Re: [CTRL] Khazars
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Joshua, Are you one of those fallen rebel angels incarnated into a human body? This is what I would expect to hear from a person rebelling against God. H? Nicky Believing the Bible is much easier than facing life, death, and the relentless universe without BIG DADDY to watch over you. It takes guts to be a realist. That is why there are so few. Joshua2 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] Project Mindshift by M Mannion part 2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.ufocity.com/f-mind/mm-02.cfm Mindshift 99 Part II: Energy Medicine and Encounters with Non-Human Intelligences By Michael Mannion August 1999 (In the first part of this article, published on UFOcity.com in August 1999, we learned that an "experiencer" called Amber (not her real name) feels she has undergone energy medicine procedures during her interactions with non-human intelligences. In Part II, we will explore this possibility and its implications.) "Only those who can see the invisible can do the impossible." --Machelle Small Wright Traditional Chinese Medicine, particularly acupuncture, traces its origins back to the "Visiting Immortals." Who were (or still are!) these Visiting Immortals? Where were they visiting from? Were these entities the same beings that we now call extraterrestrials? A great deal of research and scholarship suggests that interactions in the past between human beings and non-human intelligences seem to be related to significant human advances, such as the development of agriculture and written language. Is there also a connection between contact with non-human intelligences and the development of what we call energy medicine? Do "Experiencers" Undergo Energy Medical Procedures? In 1998, at a meeting held by a support group for people who have had encounters with non-human intelligences, the subject of the possible extraterrestrial use of energy medicine was brought up. The group members were asked if any of them had memories of undergoing energy medical procedures during their encounters. The discussion quickly went nowhere. However, after the meeting, a man in attendance--who is not an "abductee" or "experiencer"--offered some fascinating information. He has spoken with a physician who has had ongoing encounters with non-human intelligences. According to this physician, energy medicine is a central part of the activities of these beings. The doctor himself has experienced many energy medicine procedures. He has memories of undergoing interventions at the hands of the non-human entities that are nearly identical to acupuncture. This physician said that the entities allowed him to remember their work on the meridians and acupuncture points of his own body. The man who reported this noted that energy medicine is beyond the experience of most people, experiencers or abductees included. In his opinion, people remember mechanical devices, needles, probes and other objects involved in invasive procedures because they fit within our current framework and are familiar to us from ordinary human encounters with physicians, dentists, hygienists and other health practitioners. However, the average experiencer has little or no knowledge of energy medicine and, therefore, does not recognize such procedures when subjected to them. Experiencers usually perceive nothing more than random lights and colors, sometimes in association with sensations of heat or vibration. They do not have a context in which they can understand the energy medicine experiences they are undergoing. Amber's Energy Medicine Experiences In contrast, Amber's encounters with non-human intelligences seem to have led her directly to the study of energy medicine and healing. When we began our interview, I asked Amber if she could describe specific instances which showed how her experiences with non-humans were similar to things she experienced as a student of energy medicine. She thought for a moment and then this simple question summoned up a memory that stunned her. "I've just realized an incredible connection between the two!" she exclaimed. Amber was silent a moment and then continued. "During my introductory weekend at the healing school that I attend, in a 'wholeness healing' exercise, I had an amazing experience with my partner in the dyad. We were asked to choose a partner. Normally, I would turn to the person next to me. Instead, I bolted across the room and asked a man--a stranger--to be my partner. This was completely out of character for me. During the exercise, I dropped into a state in which I could see him only as a glowing soul made of light. His two eyes were glowing brightly within the light. The rest of his body had lost all of its definition." Amber became thoughtful and quiet. Then she said that her partner's appearance bore a striking resemblance to the being who has accompanied her on her return from experiences with non-human intelligences. "I never realized before how similar this event at the healing school was to the light being who returned with me in the tunnel," she said in awe. "I also experienced feelings of warmth and love. But I didn't feel the overwhelming sense of security and trust during the healing school exercise that I did in the encounter. Today, I wonder if this was 'shown' to me by the ETs to somehow encourage me to attend the healing school. The transformation of my partner into a light being
[CTRL] [prj] Awkward Stage for America
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[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #1
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000112a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No fundamentalist Quaker demons were exorcised to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Daihatsu Naked: http://www.daihatsu.co.jp/naked/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lost Jewish tribe wants Israeli home. JERUSALEM (AP) A group from India that claims to be a lost Jewish tribe asked Israel to welcome it home after 2,500 years of exile - the latest request that has Israel reconsid- ering its open-door policy to Jews their descendants. About 450 members of the Shinglung community have come to Israel over the past 10 years, and activists asked Parliament to admit and grant citizenship to an additional 100 Shinglung per year. But Israel, which since its inception has actively urged Jews from around the world to settle there, fears a flood of non- Jewish immigrants would threaten the Jewish character of the nation. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563201710-8ae : What's your favorite lost tribe? Are you a member of a lost tribe? Where have you been? Where are you going? Do you ever ask for directions? Where? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ NEUROLOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES. Paranormal experi- ences that transcend the perceived confines of the body, such as out-of- body experiences, may be seen as evidence of the existence of a "spiritual body" that can exceed the confines of the physical body. The following, however, provides a simple neurological explanation for such paranormal experience. http://Ian.Goddard.net/paranorm.htm : What's your favorite paranormal experience? Is your spiritual body flabby? Is your physical body confined? Should it be? Is your ectoplasm diseased?? @ Trauma, Memory and Betrayal Trauma Research: http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/trauma.html @ Dissociation, Trauma, Recovered Memories: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jjhall/body_d_l.html @ TRAUMATIC AMNESIA: The Evolution of Our Understanding: http://members.tripod.com/~curio_5_/whitfield.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Judge refuses to hear Sharif charges. KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Protesting the large number of intelligence agents army personnel in his courtroom, a High Court justice refused to hear a case of treason hijacking against deposed Premier Nawaz Sharif. High Court Justice Shabir Ahmed ordered the arrest of several intelligence agents, while others fled his courtroom - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563213324-7b9 : What's your favorite govt/military plot? Do spies infest your workplace?? D'ya need a judge to exorcise the spooks? Have you busted any spies lately? @ The Vampirella-JFK connection: http://www.vampifan.com @ The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror: http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China boosting religion management. BEIJING (AP) - The Chinese govt will tighten control over religious practices to keep "hostile overseas forces" from splitting the nation. State Councilor Ismail Amat did not mention any specific religious group.But he stressed the need to strengthen management of religious affairs said China will firmly resist "hostile overseas forces that use religion to infiltrate into China." The govt has recently banned the Falun Gong meditation movement, defied the pope by appointing state-selected bishops and shut down unauthorized Protestant services. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563202688-205 : Does your govt manage religious groups as efficiently as it manages social economic forces? Would you rather manage a religion, an economy, artistic movements, political opponents, spies? Are you hopelessly inept at this?? @ CONJURELLA MESSIAH: NECRONOMICON MONKS: http://www.wynd.org/tcb.html @ Castle Mirage - The Prelude - Conjurella - MK-ULTRA MindControl: http://www.morethanconquerors.simplenet.com/MCF/conjurel.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SIX BILLION HUMAN BEINGS. Perhaps you first notice it in a crowded subway line. Or while waiting for a table at a popular restaurant, or looking around at an outdoor concert. Yep. It's official: The world is a crowded place. 6 billion crowded, as a matter of fact. Every second, 5 people are born, and 2 die. That's a net gain of 3 people every click of the clock, according the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, sponsor of this site. If you're 28 years old, the world's population has increased by nearly 60% since you were born. Take a trip through the Shockwave-heavy tour to discover countless facts about the delicate balance that we as humans maintain here on earth. http://www.popexpo.net/english.html
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: More Suspicious Deaths Linked to OKC]
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Shortly after the bombing, Michael Loudenslager was actively helping in the rescue and recovery effort. A large number of those at the bomb-site either saw or talked with him. During the course of the early rescue efforts, however, Mike Loudenslager was seen and heard in a very "heated" confrontation with someone (there). Much of his anger stemmed from the fact he felt the B.A.T.F. was in large part responsible not only for the bombing, but for the death and inury to those inside, including all the children. To the absolute astonishment of a large number of police officers and rescue workers, it was later reported that G.S.A. employee Mike Loudenslager's body had been found inside the Murrah Building the following Sunday, still at his desk, a victim of the 9:02 A.M. bombing! I wonder how many other late-recovery bodies were perhaps survivors of the explosion, who were later killed because they knew too much about 'something'... I can't forget watching some TV news 'magazine' show the Thursday evening after the bombing...showing two families still looking for loved ones... strange thing was, their loved ones were shown on newsclips shot immediately after the bombing, with onlyu minor injuriesambulatory, helping other victims... But they'd disappeared...no one knew where they were...they weren't admitted to any of the area hospitals, their bodies weren't in the local morgue... And I remember at the time hearing or reading about a bus that 'the authorities' brought in, shortly after the explosion, upon which many of the victims were put, to be driven to some unknown destination... This story about missing survivors was dropped by the next day...and by the weekend, after sufficient periods where rescuers/searchers were ordered out of the area and only fedspooks were allowed access to the remains of the Murrah building, did bodies of people who had previously been seen alive after the explosion start turning up in the wreckage... June A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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 - Wednesday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000112b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No cloned pig hearts were harvested during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Mother's Little Helper: http://www.tiac.net/users/smisch/pics/dexamyl.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pig Hearts Micromachines: A health futurist on 21st-century technology. (FOX) In 25 years, will all of the aging baby boomers be able to order brand-new hearts online for a few bucks? Or will the promise of improved cardiac care shrivel up like so many whiz-bang futuristic technologies of yore? http://www.foxnews.com/health/121199/flowers.sml : What's y'r favorite whiz-bang technology? Will future technologies be even more whiz-bang than we can imagine? What body parts will you order on-line? # Linking PC's To Form "Supercomputers" -- Beowulf Clusters Can Be A Faster Cheaper Option: http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000112075104.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Modern Alchemy Promises Repurposed Tobacco. (FOX) NEW YORK - Humankind has always used plants for medicinal purposes, and the promise of squeezing cheap drugs out of tobacco leaves is as alluring to the biotech industry today as alchemy was to the philosophers of medieval Europe. See http://foxnews.com/science/122199/tobacco.sml : Do you know how many alkaloids, proteins and other complex organics occur naturally in tobacco related solanaceous plants? Can you imagine how many substances these plants can be engineered to produce? Are you salivating at the prospect of growing vast amounts of incredibly valuable chemicals? Now? # US Consumers Favor GM Crops to Curb Pesticides. HOUSTON (Reuters) - Nearly 3/4ths of American consumers would support genetically modified crops if the technology means farmers can reduce pesticide use, according to a survey: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2111/sc/biotech_survey_1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # WAR CHEMICALS BEING TESTED. The strange-looking streaks in the sky aren't your imagination. They are anti-bacteriological warfare chemicals being tested by the federal government. And the public has been kept in the dark. http://www.spotlight.org/01_07_00/Chemicals/chemicals.html : Have you tested any military chemicals on the general population lately? Do you enjoy watching twitchy reactions? Have your chemicals modified the environment, climate, biosphere? Do you enjoy manipulating environments?? # Chernobyl zone may be resettled, despite mutant plants and animals: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563203780-936 # Meteorologists explain wimpy winter - La Nina may collapse soon: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563205503-69a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russia rethinks Chechnya tactics. (BBC) Officials in Russia say they are rethinking military tactics in Chechnya, after a series of setbacks at the hands of rebel fighters. They'd better win the war before next election: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_599000/599880.stm # Also: Putin: Russia must be great again: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_599000/599159.stm # Analysis: Media swings against military: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_599000/599516.stm # Analysis: Russia's tough military lesson: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_598000/598660.stm : Have you gotten bogged down in an endless, unwinnable war lately? Do you do this often? Does this keep you out of ever greater mischief elsewhere?? # Town celebrates life of heroic headless chicken: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/05/12/snl/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Top 18 Things on a Y2K Survivalist's To-Do List: 18 Find grocery store receipt for 10,000 packets of ramen noodles. 17 Apologize to neighbors about the tripwire incident; offer to replace dog. 16 Take up pork beans skeet shooting. 15 Gather recipes for Spam, dehydrated potatoes, and crow. 14 Cancel subscription to Stockpilers Quarterly, but keep the free can opener. 13 Convert weapons back to semi-auto. 12 Pitch "1000 Ideas for Wheat Gluten" to Martha Stewart's people. 11 Return 753 videos to Blockbuster. 10 Water yard, one lousy gallon at a time. 9 Prepare for the dreaded but little-known "Arbor Day Bug." 8 Shoot first -- forget the damn questions. 7 Learn how to disarm a Claymore mine. 6 Laugh at all those losers out there fighting each other for scraps of food, and thank the Lord for the safety of the bunker, cut off from all connection with the outside world. 5 Find the bastard who sold me all that dehydrated water. 4 Curse God for pussing out on the wrath. 3 Convert my anti-Y2K-Bug tin-foil
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #3
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000112c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No space station modules were ruined during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ E.T., reach out: http://www.tiac.net/users/smisch/pics/elavil.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # KEY SPACE STATION MODULE DELAYED FOR MONTHS. The long-delayed Internat- ional Space Station has been postponed once again due to flaws in a booster rocket, while Russia's Mir space station may get a new lease on life. The launch of the crucial crew compartment for the multibillion- dollar, 16-nation space station has been long behind schedule because of the Russian government's failure to provide funds for its manufacture. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/11/space.station.01.ap/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_599000/599088.stm # NRC - Space Station Research Should Be Managed By Private Firm Instead Of NASA: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000112075552.htm : Has govt management of space station projects been a total balls-up? Can your corporation run space stations better? Can you turn a profit? How much? # Spaceborne Laser Instruments Will Revolutionize Understanding Of Global Change: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000112075304.htm # Milky Way's Halo Caused by Exploding Stars. ATLANTA (Reuters) Thousands of exploding stars left a tell-tale halo of searingly hot gas around the Milky Way: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/09/science-space-halo _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA returns disputed desk set. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - NASA stopped short of determining whether a desk set it seized from an Oregon woman contained valuable moon dust as suspected and quietly returned the family heirloom. The black base of the pen-and-pencil set is adorned with a faded picture of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with a centerpiece of a yellow plastic rock containing dusty swirls. The set was given to Peg Davis by her late father Joe Healy, upon his retirement as a scientist at NASA. The agency seized it about a month ago, alleging that Davis was either trying to defraud the public or was illegally trying to sell NASA property. Davis caught NASA's attention when she had the desk set appraised for possible sale. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563205553-c17 : What's your favorite dusty swirl? Is it Lunar? Has your agency seized many heirlooms? Do you have enough moondust? Can you ever have enough moondust?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Injured by a UFO. I had a close up daylight sighting on July 10, 1998 in Brick, NJ, several miles from McGuire AFB. I watched this UFO float slowly from horizon to horizon and it passed directly over me. The sky was clear, the ship was perfectly visible was not distorted in any way. It radiated a strong white light. The symmetry of the ship and it's overall appearance made it clear that it was manufactured, not a natural phenomena. A few days later, the skin on the palms of my hands started to peel in little dime sized circles. 5 or 6 weeks later, a bright dime sized blister app- ared on my chest; it looked like a melanoma. http://caus.org/mu011200.htm : Have UFOs injured you lately? Have you filed charges against them? Do you have a good lawyer? Do the ETs have better lawyers? Who can afford the best? @ Re: meeting with a far more superior culture not of this planet: UFOlogy and the Vatican: http://www.caus.org/mc011200.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Politician Bashed for Hitler Campaign Poster. BERLIN (Reuters) A former German economics minister was criticized for using Adolf Hitler in his election campaign posters breaking a long-held taboo against using the image of der Fuehrer: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/07/odd-hitler : What's your favorite image of Hitler? Do you exploit Hitler images for any political/economic/religious/artistic purposes? Are you fixated on Hitler?? @ U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS - "Shadow of the Swastika" http://www.ka.net/randy/shadow/shadow.html # Polish Court Convicts Hatemonger. WARSAW (AP) A court in southern Poland convicted a radical Catholic leader of inciting hate against Jews for statements he made to rally hundreds of followers to erect crosses outside the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000112/09/int-poland-auschwitz-crosses : Who's your favorite hatemonger? Are you a hatemonger? Are you powerful?? # Pinochet Medical Results Turn Into Battle - Going Free: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/09/international-pinochet-britain # PROSPECTS OF FREEDOM FOR PINOCHET PROMPTS ELATION - AND FURY.
