[CTRL] FW: Chemtrails Flu / NSA
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- forwarded... Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Sewell Ward Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ncnculture] Chemtrails Flu National Security Agency (NSA)... 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. The chemical spraying to the "unconventional pathogen countermeasures program" of the top secret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). NOTES : (1) Novavax is a bio pharmaceuticals company. (2) BCTP is made of water, soybean oil, Triton X 100 detergent and the solvent tri-n-butyl phosphate. BCTP envelops VIRUSES and SPORES, causing them to explode and thus destroying them upon contact. (3) BCTP's research studies were funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). BCTP appears to inactivate the virus on contact." The research is funded by DARPA's "Unconventional Pathogen Countermeasures Program" [GO TO : http://www.darpa.mil/DSO/rd/UPC/index.html ]. The U-M and Novavax have filed a patent application covering BCTP's use as a decontamination agent forvarious anti-microbial applications. Advanced Biological and Medical Technologies: Biological Warfare Defense Unconventional Pathogen Countermeasures The goal of the Unconventional Pathogen Countermeasures program is to develop and demonstrate defensive technologies that afford the greatest protection to uniformed warfighters, and the defense personnel who support them, during U.S. military operations. While no defense may stop a determined adversary from unleashing biological weapon, a sufficiently robust array of pathogen defenses and countermeasures deterrents in their own right will reduce the probable damage that would result from biological weapons used in a particular operation. The most sinister offensive biological warfare scenario employs surprise, immediate proximity, and rapidly lethal, persistent agents in overwhelming quantities. Under these circumstances, real-time sensing, donning of physical protection, and conventional nonmedical countermeasures are only marginally effective. An effective operational defense ideally requires instantly available or emplaced countermeasures that can defeat biological threats as they enter the body and before they reach and attack target cells and tissues. The focus of the Unconventional Pathogen Countermeasures program is the development of revolutionary, broad-spectrum, medical countermeasures against significantly pathogenic microorganisms and/or their pathogenic products. These countermeasures will be versatile enough to eliminate biological threats, whether from natural sources or modified through bioengineering or other manipulation. They will also have the potential to provide protection both within the body and at the most common portals of entry (e.g., inhalation, ingestion, transcutaneous). Strategies include but are not limited to: (1) Defeat of a pathogen's ability to enter the body, traverse the bloodstream or lymphatics, and enter target tissues. (2) Identification of novel pathogen vulnerabilities based on fundamental, critical molecular mechanisms of survival or pathogenesis (e.g., Type III secretion, cellular energetics, virulence modulation). (3) Construction of unique, robust vehicles for the delivery of countermeasures into or within the body. (4) Modulation of the advantageous and/or deleterious aspects of the immune response to significantly pathogenic microorganisms and/or their pathogenic products in the body. 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]/
[CTRL] Fw: Gospel of Thomas
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- I've read the book of Thomas not worth putting in I thought. Sorry if its a bit preachy I just had it in my drafts in case the topic arose for reference. Got something great on Puharich for tomorrow. Nicky -Original Message- From: Nicky Molloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, 23 January 2000 22:10 Subject: Gospel of Thomas http://www.newageministry.org/NewAge.htm Listed under- Inside the new age Gospel of Thomas As you begin to be a witness for Jesus Christ to those involved in the New Age movement, you will eventually encounter people who will tell you amazing things that at first may challenge your beliefs about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, sin, creation, and many other aspects of Christianity. The Bible itself is often brought into question. In fact, there is an ancient document, "The Gospel of Thomas" which calls into question the very nature of man and God. Without having a firm foundation in the fundamentals of Christianity, a person hearing about this "Gospel" can easily mistake it for the true Gospel. After all, it is a historic fact that this "Gospel of Thomas" document exists and that it appears to be credible and authoritative ... at least at first glance! Before we get into the Gospel of Thomas, let's recall what Paul said about the gospel: Gal. 1:9 "As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!" A Gnostic Gospel The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of 114 individual, unrelated sayings attributed to Jesus. This collection of sayings falls into the category of "Gnostic" gospels, or "Gnosticism." The English word "Gnostic" comes from the Greek word gnosis, which means knowledge. Gnosticism is an ancient religion which claims secret knowledge based on revelations outside of the Bible. Its appeal is very simple. Like present day New Agers, Gnosticists (?) invite seekers to come and be enlightened with knowledge that would give them the power to be in charge of their own destiny. Gnosticism can best be described as a blend of Platonic philosophy, ancient gods, and a smattering of every school of thought, including Christianity. This is the same system of blending that the Mind Sciences have used to create their belief system. Acts 17:11 tells us that "the Bereans received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." So shouldn't we be like the Bereans and examine everything in this gospel of Thomas in light of the Bible? What is the Gospel of Thomas? Gnosticism (which is supported by the so called Gospel of Thomas) believes that the Kingdom of God is on the earth today. There is divinity within all people which enables anyone to see the Kingdom of God on earth. The perspective of Thomas is that the Image of God in the beginning still exists and people can assume that identity. This gospel encourages people to restore their identities as the Image of God, and see the Kingdom of God on earth. No one knows who wrote this gospel of Thomas. New Agers claim that Jesus took Thomas aside and enlightened him, revealing the secret knowledge to only Thomas. So the knowledge they claim to have is not mere observation but rather the "true knowledge" that stems from the personal revelation of Jesus. Since the revelation is based on an esoteric interpretation, many in the movement declare that it is more authoritative than the Bible itself. Does the Gospel of Thomas reflect the views of Jesus? Many of the sayings attributed to Jesus in the gospel of Thomas are similarly found in the Bible. New Age adherents would say to you, "See, right there in the Gospel of Thomas are the very sayings of Jesus that we find in the Gospels of the Bible! Doesn't that prove that the Gospel of Thomas is right-on?" That's an interesting argument, but the answer is "No, that doesn't prove anything about the Gospel of Thomas." The real test is to examine some of the actual text of this so-called Gospel of Thomas and see for ourselves if "these things are true." Jesus and Caesar's taxes - What is the point of this section? n verse 100 of the Gospel of Thomas we read: They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to Him, "Caesar's men demand taxes from us." He said to them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God, and give Me what is Mine." In Matt. 22:18, we read a similar account of this event. "But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, 'You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax.' They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, 'Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?' 'Caesar's,' they replied. Then he said to them, 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." Similar accounts of Jesus' parable of the sower and the seed, and of the mustard seed are actually in this Gospel of Thomas. Sayings which are
[CTRL] Starbucks 'Killer' Recants
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover.shtml With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Sunday Jaunuary 23, 2000; 1:59 AM EST Starbucks 'Killer' Recants, New Questions Emerge in Intern's Death When Carl Derek Cooper confessed last March to the July 1997 slayings of onetime Clinton intern Mary Caity Mahoney and two other workers at a Washington, DC Starbucks, suspicions of a White House connection quickly evaporated. But a funny thing happened on the way to Cooper's trial. He recanted his confession, the primary piece of evidence police had linking him to the crime. And if that wasn't enough to set off a fresh round of frenzied speculation, now a new investigation suggests Mahoney could have been an extremely inconvenient witness in the Monica Lewinsky case. "I swear on my father's grave and my son's life that I didn't do Starbucks," Cooper told the FBI shortly after he admitted his guilt to local police, according to courtroom testimony reported by the Washington Post last week. Now it emerges that Cooper told police several different stories about the Starbucks murders; once blaming an acquaintance for the killings, another time claiming he was merely a lookout. But after 54 hours of questioning, Cooper's lawyer says he buckled. "No matter how many times Mr. Cooper denied his involvement, they kept pressuring him. They kept pressuring him until they got what they wanted," attorney Steven Kirsch told US District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green, according to Thursday's Washington Times. Kirsch wants Green to rule the confession inadmissible at trial on the grounds it was coerced. The motive in the Starbuck's massacre was supposedly robbery, though none of the $10,000 cash on hand was taken even after Mahoney and her two co-workers were felled by a fusillade of bullets. Casting further doubt on the robbery theory: five of the ten shots fired hit the former Clinton intern, including an execution bullet fired into the back of her head. The same week Cooper recanted, new information emerged about Mahoney's background and her possible ties to the Monica Lewinsky case. Author David M. Hoffman, who spent a year investigating Mahoney's murder, tells Globe Magazine's Tom Kuncl that the Starbucks massacre came just three days after Monica told Clinton she was going to tell her parents about their relationship. According to Monica Clinton reacted angrily, telling her, "It's a crime to threaten the President." Hoffman's claim is corroborated by the Starr Report. "Monica took the threat seriously," Hoffman told Globe, "telling Linda Tripp that she feared for both their lives if her affair with Clinton ever became public." "I don't want to wind up like Caity Mahoney," Monica is rumored to have told friends. The Tripp tapes amply document Monica's fears for her own physical safety, featuring no fewer than four exchanges where the Clinton girlfriend voices sentiments such as: "I would not cross these people for fear of my life." Hoffman claims to have uncovered new details about Mary Mahoney's time at the White House, which, if true, suggest the White House alum could have played a key role in the Clinton sex scandal despite her own homosexuality: "For many months, Mary, an outspoken lesbian and good hearted den mother for other young White House interns, had been listening to tearful stories from them about alleged sexual passes made at them by Bill Clinton. She'd begun to tell others she planned to do something to help them." Also, reports Hoffman, "a blockbuster piece of gossip swirling through Washington (at the time of Mahoney's death) was based on a columnist's blind item that a former White House intern whose name began with the letter M was about to reveal news of a sexual relationship with Bill Clinton." Was it Mahoney, Clinton damage controllers no doubt wondered? Meanwhile, the fuse had been lit on another White House sex bombshell just two days before the Starbucks killings. That's when cyberscribe Matt Drudge first reported that Clinton had put the moves on a then-unnamed White House volunteer. It would be three more weeks till the world knew her name: Kathleen Willey. But by early July 1997 White House damage controllers knew they had a serious intern problem on their hands. Carl Derek Cooper is scheduled to go on trial for Mary Caity Mahoney's murder on April 10. -- --- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml --- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
[CTRL] Questions, contradictions surround FHP crash review
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/brodocs/023873.htm Published Saturday, January 22, 2000, in the Miami Herald Questions, contradictions surround FHP crash review BY LISA ARTHUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] A day after the Florida Highway Patrol released an internal review of its investigation into a fatal crash involving an allegedly drunk FBI agent, contradictions piled up as various state and federal agencies began responding to the findings. The family of brothers Maurice Williams, 23, and Craig Chambers, 19, disputed a claim that FHP admitted to them hours after the Nov. 23, 1999, crash that it might have mistakenly blamed Williams for the accident. FBI officials also responded to the report, offering no explanation as to why the license tag was removed from agent David Farrall's car or why he was admitted to the hospital under a false name. Williams and Chambers were killed in the collision on Interstate 95 at Atlantic Boulevard in Pompano Beach. Farrall, who was allegedly driving in the wrong direction on the freeway, was arrested Thursday and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and manslaughter. FHP has said none of the troopers involved will be disciplined because none of the mistakes in the investigation were ``malicious'' or ``inappropriate.'' Among the contradictions that arose Friday: The FHP report says the day after the crash, FBI agents asked to remove Farrall's child's car seat and a woman's wallet from his wrecked car. They didn't leave with either; the car seat was destroyed by the crash and they couldn't find the wallet. FHP says the agents removed the license tag from the car without asking. FBI spokesman Terry Nelson said Friday that agency officials ``have no knowledge of that.'' ``We'll have to research that,'' Nelson said. BLOOD-ALCOHOL TEST The FHP report says troopers did not test Farrall's blood for alcohol because they didn't have probable cause. Several troopers came in contact with Farrall, and none reported smelling alcohol on his breath. But Mike Catalano, a former chief DUI prosecutor for Miami-Dade state attorney's office who now specializes in DUI defense, said alcohol should have easily been detected on someone who had a blood-alcohol content of .177. Farrall's blood-alcohol content allegedly registered that figure when a sample taken at the hospital after the crash for medical reasons was later tested. ``He's releasing that odor every time he breathes out,'' he said. ``One has to wonder if the odor of the alcohol disappeared when the FBI badge came out.'' FHP Capt. David Brierton said that without probable cause, troopers would have needed Farrall to agree to have his blood drawn on the night of the crash. They never asked him, he said. ``We had no reason to suspect alcohol then,'' he said. Five days after the crash, FHP troopers went to North Broward Medical Center to interview Farrall. They couldn't find him. The hospital said they had no patient by the name of David Farrall. FHP says a hospital security guard told them Farrall had been moved to the ``terminally ill'' ward under the name Thomas Garber. When the FHP troopers located Farrall in the hospital, they say they were barred from seeing him by another FBI agent who told them Farrall didn't want to talk until he had an attorney. Neither the hospital nor the FBI would comment Friday. Five days after the encounter at the hospital, Brierton called Hector Pesquera, the FBI special agent in charge of the Miami office. They discussed the incident and Pesquera said he was unaware FBI agents were at the hospital guarding Farrall. TROOPERS' DOUBTS? FHP said that just two hours after releasing information to the media that blamed Williams for the crash, troopers began to doubt the information. Brierton said at 8:30 p.m. on the day of the crash, trooper Rodney Hylton called the family -- which had insisted that the brothers could not possibly be at fault -- to tell them the Highway Patrol was rethinking its conclusions and would do a thorough investigation. The family denies being contacted that day, said Levi Williams, the family's attorney. ``I asked them about that after the FHP first said it at the Dec. 23 press conference when they admitted their error and the family said `absolutely not,' '' Williams said. ``I asked them about it again today. . . . They said the same thing.'' FHP troopers went to Farrall's home on Dec. 3, 10 days after the crash. The report indicates Farrall ``asked them how it looked.'' ``Agent Farrall mentioned to them that he saw headlights approaching,'' the report says. ``He told Cpl. Hylton `I thought I was going the right way.' '' BUSH WEIGHS IN Also Friday, Gov. Jeb Bush said he was unfamiliar with the case. But after hearing the details, he said: ``With law enforcement, it's important
[CTRL] [NA] Together, We Can Blow the Lid Off This Year!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.htmlFrom: Jim Condit Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NA] Together, We Can Blow the Lid Off This Year! Date: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:25 PM www.networkamerica.org "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Communist Tyrant Josef Stalin January 21, 2000 Network America (NA) e-wire Together, We Can Blow the Lid Off This Year! To get people motivated, well meaning organizations often go overboard telling about all the evil accomplishments of the other side, thus breathing more life into them than they merit. What is rarely focused on, is the POWER just a few of us have IF we are focused on exactly the right pressure point. The next step towards honest elections is to get tens of thousands -- and then hundreds of thousands -- and then millions -- to say out loud and send messages via letter and email that read something like this: If citizen checks and balances are not restored, -- meaning paper ballots counted by neighborhood citizens in the neighborhood precincts then we dont accept the results of the 2000 election. We know the media and government officials at all levels are protecting and perpetuating unverifiable elections, thus mocking dishonoring all who have sacrificed and died for this country. We will view the government as illegitimate, spread the word, and begin to act accordingly in whatever small way we can. This may appear radical to some, but it is the only appropriate response. The Ruling Elite has called our bluff and we sit here bluffed at this moment. Not only the establishment media and public officials, but also mainstream conservative organizations need to hear this message. If you are tired of being sent on fools errands by National Right to Life, the Christian Coalition and the like, then join Citizens for a Fair Vote Count in a message campaign that will be noticed and will put pressure on the establishment and its lackeys because the message is exactly on point and strikes at one of the levers of power which the Ruling Elite absolutely NEEDS to maintain the farce that lightweights and weirdos like W. Bush and Algore are the choice of the American people. Tens of thousands of messages like the one above going to the Establishment Elite and their media and politicians is a necessary first step. Notice how much the Big Media wants everyone to VOTE, i.e. become part of the scam and provide cover for the computer-generated for elections. At election time there are NEVER media public service announcements about insuring an honest vote, -- there are thousands of spots just urging everyone to vote. Voting also hooks in that large segment of humanity who just cant bear psychologically to admit that theyve been had. Dont get me wrong, we must vote, or it will become a news items that constitutionalists arent voting --- making it easier for the Ruling Elite behind the programmers to skew key elections. But we must vote WHILE SCREAMING every step of the way about the anti-American unverifiable vote tabulating system we have in this nation. I ask you all to do two things: 1) forward our e-mails to political discussion groups, news groups, etc. or email us on how we do this. I just dont know much about the technical side, and could use some guidance from those of you who do.; 2) join topica.com per the instructions at the bottom of each of our emails, including this one. That way you can be sure to read the archives in case you go periods when you just cant keep up with emails. Im really hoping that many on this list will use the networkamerica listserve to become informed warriors and to do that one really should read all the messages. Im trying to mix them up enough to be interesting but make it over time a full course in what weve learned about our unverifiable election system and what we must do to move back to honest elections. We close today with a quote from Philip OHalloran of Relevance Magazine. These words began the Relevance issue of Nov. 1996, entitled, Pandoras Black Box: did it really count your vote? Here they are: When we began researching the integrity of the election process, we wanted to believe that the talk of votescam was just overblown hype. However, we have since discovered that the computer voting system in this country is a veritable can of worms, so open to tampering that if there is no organized election fraud going on, the criminals are falling down on the job. Consider emailing Bill OReilly at Fox News if hes seen the USA full page ad in the Kansas City Region in western Iowa -- and asking him why he wont cover the votefraud vs. honest elections issue. Hes probably our best hope for some kind of
Re: [CTRL] book burning
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 01/22/2000 7:12:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "There ought to be limits to freedom." --GW Bush in reference to www.gw.bush.com. And if he's elected, I'm sure there will be. 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
[CTRL] Fwd: re-sending Jan. 23 column -- long version
In a message dated 01/23/2000 12:38:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA RE-SENDING: CORRECTS MINOR TYPOS THROUGHOUT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED JAN. 23, 2000 EDITORS: A SHORTER VERSION, AT 1,000 WORDS, ALSO MOVES. THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Video contends Davidians were machine-gunned, crushed by tanks Is it possible David Koresh didn't lose his confrontation with the Godless state he and his followers identified as "Babylon," at all? Throughout their 51-day Texas standoff in the spring of 1993, Koresh and his followers repeatedly compared their plight to that of God's people facing the "flaming chariots" of Babylon in the biblical prophesies of Nahum and Habakkuk. A follower says Koresh believed he would be the one to "bring down Babylon" by sacrificing himself and his denomination. Will it turn out that -- like an earlier group of Texas martyrs who died buying time for Sam Houston at the Alamo -- the Branch Davidians still retain the power to reach out from the grave and smite their oppressors? After completing the documentary "Waco: The Rules of Engagement' -- nominated for an Academy Award -- researcher Mike McNulty continued to delve into the central mystery of Waco: Why would scores of perfectly sane and decent Christian Americans apparently choose to condemn themselves and their "unusually bright and well-treated" children (per Texas child welfare authorities) to death in the flames, rather than coming out and surrendering to the federal tanks and helicopters that surrounded them? Mr. McNulty appears to have found some answers -- at least to the extent anyone still can, given the determined after-the-fact efforts to bleach and bulldoze the "crime scene." Those answers are offered in the new video: "Waco: A New Revelation," directed by Jason Van Vleet. The documentary is not strident. If anything, the new evidence is piled up in such a measured and matter-of-fact way -- superposed with the sneering denials of FBI spokesmen and apologists like U.S. Rep. (now Sen.) Charles Schumer -- that its full impact may not register without a second viewing. But at that point, any thoughtful viewer of conscience must wonder how willfully the Congress and populace of this country must (start ital)want(end ital) to ignore the truth, to be able to close their eyes to facts like the following: On the evening of Feb. 28, three Branch Davidians who had not been present for the initial BATF raid and shoot-out attempted to get home to their wives and children in the Mount Carmel church. They were intercepted and fired upon by 17 agents "dressed as trees." Two were captured, but Michael Dean Schroeder -- not charged with any crime -- was shot seven times and killed. As the other two Davidians were led away -- after Schroeder was down -- they report hearing two final shots behind them, in quick succession. An autopsy showed Michael Dean Schroeder had two neat bullet holes immediately behind his right ear. His body was left lying in the ravine for five days. Far from inviting an exodus and surrender, tape recordings reveal that by late March, FBI negotiators told the Davidians: "No one is authorized to come out of there for any reason. The patience of the bosses is no longer what it was. If anyone tries to come out, they will be treated in such a way that they'll be forced to retreat." Former FBI Director William Sessions wanted to fly to Waco to negotiate with David Koresh face-to-face, but the Justice Department refused to let him board his plane. Sessions' wife, Alice Sessions, explains: "The FBI did not want it negotiated. They wanted to show they could win with military type tactics; it was a paramilitary organization." When the final government attack with toxic and disabling CS gas finally began early on the morning of April 19, the buried school bus was gassed first, forcing the women and children to retreat to the reinforced concrete records vault, which the FBI referred to as "the bunker." Gas was then pumped into the bunker, which had no ventilation, for two hours. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., tells Congress: "At the very least that resulted in the babies and children being tortured for at least three to four hours." Manning sniper post Sierra 1 in the "undercover house," Lon Horiuchi (who eight months earlier had shot the unarmed Vicky Weaver as she stood holding a baby in her kitchen in Ruby Ridge, Idaho), "accompanied by most of the FBI team from Ruby Ridge," swore he did not fire into the church on April 19. But other FBI agents swore they heard fire from his position, and four expended .308 shell casings were later found there. At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, a Branch Davidian is spotted trying to exit the building across the roof. "Falcon 2," an FBI helicopter, is seen approaching in ground-level footage. It hovers, and muzzle
