[CTRL] FW: New Report Lauds Small Farms
-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anuradha Mittal Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 5:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Report Lauds Small Farms Small Farms More Productive than Large Farms but Threatened by Trade Agreements The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First and the Transnational Institute Release a New Report: The Multiple Functions and Benefits of Small Farm Agriculture In the Context of Global Trade Negotiations By Peter Rosset full text of the report available at: http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/policybs/pb4.html September 14, 1999 Maastricht, Netherlands -- Small farms are more productive than large farms, yet their continued existence is threatened by international trade agreements, according to a major study released today at a United Nations conference here in Maastricht.* The Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as "Food First," based in California, USA, and the Transnational Institute, based in The Netherlands, published the study authored by agricultural development specialist Dr. Peter Rosset. Challenging the conventional wisdom that small farms are backward and unproductive, the study shows that small farmers worldwide produce from 2 to 10 times more per unit area than do larger, corporate farmers. "In fact small farms are 'multi-functional' -- more productive, more efficient, and contribute more to economic development than do large farms," said Dr. Rosset, Executive Director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy and the author of the report. Dr. Rosset is an official delegate to the Maastricht conference, representing the Global Forum on Sustainable Food and Nutritional Security, based in Brazil. Communities surrounded by populous small farms have healthier economies than do communities surrounded by depopulated large, mechanized farms, according the study. Small farmers also take better care of natural resources, including reducing soil erosion and conserving biodiversity. Small farmers are better stewards of natural resources, safeguarding the future sustainability of agricultural production. "Despite more than a century of anti-small farmer policies in country after country, in both industrialized and third world countries," said Dr. Rosset, "small farmers not only still cling to the soil but continue to be more productive and more efficient than large, agri-business farming operations. Small farmers offer the best way to feed the world, and the only way to effectively conserve soil resources for future generations." Unfortunately the study shows that today the world's small farmers face unprecedented threats to their livelihoods, thanks to free trade agreements negotiated in recent years. "Free trade causes the prices farmers receive to drop through the floor", said Rosset," driving them into bankruptcy by the millions." Such low prices mean only the largest can survive, according to the study. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AOA), to be negotiated in Seattle, USA, in November, 1999, is the weapon that could deal the final death blow to the world's small farmers, according to Rosset. "The U.S. Government negotiators," said Rosset, himself an American, "have as their goal for Seattle the complete liberalization of trade in farm products." Rosset, and the institutes that published his report, are issuing a call to recognize the true, multiple value of small farms, and to defeat the American government plans for the AOA. "Small farmers are a key resource for our very survival into the future," said Mr. Erik Heijmans, of the Transnational Institute, which co- published the study. "We must oppose trade agreements which place them in jeopardy." * "Cultivating Our Futures," the FAO/Netherlands Conference on the Multifunctional Character of Agriculture and Land, 12-17 September 1999, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Information at: http://www.fao.org/mfcal # # # Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy 398 60th Street Oakland, California 94618 USA tel: 510/654-4400 fax: 510/654-4551 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foodfirst.org Transnational Institute Paulus Potterstraat 20 1071 DA, Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: 31-20-6626608 Fax: 31-20-6757176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.worldcom.nl/tni Global Forum on Sustainable Food and Nutritional Security SGAN 905 Conjunto "B", Parte "A" 70.790-050 Brasilia, DF Brazil Tel: +55 61 347 4914 Fax: +55 61 347 9002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.globalforum.org.br/index1.htm Anuradha Mittal Policy Director Institute for Food and Development Policy - Food First 398 60th Street, Oakland, CA 94618 USA Phone: (510) 654-4400 Fax: (510) 654-4551 http://www.foodfirst.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list.
[CTRL] FW: Allan Nairn - ETimor correspondent (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- forwarded.. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart THE NATION http://www.TheNation.com/ US Complicity in Timor While the Indonesian military's thugs continue their rampage in East Timor, most foreign reporters have fled the country. As of September 7, frequent Nation contributor and award-winning journalist Allan Nairn was believed to be the only US reporter still there. Nairn left the besieged UN compound and walked the streets of Dili, where he hid in abandoned houses as he observed troops and militia burning and looting. Nairn has been writing about the troubles there for years. In 1991, after being badly beaten by Indonesian troops while witnessing the massacre of several hundred East Timorese, he was declared a "threat to national security" and banned from the country. He has entered several times illegally since then. In his most recent Nation dispatch from East Timor, on March 30, 1998, Nairn disclosed the continuing US military training of Indonesian troops implicated in the torture and killing of civilians. He filed this report by satellite telephone to The Nation through Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! --The Editors __ Dili, East Timor ALLAN NAIRN It is by now clear to most East Timorese and a few Westerners still left here that the militias are a wing of the TNI/ABRI, the Indonesian armed forces. Recently, for example, I was picked up by militiamen who turned out to be working for a uniformed colonel of the National Police. [Editors' note: The Indonesian government has denied any connection between the militias and either the police or the military.] But there is another important political fact that is not known here or in the international community. Although the US government has publicly reprimanded the Indonesian Army for the militias, the US military has, behind the scenes and contrary to Congressional intent, been backing the TNI. US officials say that this past April, as militia terror escalated, a top US officer was dispatched to give a message to Jakarta. Adm. Dennis Blair, the US Commander in Chief of the Pacific, leader of all US military forces in the Pacific region, was sent to meet with General Wiranto, the Indonesian armed forces commander, on April 8. Blair's mission, as one senior US official told me, was to tell Wiranto that the time had come to shut the militia operation down. The gravity of the meeting was heightened by the fact that two days before, the militias had committed a horrific machete massacre at the Catholic church in Liqui^Ma, Timor. YAYASAN HAK, a Timorese human rights group, estimated that many dozens of civilians were murdered. Some of the victims' flesh was reportedly stuck to the walls of the church and a pastor's house. But Admiral Blair, fully briefed on Liqui ^Ma, quickly made clear at the meeting with Wiranto that he was there to reassure the TNI chief. According to a classified cable on the meeting, circulating at Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii, Blair, rather than telling Wiranto to shut the militias down, instead offered him a series of promises of new US assistance. According to the cable, which was drafted by Col. Joseph Daves, US military attache in Jakarta, Admiral Blair "told the armed forces chief that he looks forward to the time when [the army will] resume its proper role as a leader in the region. He invited General Wiranto to come to Hawaii as his guest in conjunction with the next round of bilateral defense discussions in the July-August '99 time frame. He said Pacific command is prepared to support a subject matter expert exchange for doctrinal development. He expects that approval will be granted to send a small team to provide technical assistance to police and...selected TNI personnel on crowd control measures." Admiral Blair at no point told Wiranto to stop the militia operation, going the other way by inviting him to be his personal guest in Hawaii. Blair told Wiranto that the United States would initiate this new riot-control training for the Indonesian armed forces. This was quite significant, because it would be the first new US training program for the Indonesian military since 1992. Although State Department officials had been assured in writing that only police and no soldiers would be part of this training, Blair told Wiranto that, yes, soldiers could be included. So although Blair was sent in with the mission of telling Wiranto to shut the militias down, he did the opposite. Indonesian officers I spoke to said Wiranto was delighted by the meeting. They took this as a green light to proceed with the militia operation. The only reference in the classified cable to the militias was the following: "Wiranto was emphatic: as long as East Timor is an integral part of the territory of Indonesia, Armed Forces have responsibility to maintain peace and stability in the region.
Re: [CTRL] Jim Keith
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-09-09 23:17:14 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Devastating news this is. We are in desperate need of investigators like Jim Keith. It is a shame to hear of his passing. He had written many cornerstone works on Conspiracy issues and I'm sure will be missed by all of us who are trying to understand the machinations of the conspiracy elite. A considerable loss, yes. A few years back, Jim's personal Holy Grail was finally pinning down The Octopus, plus writing the screenplay for a movie version of Danny Casolaro's handwritten notes (which he possessed). I wonder now if he had gotten too close to "the truth" -- I'd warned him that, of all the Conspiracy Theory topics he was interested in, The Octopus was THE most likely to result in a shortened life span. We've lost a rarity in the field of Conspiracy Theory -- an investigator without a personal ax to grind and without an Ultimate Answer to All Questions to promote, and with a balanced perspective (in the cultivation of which I like to think I had a small hand ...) Jim was a correspondent and friend till only about two years ago, when he got buried in the amount of work he'd undertaken to pay the bills. A sad day indeed, learning this. 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] GAVIN PHILLIPS-- REPLY TO PUBLICEYE.ORG
-Caveat Lector- I have never been able to tie the various events together. trying to get the facts/ speculation together seem to be- (sources both mainline and conspiracy books) 1The British round table/ rothschilds seemed to support the mensheviks in the first revolution Trotsky was a menshevik until 'turned' by Lenin. 2 The mailine british establishment(royal family, army etc) supported Czar and wished he continue ruling 3The germans supported Lenins revolution but only as a means of winning WW1 The Warburgs(head of the german secret service) were highly involved in the whole operation and as well as providing the sealed carriage provided in the order of $3-4bn (in todays money). The germans were the principle source of finance. 4The Russian Jews were predominantly Bolshevik and significant supporters of the Bolshevik revolution..and provided much of the initial thrust. They were later sidelined by Stalin due to his better administartive ability. 5The Rockerfellers/ JP Morgans on the american side were the principle supporters of the bolshevik revolution. Josephson in his book Rockerfeller internationalist states that schiff paid Rockerfeller money to Lenin. The Wall street axis continued to support the Bolshevik alliance until now. Their control rose and fell and rose again. They backed the Jewish bolsheviks initially, then stalin gained control and was not controlled until hitlers war. 6The Round Table/ Rothschilds interests continued support of menshevik principles and continued supporting Trotsky in the hope he would prevail over Stalin. The round table's support of Hitler was ambiguous( deceitful ?). Tended to support zionism as opposed to internationalism. More neutral toward the christian church. Supported the white russians financially. 7 rockerfeller/ skull and bones supported the Fabian soc and the labour party. Undermined the christian church by infiltration. Supported the Bolsheviks. More than once lost control.(Stalins plans to invade germany, start ww3 against the west- see Stalin Radvinsky) A conspiracy theory in terms of being a theory should be testable and fit the facts with the fewest possible discrepancies. It is the discrepancies that are the true test. Hypothesis 1 1 there are a number of divergent parties each pursuing their own group interests. Some of the participants had their foot in more than one camp, or even changed some allegiances. The parties would be Germans, americans, round table, russian Jews, S B etc. This is close to mailine history except includes the secret socs 2 Mainline history plus the 2 major secret socs acting against each other for supremecy (the daniels hypothesis) 3 A central conspiracy that orchestrates the flow of events. Control is exercised through the control of money and useful idiots such as Hitler. 4 Central control through 4th dimensional reptaloids shape shifting humanoids. we are all low dimensional control vibrations that were all mind controled slaves of a malignant entity whose heart is Ice-k. 5 Conspiracy theories are thought up by a bunch of nuts who are either paranoid or nuts -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 September 1999 05:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] GAVIN PHILLIPS-- REPLY TO PUBLICEYE.ORG -Caveat Lector- Thank you Gavin for pointing out these apparent discrepancies Let me try to explain the problem. Ive been working away at this conspiracy area in its various aspects since about 1960, and so has Ed Griffin, whom I have known for 20+ years with much respect . Back in the early 1970's I worked through the State Department Decimal file ( the CIA of 1920), the files of the War Trade Board, the British Foreign Office Confidential files and the German OKW files.. If you look at my WALL STREET AND THE BOLSEHVIK REVOLUTION( Buccaneers Book) and AMERICAS SECRET ESTABLISHMENT ( LIBERTY HOUSE PRESS) you will find I base the case on ORIGINAL documents (telegrams, letters, memos, SB membership list etc). No one has ever refuted these documents. From the research viewpoint it leaves open whether Schiff and Jewish bankers. also financed the Bolsheviks. If you read the appendix in BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION you will find a review of the Jewish banker argument .At that time I had no evidence that they provided any funds and I still have no documentary evidence. However I did find disinformation coming out of the WAR TRADE BAORD directed by John Foster Dulles, close to the Wall Street operators (Morgan, Thompson, Thacher)o. This is confirmed in the Scotland Yard files. I have always based arguments on documentary evidence at hand. If anyone has documentary material contrary to my argument then I assuredly would like to see it.. On the other hand I do not rely on quotes from interested parties. In no way does this detract from the decades long work of Edward Griffin. This is a murky.field and we all, me included, tread warily. Show me some
[CTRL] FW: Waco: The Rules of Engagement documentary or hoax?
Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -Original Message- From: William Gazecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 4:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" documentary or hoax? To Ms. Carol Valentine- I am going to respond to the assertions contained below because I feel that they misrepresent severely the intent and content of WTROE. I Produced, Directed, co-Wrote, Photographed (on videotape) and Edited "WACO: The Rules of Engagement". My name is William Gazecki, and I was the sole filmmaker of the original film. In June of 1995, Mike McNulty was first referred to me by Aaron Russo, a film producer I had worked with in 1979 on a film entitled "The Rose". Michael came to my home studio, (which I designed and built myself- literally one circuit card at a time) introduced himself, and proceeded to play for me a fuzzy black-and-white video which, as he pointed out, showed a tank tearing down the back of the (Davidian) building. This was Michael's copy of the FLIR tape. Up until that time I had spent the previous 4 years producing products mostly in the health field (I still worked part-time then as a(n Emmy Award winning) sound mixer for movies and TV shows, something I had done since 1974). The FLIR video and the subject of Waco all seemed pretty creepy, but it was a potential job. Michael knew NOTHING about media production, and had NO money. But, he knew Dan Gifford and his wife Amy, and they agreed to pay the for the production. The rest is "history" as they say. Except that. what most people know about WTROE is what has happened to it since it was finished. What virtually no one knows is how it was made. I know how it was made, because I made it, and I made it (essentially) alone. I state this in the context that documentaries are "made" in the editing phase, and many times (as in this situation), the Director and the Editor are the same person. The point is that I personally know the intent of every sound byte and photo contained in WTROE, because I specifically selected each and every one. Michael and I spent about a year, busting our asses I might add, gathering the interview materials. He was the sleuth, I was the filmmaker. Dan and Amy stayed home and waited. In the beginning we had a list of people Michael had put together of all the key players- Davidians, FBI ATF people, attorneys, and other people like James Tabor and Dick Reavis. Our first day on the job was in Washington, DC, at the first day of the Waco (House) Hearings. We were scheduled to be there for a week or so, and our stated objective to our investors was that we intended to videotape the bulk of our interviews during this Hearing period. On our first day there Michael confidently started tracking down the people on his list. Every single one declined to be interviewed. The FBI guys just laughed us off. The Congressional people had NO TIME for us (we weren't ABC, CNN, NBC, etc.). We ended up coming home with one interview, and that one was with Clive Doyle. Michael was blown away. I explained to him that video was a lot different than print journalism, where you can grab an "interview" standing in line with someone waiting for a cup of coffee. For newspapers, phone conversations often suffice as "interviews". We were both surprised at how wary or disinterested everyone we ran into was. When I told my friends I was working on a piece about Waco, most of them just snickered or shrugged. So, we hit the road. We went back to DC, we went to Waco, we went to Dallas, we went to Boston, we went to Vegas, we went to North Carolina, we went to Austin and San Antonio. Just me and Michael, lugging about 200 pounds of video gear, sleeping (and usually shooting) in small motels, wringing out every interview appearance one at a time. The only FBI guy we ever got was Farris Rookstool, and he had quit the FBI over his bad feelings about Waco. All the tapes came home with me to my studio in LA, and Michael went home to Colorado to wait for the film to magically appear when I was done making it. By the time I started editing, I had almost 300 hours of raw footage, much of it (app. 150 hours) from the same Congressional Hearings we started out at. Since the FBI wouldn't appear in fornt of our cameras, I figured the next best thing was their testimony before the committee. So, I planned to use that footage for the FBI's on-camera sections of the film. It tool A LOT of work to carefully sit through viewing all those hours of Hearings, looking for the snippets that would demonstrate the FBI and ATF collusion. Originally, by the way, we weren't even making a "film". The Giffords hired Michael and I to make a 1-hour TV show. It was my idea to do it as a feature-length film. The story was too big for one hour. We had too much information, and understanding the details was essential.
[CTRL] [Fwd: SNET: [piml] IRS Y2K Problem?]
-Caveat Lector- The tax problem looks serious. Original Message Subject: SNET: [piml] IRS Y2K Problem? Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:22:32 -0700 From: Ed Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - SNETNEWS Mailing List "On Sep 05, Don Cline wrote:" Goodyear, Arizona (near Phoenix) As significant as the Waco revelations may be, Chris Stark has raised the question of why now? Why not a year and a half ago, when the information first (allegedly) became available? He ties it, tentatively, to the candidacy of George W. Bush, Jr. I consider it far more likely that it is a smokescreen to distract the media from what may be the biggest story of all: It appears the Internal Revenue Service is "down". So far I have about a quarter-ton of anecdotal evidence to indicate the IRS computers are either down across the board or, alternatively, they have simply lost access to their taxpayer database. The latest indication arrived yesterday in the form of a typewritten letter on blank paper (no IRS letterhead; no standard IRS computer format) advising me (without going into details) that "It will take us about three weeks to retrieve (the information you request) together with any audit reports." This is the third manually-typed letter I have received from the IRS in the last month. The information I requested should be staring them in the face from their computer screen. It _was_ staring them in the face from their computer screen, along with several other pieces of information they still haven't picked up, prior to July 1st, which was the beginning of their fiscal year 2000. Since July 1st, they have claimed to have no record of it -- I had to provide them with copies. And now they want three weeks to retrieve the information I just gave them. The anecdotal evidence does not derive entirely from _my_ interaction with the IRS. Ever heard of the IRS returning a check to a known "tax protester"? It has now happened to an individual in New Mexico, with the comment that the IRS "has no record" of any tax liability involving that individual. Numerous contacts with the IRS by other people with whom I am in communication have resulted in what amounts to pure-dee "stonewalling". The IRS has no information about someone; the taxpayer has to provide the information the IRS should have already had, and then the IRS comes back with a dismissive answer designed to keep the taxpayer on hold for another three-four weeks. This appears to be a holding operation, as though the IRS is waiting for some other element to position itself, as though "when TSHTF what we do here won't matter any more". The Department of Justice may also be "down", or otherwise distracted: My lawsuit against the IRS had a hard deadline for the Department of Justice last Thursday. They failed to meet it. They failed to call me and request an extension. I haven't heard from them. The IRS being down, if it is down, is a you-bet National Security Issue. I figure the "STUFF" is going to hit the FAN sometime within the next 30 seconds to 30 days. WACO is being used as nothing but a temporary distraction, in my view, to keep us from paying attention. Keep your powder dry. -- Don Cline Homepage: http://www.mindspring.com/~frdmftr Was the salesman clueless? Productopia has the answers. http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/555 For subscription info, go to: http://www.egroups.com/list/piml - Send "subscribe snetnews " to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Posted by: Ed Wolfe [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] Fwd: Paradigms and Ideologies
THOTH
A Catastrophics Newsletter
VOL III, No. 12
Aug 31, 1999
EDITOR: Amy Acheson
PUBLISHER: Michael Armstrong
LIST MANAGER: Brian Stewart
CONTENTS
PARADIGMS AND IDEOLOGIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Mel Acheson
BY JOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Dave Talbott
ASTROBIOLOGY . . . . . Ev Cochrane, Dwardu Cardona, Dave Talbott
CHLORINE DISCOVERY NEAR IO . . . . . . . . . . . by Wal Thornhill
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PARADIGMS AND IDEOLOGIES
By Mel Acheson
I get newsletters from several think tanks. A recent one
contained an article analyzing the effects of "ignorant masses"
and "expert elites" on public policy. One paragraph described a
political dynamic which, with the substitution of only two words,
also occurs in science. In the following quote, I've substituted
the appropriate sense of [science] for the author's use of
"politics" and [paradigm] for "ideology'.
[A paradigm] "constrains" [scientific] attitudes-imposing
conceptual consistency on them, but at the cost of
screening out information that would undermine doctrinaire
conclusions. This is unavoidable if [paradigms] are to
accomplish their cognitive purpose: making sense of the
otherwise incomprehensible world of [science]. The
[believer in a paradigm] is able to absorb more
[scientific] information because his preset convictions
allow him to better organize data-convenient data, at
least-than can members of the [scientifically] innocent
mass public. But part and parcel of the [paradigm
believer's] ability to assimilate self-confirming data is
the ability, and the need, to dismiss conflicting data-and
to condemn their purveyors as stupid or evil. If one's
[paradigmatic] opponents were merely mistaken, one would be
obliged to study and rebut their erroneous ideas, and that
would undermine the time-saving convenience of one's own
[paradigm]. Opponents must be written off entirely if
their ideas are to be safely ignored. Thus, animating the
most sophisticated of [paradigm believers] is usually the
unquestioned assumption that no decent, caring person would
oppose [statements derived from the paradigm]
. ("Public
Ignorance and Democracy" by Jeffrey Friedman. CATO Policy
Report, July/August 1999, V. XXI, No. 4, p. 11.)
But this need to write off opponents is not a necessity inherent
in the nature of paradigms. It's an invasive need, carried
unconsciously into the competition of paradigms under the
character armor (chronic personality rigidities) of the
participants. Tolerating other paradigms carries just as much
(or as little) logical necessity. But the frequent choice of
intolerant attitudes reveals something about the nature of
scientists.
Paradigms in science and ideologies in politics are expressions
of the underlying nature of human cognition: the ability to
recognize patterns of intelligibility. In a complex world about
which we have limited experience, there can be more than one way
to make sense of it. The history of ideas provides a long list
of paradigms and ideologies proposed and imposed, adopted and
abandoned, revived, revised, and ignored.
Some ways of making sense work better than others for
accomplishing the goals we want. But that is an evaluation from
utility. The political dynamic described above is an evaluation
from righteousness. The switch from "does it work?" to "are you
right?" is also the expression of an underlying nature, but one
not of cognition but of anxiety. The (cognitive) values of
"right" or "correct" are largely defined by and limited to the
paradigms themselves, but they are applied to other paradigms
with the non-rational necessity of a primal fear and guilt. What
began as a purely intellectual activity is transformed under the
heat and pressure of a deep-seated terror into a moralistic and
religiose caricature of religious activity.
"[M]aking sense of the otherwise incomprehensible world" is an
activity quite different from being right. There are more
paradigms than a person has time to study, and there's no
inherent necessity to write them off or even to rebut them in
order to pursue a chosen one. Writing them off is surrendering
to the invasion of fear and abandoning your responsibility,
freedom, and power to make what you can of your own paradigm.
Mel Acheson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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BY JOVE
By Dave Talbott
[The following comments are excerpted from the Kronia
electronic discussion group and should be read in conjunction
with other published articles.]
"Saturn" (the Universal Monarch) has both elder and younger
aspects. I think it may have been Macrobius who said that the
younger Saturn is Jupiter and the elder Jupiter is Saturn. (Be
that as it may, I didn't invent the idea!) :). The principle
is inherent in Greek approaches to the two gods.
[CTRL] The New Kosovo, Same As the Old Kosovo
-Caveat Lector- Serbs, Albanians Clash in Kosovo By GJERAQINA TUHINA .c The Associated Press PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - Kosovo Serbs and Albanians clashed in the ethnically tense town of Kosovska Mitrovica, injuring 15 French soldiers and police trying to separate them, NATO officials said today. Town residents said one Albanian was killed and three injured. NATO spokesmen said the clash occurred late Thursday, drawing in French peacekeepers and police who tried to separate the two ethnic groups. Of the 15 injured, five soldiers were wounded by an exploding hand grenade, and the others by stones thrown by the two sides, said Maj. Ole Irgens, a spokesman for the peacekeepers. He said none of the injuries were critical. Several ethnic Albanian residents of Kosovska Mitrovica, who spoke on the phone on condition of anonymity, said one Albanian died and three were injured in the clash. Irgens said those reports were being checked today. Northwest of Pristina, Kosovo's capital, the town has figured prominently over the past months as an example of the ethnic hatreds blocking international efforts to establish normality in Kosovo in the wake of a Serb crackdown and prolonged NATO bombing of Yugoslavia to force a pullout of Serb troops. Kosovska Mitrovica is split into Serb and Albanian sectors, divided by the Ibar River. Hundreds of ethnic Albanians have demonstrated sporadically over the past two months, demanding the right to return to their homes in the Serb sector. French peacekeepers patrolling the region have prevented most from doing so, fearing bloodshed otherwise. Like previous confrontations, Thursday's clash began with crowds of Serbs and Albanians forming on the two ends of the bridge over the Ibar. The violence was sure to fuel ethnic tensions and lead to further retributory bloodshed. Minority Serbs still in Kosovo blame the Kosovo Liberation Army for the rash of attacks on their ethnic group since Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accepted Western peace terms and pulled his troops out of the province after NATO bombing ended in June. On Thursday, NATO announced that eight KLA members had been arrested in the western city of Djakovica in an apartment where peacekeepers found a machine gun, ammunition, 30 cluster bombs, two 85-mm anti-tank weapons and several anti-personnel mines. KLA leaders deny wrongdoing, as they push to establish authority in a Kosovo administered by the United Nations and policed by NATO, so as to be in a dominant position once the international presence ends. The KLA's military leader, Gen. Agim Ceku said Thursday his organization, which is to disarm and disband by Sept. 19, had won the right not only to transform into a civilian corps but to play a role in all other governmental institutions in Kosovo, including a defense unit of at least 5,000 members to respond to natural disasters and ``defend (Albanians) from aggression.'' ``The basis for this is the contribution that the KLA made to the war, a contribution which has to be respected by the international community,'' he said. Russia, however, has expressed opposition to any plan that falls short of the complete disarmament and disbanding of the former rebel army. A NATO military officer said Thursday that peacekeepers were working to establish a ``Kosovo Corps'' to operate after the Sept. 19 demilitarization deadline. NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Robin Clifford said that although the Kosovo Corps would be a ``civil organization,'' it ``will have military structures, which means they will be uniformed public services.'' He added that the tasks which the Kosovo Corps would perform, however, ``are yet to be discussed.'' In Moscow, the ITAR-Tass quoted unidentified Foreign Ministry sources as saying Russia would raise objections during the upcoming session of the U.N. General Assembly and would insist on ``the army's disarmament and the elimination of the stocks of weapons.'' DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research
[CTRL] One E. Coli on the Rocks
-Caveat Lector- 1 Dead, 500 Sick in E.coli Outbreak By JESSE J. HOLLAND .c The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Nearly 500 people have been sickened and one child died in the largest E. coli outbreak in state history - and possibly one of the worst nationally - health officials said Thursday. The outbreak of the deadly bacteria at the Washington County Fair, about 35 miles north of Albany, was likely caused by the contamination of the fair's water. Health officials said the water supply may have been tainted when rainwater washed over cow feces from a cattle barn on the fair grounds and ran into an underground aquifer tapped by the fair's wells. Additionally, officials were worried that the contamination may have spread beyond the Greenwich fair. A fair worker who sold sausages might have taken three gallons of tainted water with her to use for coffee, lemonade and frozen treats at the Rensselaer County Fair in Schaghticoke, state Health Commissioner Antonia Novello said Thursday. Novello said no cases of E. coli had been connected to the Rensselaer fair, one county to the south. By Thursday, 497 people had been treated at hospitals for E. coli symptoms, Novello said. Eighty-five case have been confirmed as E. coli poisoning, she said. A child, 3-year old Rachel Aldrich of Clifton Park, succumbed to the Greenwich outbreak. Tests showed that one of the wells at the Washington County Fair was infected with E. Coli bacteria. Health officials also think that a deadly strain of E. Coli, 0157:H7, also came from that well, but they have yet to find any traces of it. The well is near a cattle barn and the ground around it had been dug up for the installation of two new wells. Heavy rains in late August could have driven E. coli contaminated cattle manure into the well, Novello said. It is possible that health officials will never find the deadly strain since the first tests for E. coli were done Sept. 3, four days after the fair ended, said Donald Dixon Despommier, a microbiology professor at Columbia University's School of Public Health. ``It's like closing the barn door after the horses are already gone,'' he said. Tests on the well in June showed no contamination, health officials said. 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] NOW He Tells Us ...