Re: [CTRL] Response To Eagle
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- But until that day, you can no more prove the Bible and Christianity is a fraud than there is a man in the moon. Um...to a reasonable degree of certainty, I could. To the brainwashed that'd be near impossible...so totally is your mind controlled. Sorry to stick my head in here, but; I know there's a term for it, and it goes something like this; You cannot prove the NON-existance of anything. Without physical evidence, you cannot prove that something exists, and on the flip side, you would need physical evidence to prove something didn't exist, and the very existance of the physical evidence would prove that it did exist. It's a very difficult semantic arguement, relying on physical evidence to prove it exists on one side, and defeating a belief system designed to thwart the very disproval on the other. I can't remember a particular quote well enough to post it right now, but will post it at a later time, when I can find it, just to show the humorous aspect of trying to prove something doesn't exist. It's from one of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker Books. You know, the trilogy of 5 books? Mikus __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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: U.S. Navy Can't Do
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/2112_xcsof_navy_cant_.shtml The United States Navy is now totally dependent on missiles purchased from Russia. Despite a stormy political relationship between Moscow and Washington, the U.S. Navy has ordered more Zvezda MA-31 target drones from Russia. The only U.S. firm that manufactured U.S. Navy target missiles, Allied Signal Target Systems, is closing its doors and going out of business. Curiously, the Russian missile costs more, does not meet the original U.S. Navy specifications and can only be launched from aircraft. Without the Russian target drone, the U.S. Navy will not have any targets to test its multi-billion dollar Aegis warships. "The (Allied Signal) Vandal and MA-31 targets are used to represent two different threats identified in the Supersonic Sea Skimming Target (SSST) Operational Requirements Document," states a December 1999 U.S. Navy response to this reporter. "The SSST "C" target will eventually replace both targets. Until the SSST "C" is fielded, requirements for SSST targets will be satisfied through the use of the existing inventory of Vandal targets and limited procurement of the MA-31 targets. This plan is a result of the date for the fielding the SSST "C" slipping over the years," states the reply from the Naval Air Systems Command. Documents obtained by using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the U.S. Navy show that the missile does not meet the original range requirements. According to the U.S. Navy "Foreign Comparative Testing Contract" published in 1995, the Russian MA-31 "will be capable of meeting the following range requirements... 25 nmi (nautical miles) at an altitude of 30 ft and at full throttle." According to the official Navy response prepared in December 1999, recent tests demonstrated that the Zvezda MA-31 travels only "16 miles" in the critical low altitude attack mode. The Navy also noted that the American target drone, the Vandal, outperforms the Russian missile. Unfortunately, since the U.S. drone is launched from a land base, most of the extra range is wasted. "The (Allied Signal) Vandal target has a range of 43 - 45 miles in a sea skimming role. Much of this range is used to get the target into position for the user from the land based launcher," states the Navy reply. However, the U.S. Navy allegedly solved the position problem in 1996. In Oct. 1996, the U.S. Navy purchased an expensive robot warship designed to fire Allied Vandal target missiles from any location. The new warship is not designed to fire the Russian MA-31 missile. The Aerial Target Launch Ship (ATLS) cost $3.6 million and was built by Halter Marine Industries in Mississippi. The ATLS is currently stationed at Point Mugu, California. According to the ship's designer, Jeffrey Blume, head of the Surface Targets Division at Point Mugu, the ATLS warship allows for the launch from undisclosed sites of aerial targets. "It's called `video game syndrome,'" explained Blume. "If your kid plays video games long enough he'll know when the bad guy is going to pop out on the screen. That's what can happen on ranges. One of the advantages of remotely launching an aerial target is that you can launch it anywhere on the range and the shooters just know that there's a threat out there, they don't know where it's coming from." Videogames aside, the Navy claims the Russian missile is a realistic threat. "The MA-31 replicates a threat with higher speeds, higher g maneuvers and g onset rates, and smaller in size. The MA-31 also provides a very challenging and representative anti-radiation missile profile," asserted the official Navy reply. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy is also suffering from a glut of old missiles that could serve as target drones. The early Standard and Sparrow missiles are now retired, and several thousand are scheduled to be destroyed at great taxpayer expense. In addition, the U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet is also scheduled to be retired along with hundreds of long-range AIM-54 Phoenix missiles. Could a U.S. Navy missile from existing stocks match the MA-31 performance? "We have not precluded industry from considering either Sparrow or Phoenix (or any other missile) as a potential to our SSST requirements," states the Navy reply. China and Russia are preparing to enter into a joint venture to produce a deadly new version of the same Zvezda missile. Jane's Defense Weekly reported that China is seeking to buy a second batch of 40 Sukhoi Su-30MKK super-sonic strike-fighters to supplement its initial order for 40 aircraft, which was concluded in August 1999. The SU-30MKK sale is reported to include air to air missiles, laser-guided bombs, and large numbers of the Zvezda Kh-31P mod-2 super-sonic cruise missile. The new Zvezda Kh-31P mod-2 being sold to China is designed specifically to attack U.S. Navy Aegis warships and U.S. Army Patriot radar batteries. The missile being sold to China is reported
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #4
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000112d - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No televangelists were badly harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Reduce Psychic Tension: http://www.tiac.net/users/smisch/pics/valium65.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Former FBI agent probing cops' UFO sighting. Former G-Man John Velier has brought his crew from Las Vegas to check out four cops' report they saw an alien spacecraft. Resident Melvern Noll saw the UFO, too -- and one of its occupants even waved to him. "I'm glad I saw it," he says. "Only once in a life time you get to see something so exciting." Like, wow: www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/C66ED6DBA35D72408625686400083A9D # EARLIER: Cops say they saw a huge UFO, and they weren't even very drunk: www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/CDB95E73110536A98625686100418E43 : Do you want federal agents to investigate your UFO experience? D'ya trust them? Do they believe you when you saw that ETs waved at you? Got a picture? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Tireless work on the web by otherwise common people is not praised enough. Behold Cryptome http://jya.com/crypto.htm by http://jya.com/jycv.html John Young, a tireless masterpiece of a website that catalogs and archives events taking place in the field of cryptography and national security. All this by a http://jya.com/bib.htm citizen architect. Now look at www.memepool.com/Subject/Reference/ www.memepool.com/Subject/Computing/ @ Hacker News Network: http://www.hackernews.com/ @ Black Hat Briefings: http://www.blackhat.com/ @ Security Focus: http://www.securityfocus.com/ : How much security/cryptography/privacy is enough? Is privacy possible? Do you work ceaselessly for crypto/security? Are you appreciated? Are ya tired? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Wiccan Fights Suspension From School. LAURINBURG, N.C. (Reuters) A North Carolina high school teacher suspended after telling administrators she practices a pagan religion associated with witchcraft said she would fight to get her job back. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/07/odd-pagan : Can you distinguish between Wicca and witchcraft? Can fundy jeezoids? Is polytheistic (trinitarian) Xianity more or less pagan than Wicca? How much? # Pope Will Go to Holy Land in March: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000112/09/int-vatican-pope-holy-land # Bishop says he did not call for Pope Paul II's resignation http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145018182,00.html # Devotees Meet Teen Buddhist Leader: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000112/08/int-india-tibetan-leader # Fate of teenage Buddhist leader is still up in air: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145018194,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Religious broadcasters fight ruling. WASHINGTON (AP) Religious broad- casters, aided by some lawmakers, are mobilizing a grassroots campaign against a federal ruling they fear could lead to a suppression of the programming they can air. While the FCC decision only impacts a limited number of noncommercial television stations, it has prompted much broader fears among religious broadcasters that the government is trying to pass judgment on certain types of religious programs. Religious programming not educational: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145018380,00.html : Is your religious material educational? What can people learn from you? Do you teach critical thinking? Would you go out of business if you did so??? # Councils defy Lord's Prayer ban - 'It was discrimination against Christ- ians to drop it' http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000111/3419681.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Narrow Escape From Shit-Ice Ball! MADRID (Reuters) A Spanish man narrowly escaped injury when a nine-pound ball of ice thought to be frozen human excrement ejected from a passing aircraft fell on his car near the city of Seville. Holy shit: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/07/odd-spain # PENTAGON PROBES ARMY FRAUD AT WEAPONS INCINERATOR - 'misleading and dishonest' - http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/12/chemical.weapons.01/ : What's your favorite toxic waste? Would you rather burn it, toss it, keep it, sell it, recycle it, show it to your friends, cheat somebody with it?? Have ETs tossed frozen shitballs at you lately? Can you really blame them? # ANYONE LOOKING FOR A BRAIN?: Or half of one? A fairly fresh half-brain was found in Philadelphia's sewage system. Says the coroner: "It is very perplexing to find a human brain in the sewer system." It's not known whether it was used for medical purposes or is connected to a homicide. http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/12/city/BRAIN12.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ #
[CTRL] OEN 1/12/00
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Political Follies McCain Burns the Flag Those commies must have messed up his brain. SENATOR John McCain, the Vietnam veteran challenging for the Republican presidential nomination, has infuriated conservatives in the American South by branding the Confederate flag "a symbol of racism and slavery". His surprise comments could jeopardise his effort to win the key South Carolina primary next month. Controversy over the flag has gripped the state, with anti-racist groups demanding its removal from the Statehouse dome, where it has flown since 1962. In a television interview, Mr McCain said: "The Confederate flag is offensive in many, many ways, as we all know. It's a symbol of racism and slavery, but I also understand how others do not view it in that fashion." He added that two of his ancestors from Mississippi fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. L J Mowery, chairman of the South Carolina League of the South, said he was "astonished" by the remarks. "McCain is the worst sort of Southerner, one who has betrayed his culture and heritage. If he was counting on winning the South Carolina primary then he's just kissed that goodbye. We are proud of our state and our flag and what it stands for." More than 6,000 people gathered at the Statehouse in Columbia on Saturday to protest at moves to take down the "Stars and Bars", as the flag is known. The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People has vowed to continue a tourism boycott of the state until the flag is removed. Until the weekend, Mr McCain had avoided taking a stance on the issue. Other Republican candidates, including George W Bush, the front runner, and Steve Forbes, the multi-millionaire publisher, said it was a matter for South Carolinians. The London Telegraph, Jan. 12, 2000 The Future of Government Brainwashing Keyes: Abolish the Dept. of Education Wonder why public schools produce so many little statists? NORWALK, Iowa (AP) -- The Department of Education is part of a trend toward "bureaucratic imperialism" and should be abolished, Republican presidential hopeful Alan Keyes told a group of Iowa educators Tuesday. The conservative radio commentator said more decisions and financing should be placed in the hands of parents and grassroots communities and not the federal or state governments. He said he would filter a few of the departments functions into other agencies as part of a massive downsizing of the federal government, if elected. ``A little less than half of the government survives,'' he said. Keyes was appearing before about 70 teachers and school administrators with the Professional Educators of Iowa, a nonpartisan association that opposes mandatory teacher enrollment in unions. It was part of an education-oriented day, in which he also spoke to a high school in Monroe. Keyes said he supports school vouchers and home schooling, which he says ``helps recrystallize the role of parents in the education process.'' His support of ``Right to Work'' laws, which give employees the choice of whether to belong to a union, was popular with PEI. Jim Hawkins, the group's director and a school teacher for 30 years, said he liked a lot of what he heard. ``He is unwavering in his ethical stance, his eloquence is very impressive,'' Hawkins said. ``Even if he does not win, he's valuable because he's like a conscience.'' Earlier in the day, Keyes focused on agriculture in an appearance before about 350 people -- mostly students -- at Monroe PCM High School. He said there should be an alternative to the Federal Reserve Bank, tailored for farmers and based on the Biblical principal of ``seven fat years followed by seven lean years.'' Keyes said his proposed bank would have to save surplus in times when demands are met and build credit for when times are bad. Keyes ended the day with a rally of about 400 people at a motel in Des Moines, where he delivered one of his trademark orations, invoking the Bible and the Founding Fathers as he touched on abortion, welfare, national security, and the income tax -- which he called ``one of the most ingenious schemes of subjugation in history.'' The Associated Press, Jan. 12, 2000 - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no
[CTRL] New technologies add ads into news, talk programs
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.freedomforum.org/professional/2000/1/7cbs.aspClick Here: A HREF="http://www.freedomforum.org/professional/2000/1/7cbs.asp"New technologies add ads into news, talk progra /A - HOMEWHO WE ARE | SEARCH | PUBLICATIONS | THE FORUM New technologies add ads into news, talk programs By Adam Clayton Powell III World Center 1.7.2000 * What do you think? Have your say in The Forum. Broadcasters have turned to new technologies to squeeze more advertising into news, public affairs and talk programs. On television, one network has begun inserting billboards into live shots of Manhattan, while on radio, networks are speeding up the words spoken in live news and talk shows, even while they are still being spoken, to insert up to six more minutes of commercials per hour. On Dec. 30, the CBS Evening News became the first U.S. network evening newscast to use video-insertion technology that digitally alters live video to insert virtual billboards into the picture. For two nights, Dan Rather anchored the newscast from Times Square, with billboards appearing behind him that weren't really there they were inserted electronically over the actual live pictures of Times Square. Times Square is full of billboards, said Sandy Genelius, a spokewoman for CBS News, who defended the digital manipulation of the scene behind Rather in an interview with free! CBS News internal standards prohibit digital manipulation or other faking of news footage, but Genelius said this new technology was not yet covered by the guidelines. There is nothing specific in CBS News standards, she explained. Were just beginning to use this. Genelius also drew a distinction between video footage in news reports and the live video behind anchor Dan Rather when he is on location. In terms of covering the news, we never, ever want to mislead the public in news coverage, she said. On all three networks, Dan, Peter (Jennings) and Tom (Brokaw) are on sets. Ours just happened to be high above Times Square. In an interview with Broadcasting and Cable magazine, CBS Evening News director Eric Shapiro said, My intention is to create some eye-catching CBS Evening News Times Square-type billboards in places where there are none. The same device, called PVI L-VIS Live Video Insertion, was introduced to television football coverage to generate images of the first-down lines on the playing field. Once the virtual images are superimposed over the actual live picture, whether of a football game or in a news story, the virtual images appear to viewers at home to be as real as anything at the scene. People who walk in front of landmarks replaced by virtual billboards appear to television viewers to have walked in front of the electronic billboard, making it appear completely real. CBS News became the first national news broadcaster to introduce the new insertion technology last November on its morning news broadcast, The Early Show, placing digital billboards on Manhattan landmarks during live shots of New York City. Such landmarks as the Plaza Hotel fountain and Fifth Avenue department stores appear to television viewers as having promotional advertisements on their surfaces. It is only used in bumpers, said Genelius, referring to the camera shots used in the seconds immediately preceding each commercial break. CBS News has only used the billboards to promote its own programs. And even though the technology has been developed to insert commercial announcements into sports and entertainment events, Genelius said CBS News was using the device only to promote CBS network programs, not to advertise other products or services. There is no talk of using this for (paid) commercial content, she said. However, digital manipulation of video in network news broadcasts has attracted criticism in the past. ABC News was widely criticized for including on World News Tonight a report on Congress by Cokie Roberts, who was wearing an overcoat in front of what to viewers seemed to be the U.S. Capitol. The entire report was taped some said faked in a studio at ABC News, and ABC later apologized for misleading viewers. And most newspapers and magazines have long considered digital manipulation of news photographs to be off-limits. National Geographic was heavily condemned for using computer-controlled manipulators to change a cover photo, moving the position of one of Egypts Great Pyramids. The CBS News video inserts have come into use just as another technology has squeezed up to six additional minutes per hour of commercials into a live radio program. This technology uses computers to remove minute pauses between words, even as the anchor or host is speaking, leaving more time for ads and promotions. Even some radio show anchors have expressed surprise that a new technology was being used to compress their words. Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh told
[CTRL] [2.1b] Understanding Special Operations
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.prouty.org/ Click Here: A HREF="http://www.prouty.org/"The Col. L. Fletcher Prouty Reference Site/A - Clandestine Operations: Out of Control If Not Directed by the National Security Council Prouty: What we've been talking about emphasizes the very great importance of the National Security Council. If the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense can't handle the CIA, then nobody can. If they permit the funding from Congress or any other really covert work to put CIA into areas that they didn't approve, it's their fault and nobody else's. This is one of the serious aspects about this recent Iran situation. It seems as though Congress wants to accept the fact that Poindexter, McFarlane, North and all those men were doing things that the NSC didn't approve. And they are legitimizing that which is terrible -- really, for the future, is a terrible thing to put up with. We've got a law that says if you're going to get into clandestine operations, it can only be done at the direction of the National Security Council. And here we have the men who were members of the National Security Council -- Reagan, Bush, Weinberger, and Schultz -- all walking off and saying, `We had nothing to do with it.' Now that, for the next era, is going to create enormous problems, even worse than it did for Reagan. If Congress doesn't recognize what's happening, they had better do so pretty soon or else they're going to find covert operations going on that nobody knows anything about because what they are doing then is regularizing what I said in my book: that there exists a Secret Team that is out of control. And now by doing nothing they have regularized it. That's the danger. If they don't keep the National Security Council directing these organizations, they'll never get the genie back in the bottle. Ratcliffe: Which is so curious since we heard such a hue and cry during the hearings in the summer of '87 regarding, `they're trying to take too much power away from the executive. The President needs to have more power here in these operations.' In fact, he already had the power with the NSC. Prouty: And he denies he used it. The President says, `I've got nothing to do with what those fellows were doing.' Mr. Bush has said `I didn't do anything down in Honduras,' or `I didn't do anything when I met with the Israelis.' It's appalling, because if Congress is going to accept that, they're denying the role of the National Security Council and then they're permitting almost anybody else in the government to run covert operations. Now that's something else people need to understand about covert operations. We talk about the CIA being in charge of covert operations. Almost any branch of the government gets into covert operations. And they do it in a team fashion. That's why I called it The Secret Team. Because I saw just as many people working in covert operations in the Customs Service, in the Treasury Service, even in FAA sometimes, as I did when we saw CIA people and defense people working. It just depends on what type of operation you're in or who wants it done. It's not the CIA all the time, although they all get together and say it was the CIA. The CIA might just have had a representative in there. Or the CIA would provide its special communications and its other facilities that they have -- as we heard in the case of Ollie North and the others -- they had these special communications devices and all that. But other people were doing the job. So we have to learn a lot more about how these things are done. But if we deny and cancel out the role of the National Security Council, we're going to be in very, very deep trouble. There will be no one in charge at all. Four Categories of Military Personnel Employed by CIA Ratcliffe: A very central point, it seems, in The Secret Team book was your qualifying people who were working either within the military or then in a position inside the Central Intelligence Agency. Regarding this term "military," please clarify your use throughout the book, of the four examples of different types of military personnel you define. Prouty: In ordinary every day agency business, there is a need for a close relationship between the agency and the military departments. So hundreds of experienced intelligence officers are assigned to work with the CIA. The distinction is they're paid by their service -- they are under the control of their service commanders -- but they sit in a CIA office and work with the CIA for the purpose of coordinating intelligence. They bring to the CIA certain assets that it doesn't have and the CIA exposes them to certain assets of theirs. So they work together. That's one group of the "team". Next, there are certain military officers whom the CIA needs to have for its own purposes. Let's say pilots. That's one career field: helicopter pilots, aircraft
