have to come that close in distance. This comet is the "worst" kind in terms of its ability to disrupt, and interact with, the solar capacitor. That is, its "orbit" is so flat (1) that it's more like a once in the lifetime of the object pass rather than "long period" etc. Consequently, having never interacted with the Sun before, Comet Lee brings with it a high potential for discharging the Solar Capacitor, and I would personally add that it may in fact already be responsible for the very weird actions we have been seeing from the sun over the last several months; ie the appearance that something has been "pulling" energetic charges away from the Sun in the opposite direction of Earth producing large
Re: [CTRL] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- Well Kinda, I've NEVER heard that name before...kinda' unique...but you're wrong about old Paul Harvey...that's ok though...we can't ALL be right! Bill (rhymes with thrill) 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] Pictures of Chemtrail Aircraft
-Caveat Lector- Pictures of Chemtrail Aircraft http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/graphics/chemaircraft.html -- Michael the Outlawlady The Joshua Files http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ 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] [Fwd: Reptoids under NY and deep underground bases inUSA]
-Caveat Lector- Thanks a million Alfred, They are having rather strange ceremonies at the Cathedral also..well for a supposed Anglican Cathedral. Will send. Nicky DIG alfred webre wrote: -Caveat Lector- In 1982, prior to a health fair held at the community center next to St John the Divine cathedral in Manhattan we witnessed several tall, angular hominoids patroling the grounds, with marked reptoidal features. They looked like "homo sapiens sapiens" from superficial appearance, and were quite sinister in appearance; totally in contrast from the crown which was gathering for the health fair. They acted as if the "owned the place", sort of setting out a perimeter for the fair. They disappeared about a half-hour befor the actual opening of the health fair. We do not know if these are "reptoids", but the whole experience was exceedingly strange and sinister. = Hi there, You may have had this one pass your way, but I heard there was an underground base under the Cathedral of St John the Divine at Manhattan. Does anyone know any more about this please. Nicky snip http://www.anomalous-images.com/christo.html Rest of story at this url 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] Reptoids under NY and deep underground bases in US
-Caveat Lector- Hmmm ...Al Gore..gaia...reptoids at cathedralsolstice ceremony to the sunhealing dance trance ceremony to the ancient spider all inside the churchMy imagination is working overtime! Nicky National Religious Partnership for the Environment housed at the Cathedral of St John the Divine. http://www.nrpe.org/ http://www.nrpe.org/activiti.htm After you've digested this replacement of the Christian religion with the gaia concept, Maybe you'd like to read the 22 urls (rewilding of USA) on the removal of millions of the human population of USA with animals and plants for the elite to enjoy as an earthly paradise in tune with the earth goddess. Nicky 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] Reptoids under NY and deep underground bases in US
-Caveat Lector- The Dance of the Ancient Spider Saturday June 26 Sunday, June 27, 7:30 PM. Staring outside on the Pulpit Green and processing inside the Cathedral I Giullari di Piazza presents a new version of "THE DANCE OF THE ANCIENT SPIDER" a passionate concert dedicated to the origins of the tarantella as healing trance dance therapy featuring Glen Velez on world percussion, written and directed by Alessandra Belloni, music arranged by John La Barbara. $15($10 for children, students and seniors) Here is another 'service' at the cathedral of St John the Divine. I don't know what purpose this will serve but I don't expect any human will get anything out of it. Nicky 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] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- Blaming "the devil" or "god" or "karma" or "fate" or "a spell cast by the shaman of an enemy village," or ANY supposed supernatural force for our prediciment is a cop out, and as lame and childish an excuse as "the dog ate my homework." WE created the world in which we live. We did it by our action and by our inaction in the past. We recreate it by our action and by our inaction in the present. If we don't like it we can change how we act. If we don't change we have no one to blame but ourselves for the results. The closest thing to a valid excuse that any of us have for the mess we're in is that we acted or failed to act out of ignorance because, as every reader of this list knows full well, the powers that be conceal vital facts from us as a matter of course. That too must change. But it wont change by itself. We must MAKE it change. But "the devil made us do it"!?! Gimme a break. 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] Reptoids under NY and deep underground bases in US
-Caveat Lector- I wonder if the reptoids celebrate the solstice? Church program .not exactly Christian http://www.projectduat.com/academy/archives/15.html Maurice Doreal http://www.livingmusic.com/solstice.html Solstice concert at Cathedral St John Divine. Earth Music' celebrates the creatures and cultures of the whole earth, and this is the spirit of his annual solstice celebrations. PAUL WINTER'S WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS In a giant city with many holiday events, the musical, theatrical and environmental spectacle of Paul Winter's Annual Winter Solstice Celebrations have become perhaps the best-attended celebration of seasonal change in New York City. Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Concerts are a modern celebration of an ancient tradition. The winter solstice marks the beginning of the winter season, for after the longest night, the days begin to lengthen. For many cultures, the long hours of darkness at winter solstice marked a time of mingled foreboding and expectancy. Special rituals were created to ensure that the sun's light would return after the long winter. Many of these traditions survive in our modern seasonal customs, such as the lighting of Christmas trees and Hanukkah candles. Winter incorporates some of these symbols into his contemporary celebrations, and he adds new symbols, such as a giant earth ball which ascends spinning into the vaulted ceiling of the Cathedral, and an enormous sun gong, which rises like the sun, played by a musician in a bosun's chair. Accompanied each year by an array of great musicians, by thousands of visitors, and in the last nine years by thousands more listeners to the show on National Public Radio, Paul Winter has been celebrating the Winter Solstice for nineteen years. Join us for the Twentieth Winter Solstice Celebration this December! [Top of Page] [Index to Solstice Pages] [Index to other Living Music pages] PAUL WINTER'S SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS Paul Winter's annual celebration of the first day of summer and of the longest day of the year is purposeful in its simplicity, emphasizing acoustic music and the meditative beauty of the waxing and waning sunlight through the great Cathedral's stained glass windows. With concerts at sunset and at dawn, for many the highlight of the celebrations is the experience of being inside the world's largest Gothic cathedral at 4.30 in the morning and experiencing sunrise as it slowly illuminates the stained glass and fills the cavernous space with light. We look forward to having you join us this June 18-19 for the 1999 Summer Solstice Celebrations - Paul Winter's Sixth Annual Summer Solstice Concerts! 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] Russian Troops Arrive In Kosovo Capital-CNN