-Caveat Lector- Apparently the Kurds and Timorese --unlike the Albanians of Kosovo-- don't have enough "market share" in the NWO's underground economy to merit our attention ... Cohen Warns on U.S. Intervention By ROBERT BURNS .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States should not commit troops in every international crisis that ``catches our eye and emotion,'' Defense Secretary William Cohen said in remarks that suggested an inclination not to intervene militarily in East Timor. In a speech prepared for delivery Thursday night to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Coronado, Calif., Cohen made no mention of the crisis in East Timor, where violence triggered by an independence vote has forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homeland. Focusing on lessons learned from the Kosovo conflict, Cohen said the United States and its NATO allies were right to intervene in Kosovo to end Serb repression, but the experience underscored that intervention is not the answer in every crisis. ``Among the enduring lessons of this and every conflict is that we must resist the temptation to use our forces in every dispute that catches our eye and emotion,'' Cohen said in his prepared remarks. An advance copy of his speech was made available to reporters at the Pentagon. Cohen said the 78-day NATO air war against Yugoslavia showed the changing nature of warfare and political conflict, saying it highlighted a ``superpower paradox'': U.S. supremacy in conventional military power is prompting adversaries to develop unconventional methods of warfare. For example, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic used ``rape, pillage and slaughter'' as a military tactic, Cohen said. By expelling hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and killing many others, Milosevic created a humanitarian crisis as a combat strategy, he said. Cohen said Americans must answer several basic questions before deciding whether it is right to intervene militarily in an international crisis like Kosovo. Among those questions are whether the vital interests of the United States or its allies are directly threatened and whether ``the wheel of conflict, if allowed to spin on its violent axis'' will draw other nations into its vortex at ever greater cost. 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] CIA on Threat of N. Korea, Iran, Other Renegades
-Caveat Lector- CIA Wary on N. Korea, Iran Missiles By ROBERT BURNS .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - North Korea is preparing to flight-test a ballistic missile ``at any time'' that could be developed into an intercontinental-range weapon capable of striking U.S. territory, the CIA says. A report released by the CIA on Thursday also said Iran probably will develop ICBMs over the next 15 years and that Iraq poses an additional - though somewhat more distant - ballistic missile threat. The report characterized the prospect of North Korea acquiring a long-range missile by 2015 as ``most likely,'' Iran's prospect was judged to be ``probable'' and Iraq was labeled a ``possible'' threat. These emerging missile forces ``potentially can kill tens of thousands, or even millions, of Americans,'' depending on their accuracy and whether they carry nuclear, chemical or biological warheads, it said. The United States has no way to shoot down long-range ballistic missiles, although the Pentagon is spending billions of dollars to develop anti-missile missiles to shield the United States against a limited attack. Countries developing ballistic missiles also are probably working on ``countermeasures'' that would let their missiles overcome U.S. defenses, the report said. Russia and China, which have developed numerous countermeasures, probably are willing to sell these technologies, it said. Russia has about 1,000 long-range missiles with about 4,500 nuclear warheads. China has about 20 missiles capable of reaching the United States. The CIA report said short-range ballistic missiles, such as Iran's Shahab-3 and North Korea's No Dong, pose an ``immediate, serious and growing threat to U.S. forces, interests and allies'' in the Middle East and Asia. Those missiles cannot reach U.S. soil. The report portrayed the threat from North Korea, Iran and Iraq as somewhat less immediate than did the bipartisan Rumsfeld Commission, which told Congress in July 1998 that North Korea and Iran - in as little as five years - could field a missile capable of striking U.S. territory. The Rumsfeld Commission also concluded that the CIA's ability to provide timely and accurate estimates of ballistic missile threats to the United States is eroding, and that warning times are being reduced. A senior U.S. intelligence official said Thursday the CIA has changed the way it assesses missile threats. The CIA used to wait until a country deployed a missile once before declaring it a threat. Now it will declare a threat as soon as a country successfully test-launches a missile, the official said. He discussed the new report on condition he not be identified. He said intelligence analysts expect North Korea to flight-test its Taepo Dong 2 missile this year unless the North Koreans heed U.S. warnings against such a test. The issue is high on the agenda U.S.-North Korea talks opened Tuesday in Berlin. The CIA believes the Taepo Dong 2 is designed to carry a nuclear weapon, although it may be tested initially as an unarmed space launch vehicle. It is believed capable of reaching Hawaii or Alaska. It is not known whether North Korea has a nuclear weapon, nor whether the North Koreans have developed a missile re-entry vehicle capable of surviving the flight - exiting the atmosphere and then coming back in. Russia has long posed a major nuclear threat to the United States, although Washington and Moscow are attempting to implement a second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty to greatly reduce their arsenals. Defense Secretary William Cohen is traveling to Moscow next week to discuss prospects for cutting nuclear weapons even further, and to discuss future missile defenses. ``The Russian threat, although significantly reduced, will continue to be the most robust and lethal, considerably more so than that posed by China, and orders of magnitude more than that potentially posed by other nations,'' the CIA report said. 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
[CTRL] Bible Code is Bunk
-Caveat Lector- 'Bible Code' Debunked by Scholars By RICHARD N. OSTLING .c The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - An international team of statisticians is debunking the controversial ``Bible code,'' which claims the Old Testament has hidden references to 20th century events that can be revealed by a computer. Proponents of the code claim that names and events were hidden in the Bible as written thousands of years ago and can be found through computer searches of the Hebrew text. Television documentaries, fast-selling books and numerous articles have popularized the theory, first published in the academic journal Statistical Science. Now the same journal, published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics based in Hayward, Calif., is offering an article challenging the technique it reported in 1994. The article will be published in the quarterly next week. Believers in the ``Bible code'' theory treat the Hebrew Bible as a string of letters without spaces, looking for words formed by equidistant letter sequences. For instance, computers might select every ninth Hebrew letter and register a ``hit'' when a ``coded word'' intersects with a Bible verse containing related words. Five years ago, three Israeli scholars published the results of their search in the journal. As they explained, they took names of famous rabbis from a reference dictionary, applied letter sequences and found the names near the rabbis' dates of birth or death. Using the same technique, others have claimed the Bible contains secret predictions, including everything from the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 to a Los Angeles earthquake in 2010. Major Bible scholars ignore the code because, they note, no one has a letter-by-letter version of the Bible as originally written. The oldest surviving manuscripts include slight variations, any of which would throw off computer test results. In the upcoming edition of Statistical Science, the new study's authors - Dror Bar-Natan, Maya Bar-Hillel and Gil Kalai, professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, and Brendan McKay of the Australian National University - combine expertise in mathematics and computer science to debunk the theory. Using other spellings and assumptions, they ran hundreds of tests that repeated the experiment with different variations and applied it to more biblical books. ``Despite a considerable amount of effort,'' they write, ``we have been unable to detect the codes.'' This is significant, Bar-Natan said in a Thursday interview, because ``truth in science is never based on the results of a single experiment. A significant requirement is repeatability.'' Their results were no more successful with the Hebrew translation of Tolstoy's ``War and Peace.'' Such letter configurations can be found in any long text, they say. The trick is to find letters in close proximity that form significant words more often than by chance. Robert Kass, head of the statistics department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, edited the journal when it published the first article and said it was reviewed by other experts. He is disturbed that people perceived publication as ``a stamp of scientific approval.'' That first article, he said, merely presented a puzzle - one that has now been explained. ``The new study shows there were many, many choices, particularly for things like the names of the rabbis, that involved a lot of latitude. It was only for special sources that the results appeared,'' he said Thursday. He said such studies must avoid statistical ``tuning,'' just as medical research projects follow strict protocol. Bar-Natan says that procedures in the 1994 project had ``enough wiggle room to produce whatever you want.'' Authors of the earlier article could not be reached for comment. 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] Implants, Y'all Hear?
-Caveat Lector- Hearing Nerves Adjust to Implants WASHINGTON (AP) - A study using deaf kittens showed that devices called cochlear implants can stimulate growth and change in the nerves of the hearing system among the very young. Researchers at the Physiologisches Institut of Frankfurt, Germany, tested the effects of the cochlear implants by putting them into the brains of kittens that were deaf at birth. The scientists report Friday in the journal Science that as the cats got older, they began to respond to sounds in the same way as cats that were born with normal hearing. The researchers, led by Rainer Klinke, found in congenitally deaf cats that the unstimulated auditory nervous system did not develop in the same way as for normal cats. They found that when the deaf cats were outfitted with the cochlear implants at three to four months after birth, parts of their brains changed so that sounds were processed and the animals responded to commands and signals. Such changes did not occur in congenitally deaf cats without the devices, the researchers found. Dr. Josef P. Rauschecker of the Georgetown University Medical Center said in Science the study shows that the young brain is adaptable to stimulation from the implant and offers some explanation for the medical experience with the device in humans. Though the use of cochlear implants is controversial among the deaf, Rauschecker implants early in life of children born deaf ``have proven quite successful.'' However, among adults who have been deaf since childhood, the history of cochlear implants ``abounds with examples of failure.'' 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] Nozone: UV Radiation Levels Up 12%
-Caveat Lector- UV Rays in New Zealand Seen Rising By PAUL RECER .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A decades-long study has confirmed that sunburn-causing ultraviolet radiation in New Zealand has increased by about 12 percent in the last 20 years, probably as the result of a thinning ozone layer in the atmosphere. The study, to be published Friday in the journal Science, measured the midday level of ultraviolet radiation at Lauder, New Zealand from 1979 to last summer and found a steady increase in the UV rays. On several occasions last summer, the study found, the UV index in Lauder exceeded 12.5. A UV index level of 10 or more is considered to be very high by the Environmental Protection Agency. Ultraviolet radiation has been measured at a number of places around the Earth over the last few years because of concern about the thinning ozone layer. The erosion of ozone has been blamed on the decades-long use of industrial gases, such as propellants in hair spray and some refrigerants, that destroy the natural atmospheric gas. Use of the ozone-destroying chemicals has been phased out or curtailed under an international agreement, but the effects are expected to last well into the next century. Ozone is a natural gas in the atmosphere that blocks some of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun. When ozone is thinned, more UV reaches the Earth. Ultraviolet-B radiation is a primary cause of sunburn and some forms of skin cancer. High levels of UV-B are thought to harm some plants and animals. Some experts have estimated that a 1 percent reduction in ozone can lead to a 3 percent increase in some types of skin cancer. UV radiation measurements in New Zealand and other sites in the far South Pacific are of particular interest because they are thought to be influenced by the ozone hole that develops each spring over the South Pole. A thinner ozone layer in the southern hemisphere is thought possibly to be a factor in the high rates of skin cancer in New Zealand. The study by Richard McKenzie, Brian Connor and Greg Bodeker of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand shows a strong connection between a decrease in ozone and an increase in UV radiation, experts said. William J. Randel of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said there has been about a 10 percent thinning in the stratospheric ozone over the last 30 years, but scientists have had problems in connecting that with actual, dependable measurements of UV radiation increases at the ground level. He said weather and other conditions make the measurements difficult. The work by McKenzie and his group, said Randel, gives powerful support for the estimates of how ozone thinning affects the increase in UV. The study is important, said Randel, because it gives reliable information for a long period of time and boosts scientific confidence in the theory that links ozone loss to UV increases. ``This is a significant study. It shows there is a good agreement between the calculated UV and the observed UV,'' said Randel and helps to validate the ozone-UV models. Ozone-killing gases in the atmosphere have leveled out in recent years, he said, but it will take decades before the effects of the manmade chemicals disappear altogether. 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] Weather Control
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/weather.cfm Weather Control THE BAD NEWS IS THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL! THE WORST POSSIBLE NEWS IS THAT SCIENTISTS ARE CREATING WARMING, STORMS, AND NATURAL DISASTERS!! The United Nations established a global War Crimes Tribunal that will exercise control over sovereign nations in certain types of crimes. Six-Step Attitudinal Change Plan is working here. This is a huge step to the global government of Antichrist. [Part 1 of 3]. ARTICLES FROM MASS MEDIA OVER THE YEARS HAVE TALKED BOLDLY ABOUT WEATHERWEAPONS! FURTHER CONFIRMATION THEY EXIST! We have reported that a United Nations treaty is on record prohibiting any nation from using Weather Weapons against any other nation. Now, we will review articles that have appeared in the last 20 years boldly declaring that Weather Weapons do exist and do work. [Part 2 of 3] We have reported that a United Nations treaty is on record prohibiting any nation from using Weather Weapons against any other nation. Now, we will review articles that have appeared in the last 20 years boldly declaring that Weather Weapons do exist and do work. [Part 2 of 3] MORE BOLD ARTICLES FROM MASS MEDIA TELLING US ABOUT WEATHER WEAPON TECHNOLOGY! We review still more articles about the technology to control the weather. You will be stunned to learn how prevalent it is today. We conclude with a shocking United Nations pamphlet that ties weather control into their New World Order Plan! Part 3 of 3. CAUSING A MASSIVE FLOODING WITH WEATHER WEAPON TECHNOLOGY Now that we have examined firm, irrefutable evidence that Weather Weapons do exist, let us see how a massive, 500-year flood can actually be created, in the exact spot scientists choose. UNPRECEDENTED FLOODING IN CHINA Weird Weather continues to rear its ugly head, in Communist China. Once more, we see historically unprecedented storms - flooding this time - pummeling mankind. Weather Warfare is a likely reason. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN THE PROGRESS OF WEATHER WARFARE TECHNOLOGY When we study the progression of scientific advances that allow government scientists to control the weather, we can learn much about Weather Warfare. A TERRIFYING LOOK AT THE CONTROL OF WEATHER WARFARE -- A LOOK AT HAARP We shall take a basic look at the technology involved in controlling the weather. We shall try to take a simple look so you can understand a most complex scientific subject. LIFE MAGAZINE TAKES NOTICE OF THE WEIRD WEATHER THE PAST TWO YEARS, BUT THEIR SOLUTION IS EXTREME TYPICALLY NEW AGE! Life Magazine takes note of the terribly weird weather in the past two years, gives great statistics, and almost takes note of the capability to control weather. Yet, their conclusion is almost the New World Order goal. "AND POWER WAS GIVEN TO HIM" The Bible is very explicit in its teaching of the rise of Antichrist and his subsequent domination of all aspects of life on earth. When will his New World Order come to fruition? Why would secular society as we know it worship a priest-king? What is the source of his power and might? Does he actually circumvent the sovereignty of God? Furthermore, does modern technology give any preliminary hints as to his control over the "forces of nature"? Lastly, how could God allow evil forces to destroy His creation? Insights to these and other related questions are discussed in this article. Return to Cutting Edge 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] Educational Perspectives
-Caveat Lector- From Irish Times Note: Titles under "Contents" are hot linques Thursday, September 9, 1999 New Primary Curriculum preview Following is the full text of a preview of the new Primary Curriculum, issued by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: CONTENTS Curriculum Areas Language Mathematics Social, environmental and scientific education Arts education Physical education Social, personal and health education Special Educational Needs Parents Information and Communications Technologies Assessment General Introduction The revised curriculum will be formally submitted to the Minister for Education and Science for consideration in the near future. This marks a very significant development in the history of primary education and the culmination of many year of work by all the partners in education. Its introduction presents all of us with a unique opportunity to effect change and to prepare children for the challenges and opportunities of the future. The curriculum will offer teachers a framework from which to plan a programme which meets their own unique requirements in the school and classroom. It incorporates a number of key benefits. Among these are the following: it is evolutionary, building on current best practice and based on the key principles and philosophy of the 1971 curriculum it is forward-looking and aims to develop skills and competences that are appropriate for children in the new millennium it is child-centred, focusing on the child as a learner and is directed towards developing learning skills and a love of learning it contains a rich variety of practical exemplars and explores a wide range of approaches and methodologies in each subject area which will be of great assistance to teachers it offers flexibility within a clear structured national framework while enabling teachers and schools to plan for different needs and circumstances it is presented in an accessible and user-friendly format to facilitate ease of reference and planning it provides for assessment of pupils' progress as an integral part of the teaching and learning process Most importantly the curriculum outlines a detailed and comprehensive range of objectives and learning experiences which focus not only on what children learn but on how learning takes place. It is resourceful and supportive and is designed to provide the necessary guidance and materials for teachers in mediating the curriculum in the classroom. A brief summary of the defining features of the curriculum will provide an understanding of some of the main emphases and changes which are envisaged. Among the key areas of emphasis are the following: the focus on the process of learning and on the many ways in which children learn the importance of active independent learning and in particular active exploration of the local environment the importance of the social and emotional dimension in learning and the need to build the child's self confidence and self-esteem. The inclusion of Social, Personal and Health Education as a key curriculum area is an important new element the emphasis on the use of concrete materials and hands-on approaches in all curricular areas the importance of collaborative learning and the need for a variety of classroom management strategies the emphasis on key skills such as creative problem-solving, critical thinking, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and the importance of helping children to investigate, to question, to observe and to make informed judgements. The development of these higher order thinking skills is incorporated in every curriculum area skills of inquiry and investigation are a particular feature of the science curriculum which is given a renewed emphasis the emphasis on school and classroom planning. There is a wide range of support materials in the documentation which gives guidance on planning. The recognition of the importance of assessment, the use of a varied range of assessment methods and tools and an emphasis on assessment as part of a cycle which include planning, teaching, learning and assessing a characteristic feature of the development of the curriculum was the close involvement and cooperation of the partners in cooperation. This partnership approach is also advocated in planning for its implementation in the school. These features of the curriculum are developed more extensively in this bulletin. There is also a brief overview of some of the main areas of emphasis in each subject area. The revised curriculum incorporates the most advanced educational theory and practice and is designed to enable children to acquire knowledge and skills that are relevant to their lives both as children and adults. As we prepare for the 21st century it is important that the curriculum
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-Caveat Lector- Here's a list of lists from Free-Market.Net. Go to the site provided and review the subject descriptions and enroll (or not) E-Mail Lists Hosted @Free-Market.Net E-mail lists (also known as listservers) are automated programs where a single message can be sent to an entire group of subscribers. They can be "broadcast" lists where only the moderator or administrator sends out announcements (such as FMNews) or they can be discussion lists, where the subscribers interact with each other. Use this one simple form to add or remove yourself from all the public e-mail lists that are operated by Free-Market.Net and our partners. You can subscribe and unsubscribe yourself at any time, so there is never any risk of unwanted bulk e-mail "spam." All of these lists are free. Give them a try! Use the form below, or subscribe to the lists further down where they are described in more detail. (Note: You can now get free personalized e-mail updates through the Intellectual Matchmaker.) Members: Instead of the form below, you can now use the easy, centralized E-Mail List Subscription Manager to manage all your subscriptions. Choose the action ... enter your e-mail address ... choose the list ... and go! FMNews LibertyNow Daily News Updates Libernet Individualist Feminist Update List Free Market Environmental Update List Freedom Book of the Month Freedom Page of the Week Cato On-Line Update Cato's Free Trade Listserv Cato's Daily Dispatch Reason Express Miss Liberty's Film and TV Update Heartland PolicyFax Antiwar List Social Security Opt Out! School Reform Bellwether Bellwether Briefs Goldwater Perspectives Warne Center ViewPoints FIJA Discussion Group E-Gold Discussion List EGG List LRT List Chicago Events Update Chicago Federalist Society Student News AER ~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Russian Reformation
-Caveat Lector- www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : Russia the CIS What lies behind the corruption scandals in the Kremlin? By Patrick Richter 10 September 1999 Back to screen version For over a week, accusations of corruption against President Boris Yeltsin and his "family" have been mounting. They were unleashed by the almost simultaneous publication of three articles, which for the first time linked Yeltsin personally to a series of scandals in Russia. First, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that investigations had been launched into the granting of credit cards to Yeltsin's family. During a probe of the Swiss company Mabetex, records were found relating to credit cards issued to Boris Yeltsin and his daughters, Tatyana Dyachenko and Yelena Okulova. Mabetex, which received $335 million worth of contracts for the restoration of the Kremlin and other government buildings, had transferred millions of dollars to the private account of Pavel Borodin at a Budapest bank. Borodin is the director of the department for real estate and services in the Kremlin, and is considered to be number two after Yeltsin, who is believed to have received a million dollars in compensation. On the Mabetex balance sheet, the amounts appeared as "local special expenditures". Under Swiss law, commissions paid to a foreign official are not subject to taxation, but the name and account number of the recipient must be shown. Second, Yeltsin's name surfaced in a series of articles in Switzerland about the seizure of Boris Berezovski's bank accounts. Berezovski, operating in league with one of Yeltsin's sons-in-law, is accused of having defrauded the Russian airline Aeroflot of $250 million. Third, the New York Times has published reports on nine bank accounts with the Bank of New York, through which up to $10 billion was laundered for the Russian Mafia, with Yeltsin's knowledge. Other reports put the total amount of laundered money at $15 billion. Even IMF funds were alleged to have flowed into the pockets of the Russian Mafia. According to USA Today, in addition to 12 former or current Russian cabinet members, Yeltsin and his daughter Dyachenko were involved. On September 3, Corriere della Sera published a report listing 24 names and addresses of Russians at the heart of the Mabetex scandal. Among them were Pavel Borodin and family, Anatoli Kruglov, the government official responsible for the lucrative area of customs, and Oleg Soskovez, vice-premier responsible for building, energy and health until his dismissal in 1996. Newspapers and press agencies are falling over themselves with new and detailed articles regarding the close links between Russian politics, business and the Mafia. Reports are being published describing in detail the obscene wealth of the new "jet-set Russians", whose Byzantine profligacy is on display at every exclusive international health resort. An article by Rudolph Chimelli, headlined "The Last Superpower", appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung August 28. Chimelli describes how the "new Russians"as Russia's nouveaux riches are calledindulge themselves on the French Riviera. One of them, Gennadi, orders the most expensive champagne and Beluga caviar at the beach. But he lacks the famous little ball of 24-carat gold, which, because of its high specific gravity, sinks when placed in fresh caviar, but stays on the resinous surface if the product is old." Chimelli writes that by the end of May, holiday mansions with monthly rents between 400,000 and 1.5 million francs (US$64,600-$242,350) are already completely booked. A hotel employee is quoted as saying, Russians and Americans fought for the most expensive mansions on the Côte d'Azur. In the end the Russians won, because they are not frightened to overpay, and they rent for four months." The waiter at one of the haute cuisine restaurants recalls a meal at which the diners ordered 23 bottles of Château Margaux 1971, at that time costing 8,000 francs (US$1,300) each. In the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo and in the Hôtel du Cap in Antibes, the reserves of rare Château Petrus 1985 and precious Romanée Conti 1983 have dwindledeven at a price of almost $3,250 a bottle". Although these descriptions throw light on Russian politics since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, they contain nothing surprising. In the recent past, especially since the financial crisis of August 1998, detailed reports have appeared on the extent of corruption and money laundering in Russia. Anyone who has followed the developments in Russia even marginally, or, like the Russian population, has experienced events firsthand, knows that this is only the tip of the iceberg. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the IMF, the World Bank and the majority of Western governments pursued a policy
Re: [CTRL] snafu principle [was A Physicist Explains]
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/hier.html below is a sample from the site: In American culture today, the hierarchical theory of organizations is so deeply ingrained that many people are completely unaware of it. This theory represents social structures as pyramids, with the serfs on the bottom and various layers of leaders leading up to the supreme commander on the top. Examples are the Catholic Church and the armed forces. Two of the assumptions in this model bother me: That the people above are smarter than the ones below and they know better what is going on; That watching over other people is a more important activity than producing actual goods and services. In Illuminatus!, a satirical study of social pathologies, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea brought out an important principal that causes trouble in hierarchies: the Snafu Principle. People tend to say what they think the boss wants to hear, especially if they have noticed that the practice of ``shooting the messenger'' is common. This means that the information passed up the pyramid is distorted at each level. Thus, each higher layer of managers tends to have less and less contact with reality, and near the top they are often completely out of touch. http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/hier.html Original Message Follows From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm afraid I'm fresh out of outrage at the parents. Nobody has yet convinced me that people should not live in religious communities of their own choosing. No one has yet convinced me that police cannot make arrests the old fashioned way, by going up to a door and knocking and telling the individual they are charging with a crime to come down town with them. Personal responsibility is something that our justice department agencies need to consider as well. There was a time when our law enforcement people at all levels were respected. Now all they engender is fear. Prudy __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Gulf War Syndrome by Captn J Riley
-Caveat Lector- http://www.all-natural.com/riley.html Gulf War Syndrome Biological Warfare Conducted on U.S. Military Members, and Corporate Bio-Genocide Levied on the Planetary Population A Lecture By Captain Joyce Riley in Houston, Texas on January 15, 1996 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] Waco: The Rules of Engagement documentary or hoax?
-Caveat Lector- In the Rules of Engagement, there is a moment where an ATF agent can be seen on the roof of the complex, just outside a window. I have seen other versions of this moment and one thing I can tell everyone is that in the Rules of Engagement, the piece is cut JUST BEFORE an ATF agent pumps him full of bullets. Yes, I am telling you that a BATF agent shot a BATF agent and it was CENSORED from the Rules of Engagement. Original Message Follows From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] If so, your suspicions are well founded. "Waco: The Rules of Engagement," the much ballyhooed "documentary" on Waco, is a hoax. WTROE is an effort to misdirect protest over Waco while pretending to be a protest piece. WTROE hides the most damaging truths and directs attention to false issues. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] NOW He Tells Us ...
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently the Kurds and Timorese --unlike the Albanians of Kosovo-- don't have enough "market share" in the NWO's underground economy to merit our attention ... Or, Kurdistan and Indonesia [and Rwanda and Haiti and Zaire/Congo and Tibet], unlike the former Yugoslavia, aren't located in places that could provoke scads of interested neighbors into waging a general East-West-South Eurasian war. It's just like in real estate - location, location, location... 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] y2k WW3 Martial Law NWO
-Caveat Lector- http://www.realtime.net/~dream/news.html Lots to read with photos. Nicky Y2K * WORLD WAR III * MARTIAL LAW * NEW WORLD ORDER CRISIS! INVISIBLE SOLDIERS NOW A REALITY There is currently a world takeover attempt being done under the guise of the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and many of our world leaders. It's called the New World Order FEMA is building concentration camps on American soil as we speak. In an effort to divert the public it is now being called Globalism by mainstream media. The current wars in Kosovo and Iraq are part of the takeover attempt. The United Nations and NATO are quickly taking over sovereignty of every country around the world. This takeover attempt could take place before January 1, 2000 due to the World War III * Y2K * Martial Law Crisis. According to unconstitutional U.S. laws passed, the United States government does have the right to declare Martial Law and take the people over if Y2K does happen. The United States Constitution will be suspended! The corrupt give you the Illusion they are working for peace. They are not! FEMA - The Secret Government Detention Camp Photographs FEMA -THE U.S. SHADOW GOVERNMENT Proof Martial Law is Coming! US knew Pearl Harbor was going to be Attacked Department of Defense wants more Martial Law Preparations Ramsey Clark says kosovo is about U.S. domination New World Order United Nations Corruption The United Nations United Nations Vehicles on US Soil! The UN's New Corporate Partners Radioactive Weapons used by NATO in Kosovo Of course they knew about Y2K all alongJust say no to Martial LawMartial LawMount Weather- Primed for Martial Law Captain Riley- Gulf War SyndromeUS War Crimes during the Gulf WarPearl HarborEnd Gulf War Syndrome Cover-Up Project Censored 1998 Top Ten List Clinton's Contras- the KLA 35,000 NUCLEAR WARHEADS ARE READY TO FIRE! EVEN FROM SPACE! EKV One warhead can now kill 7 million people. The Nuclear NumbersEKV SLAVES TO THE CORPORATIONS Greedy corporations have completely strangled small business with their corrupt corporate laws. They have also destroyed the soul of free enterprise. We should have thousands of car makers in the U.S. Instead we have three. CORPORATE WATCH ADM Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing of Productshttp://www.realchange.org/ THE SLAUGHTER OF 6 MILLION PEOPLE A YEAR BY THE CORRUPT Tuberculosis and Aids Only corrupt people would allow this kind of tragedy to take place Tuberculosis Spreads Through Crowded City Buses Epidemic! World Without Cancer - The Ultimate Cancer Conspiracy Amazon.com- A Glance- World Without Cancer - The Story THREE MILLION STARVED IN NORTH KOREA FAMINE SO FAR Mainstream media has failed miserably covering this ongoing world tragedy. Almost no live coverage! Research is very hard to come by. Is this done by design? ABC News Reports on the FamineInternet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killing ARMY SPECIAL FORCES ARE NOW DESCENDING ON UNKNOWING AMERICAN CITIES WITH LIVE FIRE BLACK HELICOPTERS UNDER THE GUISE OF TRAINING. Two groups doing this are the nightstalkers and the delta force. black helicopters over america - strikeforce for the new world order charlotte mayor protests urban warfare drills The SS in america?- The nightstalkers web site NEW WORLD ORDER CHECKPOINTS ACROSS AMERICA These checkpoints are being done under the guise of sobriety checks, stolen vehicle checks and license checks. Starting to sound like a police state to you? Recent Checkpoints Annoy Area Drivers Sobriety Checkpoint Upsets Fans Leaving Chiefs Game License Checkpoints Returning Soon Police Plan DUI
[CTRL] Fwd: EPIC Alert 6.14
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Volume 6.14 September 9, 1999
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Published by the
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http://www.epic.org
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Table of Contents
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[1] Free Speech Groups Attack Internet Rating Plan
[2] EPIC Releases Report on Filters and Freedom
[3] Privacy Commissioners, Advocates, Technologists Gather in Hong Kong
[4] Documents Reveal Secret Service Role in Identity Database
[5] EPIC and Privacy InternationaI Release Report on Privacy and Human
Rights
[6] FCC to Appeal Telephone Customer Privacy Decision
[7] EPIC Bookstore - New EPIC Publications
[8] Upcoming Conferences and Events
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[1] Free Speech Groups Attack Internet Rating Plan
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Internet free speech groups from across the world released a statement
warning that adoption of a global "voluntary" Internet rating and
filtering scheme could suppress the free flow of information and
facilitate governmental censorship. Nineteen organizations from the
Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), an international coalition of
cyber-liberties and human rights groups, submitted the statement at
the Internet Content Summit in Munich this week, where 300 Net
industry executives, government officials, legal scholars, and
consumer advocates are joining to discuss proposals to regulate
material online.