[CTRL] [2.1a] Understanding Special Operations
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Click Here: A HREF="http://www.prouty.org/"The Col. L. Fletcher Prouty Reference Site/A - C H A P T E R 2 Understanding The Secret Team in the Post-World War II Era Understanding The Secret Team Part I Ratcliffe: We're here with Fletcher Prouty. The date is May 6, 1989 and we now begin an interview regarding his book The Secret Team, The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, published by Prentice Hall in 1973. In The Context of Its Time: The National Security Act of 1947 Much of post-World War II American political history and agendas seems to hinge on events that occurred immediately after World War II. With the passage of the National Security Act of 1947, can you discuss the original intent of Congress regarding the role of the CIA as specified in this law. Prouty: It's very important while discussing the National Security Act of 1947 to be sure we go back into the spirit and the thinking of the time. We had just ended the greatest world war ever fought in late 1945, with the surrender of the Japanese on September 2, 1945. During 1945 and early in 1946, President Truman abolished the OSS. There was no longer a need for an operational organization of that type now that the war was over. But there were assets of the OSS, primarily things such as agents, agents lists, who the agents worked with, and other activities like that, that you just can't abandon. They have to be taken care of. These were placed in an office which was concealed in the State Department for quite a while. President Truman also, by presidential directive, created the National Intelligence Group and placed it under General Vandenberg, an army officer and later Chief of Staff of the Air Force, who had considerable experience with intelligence matters. Both of these acts by President Truman were more or less standby. He knew there would have to be some change in the law to act on these intelligence matters. At that time also, you will remember, the Soviet Union had been our ally during the war. It was not "the" enemy as it became during the Cold War. So the National Security Act of 1947, the language of the law was written during 1946, was based pretty much on the reality of World War II, and not upon the Cold War realities. For those of us looking back, that is difficult to think about because we have so ingrained in us now the fact that the Soviet Union is the enemy, communism is the enemy, and that the Germans, Japanese, and Italians who were our enemy in World War II are all now friends. So you must go back into that era and begin there when you talk about the origins of the CIA and the passage of this very important law, the National Security Act of 1947. I was teaching a major year-long course, at Yale called The Evolution of Warfare. Of necessity I was very interested in these activities of 1946 and 1947 as part of my course. So I read everything I could get from the congressional hearings, from the newspapers, everything that was going in those years regarding the creation of this new law. What you could see were some rather practical things, and then some indications of things that were going to come. First of all the Army and Navy had to share their aviation interests with a new branch of the service: the Air Force. That was one of the facts that the public recognized about this new law. We created then a single Department of Defense -- we hadn't had one before. Many of the officers, especially senior officers, who had fought World War II did not like this term, Department of Defense. There's a very basic distinction, especially in warfare, but also in athletics, in sports, in any competition between being on the offense and being on the defense. On the offense, you know what you're doing. On the offense, you're planning something. If you're on the offense with a Department of War, as we used to have, it doesn't mean you're planning to fight, but it means you're ready to fight. And you let everybody know that. If you're on the Department of Defense, you're waiting for somebody else to make a move, and then you react. The philosophy of the entire military structure of this country changed with this business of the Department of Defense. And coming as it did, right when we were the most powerful nation in the world, with an enormous army, navy, and air force, and the nuclear weapon which nobody else had in that period -- to put all of that on the defense was an enormous oversight. Those of us who were close to all that felt it that way. There was no way to say that the World War II armies of the United States were to go on the defense. That really destroyed the structure of the Army and a lot of people on active service felt that at that time. I say that because this business of the communists/anti-communists bit, and the idea of a Department of War or Department of Navy as against a Department of Defense -- another
[CTRL] Skulls
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from; http://www.theskulls.net/ Click Here: A HREF="http://www.theskulls.net/"Skulls/A - Joshua Jackson (TVs Dawson Creek) stars in Universal Pictures suspense thriller The Skulls, an Original Film/Newmarket Capital Group production directed by Rob Cohen (HBOs The Rat Pack), produced by Neal Moritz (Cruel Intentions) from an original screenplay by John Pogue (U.S. Marshals). Luke McNamara (Jackson) pays the ultimate sacrifice for fitting in. Once the over-achieving New Haven townie is able to claw his way into an Ivy League College, he is invited to join an elitist secret society known as The Skulls. He jumps at the chance, hoping it will help secure his acceptance into a prestigious law school. At first seduced by the clubs upper-crust trappings, Luke finds himself ensnared by his own ambition when his journalist roommate commits suicide amidst cloudy circumstances. Now at the risk of his own life, he must outwit The Skulls at their own game. Opens April 7, 2000 Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] jesse loses; plans 2 more protest demonstrations
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- 11:32 PM ET 01/11/00 Judge Upholds Decatur Expulsions By JAY HUGHES= Associated Press Writer= DECATUR, Ill. (AP) _ A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Decatur school board was within its rights to oust six black students from school for fighting at a football game. The ruling was a blow to the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his crusade against ``zero tolerance'' anti-violence policies in schools. U.S. District Judge Michael McCuskey dismissed the students' claims that the Decatur school board treated them unjustly because they are black and violated their right to a fair hearing. McCuskey issued his ruling from Urbana, where he heard three days of testimony last month. Jackson, whose Rainbow/PUSH Coalition filed the lawsuit on the students' behalf, said he would appeal. ``The court offered no relief for these youth and showed no mercy for getting them back in school,'' Jackson said during a news conference with the students and their parents at his group's Chicago headquarters. Jackson also said he planned two rallies in Decatur _ one Saturday night, Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, and another Jan. 24 in protest of the decision. He also said he had scheduled a conference Jan. 25 in Springfield on ``zero tolerance'' policies. The lawsuit was filed by five of the students who were expelled following the Sept. 17 fist fight in the stands at a football game, and one who withdrew rather than face expulsion. A sixth expelled student was not involved in the lawsuit. The teens initially were expelled for a maximum of two years. After intervention by Jackson and Gov. George Ryan, the school board reduced the expulsions to one year and agreed to allow all six teens to attend alternative schools that are not a part of the district. McCuskey struck down the students' case point by point, noting their actions threatened the safety of the community. The fight cleared the visitors' bleachers at the game but caused no serious injuries. ``In short, this court is not impressed with the students' position that because no knives or guns were used in the melee that it was not a significant fight,'' McCuskey wrote. School board officials said they were relieved at the decision and hoped it could put to rest the racial tension that has built in the blue-collar central Illinois town. ``There's a tremendous amount of healing that has to take place in the community. This has been very divisive,'' said Decatur Superintendent Kenneth Arndt. During protests in Decatur late last year, Jackson claimed the expulsions were not a racial issue. But in the lawsuit, the students argued the school district disproportionately expelled black students and disciplined them more harshly than white students. Tom Kelty, an attorney for the school board, said the decision sends the correct message about who determines school policy. ``These rules are set at the local level, and it's not the job of the federal court _ or any other court _ to interfere with these rules,'' Kelty said. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563211203-e9f Bard "Duty is ours, results are God's" - John Quincy Adams A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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: NBC'S WEST WING ROASTS LARRY KLAYMAN 9PM
Larry, in my view, is always a good "watch". Bard FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2000 Contact: Joe Giganti (202) 646-5172 JUDICIAL WATCH VERSUS HOLLYWOOD NBC'S "WEST WING" ROASTS LARRY KLAYMAN AND JUDICIAL WATCH Show Airs At 9:00 P.M. Tonight (Washington, D.C.) In last week's television episode of "West Wing" - the series which portrays life in The White House - liberal Hollywood roasted Larry Klayman and Judicial Watch in an episode which underscores the importance of the public interest, anti-government corruption watchdog's work, by creating a not so subtle fictional character named "Harry Klaypool" and a public interest, anti-government corruption group called "Freedom Watch." Last week's episode depicted fictionalized scenes from Judicial Watch's videotaped depositions revealing that "Freedom Watch" had sued The White House only seven times (sic) and that "Harry Klaypool" was on a "jihad" to uncover drug use in The White House. At the end of the show, the White House lawyer and the official being deposed get up and unilaterally walk out of the deposition, the White House lawyer slams Klaypool into the wall, and threatens to "pop him like a pinata." Tonight's episode and subsequent episodes obviously do not bode well for the character "Klaypool," who the real "Klaypool," Larry Klayman, surmises will meet an unfortunate end - given Hollywood's allegiances and ties to the corrupt Clinton Administration. "That Judicial Watch and Larry Klayman would be roasted by a prime time pop culture' Hollywood show like West Wing,' and that Klayman's character is openly threatened by a White House official before hundreds of millions of television viewers, underscores how potent Judicial Watch has been in uncovering corruption in the Clinton Administration and how much the left' fears us," stated President Tom Fitton.
[CTRL] INTERNET SPY (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- I keep getting these offers - are they a con of some sort? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 99 08:17:49 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: INTERNET SPY One time mailing, no need for removal. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION YOU WANT TO KNOW. This is the software they want banned from the INTERNET! "The Internet Desktop Spy" shows you how to get the facts on anyone using the Internet. LOCATE MISSING PERSONS, find lost relatives, obtain addresses and phone numbers of old school friends, even skip trace dead beat spouses. This is not a Private Investigator, but a SOFTWARE program DESIGNED to automatically CRACK YOUR CASE with links to thousands of Public Record Databases Find out SECRETS about your relatives, friends, enemies, and everyone else! -- even your spouse! With the New - "Internet Desktop SPY" You will be AMAZED at what you can discover: LICENSE PLATE NUMBER - Get anyone's name and address with just a license plate number! (Find that girl you met in traffic!) DRIVING RECORD - Get anyone's driving record! SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER - Trace anyone by social security number! ADDRESS - Get anyone's address with just a name! UNLISTED PHONE NUMBERS - Get anyone's phone number with just a name- even unlisted numbers! LOCATE - Long lost friends, relatives, a past lover who broke your heart! E-MAIL - Send anyone anonymous e-mail that's completely untraceable! DIRTY SECRETS - Discover dirty secrets your in-laws don't want you to know! INVESTIGATE ANYONE - Use the sources that private investigators use (all on the Internet) secretly! EX-SPOUSE - Learn how to get information on an ex-spouse that will help you win in court! (Dig up old skeletons) CRIMINAL SEARCH - BACKGROUND CHECK - Find out about your daughter's boyfriend! (or her husband) FIND OUT - If you are being investigated! NEIGHBORS - Learn all about your mysterious neighbors! Find out what they have to hide! PEOPLE YOU WORK WITH - Be astonished by what you'll learn about the people you work with! EDUCATION VERIFICATION - Did he really graduate college? Find out! "The Internet Desktop Spy" will help you discover ANYTHING about anyone, with clickable hyperlinks and no typing in Internet addresses! Just download the software and go! You will be shocked and amazed by the secrets that can be discovered about absolutely everyone! Find out the secrets they don't want you to know! About others, about yourself! LIMITED TIME OFFER -- ORDER TODAY! ONLY $20 (US) You can dowmload the "The Internet DeskTop Spy" software NOW so you can begin discovering all the secrets you ever wanted to know! You can know EVERYTHING about ANYONE with "The Internet DeskTop Spy" software. - Works with all browsers and all versions of AOL - PC Versions available Only! DON'T WAIT TO GET STARTED It's as easy as 1, 2, 3. ORDER TODAY - While this software is still legal! VISA/MC ONLY For Credit Card Orders, Click on the link below: http://204.4.8.12/internetspy NOTES: - This program will not work on Windows 3.11 and older - DISCLAIMER - The seller of this powerful software resource will not be held responsible for how the purchaser chooses to use its resources. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Flu Plague Of 2006
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- The Flu Plague Of 2006 AS Britain reels from the worst outbreak of influenza in more than a decade, scientists have warned the next epidemic may kill millions. They fear the virus could mutate into an even bigger killer than the one which wiped out an estimated 40 million people in 1918. BOB SHIELDS imagines life after the great plague of 2006 ...IT started with a sniff ... but no-one told us it would end like this. And the tragedy is, the symptoms were there for us all to see. Influenza - flu to most of us - is the Toblerone-shaped bug that kills 4000 in the UK every year. Most of the victims are the elderly or those already weakened with heart or respiratory problems. In November, the early cases came creeping into Britain's surgeries. Doctors wrote them off as the first of winter's wheezers and sneezers. But as invisible as the bug itself, figures started to grow. Doctors noted the increase in influenza sufferers, but thought it was just a blip in their average case list. Dr Aberdeen wasn't to know that Dr Ayr was experiencing the same 20 per cent increase in flu victims. Well, not until it was too late. Hospitals were first to ring the alarm bells - registrars became anxious as the number of beds being used by flu sufferers rose. And there were some deaths that made their figures look a little uncomfortable. Regional medical officers got the information on their desks at the end of the month, but few read the reports. The Christmas party season had started. Others weren't experienced enough to understand them, but someone did - a researcher, a post-graduate on exchange from the ER-famed County General in Chicago, got hold of the figures. "What's an epidemic here in England?" he asked. "Four cases per every thousand of the population," he was told. "Guys, we just got ourselves a flu epidemic." Newspapers were slow to pick up on the story - until the death of a fit young rugby player. Until now, hardened editors felt flu was something that picked off the weak, those that were in God's waiting room anyway. But the young rugby player's picture haunted every front page. Calls to the health department rang alarms bells and the Health Minister was finally cornered in the Commons. "It's an epidemic, but not a serious one," he told MPs. Leader of the Opposition, Michael Portillo, replied with headline- grabbing gravity. "Tell that to the families of the victims. There are people dying out there. Have we learned nothing since Millennium Flu killed 29,000?" It was all too late. Hospitals began to sag under the volume of referrals from GPs. Practices that lost 300 patients a year were now seeing 10 people every day develop life-threatening illness. No-one was immune. A famous actor died. Then a senior member of the Royal Family. The nation mourned as news of the McAndrew family from Aberdeen arrived on their screens. Mrs Susan McAndrew had gone to hospital with her sons Ian, three, and Callum, five, at noon. She then sat and watched them die, in neighbouring beds, within 20 minutes of each other. A Highland primary school of just six pupils was left with just one little boy. Pictures of him sitting alone in class made every front page. Kirks and chapels buried the dead - and asked their congregations to pray for a cure. Researchers had found the bug, but were helpless against this superflu strain. Its roots were traced to Grozny, where disease had lived unchecked since the Russians obliterated the area in 2000. Locals had called it Yeltsin flu, after the late former Russian leader. Its virulence was the speed at which it travelled - and killed. One man sneezing on a Jumbo jet could infect 300 passengers. If any of them sneezed in a train, office or shop, they could infect thousands more. The Government was forced to declare a national emergency - but were hammered for deciding a week after the USA, France, Germany and Italy had announced similar status. People were dying in their thousands from Yeltsin Flu. And that was only the UK. The Euro Parliament was stunned when doctors revealed 26,000 EEC victims a day. "It's not an epidemic - it's a plague," said one newspaper's front page. "It's the Aids of the innocents," screamed another. Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to announce a total shutdown of all but essential industries. "People are catching this bug in schools, in factories, in shops and offices. This Government has no alternative but to close them ... close them tonight," he told a hushed Commons. It was a gamble. With the threat of food shortages, people would hoard or even loot if they had been given any longer notice. "I regret to announce a 24-hour curfew in mainland UK," he added. "Essential services - hospital staff, doctors, the police, this House, certain government agencies and the BBC will remain exempt. The Army will be mobilised to help maintain this curfew until further notice." He sat
[CTRL] Bonds and Brown Brothers Harriman
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Linda Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Bonds and Brown Brothers Harriman Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 3:19 PM -Caveat Lector- http://www.we-the-people.org/ShyOne's-Letters/8-19-99.htm "The firm originally was known as W. A. Harriman Company. The link between Harriman Company's American investors and Thyssen started in the 1920s, through the Union Banking Corporation, which began trading in 1924. In just one three-year period, the Harriman firm sold more than $50 million of German bonds to American investors. 'Bert' Walker was Union Banking's president, and the firm was located in the offices of Averill Harriman's company at 39 Broadway in New York. "In 1926 Bert Walker did a favor for his new son-in-law, Prescott Bush. It was the sort of favor families do to help their children make a start in life, but Prescott came to regret it bitterly. Walker made Prescott vice president of W. A. Harriman. The problem was that Walker's specialty was companies that traded with Germany. As Thyssen and the other German industrialists consolidated Hitler's political power in the 1930s, an American financial connection was needed. According to our sources, Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine. . . . "In [1931], Harriman Company merged with a British-American investment company to become Brown Brothers, Harriman. Prescott Bush became one of the senior partners of the new company, which relocated to 59 Broadway, while Union Banking remained at 39 Broadway. But in 1934 Walker arranged to put his son-in-law on the board of directors of Union Banking. "Walker also set up a deal to take over the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. The shipping line smuggled in German agents, propaganda, and money for bribing American politicians to see things Hitler's way. The holding company was Walker's American Shipping Commerce, which shared the offices at 39 Broadway with Union Banking. In an elaborate corporate paper trail, Harriman's stock in American Shipping Commerce was controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker's office. The directors of this company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush. . . . http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm How the Harrimans Hired Hitler It was not inevitable that millions would be slaughtered under fascism and in World War II. At certain moments of crisis, crucial pro-Nazi decisions were made outside of Germany. These decisions for pro-Nazi actions were more aggressive than the mere `` appeasement '' which Anglo-American historians later preferred to discuss. Private armies of 300,000 to 400,000 terrorists aided the Nazis' rise to power. W.A. Harriman's Hamburg-Amerika Line intervened against Germany's 1932 attempt to break them up. The 1929-31 economic collapse bankrupted the Wall-Street-backed German Steel Trust. When the German government took over the Trust's stock shares, interests associated with Konrad Adenauer and the anti-Nazi Catholic Center Party attempted to acquire the shares. But the Anglo-Americans--Montagu Norman, and the Harriman-Bush bank--made sure that their Nazi puppet Fritz Thyssen regained control over the shares and the Trust. Thyssen's bankrolling of Hitler could then continue unhindered. Unpayable debts crushed Germany in the 1920s, reparations required by the Versailles agreements. Germany was looted by the London-New York banking system, and Hitler's propaganda exploited this German debt burden. But immediately after Germany came under Hitler's dictatorship, the Anglo-American financiers granted debt relief, which freed funds to be used for arming the Nazi state. The North German Lloyd steamship line, which was merged with Hamburg-Amerika Line, was one of the companies which stopped debt payments under a Hitler decree arranged by John Foster Dulles and Hjalmar Schacht. Kuhn Loeb and Co.'s Felix Warburg carried out the Hitler finance plan in New York. Kuhn Loeb asked North German Lloyd bondholders to accept new lower interest steamship bonds, issued by Kuhn Loeb, in place of the better pre-Hitler bonds. The Opposition New York attorney Jacob Chaitkin, father of coauthor Anton Chaitkin, took the cases of many different bondholders who rejected the swindle by Harriman, Bush, Warburg, and Hitler. Representing a women who was owed $30 on an old steamship bond--and opposing John Foster Dulles in New York municipal court--Chaitkin threatened a writ from the sheriff, tying up the 30,000 ton transatlantic liner Europa until the client received her $30. (New York Times, January 10, 1934, p. 31 col. 3). The American Jewish Congress hired Jacob Chaitkin as
[CTRL] The top 250 individuals and families....