-Caveat Lector- Friday June 11 8:06 PM ET Russian Troops Arrive In Kosovo Capital-CNN LONDON (Reuters) - A column of Russian troops arrived in Kosovo's capital Pristina early Saturday, CNN television reported. Its correspondent in Pristina said the troops arrived shortly after 2330 GMT, with columns of tanks heading down the streets and toward the city's airport. They were greeted by huge crowds. The Russians, traditional allies of the Serbs, were the first foreign troops to enter Kosovo officially since the end of an 11-week NATO air war against Yugoslavia. Their arrival was in apparent breach of Moscow's assurance that it would not send its forces into the ravaged province unilaterally. The Serbian news agency Beta said the troops arrived at around 1.30 a.m. (2330 GMT) and were welcomed by several thousand people. CNN said Serb soldiers fired bursts of gunfire in the air in celebration as the convoy rolled into the city. People were hugging Russian soldiers and waving flags. NATO troops were planning to enter Kosovo from the south later Saturday morning. Steve Wingate California Director SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL Anomalous Images and UFO Files http://www.anomalous-images.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
Re: [CTRL] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- Well "My god" You are right Nessie Good to hear the voice of REASON on this list now and again!!! Thank-You Bill. (You've reaffirmed my faith in humanity...AND the ability to Reason!) 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] Latest News - Kosovo
The Russian government has told the American government that thoseRussian troops in Kosovo were not ordered to move in and they will becalled back out within the next 2 hours.
Re: [CTRL] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- Paul Harvey is not a retard. He has a "modestly paced personality." I WUZ WRONG!!! So sorry...so sad 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] Drugs the Drug War
-Caveat Lector- By "problem", I assume you mean drug use and/or abuse. Huxley, Alpert and Leary were right, regardless of their ties to Tavistock, the CIA et. al. Whether they were unwitting pawns of said organizations or actively involved in the conspiracy is another story, but the real problem always comes down to the issue of control. The CIA conducted its drug experiments for the purpose of manipulating and controlling people, not for the purpose of healing anyone or helping to expand consciousness. Since LSD et.al. can be used either way, I hardly see drugs (including LSD) as a problem, per se. Government involvement is the problem, and one that conveniently demands its own solution. Which is, of course, more government (i.e., more control). There's an interesting book called "Shamanism the Drug Propaganda -- Patriarchy and the Drug War" by Dan Russell that's a very interesting history of the topic. -Caveat Lector- ---snip--- Perhaps, human beings have always been trying to find change their consciousness through drugs of one sort or another. At least, that's the argument of individuals like Huxley, Alpert and Leary (those drug gurus of the sixties, who presumably had ties to the Tavistock Institute). But irrespective of the conspiracy associations, what does the problem say about our "civilization"? 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] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Harvey is not a retard. He has a "modestly paced personality." Try "informationally challenged". 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] Latest News - Kosovo
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Graham Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Russian government has told the American government that those Russian troops in Kosovo were not ordered to move in and they will be called back out within the next 2 hours. Yes, it's an "unfortunate occurrance," and if you think the Russian troops will leave Pristina soon, I have a nice bridge to sell you. Or rather, an airport - the Pristina airport, which the Russians are about to secure, so more paratroopers can be flown in. Look for a re-run of Berlin, eh? Until the Russian Army runs out of money, maybe. Some in Moscow are calling this a "prank." Ha ha. 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] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 6/11/99 8:11:22 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Harvey is not a retard. He has a "modestly paced personality." Try "informationally challenged". Yeah...that works...but bluntly, he IS an idiot/moron/simpleton/small-minded...PUTZ! AND he should be removed from the airwaves before he further harms his kids name!!! Bill. 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] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: nessie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blaming "the devil" or "god" or "karma" or "fate" or "a spell cast by the shaman of an enemy village," or ANY supposed supernatural force for our prediciment is a cop out, and as lame and childish an excuse as "the dog ate my homework." WE created the world in which we live. We did it by our action and by our inaction in the past. We recreate it by our action and by our inaction in the present. If we don't like it we can change how we act. If we don't change we have no one to blame but ourselves for the results. The closest thing to a valid excuse that any of us have for the mess we're in is that we acted or failed to act out of ignorance because, as every reader of this list knows full well, the powers that be conceal vital facts from us as a matter of course. That too must change. But it wont change by itself. We must MAKE it change. But "the devil made us do it"!?! Gimme a break. Well said. Religion, magickal thinking, is a way to escape personal and group responsibility, to avoid recognizing that WE cause events to happen, that OUR behaviours have consequences. Religion is a cop-out. Gods are excuses. The voices in my head insist this is so. 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] Is Paul Harvey a retard???