Over the past nine months, the Bertelsmann Foundation, a German think
tank associated with the media giant, has collaborated with
representatives from government, industry, law enforcement, and
non-governmental organizations to devise policies to control
objectionable material online. The Bertelsmann Foundation, which
organized the conference, is presenting a memorandum that outlines a
range of resolutions for self-regulation of the Internet. A key
proposal centers upon the creation of an international rating system
that will enable Web site operators to "voluntarily" rate their sites
and filtering software to block "inappropriate" content accordingly.
Free speech advocates argue that filtering mechanisms will have a
chilling effect on free expression and may undermine the democratic
nature of the Internet. Cyber-liberties groups claim that the
widespread adoption of such technology would make it easier for
governments to mandate the use of filtering software and impose civil
or criminal penalties for "mis-rating." GILC members warn in the
statement, "When closely scrutinized, these should be viewed more
realistically as fundamental architectural changes that may, in fact,
facilitate the suppression of speech far more effectively than
national laws alone ever could."
The GILC letter emphasizes that numerous undesirable effects are
likely to follow the implementation of rating and filtering software.
It contends that the adoption of such mechanisms "may prevent
individuals from discussing controversial or unpopular topics, impose
burdensome compliance costs on speakers, distort the fundamental
cultural diversity of the Internet, enable invisible 'upstream'
filtering, and eventually create a homogenized Internet dominated by
large commercial interests."
The full text of the GILC member statement is available at:
http://www.gilc.org/speech/ratings/gilc-munich.html
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[2] EPIC Releases Report on Filters and Freedom
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EPIC has released a new collection of critiques and studies that
analyze the potential problems of Internet filtering and rating
systems. "Filters and Freedom: Free Speech Perspectives on Internet
Content Controls" warns that the adoption of software to limit the
availability of material online may jeopardize free expression and
facilitate governmental censorship.
The EPIC publication includes articles by leading advocates of free
Re: [CTRL] NOW He Tells Us ...
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: Ric Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apparently the Kurds and Timorese --unlike the Albanians of Kosovo-- don't have enough "market share" in the NWO's underground economy to merit our attention ... Or, Kurdistan and Indonesia [and Rwanda and Haiti and Zaire/Congo and Tibet], unlike the former Yugoslavia, aren't located in places that could provoke scads of interested neighbors into waging a general East-West-South Eurasian war. It's just like in real estate - location, location, location... == a) NATO wants the caspian sea b) iraq resists this agenda c) turkey supports this agenda [which is why we bomb iraq for messing with the kurds but support turkey for doing the same] d) serbia resistED this agenda e) saudi arabia supports this agenda f) the "ethnic albanians" of kosovo are not generic muslims - specifically, a vast majority of them hail from turkey and saudi arabia. g) the biggest pipeline in europe runs through the balkans h) the balkans stick right out into the shipping lanes that come out of the CASPIAN SEA from here only a modicum of deductive reasoning is necessary to figure out "what's really going on" __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] EPIC Alert 6.14
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Volume 6.14 September 9, 1999
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Published by the
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Washington, D.C.
http://www.epic.org
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Table of Contents
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[1] Free Speech Groups Attack Internet Rating Plan
[2] EPIC Releases Report on Filters and Freedom
[3] Privacy Commissioners, Advocates, Technologists Gather in Hong Kong
[4] Documents Reveal Secret Service Role in Identity Database
[5] EPIC and Privacy InternationaI Release Report on Privacy and Human
Rights
[6] FCC to Appeal Telephone Customer Privacy Decision
[7] EPIC Bookstore - New EPIC Publications
[8] Upcoming Conferences and Events
===
[1] Free Speech Groups Attack Internet Rating Plan
===
Internet free speech groups from across the world released a statement
warning that adoption of a global "voluntary" Internet rating and
filtering scheme could suppress the free flow of information and
facilitate governmental censorship. Nineteen organizations from the
Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), an international coalition of
cyber-liberties and human rights groups, submitted the statement at
the Internet Content Summit in Munich this week, where 300 Net
industry executives, government officials, legal scholars, and
consumer advocates are joining to discuss proposals to regulate
material online.
Over the past nine months, the Bertelsmann Foundation, a German think
tank associated with the media giant, has collaborated with
representatives from government, industry, law enforcement, and
non-governmental organizations to devise policies to control
objectionable material online. The Bertelsmann Foundation, which
organized the conference, is presenting a memorandum that outlines a
range of resolutions for self-regulation of the Internet. A key
proposal centers upon the creation of an international rating system
that will enable Web site operators to "voluntarily" rate their sites
and filtering software to block "inappropriate" content accordingly.
Free speech advocates argue that filtering mechanisms will have a
chilling effect on free expression and may undermine the democratic
nature of the Internet. Cyber-liberties groups claim that the
widespread adoption of such technology would make it easier for
governments to mandate the use of filtering software and impose civil
or criminal penalties for "mis-rating." GILC members warn in the
statement, "When closely scrutinized, these should be viewed more
realistically as fundamental architectural changes that may, in fact,
facilitate the suppression of speech far more effectively than
national laws alone ever could."
The GILC letter emphasizes that numerous undesirable effects are
likely to follow the implementation of rating and filtering software.
It contends that the adoption of such mechanisms "may prevent
individuals from discussing controversial or unpopular topics, impose
burdensome compliance costs on speakers, distort the fundamental
cultural diversity of the Internet, enable invisible 'upstream'
filtering, and eventually create a homogenized Internet dominated by
large commercial interests."
The full text of the GILC member statement is available at:
http://www.gilc.org/speech/ratings/gilc-munich.html
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[2] EPIC Releases Report on Filters and Freedom
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EPIC has released a new collection of critiques and studies that
analyze the potential problems of Internet filtering and rating
systems. "Filters and Freedom: Free Speech Perspectives on Internet
Content Controls" warns that the adoption of software to limit the
availability of material online may jeopardize free expression and
facilitate governmental censorship.
The EPIC publication includes articles by leading advocates of free
speech on the Internet, including the American Civil Liberties Union,
Electronic
Re: [CTRL] Luke Ford- JFK Jr. A Homo
-Caveat Lector- The light dawns and I just woke up - what this does it make it where anyone can go on a witch hunt or should I say a hetro hunt about hate language. Someone can say anything they want and claim that you were prejudice against them because they were homo. piper wrote: -Caveat Lector- "Amazingly, the Outpost views the Absolutely Queer Kennedy poster as a tribute to their hunky hero. "We're not doing it because we hate him," said gay psychiatrist Serafini, "but because we adore him, and want to claim him as one of us."" so now females can put up posters of males that they wish were hetro and say that they had been in a straight place so they have to really be closet hetros. Makes it seem as if the everyone is security homosexual, which they are not SO what it does do it have the potential of making people afraid to congregate and exchange ideas. piper William Shannon wrote: -Caveat Lector- How is JFK Jr like a penguin? Both are cute but can't fly. From Luke Ford Wire Services, Ltd: Was JFK Jr. Bisexual? Some stories are too true to be good--which is why the tale of JFK Jr.s secret life had to wait until Camelots crown jewels were scattered forever upon the high seas. Lukeford.com obtained the documents that follow from a former supermarket-tabloid operative who was a visible presence--with at least one bylined JFK Jr. story to his credit--on the early-Nineties JFK Jr. newsbeat. It is lukeford.coms postition that these remembrances of JFK Jr. adhere to enough principles of contemporary journalism--as practiced in, say, New York Magazines Intelligencer column--to warrant publication...if only as a colorful artifact of a vanished era. John-John, we hardly knew ye! According to George Wayne, a longtime columnist, photographer and nightlife arbiter elegantiae of Paper magazine and Vanity Fair, "John Kennedy Jr is one of the most gender-confused personalities of our time. His bisexuality is legendary in nightlife circles up and down the Eastern seaboard, in Manhattan, in the Hamptons, on Cape Cod. The only reason this fact has never come out in the media is because there are other reputations at stake besides John's. These scenes are heavily populated by other switch-hitters like John, who also come from prominent families and occupy positions of power and influence. It's a social climate where everybody's got something to hide. You know what they say about Catholic boys who get sent away to expensive boarding schools? Well, it's all true. And that's why you find John in clubs like the Underground--last known hangout of [homosexual] Malcolm Forbes--and Rex, where the scenes are awash in erotic ambiguity. The press is always speculating that John likes these places because that's where the fashion models and covergirls are. But it's a cardinal rule of nightclubs that whereever you find models, you'll also find gay men. You do the math. I happen to know for a fact that John had a three-way orgy with two friends of mine--a bisexual man and woman ---in the Hamptons two years ago. No, I'm not going to give you their names. But I was told that John had sex with both the woman and the man, although, in the case of the man, John just kind of lay back and let the man service him. It's no lie." January 8, 1991 Gay terrorists are threatening to accuse John Kennedy Jr. of being a homosexual in a shocking campaign that has already targeted such allegedly homosexual celebrities as Merv Griffin, John Travolta, Tom Selleck and Jodi Foster. A shadowy group of gay guerrillas known as "Outpost" are plastering New York City with posters that parody the Absolut volka advertisements, except that, instead of a vodka bottle, the gay ads feature celebrity pictures along with the words "Absolutely Queer". Within weeks, the gay pranksters warn, Absolutely Queer John-John Kennedy posters will be going up all over Manhattan. "John Kennedy Jr.'s homosexuality is one of New York City's best kept secrets," declared Dr. James Serafini, an openly gay psychiatrist who is a co-conspirator in the Outpost scheme. "And now we're going to share it with the rest of the world. Our poster campaigns against other gay celebrities have gotten nationwide attention, and now, whether he likes it or not, John-John is about to be dragged out of the closet. He'd better brace himself." New York City homosexuals are gleefully awaiting the smear campaign against Kennedy. Said Lou Malebta, who operates the pornographic Gay Cable Network: "This John-John Kennely zap has been a long time coming. It is shocking and insulting to the gay community that, in the midst of a deadly epidemic, a gay man of his power and influence would turn his back on his gay brothers and sisters. He has taken refuge in shame and secrecy, and now the gay community intends to reveal aim as the homosexual that he
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: SNET: Child Abuse At Waco.
-Caveat Lector- This man had a shot out with the previous leader a previous leader who had actually run for president - in that run for president: I wonder what connections the previous leader had made? Were those children being groomed and sold? There are video tapes of "sermons" What other tapes might there be - that if the children had lived - they might have been identified in? Let us take this a step further - lawyers joined and gave him there wives - who married them to those women? What happened to those women? piper Prudence L. Kuhn wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 09/05/1999 3:10:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this regard, let me emphasize that, despite what religious and social apologists say, any adult who grooms children to be his sex objects is sexually abusing those children. Sex between an adult and a child is abusive. Sex between an adult and an 11 or 12 year old child can not be consensual. The fact that the name of God and religion were used to obscure this exploitive and abusive practice make these activities even more heinous and destructive to the long term development of these children. \ I agree with you, and if what is written in your posting is true, then the authorities should have been charging this guy with child sexual abuse and putting him in jail. Why was the only reason for going after him something to do with weapons? For some reason or other, no one cared about the children even before they killed them. It was weapons that were important. Why didn't they simply pick this guy up from one of his jogs and charge him with his crimes? No matter how you slice it, nothing the Government (local or federal) makes any sense at all. Prudy -- Any person can stand adversity, The true test is to give a person power. If you treat a relationship as if you are the only one in it, eventually you will be. Atrocities happen when the people about you - start considering you surplus. "I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion" Thomas Jefferson http://freeweb.digiweb.com/science_fiction/ThePiedPiper/~index.htm ICQ 14484977 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] GAVIN PHILLIPS-- REPLY TO PUBLICEYE.ORG
-Caveat Lector- Hello Tony: I do not have any original documents. The checkable facts Griffin has referenced are the February 3 1949 issue of the New York Journal American. He also says that on March 24, 1917, the New York Times quotes a telegram sent by Schiff regarding the abdication of Nicholas II. He described the Russian revolution as "...what we had hoped and striven for these long years." Griffin also says that $10,000 was given to Trotsky to organize the Bolshevik phase of the Russian Revolution. The amount is known with certainty because Trotsky was arrested by Canadian and British naval personnel when Trotsky's ship, the S.S. Kristianiafjord, put in at Halifax. pg 265 "...it was assumed that the $10,000 was German money given to him in New York. The evidence, however, is that this, too, came from Kuhn, Loeb and company." Griffin's footnote here cites your book Tony, "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution." p21-24 Griffin also states that most of Trotsky's expenses whilst in New York for several months after he was thrown out of France in January 1916, were paid for by Jacob Schiff. pg 264 Thank you Gavin for pointing out these apparent discrepancies Let me try to explain the problem. Ive been working away at this conspiracy area in its various aspects since about 1960, and so has Ed Griffin, whom I have known for 20+ years with much respect . Back in the early 1970's I worked through the State Department Decimal file ( the CIA of 1920), the files of the War Trade Board, the British Foreign Office Confidential files and the German OKW files.. If you look at my WALL STREET AND THE BOLSEHVIK REVOLUTION( Buccaneers Book) and AMERICAS SECRET ESTABLISHMENT ( LIBERTY HOUSE PRESS) you will find I base the case on ORIGINAL documents (telegrams, letters, memos, SB membership list etc). No one has ever refuted these documents. From the research viewpoint it leaves open whether Schiff and Jewish bankers. also financed the Bolsheviks. If you read the appendix in BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION you will find a review of the Jewish banker argument .At that time I had no evidence that they provided any funds and I still have no documentary evidence. However I did find disinformation coming out of the WAR TRADE BAORD directed by John Foster Dulles, close to the Wall Street operators (Morgan, Thompson, Thacher)o. This is confirmed in the Scotland Yard files. I have always based arguments on documentary evidence at hand. If anyone has documentary material contrary to my argument then I assuredly would like to see it.. On the other hand I do not rely on quotes from interested parties. In no way does this detract from the decades long work of Edward Griffin. This is a murky.field and we all, me included, tread warily. Show me some original documents, Gavin. Thank you for your interest. TONY SUTTON. 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] Waco: The Rules of Engagement documentary or hoax?
-Caveat Lector- Has anybody else you know seen this edited part? Very explosive footage, how did you come to see it? What happened to it? Gavin. In the Rules of Engagement, there is a moment where an ATF agent can be seen on the roof of the complex, just outside a window. I have seen other versions of this moment and one thing I can tell everyone is that in the Rules of Engagement, the piece is cut JUST BEFORE an ATF agent pumps him full of bullets. Yes, I am telling you that a BATF agent shot a BATF agent and it was CENSORED from the Rules of Engagement. 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 publiceye piece
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 9/9/99 12:34:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig Hulet is a shill too. He is from Westmorelands staff. Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Educational Perspectives
-Caveat Lector- I went to London to become IATA certified in International Hazardous Materials Shipping...did well, and enjoyed myself...they do things differently there...they don't have a lot of the melting pot problems we have here which have been plyed up as distraction so people like the bush family can cull and destroy part of society so they can profit from itb 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] Sacred Drift
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/lword.htm A HREF="http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/lword.htm"Steamshovel Press: The Latest Word /A - The Latest Word Sacred Drift by Len Bracken Len Bracken's new book from Adventures Unlimited, The Arch Conspirator, takes a deeper look at conspiracy in history than few other books ever have. It includes essays and commentaries new insights on global politics and their conspiratorial underpinnings. Bracken follows a maze through interwoven tales from the Russian Conspiracy, through his interview with Costa Rican novelist Joaquin Gutierrez, and follows his Psychogeographic Map into the Third Millenium. The Arch Conspirator also contains Bracken's General Theory of Civil War; A False Report Exposing the Dirty Truth About South African Intelligence Services; the Neo-Catiline Conspiracy for the Cancellation of Debt; Anti-Labor Day, 1997, with selected Aphorisms Against Work; Solar Economics; and much more. It makes a remarkable addition to the library of the thinking conspiracy theorist. Bracken authored Guy Debord - Revolutionary(Feral House), documenting the biography of the great Situationist thinker DeBord, who helped expose the conspiracy culture as the society of the Spectacle. Bracken also served as the translator of another great Situationist, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, with the first English translation of a Situ classic, The Real Report on the Last Chance to Save Capitalism in Italy (Flatland). Bracken is also well-known as the editor of Extraphile, an underground newsletter of the Extranational movement, and has contributed to Anarchy, Steamshovel Press and many other magazines and alternative peri585 Arlington, VA 22205; tel. 703-715-6816) . It does not appear in The Arch Conspirator, but reflects some of the book's examination of the dark corridor of conspiracy. Members of the Baltimore-Washington Psychogeography Association made a pre-Mother's Day (1999) expedition to the Basilica glorifying the Christian Mother of God. The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception stands near the backbone of Washington, DC (WDC), the great divide called North Capitol Street that separates city's northwest and northeast quadrants like a pair of human lungs or the hemispheres of a brain.(l) The drifters approach from Harewood Road, NE, and quickly spot an omen: a dead squirrel on the sidewalk with what T-S knows are indications of rat poison on its carcass. The drift continues, and suddenly a mockingbird lands on the driveway hedge and mocks the blare of a car alarm. A second omen, but of what, they don't know. They consider the meaning of this omen for a moment, and suddenly a woman approaches from the direction of the Shrine. "Excuse me miss," L-A begins, in Spanish, "If may I speak with you for a moment." "Of course," she says with a sense of inner serenity and strength. "Can you tell me the difference between the Assumption and the Ascension?" "Yes, well, the Assumption is when the angels absorbed the dead body of Mary into heaven to be crowned Mother of God by the Father. We celebrate this on August fifteenth every year with a Feast of the Assumption." She looks at L-A. "You know what the Ascension is, don't you?" L-A shakes his head. "The Ascension is when Christ rose into heaven and we celebrate it forty days after Easter." "You've been so helpful. I didn't know that, and none of my friends knew it either. Where are you from?" "Guatemala." L-A imagines her prayers for peace. "Thank you very much." "What was that all about?" T-S asks. "Never mind." T-S grumbles something about "the presumption of the Assumption," but L-A doesn't want anyone to know that he has the slightest interest in religion, which is why he asked the woman in Spanish and won't translate the answer for T-S. You see, these drifters approach the largest Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere from rival perspectives. T-S, a fifty-year-old musician, subscribes to spiritist psychogeography--the wine of life trickles out a bag-obscured bottle in Malcom X park while he talks to Dante's statue as if he, T-S, were Virgil taking the exiled poet on a drift through the world of gods, myths, and spirits; as if, in an ideal sense, the series of cascading pools lined by a narrow granite rim were the River Styx. L-A finds reality in materialist psychogeography; the omens of human ecology disclose themselves in Georgetown shop windows, in the juxtaposition, for example, of a watch boutique featuring futuristic designs and the gargantuan, backwards-spinning clock in F.A.0. Swartz. In an instant of Protagorean perception (2), festive scenes of rag-tag Rabelasian jubilees clash with the sleek, digital conception of time embodied in space-age watches. The wine of life no longer flows the way it did in Medieval Spain during the five months everyone took for holidays and festivals. Time, like the watches and virtually everything else in Washington, is a
[CTRL] Fwd: Russia
___ What's going on in your world? Find Out. Visit Stratfor's Global Intelligence Center http://www.stratfor.com/world/default.htm ___ OTHER FEATURES ON STRATFOR.COM PKK Withdrawal Portends Split and Change of Tactics http://www.stratfor.com/MEAF/commentary/m9909092104.htm The IMF and the World Bank Bow Toward Malaysia http://www.stratfor.com/asia/specialreports/special71.htm Renewed Fighting in Dagestan Begs Chechen Response http://www.stratfor.com/CIS/commentary/c9909100015.htm __ STRATFOR.COM Global Intelligence Update September 10, 1999 Checkmate Nears for Yeltsin Summary: Russian President Boris Yeltsin has now been directly implicated in one of several corruption scandals currently engulfing the Kremlin. Despite rumors, Yeltsin is unlikely to resign from office over the scandals, retaining presidential immunity. This immunity will soon evaporate, however, with presidential elections scheduled for next May, leaving him three choices - flee the country, choose a sympathetic successor, or declare a state of emergency, canceling the elections. The latter would provide the ultimate justification - in Russia and abroad - for his removal and the purge of his allies. Analysis: Amid a storm of scandals engulfing his administration, Russian President Boris Yeltsin has long been suspected of being personally involved in illegal activity. His presumably biased Russian political foes have accused Yeltsin of wrongdoing, leaving rumors to float freely in international circles. But now, according to the September 8 edition of the Washington Post, Swiss investigators have directly linked Yeltsin to one of the burgeoning number of Russian corruption scandals - to the tune of $1 million. The Post cited law enforcement authorities investigating the Mabetex scandal as alleging the Swiss construction firm provided credit cards for Yeltsin and his two daughters, backed up by $1 million deposited in a Hungarian bank account. Yeltsin himself reportedly denied the allegations during a September 8 telephone conversation with U.S. President Bill Clinton. For the time being, the alleged bribe is less important than the fact that Yeltsin has been unambiguously linked to the scandal. Already most of the group of close Yeltsin advisors, senior administration members and supporters collectively known as the "Family" are under investigation for alleged involvement in one or more of the major scandals now facing the Kremlin [ http://www.stratfor.com/SERVICES/GIU/090299.ASP ]. These include allegedly laundering billions of dollars - some possibly from IMF loans - through New York banks, using IMF funds for international currency market speculations, skimming profits from the state airline Aeroflot, and accepting bribes from Mabetex. The Russian officials, their family members and friends under investigation now number nearly 800. Moreover, investigators are reportedly uncovering links between the scandals, effectively painting the whole Yeltsin administration as one boundless kleptocracy. With Yeltsin himself under investigation, the question immediately rises, will he remain in office for the duration of his term and if so, what then? Yeltsin has a few options - none of them good. He is unlikely to step down before the end of his term. Under the Russian constitution Yeltsin is immune from prosecution as long as he remains in office. In addition, retaining the presidency keeps levers at his disposal with which he can interfere in the investigations. He has already apparently used those levers, attempting to dismiss Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov and "reassigning" investigator Georgy Chuglazov just before he was to travel to Switzerland to review evidence in the Mabetex case. The Duma could attempt to impeach Yeltsin, but the Duma's previous failed attempt took 10 months from initial discussion to final vote. With Duma elections slated for December and presidential elections scheduled for next May, there is little time for formal proceedings. Assuming Yeltsin has no desire or intention to submit himself for prosecution, he has three options before next year's presidential election. He can flee the country - a risk with no guarantees, considering the Russian security services. The security apparatus is apparently fueling these scandals and would no doubt be watching for such a move. Alternately, he could attempt to affect the election of a sympathetic successor who might theoretically protect him once his immunity ends. Yeltsin's ability to pick his successor, however, has been eroded by Russia's dismal economic situation and the snowballing scandals. Public support from Yeltsin is generally considered to be a political kiss of death. Moreover, he will be tempted to try to cast the blame on others in order to shake off the scandals and regain the ability to influence the vote in his favor. He will
Re: [CTRL] rE publiceye piece
-Caveat Lector- Yea. I spotted the Gramsci line right off DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Kevin Poulsen reports on HERFgun demo'd at InfoWarCon
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 7:11 AM Subject: FC: Kevin Poulsen reports on "HERFgun" demo'd at InfoWarCon Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:27:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fear the Reaper Zap! ... and your PC's dead Ex-Navy engineer David Schriner demos his homemade, bargain-basement, computer-killing 'gun.' WASHINGTON -- With $500 and a trip to the hardware store, saboteurs can build a device capable of disrupting computers, automobiles, medical equipment and nearly anything else dependant on electronics, according to a California engineer who demonstrated a homebrew computer death-ray at the InfowarCon '99 Conference here Wednesday. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2331772,00.html -- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ -- 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 990910a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 glorious martyrs were resurrected during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FRANCE MAY BAN SCIENTOLOGY. France is considering banning the Church of Scientology, which it regards as a sect rather than a religion. The Justice Minister, Elisabeth Guigou, made it clear that the future of the organisation in France was under close scrutiny. Her remarks came as US officials expressed concern over the growing intolerance shown to minority religious groups in some European countries. Scientologist bribes raise US official sensitivity: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/france.htm : How powerful is your belief system? Over what political structures do you hold sway? Do other belief systems political structures fear/despise you? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NUN EXPOSES DIOCESE, DEPOSES PRIESTS BISHOP: Sister Kelly ripped the lid off the Santa Rosa Diocese, opening the local Catholic administration to national scrutiny in the face of a far-flung scandal involving allegations of embezzlement, sexual misconduct, and a role in a billion dollars worth of coverups. http://www.metroactive.com/sonoma/hellraiser-9936.html # REFORM SCHOOL - Scandals move church activists to push for radical changes in clergy. Recent headlines have trumpeted what seems like a never-ending parade of Catholic bishops, priests, and lay clergy entangled in shocking sexual misconduct cases with men, women, and children. Catholicism is "a culture of collusion." Why can't a 2,000-year-old institution with a billion faithful figure out how to clean up its act? Here's an idea: Get rid of the celibacy mandate. Or ordain women as priests. Or talk openly about sex. http://www.metroactive.com/sonoma/hellraiser2-9936.html : Is your belief system manipulative, exploitative, self-protecting? Are all belief systems and hierarchies? How much do you spend on cover-ups? Where?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ YOU EVOLVE AS LIGHT. So the light source which you are leaves in teleport- ation at the death of the body and then moves quickly seeking another body to nest in. But as you do you take with you feelings and degrees of evolu- tion. You hover and then are drawn to another female body and you enter in and nest in another fetus. That fetus is filled with chromosomes and genetics but now you have evolved as light to a higher degree and you can make a difference in this body where you could not make a difference before. http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/light.html#EVOLVE : Have you been reincarnated lately? Into what? Do you make a difference? Do you teleport often? If you're dead, how can you evolve? Do you have a body? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # PRAYING LEFT: While the Religious Right has been getting all the press, progressive Christians apply the lessons of the Bible to social activism: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.24.97/religiousleft-9752.html # What happens when the Age of Aquarius meets Jesus Christ Superstar? http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/07.23.98/christ-newage-9829.html : What's your favorite dominant heresy in Xianity? Has your belief system factionalized much lately? Are you a foot-soldier of the culture wars? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Neurotic urban princess converted by Burning Man (Salon) Millennial Brigadoon - The annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert invents a hyper-real space, a republic of drugs, nudity and spectacle. http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/1999/09/08/burningman/print.html # Goth teens want to form school-approved Wiccan Club. Put the trenchcoats back in the closet, kids; your timing isn't right. http://www.westword.com/issues/1999-09-09/news.html : What's your favorite counterculture? D'ya prefer wearing a trenchcoat, a sari, a button-down suit, a bike outfit, nothing? What're y'r fave drugs?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Art as Human Sashimi. LINZ, Austria. Once again the boundaries of art were pushed at Ars Electronica, where the Plastinator and fluorescent- dog man provoked thought and elicited stares. Are you trans-human yet? http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21673.html : Have you been sliced'n'diced, injected with fluorescent dyes glowtubes, rewired, reprogrammed, rebuilt? What's your favorite rebuild? Are you art? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Y2K * WW3 * MARTIAL LAW * NEW WORLD ORDER CRISIS! INVISIBLE SOLDIERS NOW A REALITY. There is currently a world takeover attempt being done under the guise of the UN, NATO and many of our world leaders. It's called the New World Order. FEMA is building concentration camps on American soil as we speak. To divert the public it is called Globalism by mainstream media. The UN NATO are quickly taking over sovereignty of every
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #2
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990910b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 insubstantial voices were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ex-Navy engineer demos his homemade, bargain-basement, computer-killing 'gun.' WASHINGTON -- With $500 and a trip to the hardware store, saboteurs can build a device capable of disrupting computers, automobiles, medical equipment and nearly anything else dependant on electronics, according to a California engineer who demonstrated a homebrew computer death-ray. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2331772,00.html : Have you built any death-rays lately? What sorts of electronic gear would you like to destroy? Do have any targets? Are you a target? Am I a target? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Travis AFB - UFO Hysteria. According to the newspapers and TV - which became aware that something was "up" when massive numbers of aircraft began taking off - UFOs were buzzing the (Travis Air Force) base, and the base also lost all communication with the outside world. It was a foggy night so the craft buzzing the base could not be seen visibly, only on radar. http://caus.org/mc091099.htm : Are you hysterical about UFOs? Are UFOs hysterical about you? Have ya lost all communication with the outside world? Are you only visible on radar? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ENCOUNTER CULTURE - Beachside Calif. gains reputation as UFO central, but some don't quite see the light. LOS ANGELES - Ever since the 60s, Topanga has been known as a spacey place. But lately, it's getting even spacier. These days, the talk of the beachside canyon community - an enduring haven for old-time hippies, New Age herbalists, nudists, bikers, cultists and every combination thereof - is UFOs. Lots and lots of UFOs. http://www.dallasnews.com:80/national/0910nat10ufo.htm : Do you prefer hippies, NewAgers, herbalists, nudists, cultists or aliens? Are you a nude alien hippy biker? Is your community lost in a space warp?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # More than 1,000 attend expo in San Mateo. (P3N) For the past 23 years says Robert Parela, he has been regularly abducted by extraterrestrials. "They take me aboard their spacecrafts," Parela said yesterday at the Bay Area UFO Expo, a two-day event that attracted more than 1,000 people to the San Mateo Marriott Hotel. "They share information with me, in a telepathic language that is like pictures." http://caus.org/pn090999.htm : Are you regularly abducted? Are you fed information? Have you come to ex- pect this? Do you mark your calendar? Are the ETs like clockwork or sloppy? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists Witness Peculiar Gas. (BBC) Physicists have created a new form of matter called a Fermionic gas by super cooling atoms of potassium. The new gas follows the laws of quantum mechanics, behaving really weirdly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443154.stm # Also: Scientists See Susy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421929.stm # Hunting the Higgs Boson: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299550.stm : Have you found any new forms of matter lately? Does it act strange? Have you made anything nifty with it - time machine, space warp, antigravity?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Strangest superfluid wins recognition at last. One of the most bizarre liquids known has won its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Physics. David Lee, Robert Richardson and Douglas Osheroff created 'superfluid' helium-3 in 1971. "The weird thing about superfluid helium-3 is that it can have different properties in different directions, rather like a piece of wood with a well-defined grain." The liquid that climbs the walls - see http://www.newscientist.com/ns/970426/supercon2.html : What's y'r favorite superfluid? Is it difficult to swim in, drink, splash? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MARS ATTACKS. Once, their dreams of a manned Mars mission seemed as far- fetched as time travel. But now that they've infiltrated NASA, local mem- bers of the Mars Underground have come up for air. Building a model Mars colony: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.29.99/mars-9930.html : Have you colonized any planets lately? Have any aliens colonized ours? Is interplanetary colonialiazation as oppressive and exploitative as ours was? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US Navy Now Biggest User Of Space In Military. WASHINGTON (SNS) When the Navy needs to solve problems in space, the Office of Naval Research is there to make things happen. The Office funds all types of research, from warfare to medical sciences. With the Navy's growing role in space, the Office is making two projects possible: the Naval EarthMap Observer (NEMO) and the WinSat satellites.