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- The top 250 individuals and families on Earth own more wealth than the bottom 2.5 billion people put together! The distribution of wealth is such that the top 250 people on Earth own more than the bottom half of humanity. There is something fundamentally, consciously rotten about this system that the top 250 persons and families would gorge their greed while billions go hungry on the same spaceship. The top 250 people include the owners of the petrochemical and nuclear civilization that is destroying Earth's environment. How do you feel about this distribution of wealth, power, and anti-environmentalism? Geri Alfred January 12, 2000 LIBERTIES / By MAUREEN DOWD $?! WASHINGTON -- I woke up feeling intensely guilty. When I was young, I used to go into a dark box at church and confess all kinds of guilt: about talking back to my parents, about unkindnesses, about impure thoughts. But now I feel guilty about just one thing: not being a millionaire. On the glowing boxes of my adulthood, the TV and computer, people are constantly getting rich quick. When Time Warner merged with AOL, some predicted the end of print, and my life passed before my eyes. But I was far more disturbed that I had lost yet another opportunity to cash in, or to cash out. I worked at Time in the early 80's. The magazine was not on the cutting edge of technology then. When Time made the computer "Man of the Year" in 1982, we were still pounding out our stories on typewriters. I didn't hold onto my Time stock. And on Monday many of my old colleagues became multimillionaires. If there's a way to lose money, I'll find it. I called a Washington psychoanalyst named Justin Frank. I told him I didn't want to feel deeply inadequate just because I didn't know how to day-trade. He confessed his own feelings of inadequacy. "As a psychoanalyst, I subjectively feel like a dinosaur because I am exploring things in depth, and in the meantime everyone around me has gotten rich. "Yesterday I was driving somewhere and my children said, 'Dad, you're smart and funny and hip. Why didn't you invest in Internet stocks? What's wrong with you?' I told them, 'I'll take this under advisement.' "We are moving into an era of decisiveness as opposed to an era of thoughtfulness. People feel guilty if they have a subconscious identification with Hamlet." To trade or not to trade. I never cared about money before. It was not what Country Joe and the Fish taught me to value. Once upon a time, money was an occasion for guilt. The robber barons who had exploited the poor would cleanse their lucre by buying great art or pouring it into charity; the Guilted Age. But now the only remorse that people feel about money is, why haven't they made more? "Once, new money tried to disguise itself as old money," says Michael Lewis, who wrote "The New New Thing," about a Silicon Valley billionaire. "It gave some of itself away. It dressed itself up in airs and pretensions. Now old money cringes in the face of new money. Now even new money gets stale fast, and has a sell-by date." We are obsessed about making money with our money. Making an honest living does not seem like a particularly sensible thing to do anymore when you can simply hold onto a stock that rises to the stratosphere. "I have never seen so many disgruntled people at the peak of a bull market," says James Stewart, the author of "Den of Thieves," about the Wall Street scandals of the 80's, who is now an editor at Smart Money. "People look at their portfolios going up 40 percent last year and they are whining and complaining to me that they didn't own Qualcomm. They don't even know what Qualcomm makes. If they had Qualcomm, they whine they wish they had more of it. "Everybody brags about their gains. Nobody talks about their losses. As a subject for boasting, portfolios have supplanted sports and sex." Jim Cramer, the money manager who founded TheStreet.com, agrees: "People used to be mortified to talk about how much money they made. Now they get in my face and say, 'I caught 79 points on Oracle, what did you catch?' " In the old days, you had to be intrepid or an M.B.A. to get in on a gold rush. Now your personal trainer knows as much about one-day price movements as Warren Buffett. "It's not like
[CTRL] Extraterrestrials Presidential Candidate Dr. Harder
Democratic Presidential candidate Harder seems to be taking up the mantle of Jimmy Carter, who in his 1976 campaign was the only major Presidential candidate to announce a personal UFO experience. Once Carter was elected, myself and several prominent UFOlogists were able to work with his White House on a proposal to study extraterrestrial communications, together with the National Science Foundation. Just was the proposal was to be approved in the fall of 1977, a meeting was held between the project personnel, high Stanford Research Institute officials, and SRI-Pentagon Liaison advising us to desist on the project or be fired. The project was effectively stopped by SRI-Pentagon liaison, and the White House never recovered its momentum in this area. Jimmy Carter remains an unheralded champion of the extraterrestrial initiative, although he himself was prevented from opening to the extraterrestrial initiative during his term in office. We had a good chance with the combined White House-NSF study in 1977, until we experienced the direct intervention of Pentagon-intelligence forces. Now, of course, the wife of a former CIA director is in charge of the NSF research office, and is part of a continued disinformation network to maintain official denials of the extraterrestrial initiative. It would be interesting to channel through some International agency, or government other than the US which would be willing to spear-head an opening with the extraterrestrial initiative. Practically speaking, it may be grass-roots human efforts that eventually bring about a reintegration with ET society. At present, human governments seem to be part of the problem and not the solution. After the 2000 race is over, perhaps Dr. Harder can be persuaded to take a leading roll in a grass-roots movement to meet the extraterrestrial initiative half-way. Perhaps Jimmy Carter and/or Dr. Harder could be persuaded to team up as public motivators of a grass-roots effort. Goal: A Decade of Human Education and Community Politics about the Extraterrestrial Initiative. By our best reading, that seems to be the dynamics even the extraterrestrials may be signaling. Comments? Alfred Webre, JD, MEd Vancouver, BC = Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:36 AM Subject: Dr. Harder's Mission Statement Its time for a change for the new millenium leadership. We need spirituality in the White House and we, the people, can put it there, if we work together. We changed the Y2K by prayer, I believe this, we can change America's politics and restore the constitution to Americans. I'm asking all lightworkers if they will join forces one time a day at your convenience, preferably before retiring, and for a few moments visualize Heather Anne Harder behind the oval desk as President of the United States of America and a light shining forth from that desk around the world that we, in America, can once more be proud to be Americans. You don't have to live in this country to help us vision a new America as we restore our Constitution and our Government to a Government of the people, by the people and for the people as it was and is meant to be. This is more than a political advertisement of politicians. This is what America has prayed for and what America needs and I believe we need Heather Anne Harder as our next President but its up to us, the Lightworkers of the world, to put her there that once more America can be the true Light of the world. Mission Statement The Campaign for Citizen Participation has three major goals: 1.To build into our government more honest and healthy mechanisms for citizen participation to reclaim government and reestablish it as being - of the People, by the People, for the People. 2.To create an environment for the exercise of responsible freedom and the practice of self-governance within the confines of the Constitution. 3.To empower and inspire the American people to become the ultimate stabilizing force as the fourth branch of democratic self- government. Website: http://www.harder2000.com Her many position statements are listed in their entirety for your reading pleasure. The American people deserve more than 10 second sound bites! Abortion - Not a Federal Issue Hemp Farmers Gay, Lesbian, and Other Sexual Alternatives Drugs, Its' time to Decriminalize Religion, spirituality, and Politics Guns Native Americans Crime Health Care Medicare Why am I running? Kosovo Marriage Death Penalty Education Environment Taxes UFOS PUBLISHED BOOKS BY DR. HARDER (We need someone that thinks along spiritual lines such as these books present to head our country into the new millenium of peace.) Breaking Free - Changing the way you view yourself, so you can change your world The Game of Politics - How to play it, change it and win it, what every American needs to know Interdimensional Communication - the process through which you
[CTRL] Proof of a Mars/Egypt Connection?...
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Proof of a Mars/Egypt Connection?...01/12/00 by Mitch Battros (ECTV) What you are about to see may change your perspective forever. As of yesterday, I have uploaded a series of unprecedented photos of the face on Mars and the face of the Sphinx at Giza. Up until now, only those who have attended my lecture/workshops around the nation have seen this stunning presentation. What you will find (in my humble opinion) is an undeniable connection between Mars and Egypt. Is it possible we a descendants of our ancestors from planet Mars? If so, is there a planned return? Will we find evidence of our relation deep inside the pyramids of Egypt? Has NASA been in contact with intelligent life on Mars, perhaps for years? So many questions, to few answers. In the near future, Earth Changes TV will be able to present to you Streaming Video, Streaming Audio, an Interactive Symposium room, Networking Station and much more. Perhaps by the end of the year, I will present my workshop "live" over the internet. As you already know, there is so much information to get out that will benefit each one of us in these fast changing times. We are indeed at the cusp of a "new dawn" of communication. Go to our special link page and see for yourself, a never before seen web site presentation of what could perhaps be "the origin from which we came". You will not be the same again. Go Here: http://www.earthchangesTV.com/facemars/overlay.htm Best Wishes To All, Mitch Battros Producer - Earth Changes TV http We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] Government Favors Microsoft Breakup
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Government Favors Microsoft Breakup By Ted Bridis Associated Press Writer Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2000; 4:05 p.m. EST WASHINGTON Government lawyers studying ways to limit Microsoft's expansive influence in the technology industry want to break the software giant into three parts, arguing that lesser remedies in the antitrust trial would be inadequate, people close to these discussions confirmed today. If U.S. District Thomas Penfield Jackson were to agree to such a dramatic solution, such a breakup of Bill Gates' software empire would carry enormous implications for the way consumers buy and use programs for their computers. Justice Department lawyers laid out their favored proposal to break Microsoft into three parts during a secret meeting last week in Washington with representatives of the 19 states also suing the company over alleged antitrust violations, according to people close to the case who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Justice Department, which last month disclosed it had hired as its adviser a financial consulting firm, Greenhill Co. LLC of New York, argued that any lesser sanctions such as prohibiting the company from abusing its influence would be inadequate to rein in Microsoft's aggressive behavior. Attorneys general for the 19 states are deciding among themselves whether to endorse the Justice proposal but are said to be leaning in favor of it, and the plan could be presented next week when government lawyers meet privately in Chicago with the federal mediator assigned to the case, according to people close to the case. USA Today reported in today that the government favored breaking Microsoft into two parts, not three. The Justice Department, in a statement, said the story was "inaccurate in several important respects, and it does not adequately represent our views." © Copyright 2000 The Associated Press Back to the top A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] California Assembly panel passes handgun bill
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- California Assembly panel passes handgun bill Updated 7:00 PM ET January 12, 2000 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A California State Assembly panel has approved a bill that would require handgun owners to register their weapons and get renewable licenses to use them. The measure, passed 5-2 by the Assembly's Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, would give California one of the toughest handgun laws in the nation. The vote in the Democratic-controlled committee came despite a call from Democratic Gov. Gray Davis for an election-year moratorium on new gun legislation. Hawaii, New York, Massachusetts and Illinois all require some form of licensing or registration, but this proposal is more comprehensive, the bill's sponsor said Wednesday. "It seems pretty straightforward to me that if we deem it prudent to license and register cars then we should do the same with guns," Democratic Assemblyman Kevin Shelley said in a telephone interview. The bill calls for handgun owners to get four-year licenses and submit thumbprints to the California Justice Department. It also would require handgun owners to take a written and practical test and would subject them to annual registration renewals. The measure seeks to create a tracking system that would make it easier for police to find stolen handguns and to ensure that people who buy the weapons know how to use them, Shelley said. A spokesman for Assembly Republican leader Scott Baugh said the lawmaker agrees with the governor's call for a moratorium and believes the state must enforce the laws already on the books instead of passing new ones. The National Rifle Association, which also opposes the bill, estimates there are some 7 million to 10 million handguns in California. The bill now goes to the Appropriations Committee and by law must move out of the Assembly by Jan. 31. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/19/politics-california-guns Bard A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Top 18 Things on a Y2K Survivalist's To-Do List
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Find grocery store receipt for 10,000 packets of ramen noodles. Apologize to neighbors about the tripwire incident; offer to replace dog. Take up pork beans skeet shooting. Gather recipes for Spam, dehydrated potatoes, and crow. Cancel subscription to Stockpilers Quarterly, but keep the free can opener. Convert weapons back to semi-auto. Pitch "1000 Ideas for Wheat Gluten" to Martha Stewart's people. Return 753 videos to Blockbuster. Water yard, one lousy gallon at a time. Prepare for the dreaded but little-known "Arbor Day Bug." Shoot first--forget the damn questions. Learn how to disarm a Claymore mine. Laugh at all those losers out there fighting each other for scraps of food, and thank the Lord for the safety of the bunker, cut off from all connection with the outside world. Find the bastard who sold me all that dehydrated water. Curse God for pussing out on the wrath. Convert my anti-Y2K-Bug tin-foil hat back into an anti-Katie-Couric-Mind-Control tin-foil hat. Make sure the babes in the bunker still think we need to repopulate earth. and the Number 1 Thing on a Y2K Survivalist's To-Do List... Make friends with the 6 billion other Y2K survivors. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] The Top 18 Things on a Y2K Survivalist's To-Do List
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.sfbg.com/nessie/8.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] Satellite Photos of NoKorean Missile Sites
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/facility/nodong.htm No-dong N40°51'17" E129°39'58" The Nodong launch facility increasingly mesmerized American security planning during the 1990s, with the various North Korean missiles tested from this site constituting the primary threat driving American theater and national missile defense programs. It is fittingly paradoxical that tens of billions of dollars should have been spent, and a range of national policies reoriented, on account of this distressing modest and underwhelming missile test facility. The newly available commercial IKONOS satellite imagery reveals the vaunted Nodong test site as a facility barely worthy of note, consisting of the most minimal imaginable test infrastructure. Go to site for more Bard Title: No-dong - North Korean Special Weapons Facilities FAS | Nuke | Guide | DPRK | Facility Index | Search | Join FAS No-dongN40°51'17" E129°39'58" The Nodong launch facility increasingly mesmerized American security planning during the 1990s, with the various North Korean missiles tested from this site constituting the primary threat driving American theater and national missile defense programs. It is fittingly paradoxical that tens of billions of dollars should have been spent, and a range of national policies reoriented, on account of this distressing modest and underwhelming missile test facility. The newly available commercial IKONOS satellite imagery reveals the vaunted Nodong test site as a facility barely worthy of note, consisting of the most minimal imaginable test infrastructure. It is quite evident that this facility was not intended to support, and in many respects is incapable of supporting, the extensive test program that would be needed to fully develop a reliable missile system. In the United States, typically at least twenty test flights are required in the development of a large intercontinental ballistic missile, while smaller missiles are typically tested a larger number of times before being declared operational. The most noteworthy features of the Nodong facility are those that are entirely absent: the transportation links, paved roads, propellant storage, and staff housing that would be needed to support an extensive test program. The North Korean missile program has always been distinguished by the disparity between the extremely modest and protracted North Korean test activities and the vast scale of the American response to this program. The modest ambitions of the North Korean test program are clearly revealed by the scale and nature of the Nodong test facility, which is surely the antithesis of Cape Canaveral. The Nodong facility betrays no indication of permanent occupancy, but rather gives every evidence of consisting of a temporary encampment to which launch crews might from time to time repair to test their handiwork. There is a complete absence of any manner of industrial support or other test facilities, and the bare bones test infrastructure is connected by no more than a spidery network of unpaved trails. The Nodong launch complex is located at some remove from major transporation nodes such as the port at Kimchaek or the highway airstrip south of Kilchli. There are no railway connections, nor even paved roads connecting the launch complex with the outside world. While this profound isolation may be only a modest barrier to a test program consisting of a single launch every few years, it is evidently inconsistent with the transportation requirements posed by a serious missile test programs with launches every few months, such as are conducted by America, Russia or China. Although the dirt and gravel roads that connect the facilities at the test site may suffice for tests at intervals of years, a serious test program would generate frequent vehicular traffic that would neccessitate paved roads, since dirt and gravel roads would quickly collapse into a sea of muddy ruts and wallows. Infrequent testing can be supported by trucking in precisely that quantity of propellant needed for the test at hand, but missile test facilities normally include separate liquid propellant storage areas sufficient to support a number of tests. While infrequent launch campaigns may be treated as campground outtings, extensive test programs require the sustained presence of hundreds of personnel, and permanent housing nearby to support this sustained presence. North Korean ballistic missiles are test fired from a facility on North Korea's eastern coast not far from the town of Nodong, and about 10 km from the town of Taepodong. Initial construction of this missile base in Musudan-Ri, Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province, was reportedly completed in 1988. Since that time, a total of two missile tests have been conducted from this facility. A prototype of the Nodong-1 missile was detected on a launch pad in May 1990. And the single test flight of this missile was conducted in May 1993. And in
[CTRL] Where's The Outrage?? Religious Freedom DENIED!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Wiccan Fights Suspension From School Updated 7:48 AM ET January 12, 2000 LAURINBURG, N.C. (Reuters) - A North Carolina high school teacher suspended after telling administrators she practices a pagan religion associated with witchcraft said on Tuesday she would fight to get her job back. Shari Eicher, an 11th-grade English teacher at Scotland High School in Laurinburg, North Carolina, about 85 miles (135 km) southeast of Charlotte, said she was escorted off campus by school officials and suspended indefinitely with pay on Monday because of her religious beliefs. Eicher and her husband, Richard, are practicing Wiccans, a pagan religion whose adherents worship nature and focus on positive energy. Although the religion is associated with witchcraft, Wiccans say the connection is misunderstood and the faith has nothing to do with devil worship. "I do my job the way it is supposed to be done," Eicher said. "My students learn what they're supposed to learn. What I do in my private time and how I worship my concept of deity are none of their business." Eicher said she has contacted the North Carolina Education Association for legal help in appealing her suspension. Scotland County Schools Superintendent Shirley Prince said an investigation was under way, but declined further comment. Eicher said she did not discuss Wicca with students, and disclosed her religious beliefs to administrators after a reporter asked her about an Internet Web site maintained by her husband about a local Wicca group (http://www.witchvox.com). Eicher said she did not keep her beliefs a secret from administrators at Scotland High School, where she has taught for three years. She said she was told it would not be a problem as long as her beliefs did not interfere with her teaching. Eicher and her husband said they were ordained Wicca ministers and had been Wiccans for 16 months. They said rumors about their beliefs surfaced in their hometown of Wagram, about 10 miles (15 km) north of Laurinburg in southeastern North Carolina. On his Web site, Richard Eicher said he also planned to file a lawsuit over his dismissal from a local company because of his religious beliefs. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] Where's The Outrage?? Religious Freedom DENIED!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Yeah, where's the outrage? If this were a Christian being persecuted the howls would be heard clear to the moon. Why did I have to hear about this here and not on the evening news? A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] rapist concealed Panama security assessment
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- WEDNESDAY JANUARY 12 2000 China Canal threat real, says Barr Secret report contradicts general's 'don't-worry' Senate testimony By Charles Smith © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com A recently declassified U.S. military report "confirms" that Communist China is indeed a threat to the Panama Canal -- an assessment directly contradicting the public testimony given to the Senate by the U.S. military, according to Rep. Bob Barr, R.-Ga. "This Southern Command intelligence assessment confirms what I and many others have been saying in reaction to the turnover of the Panama Canal on December 31," said Barr in an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview. "Specifically, we have argued that Communist China has gained a foothold in this strategic part of our hemisphere," he said. On Monday, WorldNetDaily reported that Judicial Watch, a legal watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., forced the Clinton administration to release an intelligence report on the Chinese threat to the Panama Canal. The document, titled "Intelligence Assessment," was prepared by the U.S. Southern Command Joint Intelligence Center, and is classified "SECRET//X1." On Oct. 22, 1999, Gen. Charles E. Wilhelm, USMC, Commander of the Southern Command, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Panama Canal. Wilhelm's testimony appears to contradict the secret intelligence assessment prepared by his own command. The "SECRET" U.S. military assessment was prepared on Oct. 26, 1999, four days after Wilhelm's testimony. WorldNetDaily has acquired a copy of the general's statements to the Senate, during which he stated there was no threat from state-sponsored or "transnational" crime against Panama. "Transnational crime in Panama will likely increase after the U.S. withdraws, but presently, there is no identified threat to Canal operations from transnational criminals," the general stated. However, according to the secret U.S. Southern Command assessment, the Chinese firm that acquired control of the Canal, "Hutchison Whampoa," is indeed considered a threat. "Hutchison's containerized shipping facilities in the Panama Canal, as well as the Bahamas, could provide a conduit for illegal shipments of technology or prohibited items from the west to the PRC, or facilitate the movement of arms and other prohibited items into the Americas," warns the report. In addition, Wilhelm openly stated to the Senate Armed Services Committee, "We are not aware of any current internal or external threat to the Panama Canal, and we have no evidence that it has been targeted by terrorists or foreign governments." He added, "Potential future external threats could include a hostile foreign power and/or transnational criminal organizations. Cuba and China have strong economic interests in Panama, but do not pose a threat to the security of the Canal at this time." Yet, the secret U.S. Southern Command report noted that Beijing's direct ties to the owner of Hutchison Whampoa does pose a threat to the weak Panamanian economy. "Hutchison Whampoa's owner,
[CTRL] Fwd: [corp-focus] One Big Company
One Big Company
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Bring 'em on.