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Harvey is not a retard. He has a "modestly paced personality." Try "informationally challenged". Yeah...that works...but bluntly, he IS an idiot/moron/simpleton/small-minded...PUTZ! AND he should be removed from the airwaves before he further harms his kids name!!! He's a salesman, a snake-oil marketer, and as long as he keeps on selling chainsaws, overpriced calcium, airbeds etc, he'll be on the air. Sometimes he sounds like the spokesman for the Republican National Committee, sometimes he sounds like a Protestant apologist, but basically he's a profit center. Cut off the cash flow and he'll go away. And that's how the biz works... 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] Very well said!
-Caveat Lector- Well said. Religion, magickal thinking, is a way to escape personal and group responsibility, to avoid recognizing that WE cause events to happen, that OUR behaviours have consequences. Religion is a cop-out. Gods are excuses. The voices in my head insist this is so Hey Ric, 'Dem voices are rather prescient...cool And BTW, you be correct...sir! Bill. 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: Clinton: Gimme Fast Track
-Caveat Lector- But first this: 1-888-449-3511 Toll free to the Capitol Switchboard! Go ahead -- try it out. Tell your Member: 1) No Fast Track 2) No NAFTA for Africa (HR-434) 3) No MFN for China 4) Support HOPE for Africa (HR-772) 5) No Corporate Rule (optional) Ask for the trade aide if the Member isn't available. Use the number! Call today! And on Monday! Pass it on! Mike Dolan Organizer Friday June 11 12:45 PM ET Clinton To Renew Call For Fast-Track Authority WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton plans to use a pro-free trade speech in Chicago Saturday to renew his appeal for authority to negotiate international trade agreements with little congressional interference, administration officials said Friday. In his commencement address at the University of Chicago, Clinton will also declare his support for a convention under consideration by the International Labor Organization that would ban the most abusive forms of child labor. The president is to address the ILO next week in Geneva. He had appealed for a ban on child labor in his State of the Union speech last winter. Clinton has been seeking so-called ``fast-track'' authority from Congress since it expired in 1994 and Congress failed to renew it. Many U.S. farmers feel they are being left behind as competitors, such as the European Union and Canada, negotiate new trade agreements to open markets. For the past two years union opposition to fast-track authority has kept it from passing the House of Representatives. A bill, which would give the president authority to negotiate deals that could not be amended by Congress, is seen as having little chance of passing Congress over the opposition of labor unions until after the 2000 elections. The World Trade Organization has a new round of global trade negotiations scheduled to start in November in Seattle to discuss tariff reductions in some areas. Clinton's appeal for the fast-track authority will be in the context of that meeting. ``He will reiterate his call to have the authority to forge new trade agreements and ensure we don't undermine labor and environmental standards in the process,'' said one official. Officials said Clinton's speech would be a broad look at the benefits of trade and its importance in the American economy. He is to speak of the need for forging a new American consensus on trade that takes into account labor and environmental standards. It comes at a time when some industries, such as steel, would like to place restrictions on free trade. Clinton is to argue that putting up new restrictions is the wrong approach, officials said. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Mike Dolan, Field Director Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch ph 202.546.4996 x322 fx 202.547.7392 Subscribe to TW-LIST, the Global Trade Watch list-server. We will keep you up-to-date on trade and globalization policy. Send "SUBSCRIBE TW-LIST" followed by your name, organizational affiliation and state or country in which you live to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 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] Stop Cassini Demonstrations at NASA Headquarters
-Caveat Lector- Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee, 4806 York Road, Baltimore, MD 21212 Ph: 410-323-7200 or 410-377-7987 Fax: 410-323-7292 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] June 11, 1999 ACTIVISTS DELIVER CANCEL CASSINI FLYBY LETTER TO NASA HEADQUARTERS Baltimore's Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee organized a demonstration outside NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Friday, June 11, 1999 from 12 noon to 1 PM. Eight anti-plutonium demonstrators marched with signs among the lunchtime crowd. The signs said, "Cassini Spells Disaster," "No Nukes in Space," "Stop Cassini Flyby," "No Weapons in Space" and "Maryland Safe Energy Coalition." Photographs of the demonstration were taken and are to be made available to the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. At 1:15 PM, four of the activists entered the building to deliver a letter addressed to NASA director Dan Goldin. A security representative informed the delegation that Mr.. Goldin was in Paris, but that the letter would be delivered. A copy of the letter appears below. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee, 4806 York Road, Baltimore, MD 21212 Ph: 410-323-7200 Fax: 410-323-7292 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] June 11, 1999 We are here today to urge you to cancel the flyby of the Cassini space probe, carrying 72 pounds of plutonium, as the dangers of radioactive contamination outweigh the benefits. In fact, you should abandon the use of radioactive material, ban all space- based weaponry and cut all ties with the military. Of course, you know accidents do happen in the space program. Most recently, rockets failed to lift into proper orbits a "missile- warning" satellite in April and an $800 million satellite in May. Last August, a similar rocket carrying a spy satellite blew up shortly after liftoff. These three failures cost taxpayers $3 billion. Adding plutonium to the potential accident mix is terrifying. Failure to cancel the flyby means Cassini is scheduled to threaten Earth on Aug. 17, 1999. In the event of a miscalculation, electrical failure, an impact from space debris or a solar storm, NASA could lose control of the probe so that it may collide with Earth's atmosphere. The probe could burn up like a meteorite and release a breathable form of plutonium dioxide. NASA has scheduled a series of space missions carrying