Re: [CTRL] TIMES: One in seven fathers 'not the real parent'
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Oliver Curry, the principal researcher, said long working hours and commuting by fathers could contribute to uncertainty about whether children have been fathered by the man who is bringing them up. Pretty sexist. Men aren't the only ones working long hours and commutingmothers do, too... The team from the LSE is calling for investigations to be set up by the government's new National Family and Parenting Institute. Yes, let's look for any excuse to get Big Brother more involved in citizens' lives... They believe that mistrust over paternity may be an overlooked factor in family breakdown. Women are driven by primitive urges to seek the optimum genes for their children, which can lead to them sleeping with a "high social-status Casanova" as well as their regular partner during the fertile period around ovulation, researchers claim. Some more sexist bullshit. More men sleep around, especially with 'trophy' runway model types, than most women do... And women who DO 'sleep around' are usually looking for any number of things, but getting pregnant is NOT one of them... It's obvious that all these studies were conducted by men. 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
Re: [CTRL] TIMES: One in seven fathers 'not the real parent'
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 01/23/2000 9:09:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Curry, the principal researcher, said long working hours and commuting by fathers could contribute to uncertainty about whether children have been fathered by the man who is bringing them up. Pretty sexist. Men aren't the only ones working long hours and commutingmothers do, too... The team from the LSE is calling for investigations to be set up by the government's new National Family and Parenting Institute. Yes, let's look for any excuse to get Big Brother more involved in citizens' lives... They believe that mistrust over paternity may be an overlooked factor in family breakdown. Women are driven by primitive urges to seek the optimum genes for their children, which can lead to them sleeping with a "high social-status Casanova" as well as their regular partner during the fertile period around ovulation, researchers claim. Some more sexist bullshit. More men sleep around, especially with 'trophy' runway model types, than most women do... And women who DO 'sleep around' are usually looking for any number of things, but getting pregnant is NOT one of them... It's obvious that all these studies were conducted by men. June Perhap the interpretations are not PC (sexist bullshit), but the facts can't be wrong can they? Just a simple DNA/Blood type match as far as I can tell. The study is consistent with earlier work that found a 10% impossible blood-type match between newborns and their supposed fathers. In history, fathers have killed offspring they believed to be biologically not theirs. Since the primal drive is to spread one's DNA, a man would not want to expend economic and emotional resources to bring up a child not his. This was more critical in times when resources were scarce, but the biiological drive instilled in men still exists, I believe. Tough on the kids though, since it ain't their fault. Reminds me of of the old adage about how...There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents. I feel that if a man isn't the biofather, he should not be unwillingly be required to support a child. If it were to happen to me, I'd take my real kids overseas and abandon the wife to fend for herself---maybe to set up house with the "real" father. This was not part of the marriage contract, and laws written to protect women and children are patently unfair in this regard. If 50% of all marriages end in divorce, and 10% of kids are illegitimate, this would suggest that with a 100% discovey rate, 25% of all divorces might be caused by this. Looks like society's little dirty secret. For once, scientific progress (DNA matching) on a mandatory basis could actually serve to solidify marriages and provide a better emotional climate for children if other husbands felt the same way I do. 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 - Sunday #1
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000123a - - - - - - - - - - - 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 ETs manipulated the editor during production of this bulletin. Sure. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Spice Aliens: http://alienstuff.iwarp.com/callouts/spicealiens.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Chemtrail Culprits Identified? BioWarfare Countermeasures Being Tested? 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. The chemical spraying to the "unconventional pathogen counter- measures program" of the top secret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Don't inhale: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/chemcon.htm : Have you sprayed any chemicals into the atmosphere lately? Do you prefer to use airplanes, automobiles, smokestacks, genetically-modified flatulent bovines, "accidental" railroad/highway spills, leaking storage tanks, very precise meteorite strikes, sewage "treatment" plants? What's most effective? # Chemtrails Make The News: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/chemnews.htm # Chemtrail Spraying: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemswing.htm # Chemtrails - BioWarfare Chemicals Said Being Tested On Americans: http://www.spotlight.org/01_07_00/Chemicals/chemicals.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA Plane Probes Yukon Skies for Meteor Particles. NASA sent an aircraft to the Yukon Territory on a one-day trip to collect atmospheric samples from a meteor that exploded earlier in the week over a remotely populated stretch of northwestern Canada. The meteor detonated at an altitude of 16 miles (25 kilometers) with the energy of 2-3 kilotons of TNT, rattling houses, knocking snow off roofs and shaking seismic monitoring stations in the region. The explosion produced twin sonic booms and a sizzling sound over Alaska and northwestern Canada, scaring the crap out of many rural residents. http://space.com/science/planetearth/nasa_yukon_000121.html : Have you gathered many meteor samples lately? Did you only find what THEY wanted you to find? How can you tell? Have you detonated any meteors lately? D'ya always detonate meteors over remote areas? Will you target cities soon? # Activate Cloud Shield! Zap a Twister! Starting now, lightning strikes - on demand. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/weather.html/mg20004 # Taking the Web into outer space - better reserve your .mars address now. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/solar.html/mg20004 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Many UK Home Buyers Now Use Feng Shui. Nervous housebuyers are increas- ingly using feng shui experts to tell them whether their prospective pur- chase has the necessary "flow of chi" and offers years of happiness. The new army of consultants, who are often brought in to "feel for vibes" at a critical point in the sale, are proving a thorn in the side of estate agents as buyers pull out on the basis of their advice. Feel my site: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/00/01/22/timnwsnws01029.html?999 : Do feng-shui'd buildings withstand earthquakes, fires, meteor strikes, storm winds, termites/dryrot, vandals, etc better than un-processed places? If you use feng shui to lay out your military encampment, and your enemy doesn't, and you lose, who do you blame? If anything bad happens at your site, should/can/must you hold the feng shui consultant responsible? Do lawyers salivate at the prospect of having a whole new class of lawsuits? @ OK / NOT OK - Bruce Sterling's fissionary in/out list for the next 100 years. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/inout.html/mg20004 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Abductions By Robed, Hooded Aliens? - Gold Implants Said Coughed Up. In recent months we have been getting reports of hooded and robed humanoids walking along roads possibly participating in abductions. The witnesses report they're awakened in the middle of the night when a blue light fills the bedroom. They are paralyzed but able to look around the room, and a robed figure is present. Sometimes the witnesses claim the eyes are red or glowing red in appearance. http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/filersab.htm : Have you abducted anyone lately? Are you a red-eyed, hooded alien? What do you really look like? If you have a UFO, why do you bother walking along a road? Do you need the exercise? Wouldn't it be better if you jogged, pumped iron, did isometrics? Are you a fat, lazy alien? Do other ETs laugh at you? # Close-Up UFO Sightings Intensify: www.sightings.com/ufo6/filers20002.htm @ Are We Truly Alone? http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/arecibo/46/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[CTRL] OEN 1/23/99
-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 - Money Laundering Liechtenstein Is Where It's At The ostrich steak is good too. BANKERS, politicians, judges and police officers have conspired with international criminals to turn the principality of Liechtenstein into the world's biggest money laundering centre, according to a report by the German Federal Intelligence Service. The placid Alpine statelet has long been famous for the secretive brass-plate operations, negligible taxes and lax regulatory oversights that attracted the likes of Robert Maxwell. But the leaked German dossier paints a startlingly damning picture of the country. The report alleges that Russian underworld chiefs, Italian Mafia bosses and Latin American drug barons - including Pablo Escobar, the former chief of the Medellin cocaine cartel - have all been targeted by a network of senior Liechtenstein figures and enticed to hide their illicit fortunes there. The document was compiled by the so-called "cyber-spies" of the Federal Intelligence Service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), using surveillance in Bavaria to tap into satellite and telephone communications in Liechtenstein. Germany's authorities have long had neighbouring Liechtenstein in their sights as the favoured tax haven for those who want a relatively simple way to avoid paying tax in Germany. The leaking of the report comes as Germany steps up its campaign for tax harmonisation in Europe. The embarrassing dossier may give Berlin the ammunition to increase its efforts to stop Germans investing funds in Liechtenstein, a non-EU member. It also comes at a time when the Germans are campaigning to impose a minimum 20 per cent withholding tax on savings anywhere in the EU to discourage investing abroad. Although the report was leaked only recently, it was submitted to the Berlin government last year, several months before the current slush fund furore erupted around the former Chancellor, Helmut Kohl. That scandal has further tarnished Liechtenstein's name after it emerged that several secret payments were channelled through the principality to Mr Kohl's Christian Democrats, including alleged bribes from Elf Aquitaine, the French oil company. Even Switzerland, which is not known for its fiscal transparency, is urging its neighbour to put its house in order. Bernard Bertossa, the chief prosecutor of Geneva, complained of a lack of assistance from Liechtenstein in pursuing investigations and described the principality as "a very bad pupil" when it came to learning the merits of international co-operation. The controversy deepened last week when the monarch, Prince Hans Adam II, revealed that an anonymous letter sent to the castle three years ago, naming senior Liechtenstein officials allegedly involved in serious financial crimes, was only passed on to him a month ago. The prince has also backed an investigation into the allegations. But he was "extremely upset" by the claims. His government says the report's contents have been misrepresented and exaggerated. Following the leak, Der Spiegel, the German news magazine, remarked: "The secret document reads like the worst nightmare: an entire country, in the middle of Europe, appears to be in the service of criminals from all round the world. The findings destroy once and for all what was left of Liechtenstein's battered reputation." Liechtenstein consists of 62 square miles of mountains, valleys and timber chalets. Its capital, Vaduz, is dominated by the prince's medieval castle. Little of its income is generated from outside the financial world. The country's population of 32,000 is a close-knit and affluent community whose wealth is grounded on watertight secrecy laws covering banking, taxation and financial affairs. Laws have been comprehensively abused through hundreds of anonymous trusts and foundations, according to the BND. Leading Liechtenstein financiers deny the claims. Prof Herbert Batliner, one of the country's most important trustees, insists that he avoids problems by accepting no customers from the former Soviet Union and none who turn up with briefcases full of cash. "They don't get past the front door," said Prof Batliner, whose name was on German front pages last week in connection with the Kohl affair. The BND lists individuals and foundations allegedly involved in money laundering. One former government politician, for example, is said to have organised meetings with the "financial managers of South American drug clans" for many years. The report describes "a network of relationships between high-ranking officials, judges, politicians, bank managers and investment advisers who assist each other with illegal financial transactions on behalf of international criminals". Even the principality's courts have proved obstructive. When Germany applied for the
[CTRL] Prince Albert (Gore) and the King Maker
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from; http://www.zolatimes.com/V4.4/prince_a.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V4.4/prince_a.htm"Prince Albert (Gore) and the King Maker, by Jim /A - Prince Albert (Gore) and the King Maker by Jim Peron For decades the shadowy Armand Hammer slipped comfortably between the halls of high finance and the Soviet Politburo. Using his close connections with the Soviets, Hammer built a fortune pretending to be an advocate of capitalism while helping sustain and spread Soviet Communism. Masquerading as a capitalist was quite lucrative. The FBI was certainly aware that Hammer was used to launder money from Soviet sources. Edward Jay Epstein, in his exposé Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer says that by tracing Soviet money through Hammer they had been able to determine from the serial numbers on the bills that much of the money was disbursed to the Soviet underground in America. Hammer took direct orders from the Lenin and Stalin regimes. He helped recruit and place Soviet spies within the US government Yet there was something which prevented the fervently anti-communist J. Edgar Hoover from moving on Hammer in spite of his role in financing the communist movement in America. What prevented such a move was that Hammer was already entangled with top members of the Senate and US Congress. Clearly in the Hammer camp was then Congressman Albert Gore, Sr. of Tennessee the father of the current vice president. Also closely connected to Hammer was pro-Soviet Congressman Emmanuel Celler and Congressman James Roosevelt, son of FDR. Hammer was in fact a secret business partner with Rooseveltchanneling business and funds into Roosevelts coffers via an insurance company they both owned. As we shall see, this was a ploy which Hammer also used successfully with Al Gore, Sr. As Bob Zelnick, biographer of Al Gore Jr., in his Gore: A Political Life said: Through the 1950s and well into the following decade, Hammer counted on Gore as his principal link to the Democratic congressional leadership, and to defend his economic interests. Epstein says that Hoover had survived in Washington for three decades because he understood the reality of power, had no interest in challenging this congressional phalanx. He decided to take no action. Hammer had effectively stalemated him. Hammer had built up a close relationship with Al Gore Sr., which he used to his ultimate advantage. But this is not to say that Gore didnt benefit either. Much of the modern Gore fortune is built on the sweetheart deals that Hammer gave to his congressional mouth-piece. Like he did with Roosevelt, Hammer actually became business partners with Gore in a cattle-breeding project which, according to Epstein made a substantial profit for Gore. Insiders have been highly suspicious of the Gore/Hammer cattle alliance. Major Wall Street players would suddenly appear on the Gore property bidding to buy cattle at highly inflated prices. Ned McWherter, former Governor of Tennessee said: Ive sold some Angus [cattle] in my time too, but I never got the kind of prices for my cattle that the Gores got for theirs. Zelnick wrote that neighbors of the Gores would tell the inquiring visitors of how lobbyists and others with an interest in Gores work would parade to Carthage [Gores home town] during the fall auction period, bid outrageously high prices for Gores stock, and sometimes not even bother to pick up what they had purchased. When the voters of Tennessee put Al Gore, Sr. into involuntary retirement, the former Senator said that if he were being put out to pasture he intended to graze in tall grass. The tall grass he had in mind was working for Armand Hammer. Gore left the US Senate to become a vice president of Hammers Occidental Petroleum. But not even that was enough to reward the compliant ex-Senator from Tennessee. By now Hammer was literally rolling in money. Hammer had secured oil rights in Libya by bribing the government of King Idris. But Idris was overthrown by Muammer Gadhafi. No worry for Hammerwho had long worked with some of the worst despots in the world. Gadhafi was demanding higher percentages for his government from the oil companies. Other oil companies balked but Hammer immediately agreed, giving Libya 55 percent of the profits, forcing the others to follow suit. As a result oil prices shot up. Epstein notes that Hammers Occidental Oil continue[d] to profit from Libyan oil for the next fifteen years, [and] the company received $136 million in compensation from Gadhafi for the nationalization in 1973 of 51 percent of its concession. Occidental was the only foreign company in Libya to receive such compensation. Occidental stock values were riding high because of Hammers cozy relationship with Libya. He used these profits to buy companies right and left. His largest new purchase was the Island Creek Coal Company, then the third
[CTRL] The Myth of Market Failure
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from:http://www.zolatimes.com/V4.4/market_failure.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V4.4/market_failure.htm"The Myth of Market Failure, by Russell Madden/A - The Myth of Market Failure by Russell Madden Those opposed to laissez-faire capitalism and the free markets through which it operates love to shout "market failure" as a rationale for government intervention into economic activities. Only by limiting citizens' freedom, they claim, can the state correct the failings of an imperfect market. By "market failure," these governmental meddlers into private interactions mean a number of different things. They may refer to: * the unequal distribution of wealth; * the belief that some "public goods" such as roads, utilities, postal service, lighthouses, libraries, schools, or operas would not be adequately provided in a free market; * the "free rider" problem where those who do not pay for a service nevertheless enjoy its benefits; * the notion that resources often go to produce such "frivolous" items as pet rocks, junk food, or trashy movies; * the fact that certain objectively superior goods will be under-produced or ignored; or, * just overall "inefficiency" in matching human needs and desires with economic goods. In Capitalism and Individualism (1990, p. 51), Tibor Machan describes market failures as "freely conducted bad deeds in the market." Because of such "bad deeds," government proponents declare we need regulations and laws as correctives. Thus it is proper to create and enforce such programs as, "Affirmative action, safety and health regulation ... prohibitions of trade in drugs, pornography, or sex ..." (p. 162), "zoning ordinances, architectural standards ... health codes, (and) minimum wage laws" (p. 89) in order to achieve certain values or virtues which some people deem are appropriate and important for us all. Those who cry "market failure" are indubitably right that some of the values they desire would not be made, or made in the quantity they desire, without the state stepping into the picture. The question then is whether these critics are, indeed, accurate in their characterization of the market as frequently not achieving its goals or aims, i.e., that it "fails." The market as used here is known by many monikers: the free market, laissez faire, capitalism, free enterprise, free trade, or the market economy. So what is a market? A few definitions might help clarify this issue. A free market is: * "A sphere of human interactions where men and women offer their goods and services in exchange for ones they would rather have, provided certain terms are met." (Tibor Machan, op. cit. p. 41.) * "(A) market economy where private property is protected, competition is free and open, and the opportunity to trade and to make voluntary contracts is protected, so long as the persons involved do not use force, fraud or threat thereof to interfere with the equal rights of others." (Bettina Greaves, Free Market Economics, p. 229, 1975.) * Where "(m)en trade their goods or services by mutual consent to mutual advantage, according to their own independent, uncoerced judgment." (Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, p. 47, 1967.) * "Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned." (Rand, op.cit., p. 19, emphasis in original.) Given these definitions of a free market, are the charges of the interventionists and statists regarding market failure valid? Indeed, do they conceptually even make sense? As mentioned above, bad/negative/undesirable things, situations, and outcomes can occur or result from free market transactions. Many of the problems critics mention do, in fact, exist. But these results do not represent a failure of the free market. Indeed, when the concept is properly understood, the free market cannot fail. At best, "market failure" is a misnomer or a category error. At worst, it is a meaningless phrase; a myth. If one closely examines the definitions above, he will see that a free market is essentially and simply a process. It is a tool, a method, a way for free people to interact with one another to achieve what they desire in the economi c realm. Sometimes certain people end up with results they do not like. Or they may observe that other people are lacking in or obtaining various values which the observer believes those individuals should or should not have. Tastes Are Not Market Failures These undesired results, however, are not failures of a (truly) free market. Those less than optimal consequences may occur for a variety of reasons. If a friend purchases romance novels despite your insistence that he would be "better off" buying and reading Shakespeare, this is a failure of persuasion on your part, not a failure of the market. If billions of dollars are spent on pets
[CTRL] Secret White House Deal with Networks?