A few years ago, even a few weeks ago, we might have opposed the AOL-Time
Warner merger.
But now we're ready to leave twentieth century thinking behind.
We recognize that this merger has "synergies that make some observers
drool," as the Wall Street Journal explained. AOL will highlight InStyle
magazine? Moviefone will pitch Warner Brother movies? Time Warner will
include AOL disks in promotional mailings? That's progress, baby!
In the past, we might have echoed the concerns of those who worried that
the merger might interfere with open access to high-speed internet
connections. AOL has been a leading proponent of open access -- meaning
those who control high-speed internet access through cable systems or
other means not have the power to discriminate against internet service
providers that they do not control or favor. In buying Time Warner, AOL
suddenly acquires one of the largest cable systems in the country, and
gains a material interest in opposing open access.
But that's OK. We're satisfied by AOL's verbal commitment that it will
voluntarily permit open access in the cable systems it will control (though
Time Warner currently has contractual obligations through 2001 to favor
Roadrunner internet service).
A few months ago, we might have agreed with media critics like George
Gerbner, who say that goliaths like AOL-Time Warner undermine media
diversity, that they are so big that their vast size means there will be an
array of issues they cannot cover properly because they have a vested
interest in the outcome.
Now, we say, "C'mon George." AOL Chief Steve Case says he understands and
is eager to learn more about the importance of journalistic integrity.
Not along ago, we might have sympathized with the views of Robert McChesney,
author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy: "This is the last nail in the coffin
for anyone who believed that the internet is the last stronghold of media
competition."
Now, we tell Bob to get over it. The internet's still a free medium --
hey, AOL-Time Warner isn't stopping us from sending this column around the
net. And you want media democracy? Broadband CNN news content will be
distributed on AOL Plus!
Just a short time ago, we might have noted the consensus that the AOL-Time
Warner merger will spur a slew of new media and internet consolidations
("It's what the future is," a chief executive who runs theme parks and a
movie studio told the Washington Post. "It sure feels like you need to be
bigger -- bigger yet."), and urged that antitrust authorities block the
merger to prevent this trigger effect.
Now, we say, "More mergers? That means more synergy!" (As the late Walter
Adams, one of the leading critics of corporate giantism, said, no merger was
ever announced without a ritual incantation of the synergistic gains to be
realized.)
More mergers is exactly what we need.
Microsoft needs a media company to compete. It is already partnered with
NBC, so we figure it should buy NBC. GE currently owns NBC -- Microsoft
might as well buy General Electric, too.
And as long as its on a buying spree, it seems highly inefficient to have
two major multinationals based in Seattle. Microsoft should purchase Boeing.
And once you have planes, you might as well get cars. We recommend buying
GM, Ford and Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota and the rest.
Meanwhile, it is obvious that, with the oil companies facing a serious
political challenge on the global warming issue, they need their own voice.
We recommend they purchase Disney-ABC. Of course, that would be after
Exxon-Mobil finishes buying BP-Arco and the other oil companies. With oil
naturally comes chemicals (DuPont, Dow, etc.) and with chemicals comes
pharmaceuticals. They should all gravitate to the Exxon-Mobil-Disney pole.
Don't worry about competition, the oil companies still face competition
from other energy sources, like the food companies.
Speaking of which, with the chicken, beef and pork processors all rapidly
consolidating, the grain traders merging, the seed business quickly moving
toward monopoly, supermarkets combining and food processors growing
larger, it is time to speed the process of creating a single food company.
Let's call it Philip Morris -- already the largest food company in the
United States.
The food/tobacco company probably should consider merging with AOL-Time
Warner. Just think of the synergy of ordering all your food through AOL!
Among the major U.S. media companies, that leaves Viacom-CBS in need of some
strategic partners. The merger with ATT -- once it has joined with MCI
Worldcom-Sprint, and the already combining Baby Bells -- seems obvious: a
pairing of leading cable companies to gain efficiency.
Then there's Wal-Mart and the other major retailers. They need a major
internet presence. Hook them up with the ATT-Viacom combine, and throw in
Yahoo! and Amazon.com for a little bit of internet spice.
Sadly, for now we have to
[CTRL] Y2k: Still pretending that nothing happened?
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Defense Department admits that Y2k bugs caused significant losses for spy satelites http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/WorldNewsTonight/wnt_000104_Y2KFailure_feature .html 2000 Y2k bugs found in software that was "already repaired" http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap19991230_519.html#top Third equipment malfunction reported at Japan nuclear plant http://news.excite.com/news/r/991231/17/y2k-japan-nuclear At Delaware tracks, 800 slot machines shut down, apparently Y2K related http://wire.nj.com/cgi-bin/nj_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/JERSEY_NEW S/j0123_AM_NJ-Y2K--SlotsSnafu Y2K bug causes glitch on French weather forecasters' Internet site http://www.boston.com/dailynews/365/world/Y2K_bug_causes_glitch_on_Frenc:.shtm l Japanese nuclear plant jumps ahead to 2036 http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500149648-500182164-500747591- 0,00.html Y2K Computer Glitch Reported at Tennessee Nuclear Weapons Plant http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGI6MCN7Z2C.html Y2K glitch briefly hinders Arkansas nuclear plant http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500149013-500180976-500737881- 0,00.html Y2K bug causes minor glitches in banks' email and credit card systems http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/afp/article.html?s=asia /headlines/000102/technology/afp/Y2K_bug_causes_minor_glitches_in_banks__email _and_credit_card_systems.html Minneapolis pub fixes bug by resetting register to 1972 http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500149646-500182160-500747583- 0,00.html False alarm set off over chemical weapons depot http://www.seattle-pi.com/local/chem01.shtml Minor Y2K problem hits eight electric utilities http://news.excite.com/news/r/000101/03/y2k-usa-utilities Global Markets Rally As Y2K Glitches Emerge http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2103/ts/yk_leadall_23.html Y2K glitch delays New Mexico teens' licenses http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500149645-500182159-500747773- 0,00.html Video store Y2K glitch totes up a century of late charges http://flash.al.com/cgi-bin/al_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/FINANCIAL /f0024_AM_Y2K-WayLateVideo U.S. Recovers Spy System Hit by Y2K Glitch http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2103/ts/yk_spy_1.html Satellite Station Back to Normal http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2103/tc/y2k_satellites_1.html Y2K error gives bank customer extra £4m http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/y2k030100.shtml Gambia gets hit by computer bug http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=asia/headli nes/000102/world/afp/Gambia_gets_hit_by_computer_bug.html Korea Sees First Major Y2K Problem http://www.abcnews.go.com/ABC2000/abc2000world/koreaproblem000102.html In One of Few Problems, Link to Spy Satellite Fails http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/mil-military.html Church bells sound Italy's only Y2K hitch so far http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters2102_457.html New computer viruses crop up with year 2000 http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/ 000104/world/afp/New_computer_viruses_crop_up_with_year_2000.html Technicians flooded by PC owner calls http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=81246096 NASA registers "minor anomalies" in year 2000 http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/afp/article.html?s=asia /headlines/000102/technology/afp/NASA_registers__minor_anomalies__in_year_2000 .html ANALYSIS: Think of Y2K as a 'chronic condition' http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500149824-500182534-500750925- 0,00.html First glitch for Y2K surfaces: ATM card problem called 'very limited' http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local07_2103.html Zanzibar television hit by millennium computer bug http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/afp/article.html?s=asia /headlines/000103/technology/afp/Zanzibar_television_hit_by_millennium_compute r_bug.html Small businesses bitten? http://www.washtimes.com/business/business2-010400.htm Y2K's Slow Burn http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap2104_198.html Computer Glitch Affects Tracking of Aircraft in New Zealand http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGILWKB703C.html Y2K Bug Bites Al Gore http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/2103/aponline185705_000.htm World warned millennium bug not squashed yet http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/business/afp/article.html?s=asia/hea dlines/000102/business/afp/World_warned_millennium_bug_not_squashed_yet.html Swedish Internet banking is hit by browser bug http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/afp/article.html?s=asia /headlines/000103/technology/afp/Swedish_Internet_banking_is_hit_by_browser_bu g.html Computer Malfunction Delays Flights http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/2103/aponline224455_000.htm Y2K Hits Basic Life Services: Chocolates And Videos
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [corp-focus] The Nature of the Machine
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 01/10/2000 11:17:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "You are basically treating the agricultural environment as if it was a factory where you are making televisions or VCRs," Crouch said. "If nature is not a machine, if organisms are not machines, then to treat them as if they are, is going to create big problems. This is what the Soviets did with their five-year plans, etc. They expected agriculture to produce as if it was a factory line. Can you imagine? Our multi-national corporations with their overpaid CEOs and their millions of high-priced technical advisors are making the same stupid mistakes that Stalin's Russia made. So much for the advancement of man. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] [firebase-news] California Assembly panel passes handgun bill
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- M-60, Won't be long now, Dude. However, the Ba'tards and Bit'hes at Handgun Control, Inc., I feel, will play it cool until 11/07/2000, and the sheep will be fed by the commie shepherds of big media with a mixture of confusion on the issue 'til then; they'll go all out to twist our arse/mind to take our only remaining means to defend ourselves and our loved ones. I keep my tools well oiled, Dude. It's the International Bankers who are calling the shots on this, and their lackeys and minions in D.C. will do whatever they're told to do. We are no longer being governed by SinCity, but by the Boardrooms of a few major international central banks. Dude, We lost our Freedom in 1913, and this is no longer The Greatest Nation on God's Green Earth. Our wool is being sheared with great care so not to damage our skin. Bard M-60 wrote: Hey Bard, Key word, "police will bla bla bla" M-60 IN HIS GRIP! -Original Message- From: Bard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: firebase-news [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ChristianPatriot [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Globalist_Agendas_Debate_and_Discussion_List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; HOLY_WAR [EMAIL PROTECTED]; M.O.M. Email Alert List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Patriot_Net [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Snetnews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 6:16 PM Subject: [firebase-news] California Assembly panel passes handgun bill California Assembly panel passes handgun bill Updated 7:00 PM ET January 12, 2000 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A California State Assembly panel has approved a bill that would require handgun owners to register their weapons and get renewable licenses to use them. The measure, passed 5-2 by the Assembly's Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, would give California one of the toughest handgun laws in the nation. The vote in the Democratic-controlled committee came despite a call from Democratic Gov. Gray Davis for an election-year moratorium on new gun legislation. Hawaii, New York, Massachusetts and Illinois all require some form of licensing or registration, but this proposal is more comprehensive, the bill's sponsor said Wednesday. "It seems pretty straightforward to me that if we deem it prudent to license and register cars then we should do the same with guns," Democratic Assemblyman Kevin Shelley said in a telephone interview. The bill calls for handgun owners to get four-year licenses and submit thumbprints to the California Justice Department. It also would require handgun owners to take a written and practical test and would subject them to annual registration renewals. The measure seeks to create a tracking system that would make it easier for police to find stolen handguns and to ensure that people who buy the weapons know how to use them, Shelley said. A spokesman for Assembly Republican leader Scott Baugh said the lawmaker agrees with the governor's call for a moratorium and believes the state must enforce the laws already on the books instead of passing new ones. The National Rifle Association, which also opposes the bill, estimates there are some 7 million to 10 million handguns in California. The bill now goes to the Appropriations Committee and by law must move out of the Assembly by Jan. 31. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000112/19/politics-california-guns Bard FIREBASE HQ http://www.firebase.net To Post a message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the fastest and easiest way to backup your files and, access them from anywhere. Try @backup Free for 30 days. Click here for a chance to win a digital camera. http://click.egroups.com/1/337/5/_/88912/_/947725825/ -- Easily schedule meetings and events using the group calendar! -- http://www.egroups.com/cal?listname=firebase-newsm=1 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] [Fwd:essential u listen 2 these sound bites! [wowow]
Brothers and Sisters, A Voice for/from Fantasyland! lolol Bard These are great if you get a chance to listen to them; they are short sodon't be frightened : )http://www.acadiacom.net/wa5dxp/penguin.ramhttp://www.acadiacom.net/wa5dxp/LTD.ram Lucy's Tiger Denhttp://www.acadiacom.net/wa5dxp/blackattack.ram Another unreported atrocity by blacks on whites
[CTRL] FW: [CIA-DRUGS] Small World
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Would this be perhaps a means of keeping Hall Sr. silent on JFK investigations which seem to be active at the moment? Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: Daniel Hopsicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man Claims CIA Tied to Speed Ring Dallas Morning News September 13, 1989 By Lee Hancock A methamphetamine ring based in Mesquite was set up by a CIA operative to funnel money to the Nicaraguan contras, one of the alleged participants has testified in federal court. The testimony came during a hearing in Tulsa, where Loran Eugene Hall, Jr. [a name well-known to students of the John Kennedy assassination] appeared Monday to plead guilty to drug charges. He told the court that his father, Loran Eugene Hall, Sr. of Mesquite was a CIA agent who recruited him and others to manufacture speed to raise money for the contras, said Jack Morgan, assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma Court documents indicate the ring was broken when the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics investigators and Mesquite police trailed Loran Hall, Jr. after he purchased glassware and chemicals at a Grand Prairie chemical store. Mr. Hall and another man were arrested in Noble County, Okla., as they were carrying those items and several high-caliber forearms to Kansas in a stolen truck, according to the indictment Mr. Morgan, a Mesquite police investigator and defense attorney representing Hall family members all said there was evidence suggesting that Loran Hall, Sr. worked for the CIA in some capacity. "He has a long history of involvement with the CIA attempts to overthrow Castro," Mr. Morgan said. "He was involved in the ill-famed Bay of Pigs invasion. In 1961, he got arrested with a truckload of guns in Texas, and he was transporting them from California to Florida for that invasion." His name also has surfaced in congressional investigations of the John F. Kennedy assassination. The elder Mr. Hall was described in a 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations report as a onetime resident of Cuba with ties to anti-Castro groups in the United States and organized crime on both countries. And, Mr. Morgan said, his name is the subject of a chapter in the book Coup d'etat in America, which speculates about CIA involvement in a plot to kill President Kennedy. The chapter, titled "Loran Hall and the Free Cuba Committees," details allegations of CIA financing and orchestration of a plot by anti-Castro groups to kill President Kennedy." "In the last few years, he supposedly was involved with CIA attempts to overthrow the Nicaraguan government," Mr. Morgan said. Loran Hall, Jr., told detectives that his father had been a CIA officer for 17 years, had run guns to Central America and participated in incidents in which helicopters appeared at his father's Kansas farm bearing "men with automatic weapons who answered to military titles such as colonel and major"... "There's quite an extensive history on his father's CIA involvement," Mr. Heflet said. "My client told me that a lot of his dad's involvement - specifically in the Kennedy assassination - has been sealed up, and we never may find out what it was." -- Daniel Hopsicker The Drug Money Times http://www.MadCowProd.com "All the news that's ripped from print!" Scandal in contemporary U.S. life is an institutionalized sociological phenomenon. It is not due primarily to psychopathological variables, but is due to the institutionalization of elite wrongdoing which has occcurred since 1963." "Many of the scandals that have occurred in the U.S. since 1963 are fundamentally interrelated: that is, the same people and institutions have been involved." --Prof.David Simon, "Elite Deviance 6th edition A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] CBS and digital reality
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Newscasts digitally doctored. All the news that's fit to invent Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/cbs-digital.html By ALEX KUCZYNSKI f you were watching the "CBS Evening News" broadcast live from Times Square on New Year's Eve, you might have seen a billboard advertising CBS News out in the square behind Dan Rather. You might have looked at the well-placed billboard and wondered just exactly how it was that CBS was able to place its ad so fortuitously. The truth is, it didn't. The billboard and the advertisement for CBS did not exist. The image was digitally imported onto the live CBS broadcast and used to obliterate real objects, the NBC Astrovision underneath the New Year's ball and a Budweiser ad. Inserting digital images has become increasingly common in sports and entertainment programming -- usually to insert advertising and corporate logos and first down markers in football -- but has generally been considered out of line on news shows, a type of programming in which the assumption of reality is considered sacrosanct and not informing viewers is considered a breach of journalistic guidelines. CBS contends such practices do not cross ethical boundaries. CBS News is using the technology as part of a broad agreement the network signed last year with a technology company, Princeton Video Image, to provide branding services for a variety of CBS programs. The technology has been used regularly on "The Early Show" and the news magazine "48 Hours" and was used on the Evening News on Dec. 30 and 31, according to CBS news executives. "The Early Show" has been using it almost every day since the show's debut on Nov. 1. News show logos that appear real are being inserted on the sides of structures, like the General Motors building, http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/cbs-digital.1.jpg.html ; on the back of a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park, in the fountain outside the Plaza Hotel and, yesterday, in the center of Wollman Rink. In some instances, the logo clearly resembles a large billboard advertising CBS News. "We were looking for some way to brand the neighborhood with the CBS logo," said Steve Friedman, the executive producer of "The Early Show" who is entrusted with bringing the program, in which CBS invested at least $30 million, up in the ratings from its current No. 3 spot. "It's a great way to do things without ruining the neighborhood. Every day we have a different way of using it, whether it's logos or outlines. And we haven't even scratched the surface of its uses yet." Mr. Friedman said that the practice did not press the boundaries of ethical guidelines for CBS News. "It does not distort the content of the news," he said, and compared the use of the technology with earlier visual innovations. "I remember the hue and cry when people started to use graphics on news." The CBS News deal with Princeton Video Image was reported in the Jan. 3 issue of the trade magazine Broadcasting Cable. Eric Shapiro, the director of the "CBS Evening News" and CBS News Special Events, said he might use the technology again on "Evening News" and that the news division examines each case individually before putting the virtual logos on the air. "The technique, I find, works best if you put it someplace where there is intended to be something," he said. "If it feels that it is not correct to use it, then we obviously won't use it." Mr. Rather, he said, knew about the use of the virtual technology during the broadcast and did not protest the practice. "But he did not know in advance," Mr. Shapiro said. "These are not things he needs to worry about. He spends most of his time worrying about the content of the broadcast. But as a production technique he was most certainly aware that it was happening around him." Mr. Rather did not return a phone call seeking comment last night. Bryant Gumbel and Jane Clayson, anchors of "The Early Show," could not be reached for comment. Harry Jessell, the editor of Broadcasting Cable magazine, said the practice alarmed him. "I think it does raise some ethical questions for CBS," he said. "You would think that a TV news organization would not tamper with video, especially live video. Viewers should be able to rely on the fact that what they are seeing is actually there." Network news has flirted with similar technological issues once before. In 1994, the use of a fake backdrop caused an outcry in 1994 when the ABC journalist Cokie Roberts appeared in front of a picture of Capitol Hill. Peter Jennings, the ABC News anchor, introduced a report from Ms. Roberts, and said that she was reporting from Capitol Hill; Ms. Roberts, wearing a coat, appeared in front of what looked like the Capitol. But without the knowledge of network viewers or even Mr. Jennings, Ms. Roberts was actually inside the ABC News Washington bureau