[CTRL] FW: a little help please[1st yenta goes short]
FYI, Bard -Original Message-From: richard harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 4:23 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: a little help please We are GATA (the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee - a non-profit) and are attempting to stop the current gold price manipulation. Our chairman - Bill Murphy - published the following: Le Metropole members and internet, A highly sophisticated source has informed me that he understands that a blind trust set up for Hillary Clinton, shorted gold financial instruments just before the Bank of England gold sale announcement on May 7, 1999. If true, it is an outrage and is further anecdotal evidence of the conspiratorial nature of the Bank of England gold sales and of the high level nature of the manipulation of the gold market. Nobody could be so lucky as to have made $100,000 on a $1,000 investment in cattle futures and then have someone else just happen to SHORT gold for them immediately prior to that extraordinary gold sale announcement. The trading activity in a blind trust of a major public figure such as Hillary Clinton must be a matter of public record. It would be of help to the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee if someone on the internet could help me access these records. A matter of such sensitivity ought to warrant a statement by theTrustees and its auditors. All the best, Bill Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chairman, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee http://www.lemetropolecafe.com http://www.gata.org Please ask your members to forward any and all information they may have even heard in this matter or our general effort to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by snail mail: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.c/o John D. Meyer Box 885 Great Barrington, Mass. 01230 USA. Thanks, Sincerely, Richard Harmon
[CTRL] FW: [Patriot_Net] Intrusions
-Caveat Lector- FYI, Bard -Original Message- From: Slick Willie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Patriot_Net] Intrusions From: "Slick Willie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, since this seems to be the place (according to the intro message) to "vent steam" here goes. I thought I might list just a few of the ways gov't has imposed itself (in my opinion unlawfully) into our lives. Recent e-bay scandal: I learned from that that selling your own body parts is against the law. I can understand there being a law against selling someone else's body parts, but it seems to me that if you're stupid enough to sell your own, go for it. Finance: I believe it's "unlawful" to have more than $10,000 currency on your person unless Uncle Sam knows about it. Isn't that intrusive? How about this one: Some states make the mobile use of scanners illegal. Since when does any gov't agency, state or otherwise, have any right to tell me what I can and can't listen to in my car? Then there is the PGP/Encryption issue. Sure, give the gov't a key to all your messages a little payoff money there maybe? Europeans getting trade secets? Go to http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990518S0004 I'll have more as I think of them "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." Thomas Jefferson, 1787 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: RE: [CTRL] Jim Keith
It's true. Jim is gone. I have been dealing with all the info management chores in the wake of the news for going on the third day now. The short of it is that Jim broke his knee at the Burning Man event in Black Rock, outside of Reno. He died when a blood clot formed during surgery. Other than that, everything I said in that note has gone on, the rumors of conspiracy, etc. I'm still waiting for word on services and trying to find someone to fly me out to Reno to investigate while the trails are still fresh. It's been a wretched period of grief for me. I'll keep you posted. kt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: [CTRL] Jim Keith Howdy, I have checked your web site and saw no mention. Can you either clarify or deny. If true can you please expand, I have been gone and ill, what happened to Jim? I, myself, was in contact with him recently and he had plans. Also his new ventures do not seem to belie a person who was leaving. How did he pass on? Thanks and God Bless. Om K
[CTRL] FW: Oral Sex In Middle Schools[for the children]
"For the children." Bard -Original Message-From: BTWeeks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 1:22 AMSubject: Re: Oral Sex In Middle SchoolsIt was inevitable. We have our president to thank for this. Doc ~ Jim Hardin wrote: Friends, Well, it looks like kids are actually learning something from the actions of Mr. Clinton. Eddy, thanks for sending this. Jim Hardin The Freedom Page http://freedompage.home.mindspring.com To receive Freedom Page mail, put "Subscribe" as subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To be removed, put "Remove" as subject. Alabama Committee To Get Us Out of the UN http://themustardseed.home.mindspring.com From: "eddy james" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd] Oral Sex In Middle Schools From: Kepi [EMAIL PROTECTED] === NOTE: This WP article came to me as one paragraph. For easier reading, Ive formatted it into paragraphs where it appeared new paragraphs should begin. Nevertheless, I cannot say this is how the original article was formatted. -Kepi === From Freedom Forum: .. Begin Fwd Msg .. Parents Are Alarmed by an Unsettling New Fad in Middle Schools: Oral Sex By Laura Sessions Stepp Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 8, 1999; Page A01 The mother of an Arlington teenager will never forget the phone call she received from Williamsburg Middle School, where her daughter was in the eighth grade. "Id like to invite you to a meeting about girls at risk," said Latanja Thomas, the eighth-grade school counselor. "What risk?" the mother asked. "Eating disorders?" "No." "Drugs?" "No." "Well, what is it?" "Oral sex." "I about dropped the phone," the mother recalled. "I was stunned." So were other parents of girls at Williamsburg who took similar calls that evening and showed up for a meeting in the school library a few nights later. The principal, Margaret McCourt-Dirner, told about 25 assembled parents that as many as a dozen girls and two or three boys had been engaging in oral sex through most of the school year. The teens, 13 and 14 years old, were getting together at parties in one anothers homes and at local parks. The news dropped like a bomb just over a year ago in the mostly upper-income community of elegant brick homes, leafy sycamores and stone walls, where wealth is acquired by working long hours at top professional jobs. These parents were unaware of a disturbing pattern of middle-schoolers adopting an "anything but intercourse" approach to sex. Eager to avoid pregnancy and hold on to virginity, an increasing number of teenagers are engaging in oral sex, according to school and health officials. "Its now the expected minimum behavior," said Michael Schaffer, supervisor for health education in Prince Georges County for the past 15 years. "The kids say if youre not going to have sex, at least do this." "Ive been teaching in schools for 30 years," said Deborah Roffman, a human sexuality consultant to 15 schools in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. "I am receiving an increasing number of inquiries about incidents of oral sex among young adolescents, both at parties and occasionally at school. Kids are not just asking about oral sex anymore. Theyre talking about it, some are doing it, and adults are clueless." Joan Foster, guidance counselor at White Oak Middle School in Silver Spring for seven years, worries about the same trend. Oral sex, she said, "has suddenly become la mode de la sex." Although young people have engaged in sexual experimentation openly since the 1960s and covertly since the dawn of time, social scientists have no reliable measures for comparing behavior today with patterns in the past. National surveys of teen sexual behavior generally look only at high-schoolers, not younger students. But in dozens of interviews, researchers and school officials throughout the Washington area said they are seeing something new in kids in their early teens: a casual approach to oral sex as a substitute for intercourse and as a reaction against the fear engendered by AIDS awareness programs. Young people are very casual about oral sex, said Patricia Hersch, author of a book about Reston adolescents, "A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence." "To me, oral sex was more intimate than intercourse. Kids today absolutely dont see it that way. Its done commonly, with a shrug. Its part of the grab bag of sexual activities." They may treat such intimacy casually, but adolescents as young as 11 are not prepared for its emotional repercussions, said Beth Knobbs, director of pupil services in Talbot County, on Marylands Eastern Shore.
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Friday #3
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990910c - - - - - - - - - - - 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 rapturous degenerates were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia, the Nuclear Wasteland. The govt wants Russia to become the Lady Liberty of toxic rubbish. The cash-strapped nation is loosening laws to host the world's discarded radioactive materials. Have a hot time tonite. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21660.html : Do you generate much nuclear waste? Where would you like to put it? Won't the Reptoids take it off your hands? Do they dump on you too? Do you glow? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Top 10 reasons why you should not date an engineer: 10. T-Shirt and jeans are formal dress. 9. Considers "Posting to the Internet" a social life. 8. Flames like a monster, speaks like a pussy cat. 7. Works from 6:30am to 7:30pm daily. No morning kisses. No Evening walks. 6. No matter how hard you cry and how loud you yell, just sits there calmly discussing your emotion in terms of mathematical logic. 5. Listens to everything from Bach to Prince, hates classic rock. 4. Twinkie and a Jolt 6-Pack Is a Seven Course Meal. 3. Talks in acronyms (TIA). 2. Can't leave that damn pencil off ear for one minute. 1. Will file for divorce if you call in the middle of debugging session. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A step closer to fusion power. (BBC) A new design of experimental fusion reactor, which combines the best attributes of existing technologies, has gone online at a university in the US. HSX Plasma Machine move to research mode: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_442000/442870.stm @ Links: U.S. Fusion Program: http://wwwofe.er.doe.gov/ @ JET: European Fusion Research: http://www.jet.uk/ # And - The Oxford sunseekers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_338000/338191.stm # Big payout for fusion workers http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_404000/404249.stm # Should the cold fusion dream die? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_301000/301893.stm : Have you achieved fusion lately? Do you prefer your fusion hot or cold? Is hot fusion better on cold, lonely nights? Have aliens helped you fuse? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ WEIRD SCIENCE. My first thought on hearing that the Kansas state education board had removed evolution from its mandatory curriculum was: Go ahead! Be like that! Handicap y'r kids for life. Let "secular humanists" have all the good colleges and get all the good jobs. I know this was an unworthy thought - Darwin's demotion was a political ploy by Christian conservative politicos, not a grassroots effort by Kansas parents, much less their un- fortunate kids - but there you are. As a rootless cosmopolitan, I'm tired of being expected to pay homage to "the heartland" as the moral center of the universe. http://www.thenation.com/issue/990920/0920pollitt.shtml : Do cretinists deserve to be left behind by a rapidly-evolving technosocial order? Are you a cretinist? Do you have a future in the fast-food industry? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China seeks to wipe out Falun Gong entirely. BEIJING. The banned sect Falun Gong has started to go underground and must be completely stopped by punishing its remaining leaders, an officialChinese newspaper said Friday. http://www.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,91476-144895-1015232-0,00.html : Can/will/should your sect be wiped out? Will your sect wipe out your govt oppressors? Do you meditate subversively? Do you subvert meditatively? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Jamaican Jews celebrate Rosh Hashana. KINGSTON. The well-tended synagogue, with its triangular wood roof, cement turrets Hebrew inscriptions, seems as misplaced among the crumbling blocks of decaying Kingston as the dwind- ling community it serves. By the dozen, they'll come here Friday for Rosh Hashana (New Year), a reaffirmation that the 500-year-old Jewish community of Jamaica, almost invisible in an overwhelmingly black Christian land, goes on. "We've probably got a generation or 2 before it becomes a crisis" said Ernest de Souza, 52, who assumed the mantle of spiritual leader since the last ordained rabbi left in 1978. He may be optimistic. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561090692-0a5 : What's your favorite religious holiday? Does your belief system have many holidays? Is your community dwindling? Are you being harvested by aliens?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Two concepts of social structure... trouble in hierarchies: the Snafu Principle. People tend to say what they think the boss wants to hear, especially if they have noticed that the practice of "shooting the messenger" is common. This means that the information passed up the pyramid is distorted at each level. Thus, each higher
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Lockerbie
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist From: Barry Chamish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lockerbie From Yediot Ahronot: YEDIOT AHARONOT 8/20/99: "In the darkness of the night of 20 December 1988, a black Mercedes entered the Frankfurt Airport compound and stopped next to one of the automatic doors. A baggage handler of Turkish origin removed a hard suitcase from the trunk, carried it through the passenger lounges, and disappeared together with the case in the area where airport workers had their personal lockers. The worker knew that the suitcase he had removed from the Mercedes was full of drugs, but he didn't look in the least agitated. He knew that no one would stop him and that no one would ask unnecessary questions about the suitcase that he had taken into the area restricted to airport personnel. The Turkish baggage handler's extreme self-confidence was founded on 24 months of experience, during which this routine had been followed weekly without interruption. The suitcase with the drugs would arrive by car at the parking lot. The employee would take the bag into the workers area, and from there it would continue into the hold of an American aircraft which would carry it across the ocean. The Turk and the other members of the smuggling ring knew that everything they did was under the watchful eye of undercover agents of the CIA and the BKA [Office of Criminal Investigation] -- the West German security service. Both intelligence services permitted the "secure drug channel" to operate undisturbed because with the help of the head of the ring, Mundhir al-Qasr, they obtained a lot of intelligence about what was happening within the terrorist organizations in Lebanon. At the same time, al-Qasr promised to act for the release of the American hostages that were being held in various secret locations in Lebanon at the time. The BKA and CIA have denied outright the existence of the "secure drug channel" described above, which operated under their supervision, as it were. Recently, this highly expected denial has taken on far greater significance than anticipated. A few weeks ago, 'Abd-al-Basit 'Ali al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifah Fhimah -- the two Libyan intelligence officers suspected of blowing up the plane -- were extradited to the Netherlands to stand trial in the international court in The Hague. Against this background, the suspicion that it was the drugs route that permitted the explosive charge to be placed on the Pan Am plane, which took the lives of 270 civilians, might serve the case for the defense. The person providing substance to this worrying theory is former Israeli Yuval Aviv, author of "Gideon's Sword", who describes himself as a former Mosad agent. Aviv, who today runs a large and successful private international intelligence and investigations office, prepared for Pan Am--before the airline went bankrupt--a 27-page intelligence report detailing the "secure drug channel." The indictment submitted to the Hague court against the two Libyan officers is the result of an intensive American investigation. This investigation was conducted by the CIA, and for this reason the finger wasn't pointed in the direction that Aviv mentions. It accused the Libyans. The investigation found that the Libyan officers put the suitcase containing a sophisticated 'Semtex' bomb onto the plane. The suitcase exploded in the skies above Scotland after it had flown unaccompanied from Malta to Frankfurt, passed through security checks, was transferred to a Pan Am Boeing 727 flying from Frankfurt to Heathrow, was again transferred to a Pan Am jumbo jet, and only exploded after the plane had taken off on its way to New York's Kennedy Airport. It was not difficult for American investigators to find reasons for a Libyan bomb to be planted on an American plane. A number of incidents prior to the explosion could have served as a cause for the tragic attack. The first incident took place two years before the Lockerbie disaster. The Americans launched a lethal attack on a chemical weapons production plant in Libya. The second incident took place seven months before the disaster. All the passengers aboard an Iranian 'Airbus' were killed as a result of an unfortunate American mistake. The civilian plane was shot down by troops aboard the American warship "Vincennes" that was sailing in the Persian Gulf. In the wake of the incident, all intelligence services in Europe and North America went on high alert in anticipation of a revenge attack. But
[CTRL] New Book?
-Caveat Lector- 21) From: "Lee Tracey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FBI Squashing authors? An interesting read is a book by Robert Temple called the SIRIUS MYSTERY http://www.randomhouse.co.uk Apart from the theory of the book that Aliens visited the earth in about 3000BC, for which Temple makes a strong mathematical and well researched argument, the comments in the opening chapter about how the FBI tried hard to stop him writing the book and what they got up to is perhaps significant to members interested in the actions of the law enforcement and security agencies. Lee Tracey 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: Konformist: Leary FOIPA Follow Up
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist Leary FOIPA Follow Up Kenn Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] August 23, 1999 John M. Kelso, Jr., Chief Freedom of Information-Privacy Section Office of Public and Congressional Affairs US Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, DC 20535-0001 Dear Mr. Kelso: I mailed the enclosed letter to your office on March 16 and have yet to receive a reply. I understand about the delays as explained in your letter of March 9, but since then the FBI has witnessed a lot of publicity attendant to the select release of some files on Dr. Leary to the public. Please explain why this has happened and yet no action has been taken on my request for the release of the full file. I would greatly appreciate a prompt reply. Sincerely, Kenn Thomas POB 23715 St. Louis, MO 63121 March 15, 1999 John M. Kelso, Jr., Chief Freedom of Information-Privacy Section Office of Public and Congressional Affairs US Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, DC 20535-0001 Dear Mr. Kelso: This letter is responsive to yours of March 9 asking that I respond in writing to criteria necessary to be met before consideration of a fee waiver in my FOI/PA request for files on Dr. Timothy Leary. Enclosed is a copy of your letter listing the criteria. (i) In its letter to me of September 8, 1998, the FBI has acknowledged three FBIHQ files on Timothy Leary. This demonstrates that Dr. Leary was the subject of at least three FBI investigations, which are of course "operations or activities of the government." (ii) The informative value of these files includes the information that the FBI sought in these investigations, why it sought that information and how it was used. The files will demonstrate how Dr. Leary came to the attention of the FBI and why the Bureau decided to proceed in its investigation of him The files document important aspects of Dr. Leary's biography, including passport fraud investigation from his time in exile, an unspecified "security matter" labeled as an "anarchist/extremist investigation" and a 1948 government loyalty investigation. (iii) Dr. Leary was involved in the important controversies of private drug use and wrongful imprisonment. Disclosure of how this notoriety affected interest in him by police authorities will contribute substantially to public understanding of this debate. The public understanding also will be served by an examination of why it was important for the FBI to have Dr. Leary investigated. (iv) The history of Dr. Leary's life and career has so far only been documented in his autobiographies and various press accounts. These files will provide a new look at pivotal times in the life of this important public figure. Disclosure would make a very significant contribution to understanding Dr. Leary's biography and recent US history, including the interest in him by the FBI. It will provide a new primary source for future biographers and historians. References to prior articles/book: "Further FOIPA Adventures: Liberating Leary's FBI Files," Flatland, February 1999 "King Leary: The Lord of Acid Leaves a Trippy Legacy," Conspire.com web site, July 1998 Flying Saucers Over Los Angeles, appendix by Timothy Leary, Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998 "Party at Tim Leary's," in the book Popular Alienation, IlliumiNet Press, 1996 "You Too Can Be A Researcher: Tips On Using the Freedom of Information Act and the National Archives," Flatland, February 1996 This should meet the criteria requirements listed in your letter. I understand the delays in processing this request that you mention and would appreciate anything you can do to expedite. Sincerely, Kenn Thomas POB 23715 St. Louis, MO 63121 enc.: letter from FBI, 3/9/99 Was the salesman clueless? Productopia has the answers. http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/555 eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/konformist http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications
[CTRL] Hellraiser
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.metroactive.com/sonoma/hellraiser-9936.html A HREF="http://www.metroactive.com/sonoma/hellraiser-9936.html"MetroActive News Issues | Hellraiser/A - Thanks, Ric. Om K - Hellraiser Michael Amsler Meet the feisty nun who rocked the Diocese of Santa Rosa By Janet Wells SISTER JANE KELLY is a most unlikely whistle blower. With her flowered skirt, simple blouse, white huaraches, and wedding finger sporting a ring with a cross stamped into the gold, she looks every inch the gentle nun. She's a bespectacled woman with a halo of short, wavy, gray hair who can be found outside in the heat of Ukiah's blistering summer watering the flowers at St. Mary of the Angels School. But don't be fooled by appearances. Sister Kelly also ripped the lid off the Santa Rosa Diocese recently, opening the local Catholic administration to national scrutiny in the face of a far-flung scandal involving allegations of embezzlement, sexual misconduct, and coverups. In the wake of Kelly's unrelenting questions, outraged letters, and feisty opinions, the powerful have fallen far: Bishop Patrick Ziemann resigned in July, and the Santa Rosa police are investigating him for charges of criminal sexual misconduct involving another diocese priest, Jorge Hume Salas. Salas himself is under a black cloud, after admitting to stealing from the St. Mary's parish collection. The latest casualty is Monsignor Thomas Keys, who resigned two weeks ago as vicar general, the No. 2 position in a diocese that ranges over six Northern California counties, ranging from Petaluma to the Oregon border. And now the diocese itself is under fire, facing charges from Salas of defamation and infliction of emotional distress, as well as longtime allegations of financial impropriety involving the use of church donations to settle sexual misconduct cases. To some, Kelly is little more than a troublesome gossip, used by the diocese as a mouthpiece to blab about a priest and deflect attention from the deeper questions involving the bishop and the diocese. But to far more people she is a hero, a brave beacon willing to stand up to the male-dominated Catholic church hierarchy. "For this lady to do what's she's done is mind-boggling," says Don Hoard, whose son is one of several local youths who were sexually molested by a local priest in a scandal that rocked the diocese a couple of years ago. "If you don't have a Catholic background, I don't think you can conceive of the amount of courage it took." Or, as Tanya Brannan of the Purple Berets says, "Sister Jane Kelly for bishop!" AT AGE 17, while a Catholic schoolgirl in Oakland, Kelly decided to enter the Convent of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in San Francisco. Now 69, Kelly just celebrated her golden anniversary in the church, with 26 of those years as a nun in the Ukiah parish. Kelly spent her years quietly working with students at St. Mary of the Angels school and the Plowshares Community Dining Room, which offers food services, as well as health and psychiatric counseling to the poor and homeless in Ukiah. Kelly admits that she heard stories over the years about local priests having sex with young boys, even before the hundreds of cases nationwide exploded onto newspaper headlines and court dockets in the early 1990s. But that was before the era of California's mandatory reporting laws, which now requires anyone--including clergy--with information about child sexual abuse to report it to law enforcement officials. That law was passed two years ago in the wake of the child molestation cases in Santa Rosa. It wasn't until a young Costa Rican, Jorge Hume Salas, came on the scene that Sister Kelly started down the path of rabble-rouser. In 1992, Bishop Ziemann asked Kelly to be Salas' supervisor while he trained for the priesthood. "I said, 'No, I don't understand Spanish, and I don't know how much English he understands,'" recalls Kelly, sitting in her Ukiah office, surrounded by student artwork and shelves of Catholic educational videos and religious prints. "[Ziemann] pressed me, so I did. Then I began to see things happening." While most men training for the priesthood have at least four years of graduate-level schooling, Salas had no records of theological or seminary study, Kelly says, adding that Salas did not undergo the rigid psychological screening for would-be priests. Kelly was never sure how much Salas understood during their weekly sessions to discuss his spiritual journey. Nevertheless, he was ordained to the priesthood in a practically unheard-of 15 months. Once a priest, Salas suddenly had an expensive new car with custom license plates, a personal computer, and a TV set, notes Kelly. She says she heard from parishioners unhappy that the new priest apparently was profiteering from his position, demanding a minimum payment of $20 for himself to perform baptisms, confirmations, and weddings, and then allegedly failing
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Book of Enoch]
-Caveat Lector- Cropolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tried to get this page but it was not found on server. is there something i can try to get it? Try it again--must have been transient Net conditions. I jumped to the site fine. 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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: IMF to send investigative mission to East Timor
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 09/09/1999 4:30:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will send an investigative team to East Timor to assess its economic needs since its vote to become independent from Indonesia, IMF spokesman Bill Murray said on Sunday. Since most East Timorese will probably be dead by the time they get there, it should be a pretty easy mission. It might be a good idea to wear protective gear, however, we never know when the Indonesian Army might want to shoot somebody. Prudy 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 #4
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990910d - - - - - - - - - - - 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 cloned pot roasts were burnt during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Transplant Internet site launched. WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) said it will start posting organ availability on a secure website that can be accessed only by transplant surgeons organ procurement officers. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/17/health-uno18 : Is any website secure? If this site is hacked, where will the organs go? Have you hijacked any transplant organs lately? How do you use them? Tasty? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Cloned beef is news in Japan. TOKYO(AP) It looks like beef. It tastes like beef. In fact, it's nothing less than 100% pure beef. But a batch of the stuff drew nationwide attention in Japan when it went to market Thursday, advertised as the beef of a cloned cow. "It's nice and soft. I'd buy it again because it tastes good." But cloned beef has been getting less than rave reviews lately. A govt announcement in April that it had been sold unmarked for at least two years triggered threats of a beef boycott. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561088011-ab1 : Do you prefer to eat clones? Would you mind if your clone was eaten? What is your favorite recipe for cloned meat? How should your clone be prepared?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Celera Genomics Finishes Fruitfly Gene Map. WASHINGTON (Reuters) A company seeking to be the first to map all the genes in the human body said it had nearly finished a target almost as important to scientists: the fruit fly. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/02/science-science-fruitfly : Have you finished any gene maps lately? Will you use the maps to build new lifeforms? What will they look like? Will they be pretty, will they be rich? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AGING ISN'T A DISEASE - AND GROWTH HORMONE IS NOT THE CURE. Forget human growth hormone as a fountain of youth. Not only is there no evidence it will "stop the clock" but a recent study found giving it to hospitalized patients had harmful effects. Sorry - we still can't keep you young forever. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16517 @ IS IT EVER REASONABLE TO TAKE GROWTH HORMONE? If your body lacks it, yes. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16464 : Do you want to stay young forever? What would you pay for eternal youth? Would you sell your soul, your mother, your first-born, nuclear secrets?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Scientists examine ancient virus. (U-WIRE) SYRACUSE, N.Y. Researchers who found a prehistoric virus trapped deep in Greenland's glacial ice cores have extended their research to include ice samples from the Antarctic. The research will focus on confirming suspicions that the common plant pathogen, Tomato Mosaic Tobamovirus, is alive, and what the implications of more than 200 samples of live fungi and bacteria found in the ice may be on plants and humans. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990910/odd-122 : Have you found an ancient virus lately? Are you reverse-engineering virus genetics so you can do interesting things to/with living organisms? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The planet that hums - Listen carefully; you can hear Earth singing softly to itself. THEY LIVE UNDERGROUND. They're everywhere but seem to come from nowhere. They barely exist, but never leave. If sounds have shadows, they are the shadows of a sound. Researchers call them the background free osc- illations of Earth. But some call them a hum. That's a comforting thought: a mystic Om, perhaps, or just the warm, cosy sound of a planet going about its business. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990911/theplanett.html : Do you listen to your planet? Does your planet listen to you? D'ya prefer to listen to other planets, to aliens, to stars, to galaxies, to me? Why?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Armageddon-A-Rama: # Y2K - Are Foreign Airports Ready for Y2K? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/y2kforeign990909.html # Y2K - Y2K Is Still an Aviation Bugaboo: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21676.html # Y2K - US Coast Guard Steps Up Y2K Checks Of Cargo Ships: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/03/tech-yk-ships # Y2K - Computers Weather 9/9/99; Now For 1/1/, 29/2/2000: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/12/tech-yk-eurasia # Y2K - Beware Y2K Scammers: http://digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin/flo?x=dAumAEgYEwhEBuX # Y2K - Cold War Missile Tracking Bunker Now USAF Command Post: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kmstrack.htm # Y2K - Latest On Nuclear Power Plant Safety The Power Grid: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kpowergrid.htm # Y2K - US Senators Urge Expanded Missile Watch:
[CTRL] Fwd: A 6-hr. Video for $5! The US/NATO War Crimes Tribunal, NYC Hearing