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.zolatimes.com/V4.4/white_house.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V4.4/white_house.htm"Secret White House Deal with Networks?, by Tibo /A - Secret White House Deal with Networks? by Tibor R. Machan It now comes to light that the Clinton White House has tried to negotiate a deal with the commercial TV networks concerning the content of TV entertainment. The proposal, kept from the public until now, has to do with trading mandatory public service messages for inserting anti-drug abuse messages into the story lines of television programming directed to kids. The carrot for this is for Networks to save money by not having to air the unpaid ads. During a roundtable discussion on PBS-TV, several news reporters discussed this topic, and while two of them objected not just to the secrecy but to the substance of the deal, two others found fault only with the secrecy while finding the idea of the deal quite palatable. The argument in support went this way: The networks are using public airwavesnamely, the electromagnetic spectrum that had been nationalized on the floor of the US Senate back in 1927 (giving rise to the establishment at first of the Federal Radio Commission, and then later the Federal Communications Commission); this empowered the federal government to call some of the shots as far as the use to which the networks will put the signals that travel via the spectrum; so the FCC, and by some perverse extension the White House itself, is authorized to impose terms of usage on network television. QED. As pointed out by many in the past, including yours truly, we have here once again a way government intrudes upon the free society via the process of making something public that never should have been made so. Why should government own the airwaves? There is no justification for this in a free society. It is socialist governments that characteristically nationalize important resources in the countries which they rule. Socialism is the political philosophy according to which individuals do not even exist but are only dependent parts of the larger whole that is society. Private property is anathema to socialism. The institution of the right to private property is a concrete, practical implementation of individual rights. It makes the free exercise of religion, of freedom of speech and expression possible for individuals. They can thus act independently of the wishes of others, should they so choose, including of the wishes of the government which in such a society has as its proper role the adjudication of disputes about conflicting rights claims. Beyond such adjudication, and the associated legal processes, governments in a free society are supposed to refrain from running the various tasks people may wish to embark upon, including providing entertainment in return for payment or advertising time. The beginning of the corruption of the proper role of government is the transformation of a system of private property rights into a system of public ownership of valued resources. When this commences, the rights of individuals, including their commercial associations such as partnerships and corporations, begins to be eroded and government begins to set the agenda of society. Granted, in democratic systems this can only be done if a sizable enough constituency supports that agenda. But even democracies can be tyrannical by imposing the will of the majority on everyone and thereby violating individual rights. Indeed, in a free society, democracy has a limited role in governance. It involves, mainly, the selection of the administrators of the legal system, not, however, the content of the laws. Indeed, the laws are supposed to protect individual rights and majorities only elect the representatives who interpret these laws and extend them to novel areas of concern. What we now are witnessing is the gradual elimination, in the name of the peoplethat is the majority of those who vote and their lackeysof individual sovereignty. Thus, in the case of the White House's proposed secret deal with the broadcast TV networks, it isn't a matter of market research that determines what will be put on television. It is, in part at least, a matter of political power. Sure, it can be a fine thing to take measures to discourage youngsters from abusing drugs and such, but this, in a free country, is supposed to be done by citizens freely associating with other citizens. They are to call the shots, not Mr. Clinton and his cohortswhose goals may at some point be fine but at others be quite insidious and whose job isn't to do the peaceful business of society. This is so even when they have democratic support. After all, the lynch mob adheres to majority rule, too, yet it is subverting due process as it carries out its perverted idea of justice. In less drastic but no less consequential ways, the federal government, lead by the
[CTRL] [5] Drug War/Covert Money, Power Policy- Black Fiends
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.drugwar.com/euro.htmfrom: Drug War - Covert Money, Power Policy 670 Page Paperback, 350 Illustrations, Sewn Binding, Not Yet Published Click Here: A HREF="http://www.drugwar.com/euro.htm"http://www.drugwar.com/e uro.htm/A - Illustrated Summaries of Much Longer Chapters Drug War Covert Money, Power Policy Black Fiends Negro cocaine "fiends" are new southern menace screamed Dr. Edward H. Williams in The New York Times, Feb. 8, 1914, while Harrison was in committee. Old Doc Williams didn't let the facts stand in his way: "But I believe the record of the 'cocaine nigger' near Asheville, who dropped five men dead in their tracks, using only one cartridge for each, offers evidence that is sufficiently convincing." "Nine men killed in Mississippi on one occasion by crazed cocaine takers, five in North Carolina, three in Tennessee - these are facts that need no imaginative coloring. And since this gruesome evidence is supported by the printed records of insane hospitals, police courts, jails, and penitentiaries, there is no escaping the conviction that drug taking has become a race menace in certain regions south of the line." At right, Williams' ally, Dr. Hamilton Wright, author of the Harrison Act. It seems to me that, from the Black perspective, the achievements of the cocaine nigger were an endorsement of cocaine. Obayi, in the Akan language of Ghana, means witchcraft; it is counteracted with myal, spirit possession for the purpose of identifying and prescribing the curative herbs. The captive African obeah and myal women and men of the West Indies teamed up to defend their enslaved culture. An 1891 Scientific American article, "Obeah Poisons and Poisoners," expresses the usual progressive compassion: "There is probably no locality where Anglo-Saxon civilization is now waging so active a warfare in this direction as in the British West Indies. There the colonial governments are brought face to face with the Obeahman, whose skill with native poisons is supplemented by a certain rude acquaintance with the pharmacopoeia, and whose sway over his debased followers is practically absolute." "Obeah, the worship and propitiation of the eternal snake as an emblem of evil, long ago degenerated into a series of obscene orgies among its West Indian followersit suffices to say that the result is to bring into great demand the services of the 'bush doctors,' as those uneducated charlatans are called who brew simples from the wild herbs at hand. This is not to be wondered at when we find that there is but one educated physician to every 12,300 of inhabitants, by far the greatest proportion of which are spread over stretches of wilderness, and what wonder that 'bush physic' is all that t he ignorant, neglected negroes ever receive?" The Southerners feared woman suffrage led logically to Black suffrage, and they had the votes to stop it. But the church ladies, who closed every WCTU meeting with their marching song, "All Around the World," sung to the tune of "Old Black Joe," argued that only the votes of educated "American" women could save the South now. The church ladies were strong allies of the anti-labor Anti-Saloon League. Southern factory owners and cotton planters hated unions at least as passionately as their Northern brethren, and they came to rely on the wholesome influence of the church ladies. The WCTU's Frances Willard herself had stressed that the problem with labor was not so much "how to make higher wages" but "how to turn present wages to better account." What that was supposed to mean to a sharecropper with starving children is beyond me. This ruthless bourgeois condescension was the prevailing attitude among the Southern Suffragettes and WCTU's. If they were what White female power was about, the South was all for it. For those who think that the rationale of American drug law isn't inherently racist and anti-tribal, or that it's different than the industrial fascism of alcohol Prohibition, we have the KKK-supported Rep. Richmond P. Hobson of Alabama. In the 1920's Hobson was the most famous anti-heroin crusader in the country. In 1911 Hobson was the man who introduced what became the Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition, in Congress. One of Charlie Rangel's favorite lies is that Drug Prohibition and Alcohol Prohibition are separate issues engineered by separate forces. They were, in fact, part and parcel of the same political program engineered by exactly the same individuals, most of them anti-Black racists. Rep. Hobson of Alabama was the Anti-Saloon League's most popular and highest paid speaker. The assumptions of his astounding arguments are all written into today's drug law. Here are some excerpts from his speech introducing what became the Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition, on Feb.2, 1911: "If a peaceable red man is subjected to the regular use of alcoholic beverage, he will speedily be
[CTRL] [2] CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/briefing/cia-5.htm Click Here: A HREF="http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/briefing/cia-5.htm"Chapter 2 -- Truman and Eisenhower: Launching t /A - Chapter 2 Truman and Eisenhower: Launching the Process On 22 November 1952, the newspapers reported that President Harry Truman, shortly after noon the previous day, had stolen away from the White House to give an "impromptu" speech at the Central Intelligence Agency. Truman had come to CIA at the invitation of the fourth Director of Central Intelligence, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, to address a training course of government officials. In that speech--delivered on a Friday afternoon almost two weeks after the national election--Truman revealed a great deal about his motives in founding the CIA and his aims in having the Agency provide intelligence briefings to the new President-elect, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. The President reminisced with his audience about how there had been no CIA when he had succeeded to the presidency in 1945. At that time, by many accounts, he had been surprised to discover how much information relating to intelligence and national security matters had been withheld from him. The most dramatic evidence of how ill-informed he was came on his 12th day in office when Secretary of War Henry Stimson briefed him for the first time on the Manhattan (atomic bomb) Project, about which Truman had heard only hints while serving as Vice President and on key Senate committees.[4] Truman also recalled how difficult it had been for him to obtain information from the various government departments, each of which seemed "walled off" from the others. On various occasions Truman had lamented to Smith that he "used to do all this myself." The President noted that this situation had been corrected over the intervening years, saying that the CIA's global intelligence operations and procedures for forwarding information had made it possible to "keep the President informed better than ever before." In a rather backhanded compliment, Truman said he believed that "we have an intelligence information service now that I think is not inferior to any in the world."[5] Truman was responsible for the very existence of that intelligence service. Within a year of his becoming President, in January 1946, he formed the Central Intelligence Group (CIG). In the President's mind, its key responsibility was to ensure that he personally received intelligence reports on a timely basis. On 15 February 1946 the CIG launched the Daily Summary, and in June a counterpart Weekly Summary was produced for the first time. Both these publications were sent to the White House for the President. Both the daily and weekly publications continued to be published after the Central Intelligence Group became the Central Intelligence Agency in September of 1947. There was much bureaucratic wrangling throughout the early years of the Central Intelligence Group and the Central Intelligence Agency about their proper role in the production of current intelligence. Virtually all key players involved with intelligence--in the military services, the War (later Defense) Department, and the State Department--had serious reservations about the new intelligence agency duplicating their work in current intelligence. The President was virtually alone in expecting to receive a daily, comprehensive current intelligence product, whatever the formal charters of the CIG and CIA might say. Needless to say, his expectations carried the day. To consolidate the production of current intelligence, CIA in January 1951 formed the Office of Current Intelligence (OCI), which existed until the late 1970s when its functions were assumed by other offices. The CIA officers who formed OCI were already preparing a closely held, all-source weekly intelligence publication, the first of its kind, called the Situation Summary. This was a global review, built around the Korean situation and its worldwide implications that formed the basis for General Smith's weekly briefings of the President. Shortly after the establishment of OCI, two new publications were inaugurated for wider distribution. The daily publication became the Current Intelligence Bulletin, first issued on 28 February 1951; in August a companion weekly publication, the Current Intelligence Weekly Review, was begun. Managers of OCI felt their early efforts had been rewarded when Truman, vacationing in Key West, Florida, wrote of the new publication, "Dear Bedel [sic], I have been reading the intelligence bulletin and I am highly impressed with it. I believe you have hit the jackpot with this one. Sincerely, Harry Truman."[6] The Current Intelligence Bulletin continued largely unchanged for the next 25 years. While
[CTRL] Dealer of Scanner, Ham, Shortwave, Covert, Anarchist, UFO, and Conspiracy Books!
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[CTRL] National ID Card
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:590624"National ID Card/A - Subject: National ID Card From: "James O. O'Kelley" A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] et/A Date: Sat, 22 January 2000 02:50 PM EST Message-id: dSni4.20694$[EMAIL PROTECTED] National ID card back from the dead In October 1999 legislation that would established a National ID System was repealed thanks to the protests of hundreds of thousands of Americans concerned about privacy matters. According to the American Policy Center Congressman Bill Barrett (R-NE) has now introduced HR 3429, the Legal Employment Authentication Program (LEAP) Act to completely reinstate the federal ID system We must react fast and with force. Call/write/fax Chairman Bill Goodling (Chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce) at (202) 225-4527 and tell him you oppose HR 3429 and any other effort which would ultimately give rise to a national ID system and then call your Congressman at (202) 225-3131 and tell him/her the same. -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin, 1759 - 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] Right-wing pagans . . .
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:590686"Re: Naomi Campbell and Hank Aaron/A - Subject: Re: Naomi Campbell and Hank Aaron From: "BAAL" A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A Date: Sat, 22 January 2000 10:06 PM EST Message-id: Zeui4.22835$[EMAIL PROTECTED] This loser is a liar! He says the crap below to look at his fundie Xian garbage. He knows people are curious and that's why he does this. He then suckers you to buy his "researched" Christian slop and thus finance his delusionary state of mind. Ask yourself this: How come only Xians have this fetish with Freemasonry and Illuminati. I'm a right-wing pagan and I don't see pagans et al (of all persuasions) babbling and gibbering about these so-called "conspiracies" CONSTANTLY. Could it be Christians, as members of a vast CULT mindset and an actual conspiracy to control people's minds, don't like what they perceive as *competition*? They are control freaks and view the Freemasons and Illuminati as an all-powerful and all-controlling phenomena. They want to reestablish their control over society and are singing the blues because their dead, discredited, religion's power has waned considerably for the last 100 years. B h h! Sincerely, Lord Baal Kansan1225/con artist wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]... The real given name of country music legend Hank Williams, Sr., was Hiram. For more information on the secret nature of Luciferian Masonry and satanic Zionism, please visit the Web site "Dark Millennium" at: A HREF="http://www.kurtsaxon.com/controv02.html"http://www.kurtsaxon.com/con trov02.html/A - 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
Re: [CTRL] Right-wing pagans . . .
I'd like to respond: Ask yourself this: How come only Xians have this fetish with Freemasonry andIlluminati. === Because their beliefs are offensive primarily to, perhaps only to, Christians. I'm a right-wing pagan and I don't see pagans et al (of all persuasions) babbling and gibbering about these so-called "conspiracies" CONSTANTLY. === Like all cultural, political, sociological and other issues, some scream louder and more frequently than others. Could it be Christians, as members of a vast CULT mindset and an actual conspiracy to control people's minds, don't like what they perceive as *competition*? === What do you refer to when you allege Christians are engaged in an actual conspiracy to control people's minds? Also, I don't think Christians see anybody or anything as real competition to the Lord Jesus Christ. They are control freaks and view the Freemasons and Illuminati as an all-powerful and all-controlling phenomena. === I am not a control freak.I view them as fluff compared to the power of Jesus Christ but I do not discount their power in the worldly realm, just as I do not discount the power of Satan in the evil realm. They want to reestablish their control over society and are singing the blues becausetheir dead, discredited, religion's power has waned considerably for thelast 100 years. B h h! === Yes, Christians would like to establish Christian principles in society. As would Moslems who maintain to kill a Christian (infidel) will gain them more points with Allah when they get to the next life. Christiansknow that Christianitywon't be established until Revelations says so. They knowthat tribulation must precede it. Again, some are more antsy than others when it comes to persecution. We aren't used to it like they are in Sudan, Iran, Indonesia, Chinaand elsewhere.
[CTRL] Drugging Kids: MTA Study Critique
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.htmlFrom: Ian Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Drugging Kids: MTA Study Critique Date: Saturday, January 22, 2000 5:31 PM The "MTA study" funded by the National Institute of Mental Health is being touted as the long-awaited research confirming that long-term (14 month) drugging of children with stimulants to control misbehavior is more effective than drug-free behavioral therapy. In the following report, however, Peter Breggin, MD, gives us a second opinion about the findings of this study. The first objection Breggin raises constitutes the complete elimination of the study: the study was not a placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial. Amazing! Both the study subjects and those evaluating the performance of the subjects knew which subjects were on drugs and which were not, which is known as an "open label" study. The reasons why double-blind placebo-controlled studies are essential for valid drug research are basic to established standards for scientific research -- standards that the much- touted MTA study fails to satisfy. Based on that fact alone, the MTA study is essentially junk science that amounts to a taxpayer-funded advertisement for drugs, yet that's just the beginning of Breggin's critique: = A Critical Analysis of the Multimodal Treatment Study for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (The MTA Study) by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. January 12, 2000 After many months of positive publicity in the psychiatric and the general media, the results of the Multimodal Treatment Study for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (The MTA Study) were finally published in December 1999 (MTA Cooperative Group, 1999ab). The study was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at six separate sites in the United States. At each site, the study compared four treatment conditions: (1) medication management alone, (2) combined medication management and behavioral therapy, (3) behavioral treatment, and (4) community care. The average age of the children was eight and 80% were boys. The aim of the study was to "resolve controversies and clinical quandaries about the relative value of medication and behavioral treatments" (National Institute of Mental Health, undated). The proponents of the study claim that it demonstrated the superiority of stimulant treatment over behavioral treatments and routine community treatment. However, an examination of the MTA study reveals that it was so grossly flawed methodologically that it lacks scientific validity. The following is a general critique of the MTA study. I. The MTA was not a placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial. The MTA study fails to meet the commonly accepted criteria for a scientific study of medication efficacy or effectiveness. It was not a placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trial (MTA Cooperative Group, 1999a). First, there was no placebo control group and no non-treatment control group. Second, to reach their conclusions, the investigators relied upon evaluations made by teachers and parents who were not blind to the treatment. That is, the raters whom the investigators relied upon knew whether or not the children were taking medication. In short, the MTA was an "open label" study--the kind that does not qualify as scientifically valid. It could not be used, for example, for FDA approval of a drug. Rater, researcher, and subject biases, unconscious or conscious, influence the outcome of "open label" studies. Researchers commonly want to prove that the treatment under investigation is effective, and in the case of the MTA studies, all the principal investigators were staunch advocates of medication. Evaluators of efficacy are often unconsciously influenced to perceive what they anticipate perceiving, such as improvement in subjects treated with drugs. Also, the subjects themselves often respond positively to please their doctors or as a result of their belief that the drug will help them. Therefore, open label studies have been discredited for purposes of studying efficacy. As Nies and Spielberg (1996, p. 45) observe, "Placebo effects, which occur in a large percentage of patients, can confound many studies--particularly those that involve subject responses; controls must take this into account" (for additional discussions of placebo, double-blind procedures, and research standards, see Fisher and Greenberg, 1989). II. The blind classroom raters found no difference in any of the treatment groups, i.e., behavioral interventions were equal to medication interventions. The MTA used one group of "blinded ratings
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Sunday #2
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000123b - - - - - - - - - - - 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 clueless newbies were salvaged during production of this bulletin... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Scarlet Letters: http://www.scarletletters.com/current/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # OOPS! Nuke Secrets Disclosed by Mistake - DoE Releases, Retracts Weapons Data. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's aggressive push five years ago to declassify historic papers led to about 1,000 documents containing nuclear weapons secrets to be mistakenly declassified. Is our face red! www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/22/nukesecrets0122_01.html : Have you released any nuclear secrets lately? Was your leak intentional, accidental, un-conscious, other-directed? Are you, like, rilly, rilly sorry? Are you afraid of what will happen next? Should you be? Should WE be? Why? @ Disco Nervoso - At Club Phobia, the only thing left to feel is fear itself. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/phobia.html/mg20004 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kinkel Tells Cops He Had 'No Choice' - Oregon School Killer's Actions: http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/22/kinkel0122_01.html # White Supremacist Campaigns on Campus - NWU Grapples With Hateful Message: www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/22/supremacist0122_01.html : Do you have choices? Do you choose to hate? Is it a good, useful, workable choice? D'ya mind if others hate you? D'ya thrive on their hate? D'ya feed on violent emotions? D'ya get an adrenaline rush? Are you addicted to hate? @ ED. Meet Ed Testy. He's a right-thinkin', God-fearin', gub'mint-hatin' American patriot! Oh yeah, there's one little thing: Ed also happens to be a small gray alien. But don't tell him that, or he'll plug you full o' buckshot. http://www.mediatrip.com/per/House_Picks/Ed_Testy.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Kidnapped Son of Cult Leader Found. TOKYO - Police on Sunday found the kidnapped son of a former cult guru who is on trial for the 1995 sarin gassing on Tokyo subways. The 7-year-old boy had been abducted Friday by several people believed to be members of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult. It was unclear why the child, the son of Shoko Asahara, was kidnapped. Japanese media reports said it was probably related to infighting within the cult. http://www.usatoday.com/aponline/212309/212309393400.htm : Does y'r cult have serious factional disputes? Do all cults? Do all belief systems tend to fragment into incompatible factions? Is that how ya can tell you're dealing with beliefs, not reality? What's your favorite schism? Why? # Bahai leader buried. The last survivor of the holy family of the Bahai faith, Madame Ruhiyyah Rabbani, is buried in Israel - the end of an era. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_615000/615654.stm # "I never knew that there's actually a duct tape fad. Sometimes I feel so old." http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58675-2000Jan17.html --from http://www.rc3.org/ -- and see http://www.robotwisdom.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK Catholic Cardinal Likens Gay Lobby to Nazis. EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics provoked an angry reaction from gay rights groups on Sunday by comparing the threat from the homosexual lobby in Europe to that of the Nazis during World War Two. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2123/wl/scotland_gays_1.html : Who has burnt more people: ActUp, Nazis, the Vatican's Holy Office [the Inquisition]?? Is the Cardinal using the Big Lie technique? What's your fave Big Lie? Do you lie big? Do you control minds? Do you practice a lot? How? @ Deeper Insights into the Illuminati Formula: http://mercury.spaceports.com/~persewen/deeper_insights_index.htm @ Chechnya: http://www.fieldingtravel.com/df/dplaces/chechnya/index.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Pornography: an epidemic. Easy access on Net spurs religious intervention. Ever-beckoning and always available, Joe's computer seemed to call out every time he walked past his home office. Where others saw a dark, blank screen, he saw the tawdry images dance through his mind, even when he wasn't wired into the Internet. The secret obsession was affecting his work, his family, even his relationship with God. He was hooked. What a pickle: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150007699,00.html : Are you addicted to sex, porn, gods, food, drugs, ETs, TV, me? Does porn address more basic drives than religion? Are the most successful religions pornographic? D'ya prefer sex.porn, god.porn, war.porn, celeb.porn, robots? # Couple seeks double sex change: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9267943
Re: [CTRL] National ID Card
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 01/23/2000 11:05:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: National ID card back from the dead In October 1999 legislation that would established a National ID System was repealed thanks to the protests of hundreds of thousands of Americans concerned about privacy matters. According to the American Policy Center Congressman Bill Barrett (R-NE) has now introduced HR 3429, the Legal Employment Authentication Program (LEAP) Act to completely reinstate the federal ID system How come it's always the Republicans who want to get Government off our backs that want to know every move we make? And are we to understand that Nebraska has a problem with illegal immigrants? 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] Colleen's a . . . NOPOST for pennie_hammons@HOTMAIL.COM
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 1/21/00 8:26:33 PM, Wes676767 writes: Kris- I don't believe that you're being fair in your treatment of Pennie. I directed her here to CTRL because of the ABUSE she was taking at SNET, and I feel a bit of responsibility for this. I also think that you're utilizing a double standard regarding her loss of status. I don't believe that you even admonished that one fool for using not only my e-mail address but MY NAME...my REAL name, as the subject line of a recent post! How could you dismiss Pennie for what she wrote? I'm not partial but let's face it, Colleen isn't the sanest passenger on this "ship of fools" and if you recall, she took her leave from this list as protest of your similar banishment of an e_mael, who DID threaten me personally...quite a different indiscretion...Fair is fair, and this isn't fair! I totally disagree with Pennie on the subject of religion, but I fail to see what she did to deserve this fate. There are worse on this list Kris, and you know that to be factual! Bill. from an anonymous lurker; I am a lurker on CTRL.(I use an internet account becuase frankly it is alot of mail) I really enjoy reading all the posts and share them with friends. I agree with you in that it Doesnt matter if Colleen is a witch. And I understand your concern about people not attacking other members of the List. But I also do not think it right for members of the list to threaten other members of list in a personal email. Also last week a guy named ray personally attacked a guy named Bill and posted to the list and nothing at all was said to him. He didnt even get a warning. I know that you are the list owner and you get to make the decision to no post someone, but it seems like your decision to do so in this case was based on a personal dislike for her.You seem to be a fine person and I enjoy reading your postsas well as Colleens and Pennie's. Anyways thanks for taking the time to read my 2cents In a message dated 1/21/00 7:57:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Being the perogative of the list owner, I have given [EMAIL PROTECTED] a nopost. I am personally tired of her divisiveness and baloney. Posting personal email to attack someone is unethical and I do not care for it. I dunna care if collen is a witch, buddha or mother teresa. As long as she is civil and conducts her self with decorum, I have no problem. Please stop all the unferifiable scriptoral religiousity and bickering . . . Om K I will relent an allow Pennie back-on, The drop in noise has been nice though. Please, I understand that there are differences of belief. But to truly affect some change and reclaim our republic from the treasonous deviant-elite it will take coalitions of all of us. We are all human beings with our own experiences and understandings of the world. The enemy of your enemy maybe and can be your friend. The business of whether you are right or wrong and this continual bickering about matters of faith will garner persons NOPOSTS. And yes I may seem capricious, and to a certain level it is. I do not have time to read thoroughly all posts, I do notice "nosiemakers" and then I will tend to look at their postings closer. And then again this list is not for me to get out jollies being some sort of referee. I do not wish to monitor posts before they hit the list. So let us all please get along. Om K - 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] Insurrection!