[CTRL] USFS, EPA and the taking of the land - Hage v. United States
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave The revealing story of a rancher and the national debt Special Report By David Morgan, The Asheville Tribune Case History: Hage v. United States After years of successfully ranching in California, Wayne Jean Hage (she is now deceased) purchased a large cattle ranch in Nevada, Pine Creek Ranch, in the spring of 1978. The acreage involved is approximately 752,000 acres. However, as it is mostly desert land, the land's ability to support cattle is far less than might be supposed from its size. Located in the high desert mountains of central Nevada, the remote operation seemed an unlikely place for a war that would rock the very foundation of federal land management agencies. Wayne purchased the operation from the well-respected Arcularius Brothers who sold the ranch because the regulatory pressure by the U.S. Forest Service had become unbearable. Since Wayne had always been able to work with the agency, he believed he could resolve problems that might occur. Wayne soon learned the only way he could satisfy the Forest Service was to allow them to confiscate his property. One of the first incidents that drew the line between Wayne and the Forest Service revolved around a critical spring that Wayne owned. Situated close to the Forest Service Ranger Station in Meadow Canyon, the district ranger decided they would pipe the water from the spring, through a newly installed $50,000 water purification facility, into their cabin. During a Congressional hearing, regarding Federal land acquisitions that had been done without State or Congressional consultation, Rep. John Shadegg asked Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to provide Congress with a list of other lands that were being considered for further federal acquisition, Babbitt sternly responded, "No." After a stunned silence, the secretary added, "I don't mean to be disrespectful." However, Babbitt told the Committee that if they did not cooperate, he would ask the President to "use his power" to get more lands with or without their approval. Wayne learned of this after the project was complete, and rightfully objected. He explained that if they needed his water, they could make appropriate arrangements. They refused to cooperate and would not acknowledge that he owned the water even though he held two court decrees affirming his water right. Wayne even held a field hearing where the state water engineer acknowledged Wayne's ownership and the Forest Service's illegal confiscation. But, still today, the Forest Service has maintained a fence around the spring so that cattle and wildlife cannot drink, and the water is still being piped into the ranger's cabin. Retaliation Because Wayne questioned the Forest Service's actions, the Forest Service began an unbelievable retaliation campaign. In a 105-day period they sent Wayne 40 certified letters and personally visited him 70 times, each time citing him in violation of a bureaucratic regulation. Wayne had to respond in writing and take corrective action to each one of their allegations, no matter how trivial. In fact, most, if not all, were wild goose chases or violations the Forest Service themselves had created. Some of these charges stated Wayne was not maintaining his drift fences. In order to comply with their rules, Wayne would check and mend if necessary the fences in question. One of these incidents involved sending a horse and rider to the top of Table Mountain to ride the 20-mile fence line. After doing this, the rider found only one problem. There was one staple missing. The Forest Service had dutifully marked it with a blue flag. Also, among these charges were 45 accounts of trespass where Wayne's cattle were allegedly found in the wrong location. For every one of these, Wayne would send a crew of riders to locate the cattle and attempt to comply with the regulations. Often, there were no cattle to be found, leaving Wayne to wonder if there ever were. Also, on several occasions there were eyewitnesses who watched the Forest Service employees move Wayne's cattle into trespass areas, and then immediately cite him for the violation. Over the next eight years he filed three administrative appeals, and won all three. They cost him over $150,000 in attorney and consultant fees, not to mention the countless hours, personal resources, and lost income also expended. Twice, his pickup was shot at while he was close by, a not so subtle warning. His wife and children were run off the road personally by the District Ranger. Even though he won every case, the agency would create new regulations that would wear Wayne down, force him to expend his time and resources fighting their new regulations, and eventually run him completely out of business. The final straw came when
[CTRL] Bard in Poland
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Wednesday January 12 11:04 AM ET Polish Court Convicts Hatemonger By BEATA PASEK Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A Polish court convicted a radical Catholic leader Wednesday of inciting hate against Jews and fined him $98 for statements he made to hundreds of followers who erected crosses outside the Auschwitz death camp. The court in Oswiecim, where the former death camp is located, also gave Kazimierz Switon a suspended sentence of six months. Prosecutors had demanded a $367 fine and a year in prison, suspended as long as he does not commit any other crime for three years. Switon said he would appeal the sentence and protested to reporters outside the court. ``The court is at the service of Jewish-communist-masonry,'' Switon said, using the same language that led to the charges. ``We are enslaved in our own homeland.'' Switon was charged after residents complained about statements he made verbally and in leaflets distributed at the site where followers erected more than 300 crosses surrounding a large cross used as a backdrop for a 1979 papal mass at nearby Birkenau. The protest was intended to prevent the removal of the papal cross, moved to the site near Auschwitz in 1988 and visible from inside the camp, which has drawn protests from Jewish groups around the world and the Israeli government for insulting the memory of Jews killed at Auschwitz. Some 1.5 million people - mostly Jews - perished at Auschwitz in 1940-45. Urging followers to put up crosses, Switon said in leaflets ``the time has come so that we, Poles, wage merciless war on Jewish-communist-masonry, the biggest enemies of the Polish state.'' Leaflets described Israel and Germany as ``satanic-pagan forces aiming at extermination of the Polish nation.'' Soldiers remove the crosses in May, right before John Paul II made his eighth pilgrimage to his homeland. The larger cross remained. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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:] Kosovo redux. Same ol' wine, different place.
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Original Message Subject: CIA 'Freedom Fighters' Kill 4 Macedonian Police Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:04:24 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Rozoff) Reply-To: "Activist Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist The plague is spreading. Watch out Skopje, you may be next in line for humanitarian bombing. _ Four policemen die during shootout in Macedonia Associated Press SKOPJE, Macedonia (January 12, 2000 9:37 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Four police officers were killed in a shootout in an ethnic Albanian village in Macedonia, police said Wednesday. Coming in the wake of bloodshed in neighboring Kosovo, the incident is likely to fuel ethnic tensions. The Macedonian policemen were shot sometime overnight in Aracinovo, a few miles east of the Macedonian capital, Skopje. The victims were reportedly looking for stolen cars. An unidentified assailant opened fire from a passing car and gunned them down, killing three instantly, police said. The fourth policeman died of injuries later. Police blocked Aracinovo and surrounding villages today to search for the assailants. Aracinovo is believed to be the center of an Albanian-run smuggling network between Kosovo and Macedonia that has flourished since the end of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia last spring. Tensions in Kosovo have been high since Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's 18-month crackdown on ethnic Albanians. After NATO bombing forced the Serb troops to withdraw, ethnic Albanians began attacking Serbs out of revenge. The violence also has boosted tensions in Macedonia, where almost one-quarter of the 2 million residents are ethnic Albanians. Speaking in Pristina, Kosovo's capital, U.N. spokeswoman Susan Manuel said Macedonian authorities had closed down a Kosovo-Macedonia border crossing near the Macedonian city of Tetovo, an ethnic Albanian stronghold. She said it was unclear whether the move was linked to the shootings. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Applying to college this year? Apply online at Embark.com and enter the Embark.com Tuition Sweepstakes! You could win $80,000 for tuition to the college of your dreams! Enter daily to increase your chances of winning: Sweepstakes ends 1/15/00. Click to enter: http://www.listbot.com/links/embark A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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: NATO Tells UN War Crimes Tribunal To Screw Off]
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Original Message Subject: NATO Tells UN War Crimes Tribunal To Screw Off Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:02:42 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Rozoff) Reply-To: "Activist Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist Let's see if I've got this right. The verdict - not guilty - first and then the investigation. And the defendant, not the judge, renders the verdict...Now that's the kind of justice NATO can deal with! U.N. prosecutor will meet NATO officials to discuss war crimes allegations Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (January 12, 2000 9:31 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - U.N. chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte will travel to NATO headquarters next week and is likely to discuss allegations that the alliance violated international laws in its air strikes against Yugoslavia, her spokesman said Wednesday. The prosecutor's office disclosed in December that her staff at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal had completed a confidential report on NATO's bombing last spring. Del Ponte later insisted there was no formal investigation or prosecution under way. The disclosure prompted a stern warning from Washington that the tribunal should keep its hands off NATO, and created concerns among legal experts that the prosecutor might buckle under pressure to quash the report's findings. During next Wednesday's visit to NATO offices in Belgium, Del Ponte will meet NATO Secretary-General George Robertson and take questions from the North Atlantic Council, the alliance's policy-making body, said Del Ponte's spokesman, Paul Risley. "I certainly expect that issue will come up," Risley told reporters, referring to the NATO report. The report looks into charges that the 19-nation alliance, led by the United States, violated international treaties in the 78-day air offensive that forced Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt his crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. NATO bombs killed scores of civilians. Del Ponte, a former Swiss federal prosecutor, has said she will press NATO to step up its efforts in Bosnia to arrest more suspects wanted by the tribunal. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Applying to college this year? Apply online at Embark.com and enter the Embark.com Tuition Sweepstakes! You could win $80,000 for tuition to the college of your dreams! Enter daily to increase your chances of winning: Sweepstakes ends 1/15/00. Click to enter: http://www.listbot.com/links/embark A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] Response To Eagle
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- You know... Mikus... You've stated in your comment, whether you realize it or not, exactly what the Bible is all about... that is FAITH. If *you* cannot define faith, then there is no way you will ever understand God or the Bible. As a Christian, "We walk by faith, not by sight"...Since you obviously cannot understand that concept, there is no way anyone should ever expect you to believe in God or the Bible. This is a no win situation... You attack the messenger, rather than the message, because you don't have enough knowlege of the subject of the Bible or God to attack either, substantially, so you attack me... So I say, OH WELL... and ho hum... You cannot prove or disprove many things in this world. For example, you cannot see gravity, but you know it exists. You may not understand it's principles, but you are being held to the ground by it's effects... there is something that there is no physical evidence for, yet you KNOW it exists. You put faith in that gravity to hold you to the ground so you don't go floating off into space somewhere, don't you? Of course you do. It makes no difference whether you understand the dynamics of it or not. You just know that you are not floating in space because of it. You have exercised faith in something... even if it is gravity. Why say the Bible is incredible? It's incredible only if you choose it to be. And by your comments and several others' comments, you've simply and easily chosen the "route of least resistance"; and *that* is the way of the world. There is no way you will ever understand anything spiritual until you are willing to put faith in that which you cannot physically see. Therefore, there is no argument on the subject of the Bible or God, as far as I'm concerned. The fact of the matter is that you are going to believe what you will and I will believe what I will. Personally, I've had too many things in my life happen that have shown me, without a shadow of a doubt, that the Bible is real and that God is very real. It's really no big deal to me if you don't understand. Sorry you feel you have to have "PROOF"... so be it... OK... So what...??? In the words of a famous athiest, Don Henley... "Get over it". eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "mikus" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Response To Eagle -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- But until that day, you can no more prove the Bible and Christianity is a fraud than there is a man in the moon. Um...to a reasonable degree of certainty, I could. To the brainwashed that'd be near impossible...so totally is your mind controlled. Sorry to stick my head in here, but; I know there's a term for it, and it goes something like this; You cannot prove the NON-existance of anything. Without physical evidence, you cannot prove that something exists, and on the flip side, you would need physical evidence to prove something didn't exist, and the very existance of the physical evidence would prove that it did exist. It's a very difficult semantic arguement, relying on physical evidence to prove it exists on one side, and defeating a belief system designed to thwart the very disproval on the other. I can't remember a particular quote well enough to post it right now, but will post it at a later time, when I can find it, just to show the humorous aspect of trying to prove something doesn't exist. It's from one of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker Books. You know, the trilogy of 5 books? Mikus A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] [MC] False Memory by Dean Koontz - IMPRESSIVE MIND CONTROL NOVEL!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: James Daugherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MC] False Memory by Dean Koontz - IMPRESSIVE MIND CONTROL NOVEL! Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 8:17 AM Just started listening to the audio tape version of the latest Dean Koontz novel! So far, an impressive job in making Manchurian Candidate style "mind control" appear plausible. Hardcover Novel: $26.96 Audio Tape Version: $39.95 In-stock -- Purchase by Credit Card: http://a-albionic.com/merchform.html *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/formaddress.html For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text in body: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Every Diet Has Failed! What Can I do? Click Below to "Ask Dr. Kathleen"! http://www.radiantdiet.com/cgi-bin/slim/deliver.cgi?ask-1364 *** __ Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info: www.topica.com/lists/mc. _ Keep up with breaking news! Join our Hot Topics list. http://www.topica.com/lists/breakingnews/t/12 not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/formaddress.html For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text in body: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Every Diet Has Failed! What Can I do? Click Below to "Ask Dr. Kathleen"! http://www.radiantdiet.com/cgi-bin/slim/deliver.cgi?ask-1364 *** A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] [prj] False Memory by Dean Koontz -- IMPRESSIVE MIND CONTROL NOVEL!
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[CTRL] USA Today: Retailers dropping bio-foods
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/issues . http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/2104/1812168s.htm Retailers dropping bio-foods By James Cox USA TODAY, Jan 4, 2000, page A1 The USA's two largest natural foods retailers are stripping their shelves of many genetically engineered foods, prompting manufacturers and supermarkets to keep an eye out for a biotech backlash among consumers. Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats Markets have vowed to rid most of their private-label foods of bio-engineered corn, soy, canola oil and other ingredients this year. ''There's an absolute anger among customers that foods are being genetically modified and they don't know what ingredients are in their foods,'' says Margaret Whittenberg, vice president at Whole Foods. The Austin, Texas, retailer has 103 stores in 22 states. ... First GM tolerance transfer is feared in Canadian OSR Farmers Weekly 15 January 1999 By Stephen Leahy A CANADIAN field is thought to be the site of the first accidental on-farm transfer of herbicide tolerance between genetically mod- ified and conventional crop plants. Last summer oilseed rape grow- er Tony Huether was surprised to see volunteers thriving after two glyphosate (Roundup) sprayings in a 57ha (140 acre) field where no glyphosate-resistant rape had ever been sown. He had planted a glyphosate- resistant variety in a nearby field in 1997 and believes the trait was transferred by pollen movement. "Cross pollination was going to happen. It surprises me it didn't show up sooner," says Phil Thomas, Alberta Agriculture's provincial oilseed specialist. UK studies have shown pollina- tion transfer up to 400m by wind or insects can result in out-crosses, says Mr Thomas. "Just because you're not growing herbicide-resis- tant canola [oilseed rape], it does not mean you can't get herbicide- resistant volunteers." Mr Huether, who farms 860ha (2100 acres) of oilseed rape, peas and wheat at Sexsmith, northern Alberta, says no one told him GM traits could be transferred. "Monsanto never made farmers aware of the possibility of this hap- pening when we signed the TUA [Technical Use Agreement]." Although 60% of Canada's oilseed rape is now herbicide-toler- ant, 1997 was the first time Mr Huether planted GM varieties. That spring he put the 57ha field into a Smart variety resistant to the herbicide imazethapyr and 8ha (20 acres) of Innovator, a variety tolerant to glufosinate-ammonium ( Liberty). Thirty metres away, on the other side of a dirt road, he plant- ed 16ha (40 acres) of Quest, a glyphosate-resistant variety. Mr Huether says the fields were harvested at different times and rules out mechanical transfer. Before blaming cross pollination, government crop expert John Huffman investigated other possi- bilities. "We have taken this as a serious issue." Researchers, including repre- sentatives from Monsanto, have since taken plants and seeds. Government scientists are growing the seeds on in greenhouses and doing DNA mapping. A compre- hensive report is expected soon. Both Mr Thomas and Mr Huffman say the addition of any broadleaf herbicides, such as 2,4- D, can easily control unexpected GMHT volunteers. Both agree that keeping accurate records is also important. "It may be a bit of a headache to know what your neighbour grows and to plan your strategy accordingly," acknowl- edges Mr Thomas. Mr Huether is less relaxed. "It's not that easy a problem to solve when direct seeding and planting a wide range of crops." He worries about the effects of 2.4-D residues on broad leaved crops and loathes handling the more toxic chemical. Farmers are not getting all the facts they need on GM crops, he fears. . The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, January 4, 2000 'Contaminated' farm seed sold in genetic mixup Incident raises questions about Ottawa's controls By Heather Scoffield Ottawa -- The federal government unwittingly allowed the sale of genetically modified canola seeds in 1997 that were "seriously contaminated," according to government documents that have only now come to light. The virtually unpublicized incident involving canola seeds produced by Monsanto Canada Inc., one of the main proponents of genetically modified food, raises questions about Ottawa's ability to tightly regulate food safety in a biotechnological age. The documents say the seeds were not harmful, and they were eventually recalled, the first and only such action involving genetically modified foods. Access-to-information documents show that some of the seeds, marketed on the Prairies in 1997, were planted by two farmers before the recall and that some were processed into edible oil. "This incident has sent shock waves through the domestic biotech-plant-breeding organizations/industry as well as internationally," the Canadian Food Inspection Agency declared in one of the documents.