plutonium-powered generators in the coming years. The Air Force is promoting nuclear power because it needs massive power projection capabilities for space-based lasers and anti-satellite weapons. NASA's future plutonium missions, as well as the U.S. military's aim to "control space" and the Earth below with space-based nuclear-powered weaponry, needs to be confronted. This military agenda is particularly troublesome, as it is a potential violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty against weapons in space. Most peace and environmental activists support a multi- national exploration of space for the purpose of gathering and sharing scientific knowledge. The 1967 Treaty declares that all interplanetary bodies belong to the common good. So there should be no more plans to circumvent international space law in order to "exploit" space for a corporate elite. Following our suggestions would enhance the prestige of the agency and eliminate the perception that NASA is a pawn of the US Space Command. Your assistance in alleviating our concerns with the Cassini flyby and the future of the space program would be graciously appreciated. We would welcome a continued dialogue. In peace, Max Obuszewski, on behalf of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee _ Always on-line reporting on health, environment, and sustainable society. !EcoNews! Service: http://www.ecologynews.com geri destefano alfred webremailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 352-1917 West Fourth Avenue Tel:604-733-8134 Vancouver, BC V6J 1M7Fax:604-733-8135 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]
[CTRL] Fw: AANEWS for Friday, June 11, 1999
-Caveat Lector- from: AMERICAN ATHEISTS subject: AANEWS for June 11, 1999 A M E R I C A N A T H E I S T S AANEWS #586 ~~ 6/11/99 http://www.atheists.org ftp.atheists.org/pub/atheists/ http://www.americanatheist.org - A Service of AMERICAN ATHEISTS "Leading The Way For Atheist Civil Rights And The Separation Of State and Church" -- In This Issue... * Coalition under scrutiny, but other religious groups active * N.J. Assembly passes "creator" bill * Resources * About this list... IN WAKE OF IRS DECISION, IS COALITION FLOUNDERING OR STILL A POLITICAL FORCE? Opponents Blast Robertson, But Also Violate State-Church Separation No sooner had the St. Petersburg Times newspaper reported that the Christian Coalition would not receive an IRS tax exemption than the pundits were pronouncing the 1.6 million member group dead and buried. Former Coalition employees like Arne Owens, the group's communications director until November 1998, declared, "This will be a surprise to all the people who believed the Christian Coalition was what it said it was, those conservative Christians who thought it was above back-room wheeling and dealing." Over at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the Rev. Barry Lynn -- who has, admittedly, fought the good fight against Robertson's political vanity and ambitions for power -- described the ruling as "a devastating blow," adding that Pat Robertson's "crusade to politicize America's churches is now almost certain to fail." But is it? We sense two trends happening in the media coverage of the latest Christian Coalition flap. The first is an utterly unrealistic appraisal of where the Coalition and its principle backer, Pat Robertson, stand in the contemporary political landscape. And we find that "CC bashing" has rendered the Christian Coalition -- still a dangerous political threat to civil liberties and the separation of church and state -- a convenient "straw man" to distract attention from the wider politicalization of America's religious community. Robinson is taken to task, and rightly so, for his homophobic and theocratic agenda. But there are a number of other religious organizations including the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Interfaith Alliance that engage in tactics remarkably similar to those of the Christian Coalition, who seem to escape the scrutiny of both mass media and, alas, many separationists. CC-RIP: "Rest In Peace" or "Ready for Improved Polit How accurate are suggestions that the Christian Coalition is "on the ropes" of the political arena? In fact, the IRS decision which denies a tax exemption for the Christian Coalition, may have little or no effect on Robertson's long-term political strategy. The present Christian Coalition is now morphing into two new entities, Christian Coalition International and Christian Coalition of America. The former is not "international," but as a for-profit corporation it will finally be free "to endorse political candidates on a state and local level (and) make financial contributions to candidates," according to a media broadside announcing formation of this new group. The second entity is Christian Coalition of America, merely a name-change for the Christian Coalition of Texas which already has a tax exemption. CC spokesperson Mike Russell told the New York Times that the CCA "will be the principle vehicle for the operation of the Christian Coalition in the United States," and be capable of doing "everything" the old CC did in the past. An unidentified tax specialist told the Times that "the new organization (Christian Coalition of America) will do just what the IRS said disqualified the old organization from getting a 501c4 (tax exempt) status." But the IRS announcement striking any tax exemption for the old Christian Coalition came after a ten-year fight to win the dispensation. In fact, many other religious groups -- a good number of them representing liberal or moderate political causes -- issue voter's guides, pump out a steady stream of advocacy materials, and do essentially what Robertson and his political operatives have been doing since the Coalition began in 1988. What distinguishes the Christian Coalition is its distinct religious right agenda, and Robertson's gaffes which have gotten the group into trouble with the IRS and made it a convenient target for the news media. American's United, for instance, was able to provide the tax agency with a speech Robertson gave to a Coalition meeting in September, 1997 where he urged members to emulate "the Tammany Halls ... and Chicago machine, and the Byrd machine... This is what we've got to do. Now God has put a mandate on us because the nation is in crisis." Robertson told
Re: [CTRL] 2 Questions
-Caveat Lector- Someone recently put executive orders out with a quote from JFK, Can you resend to me? Please FWD to me as well. Thanks. 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] 2 Questions
-Caveat Lector- is it true that JFK really survived the assassination attempt in dallas? If so, why hasn't there been [reported]sightings of JFK like there is of Elvis??? 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] Serbs' Turn at Refugee-ism