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: "Robert Kemp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: A 6-hr. Video for $5! The US/NATO War Crimes Tribunal, NYC Hearing Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:08:27 EDT Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: A 6-hr. Video for $5! The US/NATO War Crimes Tribunal, NYC Hearing Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:52:48 -0500 (CDT) A 6-hr. Video for $5! The US/NATO War Crimes Tribunal New York City Hearing, with Ramsey Clark and Michael Parenti For Immediate Release A 6-hour videotape with the unedited proceedings of the First Hearing of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to Investigate U.S./NATO War Crimes Against the People of Yugoslavia held in New York City on July 31, 1999 is being made available for a donation of $10 by JusticeVision as Volume 16 of their Democracy University Video Series. The Series is also available by subscription for $5 per 6-hour videotape. Speakers on earlier tapes in the series have included Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Helen Caldicott, Amy Goodman, Winona LaDuke, Ralph Nader, Gore Vidal, Michael Moore, and Lori Wallach. The purpose of the series is to inform the public on as many social justice and environmental issues that are underrepresented in the mainstream media as possible, by videotaping major speakers and events and by pricing the tapes so as to be accessible to as many as possible. More information on how to order may be found at the end of this email. Videotape Program for Democracy University Volume 16: The First Hearing of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to Investigate U.S./NATO War Crimes Against the People of Yugoslavia, New York City, July 31, 1999: Opening Plenary: The Case for an Independent War Crimes Tribunal :00 Sara Flounders, International Action Center (moderator) Note: (:00 signifies location on tape in hours:minutes) :15 Said Hassan, Ambassador of the Iraq Mission to the UN :27 Monica Moorehead, Workers World newspaper and Mumia Awareness Week, introducing a taped message from Mumia Abu-Jamal to the Commission :41 David Jacobs, attorney, Canadian Lawyers Group :51 Videotape footage by Gloria La Riva of the results of the bombing of Yugoslavia 1:04 Michel Chossudovsky, economist and author of The Globalization of Poverty 1:15 Roland Keith, OSCE monitor in Kosovo Final Plenary: The Indictment of William Clinton and Others for War Crimes 1:28 Brian Becker, International Action Center (moderator) 1:38 Felix Wilson, Cuban Interests Section 1:52 Shani Rifati, Roma activist from Pristina, Kosovo 2:00 Dr. Sapphire Ahmed, International Health Care Activist 2:18 H.E. Mr. Vladislav Jovanovic, Yugoslavia Ambassador to the UN 2:35 Gloria La Riva, director of the video "NATO Targets" 2:54 Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general: reading of the indictment Panel 3 of Session 2: War, Lies, and Videotape: The Role of the Media 3:59 Dierdre Sinnott (moderator) 4:06 Michael Parenti, author of Against Empire and America Beseiged 4:30 Herb Foerstel, author: "The Balkans War: a Media-Driven Disaster" 4:42 Heather Cottin, Serbian-Jewish Friendship Cmte: "The Media's use of Hitler and the Genocide Analogy" 4:53 Vondora Jordan, Workfairness: "The Demonization of Poor People" 5:02 George Bagdanich, director of the video "Yugoslavia: the Avoidable War": "What has been left out of media coverage" 5:15 QA (Parenti, Foerstel) and Open Mike Panel 2 of Session 1: War Crimes: The Targeting of Civilians and Environmental Destruction (not complete) 5:37 John Parker and Gloria La Riva, (co-moderators) 5:45 Prof. Michael Mandel, York University Law School, Canadian lawyers group: "Admitted Crimes" 5:58 John Catalinotto, Co-editor of Depleted Uranium: Metal of Dishonor 6:07 End of Tape 1 (Tape 2 will consist of videotapes of other workshops if we are able to obtain the permission of the videographers that made them to use them) How To Order: This 6-hour videotape is available for a donation of $5 to those that would like to subscribe to the Democracy University Video Series. Videotapes in the series come about once every five to seven weeks. Each tape in the series will have one long or several shorter events on a broad range of social justice issues, totalling about 6 hours. You can cancel at any time. Individual videotapes in the series are available for a donation of $10 or more. To order or subscribe please contact Ralph Cole at JusticeVision by calling (213) 747-6345, or send your name and address by email to Ralph at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please send your donation after the tape arrives, or if subscribing to the series, after each tape arrives. (A note to subscribers: I just mailed the last batch today. You should be getting it in a few days. -Ralph) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[CTRL] Fwd: UN finds proof of joint operations with militia
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Follows From: "Robert Kemp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: UN finds proof of joint operations with militia Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:21:04 EDT Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel) To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: UN finds proof of joint operations with militia Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:42:48 -0500 (CDT) /** reg.easttimor: 2809.0 **/ ** Topic: UN finds proof of joint operations with militia ** ** Written 11:08 PM Sep 6, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cdp:reg.easttimor ** Subject: UN finds proof of joint operations with militia Excerpt: The real nature of the links between the armed forces and police and the militia remains a delicate area for public discussion in Jakarta. It has been ignored in recent days in the Indonesian press, though the violence has been covered fully and correctly attributed to the pro-integrationatist militias Foreign witness accounts that the army and police have stood by and watched the violence have not been reported. "This is a very delicate issue," says one observer, "because it is related to patriotism and national pride." The Guardian [UK] Tuesday September 7, 1999 Revealed: how army directed violence Secret report: UN finds proof of joint operations with militia John Gittings in Jakarta Direct evidence of complicity by the Indonesian military in the East Timor killings has been compiled by the United Nations, according to leaked internal documents. The documents prepared by the UN mission to East Timor (Unamet) say that there have been "joint operations" between army, police and militia, including burning of houses and attacks on civilians. The revelations - published in yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald - came as the armed forces chief, General Wiranto, said Indonesia may put the territory under military rule. The documents conclude that there has been "a deliberate strategy to force Unamet to withdraw from certain regions back to Dili". They accuse the military of instigating the weekend shooting of an American UN police officer in Liquisa by the militias. The UN says that in another incident militia were ordered by a group of Indonesian officers to shoot at trucks carrying UN staff and journalists. Local police and their families are said to have been threatened themselves by the army if they sought to prevent the violence. General Wiranto's hint of martial law adds to speculation in Jakarta about the real motives of the Indonesian army. Observers differ as to whether it is a last-ditch protest against "losing East Timor", or could mean a serious effort to frustrate the territory's independence. "In the short term", General Wiranto said yesterday, "we will bring in (more) forces. Certainly we are going to evaluate the status of this area, whether it will continue to be under civilian orders or whether there is going to be a change." He claimed that violence was not allowed in East Timor: "We will not tolerate any brutal acts, whatever the reason." He also continued to urge all Indonesians to accept the result. Deeply upset But Indonesian analysts say that senior army officers are deeply upset by the loss of East Timor, and that what is now happening was to a large extent predictable. "Everyone knows that the militia received a lot of support long before the ballot," says a military affairs academic. "The armed forces are not happy: by letting what is happen go unimpeded, they send a very strong message. "This could be a conscious act to let the violence turn into chaos. When the situation is completely chaotic the military may push for martial law. They can then use this as a pretext and try to postpone ratification of the vote." Another specialist says a "psychological affinity" between the army and the militia grew up when fighting the pro-independence guerrillas in East Timor. Salim Said of the University of Indonesia says: "I have talked to generals who say 'we have sacrificed too much. Some of our subordinates became casualties; we built churches, streets and universities'." But Salim, who also lectures at an army staff college, does not believe the army will in the end frustrate independence. "This is an irrational situation," he says. "The army's position is very low in society because it was a tool of the Suharto government." There is widespread agreement that the chaos in East Timor is being used by factions in the ruling elite to weaken B J Habibie ahead of November when a new president will be chosen. Many Indonesians take exception to international pressure for a quick solution to which Habibie yielded when he announced that East Timor would gain independence if it rejected autonomy within the Republic of Indonesia. A slower process, it is argued, would have avoided giving political ammunition to the military and allowed time to reconcile the factions. Yesterday's English-language Jakarta Post published a long summary of
[CTRL] fw: stocks bonds
-Caveat Lector- Today's Stock Market Report Helium was up, feathers were down. Paper was stationary. Fluorescent tubing was dimmed in light trading. Knives were up sharply. Cows steered into a bull market. Pencils lost a few points. Hiking equipment was trailing. Elevators rose, while escalators continued their slow decline. Weights were up in heavy trading. Light switches were off. Mining equipment hit rock bottom. Diapers remained unchanged. Shipping lines stayed at an even keel. The market for raisins dried up. Coca Cola fizzled. Caterpillar stock inched up a bit. Sun peaked at midday. Balloon prices were inflated. Scott Tissue touched a new bottom. And batteries exploded in an attempt to recharge the market. 4 new bonds are being issued: * Lewinsky bond: Has no maturity * Gore bond: Has no interest * Clinton bond: Has no principle. * Reno bond: Has a lot of spark * http://skepticon.da.ru * ICQ# 19633976 * FAX: 603-415-3736 * * *** SkeptiChat: sliding down the razor-blade of life *** now featuring SkeptiNews: All The News That's Fit To Question email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT 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
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] NOW He Tells Us ...]
-Caveat Lector- Das GOAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently the Kurds and Timorese --unlike the Albanians of Kosovo-- don't have enough "market share" in the NWO's underground economy to merit our attention ... Note, however, that the IMF has announced its intention to send experts to East Timor once the fighting has stopped to analyze the local economy and advise the Timorese on what they need to do to become part of the world economy. The IMF won't be lending any money to East Timor...but the World Bank will. = 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
Re: [CTRL] Snafu Principle
-Caveat Lector- -Caveat Lector- http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/hier.html below is a sample from the site: In American culture today, the hierarchical theory of organizations is so deeply ingrained that many people are completely unaware of it. This theory represents social structures as pyramids, with the serfs on the bottom and various layers of leaders leading up to the supreme commander on the top. Examples are the Catholic Church and the armed forces. Two of the assumptions in this model bother me: That the people above are smarter than the ones below and they know better what is going on; That watching over other people is a more important activity than producing actual goods and services. In Illuminatus!, a satirical study of social pathologies, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea brought out an important principal that causes trouble in hierarchies: the Snafu Principle. People tend to say what they think the boss wants to hear, especially if they have noticed that the practice of ``shooting the messenger'' is common. This means that the information passed up the pyramid is distorted at each level. Thus, each higher layer of managers tends to have less and less contact with reality, and near the top they are often completely out of touch. http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/hier.html The Snafu Principle is the most important "law of human behavior" I've ever found fnord. It states succinctly, "Communication is possible only between equals." NOTE: THIS APPLIES TO RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AS WELL AS TO RELATIONS WITHIN AN ORGANIZATION. The Snafu Principle explains why the real decisions are *always* made around the water cooler or the coffee-maker, not in the CEO's office... Hail Eris! = 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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: IMF to send investigative mission to East Timor
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 09/09/1999 11:12:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is certainly welcome news! Now they'll get some help. The good old IMF will fix it up RRREEEAAALLL nice. (removing tongue from cheek. . . ) Now you must understand. The current politicos in Indonesia have not had a chance at any of the lovely lolly. The last prez either took it all or gave it to his own family. Now the new regime can start their Swiss bank accounts. Prudy 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] Russian Reformation
-Caveat Lector- The American press calls the Russian Criminal Class "The Russian Mafia". The American press calls the American Criminal Class "Politicians". 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] Re FBI squashing authors
-Caveat Lector- Interesting . Its a stupid move but they do it. I can vouch for CIA illegally attempting to suppress a book I sat right across the table when they ran the attempt on.my BEST ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY complete with the threat " you wont survive" Im not ready yet to release the whole story ( dont worry I know how to insure myself) but THE BOOK has been available for 17 years. All CIA did was guarantee the book stay in print.. Its a dumb move. The original title was NATIONAL SUICIDE. The book was updated and re-issued as THE BEST ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY Still available. (LIBERTY HOUSE PRESS 1-800-343-6180. $ 12.95 DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] A NEW ENERGY MOTOR
-Caveat Lector- I WANT THE THEORY!! and what about entropy systems? that machine looks real and I understand it and they are mortor specialists...they make REFRIGERATORS with power as a by-product! killer.b Andrew Hennessey wrote: -Caveat Lector- Ric says - Could megacorps suppress a free-energy device? In some places, for a while, sure. But suppose I'd designed such a device, and a simple method for producing it, and I don't want to be suppressed - what do I do? How about: I go to Cuba, to North Korea, to Iraq, to Burma, to 'pariah' states where international cartels don't have a lot of sway. The Michael DePalma generator is already being built by a japanese corp [i have the theory for this if anyone wants it !! - Andrew] The DePalma generator is essentially a simple magnetized flywheel, ie a magnetized cylindrical conductor rotating at high speed with the help of a motor. His astonishing claim is that the present verions of the N machine can generate up to five times more power than it consumes. This, of course, defies the basic law of the conservation of energy, which says that the output of energy cannot be more than the input. Most physicists simply refuse to look at DePalma's findings and dismiss his theories out of hand. Yet "proof of principle" for his invention was apparently provided when a large N machine, dubbed the Sunburst, was built in 1978 in Santa Barbara California. The Sunburst machine was independently tested by Dr. Robert Kincheloe, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University. in his 1986 reprot (presented to the Society for Scientific Exploration, San Francisco, 6/21/86), Kincheloe notd that the drag of the rotating magnetized gyroscope is only 13 to 20 perscent of a conventional generator operating at an ideal 100 ppercent effiiency, the DePalma N machine could produce electricity at around 500 percent efficiency. In Kincheloe's cautious summary: "DePalma may have been right in that there is indeed a situation here wherby energy is being obtained from a previosly unknow and unexplained source. This is a conclusion that most scientists and engineers would reject out of hand as being a violation of accepted laws of physics and if true has incredible implications". "The jury is still out on the DePalma N machine," says physicist Harold Puthoff, a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, Texas. "It isn't clear where the reported excess energy is coming from--wheater out of the elecromagnetic field or as the result of some anomaly associated with rotating bodies in terms of inertia. The DePalma machine needs to be replicated on a broad scale to see if it actually works. Though I'm rahter skeptical, I certainly would encourage independent laboratory experimentation. While such a phenomenon would have seemed to absolutely go against the law of energy conservation a number of years ago, we now recognize that the potential for extracting energy out of so called empty space is in fact a reality". Not So Empty Space: Puthoff, a PhD. from Stanford University, belives that a new, non polluting energy source may be acheived by tapping the force random fluctuaions jostling atomic particles within a vacuum. Scientists now know that "empty" space seeths with waht are called vacuum fluctuations: huge amounts of energy that suddently burst forth, jiggling particles to and fro. Puthoff has developed his own theory, zero point energy, in an attempt to tap the abundant power found in the vacuum of space. He and associates in a new company, Jupiter Technologies, may soon try to manufacture zero-point energy machines. DePalma described his N machine and outlined a theory to explain its workings in a paper, "On the Possibility of Extraction of Electrical Energy Directly From Space", published in the British science journel, Speculations in Science and Technology (Sept 1990, Vol 13 No 4). So far, the scientific establishment either has ignored DePalma's controversial claims or remains unaware of them. Patent *Not* Pending: No one has ever obtained a patent for an N machine in the U.S., although in the San Francisco area alone, there are some 200 patent applications relating to such devices. The U.S. Patent office automatically denies a patent to any gizmo which purports to produce more enerty than it consumes, on the grounds that its personnel are not equipped to evalute such claims. DePalma is quick to point out that the N machine is not a perpetual motion machine, that mythical contraption long sought by frustrated inventors. "The purpetual motion machine is only supposed to run itself. It could never put out five times more power than is put into it. Perpetual motion schemes used conventional energy sources, whereas the N machine is a new way of extracting energy from space". Other scientists-inventors who attempted to build and operate free energy machines
Re: [CTRL] FW: Oral Sex In Middle Schools[for the ch
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 09/10/1999 12:03:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was inevitable. We have our president to thank for this. Doc ~ Jim Hardin wrote: Friends, Well, it looks like kids are actually learning something from the actions of Mr. Clinton. No, no. Now give credit where credit is due. Mr. Clinton didn't tell the kiddies about his affairs, and he didn't do anything that Presidents Johnson and Kennedy didn't do before him. So the kiddies learned all about this sort of thing from the establishment media and the Republican Congress (not to mention Judge Starr). What can I say, as a sex education tool, the nightly news is obviously very effective. Prudy 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] A Waco Survivor Speaks
-Caveat Lector- The truth about Waco David Thibodeau Salon, Sept. 9, 1999 | Attorney General Janet Reno says she's "very, very frustrated" over recent revelations that the FBI fired explosive devices at the Mount Carmel community outside of Waco, Texas, during the April 1993 siege. I know how Reno feels. I was one of only nine survivors of the Waco blaze -- 74 men, women and children died -- and I've devoted the last six years to understanding what happened there. Frustration is a mild word to describe my feelings about that quest. Reno's frustration, and mine, has only gotten worse recently as more damaging revelations have surfaced. First there was the CIA agent who told Salon News and the Dallas Morning News that members of the Army's secret Delta Force unit had actively participated in the siege. Then the FBI turned over tape recordings that include audio of an agent requesting and receiving permission to use pyrotechnic devices. Reports on Wednesday revealed the government also used incendiary flares during the Waco siege similar to those used to burn down the hideout of white supremacist Robert Mathews. The film "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" purported to show infrared images of government agents firing on the building. Now there is also a rumored videotape, uncovered by the film's co-producer, Michael McNulty, that reportedly shows agents in an ATF helicopter shooting into Mount Carmel. No doubt there will be more evidence "discovered," more agents coming forward, their six-year amnesia about April 19 suddenly cured. The FBI has not come close to revealing the full government complicity in the Waco massacre. Obviously my stake is a bit more personal than most. Back in 1990 I had been drumming in a stagnant Los Angeles rock band when I met and befriended David Koresh. I needed some new drumsticks, and on the way to a gig stopped in at the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard. Seeing the sticks in my hand, two strangers introduced themselves and asked if I was playing in a band. The two were David Koresh and Steve Schneider, the closest thing Koresh had to a deputy. Schneider gave me his card and I promptly handed it back. The backside was full of Bible verses. "You guys are a Christian band," I said, uninterested. I had never been religious in my life, and though I sometimes found myself asking God for a little help, I couldn't remember the last time I had been in a church, let alone seriously prayed. But I did have a spiritual curiosity; there were questions -- big questions -- that I wanted answers to. Schneider and Koresh weren't pushy and made it clear that all they really were looking for right now was a drummer. "I'd like to play some music with you," Koresh said, "and see where we can go from there." In truth, my band was going nowhere, and Koresh intrigued me. So I took the card back, and a few days later gave him a call. Over the next weeks I hung out with Koresh and some other musicians in his band. I got to know Koresh and was tremendously impressed. Having never paid much attention to the Bible, I was astonished to find that it actually did have some relevance to my life. And while Koresh had never gotten much in the way of formal education, it was clear that his knowledge of and insight into the scriptures was remarkable and profound. That fall I went out to Waco to play music and meet the larger community. I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. The people at Mount Carmel were extremely involved in knowing and learning the Bible. In the process of demonizing Koresh and the Branch Davidians -- a name we never used when describing ourselves -- people have made it seem as if Mount Carmel came out of nowhere. In fact, Koresh was the third leader of a religious community that spun off from the Seventh Day Adventists in 1934. They had been living outside of Waco for almost 60 years before the ATF raid in 1993. I was fascinated with their spiritual search, and I began -- for the first time in my life -- to read the Bible and to see that its message might be meaningful. Koresh was interesting, and the ways in which he explained the scriptures were complex and demanding. I didn't care that he wasn't a graduate of Yale divinity school. He was clearly a serious religious scholar and I wanted to understand what he was saying. So I stayed. The people around Koresh came from many backgrounds. I met folks who hadn't finished high school, and others with degrees from places like Harvard law school. I spent time with African-Americans, Australians, black Britons, Mexican-Americans and more. One irony of the Waco disaster is that right-wing extremists and racists look to Mount Carmel as a beacon; if they realized that so many of us were black, Asian and Latino, and that we despised their hateful politics and anger, they would probably feel bitterly betrayed. That isn't to say that all of us leaned to the left. We had some serious criticisms of the secular world that grew out of our faith.
Re: [CTRL] Danforth Waco probe[fini b4 or after 11/00 election?]
-Caveat Lector- This shows perfectly the complicity of Boy George in the NWO dealings of IMF forces to control America through idiot media...anything to hide his Cocaine use from the sheopleanything...Clinton is lame duck and he is paid to look bad...so whats a little more crap on a huge pile already? Bush is a garbageman picking up the scraps left behind by the totalitarian regime of world bankingbg Bard wrote: -Caveat Lector- Will the Rapist arrange to drag this out until AFTER the November elections? Gov. Bush: Wait for results of Danforth Waco probe Updated 9:33 PM ET September 9, 1999 DALLAS (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush said Thursday that people should await the findings of a new independent investigation into the 1993 FBI siege at Waco before deciding if there was a government cover-up. The Texas governor welcomed the appointment of former Senator John Danforth to investigate the conduct of the FBI and other government agencies in the siege of the Branch Davidian compound, which ended with a fire that killed 80 people inside. "I think it's good that Senator Danforth has been asked to conduct an independent investigation," Bush told reporters during a campaign appearance in Dallas. Asked if he believed there had been a government cover-up about the cause of the compound blaze, Bush said, "I think its important before people jump to conclusions to let Senator Danforth bring forth the facts." "Then we'll be able to make a determination as to whether or not (there was a conspiracy), about how to answer your question," he told reporters. Danforth was appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno this week after revelations the FBI had used tear gas grenades at Waco capable of starting a fire, forcing the agency to change its story after six years of denying it used any incendiary devices around the compound. Bush also repeated his earlier denial of allegations raised in a Dallas lawsuit that a veteran Texas politician helped Bush win a pilot's slot in the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 as a way of avoiding active military duty in the Vietnam War. A former Texas state lottery director suing the state over his dismissal has alleged that Ben Barnes, who was speaker of the state house of representatives in 1968, helped Bush get into the air guard as a favor to his father, former President George Bush, who was a Houston congressman at the time. "I didn't ask him (Barnes) for any help. My dad didn't ask him for any help," the governor said in response to reporters' questions about the allegations. Bush has also denied claims that a Bush family friend interceded with Barnes on behalf of the family. "You can talk to the base commander who was in charge of my unit at the time and he will tell you they were looking for pilots (and) I met all the qualifications," Bush said. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/21/crime-davidians-bush Bard 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 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]/
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-Caveat Lector- my last 2 or 3 posts were not supposed to go to the list sorry about that my badb 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] WIndsor Brings In The Heavy Artillery
-Caveat Lector- http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.01.99/swat2-9926.html [ Sonoma County | MetroActive Central | Archives ] Windsor Brings in the Heavy Artillery By Paula Harris IN THE WAKE of the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo., leaders in Windsor, Sonoma County's youngest town, this month voted to equip each officer in the Windsor's small police force with semiautomatic assault rifles. The tiny town (which will celebrate its seventh birthday next month) will become one of the first in California to provide its officers with such high-powered weapons. Windsor taxpayers will foot the almost $22,000 bill for the weapons and related training. With its population of just 20,000 and not known as a high-crime area, critics are questioning the suburb's rationale in providing its officers with 14 AR-15 military-style rifles (the civilian version of Colt's fully automatic M-16 military rifle). "We pay for the police cars and the bulletproof vests. [The rifles] will just be another piece of equipment to allow officers to do their job," counters Mayor Lynn Morehouse, who cast the deciding vote in favor of the guns. "Crime doesn't care what size your city is." Morehouse says the rifles are just part of a "multipronged approach to law enforcement," which will include funding a school resource officer. Officers in Windsor's 16-member police department claim the assault weapons will offer greater flexibility and useful local firepower when SWAT teams may not be able to quickly respond to crisis situations. [ Sonoma County | MetroActive Central | Archives ] From the July 1-7, 1999 issue of the Sonoma County Independent. Copyright © Metro Publishing Inc. Maintained by Boulevards New Media. 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] SWAT Nation
-Caveat Lector- http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.01.99/swat1-9926.html [ Sonoma County | MetroActive Central | Archives ] SWAT Nation In the post-Columbine hysteria, even the tiny town of Windsor has voted to arm its police with assault weapons. Where's it all going to lead? By Christian Parenti FOR A SNEAK PREVIEW of a future American police state, travel south from the comfortable illusions of the San Francisco Bay Area into the dirty air of California's Central Valley on Interstate 99 to Fresno, a sprawling, poorly planned city of 350,000. Pass the forest of pole-perched McDonald's, Best Western, and Motel 6 signs and turn off on one of the city's southern exits into the ghetto of the southwest side. There, on the dim side streets, among the little bungalows and dying rail yards, massive paramilitary police operations are under way on almost any night. On one such evening, three squads of 10 police officers in combat boots, black jumpsuits, military helmets, and bulletproof vests lock and load their Heckler Koch MP-54 submachine guns (the same weapons used by the elite Navy SEALs) and fan out through the neighborhood. Meet Fresno's Violent Crime Suppression Unit, local law enforcement's "special forces" and America's most aggressive SWAT team. Since 1994 the VCSU has patrolled this city's have-not suburbs in full military gear, with automatic assault rifles at the ready. Backed by two helicopters with infrared scopes and an Army-surplus armored personnel carrier, the unit is also equipped with attack dogs, smoke bombs, tear gas, pepper spray, metal clubs, and less-than-lethal "blunt trauma" projectiles. "It's a war," explains a law enforcement spokeswoman. In the name of crisis management, the VCSU is free to utilize aggressive and unorthodox tactics. At times the unit deploys troops on foot to surround "hot spot" corners or sweep through neighborhoods. At other times, it rolls in a fleet of new Crown Victorias "like a wolf pack" looking for "contact" (as a VCSU officer put it). Tonight the area of operation is a desolate African-American neighborhood known on the street as the Dog Pound. Most "contacts" involve swooping down on corners and forcing pedestrians to the ground, searching them, running warrant checks, taking photos, and entering all the new "intelligence" into a state database from the high-tech "mobile computer terminals" in each patrol car. All the suspects are black, all the cops are white, and every encounter is scored to the furious growling and barking of the VCSU's tightly leashed Alsatians. "If you're 21, male, living in one of these neighborhoods and you're not in our computer, then there's definitely something wrong," says VCSU officer Paul Boyer as he enters information into his onboard laptop. This little piece of apartheid-era Soweto stranded in California isn't as unusual as one might think. Throughout the nation, paramilitary, SWAT, or tactical policing--that is, law enforcement that uses the equipment, training, rhetoric, and group tactics of war--are on the rise. According to a study by sociologist Peter Kraska, the nation now has more than 30,000 such heavily armed, militarily trained police units. First developed in 1966 by a young LAPD commander named Daryl Gates, SWAT teams were conceived of as an urban counterinsurgency bulwark. One early SWAT officer explained, "Those people out there--the radicals, the revolutionaries, and the cop haters--are damned good at using shotguns [and] bombs or setting ambushes, so we've got to be better at what we do." Even the etymology of L.A.'s initial paramilitary unit reveals a political subtext: Gates started with the acronym SWAT and then filled it in with the name Special Weapons Attack Team. His superiors liked the acronym but found the name a bit too provocative, so it was toned down to the more technical sounding Special Weapons and Tactics. As the '60s and early '70s rolled on, most large metropolitan police departments set up tactical units of their own. Since the mid-'80s, there has been a second wave of SWAT growth. Fueled by state and federal drug-war pork, tactical units have now metastasized from big-city emergency response specialists into standard parts of everyday policing. Even medium-sized towns now have SWAT teams. And instead of only handling emergencies like the occasional barricaded suspect, SWAT teams now conduct routine drug raids and sometimes even patrol high-crime areas in place of regular beat cops. Nationally, activity by paramilitary police units--as measured by the total number of "callouts," or SWAT team mobilizations--quadrupled between 1980 and 1995, according to Kraska's study. And a CBS News survey of SWAT encounters showed a 34 percent rise in police use of deadly force between 1995 and 1998. Increasingly, the Defense Department is supplying the gear for this SWAT buildup. Between 1995 and 1997, the Department of Defense gave local police departments more than 3,800
Re: [CTRL] FW: Oral Sex In Middle Schools[for the ch
-Caveat Lector- It's not where they learned it or who they learned it from, it's what they haven't learned. Jamie -Original Message- From: Prudence L. Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] FW: Oral Sex In Middle Schools[for the ch -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 09/10/1999 12:03:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was inevitable. We have our president to thank for this. Doc ~ Jim Hardin wrote: Friends, Well, it looks like kids are actually learning something from the actions of Mr. Clinton. No, no. Now give credit where credit is due. Mr. Clinton didn't tell the kiddies about his affairs, and he didn't do anything that Presidents Johnson and Kennedy didn't do before him. So the kiddies learned all about this sort of thing from the establishment media and the Republican Congress (not to mention Judge Starr). What can I say, as a sex education tool, the nightly news is obviously very effective. Prudy 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
Re: [CTRL] Strong cryptography bill in house.