[CTRL] FW: Butcher of Cambodia set to expose Thatcher's role
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- This was forwarded to me by or on behalf of Roger Bunn, U.K. coordinator of MIHRA.org, currently campaigning on behalf of Burma OUT! http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm Support a genuine war on drugs and Human Rights abuse: THE OLYMPICS : SYDNEY 2000 Burma OUT!! Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: Anja van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 12, 1981 4:42 PM To: 'Rob Rijbering, LKG Vietnam/KP' Subject: Butcher of Cambodia set to expose Thatcher's role Butcher of Cambodia set to expose Thatcher's role Ta Mok, one of Pol Pot's genocidal henchman, who faces trial, tells Jason Burke in Phnom Penh he will expose the West's part in training the Khmer Rouge Sunday January 9, 2000 In a small, dark, heavily guarded cell in Phnom Penh's main military prison sits a man of 74, wizened, white-haired, one-legged. He is in good health and surprisingly high spirits, given his grim future and grimmer past. He is Ta Mok, also known as the Butcher or Chhit Chouen - possibly the cruellest and most violent of the Khmer Rouge commanders who turned Cambodia's green countryside into the killing fields. The Prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, has hopes to try Ta Mok for his crimes next month. Many in his shattered country are happy at the prospect. Others, including many of the political leadership and bureaucracy, fear his testimony will unveil their own roles during the time of Pol Pot's genocide. The unease is not restricted to the small, desperately poor, swampy country of 10 million that is modern Cambodia. For when Ta Mok takes the stand, his lawyers promise, no one will be spared - least of all the Western leaders who, they say, supported the Khmer Rouge despite the Maoist extremists' atrocities being widely known. The most damaging element, for Britain at least, of Ta Mok's court appearance will be new evidence about how British troops and diplomats helped the Khmer Rouge in their fight for power. Contacted in his prison cell through an intermediary last week, he confirmed to The Observer that the extent to which London and Washington helped the Khmer Rouge in their fight to control Cambodia would be revealed during his trial. The evidence will contradict statements made by Margaret Thatcher's Government - which authorised the operation at the time. Ta Mok's lawyer, Benson Samay, said the court would hear details of how, between 1985 and 1989, the Special Air Service (SAS) ran a series of training camps for Khmer Rouge allies in Thailand close to the Cambodian border and created a 'sabotage battalion' of 250 experts in explosives and ambushes. Intelligence experts in Singapore also ran training courses, Samay said. To allow Ministers to deny helping the Khmer Rouge, the SAS was ordered to train only soldiers loyal to the ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and the liberal democrat former Prime Minister, Son Sann, who were fighting alongside Pol Pot's Communists. However, Samay said the court would be told the Khmer Rouge benefited substantially from the British operation. 'All these groups were fighting together - but the Khmer Rouge were in charge. They profited from any help to the others. If they had won the war outright, then Pol Pot would have been back in charge,' Samay said. The Khmer Rouge and their allies were fighting against the Vietnamese-backed puppet regime Hanoi had installed after ousting Pol Pot's extremist Communists and exposing the horrors of the killing fields. In a classic piece of Cold War realpolitik, Britain - prompted by the Americans - appears to have given military assistance to the Khmer Rouge-led coalition, despite knowing of Pol Pot's atrocities, in an attempt to limit the power of the Soviet-backed Vietnamese. 'Thatcher, Reagan, Kissinger - they should all be on trial along with Ta Mok,' Samay said last week. He said the court would also hear that humanitarian supplies for Cambodian refugees in Thailand were diverted to the Khmer Rouge with, he claims, the knowledge of the Americans and the British. The court would also hear, he said, how the diplomatic support offered by London and Washington to the coalition led by the Khmer Rouge was 'a great help and morale booster' for Pol Pot's troops. The coalition retained the Cambodian United Nations seat throughout the Eighties. Ta Mok's journey from jungle hideout to power to hideout and eventually to prison last May is a powerful symbol of the political tides that have washed over Cambodia in the past decades. In April it will be 25 years since Pol Pot's Chinese-backed Maoist revolutionaries defeated a weak pro-US government and entered Phnom Penh. They themselves were ousted by the Soviet-backed Vietnamese four years later and for 15 years a vicious civil war - fuelled by Cold War politics - racked the country. The trial of Ta Mok and his Khmer Rouge colleague Kaing KhekIev (nicknamed 'Deuch') - who ran the
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Thursday #1
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000113a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No scuzbut propagandists were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Disturbing and Vile movies: http://www.losman.com/vile.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hi, We're from the government, we're here to help rewrite your show. A secret government operation put anti-drug messages into Hollywood TV programs. Here's how one episode of the WB network's "Smart Guy" was changed. http://salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/smart_guy/index.html # Drug money-How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/index.html : Are you a govt agent? Have you manipulate any media presentations lately? Is your propaganda effective? Are you good at mind-control? Does it work?? # Hillary set to do "Saturday Night Live" A secret memo outlines the first lady's upcoming appearance as "SNL" guest host. Laugh at lesbo rumors: http://www.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/01/12/hillary/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Newscasts digitally doctored - All the news that's fit to invent. If you watched the "CBS Evening News" 'cast live from Times Square on New Year's Eve, you may have seen a billboard advertising CBS News out in the square behind Dan Rather. You might have looked at the well-placed billboard and wondered just how CBS was able to place its ad so fortuitously. The truth is, it didn't. The billboard and the ad for CBS did not exist. The image was digitally imported onto the live CBS broadcast and used to obliterate real objects, the NBC Astrovision underneath the New Year's ball and a Bud ad. http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/cbs-digital.html : Do you expect "newscasts" to be news, entertainment, or some mix thereof? Do you expect everything that's broadcast to be faked? Is it faked already? Are broadcasters responsible for conveying truth to you, or for selling you to their advertisers? Do you still watch commercial TV? Does your implant twitch, smoke, sizzle? Is your brain adequately controlled? Are you a dupe? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # No sex please, we're geeks. They've got money, power huge hard drives, so why aren't Silicon Valley's finest getting any? Can't buy me love: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/01/12/body_electric/index.html # Silicon bachelors Santa Clara County beats out Alaska to become home to more single guys than anyplace else in America. Watchin' the bytes go by: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/06/29/bachelors/index.html : Is your cyberreality more significant than sex? Are you perfecting tele- dildonics? Is interpersonal sex obsolete? Would you rather fuck a Reptoid, human, other primate, other mammal, other chordate, vegetable, robot, me?? # Convention Promotes More Sex on Net - Las Vegas Event Boasts 'Sex Sells': www.apbnews.com/safetycenter/childrens_safety/2000/01/12/netsex0112_01.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # AOL Password stealers (TROJ_AOL.WINSYST and TROJ_AOL.BUDDY). In recent weeks, we have seen an increase in the number of America Online Password Stealers (aka AOLPWS) that are being spread on the Internet. So we advise all our customers not to open email attachments sent by individuals they don't know and to keep their virus protection up to date. Two of the most common AOL password stealers are TROJ_AOL.WINSYST and TROJ_AOL.BUDDY, which try to email (steal) a user's AOL login and password. See www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_AOL.WINSYST www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_AOL.BUDDY.1 : Have you written any password-stealing trojans lately? Do you prefer to attack commercial operations, govt/military sites, religious groups, anyone? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mutant food. A lawsuit against the FDA reveals documents that show even the agency's own scientists have doubts about the safety of genetically modified foods. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/12/food/ : Have you genetically modified any food lately? Did you insert human genes? Are you promoting cannibalism? Do your deities approve/insist? R U happy?? @ "What is today's most important unreported story?" http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es283_master.html?alert _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Brain drain: A bill that would give visas to high-tech foreign students will exploit the greatest minds of the Third World for the sake of US industry: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/10/brains/index.html : Have you stolen any brains from the developing world lately? Is it fun? @ Junkyard Memories - Does contemporary car design signal the death of
[CTRL] CELL PHONE NIGHTMARE - Focus on the Corporation
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 From: Robert Weissman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cell phone nightmare CELL PHONE NIGHTMARE Ready for a real scary Halloween story? By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Remember the Larry King Live show in 1993 on cell phones? David Reynard was the guest. He had filed a lawsuit against NEC, a cell phone operator, and other companies, alleging that his late wife's brain tumor was caused in part by her use of a cell phone. The Reynard's lawsuit was dismissed in 1995, but Reynard's appearance on the show created nationwide concern. At the time, there were 15 million Americans using cell phones. The day after the Larry King Live show, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) went on the offensive. Industry executives said that there were thousands of studies that proved that wireless phones were safe. In fact, there were no such studies about cell phone safety. But CTIA understood the basic reality of the situation, and so it decided to spend $27 million over the next six years on health studies. They hired George Carlo, figuring he would be a perfect fit. Carlo is a public health scientist, who had a good track record as an industry researcher. Most of his clients over the years have been industry clients, and few have been disappointed with his work. In 1994, Carlo began conducting studies to determine whether cell phones pose a health risk to consumers. Four times a year, Carlo would trudge over from his Dupont Circle office in Washington, D.C. to the offices of CTIA to debrief the CEOs of the major telephone and electronics firms that make up the $40 billion a year mobile phone industry. And things went well, until 1995. In 1995, Carlo found that digital phones were interfering with cardiac pacemakers. "We then conducted about $2.5 million worth of research to quantify that problem, and as a result, I had somewhat of a falling out with the industry," Carlo told us this week. "They didn't like that finding." The industry cut off Carlo's funding. But through a process of negotiation, Carlo got back in. The industry would again fund his studies, but only if he agreed not to research the questions of defibrillators and digital phones, and of cell phones and automobile safety, and he could no longer work on a very extensive program to standardize the methodology for testing whether or not cell phones met industry-defined standards. Carlo said that it took him two months to decide that he needed to continue the work, even under CTIA's conditions, and so he did. What he found may prove to be the cell phone industry's worst nightmare. He found that the risk of acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor of the auditory nerve that is well in range of the radiation coming from a phone's antennae, was 50 percent higher in people who reported using cell phones for six years or more. Moreover, that relationship between the amount of cell phone use and this tumor appeared to follow a dose-response curve. He found that the risk of rare neuro epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled, a statistically significant increase, in cell phone users as compared to people who did not use cell phones. He found that there appeared to be some correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and use of the phone on the right side of the head. And, most troubling, he found that laboratory studies looking at the ability of radiation from a phone's antenna to cause functional genetic damage were definitely positive, and were following a dose-response curve. Carlo said that he has repeatedly recommended that the industry take a pro-active, public health approach on the issue, and inform consumers of his findings. He says that he uses a cell phone, but only with a headset. "Alarmingly, indications are that some segments of the industry have ignored the scientific findings suggesting potential health effects, have repeatedly and falsely claimed that wireless phones are safe for all consumers, including children, and have created an illusion of responsible follow up by calling for and supporting more research," Carlo wrote in a letter to top industry CEOs this month. "The most important measures of consumer protection are missing: complete and honest factual information to allow informed judgment by consumers about assumption of risk, the direct tracking and monitoring of what happens to consumers who use wireless phones, and the monitoring of changes in the technology that could impact health." Carlo is also troubled by a recent agreement between Elizabeth Jacobson, the person in charge of cell phone regulation at the Food and Drug Administration, and Thomas Wheeler, executive director of the CTIA. Under the agreement, CTIA will fund the FDA to do additional
Re: [CTRL] Where's The Outrage?? Religious Freedom DENIED!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 1/12/00 8:01:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, where's the outrage? If this were a Christian being persecuted the howls would be heard clear to the moon. Why did I have to hear about this here and not on the evening news? I agree. Obviously "Pagan" religions such as Wicca are viewed (still) as insignificant and lacking in political POWER thus there are no advocates (read: people who get a LOT OF MONEY to defend your rights) to protect it in society. I hold that there would be outrage if this person practiced ANY "mainstream" politically aware religion. ** *** "Welcome to the desert of the real." Morpheus, "The Matrix". "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of seas of infinity, and it is not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." H.P.Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu" A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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: [chemical-trails] Warfare Chemicals being Tested
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: Deuce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 7:47 AM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: [chemical-trails] Warfare Chemicals being Tested The strange-looking streaks in the sky aren't your imagination. They are anti-bacteriological warfare chemicals being tested by the federal government. And the public has been kept in the dark. Exclusive To The SPOTLIGHT http://www.spotlight.org/01_07_00/Chemicals/chemicals.html By Mike Blair The Pentagon, and possibly other federal government entities, is testing anti-biological warfare agents, which produce the mysterious "chemtrails" that are appearing on an irregular basis in the skies over many American cities, towns and rural areas, according to a scientific researcher in an exclusive interview with The SPOTLIGHT. An Air Force veteran, who while on active duty was attached to the nation's top secret National Security Agency (NSA), presents compelling evidence that the Pentagon is using regular Air Force and Air Force National Guard aircraft to release anti-bacteriological warfare chemicals into the skies. The chemtrails were detected some two years ago over central Virginia. They were initially reported nationally by The SPOTLIGHT. Since The SPOTLIGHT's original report, thousands of people across the country have contacted this newspaper about the tell-tale streaks in the sky. Some casually look at the "contrails," thinking they are from a plane's engine exhausts condensing water vapor into a visible cloud. UNLIKE TRUE CONTRAILS If you closely watched the trails over an extended period of time, you can tell they are unlike regular aircraft contrails. The chemtrails do not rapidly disperse. Instead they gradually spread out in a lacy pattern, ultimately forming what appear to be banks of clouds. Even after fanning out, the chemtrails can be readily spotted because the banks of clouds are in straight lines across the sky as they mesh together. Sometimes they turn an otherwise sunny day into one that is overcast. The former researcher told The SPOTLIGHT that he believes he has tracked the chemical spraying to the "unconventional pathogen countermeasures program" of the top secret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The agency has funded laboratory studies and tests conducted by scientists at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. DARPA Director Lawrence H. Dubois claims the agency is "not doing any large-scale or outdoor testing" and he knows of "no evidence that [the chemical substance] is being sprayed from aircraft by any agency of the federal government." However, The SPOTLIGHT's source said he is convinced that DARPA is deeply involved in the massive spraying. EXTENSIVE RESEARCH "After talking to friends in Congress, government and medicine, I have been referred to the University of Michigan and Dr. James Baker Jr., his nanotechnology oil-water liquid-the same liquid developed by Dr. Craig Wright, a scientist at Novavax Inc. in Columbia, Md.," the researcher said. "I speak for thousands of American citizens who are being sprayed by military aircraft and haven't a clue why the government is spraying and lying to them. They are very concerned in light of the present administration." The researcher said the government is planning for a biological attack against the United States. Government officials have referred to such an attack as "not if, but when." A number of Third World countries hostile to the United States as well as Russia and Red China are involved in massive chemical and biological warfare development programs. The government and its scientists claim that the chemicals being tested are harmless to humans. The re search er disagrees. "Certain illnesses including pneumonia tracked the spraying effort across America but the American people have not been told about the project," the researcher said. "In fact, government agencies have deliberately lied to the citizens again and again. "These aircraft trails appear below 10,000 feet and do not act like ice crystals. Spray from aircraft are observed cutting on and off as you would throw a switch on the aircraft control panel. Grid patterns are painted in the sky with 'X' and circles are also painted." According to the researcher, the oil in the substance being sprayed is responsible for "rainbow-like" colorations that appear frequently during the formation of the chemtrails. The "X" found in an area being sprayed probably marks the areas for satellite study of the dispersal patterns. ATTACK Government officials are concerned about a biological attack against the United States involving the use of the deadly disease anthrax, which several countries, including Iraq and North Korea, are developing as a biological weapon. Government officials also are concerned about the development of a pandemic
[CTRL] FW: Le Monde diplomatique Jan 2000 -DEFINING THE WORLD'S PUBLIC PROPERTY
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave === DEFINING THE WORLD'S PUBLIC PROPERTY Le Monde diplomatique January 2000 A GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD Who does knowledge belong to? When intellectual property increases the price of vital drugs ten fold, sentencing millions of sick Africans to death, this is not just a hypothetical question. The future of the world economy and of part of humanity now hangs on the answer. Computing, agro-industry, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and communications lead the way in the "information revolution". The rise of these activities has brought with it an ever greater need for a check to be kept on new inventions. If such a virtual product as knowledge, which is by nature copiable, is to be turned to profit, its dissemination must be controlled and an artificial scarcity created that allows a price to be set. Such is the primary objective of intellectual property law, together with a concern to protect the "moral" rights of authors over the future of their works (literary and artistic property), to protect the consumer (trade marks) or to limit recourse to industrial secrecy by publishing the detail of inventions (patents). In an attempt to keep pace with these developments, following the trend in the United States the World Trade Organisation and the World Intellectual Property Organisation have launched themselves into a frenzy of legal activity to "strengthen" the rights of owners in order to ensure they get a return on their investment and thereby, in theory, stimulate world growth. But a number of factors stand in the way of this. First, as the United Nations Development Programme points out, many of today's developed nations which are so keen to see intellectual property rights strengthened had very vague rules when their own national industries were being built. They only changed their tune when they became exporters of technology. By amassing intellectual property rights over the whole of knowledge (from photographic archives to the human genome, from software to drugs), the richest countries, which are also the ones with the most highly developed legal systems (the US employs one third of the world's lawyers) are making sure they have control over vast swathes of future output. Secondly, the appropriation of knowledge by private firms is not always legitimate. Both technological research and cultural production feed primarily on knowledge shared by the whole of society. But there are for the most part no mechanisms for promoting and defending the public domain of knowledge, little thought having been given to what might be called "global public goods" (1). Current thinking about the ownership of this common wealth of humanity is embryonic. The American lawyer James Boyle compares it to 1950s thinking on the environment: a few commentators are sounding the alarm about particular issues but are not yet in a position to make a connection between them (2). But the matter needs to be discussed urgently if we are to put a stop to the sequestration of knowledge by private interests (see articles by Philippe Queau and Martine Bulard). [Ph. Ramonet] (1) Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, Marc A. Stern (ed.), Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, UNDP - Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1999. (2) James Boyle, "A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?", http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/faculty/boyle/ === International Protection INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY "A means of encouraging creativity, industrialisation, investment and fair trade" PATENTS. In return for placing a description of the invention in the public domain, the patent prohibits any exploitation (manufacture, use, sale or import) by a third party without the holder's permission. Protection of the invention is limited in time (generally for a period of 20 years from the date the application is filed). TRADE MARKS . When a trade mark is registered, no person or firm other than the one owning it is allowed to use it for identical or similar products or services. There is generally no time limit on trade mark protection, provided the registration is renewed periodically and the mark continues to be used. There are over 8m registered trade marks. UNFAIR COMPETITION . Actions which are considered contrary to fair practice in the context of commercial or industrial activities are prohibited: practices likely to give rise to confusion with a company's products, services or industrial or commercial activities or which take unfair advantage of its reputation (counterfeiting); false allegations likely to discredit a company's activities; statements or allegations that might mislead the public, especially as to how a product or service is produced or as to its quality; the illegal acquisition, disclosure or use of manufacturing secrets, etc. COPYRIGHT
[CTRL] FW: Clinton's new drug interdiction initiative......