-Caveat Lector- And, so: just what is the exact position on 'ethnic cleansing'? From TheIndependent (UK) Peace in the Balkans - While Nato squabbles and the Serbs flee, anarchy fills Kosovo's vacuum Robert Fisk in Pristina So, Wag the Dog was a documentary. "The Russians are coming," a Yugoslav army captain announced to the coffee- drinkers on the Corso yesterday. They roared in delight and disbelief. But it was quite beyond their comprehension that Nato forces would delay their own entry into Kosovo over an infantile squabble about whose soldiers should cross the frontier first. And it was, of course, the innocent who had to pay the price for this farce. Outside the Catholic church, an Albanian priest shook his head in disbelief. "Why hasn't Nato come?" he pleaded. "Things here are very, very bad." On the other side of the hill, a clutch of Albanian homes were smouldering. And in the streets of Pristina yesterday there were too many men with guns. One of them walked into the restaurant of the Grand Hotel on Thursday night and threatened to kill the diners. A hundred KLA captives were seen wandering through the city, still dressed in their black prison uniforms. And the roads around Kosovo's capital were lined with civilian cars as the Serbs of Prizren and Djakovica - trusting in a KLA ceasefire - abandoned their cities for northern Serbia. "It's what Nato wants," Yugoslav volunteer Private Stefan said with contempt when I came across him near the Army Club. "They are delaying so that the Serbs will leave and give them an Albanian-only Kosovo. Nato is 'cleansing' us with their delays." Did I have the nerve to explain that no, really, General Clark and General "Mike" were arguing like children about who goes first? I murmured something I'd heard on the BBC about "logistics difficulties" and Pte Stefan snorted with contempt. Yet as Nato hesitated - only to find the Russians stealing their thunder - Kosovo was moving towards just the kind of anarchy Nato had promised to prevent. When I drove the road north to Merdare yesterday, the villages were burning - either Serb homes set alight by their departing owners or Albanian property destroyed by Serb gunmen - while the Third Army's withdrawal sucked thousands of panic-stricken civilians into its wake. The old city of Prizren is almost entirely empty of its Serb inhabitants - almost every car I saw bore a Prizren or Djakovica number-plate - while the Serb citizens of Pristina are turning with bitterness against their own leaders. At a meeting of civilians called to halt the exodus, a tall man in spectacles screamed at his fellow Serbs: "You've been fucked by Tito and by Milosevic - may their descendants have bone cancer for 12 generations." Meanwhile, along the highway out of Pristina appeared the kind of men we had hoped not to see. There were tall militiamen with long hair, and gunmen in black shirts, and even the departing Yugoslav troops now displayed an unhappy combination of regular soldiers in army uniform and bearded men in military vehicles with slouch hats or cloths wound round their heads. One soldier was waving a beer bottle in the air. Several were driving tractors among the army convoys, pulling trailers covered with tarpaulins. Who, I wonder, owned the tractors? The convoys themselves were a Boy's Own of Russian weaponry - BMP armoured vehicles tracked radar-guided anti-aircraft guns and batteries of white-tipped Sam-6 missiles along with Frog ground-to-ground rockets. And yet again, not a single one had been scratched by Nato bombs. Some of the Sam-6 racks were empty - the missiles must have been fired at Nato planes - and many of them were still covered with the branches of the fir trees with which they had been camouflaged during the war. Several guns had been draped with flowers, one anti-aircraft battery sprouting dark red roses from its barrels. But while the Serbs enjoyed Moscow's temerity in tweaking Nato's ego, they waited in vain for the Russians to show up. It mattered little to the families driving north, towing trailers piled with sitting-room furniture and beds. Over the highway a new banner has been raised. "The only road is the road to Kosovo," it says. But yesterday the only road was the road out of Kosovo - and the Serbs were using it to flee the land in which they have lived for generations. AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + +
[CTRL] Slick Oil
-Caveat Lector- From TheIndependent (UK) Last tropical dry forest faces ruin By Jonathan Glennie A GAS pipeline backed by Shell threatens to destroy the world's biggest remaining tract of tropical dry forest, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned yesterday. The Chiquitano forest in eastern Bolivia, home to many of the world's most vulnerable species, including the jaguar, the ocelot and the critically endangered hyacinth macaw, faces bisection by a 224-mile-long pipeline transferring natural gas from Rio San Miguel in Bolivia to Cuiaba in Brazil. The development, backed by a consortium led by the US oil giant Enron and in which Shell is a 25 per cent partner, is "completely unacceptable," said Clive Wicks, head of international programmes for WWF-UK. "This area has been identified as one of the richest, rarest and most biologically outstanding examples of the Earth's diverse habitats and a priority region for conservation efforts," he said. "Shell did some good work with us in Peru. But their support for this project flies in the face of their claims to respect the environment. They are showing a deliberate and reckless disregard for the conservation of a unique ecosystem, all in the name of profitability." Shell recently stepped up a public relations campaign committing itself to reducing the negative environmental impact of its policies. The company said yesterday that the $500m (£312m) project was fully in accordance with its policy of taking "environmental and social considerations into account in everything we do". The pipeline will provide much-needed energy and economic development to Bolivia and Brazil, a spokesman said. But the company refused to comment on a WWF claim that the consortium's environ-mental consultants said they were "dealing with a single complex ecosystem which should be preserved at all costs". WWF was one of five green groups that assessed the pipeline's impact, saying it would be "devastating", and calling for it to be rerouted. But that proposal was rejected, with Enron claiming the forest was "secondary". Instead, it offered a compensation package of $20m to improve the conservation status of the area. WWF said yesterday it was a foregone conclusion that the pipeline would be constructed on the proposed route. But Chiquitano was "pristine primary forest", the charity said. Ninety per cent of this type of forest had already been destroyed by logging and other activities, said Mr Wicks. "Nature has very few strongholds like this left on the planet," said Patricia Caffrey of WWF Bolivia. "Endangered species that have been all but eliminated elsewhere are found in this forest." Enron said yesterday it was "surprised and disappointed" at the WWF claims. The company considered the forest to be "very important" and was committed to helping the area, a spokeswoman said. She claimed that adopting a new route would have an impact on 20 additional indigenous communities, cross eight rivers rather than two, and be 70 per cent longer. AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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