-Caveat Lector- Looks like a pearl in a dung heap http://www.computerprivacy.org/bills/ "Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know." -- Sam Simpson, July 9, 1998 "The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - G. K. Chesterton, Broadcast talk 6-11-35 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] CRTL-Natural Gas Found Offshore at Gaza
-Caveat Lector- Natural gas source found off coast of Gaza Strip Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press From Time to Time: Nando's in-depth look at the 20th century By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON (September 9, 1999 6:30 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - An explorer searching for ancient shipwrecks found a large undersea field seeping natural gas off the coast of the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The discovery by marine geologist Robert Ballard was announced Thursday by the National Geographic Society, which sponsored his research. In June, a natural gas reservoir was found undersea off the Israeli city of Ashdod, north of Gaza, estimated to be able to produce 30 million cubic feet of gas per day. Ballard's discovery indicates the gas field extends south, along the full length of the Gaza Strip and the coast of Egypt. "That was just one hole," Ballard said of the Ashdod well. "If you were to exploit this field you would have many rigs ... so clearly it's sizable." But politics could complicate development of the field's natural gas. The Gaza Strip, along the coast of southern Israel adjacent to the border with Egypt, is jointly administered by Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Ballard said he has not been in touch with either the Israeli or Palestinian officials about the find, but is confident both know of it because an Israeli observer was on board his research vessel, along with Palestinian crew members. Moshe Friedman, spokesman for the Israeli Infrastructure Ministry, said Thursday that he had not heard of the natural gas fields and would not be able to comment without more details. On the same research trip, Ballard also located the wrecks of two ancient Phoenician ships, the oldest vessels ever discovered in the deep sea, dating from about 750 B.C. It was that search that led to the gas discovery, he explained. "It turned out that the Phoenician ships have a particular sonar signature," Ballard explained. "We were using sonar to get what we call an acoustic signature and ran around the ships at different angles." He said they would find a depression in the sea floor and something hard within the depression - the hard object turned out to be the ships. After the researchers finished their work on the Phoenician ships, they steamed along the coast to look for other sunken vessels. The sonar detected what appeared to be hundreds of ships. "We said, 'That can't be true,"' Ballard recalled. "So we sent the Jason vehicle down, which can actually see, and in these depressions were deposits caused by seepage coming in contact with ocean and rising from deposits was gas. I realized what we had found because I'm a geologist," Ballard said. "The bubbles expanded in size as they rose toward the surface of the sea," he added. The long narrow depressions were probably associated with cracks in the earth that create a way for the gas to escape from underground reservoirs, he said. Ballard also reported finding concentrations of tube worms and beds of clams surrounding the vents. These were similar to those he found surrounding hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, he said. The Galapagos worms marked the first discovery of living things that used chemical energy rather that relying on the sun for energy. Ballard, president of the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Conn., is a longtime ocean explorer, probably best known for locating the wreck of the Titanic in the cold, dark waters of the North Atlantic. In addition to the National Geographic Society and his Institute for Exploration, Ballard's research off the Israeli coast was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Leon Levy Expeditions. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy
[CTRL] FWD EAST TIMOR): HELP US NOW OR THERE WILL BE NO TIMOR TOMORROW
-Caveat Lector- === The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU CNRT National Council for Timorese Resistance MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release: 1130 AustralianEST, Wednesday 8 September 1999 "The international community must intervene immediately...or there will be no East Timor." STATEMENT BY: João Carrascalão Head of CNRT in Australia President of UDT (Timorese Democratic Union) The Field Commander of Falintil, Taun Matan Ruak, called today from his base in the mountains of East Timor. He made an impassioned plea for help and detailed further atrocities committed by the Indonesian military machine as it continues its genocide and ethnic cleansing program. Taun Matan Ruak said: "The international community must intervene urgently in East Timor -- or tomorrow there will be no Timor to save. "I call on Timorese everywhere to mobilise to press in every way they can for international intervention." Taun Matan Ruak made a special appeal to Australia: "Our thanks to you for what you are doing. But we need more help. Do not forget, Australia, that we were there to help when Australia needed us, dying in these very mountains to save Australian troops." The situation in Dili: "It is chaotic. People are fleeing to the mountains, being arrested, killed and forced on to trucks to go to West Timor. "Some East Timorese in the police force have been murdered, some have fled to the mountains to join us. "Indonesia is disarming Battalion 744 (an East Timorese territorial battalion); the Indonesians do not trust them." The situation in the Districts: Suai: "The Indonesians attacked and destroyed the church at Suai yesterday. Of 2000 people taking refuge there, they will 100-200, including two priests and two nuns." Ermera: "They attacked the church. All the priest and nuns and everyone sheltering there fled to a hiding place and are safe at present. Commander Ular (the local Falintil commander) says they are seeking safety in the mountains." Manatuto: "The church was attacked. Father Domingos and the people sheltering there escaped to the mountains. Father Eduardo and another group are also on their way into the mountains. Laleia, Ossu and Venilale: "Some residents and some local armed people got away from the military. We are trying to find them to stop them sacrificing themselves in a hopeless local fight back. That is going to be difficult; they are very determined people." The situation in the mountains: "There are tens of thousands of refugees in the mountains now; they are in a terrible situation. "They are hungry, thirsty, sick and in abject misery. "The roads are blocked, food is very short already. "We are hungry, but we are doing everything we can to save our people." FURTHER INFORMATION: João Carrascalão, CNRT Spokesperson in Australia. Tel: (02) 9823 5616, Mobile: 0418 767 101 Issued on behalf of CNRT by Geoffrey Heard Associates Melbourne, AUSTRALIA GHA provides this service free to aid the suffering people of East Timor. . . . . . . CNRT National Council for Timorese Resistance MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release: 0930 AustralianEST, Wednesday 8 September 1999 Indonesia's ethnic cleansing target: kill 344,580 East Timorese STATEMENT BY: João Carrascalão Head of CNRT in Australia President of UDT (Timorese Democratic Union) Hitler would be envious -- just 96 hours after the United Nations declared that 78.5 per cent of East Timorese had voted for freedom from Indonesian oppression, the fascist Indonesian military machine and its civil government collaborators like Foreign Minister, Ali Alatas, are well on their way to their target of exterminating 344,580 East Timorese. They will also kill tens of thousands more -- innocent children. These people will die, shot, hacked, tortured, raped and starved to death, unless the free, democratic nations of the world confront Indonesia today, in every international forum and on the ground in East Timor. The figure of 344,580 is the number of people who voted for independence in the UN ballot, trusting in the assurances of sincere workers for the United Nations and from governments, including Australia and Portugal, that they could vote in safety and live to enjoy freedom afterwards. But documents circulated in the Indonesian military and auxiliary pseudo-militia forces before the ballot said that those voting should be carefully noted, and every voter for independence should be wiped out after the ballot ... regardless of the result. Those plans were put into action within an hour of the declaration of the ballot. In the 1970s, 200,000 East Timorese died when the the Indonesian military dictatorship launched an all-out campaign against the independence movement. That kept the lid on the movement for two decades. There can be no doubt that this time, their aim is more ambitious -- to wipe out the East Timorese independence movement for ever. That means wiping out every East Timorese who voted
[CTRL] Cold Fusion Patent Office
-Caveat Lector- From: Remy C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: endsecrecy list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [endsecrecy] Cold Fusion Patent Office Date: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:19 AM Date: 6 August 1999 From: Hal Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hal Fox President, Fusion Information Center INVESTIGATION OF PATENT OFFICE Special Agent Kimberlee Taylor Office of the Inspector General Commerce Department Room 7614 14th and Constitution, NW Washington, DC 20230 Phone 202-482-0909 Fax 202-501-0710 Due to complaints about the reluctance of the Office of Patents and Trademarks to allow any patent applications for cold fusion, or low-energy nuclear reactions to be processed beyond being rejected, an investigation has been ordered. Special Agent Kimberlee Taylor has been asked to get information about the complaints against the actions of the Office of Patents and Trademarks and report back to her supervisor. Dr. Mitchell Swartz has sent 35 pounds of papers, books, and 3 videos to Ms. Taylor. Hal Fox has written a four-page summary of the events that have attempted to dismiss cold fusion as bad science. It is believed that this investigation has been caused by citizens writing to their elected officials (Senators and Members of Congress). It is further strongly suggested that the best possible help for the support of this investigation will be a considerable expression of concern from our Senators and Members of Congress. PLEASE WRITE THE MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM YOUR DISTRICT AND BOTH SENATORS FROM YOUR STATE. Send a copy to Ms. Kimberlee Taylor. A brief summary of the history of the attempts to stop the development of cold fusion is posted at ? [ check http://www.padrak.com/ine ] (Dr. Bailey put in a hot button or something and post the attachment) Please help this important investigation by sharing this message with everyone you can, especially via the internet. Here are salient features: The United States is the only nation to deny inventors the right to patent cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions inventions. Why? Of over 3,000 technical papers on cold fusion (many theory and review papers) over 600 papers from over 200 scientific laboratories from precisely 30 countries have reported success in replicating or extending the original discovery of Professors Pons and Fleischmann. Over 100 cold fusion (new-hydrogen energy) patents have issued in Japan. Seven international conferences have been held on cold fusion with an estimated 200 or more scientists attending each conference. Is it conceivable that all of this time and effort by world-class scientists would be spent on a scientific fraud? Two groups offer kits for sale with MONEY-BACK GUARANTEES of success. Professor John Dash is preparing to sell cold fusion kits to high schools. His summer classes for entering science students and interested high-school students have had successful cold fusion experiments every summer for several years. The person in the Office of Patents and Trademarks who is the supervisor of the activity to handle the class of inventions that include cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions is Harvey Bhrendt. He is reported to state that cold fusion is not real because there are no commercial products on the market. Perhaps he hasn't heard about the products that are being offered for sale with a money-back guarantee. Perhaps he realizes that it is very difficult to commercial a product without patent protection. The big issue is the denial to U.S. inventors of their constitutional rights to the protection of their inventions! == Here is the background information faxed to Special Agent Taylor: Dear Ms. Kimberlee Taylor, We have been informed that you are interested in information regarding cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions and the policy of the Office of Patents and Trademarks with respect to patent applications. The following information may be of some interest: A. BACKGROUND As the director of the first research laboratory at the University of Utah Research Park, I was intensely interested in the March 23, 1989 announcement of cold fusion called by the University of Utah administration (not called by Pons and Fleischmann). The announcement of a new source of energy was most exciting to me. That day I began the plans for trying to be of some help (systems engineering background, missile system specialist for several years). By mid April 1989 we had organized the Fusion Information Center and obtained offices at the University of Utah Research Park. By July 1989, we had decided that information gathering and publishing such information would be our best role. Our first edition of Fusion Facts was published in July 1989 and continued as a monthly publication for several years before being incorporated as a part of the Journal of New Energy, a peer-reviewed, quarterly, scientific journal (abstracted from the first issue by Chemical Abstracts -- the world's
[CTRL] Changing Addresses
-Caveat Lector- I'm having so much trouble with Netscape Webmail that I'm transferring my CTRL membership to my primary e-mail account. So don't be surprised if you see me showing up with a new address... 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] Tr: WITH HER EYES OPENED - A LETTER FROM BULGARIA
-Caveat Lector- === The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU Roger ROMAIN conseiller communal PCB (1971-1994) B6180 COURCELLES Hainaut (Wallonie) BELGIQUE Web : http://gallery.uunet.be/Roger.ROMAIN/ E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Message d'origine - Envoyé : jeudi 9 septembre 1999 4:03 Objet : WITH HER EYES OPENED - A LETTER FROM BULGARIA Dear people, http://www.emperors-clothes.com received the following from a Bulgarian reader a few days ago. Addressed to the Serbian opposition, it clarifies the meaning of the 'democracy' dispensed by Madeline Albright's "'Indispensible Nation." WITH HER EYES OPENED A Letter to the Serbian 'Democratic Opposition' by Doncheva [Note http://www.emperors-clothes.com encourages everyone to distribute the following in any way possible but please include the entire text including this note. ] I was an activist in the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) until June 1993. UDF is the mirror image of the Serbian Alliance for Change (the United Democratic Opposition). The Bulgarian Union of Democratic Forces or UDF received a lot of money in 1990 - cars, computers, luxurious placards (transported from abroad in big trucks) for the 1990 elections and the next ones - until the consolidation of the UDF in power. We think that a certain amount of money continues to flow, but now it is directed only to the UDF officials presently in power. You all know what the Bulgarian government of the UDF did during the US war against neighboring Yugoslavia. I will remind those who might happen not to know or who have forgotten. It provided FULL SUPPORT for the USA. It gave the US and NATO all the asked-for corridors - in the air and on the ground. (There is talk that Southern Serbia has been demolished by US planes flying over Bulgaria from a US Turkish base.) For the first time since the end of the 500 year Turkish Yoke last century Turkish ground force passed through Bulgaria. Here's an easy question: "From whence does money for the UDF (and now for UDF leaders) mainly come?" You get one guess. So. We, here in Bulgaria, have had US-style democracy since 1989. For 10 years already. MY TEN MOST AWFUL YEARS. What happened during that most awful period of my life on Earth? Through the ardent UDF leaders in power, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are successfully devouring Bulgarian industry, destroying the social fabric and opening national boundaries. (Our national boundaries, mind you, never those of the US or Germany.) Three ways they devour Bulgarian industry - privatizing the Bulgarian plants and factories and liquidating them afterwards; - directly liquidating them; - selling them for twopenny-halfpenny to powerful foreign corporations. For instance, the Copper Metallurgical plant near the town of Pirdop producing gold and platinum as well as electrolytic copper was sold in 1997 to Union Miniere, Belgium for next to nothing. Conclusion: Bulgarian industry and infrastructure (the roads for instance) have been most successfully demolished - and this WITHOUT bombing! - in less than ten years. All this, just from doing what the Serbian opposition is saying the Serbs should do. A popular joke here during the US war on Yugoslavia: two Turkish pilots, flying over Bulgaria, are looking down at the Bulgarian landscape. One of them says: "I wonder? Have we dropped bombs here?" "Don't be silly," answers the other. "It is Bulgaria! They look like that without bombing.") Side results: - hordes of unemployed, as you can well imagine. Beggars in the streets. Children dying in the street from drugs and malnutrition. Old people digging in the rubbish containers for some rag or moldy piece of bread. In 1989 my friend mother's pensions had been 105 leva. Now it is 46 leva at $1 = ~1,87 leva. - August, 27. So, calculate for yourselves how much dollars that 75 year old woman receives per month. Yesterday my brother in law told me he had seen the former headmistress of his son's school to dig in a rubbish container? The Infant death rate has increased. The Birth death rate has increased. The reasons in most of the cases: mothers suffering of shock and malnutrition). The Death rate generally has increased. Young people refuse to marry and have children. Will there be a Bulgarian nation in the 21 century? What have the Big US think-tanks planned for Bulgaria? The answer is getting clearer with every year? EATING AWAY SOCIAL PRIVELEGES Before 1989 Bulgaria was a SOCIAL state: Free medical care, FREE education, social help and privileges for the mothers and the elderly. According to the old (totalitarian) pension law people retired at 55 years of age for the women and 60 years of age for the men. According to the new (U.S.-democratic) pension law and the adopted new system there will not be any retired people here. The
[CTRL] The Turing Game
-Caveat Lector- http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/turing/ Do men and women behave differently online? Can you tell who is a man and who is a woman on the Internet based on how they interact with others? Can you tell how old someone is, or determine their race or national origin? In the online world as in the real world, issues of personal identity affect how we relate to others. Culture in online environments is created by these understandings and misunderstandings. As the net grows not only in size but in diversity, we must take these issues into account as designers and citizens of this new medium. More on The Turing Game http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/turing/info2.html Register for The Turing Game http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/turing/reg.html === Robert F. Tatman Computer Help Desk Desktop LAN Services Systems Department Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215.854.2729 215.854.2788 The contents of this message represent the opinion only of the writer, and may not be construed to indicate the endorsement of Knight-Ridder, Inc.; Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.; The Philadelphia Inquirer; or the Philadelphia Daily News. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." 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] Simple test will let shoppers check produce for GM content
-Caveat Lector- http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/09/05/stiinnnws01007.html?19023 95 September 5 1999INNOVATION Genetic modification Simple test will let shoppers check produce for GM content AN INSTANT test for GM foods could soon allow shopkeepers and customers to check whether produce is totally free of modified crops, writes Roger Dobson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. One of the problems with GM products is that it is difficult to tell them apart from natural foods. Many processed foods thought to be GM-free have been found to contain small amounts of engineered material. It is possible to carry out DNA tests to spot the difference in the crop gene, but that is time-consuming, expensive and often impractical. The new test, developed by Strategic Diagnostics of Delaware in America, adapts the kind of antibody technology first used in DIY pregnancy kits to track down the genetically modified crops. The key to the success of the tests is that crops that have been genetically engineered produce a different type of protein. A plant engineered to be resistant to a specific insect, for instance, will express a protein toxic to that pest. With a herbicide-resistant crop, the plant will express a protein that de-activates the effect of the chemical. The test developed by Strategic Diagnostics measures these proteins, which would not be expressed by a normal plant. One test can measure the actual amount of protein in the sample, while the other is a yes-no litmus-paper type test that simply shows in minutes whether there is any GM food present. Don Durandetta, business manager for agricultural products at Strategic Diagnostics, says that unlike DNA tests, which are looking for the gene that creates the protein, the new test measures the protein directly and is much faster. He says: "The yes-no test takes only four or five minutes to give a result. It is essentially the same format as a standard home-pregnancy kit." The testing strip contains antibodies that are specific to the protein being looked for. On one side is a monoclonal antibody and on the other a polyclonal antibody. Attached to one of them is a colour marker. When the strip is immersed in the crop sample that has been mixed with water to make it fluid, the sample flows along a line between the arrays of antibodies. When the protein to which the antibodies react passes along the line, the antibodies on either side close in and form a sandwich, triggering the marker and changing the colour of the strip. "It is a simple yes-no sandwich assay test and the only way you can end up with a coloured strip is if both antibodies respond and a sandwich forms to change the colour, and that shows that there is transgenic protein present. This particular test doesn't tell you how much there is, just whether or not there is any present in the sample. "The first applications are at the producer end. Our biggest market at present is the quick yes-no test, which can screen trucks as they roll up from the farm. You can test a truck while it is still on the scales. You can take raw grain out of trucks as they arrive, grind it up, shake it up with water, take a sample and drop a strip in. It takes three or four minutes and the whole process, including gathering the sample, takes six minutes." The company is currently testing the effectiveness of the strips on processed products. If found to be useful, this could lead to a consumer version that could quickly tell shoppers if food contains any kind of GM-modified ingredients. One of the advantages for food producers is that the test will allow them to guarantee that there is no GM material in their crops. For food suppliers and shops, it means that they will be better able to put similar guarantees on processed-food packaging. Eventually, the antibody technology could be applied to many other forms of GM food as they start to come onto the market. With new GM legislation likely in Europe, Japan and America, the tests could protect producers from legal action where food that is meant to be GM-free is found to have a transgenic content. It would also mean that such food would not have to be junked as was the case in America when thousands of boxes of organic crisps were destroyed because the corn used had been accidentally contaminated by a crop from a neighbouring field of transgenic plants. Copyright (c) 1999 Times Newspapers Ltd. === Robert F. Tatman Computer Help Desk Desktop LAN Services Systems Department Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215.854.2729 215.854.2788 The contents of this message represent the opinion only of the writer, and may not be construed to indicate the endorsement of Knight-Ridder, Inc.; Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.; The Philadelphia Inquirer; or the Philadelphia Daily News. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting
[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: Jim Keith (1949 - 1999)
Robalini's Note: Out of respect for the family wishes, I had held off confirming this terrible news until today. I have been given the okay to announce it now. Needless to say, this will not be the last thing you'll hear about Jim Keith's death here. Mr. Keith is a giant of the information underground, and his loss will be sorely missed. Hello As some of you know James Keith broke his leg at Burning Man stepping off of a three foot stage. Thinking it was just a severe sprain he went home and tried to sleep it off. Realizing the next morning it was more he went to Washoe Medical and was to be treated for a broken knee. This was to involve surgery but was delayed to a problem with kidney function. I spoke with him during the afternoon on Tuesday and he was in good spirits but worried about the thought of being put under. His quote being "I have this feeling that if they put me under I'm not coming back" That night James went in for his surgery and around 8:10 PM a blood clot released from his leg and I believe went to his lung and he passed away. James leaves behind two daughters Aerika (13) and Verity (15). Plans are not finalized for services. But they will be sometime this weekend. I will be handling all affairs for his daughters so please direct all further email to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth F. Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thank you for the kind words about Jim. He was a dear friend of mine and an important person to the world. The loss is immeasurable. He was not just the co-author of The Octopus, but a dharma combatant who demonstrated time and again that the world is far more multi-dimenisonal, far more interesting, than the pablum that usually passes for news, information and normal discourse. Unfortunately, it is also far more dangerous. Rumor has it that Jim may have been killed because he mentioned the name of the physician who declared Diana was pregnant at the time of her death. I have long noted the connections between Diana's death and the Octopus. Diana was the subject of Jim's last column for Nitro News, which has been linked at Steamshovel's "Link Tank" for the past couple of weeks. As you know, Nitro News has not been accessible since Jim's death, although I reached it just before receiving word of his passing. This rumor may be nonsense. Casolaro may have committed suicide. It is the way of the Octopus. It exists but it doesn't exist. These are blood clots or suicides or non-suspicious homicides or real accidents. They just happen to cluster coincidentally around a certain set of facts or a certain perception of an organized conspiracy. And if Jim Keith did not die as a result of a conspiracy, then I'm sure he would want us to make it look that way! I hope you will remember Jim for his good humor and for his fearlessness. He wrote what he knew and he let the chips fall where they might. He lived on the edge, where I usually tried to catch up with him. I hope he taught me enough about the place to keep up the work to which we were both committed. If word comes of public services for him, I will pass it on. I have tentative plans to go to Reno and investigate what happened while the trails are still fresh. This will take money, though, and as with Jim and Danny Casolaro both, that's always in short supply, despite the romanticized view many people have of well-paid, world traveling writers and researchers. I urge anyone with information to contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll do whatever research work we can from our desks and get as much field work done as possible. I have sent inquiries to Burning Man and know one source who took a great deal of video there. Also, several of Jim's friends have expressed an interest in putting together a memorial volume of essays with proceeds going to his daughters. As these things develop, I will keep the list up to speed. Thank you again. Remember Jim! kt Jim Keith 1949 - 1999 Was the salesman clueless? Productopia has the answers. http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/555 eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/konformist http://www.egroups.com - Simplifying group communications
[CTRL] Privacy is Not Doomed
-Caveat Lector- http://www.techreview.com/articles/oct99/dertouzos.htm Michael Dertouzos * The People's Computer Privacy is Not Doomed I almost fell out of my chair when the politicians asked the technologists to solve the privacy issue! The china at the electronic-spy agency's dining room was exquisite, as was the meal. Ron Rivest, inventor of the RSA approach to public cryptography, and I were having lunch with the National Security Agency's director, Bobby Inman. We were trying to impress on him that the forthcoming growth of the Information Marketplace would create severe privacy problems and the agency should extend the role of cryptography from ensuring secure communications within the U.S. government (and breakable ones outside it) to protecting the privacy of U.S. citizens and organizations, with approaches like RSA. The admiral didn't believe us-our claims of a widely interconnected civilian world in the '90s sounded like pie in the sky. Twenty-five years later, in April 1999, at the other extreme, The Economist proclaimed on its cover "The End of Privacy." Under-reaction then! Over-reaction now! No doubt, the technologies of information can be used to attack our privacy. But they can also be used to protect it. For example, if we agreed that everyone using the Internet did so under the RSA regime of creating and using their own public and private keys, we would end up with secure communications and files and the ability to digitally sign contracts and checks as effectively as we do now by hand. This high level of personal privacy would, however, preclude governments from legally tapping a suspect's private data and would also prevent anonymity-thereby angering Right and Left simultaneously. If we don't like this outcome, we have technologies on hand to establish nearly any desired blend of personal privacy, anonymity and governmental intervention. Such cryptographic approaches would not stop companies with which you do business from selling personal data you give them, corrupting it, or tracking Web sites you frequent. Not to worry. There is technology around to handle these problems, as well: A scheme called P3P, developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, places software within your browser and in the Web sites of vendors. In a P3P personal profile, which you write once, you specify the personal information you are willing to give away along with what others are allowed to do with it. A similar script in the vendor's software identifies the personal information the vendor requires and its planned disposition. These two pieces of software "shake hands" prior to every business transaction and allow it to proceed only if both privacy declarations are satisfied. In a variation of this scheme, governments can introduce absolute privacy policies, by requiring, for example, a minimal level of privacy in the P3P profile of every citizen. These examples accurately suggest that we have enough technology around to provide nearly any level of privacy we want. But what do we want? In the United States, consumers have become accustomed to treating privacy as a tradable commodity-we don't mind giving some of it away to get the goods and services we desire. Vendors are pushing for this approach because they are moving away from mass marketing to one-on-one selling, and are therefore anxious to build intimate knowledge of individual interests and habits. To most non-Americans, however, privacy is not a tradable commodity but an inalienable right that must be guaranteed and protected, especially in the case of minors. The European Union, flexing its muscle, recently threatened to forbid its citizenry from doing electronic commerce with organizations (read U.S.) that do not meet a minimal threshold of absolute privacy guarantees. They have since backed down and gone to committee, as they and their American partners search for common ground. Last February at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a few industrialists tried to establish a voluntary code under which vendors would give you, upon request, all personal information they have on you, explain what they plan to do with it, and correct it if asked. Adoption of this code seemed a small and achievable step, but it failed to pass. The American vendors saw it as an expensive and difficult proposition to implement, and a potential leak of their marketing approaches to adversaries. Clearly, we disagree about the kind of privacy we want. And we don't seem serious enough about reaching agreement-at that same meeting in Davos, I almost fell out of my chair when several world leaders asked the technologists present to "go figure out a solution to the privacy problems you brought upon us!" This abrogation of what should be a central responsibility of politicians and legislators must stop. Let's not surrender our privacy to the big lie of technological inevitability. Let us, instead, augment the debates of privacy specialists, with a far broader discussion
Re: [CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] Waco Humor
-Caveat Lector- H, I repeated some jokes...I didn't say that incinerating living children was funny, and it's not! Koresh and the loon parents might have done the burning though. Let us wait until ALL the evidence is in, eh??? Otherwise, do your husband a favor...and lighten up! 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] Bible Code is Bunk
-Caveat Lector- No S#it! 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] M. Mostert - Clinton's Policy of Anarchy in East Timor and Kosovo