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 4:41 PM Subject: Insurrection Against Neo-Liberalism in Ecuador PGA Action at WTO Seattle - http://members.aol.com/pgacaravan -- please spread widely -- Dear All, I just received this fwd message coming from Ecuador saying that there are currently mass protests going on against the dramatic situation in a country that has suffered neoliberal exploitation and that "the revolution is starting". I was sceptic, so I picked up the phone and phoned an organisation called "Accion Ecologica" whose phone number I had just received recently. I had the chance to speak to someone who is the representative of this organisation at the alternative parliament who is currently debating a strategy for the coming days. He said that the mobilisations have started progressively in the last days already and that several cities are already "taken". He said the large mobilisation for Quito (the capital) is going to be for Monday and Tuesday. He said at least 40.000 indigenas are expected to come into the city, but the mobilisation involve many sectors of society. He said also that international observers are expected to come in the next days and that they hope that from then on the news will be spread internationaly. So far the state controlled media has been promoting non stop lies about how wonderful the neoliberal policies have been in the last years. Nobody believes it anymore. As I asked him if this was a struggle for power, for taking control of the governement, he said no, it's a Poeples Power, there is a Poeples assembly who works in a complicated system of representation [I didn't understand everything in this short phone call]. Infrastructure for communication is being set up, there is a press commission that has been created (comision de prensa) by the Peoples Assembly. I asked him also if they were afraid of repression and he said he hoped the international support would be able to avoid it. We are likely to get more information in the next days and clarification on what kind of "revolution" this is. So stay tuned ! Most of the information is likely to be in Spanish, so if there are people willing to help doing spanish-english translations (or spanish to any other language) please contact me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hasta la victoria !! Our resistance is as transnational as capital !! Luciano The following is - a fwd letter sent by Spanish students currently in Ecuador. This is a rough translation I did, feel free to correct the English. - an pasted article from August 99 which gives a good insight into the situation in Ecuador To everyone getting this information: This is a text that was fwd by companher@s from Barcelona which are currently in Ecuador for motives related to their studies and are currently assisting to probably one of the most encouraging news of the millennium. Please distribute this message as wide as you can and organise yourself to find ways of supporting peoples struggle in Ecuador. REVOLUTION BEGINS IN ECUADOR ! Dear companher@s Ecuador is very close to a national revolution - it is currently necessary to do solidarity actions in support of this peoples movement who aims to put an end to neoliberal economic exploitation which has lead to the current crisis. We are some students from UAB (university) in the country y we see the urgent necessity to create a platform of international support in order to prevent a indiscriminate repression of this popular movement. We ask you: 1.- to spread this information through as many ways as possible 2.- that you send us contacts for the spreading of further communiques to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3.- That people take initiative to coordinate platforms at continental and national level 4.- it is necessary to create a network that will reach mass media and alternative media. It is possible that United States may react with repression in case this popular movement succeeds in his attempt to overthrow the power 5.- We are currently waiting for a document with the strategy that is discussed at the Parlament of Ecuatorian People (a rebel parlament), which will be a document of international strategy addressed to all movements of the world, NGOs etc. We ask you to create the necessary conditions for such a network to function. General Situation in the Country The economic, social and political crisis that Ecuador has been going through in the last years has been worsening dramatically in the last months. As a matter of fact since Jamil Mahuad came into power, the sucre (national currency) has only been losing acquisition power compared to the dollar: the price of the dollar has doubled since 1999 (is it 25000 sucres for a dollar now) For the minority of people, those who have acquisition power and a bank
Re: [CTRL] One World Govt 10 regions.
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- How wrong is this post? Let me count the ways. earthman wrote: -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- I hear that Israel is lumped in with NZ and Oz. Hmmm I wonder who will be pulling the strings if this is the case. Peter 1) What could possibly be the point of lumping Israel with NZ and OZ? Israel and its neighbors are being forced into phony peace treaties because the NWO needs to establish THAT REGION as an economic entity. Israel's capitalist economy will be the anchor economy for the region. I was told by an ex-Clinton cabinet person that the political elites have the attitude that "the Arabs are incapable of running a modern economy." - Original Message - From: Nicky Molloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 12:34 PM Subject: [CTRL] One World Govt 10 regions. -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.jdkoftinoff.com/canal30.html THE COMING ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT Nations Comprising 10 Future "Kingdoms" This list is compiled from a map found on page 42 of "En Route to Global Occupation", by Gary H. Kah, published by Huntington House Publishers of Lafayette, Louisiana, 1991. ( This book is great - He is said to have been killed for that with quick acting cancer .N) One really must laugh at this kind of info. This stuff is Bible based bullshit. " Ten Kingdoms?" When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. When you are afflicted with the religious disease, everything starts to look like Bible prophesy. The data that created the map originates with Mihajlo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel, authors of "Mankind at the Turning Point-The Second Report to the Club of Rome', published by E. P. Dutton Co., Inc.,/Reader's Digest Press, 1974. For the uninformed, the Club of Rome is an offsoot of The Bildebergers, through one Aurelio Peccei (now deceased), a prominent Italian industrialist with close ties to the Fiat and Olivetti corporations. Like The Bildebergers, the COR draws a high percentage of its members from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The COR has been assigned the task of overseeing the regionalization and unification of the entire world, wherein ALL nations of the world will give up their sovereignty in favor of a global government! So far, so good. Following are the ten regions and the approximate territories they will comprise. These regions are synonomous with "kingdoms", Only in the minds of the superstitiously aflicted. likely, each with a head reporting to the world government of the day. REGION 1 Canada United States 1) Mexico is part of NORTH America, and is already a partner in NAFTA with the US and Canada. REGION 2 Western Europe British Isles Norway, Sweden and Finland Turkey This is probably correct. My personal guess is that Turkey won't remain in the fold once the Turkish people overthrow their elites. REGION 3 Japan Pacific Islands 3) Too limited. Japan's is supposed to be the anchor economy for that region. REGION 4 Australia New Zealand South Africa 4) Not South Africa. More likely the Pacific Islands. SA is the anchor economy for Southern Africa, which is also thought of by the ( American )elites as a " basket case " incapable of developing a modern economy. REGION 5 Eastern Europe Russia Siberia Mongolia Korea Never happen! REGION 6 Central America (including Mexico) South America Carribean Islands 5) This one is all wrong. Mexico is part of NAFTA. Central America and the Caribbean would be a separate region from South America. None of these areas will be successful for the NWO, simply because Capitalism is the wrong economic system for these particular regions. These economies are failing as we speak. Unless America re-establishes control by providing a new crop of dictators, the regions will develop their own economics. That would put them outside the control of the NWO. Before that happens America will invade and establish military power in the region. The example of Columbia comes to mind. REGION 7 Egypt Lybia Tunisia Algeria Morrocco Saudi Penisula Jordan Syria Iraq Iran Afghanistan Pakistan 6) Ridiculous. REGION 8 Africa (without the above North African countries and South Africa) Madagascar Probably right. REGION 9 India S. E. Asia 7) Not as long as China exists. REGION 10 China 8) Ridiculous. China will always try to have its OWN economic empire. This list is twenty years old. Alignment may vary in final format. The primary issue is: a one-world govern- ment has been officially planned and shall be fully implemented in the near future. Officially planned, yes. Implemented? Never! I have been writing for years that the NWO will not succeed in establishing a one world
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Chip Tatum
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catherine Austin Fitts wants to know if Doise Gene "Chip" Tatum is for real. My new book has 5 chapters on Tatum. He is for real. I'll share one vignette with you. Once, while flying Black Ops for the Company (Tatum thought he was carrying medical supplies), he landed in a small airport outside Little Rock. A vehicle drove up. A man stepped out and introduced himself to Tatum as "Dr. Dan Lasater." Another man was in the vehicle with Tatum. He was introduced to Tatum as Governor Bill Clinton. Unbeknownst to Lasater and Clinton, one of the large ice chests (his cargo consisted of 2 large ice chests taped shut with military issue "hundred-mile-an-hour tape") had broken open earlier, and had be resealed. Before resealing it, Tatum saw its contents: cellophane bags of an off-white colored powder. The ice chest containing the powder was loaded into the Lasater vehicle, and he and Clinton drove away. I believe Tatum's account is 100% accurate. Odom --- 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
[CTRL] Baltimore Sun article about letters to Tripp prosecutor (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Notes on Tripp are mostly sour Letters: A Maryland prosecutor hears from people all over the country about the wiretap case, and three out of four fault him. By Del Quentin Wilber Sun Staff From all corners of America, dozens of people have written letters on scrap paper, letterhead and even a Christmas card to vent their anger at one man: State Prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli. They are upset that Montanarelli is "hounding" and "harassing," "persecuting" and "prosecuting" Linda R. Tripp on state wiretapping charges. One writer suggests that Montanarelli should die; another calls him a "pimp"; still another includes his photograph with the caption, "Liar." About 130 letters, obtained by The Sun under the Maryland Public Information Act, have arrived at the state prosecutor's office in Towson since February 1998, when Montanarelli began looking into whether Tripp illegally taped White House intern Monica Lewinsky's conversations about President Clinton. They portray an interesting slice of the American psyche and what possesses people from Oregon to New York to write about the prosecution of a Columbia woman accused of illegally taping a single telephone conversation. Most of the letter writers said they wanted to get something off their chest. Just ask James Giancola, 71, a retired restaurant owner in Las Vegas, Nev. Giancola, a Republican, recalled seeing a Tripp-related story in the newspaper lastmonth, so he decided to send Montanarelli a card displaying a photograph of a little girl thumbing her nose at the camera. "You are going to lose this case and look like a monkey in the process. I feel you're a disgrace to the Italian people," he wrote. Giancola says he feels bad for Tripp, who has been savaged for her role in the scandal. She blew the whistle on high-level corruption, Giancola says, and was simply trying to protect herself. Writing the letter made him feel better. "God bless her," Giancola said. "She deserves a medal." Polite beginnings Many of the letters begin "Dear Mr. Montanarelli" and go on to accuse him of wasting taxpayer dollars, participating in a nationwide conspiracy and using his office for political intimidation. One suggests that he has helped the justice system sink "to the sewer level!" Another writer sent one page -- 30 times by fax -- with the words: "Shame, Disgust and Nauseating!" For his part, Montanarelli says he reads every single letter and shrugs off the criticism. "They are addressed to me, and I read them," Montanarelli said. "I don't expect everyone to agree with what I do. I think if they knew me personally, they would not venture those opinions of me." He should take heart. About 25 percent of the letters were positive, applauding his determination. "I am really glad you're taking her to trial and so are many people I talk to," proclaims one letter writer from Gambrills. "Don't let Linda Tripp squirm out of it." Arriving in batches The letters, faxes and e-mails from ordinary Americans have arrived in batches. About 40 were delivered within days of Tripp's indictment in July on two counts of violating the state's wiretapping statute; 30 arrived after the highly publicized hearings last month on whether prosecutors gathered their evidence without using Tripp's immunized testimony to Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr. Tripp's tape-recordings from her Columbia home exposed a sexual relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky. The tapes led to Clinton's impeachment in December 1998. Others involved in the case have also received piles of mail. Legal advice for lawyer Tripp's Web site (www.linda tripp.com) posts dozens of notes from supporters. Her attorney, Joseph Murtha, says he has received several letters and his client has accumulated thousands. Though some have sought his autograph, Murtha says, most letter writers are giving him unsolicited legal advice from across the nation. "Some people have taken a lot of time to research the Maryland statute," Murtha said. But he doesn't read all of them. "If I read everything, I would run out of time," he said. Most experts seem surprised at the relatively small number of letters Montanarelli has received, especially after the intense feelings the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal generated. "This is probably the most publicized minor crime in the last two years," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Governmental studies and author of "Feeding Frenzy," a book about how the news media cover politics. "The people who are most anti-Clinton would naturally be inclined to defend her," he said. "The people who were most opposed to the impeachment process are inclined to call for her head. Linda Tripp is arguably a central figure in all this." Outrage to sympathy The letter writers agreed with that assessment, saying they wrote to Montanarelli for various reasons, ranging from outrage to sympathy. Some even
Re: [CTRL] book burning
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- limits on freedom And if he's elected, I'm sure there will be. There already are, lots of them, and more everyday. Voting against Bush will not reverse this trend. Voting will not reverse this trend. Most limits on freedom do not stem from elected officials. They are the dictates of unelected bureaucrats and corporate boards of directors. 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] Outfitting China's Military--Again (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.latimes.com/print/opinion/2123/t07103.html Sunday, January 23, 2000 Outfitting China's Military--Again Commerce Dept. works to allow the export of a tool like the ones that prompted a Justice Dept. indictment. By GARY MILHOLLIN Just over two months ago, CATIC, the Chinese military and aviation giant, was indicted for diverting American machine tools to a Chinese cruise missile and military aircraft plant. The powerful machines had produced parts for the B-1 strategic bomber and the MX nuclear missile, and CATIC was charged with lying to get the machines out of the U.S. in 1995 by promising to restrict them to civilian use. Yet with the ink barely dry on the indictment, the Clinton administration has begun to undermine it. According to U.S. officials, the Commerce Department wants to allow one of CATIC's sister companies to buy the same kind of American machine tool that CATIC is accused of diverting. "Even in the face of an indictment," said one government official familiar with the case, "there is no behavior change. It is still business as usual." If the deal goes through, it will show that there are no real limits on high-tech exports to China. The export in question is a five-axis milling machine, a computer-controlled marvel similar to the machines listed in CATIC's indictment. It is capable of making high-precision parts for China's next generation of fighters, bombers and missiles. A company in Milford, Mass., named Bostomatic has requested permission to sell the machine to China's Xian Aero Engine Co., which makes engines for China's military aircraft, including the nuclear-capable H-6 strategic bomber. Bostomatic was purchased last year by the Agie Charmilles Group, a Swiss concern. According to U.N. inspectors, 11 of Agie's machine tools were found at five of Saddam Hussein's leading nuclear weapon and missile sites in 1992. And in January 1999, Gen. Alexander Zdanovich, a spokesman for Russia's foreign intelligence services, said that Agie also had supplied Iran with equipment for making liquid-fueled ballistic missiles. Why does the Commerce Department want to allow a suspect Swiss conglomerate to sell a sensitive American product to a Chinese military aircraft plant? The Commerce Department is supposed to protect the American public from such risks but, instead, is trying to promote trade no matter what the cost to national security. The Pentagon is fighting the export license. The same officials who tried to block the export of the machines that CATIC diverted in 1995 are objecting to this one. The officials were right the last time, but got overruled. Xian Aero Engine is pledging to use the milling machine only to make civilian aircraft. That is what CATIC promised. Since Xian and CATIC are part of the same state-owned organization, no one should be fooled. Nor should anyone be fooled by the CATIC indictment. It took more than four years for the Justice Department to get around to it, and Justice is dragging its feet in a string of other apparently illegal exports of U.S. high technology. In 1996, Silicon Graphics Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., sold four supercomputers to one of Russia's leading nuclear weapon laboratories without the required export license. The U.S. computers were 10 times more powerful than anything the Russians had. After the deal was done, Russia's nuclear chief told the press that Russia would start designing its warheads with simulated explosions using the American computers. There is considerable evidence that Silicon Graphics broke the law. It knew it needed a U.S. export license and did not get one. The case was sent to a a federal grand jury in 1997, where it has languished. Also in 1996, Silicon Graphics sold a powerful supercomputer to China's Academy of Sciences, which develops nuclear warheads and long-range missiles, and IBM sold an equally powerful supercomputer in 1997 to the Indian Institute of Science, India's leading missile research site. Neither Silicon Graphics nor IBM bothered to obtain the required export licenses. The Cox committee on Chinese spying found that Hughes Electronics and Loral Space and Communications, two big American satellite makers, "deliberately acted without the legally required licenses and violated U.S. export control laws" when they helped China improve its rockets in 1995 and 1996. To boost their profits, these U.S. firms gave China technology that could, in the committee's words, increase "the reliability of all PRC ballistic missiles." A federal grand jury has had these cases for more than a year and a half. The message from these cases is the same: Get the exports out, and don't worry about the law. The Justice Department probably won't indict you, and even if it does, the Commerce Department will help you get
[CTRL] Canada-USA Border ;-)
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Sign over the Canada-USA border at Blaine, Washington: "WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA" Cartoon, Georgia Straight, 1/00 Vancouver, BC 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] [1] The Last of The Big-Time Bosses