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-Caveat Lector- From Int'l Herald Tribune Paris, Saturday, June 12, 1999 China Maps Changes In Defense Strategy Beijing Reacts to New U.S. Alliances -- -- By John Pomfret Washington Post Service -- -- BEIJING - From Kosovo to Kazakhstan, Mongolia to Manila, Chinese strategists are peeking out from behind their Great Wall and finding an American-spun web of security relationships tightening around their borders. Chinese strategists have proclaimed for two decades that peace will reign in Asia and economic development would be the priority in Beijing. But prompted by the May 7 bombing of its embassy in Yugoslavia and, before that, U.S. moves to bolster military relations with China's bordering states, the strategists are rethinking their security doctrine in a move that could have significant implications for security in Asia and the Pacific. Recent polls in the United States, stoked by congressional reports accusing China of nuclear weapons espionage and funneling money into American politics, have placed China at the top of Americans' list of possible enemies. But China's perspective, fueled by a military anxious for more money and hard-line factions angling for power, is just as grim. An article published in the magazine Outlook last month said the United States had only one goal: ''The hegemonic domination of the world.'' Several Chinese generals at army-run strategic research departments are quoted in the June issue of China Review as saying that six U.S.-backed conspiracies resulted in the decision to bomb the Chinese Embassy. The bombing was no accident, the article contends. NATO's attacks on Yugoslavia have proved particularly useful to China's hard-line military factions because the bombings allowed them to fan Chinese fears that a vast Western alliance might attempt to limit China's power in Tibet, the restive northwestern province of Xinjiang or Taiwan, which Beijing views as a renegade province. The Chinese are also galled that Western powers ignored China's demand that NATO stop the bombing before a peace plan was discussed. China's strategic perceptions are important. Over the last 50 years, China's perceptions - and misperceptions - of the international environment have prompted it to make grave decisions. It was partly Mao Zedong's belief that American troops would cross the Yalu River into northeast China that led him to attack U.S. forces in Korea in 1950. It was partly the notion that Taiwan would cower when threatened with missiles that triggered the military's decision to fire several rockets over Taiwanese territory in 1996, bringing the United States and China closer to conflict than ever since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. It was China's perception as well that the United States would slow weapons sales to Taiwan that led Beijing to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and to consider joining the Missile Technology Control Regime. But, as Suisheng Zhao, a political scientist at Colby College in Maine, noted recently, these acts did not prevent Washington ''from selling F-16 fighters to Taiwan in 1992, forcing inspection of a Chinese freighter suspected of transporting chemical agents to Iran in 1993, and sending aircraft carriers to the Taiwan Strait in 1996.'' The military and hard-line factions appear to have succeeded in pushing the government to consider a new, more aggressive foreign policy, which they call China's New Security Concept. Earlier this month, Japanese media reported an unusual upsurge of Chinese naval activity in May - including more than 10 ships, mainly high-speed destroyers - inside Japan's economic zone. A Western source said he believed the Chinese military was expressing ''its personal opposition to closer U.S.-Japanese defense ties.'' A Chinese-run Internet site, meanwhile, reported last week that China was preparing to test its new submarine-launched ballistic missile, with a range of more than 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles), within a few months. The Chinese press also reported after the attack on the Belgrade embassy that China was speeding up its program to launch a man into space. The Chinese press on May 26 quoted officials as saying the government was hoping for a manned space flight by Oct. 1, the 50th anniversary of the founding of Communist China. Western experts are doubtful. Over the last few months, China has also forged its closest ties with Russia since the two then-Communist giants split over ideological issues in the early 1960s. A slew of high-level Russian guests have descended on Beijing recently, including Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov who laid the groundwork for a year-end Chinese-Russian summit. On May 31, China's top commander, General Zhang Wannian,
[CTRL] (Fwd) Claremont Institute Precepts: Kosovo Shows America Needs
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Claremont Institute Precepts: Kosovo Shows America Needs Missile Defense Date sent: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:26:03 -0700 The Claremont Institute--PRECEPTS | | June 11, 1999 Visit http://www.claremont.org | | No. 173 Russian troops are reported to be on their way to Kosovo, and NATO troops are stationed outside that province waiting to enter. A squabble is reported about whether the Russian troops will be placed under NATO command. The Russians are, of course, partial to the Serbs, and NATO set out to protect the Kosovars, who are mostly driven away from their homes or dead. Division among the "allies" is not the best prescription for an efficient effort. Like the Bosnians before them, Kosovars might think hard before they go home. What success we have won -- and we have apparently won some success -- we have won with air power. This we have done without battlefield casualties. The ability to strike from the air with precision is a key element of American military might, and today dictators around the world are being invited to contemplate what this means for their