-Caveat Lector- === The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU === The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU This is enough to make your blood boil. There's a useful update on the current status of S.1234. On July 16th my column, entitled "S1234: Yugoslavia: Give us you assets or we kill your Children"(http://originalsources.com/OS7-99MQC/7-16-1999.1.shtml) was a protest against a bill, passed 97-2, in the U.S. Senate, with no debate or media attention, that would have declared Serbia a "Terrorist State." The result of that designation would ensure that the Serbs would be unable to restore electricity and heat to its people before the harsh Yugoslavia winter sets in, which would cause the death of thousand of children , sick and elderly people of all nationalities in Serbia Then, on July 23rd, the House passed a companion bill which did not have the Terrorist designation in it. On August 4, just before the Congress adjourned for the summer vacation, the Senate portion was added, including the designation of Serbia as a "terrorist state." The two bills were then sent to committee, with the Senate insisting on it amendment, to determine what would remain in the final $12,624,278,000 bill for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs. Now that Congress is back in session, the Congress will be voting to adopt the Conference report prepared by the conference committee with includes Senators McConnell; Specter; Gregg; Shelby; Bennett; Campbell; Bond; Stevens; Leahy; Inouye; Lautenberg; Harkin; Mikulski; Murray; Byrd. While the House version did not contain the "terrorist" designation, the House Committee Report Read: Committee Report: SERBIA The Committee intends that none of the funds provided under this heading, or in this Act, may be made available for reconstruction or development activities for the Republic of Serbia, outside of Kosova. The Committee would support a substantial increase in democratization activities in Serbia and Montenegro, excluding Kosovo, including increased assistance as authorized under the Support for East European Democracy Act of 1989. The Committee is recommending a new general provision, section 537, that would prohibit funds from being made available for assistance for the Republic of Serbia. Such assistance is not appropriate at the present time. This is an improvement over the Senate bill which would not only have not provided any funds to restore the electrical and heating plants which American bombs destroyed, but would have required the blocking of any other nation that wished to help Yugoslavia have heat and electricity this winter. Of course, the conference isn't over yet. So NOW is the time to write your senators and representative to insist they understand that the children, elderly and ill of Yugoslavia - and there are many in all those categories in the over one million refugees trying to survive in Serbia - are not the ones who die in the War of Annihilation against Yugoslavia. If the central heating facilities and electricity are not restored, thousands of children, elderly and hospitalized people of all nationalities will die this winter in Serbia. An estimated 300,000 Serbs, Albanians, Gypsies, Turks, Jews, Gorans, Egyptians and Montenegrins have fled Kosovo since NATO and the KLA took control of the province and the refugee population in Serbia has swollen to well over a million people. Under these circumstances, perhaps the House report, which was issued August 4th, eliminated the "terrorist" designation because it would be rather embarrassing to talk about Serbia being a "terrorist state" while America supports Indonesian and KLA terrorism In a month's time, the situation looks very different. Not only has the true nature of the KLA, which the United States assisted with its Air Force, become apparent to others in the media besides me, but we now have the situation in East Timor where hundreds of thousands have died at the hands of the invading Indonesian Army since 1975 and the world is watching what Clinton does THIS time. Yesterday, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, was asked about the situation in East Timor, where an estimated 150,000-200,000 people have been killed or driven from their homes by militias and the Indonesian Army.. In March Clinton unilaterally, WITHOUT a vote of the United Nations General Assembly OR the U.S. Congress began an 79 day, multi-billion dollar bombing spree over Yugoslavia because 2000 Ethnic Albanians and Serbs had been killed during 1998 in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Now, according to reports today in the London Telegraph, in a few days following a vote encouraged by the United States, the people of East Timor are being annihilated. Indonesian soldiers "were looting everything in sight, carrying furniture out of abandoned houses and loading it on to trucks." A five-vehicle
Re: [CTRL] Luke Ford- JFK Jr. A Homo
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 9/10/99 6:51:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William Shannon wrote: -Caveat Lector- How is JFK Jr like a penguin? Both are cute but can't fly. Hey!!! Wait a minute here...I DIDN'T write the above quote...just forwarded it! I'M "cute"...ask my wife! JFKjr. cute?? Not unless you like looking at fishfood...I prefer looking at Elenor Mondale...SHE'S CUTE! 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] Voters Want Both Clintons Out Of Public Eye
-Caveat Lector- Voters Want Both Clintons Out Of Public Eye By Alan Elsner, Political Correspondent BOSTON (Reuters) - A clear majority of voters would like both President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton to retire from public office and take a lower profile at the end of next year, a Reuters/WHDH poll found Thursday. The poll of 1,004 likely voters conducted Sept. 6-8 by John Zogby International for Reuters and the Boston television station WHDH found that 54 percent preferred to see both Clintons leave office and lower their profile at the end of the current presidential term, while 40 percent favored the idea of Hillary Clinton serving in the Senate. The first lady is preparing a bid for a Senate seat from New York which will fall vacant at the end of next year. Clinton's second term in the White House ends in January, 2001. The poll, which carried a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points, also found Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush leading Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic leader, by 50-36 percent in a matchup for next year's election. Bush, the governor of Texas and son of former President George Bush, also held a commanding lead over the rest of the field for the Republican presidential nomination. Almost 60 percent of Republican voters favored Bush. Former Cabinet secretary Elizabeth Dole was second with 12 percent and all other candidates were under 5 percent. Among Democrats, Gore led his sole rival for the party nomination, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, by 55-17 percent with the rest undecided. Bradley formally launched his presidential bid Wednesday in his Missouri birthplace. Two-thirds of Democrats agreed that Gore ``deserved'' the party's presidential nomination while nearly half of all voters thought he should be neither penalized nor rewarded for his loyalty to Clinton. A quarter said he should be rewarded while 20 percent said he should be penalized. But the poll showed Gore faced a growing problem of ''Clinton fatigue'' among voters. ``A lot of people seem to be tired of the Clintons and that's not a good sign either for the first lady or for Al Gore,'' said pollster John Zogby. Asked if they favored a continuation of Clinton administration policies or a change of policy from the next president, 40 percent said they wanted continuity but 50 percent favored a change in direction. ``This is the heart of Gore's dilemma: how does he carve out a new direction and a new persona while still remaining loyal to the Clinton legacy?'' said Zogby. Gore's weakness also showed up when voters were asked whether they would vote for him or Dole for president. Dole won that matchup by 45 to 37 percent. But Gore beat Arizona Sen. John McCain 43-33 percent and publisher Steve Forbes 45-34 percent. Even in these cases, Gore was well short of winning 50 percent of respondents. A third of the voters said they wanted to see a third party candidate in the race and 42 percent said they would consider voting for such a candidate. The poll showed that some Americans still do not have a clear idea of who Bush is and what he advocated. Asked to name the first thing that came to mind about him, 13 percent said ''ex-president,'' confusing him with his father. Most of the rest had positive things to say about the Texas governor. Looking inside the Gore-Bush numbers, Gore was gaining the support of only 70 percent of Democrats in his matchup against Bush, while Bush was backed by 90 percent of Republicans. Bush led Gore by 22 percentage points among men and by five points among women, confirming that the traditional gender gap still played a role in U.S. politics. In the past two presidential elections, women heavily backed Clinton while men narrowly favored his Republican opponents. Gore was strongest among voters under the age of 30, who are less likely to vote. All other age groups heavily backed Bush. Among independent voters, Bush led Gore 48-26 percent. Bush led Gore among white voters 58-29 percent; blacks supported the vice president by 78-10 percent and Hispanics supported him by 61-36 percent. **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] 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
[CTRL] Fw: Clinton's Only Enemies
We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboardhttp://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage - Original Message - From: Holly Deyo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 4:28 PM Subject: Clinton's Only Enemies 10 September 1Dear Moshiahni,This morning we read the enclosed disturbing report. As if there could be any doubt we are pushing closer to the prophesied times of Daniel and Revelation, this should be another warning. Throughout the Bible, we are warned of the coming Christian persecution, the persecution of Believers. Read carefully the 6th paragraph. That one sentence should positively make your hair stand on end.As a piece of trivia, most people are aware that William Jefferson Clinton's name adds up 666, as do many other people's names. Did you know it adds up to 666 in both Greek AND Hebrew? Whether or not this indicates anything, Clinton's statement about fundamental Christians should cause everyone _great_ alarm.It further underscores the eventuality that one way or another, Christian fundamentalists must be removed from the world before evil can fully have its way. This removal could be by Rapture or murder.When the president of ANY country could be so openly opposed to religious freedom, let alone the President of the country which was _founded_ on the principle of religious freedom, it makes us wonder precisely what role Clinton plays in End Times.In His Service,Stan and HollyTHURSDAY SEPTEMBER 09, 1999Joseph Farah WND Exclusive CommentaryWars and promises of wars http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/19990909_xcbtl_wars_and_p.shtmlYou don't have to listen very closely to the murmuring in Beijing to hear that China is virtually promising the world it will someday attack Taiwan in an effort to impose hegemony over the free Republic of China.That's what China means, for instance, when the official China Daily announces reunification with Taiwan will be achieved "at any cost." Such ominous warnings are issued on nearly a daily basis for those curious enough to scan the headlines of the Asian papers.What will be the response of the United States when that day comes? How has the Clinton administration reacted to such bellicose threats from Beijing? The Clinton administration says a military invasion of Taiwan by China would be "of grave concern" to Washington.Of grave concern? Talk of eliminating mohair subsidies is of grave concern in Washington. Parking is of grave concern in Washington. The summer drought is of grave concern in Washington. In a city of political hyperbole, the idea of World War III should be of something more than "grave concern."It reminds me of a February 1999 Salon magazine piece titled, "The Mysteries of Bill Clinton," by unrepentant leftist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The author, a close friend of and apologist for Fidel Castro, writes glowingly of a dinner party with Clinton. Oh, he's so charming, so brilliant, so persecuted, so ... tall. But the most interesting revelation of the Garcia Marquez piece was Clinton's off-the-cuff answer to a question posed by Carlos Fuentes.Asked whom he considered to be his "enemies," the president shot back immediately and abruptly: "My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.""That announcement ended the evening," writes Garcia Marquez. And quite a show-stopper it must have been.But what does this little digression have to do with the price of thermonuclear warheads in China?Just compare and contrast the rhetoric: Bill Clinton isn't kidding when he says his only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism. He considers the threat from Jerry Falwell to be of graver concern than the threat from Jiang Zemin. In fact, it's not even a close contest for the president. He has done everything in his power for nearly seven years to ensure that totalitarian China achieves geo-strategic parity with the United States. At the same time, he has used all of the power of the presidency -- plus some extra-constitutional powers -- to persecute and make war on his domestic political enemies.Think about it: The transfer of nuclear warhead secrets ... The transfer of critical satellite technology ... The transfer of the Panama Canal ... The proposed transfer of the Long Beach Navy yard. ... Am I the only one who sees the pattern here?And let's not forget what precipitated all these treasonous policies -- the largest foreign campaign contributions in the history of the American political system from bank accounts linked to the Chinese government.That a U.S. president could so blatantly betray U.S. security is apparently too much for the American psyche to handle. That he could do so for money and raw political power is apparently too unthinkable. That he could get away with this betrayal and get at least the tacit, if not complicit, support of the opposition party is mind-boggling. But the public, the press and the politicians don't wish to be
[CTRL] Missing Vietnam-era Sailor Wrongly Declared Deserter
-Caveat Lector- Advocacy And Intelligence Index For Prisoners Of War/Missing In Action, Inc. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Bob Necci and Andi Wolos THE POW/MIA E-MAIL NETWORK (c) aiisep07.99k Missing Vietnam-era Sailor Wrongly Declared Deserter Navy Balks at Correcting the Mistake By Ted Sampley U.S. Veteran Dispatch September 1999 One month after Petty Officer First Class Leonard Gene Smith disappeared from his ship at a Brooklyn, New York shipyard in January 1973, the Navy declared him a deserter. Without looking for Smith or even listing him with local authorities as missing, the Navy removed his name from the ship's roster and passed his case to the FBI where he was logged in as a common criminal to be arrested on sight. When Smith's desperate wife and three children applied for military benefits, the Navy dredged up her husband's deserter status and coldly denied all appeals for help even when members of Congress tried to intervene. With no help from the Navy, Smith's family had little choice but to resort to welfare. They soon found themselves living in poverty, forced to live in houses where at night they could hear rats clawing inside the walls. For school supplies, the children had to use discarded pencils and scraps of paper. As time passed, the Navy did little to find out what happened to Petty Officer Smith and nothing to help his family financially or emotionally. Later, after Smith's wife, Mary, returned to her native Newport News, Virginia, she and her three sons, all of them working, managed to lift the family off welfare and into the lower middle class. The Navy steadfastly refused to release to Mary any of its investigative records concerning her husband so she could try to prove he was not a deserter. Last Christmas, Smith's youngest son, Tom, who had successfully put himself through law school, took over his fathers records from his mother and began a basic investigation of his father's disappearance. On a hunch, he sent his dad's finger prints to the New York police. Computer analysis successfully matched the prints with that of a John Doe, who in March 1973 was pulled "bloated and naked" from the East River near the Brooklyn shipyard where Smith's ship was being repaired. Tom Smith says the Navy told him in June that in light of the new information his father's deserter status would be changed, but that did not happen. Smith said he wrote two letters in August asking the Navy to have his father taken off the deserter's list and pay the benefits to which his family was legally entitled. He also asked the Navy to exhume his dad's body and transfer it to his paternal grandfather in Illinois and pay for a proper burial. The head of the Navy's Casualty Assistance branch refused, saying it couldn't do anything until the Navy changed Leonard Smith's deserter status . "Unless further evidence is presented to the board for correction of naval records that indicates [Leonard Smith] died on the date he disappeared," D.J. Greco wrote, "we cannot certify payment of survivor benefits as if he died in an active duty status." The 1973 autopsy performed by the New York City Medical Examiner's office lists March 13 as the date Petty Officer Smith's body was found. The body was missing a hand, the top of the skull was gone and fungus was growing inside the brain cavity. The skin was grayish green. The conditions of the body indicate that it had obviously been in the icy river a long time before police found it. Tom said that soon after, a man identifying himself as "Investigator Heath" called telling him that he couldn't find any Navy records that listed Petty Officer Smith as a deserter. However, documents do exist proving the Navy declared Smith a deserter. In a June 1976 letter, the Navy's personnel bureau notified Rep. Margaret Hackler of Massachusetts that Petty Officer Leonard Smith had been declared a deserter and his case was turned over to the FBI. The Naval Investigative Service, in a December 1981 letter, informed then Virginia Congressman Paul Trible that it had helped determine Leonard Smith's deserter status. Then, in a July 1983 letter, the Navy's personnel command told 1st District Rep. Herb Bateman of Newport News that a Hampton Circuit Court ruling which declared Petty Officer Smith "presumed dead" was not sufficient. "Petty Officer Smith will remain on the deserter list until a federal court declares him dead," wrote Congressional Liaison W. J. Dickinson. Although Tom Smith has already mailed copies of the congressional correspondence to the Chief of Naval Operations, the Navy is still insisting that he provide an "autopsy report, statements from your father's coworkers, death certificate, fingerprint comparison, etc." Exasperated by the Navy's response, he expressed his family's frustration: "John Kennedy Jr.'s plane crashes and right away they can send out the Coast Guard and the Navy to find him," he said. "My father's been dead 26 years and I'm just a number. I
[CTRL] Fw: HARDNEWS-VIA-AKIKO HARD NEWS 10/9/99 - Blood and Fear
-Caveat Lector- We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 12:03 PM Subject: HARDNEWS-VIA-AKIKO HARD NEWS 10/9/99 - Blood and Fear HARD NEWS is first broadcast in Auckland on 95bFM around 8.45am on Fridays and replayed around 4.30pm Friday and 10am Sunday on The Culture Bunker. A digest appears monthly in Re:Mix magazine. You can listen to 95bFM live on the Internet. Point your web browser to http://www.95bfm.co.nz. You will need Real Audio 3.0 to be able to listen, plus a 28.8k modem. Currently New Zealand is 12 hours ahead of GMT. HARD NEWS ON THE INTERNET appears at Scoop, at http://scoop.co.nz , at Akiko at http://nz.com (which is the home of the Hard News mailing list) and is posted to local newsgroups. GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES S it is the genius of Paul Holmes that he somehow contrives for you to watch his show just when the shit is hitting the fan. And so it was on Wednesday night, that having wandered into the living room, I found myself waiting while Holmes padded - very well, if the truth be known - and then watching as the Prime Minister emerged from her apparently delayed motorcade to stand in front of more cameras than she'd ever seen before and conduct much the most serious briefing in her political career. And you could tell. Her speech, couched, cautious, inviting the Indonesian government to call the UN if it couldn't manage, was very probably the work of her departing Foreign Affairs minister. Don McKinnon. It would have sounded better if he'd actually delivered it. But this is Jenny Shipley's Apec. And so she ploughed into it, taking big gulps of air between every sentence, speaking a little too quickly, and, at one point, stumbling badly on her script. I don't know about you, but it made me bloody nervous. She seemed no more composed the next day. She plainly has the fear and it's hard to escape the conclusion that, as the people of East Timor face genocide and Indonesia looks down the barrel of a military coup, she's very lucky she's still got McKinnon to call on. Can you imagine Max Bradford handling this stuff? Yet even McKinnon's trademark softly-softly approach has been rendered farcical by events. We could insist all we wanted that Timor would had no place on the agenda of an economic summit, but humanity dictated otherwise. For all that we sought to spare the sensibilities of President Habibie, he isn't coming now - and could well now be irrelevant anyway. If nothing else, this week's events have shown how painfully narrow is New Zealand's international dialogue. While the New Zealand government dodged the issue, the Canadians, of all people, called and chaired a crisis meeting in Auckland. And why is it that the Australians seem so much more confident in their public life? Their Prime Minister John Howard and Foreign Affairs minister Alexander Downer, who had far more call to tread carefully than we did, didn't. They were forthright, they were critical, they were frank. Yet at every step New Zealand has baulked. A day after McKinnon said it would be premature to suspend out ties with the out-of-control Indonesian military, the Americans did just that. It's impossible to watch a people and their places being steadily erased by thugs without feeling that something, anything should be done. But what? A couple of Australian newspapers actually canvassed the idea of going to war with Indonesia, but that, frankly, is not a starter. The one thing that shouldn't happen is for the United Nations to abandon the fledgling democracy it helped to create. For so long as UN people want to stay there and provide shelter for the innocent, they ought to be there. I often wonder if, in these situations, there is a level of diplomacy where diplomacy is left behind - where people get shouted at and bullied and told they will be cut off at the knees if they don't pull into line. If that ever happens, it needs to be now. But what do Indonesians themselves think of the bloodbath taking place at the tip of their archipelago? From the look of Internet newsgroups, they seem to have bought the line that what is going on in East Timor is a civil war. That, having wilfully cut themselves off from their adoptive nation, the crazy Timorese are killing each other. Timor is no stranger to internal warfare. Back when the Portugese were kicked out of Jakarta and came to stay in 1664, there were warring tribes in Timor. But that's not, as we know, what's happening now. The Portugese left the East Timorese with a Catholic faith in an Islamic region and a nationhood bloodily overtaken by the Indonesians 24 years ago. Since then the military has run Timor the way enterprising Dutch and Portugese
[CTRL] Wolfe's Lodge [a re-post for List newbies]
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[CTRL] About Comet Lee
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/"Comet Observation Home Page/A http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/ 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] A look at radical Catholic reform solutions
-Caveat Lector- http://www.metroactive.com/sonoma/hellraiser2-9936.html [ Sonoma County | MetroActive Central | Archives ] Reform School - A look at radical Catholic reform solutions [sidebar to article HELLRAISER: http://www.metroactive.com/sonoma/hellraiser-9936.html ] Scandals move church activists to push for radical changes in clergy By Janet Wells IN RECENT YEARS, headlines more appropriate to sleazy tabloids have trumpeted what seems like a never-ending parade of Catholic bishops, priests, and lay clergy entangled in shocking sexual misconduct cases with men, women, and children. The problems are so widespread that the news media have branded the inner sanctum "a culture of collusion." Why can't a 2,000-year-old institution with 976 million faithful--17 percent of the world's population--figure out how to clean up its act? Here's an idea: Get rid of the celibacy mandate. Or ordain women as priests. Or talk openly about sex. Radical reforms may not eradicate pedophilia, of course. But it's the eve of the third millennium--at least by the Christian calendar--and the world's most powerful adherent to that timeline seems firmly rooted in the Dark Ages. "It's one of the most incredible dysfunctional family units you could possibly see," says Tom Economus, president of Linkup, a national support group for victims of clergy abuse. "I lived in a monastery with 38 men," says Economus, a priest who says he was sexually abused himself as a teenager at a Catholic school in South Dakota. "We knew who was having sex, whether homosexual or heterosexual, who had eating disorders, who had problems with alcohol. You just turned your head [and ignored the problem]. "Many of the good clergy knew of priests offending, but never turned them in because they were involved in relationships themselves," Economus adds. "It was who-had-dirt-on-who contributing to a code of silence. It is a systemic problem." Many church experts, as well as Catholic faithful, disagree, saying that the problems are magnified out of proportion. Scandal, says San Francisco Archdiocese spokesman Maurice Healy, "tends to obscure the day-to-day ministries that are ongoing." "The first time I went to the Diocese of Santa Rosa they were having a respite meeting, giving caregivers of Alzheimer's patients a break. That was in the midst of the announcement of Bishop Ziemann's resignation," he says. "I think people, over time, they see Mother Teresas, Father Damiens, and they realize there's a great deal more holiness than misconduct." But for those who are dismayed beyond belief at the Church's oft-troubled inner sanctum, ignoring the bad in light of the good is no longer enough. Here are some of their thoughts: Celibacy "It is time for the Holy Roman Catholic Church to examine a policy that came into existence . . . to keep land and wealth in the hands of the clergy and not the widows and children of the priests," says Kory White, in an August editorial in We the People, a publication of the local gay community." "I believe that Jesus never intended the priests to be celibate," says Sister Jane Kelly of the Ukiah parish. "[St.] Peter was married." "This vow of celibacy thing is a joke," says Don Hoard Jr., who, as a boy, was molested by Father Gary Timmons, a Santa Rosa priest now serving an eight-year sentence for molestation. "It just fosters a mentality that any accusation of impropriety--that these things can't happen because we're celibate. That's a neat fairy tale." Women in the Priesthood "When you have a church that excludes women from all the decision-making, you have a problem," says Linda Piecynski, president of the Catholic reform group Call to Action. "[Pope] John Paul is very conservative . . . and he's surrounded by people who are obviously trying to protect their position of power. Everybody admires the pope and reveres him, but nobody listens to him. "The vast majority practice birth control despite what the Vatican says. A majority of Catholics believe that women should be priests. We've had altar girls for a while. "What's the big deal?" Sexual Dialogue "When I went through seminary, they didn't talk about sex," says Linkup's Tom Economus. "It was an underlying rule that you handled your sexuality before you entered the priesthood. I went to my spiritual director and wanted to approach the subject of sex. He went over to a shelf and gave me a book on celibacy and the priesthood, about 125 pages. 'Here,' he said, 'This will answer all of your questions.' "There's no support system that talks about sex, and it is the single biggest issue [for priests]. . . . You're told not to have an erection, erections are bad. The only women you're to love are the Blessed Virgin and your mother. Sex is bad. . . . It demasculinizes the person, and there is no question in my mind that, as a result, these aberrant behaviors have been a manifestation of that. "To think sex is something they can continue to ignore is
[CTRL] VOICE Of The GRUNT, 1999-09-08-A-2
-Caveat Lector- My soldiers listen wide-eyed when my senior NCO's tell stories about these times as if they were fairy tales. Men with over 15 years in the Army are saying "You used to be able to do your job; the Army used to be fun." You'd think that given the experience and wisdom of these men, someone higher up would listen. What happened to cause the great cultural and philosophical shift in our Army? Some have suggested a lack of focus for our Army in the post-Cold War world. Others blame shrinking defense budgets and increasing deployments around the globe. I believe our leadership would understand why if someone with a higher rank than I currently hold truly examined how these macro-issues translate to a micro scale, (i.e. junior officer level). We are the ones who see how policies made at the highest level affect our soldiers first hand, yet no one will take our opinions and recommendations seriously. We were taught to use our minds at our respective academies and universities, yet we are forced to allow our creativity to go dormant once we pin our bars on. There is a wealth of valuable ideas waiting to emerge from our ranks, but this resource is left untapped. The answer does not lie in the creation of new systems or processes; senior leaders just need to listen. I'm told that I need not worry about the future. Some nifty computer screens they are going to put in our vehicles, as well as Robo-Soldier outfits for our infantrymen will solve all of our problems. Even after field testing, the fact that this equipment may or may not do what it is supposed to do is beside the point. Technology is our future, and we are going to kill the enemy with a preponderance of information flowing digitally across the battlefield. The Army is convinced of this, but is going to take a lot more than some self-congratulating articles and press releases to convince the rest of us. Well, maybe all that could just be written off as whining from an officer who doesn't know anything in big picture. I'm sure the thought of "why don't you stay around and do something about it instead of complaining" has crossed the minds of more than one reader. My theory is that many officers are mustering what little independent thought they have left and deciding that the Army in its current state cannot change from within. There currently exists a culture of like-mindedness and many of us just do not fit the mold, therefore we cannot succeed unless we conform. In order to reach any rank where we might be able to be listened to, we would have had to already discarded our ideas and openly embraced conventional Army wisdom. In essence, embrace the policies we intended to change. Maybe the answer is exactly what the Army has been telling us; keep our mouths shut, do as we're told, and drive on with the mission. Yeah, I think we'll do that, but only as long as we have to. = ARTICLE 4 ~~~ MANPOWER ~~~ SUMMARY: Here's a good accompaniment to Hack's piece for this week. By Primo (Not the author's real name) There are a lot of good arguments why 'serving the Nation' in some way for some period of time would be a good thing. Part of the discussion is the military manpower issue. Since the best debate is an informed one, this note discusses the current Army manpower status. The Army projects accession shortfalls which may range from 8,000 (1999) to as many as 20,000 (2000). In order to understand how these shortfalls can be fixed, it's useful to understand how we got where we are. As I wander the C and D ring halls sitting in briefings, four factors stand out: 1. Shifting population trends 2. Economy 3. 70s Hollow Army 4. Drawdown * SHIFTING POPULATION TRENDS There are about 25M 18-24 y/o kids in the US. This will grow to about 30M in 2025. It is, and will increasingly be, a racially diverse group ... somewhere between 2025 and 2050, most will be nonwhite. The fastest growing group will be Hispanics (13 to 22%). We are also seeing rapid health and education shifts: 1. Kids are increasingly underfit and overfat. 90% get bussed to school; 75% do not have regular gym; they are increasingly eating high-sugar soda and high-grease fast food diets (which explains the increases in asthma and type 2 diabetes)(schools are entering into multi-million dollar exclusive contracts to push this junk in the schools). Schools spend significant resources on sports entertainment for the community (football, basketball, etc.), but little on the average kid. Military across the world are seeing decreases in entry fitness and increases in pre-training requirements and training-related injuries (especially among overweight, smokers, and females). 2. Kids are increasingly on their own. They have 75% less adult contact than we did. Dual-income families and single-parent families mean we
[CTRL] SFTT Special: Shooting Straight on Anthrax Part 1
-Caveat Lector- This Special Mailing is provided to educate and inform SFTT readers on a major issue affecting the readiness of the US military. SFTT continues to support calls for an immediate cessation of the current anthrax vaccination program pending an independent investigation to determine the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. âShooting Straight on Anthraxâ By Redmond H. Handy A White Paper on the August 5, 1999 DOD Press Briefing On August 5, 1999, Mr. Ken Bacon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs held a briefing for reporters on the DOD anthrax vaccination program. He and the senior military officers who briefed the reporters made statements about the anthrax vaccination policy that are in direct conflict with General Accounting Office (GAO) investigations and testimony before Congress. This article reviews selected DOD answers to reportersâ questions during that briefing (the briefing excerpts are preceded by "Q" and "A" etc.). We encourage you to read the entire briefing transcript which is linked to on the SFTT web site at the address listed below. This article is also posted on the SFTT website at http://www.sftt.org/articles/shooting_straight.shtml in the articles section and uses hyperlinks to other sources so that readers have access to more detailed â and accurate -- information Q: Why can't this be on the record? Mr. Bacon: This is pretty technical stuff and I thought it would be a freer flow, more of a dialogue, if we did it this way⦠Q: There won't be any names attached to it, though. Mr. Bacon: We're going to do it this way, and there will be future opportunities to talk about that⦠Comment: Mr. Baconâs linkage of anonymity and the disclosure of technical details, of which few were discussed in the briefing, is difficult to understand. He gave similar vague answers justifying anonymity for senior military officers when the mandatory anthrax vaccination policy was announced on 15 Dec 1997. Why are general and flag officers -- who are supposed to be warriors -- hiding behind a shield of anonymity when discussing this policy? DOD has lacked candor in the past when addressing servicemembersâ health concerns. DOD took years to admit the health risks to servicemembers exposed to nuclear tests in the 1950âs, Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, and chemical weapons during the Gulf War. Anonymous briefings by senior officers on the anthrax vaccination policy display a similar lack of candor. Rightly or not, this anonymous approach fuels the perception by military personnel that they may once more be used as âguinea pigsâ in a DOD experiment. Army general officer briefer: â I've got to tell you, personally it would be irresponsible and it's unconscionable that we would take a trooper into that threat area and not be vaccinated⦠And as a leader, I can't fathom that we would ever take a trooper into that threat environment without being vaccinated.â Comment: This statement mirrors SecDef Cohenâs remark last March that he would be âderelictâ in his duties if he did not mandate the anthrax vaccine. DODâs attempt to frame the anthrax vaccine as moral imperative may be an effective way to shut off debate about its safety, efficacy and doctrinal necessity. However, this approach ignores the fact that our major adversaries since WWII have had weaponized anthrax and that the FDA first licensed this vaccine in 1970. Does this mean that every SecDef and general officer since the Nixon Administration has been derelict because they did not mandate use of the vaccine? A 16 Aug 1999 Washington Post op-ed observed that, âwhile the risk of bioterrorism may have increased in recent years, insisting that a real attack is imminent or inevitable is gratuitous. Indeed, continuing a stream of alarmist statements is likely to provoke only more anxiety and more hoaxes.â The article also observed that âlast month Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen warned that a biological weapons attack on American soil could be imminent.â Interestingly, senior military officers did not make alarmist statements about the anthrax threat until Mr. Cohen became SecDef in 1997. According to a 14 Aug 1999 Washington Post op-ed, Cohen has âmade the potential use of biological or chemical agents by terrorist groups or individuals his personal signature contribution to the national security debate in the past several years.â Senior officers may also have been influenced by SecDef Cohenâs firing of a USAF general in 1997 over the Khobar Towers bombing â essentially setting a âzero-defectâ force protection standard. Since then, any policy labeled as âforce protectionâ is accepted without question and is promoted with statements like the following from a 14 May 1999 message from the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff to commanders: âanthrax is a mortal enemy that our airmen must be prepared