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- an excerpt from: The Last of The Big-Time Bosses Warren Moscow©1971 All Rights Reserved Stein and Day New York, N.Y. ISBN 0-8128-1400-2 227 pps. - First/only Edition - Out-of-print - The revelance here is that Bill O'Dwyerif I remember all this rightwas the military Governor of Italy after WWII and helped develop a huge blackmarket with Mafia help and I believe this alliance was used to "dispose" of the narcotics that Dulles got from the SS stores in Germany after Dulles against orders accepted terms of surrender from SS and italian forces a day before the Official surrender and helped to usher in the alliance of the mob, intel, bureaucrats and drugs. These "monies' were then used to fund "ops" and other slushy things with Skorsky[sp?], Ghelen, Barbie, Mengle, Ricord, the ACL's among others. MHO Om K - THREE THE JUNGLE In George Washington's first administration as President there came into being an organization which dubbed itself the Society of Tammany or the Columbian Order. It was set up as the poor man's answer to the patrician Society of the Cincinnati, a group of Washington's army officers who hoped for upper-crust rule of the new republic. Both organizations were supposedly national in scope, but the Cincinnati died off in short order, and the Society of Tammany flourished only in New York. By the Jacksonian era the patriotic order, as Tammany chose to regard itself, was synonymous with the Democratic Party of the city of New York. The Society of Tammany had a permanent headquarters, a "hall," where the sachems and the wiskinkis donned their fraternal regalia every Fourth of July and, through district clubs with Indian names, operated the Democratic political machine the other 364 days of the year. To the people and press the machine became known as Tammany Hall, after the edifice it used to house both branches. In the first part of the current century the headquarters, or Wigwam, was a genteelly shabby structure on 14th Street east of Union Square, where Charles F. Murphy sat behind a desk and quietly issued the orders that made or broke politicians of the day. In the late 1920s Tammany's wealth was such that it could afford a handsome, neo-Colonial brick building, tailored architecturally to its needs, at the southeast corner of 17th Street and Fourth Avenue; to house both the political and fraternal wings, with even an assembly hall -for large meetings. By 1943, when the thirty-five-year-old Carmine De Sapio first took his seat as a member of Tammany's ruling body, the executive committee, the organization was bankrupt of cash and its hall was gone, foreclosed and sold because there was no money to meet the mortgage payments. So for his first meeting, De Sapio went to a three-room suite in an office building at 331 Madison Avenue, at 43rd Street, which provided just enough space for a waiting room, a conference room, and a private office for the boss. The only political lore attached to the edifice was the fact that on a lower floor, a decade before, Louis McHenry Howe and James A. Farley had maintained the private headquarters of their drive to win delegates for the first nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt for President. There was no room in the new quarters for the Society of Tammany, with its banners, trophies, and souvenirs, so the "patriotic" branch of Tammany, shifting for itself for the first time, found rooms in the National Democratic Club, and later expired quietly, without even a public announcement of its dissolution. The immediate reason for Tammany's bankruptcy in 1943 lay in La Guardia's long tenure in City Hall. His original election in 1933 had hurt Tammany, his reelections in 1937 and 1941 had ruined it. The continued hold of the fiery little mayor meant, for example, that by, 1943 every city magistrate, whose term ran for ten years at most, owed his appointment to the mayor, not to Tammany Hall. The control of these police courts had been of tremendous value to Tammany in the past: favors could be done there, without fanfare or publicity, for both honest citizens down on their luck and for professional criminals who paid for protection. The mayor had also sponsored the adoption of a new city charter, which curtailed the power of departments Tammany had always controlled. He was in the process of wiping out the county office sinecures, such as the sheriff's office and the 150 no-show jobs that went with it. There was no state patronage either, for a Republican governor, Tom Dewey, sat in Albany. There was plenty of job and favor patronage being handed out of Washington by the third-term Roosevelt administration, but the bulk of it went to the Democratic organizations in Brooklyn and the Bronx, in return for their steadfast support of Roosevelt's policies, compared with Tammany's opposition or sulky acceptance of them. The Bronx and Brooklyn, which once had followed Tammany's leadership for
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] On a Postive Note, David Guyatt, On a Negative Note, Hillary Clinton
From: "Linda Minor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I read the book Blood Sport by James B. Stewart, and one of the things that struck me was the close connection between Hillary and her lawyer in New York, Susan Thomases--a partner with the extremely dirty securities firm of Willkie, Farr and Gallagher. This is the firm which Zucker and Kenneth Bialkin were members of. Bialkin's clients have included Robert Vesco, Michael Milken and Meshulam Riklis. He was behind the merger between Lehman Brothers and Kuhn, Loeb, as well as the buyout by Shearson Hayden Stone of Loeb Rhoades and the subsequent buyout of all of the above by American Express. His reward was a seat on the board of American Express alongside Henry Kissinger. It was also Bialkin who engineered the partnership between Amex and Edmund Safra that later resulted in headlines over money-laundering allegations in the bank Safra sold to Amex, the Republic National Bank of New York. [See: Editors of EIR, The Ugly Truth about the ADL, pp. 49-50.] Bialkin left Willkie Farr and went to Skadden, Arps. http://teaminfinity.com/~ralph/spotlight.conspiracy.html It turns out that just before he went on to the IRS, Fred Goldberg - the IRS Commissioner who gave the controversial tax exemption to the "Church" of $cientology - was the law partner of ADL National Chairman Kenneth Bialkin. The two were ensconced at the Wall Street firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom - known to "insiders" as the ADL's favorite law firm. (For more on $cientology's tax exemption, see Vince Ryan's column on page 9.) http://www.umf.net/data/library/umfmag7.htm Seventeen years ago, the first edition of Dope, Inc. was released. Commissioned by anti-drug American statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr, it was the first book to reveal that the illegal drug cartel was becoming the world's biggest business; to name the causes of the war 'Dope, Inc.' has waged against every nation in the world; and to reveal the names of the 'untouchable' figures who protect it, including the European monarchs, whom our Hollywood media have sold to the public as veritable deities. Even before the first copies of the first edition of Dope, Inc.-Britain's Opium War Against the United States, rolled off the press in December 1978, leaders of the narcotics enterprise were busy trying to stop LaRouche. Beginning in summer 1978, the Anti Defamation League (ADL) launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to label LaRouche and his political associates as "anti-Semites" for daring to expose the involvement of gangsters like Merey Lansky and Zionist lobby leaders like Edgar Bronfman and Max Fisher in the dope business. LaRouche also identified the powerful British Crown bankers as partners in the dope trade, along with the Jewish crime syndicate. The ADL's 'anti-Semitic' smear against LaRouche was pure 'big lie' terrorism in the tradition of Nazi propagandist Joesph Goebbels. Everyone who bothered to look into the matter knew that LaRouche's political career had been built around his discoveries in physical economy, and that by 1978 he had written hundreds of articles and several books exposing the fascist economic austerity policies behind the Nazi holocaust which killed millions of Jews and other victims. The ADL's bizarre slanders prompted EIR's investigators to scrutinize the history of the supposed 'Jewish civil rights' organization. The probe turned up a 70-year legacy of intimate ADL ties with Jewish gangsters, from Meyer Lansky and his 'Our Crowd' sponsor Arnold Rothstein, to more contemporary Dope, Inc. figures such as Max Fisher, Edgar Bronfman, Edmond Safra, Meshulam Riklis, the ADL's own national chairman, Kenneth Bialkin, and the lawyer for the Medellin Cartel's 'American connection', Robert Vesco. We also discovered that much of the ADL's financial backing comes from leading families of the Anglo-American establishment, whose fortunes trace back to the British banks and trading companies that ran the opium clipper ships in and out of China in the last century. To this day, the ADL holds the key to the corruption of the American political and judicial system, a corruption that was bought and paid for by the proceeds of the international dope trade. Lyndon LaRouche was railroaded to prison on a train built by drug money and stoked by government officials and private agencies on the pad of Dope, Inc. By the summer of 1982, the ADL was joined in its 'Get LaRouche' efforts by Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State and recipient of the ADL's Man of the Year award. Kissinger launched a vendetta to get the federal government to shut down the LaRouche movement. The case of LaRouche associate, Lewis du Pont Smitch, illustrates the desperation of the efforts by Kissinger and the 'Get LaRouche' task force to stop the LaRouche movement's organizing of a national war on drugs. An heir to the du Pont family industrial fortune, Smitch contributed US$212,000 to
Re: [CTRL] [illusions] Re: [EWAR] Radar weirdness over Pine Ridge-Dialogue
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Re: [illusions] Re: [EWAR] Radar weirdness over Pine Ridge -Dialogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan 23, 2000 11:10 PST Good debate. My role is like an old bird dog to sniff and fetch, and drop the game at the doorstep. The method to sort the chaff is to post it ALL, sort later: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbitback66.html 1. Received this from a source close to the rez, info/disinfo is rife, quote: "I got original mis/disinformation from Martina Lookinghorse on Sunday. On looking back, that was "spun" to imply that the FBI was in confrontation, but she never actually *said that.* However, what she said about a standoff was true. There was probably more truth to the fact that folks were afraid of another Waco than just manipulation. Some things were embroidered by folks on-site to get more interest. But then, when those were proven wrong, and it looked like interest was starting to drop off, REAL nastiness started going down. There have been incidents that have not been reported, that the "official" sources have asked me not to put out, because of possible panic. There have been attempts to drive through barricades and shoot the place up, averted by tribal police. There are also factions allied with the tribal council who are trying to incite the local racist community. People are posting attempts to discredit each other..." (Futhermore a tip to keep an eye on the following message board): http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002Nb2 2. Also from memory, concerning knocking hardware out of the sky, an emailer indicated that such would take two "phased" (I think) beams intersecting. As I recall the poster said that intersecting beams heat things up and parallel beams cool things down, something like that. Such transmission can originate from anywhere on earth using over-the horizon tech. Lot of whispering here in Seattle about Boeing's research into a new phased radar, something about the transmitter being positioned, stationary, the signal scans but the antenna does not move. 3. Additionally, a more exotic possibility, this time perhaps observed from sat (weather manipulation this time?), quote: ". . . it is possible to focus the potential for the effects of a weapon through spacetime itself, in a manner so that mass and energy do not "travel through space" from the transmitter to the target at all. Instead, ripples and patterns in the fabric of spacetime itself are manipulated to meet and interfere in and at the local spacetime of some distant target. http://www.webaxs.net/~noel/articles/par-sem.htm Weird waves on radar over Northwest http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/radar/Vis2pdx2.jpg" 4. Rumors about mind-disrupter tech involves a signal in the 7.6htz frequency, futhermore, even more astounding, quote: "On the other hand, it will also be possible to simply pull out a personality-structure from a person, without his or her consent, and insert another. Or to alter a given personality structure by just altering and re-recording the software. This technological possibility, of course, will certainly be noticed by would-be egomaniacs and dictators, for it can yield the ultimate mind control. It will also be possible to provide direct input inside the mind, surreptitiously, from a distance and without the knowledge and consent of the individual affected." http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbitback29.html Kent Steadman http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html In a message dated 1/23/00 7:32:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is not enough data to support the suggested theories. Yes, Electronic weaponry exists in very sophisticated manners, BUT when we are talking about physical phenomena that "might" be detected by a radar system, for example- there WILL be physical manifestations in other ways. Interference in radio signals manifest themselves in some pretty standard forms that are quantifiable and detectable- they did interfere with the signal after all. But what is gained if we see something that we are not familiar with, in a field we are absolutely not familiar with, and we apply a theory because it fits? Nothing is gained. Just because a child may think that the earth is flat, does not make it flat. Field investigations, as suggested very early on, are a good idea, I never dismissed that. What I would not accept are the assertions of ecotoday that the Pine Ridge Reservation site was going to be a site of genocide. I doubt that anyone in that area will have any problems if they use some common sense, and drop the "victim mentality" that has propelled many democrat politicians into office- only to perpetuate
[CTRL] Fwd: [illusions] Re: [EWAR] Radar weirdness over Pine Ridge -Dialogue
I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good debate. My role is like an old bird dog to sniff and fetch, and drop the game at the doorstep. The method to sort the chaff is to post it ALL, sort later: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbitback66.html = Here is some more on-the-ground evidence (phone disconnect) to support a reasonable conclusion that an EWAR anti-population "base hit" may be under way at Pine Ridge. Anti-population EWAR on the continental USA may be happening right before our eyes. Alfred - Original Message - From: Wild Horse To: Native_American Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 8:25 PM Subject: [AIM_Issues] Pine Ridge Occupation From: "Wild Horse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2000 We, the occupants of the Red Cloud Tribal Village, are very concerned about the phone service being disconnected. We have contacted the headquarters of our phone service, in Wall South Dakota, inquiring as to why the service was disconnected. We were told the information could not be released. However, they did say that a Government official called them to request that the phone service be terminated and they complied. We have also been contacted by the Nebraska Public Power. (they provide the electricity to our reservation) They have been requested to cut off the electricity to those people occupying the tribal offices. We are becoming very concerned. The elders and women are asking that the children be removed from the tribal offices for safety reasons. There is a concern that a confrontation may ensue. The Federal mediator, Silkie Hanson, is on her way back to Pine Ridge Reservation because of these developments. The people will feel more secure if a federal official is present- in hopes of preventing any violence that may occur. With no telephone service our direct contact abilities are gone. As with all my posts concerning the Occupation Peoples in Pine Ridge. Please forward this to all interested parties in its entirety. Wadv Wild Horse -- -- Please click above to support our sponsor -- -- Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://www.onelist.com/community/AIM_Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good debate. My role is like an old bird dog to sniff and fetch, and drop the game at the doorstep. The method to sort the chaff is to post it ALL, sort later: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbitback66.html = Here is some more on-the-ground evidence (phone disconnect) to support a reasonable conclusion that an EWAR anti-population "base hit" may be under way at Pine Ridge. Anti-population EWAR on the continental USA may be happening right before our eyes. Alfred - Original Message - From: Wild Horse To: Native_American Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 8:25 PM Subject: [AIM_Issues] Pine Ridge Occupation From: "Wild Horse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2000 We, the occupants of the Red Cloud Tribal Village, are very concerned about the phone service being disconnected. We have contacted the headquarters of our phone service, in Wall South Dakota, inquiring as to why the service was disconnected. We were told the information could not be released. However, they did say that a Government official called them to request that the phone service be terminated and they complied. We have also been contacted by the Nebraska Public Power. (they provide the electricity to our reservation) They have been requested to cut off the electricity to those people occupying the tribal offices. We are becoming very concerned. The elders and women are asking that the children be removed from the tribal offices for safety reasons. There is a concern that a confrontation may ensue. The Federal mediator, Silkie Hanson, is on her way back to Pine Ridge Reservation because of these developments. The people will feel more secure if a federal official is present- in hopes of preventing any violence that may occur. With no telephone service our direct contact abilities are gone. As with all my posts concerning the Occupation Peoples in Pine Ridge. Please forward this to all interested parties in its entirety. Wadv Wild Horse Please click above to support our sponsor Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://www.onelist.com/community/AIM_Issues Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info: www.topica.com/lists/ewar _ Check out the new and improved Topica site!
[CTRL] In the Age of Networks, All Roads Lead to Washington
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- @NY Vol. 5, No. 21 Issue 5.21 January 21, 2000 http://www.atnewyork.com Everything You Need To Do Business in Silicon Alley ^ VIEWPOINT ^ In the Age of Networks, All Roads Lead to Washington ^ ^ By Tom Watson ^ ^ Quick, name the most successful formal organization of human beings of the last century. You'd be tempted to name the fastest-growing companies - Standard Oil, General Motors, IBM, Microsoft. How about the New York Stock Exchange, the United Nations, or the Internet itself? Or perhaps, if you're sports-minded, the New York Yankees. Good choices, but not correct. The answer of course is the Federal Government of the United States of America. In little more than a hundred years, it went from the loosely centralized hub of an agrarian society to the power nexus of the world's most influential social and economic system. You can argue all you want over what causes the power to reside in the United States government -- is it cause and effect or effect and cause, did the Federal government save and preserve our capitalist system or does business thrive in spite of government? But you cannot argue that it is where the mightiest power resides. It is no accident that the Presidents we revere from that time, whether they were "big government liberals" or "no government conservatives," are the ones who increased the power of our central state. Both Roosevelts, Wilson, Truman, Johnson, and Reagan. In business, we love a free market. We are ardent capitalists. But in a century of awe-inspiring growth, and especially since the New Deal, we have never lived under a true free market economy. Our markets are highly regulated and policed. Our monetary policy is centrally controlled. We do not tolerate harmful trusts and monopolies. Our taxpayer-funded diplomats cut deals for us overseas. We subsidize this, we subsidize that. Our government guarantees financial instruments that underlay the bond markets and the savings accounts of average Joes. We all complain about taxation and regulation and the limits imposed by government. But we all work within a government-guaranteed safety zone and benefit from a balance between free market principles and the legislated version of "the greater good." The power of the U.S. Government has grown right along with the size of the gross domestic product, the total capitalization of the stock market, and the average American salary. The charts march in lock-step. But here comes the Internet. There are those who suggest that the network of networks is the greatest threat yet to strong centralized government. The theory goes something like this: the Internet is the ultimate populist tool and it allows its members to break free of the shackles of government, creating both "friction-free" markets and the possibility of direct democracy. The Internet, it is said, is chipping away at the power of the Federal government, returning it to both geographical communities and virtual communities of interest, a true and democratic decentralization. That, of course, is nonsense. The rise of the Internet is only increasing the power and reach of centralized government. And whether you're a Jeffersonian populist or a Hamiltonian governor -- and particularly, if you own a business -- the cool realization of that clear fact will influence how you operate in the Internet age. Why else would Kevin O'Connor hire a lobbyist? O'Connor is the driven CEO of DoubleClick, Silicon Alley's most successful homegrown company, the clear market leader in the Internet advertising space, and a company that's comfortable in its own skin. That skin has been carefully crafted by O'Connor, who, judging by his public remarks, is a committed free market man, not very big on government and its regulatory habits. His is a viewpoint shared by many of our nation's brightest and most successful technology executives. Notwithstanding its CEO's views, DoubleClick this month brought on Josh Isay, the former chief of staff for Democratic, big government type Charles Schumer, the junior U.S. Senator from New York. Isay, a liberal who has spent his career battling conservative Republicans, will be the company's director of public policy and government affairs, DoubleClick's link to the governmental bodies that will help to determine its future in the areas of regulation, taxes, exports, patents and the like. It was widely seen as both a good hire and the start of things to come. It's no accident that in the statements accompanying the announcement, DoubleClick executives spoke repeatedly about the need to "educate Washington" about the high tech industry and its needs. People on both sides, business and government, believe there is a disconnect between our booming technology sector and the Federal government. But there was some irony in a successful Internet company hiring a
[CTRL] Is Congress using War on Drugs to suspend Free Speech?
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.htmlFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is Congress using "War on Drugs" to suspend Free Speech? Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:26 PM We need to ask if the current attempt to pass the "Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act", which would make drug magazines and medical marijuana websites and certain books even by Medical experts like Dr. Lester Grinspoon illegal,is not a crypto-fascist move to subvert free speech and the Bill of Rights. Check out the bill which has passed the Senate and now moves into the house at: http://maxpages.com/stopcensors/ DrL - Posted via NewsOne.Net: Free Usenet News via the Web - - http://newsone.net/ -- Discussions on every subject. - NewsOne.Net prohibits users from posting spam. If this or other posts made through NewsOne.Net violate posting guidelines, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [CTRL] Colleen's a . . . NOPOST for pennie_hammons@HOTMAIL.COM
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- I'd like to take this moment to personally thank: a. whoever it was that invented the BLOCK ADDRESS feature on the email; and b. whoever it was that invented the DELETE button. ;-D Tenorlove who doesn't let her ego get between her sense of humor and the DELETE button...99.44 percent of the time. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.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
Re: [CTRL] Is Congress using War on Drugs to suspend Free Speech?