own plans for mischief. We submit that they have been contemplating it for years. They have a plan. North Korea and Iraq -- to name two nations where evil reigns with impunity -- are preparing missiles and nuclear bombs capable of reaching Europe and the United States. These are not very good missiles, and the bombs are probably not quite ready yet, nor of the best quality. But these countries have the help of larger comrades, notably Russia and China, who are aggrieved over the Serbian war and with American preeminence generally. These bombs and rockets will not likely be very good in the near future. But they do not have to be very good. All they have to do is reach, or even seem to be able to reach, some city in our country. If they can do that, or even if they can perhaps do that, then our strategy, both in Kosovo and in Iraq, is completely neutralized. No longer will we have any assurance that we can wage war from a distance "without casualties." The casualties may not be military, but civilian, and they will not be few, but millions. In that situation the suffering of future Kosovars, or even Kuwaitis, will not seem so urgent to us. There are many lessons to draw from the latest war. None is so clear as the urgent need to protect the American homeland from missile attack. That is the urgent foreign policy issue for the 2000 election. As surely as the rising of the sun, we must build a defense or lose our safety in the near future. We should take a moment, amidst our "victory" celebrations, to make a policy and commit the first resources of the state to its implementation. Sincerely, Larry P. Arnn President, The Claremont Institute - Copyright (c) 1999 The Claremont Institute To subscribe to Precepts, go to: http://www.claremont.org/subscrib.cfm , or e-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . To be removed from this list, go to : http://www.claremont.org/remove_public.cfm , or e-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . For general correspondence or additional information about the Claremont Institute, e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , or visit our website at : http://www.claremont.org . Changing your e-mail address? Please let us know at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . For press inquiries, contact Nazalee Topalian at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (909) 621-6825. The mission of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. The Claremont Institute | 250 West First Street | Suite 330 | Claremont, CA 91711 | Phone (909) 621-6825 | Fax (909) 626-8724 AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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
[CTRL] (Fwd) [FAIR-L] War, the Great Stabilizer: Media's
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As NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia neared its conclusion, the press began
debating whether or not the war was a success. Many mainstream
commentators and reporters were critical of NATO's tactics, but NATO's
basic spin on the war--it was a just war waged against genocidal evil, and
it has improved the region's chances for peace and democracy--went almost
unchallenged.
The idea that the war in Kosovo has proved that military force is an
integral part of a humanitarian foreign policy appeared again and again in
the pages of the New York Times and Washington Post. As Thomas Friedman
put it (New York Times, 6/4/99), if Slobodan Milosevic really carries out
his end of the deal, then NATO's action in Kosovo "will establish that an
air war for limited humanitarian goals can be effective, albeit costly." A
Washington Post editorial of the same day followed suit, praising "NATO's
resolute pounding of Serbian forces," which allowed the West to show that
"it would not stand for crimes against humanity." It was against this
backdrop consensus that most of the press' criticism took place.
The most common criticism of the war made by writers in the New York
Times and the Washington Post was that it should have been conducted
more aggressively, in order to topple Milosevic's government. For
example, a New York Times article (6/5/99) cautioned that though the war
has been won, military sources "say it is vital that the alliance not take
away the wrong lessons from the air campaign." The right lessons are,
according to the editorial, that NATO should be less worried about
civilian casualties: "Instead of taking the war to downtown Belgrade
during the opening hours of the war, NATO waited weeks before attacking
targets in the Yugoslav capital, forfeiting the element of surprise and
blunting the allies' ability to shock the enemy."
NATO's professed reluctance to prepare ground troops was also often
cited as a central strategic flaw. In one New York Times op-ed (6/5/99),
William Odom, director of the National Security Agency under Reagan, says
"President Clinton's failure to make the overthrow of Mr. Milosevic a war
aim leaves the Serb leader free to destroy the pro-NATO regime in
Montenegro, to repress the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina and to cause
trouble elsewhere." He concludes that Clinton's "bombing-only strategy,
which reflected a fear of a ground war" has "undercut America's moral
standing" and set the stage for the demise of NATO.
In his New York Times column (6/7/99), William Safire sums up the
media's prevailing arguments: "In Kosovo, the Western world is doing the
right thing in the wrong way. The right thing was to place humanity's
resistance to barbarism above national sovereignty Civilization is
more civilized for having intervened to do the right thing." Among the
mistakes Safire says NATO made were ruling out ground troops early on; not
attacking with enough force ("We should have turned out the lights in
Belgrade and destroyed telecommunications the first day"); and allowing
Russia and the "weak sisters" of Germany, Italy and Greece too much say in
NATO decisions ("Consensus should be sought, but no member of NATO should
be able to veto the great majority's decision").
Safire goes on to identify Slobodan Milosevic as the primary threat to
stability in the Balkans, arguing that "until sensible Serbs decide to
hand the Milosevic gang over to the Hague tribunal," no aid or assistance
should be given to Serbia.
This sentiment was echoed by the Washington Post; one Post editorial
(6/4/99) declares that "only when he [Milosevic] is in the dock in the
Hague, after all, can the Balkans truly hope for peace and stability."
Another states (6/6/99):
"If Milosevic prevails, his brand of brutal
nationalism will spread. If the Kosovo war marks the beginning of his
demise, then other countries in transition will more likely see their
future in democracy, fair treatment of minorities and peaceful neighborly
relations."