Re: [CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] Waco Humor
-Caveat Lector- Bill, If you are addressing that to me, my husband is deceased. I doubt that lightening up would benefit him. Regardless of who is to blame, it is not funny nor on par with "mocking" Chelsea. I have never done that nor do I listen to Rush Limbaugh. You seem fraught with stereotypes and clichés. You may not be as astute at reading character nor personality through e mail as you think you are. Amelia - Original Message - From: William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fw: [CTRL] Waco Humor -Caveat Lector- H, I repeated some jokes...I didn't say that incinerating living children was funny, and it's not! Koresh and the loon parents might have done the burning though. Let us wait until ALL the evidence is in, eh??? Otherwise, do your husband a favor...and lighten up! Bill. 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] SFTT Special: Shooting Straight on Anthrax Part 2
-Caveat Lector- Q: I want to go back to your statement that you planned to shut down the plant. The GAO testified at the congressional hearing that the state decided to get out of the anthrax business when FDA came in and inspected them and they weren't prepared to make the financial commitment to make the improvements that were necessary. A. âThere's been a great deal of confusion about that ⦠There were no issues that FDA had with the purity, the strength, any of the things that they want when that vaccine rolls out at the end, but there were bookkeeping difficultiesâ¦â Comment: Contrary to the assertions of this anonymous senior military officer, a 29 Apr 1999 GAO report found: âThe FDA inspections of the facility where the licensed vaccine was manufactured uncovered numerous problems. The facility received warning letters from FDA, including one in March 1997 stating its intent to revoke the facility's license.â The GAO report also described manufacturing deficiencies found by the FDA âthat could compromise the safety and efficacy of any or all batches.â In fact, Bioportâs Chief Operating Officer admitted to Congress that, âimmediately after receiving the [warning] letter, we met with our clients, including the DoD, to rapidly develop and execute a comprehensive plan to resolve FDA concerns about our operation.â However, despite his actions, a 20 Feb 1998 the FDA inspection report found, âthe manufacturing process for Anthrax Vaccine is not validated.â The report specifically criticized the vaccinesâ purity, potency, sterility, and stability. All vaccine used to-date was manufactured under this non-validated process. Q: You're still using the untested vaccine? A: No, as the gentleman said, this vaccine has been tested and this contract change does not affect that. Comment: When the vaccination policy was announced, SecDef Cohen set four conditions before the policy was to be implemented. One of those conditions was âsupplemental testing to assure sterility, safety, potency and purity of the vaccine.â DOD allowed Bioport to perform the testing even though the FDA had threatened the vaccine manufacturer in March 1997 with a revocation of their license. DOD hired a non-pharmaceutical defense contractor to oversee testing by the manufacturer. In his April 1999 testimony, the anthrax vaccine program manager, BG Eddie Cain, admitted to âinconsistenciesâ in the supplemental testing procedure. He stated: âbased on this inconsistency, JPOBD suspended supplemental testing and sent a "Tiger Team" of subject matter experts to help resolve the problem. Corrective action is being implemented. We expect to resume testing within six months.â This admission of âinconsistenciesâ by DODâs program managers means that the supplemental testing performed on anthrax vaccine used on servicemembers is of questionable value. Additionally, on 29 Apr 99 the GAO reported to Congress that anthrax vaccine âquality cannot be guaranteed from final tests on random samples but only from a combination of in- process tests, end- product tests, and strict controls of the entire manufacturing process.â Therefore, supplemental testing, even if without âinconsistenciesâ admitted to by DOD, cannot compensate for a flawed manufacturing process revealed by FDA inspections and documented by the GAO. Q: Are there other strains of anthrax that you can -- as a weapons designer -- you slightly alter that and therefore bypass your vaccine? A: There are a couple of answers to that. One is, it's theoretically possible to alter anthrax so that our vaccine would not be effective against it. It's theoretically possible. Nobody has one that we know of. Comment: On 5 Apr 1999 the New York Times reported on a recent book by a defector and former deputy director of the Soviet germ-warfare program, Ken Alibek. He stated anthrax âwas genetically alteredâ¦to resist five kinds of antibiotics.â Additionally, a November 1998 Nation Magazine article reported, âat the end of 1997 Russian scientists had published a paper in the British medical journal Vaccine describing the creation of a genetically engineered anthrax strain that was resistant to standard Russian anthrax vaccine.â Alibek stated in another interview: âVaccines are not the answer.â Q: Are there more severe [reactions] than that? Are there people who are crippled because of this? Are there people who... A: We're not aware of anyone who's crippled...It's on the order of three to five people. Comment: This admission contradicts statements about the vaccine by Mr. Bacon, who said last January, âItâs safe and reliableâ¦It works and has no side effects.â This admission also contradicts DODâs anthrax website, which states: âNo reports of serious adverse effects have been received by the manufacturerâ â unless DOD is not reporting adverse reactions to the manufacturer. If DOD is not, then it is in violation of
[CTRL] VOICE Of The GRUNT, 1999-09-08-A-1
-Caveat Lector- * **VOICE OF THE GRUNT ** ** 08 September 1999 ** * TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES Hack's Column Harry Truman Had It Right 1 Mac Notes 2 From The Field: The Long Grey Line Has Become A Rainbow⦠3 Manpower4 An Air Force Anthrax Story 5 Medal of Honor: Zabitosky, Fred W., SFC (then SSgt.), USA, 5th Spec. Forc. Grp. Place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 19 February 1968 6 A spouse's Commentary and Thank You: By Tammy Dominski Somebody Cares About Our G.I.'s 7 * Indicates posthumous award === ARTICLE 1 HARRY TRUMAN HAD IT RIGHT By David H. Hackworth, USA (Ret) In 1947, at President Harry Truman's behest, a commission studying Universal Military Training (UMT) unanimously recommended that every young man serve in our armed forces. But Congress, weary from WWII, said no. They were into cutting the ranks, not building them up. The man from Missouri saw UMT as a program that would give our youth "a background in the disciplinary approach of getting along with one another, informing them of their physical makeup, and what it means to take care of this temple which God gave us. If we get that instilled into them, and then instill into them a responsibility which begins in the township, in the city ward, the first thing you know we will have sold our Republic to the coming generations as Madison, Hamilton and Jefferson sold it in the first place." The fact that 34 percent of candidates for WWII service had been rejected because of defects bothered him greatly. He felt that a large number of these young men could have been made "physically fit and self-supporting citizens" if they'd had the advantage of a training program. Imagine Truman's reaction if he got a look at today's youngsters. He'd be heartbroken by the fact that more than 60 percent -- almost twice the WWII rejection level -- of young males couldn't make it into the service in 1999 because of poor condition, past drug use or past trouble at school or with the law. As a nation, we march around the world trying to save every village in sight. Yet on Main Street USA, millions of young Americans aren't being imbued with the right stuff that will give them the strength and character to lead America when Generation X, Y and Z end up in the boss's chair. A number of congressmen want to bring the draft back -- partially to address this problem, but mainly to resolve the military's critical manpower shortage. The fix here should be to close down redundant headquarters and bases and merge Army, Navy and Air Force legal, medical, administrative and logistics departments. The personnel spaces saved by this consolidation alone would take care of the 10,000-man recruiting gap the lawmakers are worried about and give the Pentagon enough bodies to activate at least four combat infantry divisions. But besides reforming our military, Congress needs to revisit the UMT study for all the reasons Truman cited. Establishing the UMT would help save our youth -- who are fast becoming an endangered species Here's how it would work: At age 18 every boy and girl, less the disabled, would report for Basic Training. For six months they'd be put through a demanding and separate-sex boot camp where they'd encounter what too many young people don't get at home, church and school: discipline, patriotism and a footlockerful of values. There would be no Oxford University deferments for the Bill Clintons, no plush National Guard hideaways for the George W. Bushes, no cozy tours in safe headquarters for the Al Gores. In boot camp they'd learn the basics -- drill, discipline, teamwork, leadership, responsibility and citizenship -- while getting physically hard and mentally together. After basic training, the new citizen-soldiers would spend one additional year serving America in (pick one): the ghetto, police, hospital, education, environmental or assisting-the-elderly corps -- or sign on for another 18 to 36 months and join the Regulars. Those who opted for the longer tour in the military would receive a WWII-type GI Bill education package upon discharge. The rich would rub elbows with the poor; the black and white and brown would sweat together and become one. Not only would they pay the price of admission to "this temple" and enrich America, they'd join those vets who take great pride that they served our country and are better citizens for their sacrifice. With vets again filling their ranks, Congress, the media and industry
[CTRL] FW: [apfn] Fwd: COPVCIA: CONGRESS COVERS UP US COCAINE MONEY CORRUPTION [It's Legal to be Bad]
Brothers and Sisters, Am beginning to wonder if we have the patience to endure this so-called government, which, in more innocent times the States chose to perfect; and through our negligence allowed to be bastardized. As Claire Wolfe stated, "Don't shoot the Bastards(Bitches). (Yet). Be grateful if you'd pass this along. Bard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 3:58 PM To: "undisclosed-recipients:;"@onelist.com Subject: [apfn] Fwd: COPVCIA: CONGRESS COVERS UP US COCAINE MONEY CORRUPTION (fwd) Reprinted with permission Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications (c) 1999. All Rights reserved www.copvcia.com. See http://www.copvcia.com All Promises Broken - Volume II Hearings Held Without Notice - Behind Closed Doors Don't Blink, You Might Miss What's Next by Michael C. Ruppert Posted June 29, 1999 - Copyright 1999 From The Wilderness, Michael C. Ruppert. All Rights Reserved On May 25, just four days after we published our last issue, under the totally misleading heading of "CIA and Drugs in Los Angeles" the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) held a closed door hearing. It took us until June 22 to determine that the Committee heard testimony that day from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Bromwich, who had not appeared before the Committee since the release of his report last year. And it also heard from current CIA Inspector General Britt Snider, who discussed Volume II of retired CIA IG Fred Hitz's report on the whole Contra war - not Los Angeles. Los Angeles was Volume I. That's right - They have had the hearing on Volume II. They did it in secret. The press did not cover it. And it remains unclear, at this moment, as to whether HPSCI's final report will even be declassified or made available to the public in any form at all. This is not only a breach of every promise made to us in 1996 by both Houses; it is, in my opinion, a complete breach of trust between the government and the people. In a June 22 conversation with HPSCI Deputy Staff Director, Tim Sample, I was told that the Committee "would like to wrap this up this summer." I was also told that the protocol for closing the investigation out had not been finalized. It is "not known" whether there will be another hearing. It is "not known" whether or if the Committee's final report will be declassified or ever released. It is "not known" if any additional witnesses will be called. I and retired DEA Agent Cele Castillo and presumably the other major figures in the investigation have all received letters asking us to submit whatever other evidence "we are aware of" before the Committee closes its work. This is a sign of true desperation as the Republican controlled Committee must absolutely close the issue - to protect George W. Bush - before the 2000 Presidential campaign begins in earnest in October. It must also protect the biggest secret of all from the American people: The entire economy, and the entire political system itself, is currently hooked and dependent upon - drug money. I have been saying for years that you could show a video of George Bush ordering drug runs, CIA agents laundering money and flying airplanes full of drugs and no one in power would do anything about it. They would not be able to. In this issue I will tell you, and the House, about something almost as damning - a partially authenticated letter, written on CIA letterhead and stamped "Top Secret", ostensibly written and signed by CIA Director William J. Casey in late 1986, that admits to direct participation in the drug trade [SEE STORY THIS ISSUE]. I have been aware of the existence of this letter for approximately five months. I have had it read to me in its entirety. It was not until I was given this last chance by HPSCI to present "all of the information of which you are aware on the allegations" that I was able to obtain an "On the Record" statement about the letter from Attorney Ray Kohlman. The letter will be admitted into evidence in a new trial motion for former Green Beret William Tyree in the near future. When that happens, From The Wilderness will publish the letter, both on the Internet and in the newsletter. Now that the House has indicated its intent to close the matter for good and all it is time to bring the letter forward - for good and all. I will also see to it that the letter is widely distributed enough so that any of the major news organizations will be able to follow up on it. The information in this issue is enough for the House Intelligence Committee to go to the CIA and compel it to confirm or deny the letter's authenticity. Reading The Right Map If nothing happens with further hearings, or
[CTRL] School-free Drug Zones [ Scary, ain't it? ]
-Caveat Lector- ©Patricia Neill 1999 SCHOOL-FREE DRUG ZONES What's the problem with government-run schools these days? Easy. They're not schools. They're school-free drug zones. Ritalin. Prozac. And all the rest of the mind-numbing, psychiatric drugs, handed out to children in the back of class rooms, at the same time that Officer Dare is in the front, preaching against (other) drugs. Education? Actual learning, such as reading, writing, arithmetic? Nearly non-existent, as far as I can tell from talking to new college freshmen. These brand spoffing new college kids, fresh out of 12 year youth indoctrination camp sentences, can barely function as literate adults. Oh, they have plenty of potential, and many of them are sharp and alert -- although it makes me shudder how many are rather slow and dimwitted, not to mention nearly unintelligible when they speak, and can barely write an English sentence. These poor kids were not given the skills to prove their inherent intelligence to others via reading, comprehending, writing. In other words, they may not be stupid, but they sure speak and act as if they were. What a colossal shame. The most active wing of the Communist Party, USA--the so-called "National Education Association" -- is hardly anything but an extraordinarily active lobby for teachers' rights. Teachers' rights -- not students. The NEA, at a recent convention, came out with a platform that supported abortion. What does abortion have to do with education, asked a very astute friend of mine. The NEA's platform also supported gay and lesbian rights -- again, what in the ever-more-bizarre world, does homosexuality have to do with education? (These ideas and information are hereby credited to Oral Deckard, editor of the Vigo-Examiner.) Who knows? Perhaps the NEA will someday deign to clarify its groupthink for all of us. Over the past few weeks, I begun to notice certain signs proclaiming "Drug Free School Zones" -- a rather absurd claim, considering the amount of drugs in schools whether of the legal, handed-out-by-school-shrinks variety, or of the illegal variety traded on the black market. Not much schooling, many drugs. And that, in essence, is the problem with government schools. Kids are bored with the hypocrisy, with the pabulum they get spoonfed by idiot teachers, bored with the lack of any decent intellectual challenge, bored with the collective-think urged upon them all, bored with having a solid win or lose in sports denied them because it might affect the ego-esteem of the losers of that particular match. One can see why some kids might want to shoot hell out of these silly, ineffectual, stuffy, mindless places. I was bored way back when too -- and that was in the days when real learning still took place to a significant degree. I thank God that I got out of school before the NEA got its money-grubbing hands on me, but even so, I was occasionally wearied by tired and dim pedagogy. Nevertheless, I think my generation was the last to experience what at least resembled a real education. I can't quite understand the frightening violence of modern "school" life--but I can understand the angst and fury behind it. When the droning bureaucratic teacher isn't capable of interesting the students in whatever is the politically-correct horsemalarky of the day, the students get risable. And then they're drugged. School-free Drug Zones Scary, ain't it? ©Patricia Neill 1999 July 28, 1999 http://www.curleywolfe.net/cw/N_SchoolFreeDrugZones.shtml I thought you'd enjoy that. Share it with your Contacts. Bard 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] VOICE Of The GRUNT, 1999-09-08-B
-Caveat Lector- VOICE Of The GRUNT, 1999-09-08-B = ARTICLE 5 ~ AN AIR FORCE ANTHRAX STORY ~ SUMMARY: A pilot relates a story that could be happening all over the country with our remaining pilots. This stuff is just wonderful isn't it? ** By An Air Warrior It's important to keep the real life experiences in this discussion about the anthrax vaccine. It keeps things in the proper perspective. First, let me say that what I am writing is of my own accord and does not represent the views of the Air Force. Also, it must be made clear that the following is simply an observation of my experiences over the last two weeks and is not intended to persuade any member of the armed forces to disobey any lawful orders. I am an active duty Air Force pilot stationed at an Eastern AFB. I arrived on station just a little over two weeks ago. On my first day I met a reserve pilot at lunch and ask how things were in his unit. He then went on to explain how a large amount of pilots had resigned due to the fear of the anthrax vaccine. I asked him if their fears were backed by fact. He used himself for an example. Since he's received the vaccine, he has experienced headaches, dizzy spells, short term memory loss, to name a few symptoms. I assumed he was grounded and then he said that the medical group had given him a waiver to keep flying. He was scheduled for an MRI to rule out a brain tumor. "How could this be?", I thought. "How can he be fit to fly?" The next day I ran into an old friend of mine who was leaving the base. He was a reserve pilot who had resigned. He acknowledged the moral problem and stated that there was a real threat of an adverse reaction to the vaccine and he just couldn't risk it. The following day I checked into the squadron and spoke with the first active duty pilot I ran into about the anthrax vaccine. That pilot was grounded, and still is to this day. That pilot has sustained some serious internal damage with an unknown prognosis. The overall diagnosis is an autoimmune disorder. A couple of days later I met another pilot and asked him if he had received the vaccine. He acknowledged that he had. He described becoming very ill afterwards and to this day had problems with short-term memory loss. He also said that his wife had recently became extremely ill. They both went off base to get a blood analysis. He said that his test showed heavy traces of anthrax and some traces of Ebola. His wife's blood showed traces of anthrax. How could this be? He has never been to an area where Ebola is prevalent. And his wife has never received the anthrax vaccine. The next day I recorded the names of the crewmembers in my squadron who were grounded according to our scheduling board. I called five of them that night. The first guy was a pilot. He had just been released from the hospital. He told me that shortly after he had received the vaccine he developed cysts on numerous places on the inside and outside of his body, to include his heart. He had undergone surgery to remove some of the cysts and had been hooked up to an IV for six weeks. To his knowledge no VAERS report had been filed on his case. The next guy I spoke with had received the vaccine and was being treated for an autoimmune disorder, but believed it was from job related stress and not the vaccine. Fair enough, I thought, but how coincidental. The next fellow I spoke with was grounded also. After the fourth vaccine he began to experience diverse symptoms which included chronic bone/joint pain, chronic fatigue, and a loss of ability to concentrate. He is being cross-trained into another, less demanding career field. Another pilot I spoke with has experienced severe chronic bone/joint pain and he was also grounded. The pain is so bad he can't climb the steps to get into the airplane. Although this disability surfaced after he received the vaccine, at this time he doesn't attribute it as being the cause. However, as a precaution, he has had his blood tested for the autoimmune disorder. It came back negative. Again, I have only been on base a short time and with a little bit of effort I have uncovered what I consider a nightmare. I have yet to talk to the other 17 crewmembers in my squadron that are on the "grounded" list. My guess is that the anthrax vaccine will be considered a causal factor for a significant portion of these people. I was told that one of these men had a seizure last week. Another fact worth mentioning is that the chief of our immunization clinic took the vaccine and went into anaphylactic shock. We need to ensure that safety is appropriately addressed and NOW. This is the sermon that every commander I have served under has preached. Something is wrong. Way wrong. However, I cannot speak out in a way that civilians can without facing a court martial.
[CTRL] Fw: New Movie- Holy Smoke and my concerns
-Caveat Lector- We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage - Original Message - From: Resource Center for Freedom of Mind Confidential Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:37 AM Subject: New Movie- Holy Smoke and my concerns Resource Center for Freedom of Mind Confidential Mailing List - http://www.freedomofmind.com Jane Campion's new movie, Holy Smoke, will be coming out soon. It is the story of a young Australian (Kate Winslet) whose family hires a "deprogrammer" (Harvey Keitel) to reclaim her from an Indian religious guru's influence. In the summer of 1998, I was contacted by Keitel's office which purchased my first book, Combatting Cult Mind Control as well as a videotape series of a Exit-Counseling workshop I did many years ago for Randy Watters (ex Jehovah's Witnesses elder) who now runs Freeminds.org. I was asked to meet with Keitel because he wanted background for the Campion movie. One of the Australian Campion's earlier films, The Portrait of a Lady, starred Nicole Kidman, well-known Scientologist, so I was immediately suspicious of the film's agenda. Keitel was playing the "deprogrammer" and I remember my terrible experience with the film, Split Image (the deprogrammer was played by James Woods). The film's producer offered to pay me handsomely to help promote the film. So I asked to see it first, and wound up walking out of the movie at the point the deprogrammer got violent with his clients. I was disgusted that such a movie would promote a negative point of view about those who want to help individuals in mind control cults. The last thing I would want to do was to be a paid consultant for the movie that would associate myself with deprogramming in any way. I have publicly spoken out against the forced abduction and detention of adults in order to help them from mind control cults. The cults would have a "field day" with promoting a depraved character as the deprogrammer. As a trained mental health professional, my Strategic Interaction Approach, advocates effective communication, choice, and respectful empowerment. I understand that Rick Ross agreed to do the movie. Steve __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN Messenger Service lets you stay in touch instantly with your family friends - Visit http://messenger.msn.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] Fw: FORD loses in court over PRODUCT DEFECT DOCUMENTS
-Caveat Lector- We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/homepage - Original Message - From: Thee Underground Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 4:33 AM Subject: FORD loses in court over PRODUCT DEFECT DOCUMENTS Thee Underground Net - http://www.theeunderground.net Hi, It's JP Essene editor of http://www.theeunderground.com FORD recently tried to REMOVE documents from the web about their PRODUCT DEFECTS We have an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with the person FORD SUED over his use of documents belonging to FORD about their PRODUCT DEFECTS! Initially a judge ORDERED the documents removed! A blow to FREEDOM OF THE PRESS! But, in a real life DAVID vs GOLIATH court battle, DAVID WON and now the documents are again available on the net! To read our interview with DAVID (the little guy that BEAT FORD) go to http://www.247news.net It's the FORD article News about the ATHENS QUAKE and how SOLLOG GUARANTEED IT in US court is at http://www.Sollog.com More UNDER GROUND ARTICLES at http://www.theeunderground.com Later JP http://www.theeunderground.com http://www.247news.net http://www.sollog.com http://www.shakespears.org http://www.nostradamus.org FREE EMAIL AT http://www.1-domains.com COOL ADDRESSES LIKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN Messenger Service lets you stay in touch instantly with your family friends - Visit http://messenger.msn.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] Military gets D for Y2K
-Caveat Lector- From CNN, http://www.cnnfn.com/1999/09/10/technology/y2k_report/ - Military gets D for Y2K House report blames hiring by private sector for slowing U.S. efforts to crawl September 10, 1999: 5:58 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (CNNfn) - Important parts of the federal government -- including the departments of Defense, Treasury, Justice, Agriculture and Health and Human Services -- are not prepared for the Y2K computer bug, according to a congressional report card released Friday. Defense scored the lowest, two "D's," according the to the ranking compiled by two House subcommittees. HHS, which overseas Medicare, child welfare, organ transplants, and other programs, received a "C" and an "F." USDA, which ensures food safety and administers food stamps, got a "C-minus" and a "D." And Treasury, the department that sends out billions in government checks every day, also got a "C-minus" and a "D." Overall, the 24 largest executive branch agencies scored a "B-minus." Scores were based on two types of computer systems, one that keeps the agencies themselves up and running, the other that impacts the public -- by cutting benefit checks, monitoring air traffic and the like. What's worse, says Rep. Stephen Horn (D-Calif.), who issued the report, with only 112 days left until Jan. 1, 2000, the progress towards solving the problem "has slowed to a snail's pace." In the last three months, Y2K compliance has increased by a scant 1 percent increase across the board, he said. Horn blamed the slowdown on state governments and the private sector for hiring away many of the federal government's Y2K experts in the last year. Not that all the news was bad. Horn, at a news conference, praised the Social Security Administration (two A's), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (one A), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (despite getting one D) for a job well done. And Rep. Jim Turner (D-Texas) who said Thursday he would not fly on or around Jan. 1 because of suspected Y2K problems at the FAA, reversed course and said he might. The Defense Department, which plans to spend about $4 billion chasing Y2K gremlins from its computers, was not happy at its low marks. "DOD doesn't see Y2K readiness as a graded exercise, we see it as pass or fail," a spokeswoman said tersely. "We believe we will be passing at that time of the year and will be able to carry out our national security responsibilities." She said Defense has over a third of all the relevant government computers under its watch (2,414 at last count) and that many of them are out of the country -- deployed to the Persian Gulf, Kosovo and other military hot spots. She said all those systems will be rotated back to the United States and be Y2K compliant by the end of the year. Over 90 percent of the department's computers already are, she said. Horn, despite giving the department the low marks, seemed to agree. "On the war-making side, they're OK on it," he said. "But they have a lot of other systems." Upon hearing of the Defense objections to the low marks, an aide to Horn quoted the congressman as believing "the department has done a terrific job this year on fixing Y2K." Than why the report card and the low marks? "To keep them working, urge them, prod them," the aide said. "A degree of this is subjective." -- Dan S 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] Federal agents clash with judge over seizure of Waco evidence
-Caveat Lector- From Nando Media, http://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/0,1068,91690-145217-1015454-0,00.ht ml - Federal agents clash with judge over seizure of Waco evidence Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press DALLAS (September 10, 1999 4:44 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - According to a Friday article in The Dallas Morning News, U.S. marshals delayed carrying out a judge's sealed order to seize more evidence from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms stemming from the Branch Davidian standoff. The marshals carried out the order after U.S. District Judge Walter Smith issued a second edict Thursday that they comply with his initial order immediately, the newspaper said, citing unidentified sources. An ATF spokesman in Washington confirmed that Smith issued the order after hearing that the agency was considering closing its Waco office. He said the judge wanted the office's contents to be preserved. "There was, I guess on his part, some concern that the office might be closing," said Jeff Roehm, public affairs chief at the agency's headquarters. "It was pretty much expected." According to the News, the chief U.S. marshal for the district spent hours debating whether to execute the order, first consulting with his agency's headquarters in Washington and the U.S. attorney's office in San Antonio. Eventually, the marshals seized files and took custody of keys to storage facilities, the News said. Smith is scheduled in October to begin hearing a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the government by Branch Davidians who survived the 1993 federal raid and subsequent fire at their compound. Last week, Smith rejected a plea by the Justice Department, parent agency of the U.S. Marshals Service, not to take control of the evidence. A Justice Department spokesman in Washington declined comment on Thursday's seizure, the newspaper said. The Waco ATF office was set up to help coordinate the federal prosecutions and contained case files and documents related to the 51-day standoff at the Branch Davidian compound. Roehm said the agency had decided to keep the office open until the end of the wrongful-death lawsuit. David Koresh and about 80 of his followers died in the April 19, 1993, fire at their Mount Carmel compound. Attorney General Janet Reno this week appointed an independent inquiry to investigate the FBI's actions at the end of the standoff after the agency revealed, after years of denials, that it fired potentially flammable tear-gas canisters at the compound on the day of the fire. The government still maintains that the Davidians set the blaze. Last Friday, Smith had to intervene before the ATF allowed the Texas Rangers access to the Waco storage facility containing the massive collection of evidence. The Rangers had asked to enter the facility to search for items relating to pyrotechnic tear-gas devices fired by the FBI. Rangers instead discovered the spent remains of a star parachute flare. -- Dan S 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] FBI lab knew of tear gas projectiles at Waco as early as '93
-Caveat Lector- From Fox News, http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/national/0910/d_ap_0910_18 4.sml - FBI lab knew of tear gas projectiles at Waco as early as '93 6.59 p.m. ET (2303 GMT) September 10, 1999 By John Solomon, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) A lab document that wasn't given to Congress discloses that the FBI knew within eight months of the fiery end of the Branch Davidian siege that military-style tear gas projectiles were used, The Associated Press has learned. A key final page from a 49-page FBI lab report was turned over to congressional committees this week, along with an internal Justice Department memo acknowledging it "was not produced to Congress'' during its 1995 investigations into the tragedy near Waco, Texas. The first 48 pages of the lab report had been turned over to lawmakers years ago, absent the mention of the tear gas that government officials for years had denied using. The 49th page disclosed that FBI investigators who examined the scene at Waco found a "fired US military 40 mm shell casing which originally contained a CS gas round,'' and two "expended 40mm tear gas projections.'' The report is likely to become a key piece of evidence in the independent inquiry ordered by Attorney General Janet Reno and separate congressional investigations into whether government officials tried to cover up about the use of incendiary tear gas on the final day of the siege. -- Dan S 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