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Yes. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.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] Are We About To Experience A Pole Shift?...01/23/00
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Are We About To Experience A Pole Shift?...01/23/00 by Mitch Battros (ECTV) I have been so preoccupied with the weather and the "secret meeting" between NASA and Russian space experts, I over looked this article by two days. See part two of NASA/Russian meeting "A Shocking Twist To NASA "Secret Meeting" With Russians...01/22/00 on "Breaking News" page: http://www.earthchangesTV.com/breaking/index.htm. The dis-information machine seems to be running strong, but then what else could we expect. I witnessed this same thing when disclosing information on what I believe to be the cause of our weather phenomenon. More on this later. It has been known for some time there could very well be a pole shift in our time. This pole shift is NOT a magnetic pole shift which happens often, but rather a continental shift. Yes, this could mean crustal displacement. There are several well known scientist who support this theory. Dr. Victor Clube, David Talbott, Charles Ginenthal, Ted Holden, C.J. Ransom, Paul La Violette, Tom Van Flandern and Robert Dunlap just to name a few. All are well known scientist from paleontologist to astrophysicist to astronomers. I have had the privilege to interview each one of the scientist above and found them extremely knowledgeable in their field of expertise. It was agreed by most, that earth has had a shift (planet movement) at least 5 times in the past. The five events occurring over hundreds of millions years. The last event appears to have occurred around the time of the Crustacean period 65 million years ago. Everyone agreed it would happen again, and perhaps in this time. There is another popular personality who wrote a book called "5-5-2000". His name is Richard Noone. Richard believes during a seven planet alignment on March 5 2000, will be enough gravitational pull to shift the earth's axis. It is wildly speculated what this might mean to you and me. Some believe it will cause continents to shift, perhaps causing millions to perish. Others believe it will be more of gradual shift hardly noticed by humans. We will see. I will have Richard Noone on the show "live" next month. Stay tuned for day and time. It will also be placed on "audio archive". I would certainly say the stage is set. I can't help but think the Sun and its solar flares affecting the Earth's magnetic field may have something to do with it. Remember, the NASA predicted "apex" for "Cycle 23" is...you guessed it, March/April 2000. This puts Noone's prediction in close proximity. Note: A reminder to all. I believe ALL Science interpretation is nothing more than "subjective conjecture". In other words, an opinion based on facts. As events heat up, it will be more important than ever to remember to "Follow Your Truth, not mine or anyone else". Seek and you shall find...Find What? Your Truth! Blessings To All, Mitch Magnetic traces of a wobbling Earth...01/23/00 By Randolph E. Schmid - Associated Press WASHINGTON - Researchers say their analysis of volcanoes hints at a rotational shift 84 million years ago. Scientists studying underwater volcanoes have found evidence the Earth may have wobbled like an out-of-balance ball 84 million years ago, relocating the poles and shifting the location of Washington to the tropics. SOMETHING They're not yet sure what appears to have changed the distribution of weight in the Earth, causing it to begin shifting to get back in balance. What it appears that happened, was a rapid shift 84 million years ago, followed by a slow recovery to where things are today, explained William W. Sager of Texas AM University. That shift of between 16 degrees and 21 degrees, occurring over 2 million years or so, was rapid in geological terms, he said. It would have moved Washington, D.C., south to about the latitude now occupied by Cuba and the Hispaniola. The findings are included in a paper by Sager and Anthony K. P. Koppers of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, appearing in Fridays edition of the journal Science. Mitch Battros Producer - Earth Changes TV http://www.earthchangesTV.com FlyingPhoenix.com http://www.flyingphoenix.com The High Frequency General Store 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] OT on: DNA Vaccines (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- From Scientific American at: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0799issue/0799weiner.html Genetic Vaccines Vaccines crafted from genetic material might one day prevent AIDS, malaria and other devastating infections that defy current immunization technologies. They may even help treat cancer by David B. Weiner and Ronald C. Kennedy Vaccines arguably constitute the greatest achievement of modern medicine. They have eradicated smallpox, pushed polio to the brink of extinction and spared countless people from typhus, tetanus, measles, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rotavirus and other dangerous infections. Successful vaccines have yet to be introduced, however, for too many deadly or debilitating disorders--among them, malaria, AIDS, herpes and hepatitis C. This gap exists because standard immunization methods work poorly or pose unacceptable risks when targeted against certain illnesses. Clearly, alternate strategies are needed. One of the most promising creates vaccines out of genetic material, either DNA or RNA. In the past 10 years such vaccines have progressed from a maligned idea to entities being studied intensively in academia and industry and in early human trials. Vaccines at Work The merits of genetic immunization become most apparent when the actions of traditional vaccines are understood. Traditional preparations consist primarily of a killed or a weakened version of a pathogen (disease-causing agent) or of some piece (subunit) of the agent. As is true of most genetic vaccines under study, standard types aim to prime the immune system to quash dangerous viruses, bacteria or parasites quickly, before the pathogens can gain a foothold in the body. They achieve this effect by tricking the immune system into behaving as if the body were already beset by a microorganism that was multiplying unabated and damaging tissues extensively. When responding to a real infection, the immune system homes in on foreign antigen--substances (usually proteins or protein fragments) that are produced uniquely by the causative agent and not by a host. Two major arms can come into play, both of which receive critical help from white blood cells known as helper T lymphocytes. The humoral arm, led by B lymphocytes, acts on pathogens that are outside cells. These B cells secrete antibody molecules that latch onto infectious agents and thereby neutralize them or tag them for destruction by other parts of the immune system. The cellular arm, spearheaded by cytotoxic (killer) T lymphocytes, eradicates pathogens that colonize cells. Infected cells display bits of their attacker's proteins on the cell surface in a particular way. When cytotoxic T lymphocytes "see" those flags, they often destroy the cells--and the infiltrators within. Beyond eliminating invaders, activation of the immune system against a specific pathogen leads to the creation of memory cells that can repel the same pathogens in the future. Vaccines confer protection by similarly inducing immune responses and the consequent formation of memory cells. But standard vaccines vary in the kind and duration of security they provide. Those based on killed pathogens (such as the hepatitis A and the injected, or Salk, polio vaccines) or on antigens isolated from disease-causing agents (such as the hepatitis B subunit vaccine) cannot make their way into cells. They therefore give rise to primarily humoral responses and do not activate killer T cells. Such responses are ineffective against many microorganisms that infiltrate cells. Also, even when nonliving preparations do block disease, the protection often wears off after a time; consequently, recipients may need periodic booster shots. Attenuated live vaccines, usually viruses, do enter cells and make antigens that are displayed by the inoculated cells. They thus spur attack by killer T lymphocytes as well as by antibodies. That dual activity is essential for blocking infection by many viruses and for ensuring immunity when investigators do not know whether a humoral immune response would be sufficient by itself. What is more, live vaccines--such as the measles, mumps, rubella, oral polio (Sabin) and smallpox types--frequently confer lifelong immunity. For those reasons, they are considered the "gold standard" of existing vaccines. Live vaccines can be problematic in their own way, however. Even they can fail to shield against some diseases. Those that work can cause full-blown illness in people whose immune system is compromised, as in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, AIDS sufferers and the elderly. Such individuals may also contract disease from healthy people who have been inoculated recently. Moreover, weakened viruses can at times mutate in ways that restore virulence, as has happened in some monkeys given an attenuated simian form of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. For some diseases, the risks of reversion to virulence are
Re: [CTRL] [illusions] Re: [EWAR] Radar weirdness over Pine Ridge -Dialogue
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Kent Steadman wrote: What I would not accept are the assertions of ecotoday that the Pine Ridge Reservation site was going to be a site of genocide. Kent- Clarification: We never said a "physical genocide." Here in Canada, the government instituted a system of residential schools in the early 1900s to erase all of the traditional culture from Aboriginals. Now, the government is paying reparations for "cultural genocide." If the US government is waging secret EWAR against First Nations peoples at Pine Ridge on the basis of their race, they are committing cultural genocide under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Thanks, Geri Alfred, Vancouver, BC 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] Drudge: LIBRARIES IN GEORGIA BAN ANTI-HILLARY BOOK (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- From: http://www.drudgereport.com/matt.htm XX DRUDGE REPORT X SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 2000 11:08:41 ET XX LIBRARIES IN GEORGIA BAN ANTI-HILLARY BOOK; PUBLIC EMPLOYEES CENSOR CRITICISM Hillary Rodham Clinton's latest fundraising letter slams 'meanspirited books' currently littering the nation's shelves, but the first lady will now feel much more comfortable browsing the aisles of some public libraries in Georgia. Libraries in Cobb County, Georgia have decided not to carry a recent NEW YORK TIMES best-seller which is critical of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. HELL TO PAY by Barbara Olsen will not be carried in the County's Public Library System, a librarian in Marietta, Georgia told a patron last week. "This book has gotten bad reviews," the librarian explained. But the same branch has purchased Gail Sheey's recent profile on the First Lady, a book far more sympathetic to Clinton. When pressed why the library was stocking Sheey and not Olsen, the librarian at the East Marietta Branch [2051 Lower Roswell Road in Marietta, Georgia; phone Number: 770-509-2711] snapped: "Well, Sheey is a pretty good writer." Olsen's HELL outpaced Sheey on the best-sellers list last year, ranking on the NYT list one week longer Sheey's HILLARY'S CHOICE. In a January fundraising letter sent to supporters, Mrs. Clinton notes: "Dear Friend, They can launch anti-Hillary websites. They can publish mean spirited books and press releases. But they can never stop me from standing up for what I believe in." In Georgia, they can make sure you never get on the shelf. X X X X X = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Mike Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. = 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] TIMES: One in seven fathers 'not the real parent'
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- From: "name AOL USER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhap the interpretations are not PC (sexist bullshit), but the facts can't be wrong can they? I think it was Mark Twain who opined: "There are lies. There are damned lies. And then there are statistics." Statistics can be skewed to give whatever meaning one chooses. Just a simple DNA/Blood type match as far as I can tell. The study is consistent with earlier work that found a 10% impossible blood-type match between newborns and their supposed fathers. But just WHO is getting these blood tests? Not regular Jane and John Schmoes... not happily married couples. These are blood tests being conducted when there is already a problem, or suspected problem, in the relationship. So one can only say that in one out of seven TROUBLED relationships, it seems that the husband of the woman is not indeed the father of a particular child. That only says that in approximately 14 percent of troubled relationships, the woman lied about the paternity of a child (or was mistaken)...in approximately 86 percent of these relationships, the husband IS the biological father, and nothing whatsoever can be construed about the sexual behavior, or possible misbehavior, of the wife in the relationship... And this tells us absolutely NOTHING regarding the population as a whole... unless the 2000 Census takers also demand blood samples from each and every citizen, we have no way of knowing what percentage of fathers amongst the general population are indeed the biological fathers... Indeed, this study was conducted in Great Britain, and as such can only be applied to approximately 14 percent of troubled relationships in that country, and tells us absolutely nothing about actual paternity in other countries. In history, fathers have killed offspring they believed to be biologically not theirs. Since the primal drive is to spread one's DNA, Perhaps for men. Women look for more in a relationship than to spread DNA. a man would not want to expend economic and emotional resources to bring up a child not his. Explain that to all the stepfathers and adoptive fathers in the world. For once, scientific progress (DNA matching) on a mandatory basis could actually serve to solidify marriages and provide a better emotional climate for children if other husbands felt the same way I do. Fine. I hope all the chippies that end up with kids when these married fathers decide to have an extramarital fling also take advantage of this mandatory DNA testing you're so fond of. I suspect that if everyone everywhere were required to submit to these DNA tests, that perhaps we may find that indeed approximately 14 percent of married women have been unfaithful to their spouses, while 86 percent have been faithful (or at least weren't stupid enough to get pregnant whilst having their fling)...but that we'd find the numbers inverted for men, IOW we'd find that approximately 86 percent of married men had had extramarital affairs, while only 14 percent had remained faithful (or at least weren't stupid enough to get another woman pregnant with their child)... 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] About Space Travel
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Listers: I dug out one of my old HS yearbooks -- it was 1968, I was living in the western-midwest at the time in a city of about 200,000. My HS boyfriend, Paul S., and I had been together nearly 1/12 years steadily. We were an item back then, he was a tall thin lanky sandy haired visual artist, later turned landscape architect. In the yearbook I have marked" reserved" for his comments and the last part of this I wanted to share with you -- as another sort of ET theory about those in control of humanity: In May 1968 Paul wrote: "Judy remember -- ' Zadig directed his course by the stars. The constellation of Orion and the splendid dogstars, guided his steps toward the pole of Campia. He admired those vast globes of light which appear to our eyes as so many little sparks, while the earth which in reality is only an imperrceptable point in nature, appear to our fond imaginations as something so grand and noble. He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom of clay.'" --- (no attribution..for this quote) PNS Judith 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 - Sunday #3
t of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women: http://www.swrb.ab.ca/newslett/actualnls/FirBlast.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiWinks: # Laundering in Liechtenstein: Li'l EuroState great place to stash bad cash: www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=001801733226889pg=/et/00/1/23/wliech23.html # Mitnick: I was manipulated; Hacker hammers prosecutors, NY Times reporter: http://zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2425686,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop # Immigrants on parade - 40 Indian programmers handcuffed, showcased for INS bust: http://www.timesofindia.com/today/23home2.htm @ THE CARING ECONOMY 11: THE LIMITS OF BIG. How 'global' is globalisation? You get big because you're better. You don't get better because you're big. http://www.thecaringeconomy.com/about/chapters/chapter11/index.shtml # Cops Map Y2K Terror Plot - Telephone Data Links Algerian Suspects: www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/23/y2kterror0123_01.html # Doc-posing man talks women into self-mutilation - just slice here: http://www.herald.com/herald/content/thu/digdocs/news/brodocs/028615.htm # Girlfriend: Fake doc's a "misunderstood" abuse victim - poor baby: http://www.herald.com/herald/content/fri/news/digdocs/broward/047573.htm # Building a Supermodel - In search of a versatile virtual person. With the power of the computer, researchers are using available raw data to refine the crude qualitative models of yesteryear into finely tuned simulations that can representand even predictthe behavior of complex biological systems. So do me: http://www.sciencenews.org/2122/bob2.asp # Bigger holes in Web - Cybercrime growing harder to prosecute: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/000121-nb1.shtml # Hot under the cyber collar? Road rage on Information Superhighway: http://www.theage.com.au/news/2123/A40376-2000Jan22.html # Online battle of the sexes - Web luring female users, men soon to be minority: http://www.sacbee.com/ib/news/ib_news01_2122.html @ For non-prude geeks only: Nude Overclocking: http://nudeoc.i12.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Wrong again, you dodderingly wet-ended pynwit, in _your_ hands it is merely the spoor of moldering fallacy." -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Rev. R.Carter, ULC * http://www.sonic.net/~ric * FAX: 603-415-3736 * Fringes of: Science, Faith, Sex, Dope, Art, Paranormal, Conspiracy * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm 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] Astute Letter From Boyfriend
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Listers: Now that I am on a bit of a nostaligic roll -- the HS boyfriend's yearbook lament I just put on the list aside -- here is a braver statement about what has been going on in the world from another, man I knew quite well and romantically, Steve M., a poet at heart who most recently seemed to loose his heart and possibly soul. This letter was sent to me from the Sea Islands of SC in July of 1972, just after he graduated from a college we attended together, the capitals in this letter were true to his punctuation scheme [this is another Hippie's rendition of the horrors of the take-over of humanity from within]: Front of the envelope says: "LIACOS UNREAL CAMELOT Judy B. XXth St. B, XX 8X "Zoom -- Mail Plane on Fire (drawing of plane headed to earth)" AIRMAIL Postmark dated 20 July 1972 Back of envelope says: 19 B. Rd. ML, NJ 070XX AIR MAIL "Now Judy - 7/18 "You have earned a diploma and with that award responsibility and ambition go along like body + soul. This apparent apathetic sloth of yours toward civilized endeavor comes, I fear, dangerously close to Blasphemy! Why I bet you'll even vote for McGovern! "Tosh! Wake up girl - or else bring ruin and shame upon your family. You MUST become a legal and functioning unit in our great free society - if not...My God!...you'd might as well castrate thy father, or rip the telephone right out of thy Grandmother's hand! So wake up child! Why, I bet that at this very moment IBM would be willing to eagerly caress your future, or Guiseppe's would settle your life-time agreements, or Eureka! What an idea - why not give up your body to the Man who most needs it! -- Uncle Sam! Yes! Wacs and Waves have become obsolete terms because of your pinko-comie generation - you crazy teenagers have left our armed forces sterile, our country's defense wombless, Uncle Sam Impotent! Wake up young Girl. "Yes, Judy, there is a Santa Claus! "Anyway - "I am in South Carolina + received your letter yesterday with 3 different addresses superimposed upon each other due to my Bohemian existence of late - Real World is certainly quite strange, and oh, sooo boozy-ridden. I am in terrible shape and sit mentally vacant in B.,SC [name of city, state] alone (Fxxx and other VISTA do-good-bombers were flown to PA to dig out Flood victims today I arrived) with only Manchester, a little Sid-like doggie to talk with. $1.45 is whole of my monies + am contemplating whether or not rusty dog food can top would apply sufficient humor to slice my wrist into Bologna. O'slave to hyperbolic expression - heightens intensity of muddy normalcy. Actually not all that bad down here -- - is quite soothing - huge sky with clouds of such height that diversity is never lacking - old shacks blended into green varieties - so thick that insects don't frighten, but seem a part of each breath - inlets + ponds and billowing towering sweeping and jutting and all other types of trees - and all this languidly draped with Spanish Moss (which by the way does not get one high). One is content not to jump here. HOWEVER - If the intoxicated eye rests Monet-like for a moment, Vista intrudes with bombs of wrinkled thighs which shatters the land's sensitive depth and silence into absurb fragments of human Fragility. "But its good" and everybody nods their heads. "Good?" - maybe "bbonkers" - more likely. Anyway - Write again (use "19 Barton Road" address + it will be forwarded to wherever I am) + will continue correspondence. Do come east, for if nothing else, it is quite wacky and accelerated here. God I wish there was music in the air - But the Goddamn Vista phonograph has as much balls as a can of Downey Fabric Softener - only tunes available Elton John + Burt Bacharate (sp?) - both of whom I would very much like to see run over by a truck full of Refrigerators. "Say hello to all Boulderites! Yours in Liacosian Spirit. "Steve "P.S. Say hi to that little black dog whose name I do not dare try to spell. 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:
Re: [CTRL] Canada-USA Border ;-)
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Where is that sign - Peace Arch or truck crossing? On the Canadian side, I presume. Directions appreciated. I'd like to get a photo for posterity. William DIG alfred webre wrote: -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Sign over the Canada-USA border at Blaine, Washington: "WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA" Cartoon, Georgia Straight, 1/00 Vancouver, BC 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 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] Agencies say gasoline additive is contaminating water nationwide
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Agencies say gasoline additive is contaminating water nationwide Copyright © 2000 Nando Media Copyright © 2000 Associated Press By JOHN HOWARD SACRAMENTO, Calif. (January 21, 2000 10:04 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - MTBE, a widely used gasoline additive that makes cars burn cleaner, has posed a cruel dilemma: It's making the air cleaner, but it's polluting the water. A suspected animal carcinogen with unknown health effects on humans, MTBE has become the curse of water officials from California to New England. The additive spreads through water so quickly and thoroughly that a scant spoonful can foul an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Leaking from gas stations' underground fuel tanks, it has forced wells to close, run up millions of dollars in cleanup costs, sparked suits and prompted state, local and federal investigations into a petrochemical that is still something of a mystery. "It's a diabolical chemical. It moves up, it moves down, it moves everywhere. Our feeling is that as long as MTBE is in gasoline, our groundwater is in jeopardy," said Dennis Cocking of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, where 12 of 34 wells were closed because of MTBE. MTBE has two critical characteristics - its ability to spread quickly, caused by its high solubility, and its permanency. Even in its tiniest proportions, five parts per billion, MTBE has an easily detectable smell. "The stuff moves like wildfire. It increases exponentially. Once you find out you have a problem, you have a big problem. And once it's in, how do you get it out?" said Doug Marsano of the Denver-based American Water Works Association, a consortium of water agencies that has urged President Clinton to ban MTBE. According to Marsano, the chemical has been detected in varying amounts in all 50 states. Significant MTBE contamination also has been found in such pastoral areas as Ronan, Mont., and Spring Green, Wis., as well as in major cities like Dallas, Denver and Las Vegas. "You can see it in a contiguous line from California to the East Coast. One of the great questions here is why a chemical that we don't have a lot of information about is being used in such a widespread manner," Marsano said. "At this point, we think it is a problem in every state, but just how significant a problem we don't know." A European study in the mid-1990s linked MTBE to liver and kidney tumors in mice. The danger to humans is unknown. "At the levels we're seeing in drinking water, there is no direct human study that shows cause and effect. The studies being used to assess risk are essentially studies being done on animals," said California's top drinking water official, Dr. Dave Spath of the Department of Health Services. "But the problem with MTBE is whether there is a significant future threat because of all these tanks that have leaked over many years." As a result, California - the nation's No. 1 user of MTBE, with about 11 percent of all fuel containing the substance - has banned it by the end of 2002, and other states are expected to follow suit. Eight Northeastern states from New Jersey to Maine joined to ask Congress to allow them to decide whether MTBE or similar clean-air additives should be put in their gasoline. And an Environmental Protection Agency panel has recommended strengthening programs to reduce MTBE's presence in drinking water. The MTBE industry defends the additive. "Because of cleaner-burning gasoline with MTBE, cities like Los Angeles are enjoying their best air quality in 50 years," said Terry Wigglesworth, executive director of the Oxygenated Fuels Association. "MTBE has not only met, but exceeded expectations." MTBE, called an oxygenate because it adds oxygen to gasoline, was developed by oil companies in the 1970s to boost octane and replace lead. Smog fighters noticed that MTBE improved gasoline combustion and dramatically reduced tailpipe pollution, in some cases up to 40 percent. Following the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1990, federal authorities ordered the phase-in of oxygenates in gasoline sold in the nation's smoggiest urban areas. MTBE became the oxygenate of choice. The other best-known oxygenate, ethanol, is a type of alcohol made from corn and is used widely in the Midwest. Supporters of ethanol see it as safer; MTBE backers dispute that. MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, is now found in the fuel consumed by 70 percent of the nation's cars. About 4.5 billion gallons of the additive are manufactured annually. In Santa Monica, hit first and hardest by major MTBE contamination in 1995, the substance leaked into the water supply from the underground tanks of at least a dozen gas stations. The city of 92,000 has shut down at least half of its wells and is now importing most of its water from Southern California's main wholesaler. The city believes the cleanup could cost $100 million, "It was quite astounding," said Assistant City
[CTRL] Revolution in Ecuador