One op-ed that stepped outside the narrow range of debate was by D.G.
Kousoulas (Washington Post, 6/8/99). He points out that it is illogical to
try to "promote stability by encouraging separatist movements among
minorities," and warns that "encouraging or tolerating a separatist
[CTRL] (Fwd) ZNet Commentary, June 12 Robin Hahnel
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Michael Albert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:ZNet Commentary, June 12 Robin Hahnel Date sent: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:36:52 +0100 Here is today's ZNet Commentary Delivery from Robin Hahnel. The attached file is the same material in nicely formatted html so that you can read it in your browser if you wish. To pass this comment along to friends, relatives, etc. please note that the Commentaries are a premium sent to monthly donors to Z/ZNet and that to learn more about the project folks can consult ZNet (http://www.zmag.org) and specifically the Commentary Page (http://www.zmag.org/Commentaries/donorform.htm). Here then is today's ZNet Commentary... -- When There is Little Left for a Radical to Say By Robin Hahnel Paul A. Volcker is best known as the conservative, inflation fighting Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1979 through 1987. Prior to that he served Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in a variety of capacities. After retiring from the Fed he became Chairman of James D. Wolfenson Co. Inc. and is the Henry Kaufman Visiting Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. Paul Volcker is exactly the kind of person I would expect to be invited to make the luncheon address to the Overseas Development Council Conference on Making Globalization Work (March 18, 1999). But I did not expected him to have this to say: "Everybody talks about globalism these days to the point we are all sick of the term. But what has been too little emphasized is that the process has lots of problems. Here we are, about a decade after the downfall of the old Soviet Union, trumpeting the striking ideological triumph of democratic capitalism and open markets. But looking around the world right now, things are not so benign." Since the official "Washington View" of the US Treasury and IMF is that neoliberal globalization has produced spectacular global efficiency gains that have trickled down to almost everyone, it is surprising to hear a high ranking member of the economic establishment admit otherwise. Volcker went on to say: "My position is that the dramatic succession of international financial crises is a reflection of deep-seated systemic problems. I do not think the pervasiveness of these crises can be traced primarily to particular human or institutional failings in the emerging world. Of course, there is no doubt such failings exist. But beyond those particulars, there are destabilizing forces at work, forces inherent in the organization (or lack of organization) of the international financial system in a world of free capital and money markets." Since the official "Washington View" is that crony capitalism, corruption, flawed accounting practices, unsound banking systems, lack of transparency, and irresponsible economic policies by governments in the affected countries were the causes of their crises, it is surprising - and refreshing - to hear an emeritus professor of financial regulation admit that the official explanation is total hogwash. "Ponder a bit what went wrong in the emerging market countries. How is it, with their weak banking systems, the lack of transparency and their lack of accounting standards the emerging countries of Southeast Asia, for decades, managed really extraordinary rates of growth - 6,7 or even 8 percent a year? Only in the late 1990's have they collapsed in one big pile together. What is different now than before?" How refreshing to encounter a master logician among the cognicente: When there is a different consequent, look for a different antecedent! "First of all, international markets are much larger and more fluid than ever before. More of the participants have a short-term, transaction orientation, and the new technology means they can act quickly to move large amounts of funds. What has been less recognized and commented upon is how small the financial markets are in most of the emerging economies, particularly small relative to the exponential growth of the international financial markets. Those small and weak financial markets are a reflection of the small and undiversified nature of most of their economies. My favorite example has been Argentina where I happened to visit at the time of the Mexican crisis and its so-called Tequila effect. I'm supposed to have some familiarity with these things, but I was nonetheless startled to learn that the aggregate amount of deposits in the Argentine banking system in 1994 was some $45 billion. At that time, that was about equivalent to the size of the second largest bank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The speed with which those small open economies have opened their financial markets is really amazing. It mainly is a phenomenon of the 1990's. What gives pause is the fact that here, less than a
Re: [CTRL] White House Fact Sheet on KFOR
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-06-10 05:21:16 EDT, Das GOAT wrote: A fuller explanation of the terms for "peace" in Kosovo, as detailed on MS-NBC today, revealed that NATO (US/Britain) now requires that the Serbian uniformed army, Serbian "para-military," Serbian police (and technically even Serbian security guards), and Serbian CIVILIANS that are pro-Milosevic, give up their guns or be classified as combatants, i.e., violating the "peace" agreement. Anyone, military OR civilian, is therefore automatically subject to the rules of war if he or she possesses a firearm. Text of Kosovo Military Agreement .c The Associated Press . Appendix B International Security Force Operations snip 4. International security force (KFOR) shall have the right: snip (3) c. To observe, monitor, and inspect any and all facilities or activities in Kosovo that the international security force (KFOR) commander believes has or may have military OR POLICE capability, or may be associated with the employment of military OR POLICE capabilities, or are otherwise relevant to compliance with this agreement. 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this agreement, the parties understand and agree that international security force (KFOR) commander has the right and is authorized to compel the REMOVAL, withdrawal, or relocation of specific forces AND WEAPONS, and to order the cessation of any activities whenever the international security force (KFOR) commander determines a POTENTIAL threat to either the international security force (KFOR) or its mission, or to another party. Forces failing to redeploy, withdraw, relocate, or to cease threatening or POTENTIALLY threatening activities following such a demand by the international security force (KFOR) shall be subject to military action by the international security force (KFOR), including the use of necessary force, to ensure compliance. 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