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Did we learn anything from Vietnam? Will we let it happen again? War is war. War and drugs have been historically linked for a very long time. Traffic in arms/guns is carried on by the traffickers in drugs. They are the same people, have always been the same people, since before the "Opium Wars" hundreds of years ago in China. War "on" drugs is total doublespeak. War on PEOPLE is all there is in the word "war" End the madness. Decriminalize. End the prohibition which protects the profits of the criminal covert operations with the helicopters and guns and planes who import all the drugs under the blind eye of so-called "law enforcement." End the enslaving and imprisoning and terrorizing and killing of indigenous persons whose land claims are in the way in the countries where the drugs are grown by criminal covert operations with military guns, helicopters, planes... End the enslaving and imprisoning of our countrymen who are made criminals with the stroke of a pen, unconstitutionally turned into victimless criminals, political prisoners of prohibition. End the madness. Decriminalize. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Clinton Plans to Seek $1.3 Billion to Stem Colombian Drug Flow 2-Year Program to Stop Heroin, Cocaine Vastly Increases U.S. Military Equipment By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 12, 2000; Page A14 The Clinton administration yesterday proposed a two-year, $1.3 billion aid program aimed at stemming the flow of Colombian cocaine and heroin into this country. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, who announced the package at the White House, will travel to Colombia this weekend to explain the proposal to President Andres Pastrana and consult with him on efforts to gain additional aid from multilateral banks and European allies, said her spokesman, James P. Rubin. The aid package, if approved by Congress, would vastly increase the U.S. military equipment in Colombia. It includes a request for 30 Black Hawk helicopters and 15 UH-1N Huey helicopters, in addition to 18 Hueys that have already been sent to the Colombian Air Force to carry troops into drug-producing areas. Senior administration officials said yesterday they do not expect the number of U.S. military personnel in Colombia, which now fluctuates between 100 and 250, to rise significantly. But they said the U.S. Agency for International Development would beef up its presence. The administration will ask Congress to approve the bulk of the money, nearly $1 billion, in an emergency supplemental appropriation this spring, with the rest of the new funding in its fiscal 2001 budget request. Existing aid to Colombia totals $300 million, bringing the total Bogota would receive over the next two years to $1.6 billion. The Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that cocaine and heroin exports from Colombia have increased two to threefold in recent years and supply 80 percent of the U.S. market. Past criticism of U.S. policy toward Colombia has come from two directions. Congressional Republicans have argued that increased assistance should go to drug-fighting police rather than to the Colombian military, whose primary mission is to stop Marxist guerrillas trying to overthrow the government. Human rights groups and congressional Democrats also have warned against U.S. involvement in the guerrilla war and have raised questions about human rights abuses by the Colombian military. The Clinton administration argues that since the guerrillas control many drug-producing areas and derive most of their income from taxing drug traffickers, the tasks of combating drugs and fighting guerrillas inevitably are intertwined, though the U.S. military aid is to be used only in drug-producing areas. Reaction was mixed yesterday. Although a Colombian aid bill introduced by Senate Republicans last fall differs from the administration plan in several respects, its sponsor, Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.), called yesterday's announcement "good news for Colombia" and said he "look[ed] forward to working with the
Re: [CTRL] L.A. County, U.S. to Pay $5 Million in Shooting
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 1/12/00 10:27:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott's survivors have long maintained that law enforcement agents conducted the raid mainly because they were hoping to seize the 200-acre ranch, just across the Ventura County line from Malibu. They allege that agents falsified information to obtain a search warrant, hoping to find enough drugs to justify seizing the ranch under drug asset forfeiture laws that would allow their agencies to keep the profits from such confiscations. Complete and total outrage is what one should expect from people subjected to this asset forfeiture bullshit. The BLATANT conflict of interest should be more than enough to nullify the laws. How absurd this whole thing has become and still people just sit idly by as if everything is A-Okay. ** *** "Welcome to the desert of the real." Morpheus, "The Matrix". "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of seas of infinity, and it is not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." H.P.Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu" A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] Response To Eagle
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Please keep the stupid proselytization off the list. It is very nice and special that your bible-belief keeps you safe and warm. MOST OF THE WORLD holds different beliefs, hence the "heathens" have been systematically exploited and butchered from time to time by those of your Xian faith. Hypocrisy in the Nth degree. CAN IT, OK? (it IS, I belive - OFF TOPIC.) If you insist on making it topical, hold onto your holy Xian ass, cuz it's gonna get flamed mightily. thanks. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eagle 1 Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Response To Eagle -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- You know... Mikus... You've stated in your comment, whether you realize it or not, exactly what the Bible is all about... that is FAITH. If *you* cannot define faith, then there is no way you will ever understand God or the Bible. As a Christian, "We walk by faith, not by sight"...Since you obviously cannot understand that concept, there is no way anyone should ever expect you to believe in God or the Bible. This is a no win situation... You attack the messenger, rather than the message, because you don't have enough knowlege of the subject of the Bible or God to attack either, substantially, so you attack me... So I say, OH WELL... and ho hum... You cannot prove or disprove many things in this world. For example, you cannot see gravity, but you know it exists. You may not understand it's principles, but you are being held to the ground by it's effects... there is something that there is no physical evidence for, yet you KNOW it exists. You put faith in that gravity to hold you to the ground so you don't go floating off into space somewhere, don't you? Of course you do. It makes no difference whether you understand the dynamics of it or not. You just know that you are not floating in space because of it. You have exercised faith in something... even if it is gravity. Why say the Bible is incredible? It's incredible only if you choose it to be. And by your comments and several others' comments, you've simply and easily chosen the "route of least resistance"; and *that* is the way of the world. There is no way you will ever understand anything spiritual until you are willing to put faith in that which you cannot physically see. Therefore, there is no argument on the subject of the Bible or God, as far as I'm concerned. The fact of the matter is that you are going to believe what you will and I will believe what I will. Personally, I've had too many things in my life happen that have shown me, without a shadow of a doubt, that the Bible is real and that God is very real. It's really no big deal to me if you don't understand. Sorry you feel you have to have "PROOF"... so be it... OK... So what...??? In the words of a famous athiest, Don Henley... "Get over it". eagle 1 - Original Message - From: "mikus" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Response To Eagle -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- But until that day, you can no more prove the Bible and Christianity is a fraud than there is a man in the moon. Um...to a reasonable degree of certainty, I could. To the brainwashed that'd be near impossible...so totally is your mind controlled. Sorry to stick my head in here, but; I know there's a term for it, and it goes something like this; You cannot prove the NON-existance of anything. Without physical evidence, you cannot prove that something exists, and on the flip side, you would need physical evidence to prove something didn't exist, and the very existance of the physical evidence would prove that it did exist. It's a very difficult semantic arguement, relying on physical evidence to prove it exists on one side, and defeating a belief system designed to thwart the very disproval on the other. I can't remember a particular quote well enough to post it right now, but will post it at a later time, when I can find it, just to show the humorous aspect of trying to prove something doesn't exist. It's from one of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker Books. You know, the trilogy of 5 books? Mikus A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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
[CTRL] [smashthestate] Death To Drug Tests?
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: scotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [smashthestate] Death To Drug Tests? Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 10:38 AM From: "scotty" [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No one wants to announce that they're no longer doing drug tests because it sounds politically unacceptable," -Human Resources Consultant John Sullivan An ACLU study found drug testing had no impact on accidents or absenteeism. CBS has just come out with information that Drug Testing is becoming extremely unpopular To spare you the HTML garbage, here's the link if you are interesting in the article. I had a feeling this would come out one day. Drug testing strikes a insane blow at our Constitution which says we are innocent until proven guilty. Drug testing assumes you are guilty and that you must prove your innocence... Scotty http://www.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,147587-311,00.shtml "If a medicine is one, cheap- and two, effective- and three, non-monopolizable- it will also be four, illegal." --Arlen Riley Wilson --- ONElist Sponsor Get great offers on top-notch products that match your interests! Sign up for eLerts at: a href=" http://clickme.onelist.com/ad/elerts1 "Click Here/a -- Smash The State WWW http://freakpower.homepage.com/smashthestate Shop for Cars On-Line: http://a-albionic.com/ads/srch.html Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. Quarterly journal, book sales, rare/out-of-print searches, New Paradigms Discussion List, Weekly Up-date Lists E-text Archive of research, intelligence, catalogs, resources. To Discuss Ideas: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msen.com/~lloyd/ For Ordering Info Free Catalog: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://a-albionic.com/formaddress.html For Discussion List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] text in body: subscribe prj [EMAIL PROTECTED] **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html Every Diet Has Failed! What Can I do? Click Below to "Ask Dr. Kathleen"! http://www.radiantdiet.com/cgi-bin/slim/deliver.cgi?ask-1364 *** A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis 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 credence 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] Gore's Volubility Problem: Talking Until It Hurts
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/WED/IN/gore.2.html Paris, Wednesday, January 12, 2000 Gore's Volubility Problem: Talking Until It Hurts By John F. Harris Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - The question at a New Hampshire senior citizens center the other day was about health care, but next thing you know Vice President Al Gore was launched on a story about the film ''Annie Hall'' and a cameo appearance in that movie by the media philosopher Marshall McLuhan. Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, standing by Mr. Gore's side, tilted his head in a quizzical stare. At the side of the room, aides to the candidate shot each other nervous looks as if to say: Where on earth is he going with this? So where was Mr. Gore going? It's a bit complicated to explain here. But he eventually brought the anecdote back to his point: that his health care plan is superior to that of Bill Bradley, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. Relieved aides breathed a sigh. Sometimes they don't. Unlike, for example, Governor George W. Bush of Texas, Mr. Gore is never accused of winging facts or not understanding policy debates. But, in the tradition of presidential contenders stretching from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, whose aides were always braced for a blunder, Mr. Gore is forever flirting with the next faux pas. A tangled answer of his at a debate last week about whether he would insist that senior commanders support his position on homosexuals in the military was the latest illustration of how the candidate - however markedly his style has relaxed and improved in recent months - is still grappling with a rhetorical problem. Simply put, according to people who have advised his campaign or analyzed it, Mr. Gore seems to have little intuitive sense of when enough is enough. And so he keeps talking even when it might be wiser to stop. The results can be odd. An answer to a question about his religious beliefs included a peculiar discussion of the respect to which atheists are entitled. An unexpected ''town meeting'' question about a sexual assault allegation against President Bill Clinton prompted a stammering answer that went on excruciatingly, and to little clear purpose, for a couple of minutes. Campaign policy advisers learned that their candidate has staked out a new position on medical marijuana after the fact, when a traveling political aide interrupted a conference call to report on Mr. Gore's surprise utterance. There have been boasts - most famously, over his claim to have invented the Internet - that took laudable aspects of his record and stretched them a bit too far. The flap last week over his gays-in-the-military answer was an illustration of how Mr. Gore gets into trouble by pressing his foot too heavily on the rhetorical gas. At a debate at the University of New Hampshire, the moderator asked if he would apply a ''litmus test'' in his appointments to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, seeking only people ''who support your gay policy.'' In presidential politics, litmus-test questions are themselves a litmus test: Candidates always say they do not apply them. Mr. Gore at first paid homage to this truism, noting that he has always opposed litmus tests for Supreme Court nominations. But then he plunged on - driven, according to sources close to the campaign, by a determination not to yield any ground to Mr. Bradley in the Democratic fight for the important gay vote. ''I think that it's a little different where the Joint Chiefs of Staff are concerned,'' he said, adding that he thought that he would require those who wanted to serve on the Joint Chiefs to be in agreement with his policy. Mr. Gore's zeal to show he was serious on gay rights was matched by a stubborn refusal to acknowledge that he had articulated a damaging position - that such military leaders as Colin Powell or H. Norman Schwarzkopf would be ineligible for command in a Gore administration since they believe that allowing gays to serve openly hurts military effectiveness. After two days of internal deliberation, Democratic sources said, Mr. Gore grudgingly agreed to state that his answer had been misinterpreted. People who have worked closely with Mr. Gore, as campaign aides or within the Clinton White House, offer a variety of explanations for his rhetorical style. An intelligent and well-informed man, he sometimes wants to make sure that everyone knows he is smart and well-informed. And, in the case of gays in the military, Mr. Gore's zeal to show he would go further than Mr. Clinton highlights a genuine difference: He is a more combative person, much less prone to tactical compromise than the man who has been his boss. Michael Nelson, a presidential scholar at Rhodes College in Memphis,
[CTRL] Future of Warfare: Star Wars Lives
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Missile Defense Test Planned Success Could Help Decide Fate of Pentagon Program The test-firing of this North Korean Taepo Dong 1 missile in August 1998 has been cited as evidence of a growing ballistic missile threat to the United States By Barbara Starr ABCNEWS.com W A S H I N G T O N, Jan. 11 Next week, the Pentagon will attempt one of its most ambitious efforts ever testing a U.S. weapon under development to see if it can shoot down a potential enemy missile 100 miles above the Earth. This results of the test to be conducted next Tuesday, weather permitting are critical to President Clintons decision, expected mid-year, on whether to build a system of 100 interceptor missiles to defend the United States against a limited ballistic missile attack. North Korea, Iran, India and Pakistan are all developing ballistic missiles. There is also continuing concern about accidental or unauthorized launches by Russia, and the future intentions of China. These are the only two countries, besides the United States, that currently possess operational intercontinental ballistic missiles. Under the law, if Clinton decides to authorize the deployment, the system would have to be in place within five years. The test is designed to give the president the technological information that he needs to make a decision on deployment of national missile defense this summer says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. Fueling a New Arms Race? The test flight of the so-called National Missile Defense program will take place above the western Pacific Ocean. This will be the second attempted intercept of a target missile for the program but it will be the first time a highly realistic test is conducted. The first intercept test, conducted in October, was successful, but many of elements were pre-programmed. This time, additional radars and other elements of the program will be made part of the effort. The test is just one step in what continues to be one of the most controversial armaments programs ever. It is projected to cost more than $10 billion to build the missiles, launchers and radars to defend all 50 states against a limited attack. The program has largely evolved due to political pressure in Congress from conservative Republican elements who believe there is a looming threat. But there is growing concern that the U.S. plans to build a national missile defense system may spark a new arms race forcing Russia and China to build new offensive missiles that could be readily launched and overwhelm a U.S. defense. Moscow already has been testing its own new missiles. The United States may have to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty if it in fact builds the system and places it in Alaska without some additional agreement from Moscow. It is exactly the concern that we are about to launch a new arms race that has the Chinese and the Russians upset, says Joseph Cirincione, a missile expert with the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The French, the British, the Germans they are all apoplectic at what the U.S. is about to do. Politics and Payment Problems Cirincione believes the issue will grow only more politicized as the election season continues. Republicans are hoping this will be a wedge issue for them in the presidential campaign of 2000, one that will expose the Democrats as being weak on defense, says Cirincione. But CIA estimates say it is unclear just when the real threat will emerge. The CIA had believed, for example, that the North Korean Taepo Dong missile could pose a threat within a decade especially after a test in August 1998. But recent satellite imagery of the Taepo Dong launch site in North Korea shows that it is a fairly primitive operation and CIA officials now believe that Pyongyangs economic problems may have slowed down its missile development efforts. International politics and arms control aside, building a national missile defense will be a drain on the defense budget. All of the major presidential contenders have expressed political support for the effort no one has said how they would pay for it. Pentagon officials say President Clinton may ask Congress next month for a $2.2 billion increase in the 2001 budget to help pay for the program bringing the total, projected price tag to more than $12 billion. Barbara Starr covers the Pentagon for ABCNEWS. SEARCH ABCNEWS.com FOR MORE ON In This Series North Korea's Launch Matters CIA Says Missile Threat is Very Real Future of Warfare: Star Wars Lives Russia Warns Against Missile Defenses Weapons, Missiles Are Proliferating http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/missiledefense000111.html Copyright ©2000 ABC News Internet Ventures. Click here for Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Internet Safety Information