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: MichaelP Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 5:21 PM More than 12 hours ago the BBC World Service folk broadcast the Anglican (Episcopalian) Bishop of Quito stating his support for the peasants - He stated the position clearly; I expected to find his words on the BBC's web pages and I intended to post them around. But I can't find them!! Instead of which there's a more bland summary which I attach below. Those words stated to me that the Ecuador revolution was over because of U$ intervention, that the indigenous had lost their initiative and would be going home, that they would invoke Ghandian/ MLK principles of non-violence in opposition to the renewed Ecuador administration, that the new President has threatened to eradicate the "snake" of opposition with all necessary means -that Mr Vargas -the indigenous member of the now-dissolved Junta -was still in town and would probably be arrested, and so on - Oh Yes!! and that the Bishop was using his BBC interview to get the truth out. For the time being this BBC story is the best I can find as a counter to the usual Mr. Greed spin. MichaelP = BBC Sunday, 23 January, 2000, 11:33 GMT "Mr Vargas has warned that his movement is still alive in the provinces" Ecuador indians angry at 'betrayal' Indians head home after toppling a president Leaders of the protest movement which overthrew the president of Ecuador have warned they will fight to oust his successor unless he can solve the country's economic problems quickly. Indigenous indians expressed anger and feelings of betrayal that their uprising has led only to the former vice-president, Gustavo Noboa, being installed. The new president has pledged to carry on with the same tough economic policies which provoked the original unrest. One indian, Salvador Quishpe, told Reuters news agency: "We don't accept the presidential succession." As the indians streamed out of the capital, Quito, heading back to their mountain villages, their leader, Antonio Vargas, said Mr Noboa had only been installed after pressure from Washington. POOR 'BETRAYED' In an interview with a Mexican news agency, Mr Vargas denounced General Carlos Mendoza, leader of the three-man council for betraying the indigenous groups' drive to form a new system of government that would end widespread corruption and represent the interests of the country's poor. "Mr Noboa wants to take advantage of our people's fight to keep helping the same people as always, the corrupt bankers. We will defend our historic fight," he said. Mr Vargas warned that although they have disbanded for now, his movement is still alive in the provinces and ready to intensify its fight for reform. The indigenous indian leader was part of the three-man council which took power briefly before being dissolved in the immediate aftermath of President Jamil Mahuad's overthrow. In Washington, a spokesman said the United States supported constitutional government in Ecuador, and was in close contact with all the relevant parties. But one taxi-driver in Quito described the change in the corridors of power as simply "re-arranging the furniture". ECONOMIC TURMOIL "It's made the indians feel like they've achieved something, but nothing has really changed," he told the BBC's correspondent in Quito, Peter Greste. Mr Noboa - who has the backing of the Ecuadorean Congress and the military leadership - has said he will continue with the former president's economic policies. In recent months, Ecuador's recession-plagued economy has shrunk by 7%, while inflation soared to 40.7% Mr Mahuad's 'dollarisation' plan announced this month was unpopular with the indigenous population and workers' unions, which said the scheme would further impoverish them by increasing prices but keeping salaries low. DISCUSSIONS WITH THE US Military chief General Carlos Mendoza, who took a leading role in the three-man council immediately following the coup, said the decision to install Mr Noboa was taken after talks with US officials who warned that Ecuador would lose aid and investment if it did not restore power to the elected government. The US, the European Union and almost every Latin nation had condemned any attempt at imposing a government by non-constitutional means. Mr Mahuad, who has reportedly been offered asylum in Chile, has given his support to the new president. In his surprise television address, he condemned Friday's events as a "national and international shame", but wished Mr Noboa the best of luck. "I ask you to give Gustavo Noboa the support you did not give to me," he said in the broadcast. "The hours ahead for the president will be very hard... He needs the country's support.'' A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- First article is spin-control for the stock market. Second one gives raw facts and price-watch info. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave Nobody's flinching as oil prices rise By Dave Carpenter Associated Press Saturday, January 22, 2000 As crude oil prices roared toward $30 a barrel this week, reaching levels last seen on the brink of the Persian Gulf War, airlines were adding surcharges to ticket prices and consumers were worrying about heating bills. Yet inflation remains tame and the U.S. economy has barely blinked. The reason: Oil simply doesn't lubricate the new, tech-savvy economy the way it once did. "Oil's overall impact on the economy is vastly reduced" from years past, said William Cheney, chief economist for John Hancock Financial Services. "That's due to the increased energy efficiency of companies that use oil heavily and the increased importance of industries that are not heavily dependent on it." Prices for crude have jumped nearly $5 a barrel in the past week. Heating oil, spurred not only by oil's surge but a Northeastern cold snap, has risen 50 percent in two weeks. But even with energy products pushing to a series of new nine-year highs, many Americans keep shelling out undaunted for gasoline and other petroleum products. "It doesn't deter me," motorist Chip Tuttle said at a Boston gas station Friday as he paid $43 to fill his sport-utility vehicle, an indication that gas prices are the highest they've been there since Christmas 1990. "The economy is good." The era of cheap oil began ending last March when the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries cut production by 4.3 million barrels a day. The oil producers were determined to end a world oil glut and push up prices that fell as low as $11.37 a barrel in February. OPEC, an often undisciplined cartel, was able to hold down production. U.S. oil supplies now are at their lowest level in several years and the International Energy Agency warned Thursday that markets "are tight and getting tighter." Since March, crude prices have more than doubled, reaching a nine-year high in November that was smashed again this week. Oil for February delivery rose as high as $29.95 a barrel during trading Thursday before the contract expired. In trading Friday, the March contract briefly rose above $29 before giving up some ground. The new near-term contract still managed to finish the day with a gain of 23 cents to close at $28.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Two decades ago, a similarly huge spike in oil prices caused gas lines and sent the U.S. economy into shock. But in 1999, while fuel oil and gasoline prices climbed sharply, the "core" rate of inflation -- excluding the volatile energy and food sectors -- rose at its smallest rate in 34 years, just 1.9 percent. What happened to inflation? Where's the recession? Some economists are still warning of dire consequences, especially if oil's rise continues unabated. Phil Verleger, economist for the Brattle Group, a consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass., sees oil headed to $40 by year's end, prompting several interest rate increases and a recession before the year is out. "If it went to $40 a barrel, it would be disruptive," said Bruce Steinberg, chief economist for Merrill Lynch. "You can't keep going up endlessly without having an effect." But America has built up a much better resistance to energy shocks. The oil price explosions of the mid- and late-1970s helped spawn a new energy consciousness and the giant steps taken by technology steered the economy away from manufacturing and toward services and the Internet. Oil expenditures, which accounted for 8.5 percent of gross domestic product in 1981, have fallen to about 3 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Oil is still probably the single most important price that affects the well-being of Americans," said Cheney. "When the price goes up . . . America is in a sense a little poorer. But we are much better at adapting to it now." Adjusting or not, consumers are being increasingly squeezed by oil's rise. Among the latest consequences of the increase in prices: * The nation's top airlines said this week they are adding a $20 surcharge to round-trip tickets because of jet fuel costs that have more than doubled in the past year. * Trucking companies are hiking rates by 5 percent to 6 percent. * Business owners are beginning to pass on to consumers the new, higher prices charged by shippers ranging from the United Parcel Service to the post office. * U.S. gasoline prices are rising again after dipping since hitting a 3 1/2-year high of almost $1.35 a gallon last month. Signs announcing hikes of as much as 15 cents a gallon have been posted this week. ** They are saying the worst is yet to come. Read the rest of the story and go to
[CTRL] FW: PROVE / Medical Privacy abuses / vaccination
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave - Original Message - From: Alan Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Friday, January 21, 2000 10:31 PM Subject: [Fwd: [PROVE] Medical Privacy Presentation] Dawn Richardson wrote: Dear PROVE members, Last year I was invited to sit on a statewide HHS task force sponsored by the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute which is taking a year long study on the problems in our health care system that can be addressed by applying the conservative principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and traditional family values. It is composed of legislators, industry representatives, health policy think tank organizations and government employees dedicated to the principles above. I am there representing PROVE's mission and it is the first time that vaccine issues are being represented in this type of a forum in Texas and I am very excited about it. The task force is hoping to promote their findings to other states to duplicate the efforts here. Today, in an all day session, we talked about how federal issues affect the state, and I was asked to present on medical privacy because of all our work fighting immunization registries. I want to thank my husband Scott for being willing to be Mr. Mom one day every month so I can participate. Here is my presentation that I gave today. Dawn The Federal Erosion of Medical Privacy By Dawn Richardson President, PROVE LIFT Texas HHS Task Force Member Presented to: LIFT Texas Task Force: A Principled Approach to Health and Human Services January 21, 2000 The Influence of Federal Policy on Texas Health Care Hello. My name is Dawn Richardson. I feel privileged to have the opportunity today to direct your attention to the accelerated erosion of the privacy and confidentiality of our individual health records by federal government initiatives and programs. There is an alarming trend of federal health programs exploiting the accessibility of an individual's electronic medical record through persistent and continuous attempts to capture and store our personal intimate medical details without our consent under the pretext of regulating costs and improving public health and the quality of health care. The question we must all ask ourselves as the ownership of our medical records continues to evolve away from us and towards the federal government, is this the path that we want health care in this country to continue on? If so, we need do nothing since the momentum is in place. However, if we value choices in treatment options, a private relationship with a health care provider we choose, individual medical care decisions being made in our personal best interest, innovative medical research, and health care cost containment through free markets, we need to reverse this trend and assert that medical records are our private property and access to them should be controlled by a contract between the patient and the provider and/or payer, not the federal government. IMPENDING FEDERAL THREATS TO MEDICAL PRIVACY HHS Proposed Medical Privacy Regulations The most imminent threat to medical privacy is posed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) proposed medical privacy regulations governing electronic medical records published in the Federal Register on November 3, 1999. 1 Applying to all individuals, whether their health care is paid for privately or by the government, the proposed rule would dangerously grant federal, state, and local government health employees broad unrestricted access and control of our identifying and private medical information without our consent for anything that can be linked to the HHS-defined "national priority purposes" of research, public health, government health data systems, law enforcement and oversight of the health care system. 2 The section of the proposed rule posing the greatest threat to medical privacy is entitled "Uses and Disclosures Permitted Without Individual Authorization." Un-consented disclosures are rationalized for "public health surveillance, investigations and interventions." Immunization and cancer registries are cited as beneficiaries of this governmental information grab. HHS states in the proposed rule, "We considered requiring individual authorization for certain public health disclosures, but rejected this approach because many important public health activities would not be possible if individual authorization were required." They also state, "We also considered limiting certain public health disclosures to de-identified health information. While de-identified information could be appropriate for many public health activities, there are also many public health activities that require individual identifiers. Instead, we rely on the judgment of public health authorities as to what information would be
[CTRL] Fwd: VAWA Tests the Limits of Federal Power
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com Friends, More information not generally available to the public. Jim Hardin The Freedom Page http://freedompage.home.mindspring.com To receive Freedom Page mail, put Subscribe as subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To be removed, put Remove as subject. Alabama Committee To Get Us Out of the UN http://themustardseed.home.mindspring.com From: Clarence H Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: VAWA Tests the Limits of Federal Power From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:33:48 EST Subject: VAWA Tests the Limits of Federal Power To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VAWA Tests the Limits of Federal Power December 1, 1999 With President Clinton issuing a blizzard of overreaching executive orders and Congress federalizing hundreds of crimes that are properly in the jurisdiction of the states, we must depend on the Supreme Court to stand for the Constitutional principles of federalism. The chief reason Americans have retained their liberties through two centuries of governance by power-seeking politicians is the separation of power between the states and the federal government, and then among the three branches. The case that puts this to the test is Brzonkala v. Morrison, which is before the Court in the current session. It tests the constitutionality of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) passed in 1994 under feminist pressure in the wake of the much-ballyhooed Tailhook incident. Ordinarily the lack of actual and credible complaints, evidence or convictions would preclude million-dollar lawsuits over private conduct. But VAWA allows for attorneys' fees and punitive damages for alleged violence that was never reported to the police, let alone proven in criminal court. VAWA's Section 13981 expressly states that a prior criminal complaint, prosecution, or conviction is not required in order to recover compensatory and punitive damages. Plaintiffs can go into federal court seeking millions of dollars by alleging violence without ever alerting the police that a crime may have taken place. Real violence should be reported to the police in order to enable credible investigation and prevention of recurrence of the violence. Federal law should not provide financial incentives to bypass police investigations. Plaintiffs should not be allowed to sue in civil court on claims embellished by allegations of violence without independent and timely investigation by local law enforcement. VAWA's Section 13981 creates such incentives for new federal lawsuits alleging crimes long after the relevant state statute of limitations has expired. In attempting to create a new federal cause of action for monetary damages, VAWA relies on the Commerce Clause and Section 5 of the 14th Amendment. If upheld, VAWA would be an extraordinary and unprecedented extension of federal power into the areas of domestic violence and family law. The Commerce Clause gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce in order to ensure the free flow of goods and services. Domestic violence has absolutely nothing to do with commerce or the flow of goods. Section 5 of the 14th Amendment gives Congress the power to protect citizens against state violations of their rights. However, VAWA attempts to reach private conduct completely removed from any state action. The federal government should not be undermining state criminal laws. No one is helped when violence against women is trivialized into allowing law firms to strategize over how to make the most money from an ugly situation. The specific facts alleged in the Brzonkala case were, indeed, ugly. But this case is about trying to recover a large judgment in federal court by alleging a rape that was not promptly reported to the police. When money, rather than criminal justice, is the name of the game, the courts and the public are unable to sift fact from fiction. Under VAWA's approach, real criminals will go free while the falsely accused will be subjected to financial and reputational ruin. Congress has no constitutional basis for regulating marriage or domestic relations. It is neither constitutional nor prudent for Congress to impose its one-size-fits-all view of domestic relations on the states. VAWA's attempt to federalize issues such as rape, spousal rape, spousal immunity, and other aspects of domestic relations would open the door for Congress to federalize marriage itself. If VAWA's Section 13981 is upheld, there would be no logical basis to prevent Congress from regulating marriage, alimony, child custody and other aspects of family law. Just as Congress should not impose a uniform federal remedy for murder, Congress should not impose a uniform federal remedy for domestic violence. It is foolish to pretend, as VAWA implicitly does, that a perpetrator of a violent rape will
[CTRL] (Michael New) U.S. soldiers shouldn't be cannon fodder for the U.N.
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Frank Hamann - John Birch Society Chapter Leader - Garden Grove My web page: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5627/ U.S. soldiers shouldn't be cannon fodder for the U.N. January 21, 2000 The role of our military is to protect the United States. This is a self-evident fact and shouldn't be debated. However, in recent years our presidents have ordered American troops into service of the United Nations. Due to the many recent illegitimate troop deployments in U.N. peace-keeping missions, our armed services are becoming short handed and ill prepared to defend the United States. One reason that our military is having a tough time finding good recruits may well be that America's young men realize that once they enlist in the U.S. military they might be drafted to fight for the U.N. It happened to Michael New. Specialist Third Class New was a member of the 103rd Infantry of the United States Army. After serving in the Gulf war, New's platoon was sent to Macedonia for U.N. peace-keeping duty. New was ordered by his superiors to remove his U.S. Army uniform and put on the uniform of the United Nations. Having pledged to defend the United States, but not the United Nations, New refused this unlawful order. Because of his courageous act, New was court marshaled. New has been fighting this unjust ruling in military courts and plans to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. New's supporters are urging people to write their congressmen in support of legislation to stop the practice of placing American soldiers under U.N. command. New is an American hero and patriot. Real Americans don't wear U.N. blue! Frank Hamann Garden Grove _ Eternal Vigilance - The Price of Freedom! The John Birch Society/The New American www.thenewamerican.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.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
Re: [CTRL] About Space Travel
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 1/23/00 7:19:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In May 1968 Paul wrote: "Judy remember -- ' Zadig directed his course by the stars. The constellation of Orion and the splendid dogstars, guided his steps toward the pole of Campia. He admired those vast globes of light which appear to our eyes as so many little sparks, while the earth which in reality is only an imperrceptable point in nature, appear to our fond imaginations as something so grand and noble. He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom of clay.'" --- (no attribution..for this quote) PNS Judith Judith, see my signature line for a similar quote from H.P.Lovecraft, similar in concept, not in word use or style. ** *** "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] One World Govt 10 regions.
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 1/22/00 5:35:23 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ( This book is great - He is said to have been killed for that with quick acting cancer .N) He did manage to get a second book out before he died - the title escapes me - but the content of same is pretty heavily anti-Catholic. Speaking of Kah, I had no idea he'd passed on; when did he die? Robin Peters 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] Help/Antarctica City
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- And this one Horlick Mountains are in Antartica seems to have something to do with a project of JPL. http://geodynamics.jpl.nasa.gov/antarctica/tamstation.html We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift - Original Message - From: earthman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Help/Antarctica City -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- And this one Peter... Yes. you want access to the Hefferlin Manuscripts. i think connected to ( i have them im trying to find them ) Hapgood? these cities are very well described We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift - Original Message - From: Gwinn O Nabisco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 5:44 AM Subject: [CTRL] Help/Antarctica City -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- I need some advice. About six months ago, my friend told me that she was leaving the "powers that be" and going to a libertarian stronghold in Antarctica. I think the name of the place could be Antarctica City. I can find no information about this place. My friend was not the kind of person who made things up. I miss her and fear for her safety. Please provide any information about Antarctica City that you have heard. I am tired of attempting to utilize traditional sources. I am not a conspiritorialist, but I am to the point that I am desperate for some type of lead. Please do not make up bogus information, but also, please provide any information about this place that you have heard. Thanks. LYCOShop. Thousands of products! One location! http://shop.lycos.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. Substance-not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no 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 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. Substance-not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no 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 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.
Re: [CTRL] Freemasonry's Occult, Evil Empire Exposed
Thanks eagle, I did not realise the Vatican was behind it. Wink wink nudge nudge, say no more, say no more. Peter We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboardhttp://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift - Original Message - From: Eagle 1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Freemasonry's Occult, Evil Empire Exposed earthman... Peter, Leaving out the books of Enoch and Jasher were done by the Trent Council in 1821... The book of Enoch lost the vote by only one and the book of Daniel was cannonized by only one vote... MEN did the voting. Those books were originally apart of the King James that was translated in 1611. The Trent Council was made up mostly of members of the Vatican... need I say more? You can examine a portion of the Enoch scroll on my website, http://www.lambsheart.com/fourwinds/naphal2.html eagle 1 - Original Message - From: earthman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Freemasonry's Occult, Evil Empire Exposed "Even they claim that they could have made errors" Yeah like leaving out the books of Enoch Thomas, Jasher (sp)...LOL peter We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboardhttp://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift
Re: [CTRL] One World Govt 10 regions.
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- OK, Where is Israel on that list then. You mean they forgot about Israel? I can't see it's Arab neighbours agreeing to have Israel in it's region, can you? They don't seem to get on very well. Anyway, I got the info from Stan Deyo's "The Cosmic Conspiracy". His list is a bit more extensive, but the basics are the same. And Oceania is lumped in with NZ, Oz, Sth Africa and Israel. So you don't think a new world order will happen eh? I don't see it not happening, unless of course we have a UFO invasion or pole shift. Mind you, both of these scenarios would probably play right into their hands. Peter We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard http://sites.netscape.net/gsussnzl/poleshift - Original Message - From: Nurev Ind Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 6:20 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] One World Govt 10 regions. -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- How wrong is this post? Let me count the ways. earthman wrote: -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- I hear that Israel is lumped in with NZ and Oz. Hmmm I wonder who will be pulling the strings if this is the case. Peter 1) What could possibly be the point of lumping Israel with NZ and OZ? Israel and its neighbors are being forced into phony peace treaties because the NWO needs to establish THAT REGION as an economic entity. Israel's capitalist economy will be the anchor economy for the region. I was told by an ex-Clinton cabinet person that the political elites have the attitude that "the Arabs are incapable of running a modern economy." - Original Message - From: Nicky Molloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 12:34 PM Subject: [CTRL] One World Govt 10 regions. -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- http://www.jdkoftinoff.com/canal30.html THE COMING ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT Nations Comprising 10 Future "Kingdoms" This list is compiled from a map found on page 42 of "En Route to Global Occupation", by Gary H. Kah, published by Huntington House Publishers of Lafayette, Louisiana, 1991. ( This book is great - He is said to have been killed for that with quick acting cancer .N) One really must laugh at this kind of info. This stuff is Bible based bullshit. " Ten Kingdoms?" When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. When you are afflicted with the religious disease, everything starts to look like Bible prophesy. The data that created the map originates with Mihajlo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel, authors of "Mankind at the Turning Point-The Second Report to the Club of Rome', published by E. P. Dutton Co., Inc.,/Reader's Digest Press, 1974. For the uninformed, the Club of Rome is an offsoot of The Bildebergers, through one Aurelio Peccei (now deceased), a prominent Italian industrialist with close ties to the Fiat and Olivetti corporations. Like The Bildebergers, the COR draws a high percentage of its members from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The COR has been assigned the task of overseeing the regionalization and unification of the entire world, wherein ALL nations of the world will give up their sovereignty in favor of a global government! So far, so good. Following are the ten regions and the approximate territories they will comprise. These regions are synonomous with "kingdoms", Only in the minds of the superstitiously aflicted. likely, each with a head reporting to the world government of the day. REGION 1 Canada United States 1) Mexico is part of NORTH America, and is already a partner in NAFTA with the US and Canada. REGION 2 Western Europe British Isles Norway, Sweden and Finland Turkey This is probably correct. My personal guess is that Turkey won't remain in the fold once the Turkish people overthrow their elites. REGION 3 Japan Pacific Islands 3) Too limited. Japan's is supposed to be the anchor economy for that region. REGION 4 Australia New Zealand South Africa 4) Not South Africa. More likely the Pacific Islands. SA is the anchor economy for Southern Africa, which is also thought of by the ( American )elites as a " basket case " incapable of developing a modern economy. REGION 5 Eastern Europe Russia Siberia Mongolia Korea Never happen! REGION 6 Central America (including Mexico) South America Carribean Islands 5) This one is all wrong. Mexico is part of NAFTA. Central America and the Caribbean would be a separate region from South America. None of these areas will be successful for the NWO, simply because Capitalism is the wrong economic system for these particular regions. These economies are failing as we speak.
Re: [CTRL] Chasing Government Monkeys
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.htmlFrom: J. Neil Schulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Chasing Government Monkeys" Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 3:27 PM James Daugherty wrote: .. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project: [Not Necessarily Endorsed] From: Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: www.jail4judges.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Chasing Government Monkeys" Date: Sunday, January 16, 2000 7:29 PM I have done some research on the Grand Jury's 5th Amendment Presentment power to independently investigate and demand criminal prosecution of government officials. There are two reasons Presentments have become "obsolete": (1) grand jurors are not told about this power, and (2) grand jurors don't have enough lead in their pencils to hold press conferences on the courthouse steps when prosecutors refuse to prosecute judges, fellow prosecutors, police, agents, etc. In most states, any grand juror who say anything at all about the content of a grand jury proceeding would be in jail on felony charges. 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] Chip Tatum / Nexus Magazine
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -Original Message- From: nexusmagazine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 4:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Chip Tatum From: Catherine Austin Fitts I remember a debate on the list about Chip Tatum and whether or not his info was reliable, and I do not remember the outcome so I thought I would ask. Last night I watched a long interiew with him before he and his website retreated from the public eye. One of the topics he covered was the flow of drugs from Central America during Iran-Contra. He said everything channeled through Panama and flowed to three locations. Lamar and Pueblo in California, Dayton in Ohio, and Mena and Arkansas Air Force Base. Given the importance of those three areas to HUD financial fraud in the 80's and during the Clinton Administration, I found the locations of interest. Anyone got a take on Tatum and his reliablity or on the accuracy of this description of the Iran Contra flow/The Enterprise? I should note that I found it fascinating that his business during his second attempt at retirement was a mortgage company in Denver. Thanks. Catherine Austin Fitts Solari == from: Duncan M. Roads Editor, NEXUS Magazine I have had correspondence with Chip prior to his 'disappearance'. In fact, we published an article written by David G. Guyatt (UK), titled "The Pegasus File". It ran over two parts in the April-May 1997; and June-July 1997 issues of NEXUS Magazine. I am pretty sure you can get the articles for free at my web site (www.nexusmagazine.com). The writer, David Guyatt is exceptionally pedantic about details, and I know that David spent a lot of time and money verifying Chip's story before committing the story to be published. Generally speaking I have found Chip to be honest and pleasant in all his dealings with NEXUS, and if you read David's articles, I am sure you will see that there are a zillion details for y'all to pick at. I would be most appreciative if any of you can confirm, or deny the details therein. The article contains a list of key individuals involved in the cocaine trail from Columbia, through Honduras to Panama and on into the US. The list as published is as follows: William Casey (Director, Central Intelligence) Clair Elroy George, Head of CIA Central American Task Force George Bush Dr Henry Kissinger Alexander Haig Donald Gregg (former National Security Advisor to VP Bush, Ambassador to Korea) Duane "Dewey" Clarradge (sp?) CIA Joseph Fernandez, CIA Costa Rica Station Chief Oliver North John Singlaub William Colby Richard V. Secord Willam Weld (Head of Criminal Division, US Dept of Justice, instrumental in blocking Senate investigations into narcotics, according to Senate Special Investigator Jack Blum) Felix Rodriguez (CIA officer with close ties to VP Bush) General Peroot, (Defense Intelligence Agency) The article makes it clear that Governor Clinton was knee-deep in the cocaine venture etc etc. regards Duncan Duncan M. Roads Editor, NEXUS Magazine PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia Tel: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381 http://www.nexusmagazine.com "The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end." (Aldous Huxley) 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] Gun Controls Kills
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.htmlFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gun Controls Kills Date: Saturday, January 22, 2000 5:45 PM to Unsubscribe send "leave nevadagop" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or hit reply with "REMOVE" in subject X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ** Just Another Day With Gun Control January 16, 2000 by Jim Houck The movie I went to see today, at the request of my film managers, was Hurricane starring Denzel Washington. I write feature films. I write TV ads for the largest advertising agencies on earth for clients like Toyota, Ford, Sony and Coke. I am the "Hollywood crowd" that the liberal press lies about so often. I arrived early at the Torrance, California AMC 20 Theaters, so I bought my ticket and sat on a bench just outside the front lobby under a palm tree for about half an hour, enjoying the many different faces, the playing kids, the adults. A flood of Californians streamed out suddenly. A young girl had been attacked by a criminal who had just shot her. "Is the shooter stopped?" I asked, reaching for my Heckler Koch USP .45, running for the lobby with the intent to kill the criminal before he could injure or kill more of We the People. "No, nobody can do anything! He's just walking around like he owns the place!" a California woman cried, trembling like a mouse before the lion. And indeed, the criminal did. I ripped up my leather jacket and found my holster missing. I didn't have my .45 with me today. I'd opted not to take it just this one time at the advice of the local Californians, avoid the hassle of the California cops if they discover it, I thought, save the massive court costs of exercising my right. "Don't get caught, the street officers will hook you and book you and let the judges sort it out," a friend and local California police officer had told me repeatedly. Besides, it was three in the afternoon next door to Palos Verdes Estates, one of the most affluent and lowest crime areas in the United States. My decision to leave my self defense at home very likely cost the young man, who would be shot next, his life. I have extensive, combat firearms training. I've been in three gun battles with criminals in New Orleans and Miami in the defense of myself twice and a Miami police officer once, and I've never missed nor have I lost. The criminals did. Of course the criminal didn't know these things. He didn't know he was in a "low crime" area and he didn't seem to care that it was three in the afternoon on a Sunday. All he knew was that he was operating in Senator Diane Feinstein¹s wet dream, a theater of perfect Gun Control. Not one citizen in the large crowd of moms, dads, young men or young women had a firearm with which to defend themselves. So they ran. But the funny thing is, they didn't run very fast and the certainly didn't run very far, in fact, many basically hurried and the stood around and complained about not being able to finish their show. You see, criminals being in full control is nothing new in California. It's not news. It didn't excite these folks. I stopped outside the lobby doors. No gun. No way to fight this criminal, I thought. The shooter fired again, dropping a young man next. Well, the California people voted this idiocy through, they repeatedly elect servants like Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer as state senators, people who take away their rights to self defense and the defense of their families, I thought, let them deal with the consequences of their decisions. Of course the criminal walked out the back of the AMC 20 Theaters and vanished long before the local police could wade through the Sunday traffic and do the paperwork. At least they were nice enough to come. They didn't have to. They responded as a "courtesy" according to the Supreme Court. They have no legal duty to protect the individual from criminal assault or murder. Something surprisingly few people know, especially in California. I looked at the downed young man. He would die, judging from my own personal experiences as a shooter of over 20 years, and where the criminal had injured him. The girl, barring very unusual circumstances, she would live - judging from where the criminal had injured her and her loss of blood. The police put pressure on the injuries to try and reduce the bleeding from the criminal attack. Another courtesy service. I sat back down on the bench and watched the Californians as they angrily demanded their ticket money be refunded, the victims of the criminal lying ten yards from them, moaning, dying. A man with his wife in the line of angry movie patrons turned to me and growled, "I'm surprised Feinstein isn't here already. And
[CTRL] NATO's Pontius Pilate
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Rumor Mill News Forum http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1243 NATO'S PONTIUS PILATE Posted By: Jerry Zeifman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, 22 January 2000, at 10:30 p.m. NATO'S PONTIUS PILATE By Jerry Zeifman Carla Del Ponte, the current prosecutor of the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has declined to investigate evidence of War Crimes committed by NATO leaders. She has issued a press release stating "NATO is not under investigation...There is no formal inquiry into the actions of NATO during the conflict in Kosovo." Viewed simply in ethical terms her posture is an abdication of her professional responsibilities. On a legal level her position is even more indefensible. Article 18 of the ICTY's own statute states specifically, "The Prosecutor shall initiate investigations. . . on the basis of information obtained from any source. The Prosecutor shall assess the information and decide whether there is sufficient basis to proceed." Yet Del Ponte disavows any need for an investigation or inquiry. Del Ponte's press release was issued on December 30, 1999. It is remarkably inconsistent with prior statements emanating from her and her aides. Just one day before, on December 29, the Associated Press published a story by its Hague reporter, stating: The United Nations chief war crimes prosecutor is reviewing the conduct of NATO pilots and their commanders during last spring's 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, her spokesman said yesterday. Carla Del Ponte's staff compiled a report on the air strikes at the urging of several "interested parties" ...[who have] ...filed complaints before the the Tribunal, said spokesman Paul Risley...The contents of the tribunal's report are confidential... Her statement is also inconsistent with a variety of other prior assurances by her that she would investigate evidence of NATO- committed war crimes submitted by a wide variety of sources. On December 26, the London Observer reported: "A dossier of NATO war crimes lands in prosecutor's lap." In response to a question concerning her willingness to investigate such crimes she said: "If I am not willing to do that, I am not in the right place, I must give up my mission." The recent AP and Observer articles were hardly the first personal assurances by the office of the prosecutor of an intention to at least investigate, if not indict, NATO leaders. For more than six months a number of reputable lawyers and private organizations from such NATO countries as Canada, the United States, Greece, Norway, and Germany have been submitting evidence of such crimes to the Tribunal. Among the first of these has been a group of Canadian lawyers headed by Professor David Mandel of York University. In June 1999 the Canadian group submitted extensively documented complaints that NATO leaders have admitted knowledge of the inevitability of civilian death, injury and destruction and persisted their bombing attack despite that knowledge. The complaints also charged them with deliberately choosing civilian targets in defiance of Geneva Conventions, the UN Charter and other relevant provisions of international law. Several weeks after filing its complaint the group met with then-Prosecutor Louise Arbour who, though non committal on the merits of the case, at least indicated a willingness to consider submitted evidence impartially. Subsequently, Arbour resigned from the Tribunal to accept a judgeship on Canada's supreme court -- a position which many of NATO's critics in Canada consider a reward for not acting on the complaint of the Mandel group. On September 15, Carla Del Ponte replaced Arbour as ICTY's prosecutor. On November 15, 1999 David Mandel had a personal meeting with Del Ponte. He submitted a supplementary written brief outlining the case and three additional thick volumes of evidence documenting the war crimes. The supplementary brief and evidence included what Mandel described as: Overwhelming evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity
Re: [CTRL] Armed Dangerous
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- This story is mentioned in the beginning of "A License to Steal" : The Forfeiture of Property, by Leonard W. Levy http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0807822426/stillpointhealinA/ I haven't finished the book yet - it was recommended as a definitive work on asset forfeiture laws. The definitive website is http://www.fear.org which seems pretty appropriate when "law enforcement" turns goon squad-in-search-of OPM other people's money.. or their homes.. and getting away with murder. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave --- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/2123_xex_ranchcovetin.shtml SUNDAY JANUARY 23, 2000 --- ARMED AND DANGEROUS Ranch-coveting officials settle for killing owner Five police agencies staged bogus drug raid on rich eccentric to acquire 200-acre spread -- By Paul Ciotti © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Recent revelations about rampant police perjury have made Los Angeles juries so mistrustful of law enforcement that attorneys for Los Angeles County are in some cases offering plaintiffs multi-million dollar settlements, rather than risking the possibility of far larger damage awards should the cases ever go to trial. In one of the more infamous instances of alleged law enforcement misconduct -- the killing of the reclusive Malibu millionaire and rugged anti-government individualist Donald Scott in his ranch house by Los Angeles sheriff's deputies in 1992 -- county and federal government officials tentatively agreed last week to pay Scott's heirs and estate a total of $5 million in return for their dropping a wrongful death lawsuit. Furthermore, they made the settlement despite the deep conviction, says deputy Los Angeles County Counsel Dennis Gonzales, that the deputy who shot Scott was fully justified and -- even though the sheriff was never able to prove it -- that the heavy-drinking Scott was growing thousands of marijuana plants on his remote $2.5 million Malibu ranch. Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 1992, 31 officers from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, Border Patrol, National Guard and Park Service came roaring down the narrow dirt road to Scott's rustic 200-acre ranch. They planned to arrest Scott, the wealthy, eccentric, hard-drinking heir to a Europe-based chemicals fortune, for allegedly running a 4,000-plant marijuana plantation. When deputies broke down the door to Scott's house, Scott's wife would later tell reporters, she screamed, "Don't shoot me. Don't kill me." That brought Scott staggering out of the bedroom, hung-over and bleary-eyed -- he'd just had a cataract operation -- holding a .38 caliber Colt snub-nosed revolver over his head. When he pointed it in the direction of the deputies, they killed him. Later, the lead agent in the case, sheriff's deputy Gary Spencer and his partner John Cater posed for photographs arm-in-am outside Scott's cabin, smiling and triumphant, says Larry Longo, a former Los Angeles deputy district attorney who now represents Scott's daughter, Susan. "It was as if they were white hunters who had just shot the buffalo," he said. Despite a subsequent search of Scott's ranch using helicopters, dogs, searchers on foot, and a high-tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory device for detecting trace amounts of sinsemilla, no marijuana --or any other illegal drug -- was ever found. Scott's widow, the former Frances Plante, along with four of Scott's children from prior marriages, subsequently filed a $100 million wrongful death suit against the county and federal government. For eight years the case dragged on, requiring the services of 15 attorneys and some 30 volume binders to hold all the court documents. Last week, attorneys for Los Angeles County and the federal government agreed to settle with Scott's heirs and estate, even though the sheriff's department still maintained its deputies had done nothing wrong. "I do not believe it was an illegal raid in any way, shape or form," Captain Larry Waldie, head of the Sheriff's Department's narcotics bureau, told the Los Angeles Times after the shooting. When Scott came out of the bedroom, the deputies identified themselves and shouted at him to put the gun down. As Scott began to lower his arm, one deputy later said, he "kinda" pointed his gun -- which he initially was holding by the cylinder, not the handle grip -- at deputy Spencer who, in fear for his life, killed him. Although attorneys for Los Angeles County believed Scott's shooting was fully justified, they weren't eager to see the case go to trial. Recent widespread revelations of illegal shootings, planted evidence and perjured testimony at the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division were making the public mistrust the police. "I've tried four cases (since the
[CTRL] FW: PACIFICA REPORTERS THREATEN STRIKE
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:07:32 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Eileen Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PACIFICA REPORTERS THREATEN STRIKE Dear Free-Speech Lovers, As many of you know, censorship at Pacifica Radio has, since the KPFA crisis last Spring, become a way of life. And the "reassignment" of Pacifica Network News director Dan Coughlin this past November was, for many, the last straw. Pacifica Foundation chair Mary Frances Berry also heads the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, though it's clear her vision of civil rights does not extend to press freedoms. Pacifica has a cancer of censorship growing within that we intend to purge. To fight Pacifica's rightward and authoritarian drift, the national and international stringers and contributors to Pacifica Network News-- PNN--have decided to act, and are threatening to strike the national news on January 31st for 3 months if several demands are not met. Dozens of reporters have already signed on from across the Americas, Asia and Europe, and our current strike list comprises the majority of regular contributors to the national-news broadcast. (This action in no way affects the local-news division at each sister station.) Tomorrow, we are sending our demands to management. This will be ganged with a massive media push. Hundreds of press releases are going out across the country to print and radio reporters, web sites, community groups, academics, free-speech institutions, progressive writers, unions, etc. We are asking for support at every level, and we are asking those who give interviews to Pacifica to consider boycotting the network news as well. We've set up an on-line press kit at "www.savepacific.net" for reporters and anyone interested in learning more about the action. There you'll find our press release, our letter to management, a Chronology of Censorship, several salient articles including an outstanding Salon piece on Mary Frances Berry, artwork, etc. Most recently Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post described Pacifica sister-station WPFW in Washington as the most censorious in the network, and his comments could not have come at a better time. We are trying desperately to save Pacifica. Opinions vary about the fate, and the state, of the network. Some feel the forces within Pacifica who seek to neuter it's progressive voice have the upper hand and will ultimately prevail. Others feel Pacifica management is, despite its bravado, vulnerable, and that this strike action comes at an excellent time, and will give activists and journalists who are fighting for the network a place to focus their energies. If we can educate the mainstream press about what's really happening at "free-speech radio" we believe there's a fighting chance. The struggle to preserve the country's oldest community- sponsored, non-commercial media institution is not merely a labor struggle, as management would have us believe. The public needs to know that the fight for this network is historic, especially within the context of gargantuan corporate media mergers which result in the strangulation of free, unimpeded access to news and information. We hope to build a tidal wave of support for this action, while renaming this crisis. Management says labor struggle. We say CENSORSHIP. Management says internal matters. We say CENSORSHIP. Management tries to gag us, we say CENSORSHIP. What can you do? Spread the word. Check out the web site. We are setting up a strike fund to support those free-lance reporters who earn a lot from Pacifica and who will be sacrificing that income. Even a $5 donation to the strike fund is appreciated. Please take a moment to circulate and/or send our Affinity Letter to Mary Frances Berry. This will be available on the web site as of January 31st, when the strike is scheduled to begin. There is also talk of striking reporters filing stories on-line and producing alternative broadcasts for Pacifica affiliates. The possibilities are endless... A small group here in New York has begun to brainstorm as to how to involve the New York activist community (forums? demos? parades?) and your ideas are most welcome. Please leave us a voice mail at (212) 439-8087, or write to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are striking to fight censorship. Front and center. Management has tried desperately to keep this issue out of the national Pacifica debate, but as of this strike action, that particular black-out is officially over. Please treat yourself to the comments of Daniel Ellsberg below. We thank you for your interest, and welcome your support. onward, Eileen Sutton Pacifica Reporters Against Censorship (212) 439-8087 = Daniel Ellsberg's KPFA Interview Discussing Censorship at Pacifica "The present management of Pacifica seems to me entirely unsuited to
[CTRL] FW: EMI and Time Warner propose merger forming biggest record company
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- One-world megalithic corps .. merger madness.. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave London, Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- EMI Group Plc and Time Warner Inc. said they're in talks to combine their music units and create the world's biggest record company. Warner Music Group, whose artists include Alanis Morrisette, Eric Clapton and Madonna, will pay EMI shareholders more than $1 billion, or $1.65 a share, for board control of the 50-50 joint venture, people familiar with the companies said. Warner and EMI - - whose catalog ranges from the Spice Girls to the Rolling Stones to Garth Brooks -- expect to unveil the merger tomorrow, EMI said. The venture, to be called Warner EMI Music, would have sales of about $8.3 billion, topping its biggest rivals, including Seagram Co.'s Universal Music Group. The move will boost its marketing clout and an expanded artist roster will give the venture an edge in selling more albums online through America Online Inc., which has agreed to buy Time Warner. "If you can distribute via the Internet -- via AOL -- it's going to boost sales at EMI," said Nick Ward, an analyst at Commerzbank Global Equities, adding that EMI tends to sell more of its back catalog of titles on the Internet than through retail outlets. $10 Billion Each in Assets EMI and Warner's music assets are worth about $10 billion each, the people familiar said. EMI declined to give any details. Time Warner declined to comment further today. This "represents an opportunity to establish the world's premiere music group and to create very considerable value for shareholders of both companies," EMI said. "The transaction would not involve an offer being made for EMI." New York-based Time Warner, the world's largest media and entertainment company, agreed to AOL's $163.5 billion stock offer earlier this month to give its brands, including Warner Music, a way to expand in electronic commerce. AOL is the world's top Internet service with more than 20 million subscribers. When that transaction was announced, executives said they intended to step up the pace of acquisitions. EMI Chairman Eric Nicoli and Time Warner President Richard Parsons will be co-chairmen of the new venture, a person familiar with EMI said. Warner Music Chairman Roger Ames will be chief executive and Ken Berry, president and chief executive of EMI recorded music, will be chief operating officer. EMI to Keep HMV Media Warner Music will have six directors on the venture's board, while EMI will have five, the person said. It would have headquarters in New York and London. EMI's music business, including recorded music and music publishing, account for about 85 percent of the U.K. company's sales. Its stakes in Internet companies and in bookstore chain HMV Media Group Plc won't be included, and stock in EMI will continue to trade, a person familiar with EMI said. London-based EMI has seen its market share in the U.S. fall as sales in Europe have stagnated. It's done better in Asia, however, where sales more than doubled in the six months through September. It was helped by a debut album from Japan's Utada Hikaru that was the best-selling album in Japanese history. Warner Music Group had 1998 sales of $4.03 billion. It suffered last year from releasing fewer hit albums and delayed releases from popular performers, causing it to slide to fourth place in domestic market share with about 15.8 percent of the market. Fills a Gap Both need to bulk up after rivals have grown through mergers themselves. The move will especially bolster Warner Music's position overseas, where its performance has lagged that in the U.S. "It fills in a gap," said Hal Vogel, an independent entertainment analyst based in New York. "Warner Music was generally very strong in the U.S. and weak outside of the U.S. This pumps them up on an international level." Seagram's Universal Music Group bought Polygram NV in late 1998 for about $10 billion, reducing the number of major record distributors to five. In the 12 months through June 30, 1999, Seagram's music business generated $6.34 billion in sales. It had a domestic market share of about 26.4 percent last year. Combining Warner Music with EMI, the world's No. 3 music company, would cut that number to four. In addition to Warner EMI and Universal, the others are Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG. The expected merger announcement doesn't prevent other companies from also making an offer for EMI, Vogel said. Walt Disney Co., for one, has a small presence in music and has tried to expand it in the past. Other Possible Suitors "Disney has to be the prime candidate to be interested in it. (Disney's music business) is still small, and who but Disney with its Broadway shows, theme parks and animation could use music and exploit it better," Vogel said. He also named News Corp. and Sony Corp. as other companies that potentially could be interested in EMI.
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- GUN CONTROL IS PUTTING THE FIRST CLIP IN THE TEN RING. IF ALL AMERICA CARRIED FIRE ARMS WHAT JAILS COULD THEY PUT US IN. STAND UP FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT. A SON OF LIBERTY! 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
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STRATFOR.COM's Global Intelligence Update - 24 January 2000 By The Internet's Most Intelligent Source of International News Analysis http://www.stratfor.com/ __ Know the every move of your competitors -- even before they do. Stratfor Intelligence Services http://www.stratfor.com/services/ __ WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR WORLD Coup in Ecuador http://www.stratfor.com/world/ecuador/default.htm Evidence Supports South African Rejection of UNITA http://www.stratfor.com/MEAF/commentary/m0001220010.htm Wahid Polishes Kopassus' Tarnished Image http://www.stratfor.com/asia/commentary/m0001212345.htm __ STRATFOR.COM Global Intelligence Update 24 January 2000 National Missile Defenses: Fighting the Last War Summary Last week, the Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization launched a missile from California into the Pacific in an attempt to shoot it down and prove that a limited national missile defense is possible. But the ongoing debate over such a defense is at least a decade behind emerging strategic and battlefield realities. The new strategic threat will not come from rogue regimes fielding one or two weapons but instead from coalitions built around true nuclear powers such as Russia and China - whose forces could easily overwhelm such a defense. And the debate is distracting the U.S. military from forging a space strategy that protects satellites, the keys to U.S. conventional military power. Analysis Last week, the United States launched a missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California toward Kwajalein Atoll, several thousand miles away in the Pacific. A few minutes later, an interceptor missile was launched from the island. Its mission was to destroy the incoming intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a test of a new anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system. The interceptor missed. The test failed. The responses were predictable. Opponents of an ABM system claimed that the failure proved the inherent unreliability of a missile defense system. Whatever the virtues of an ABM system, the claim that this test proved its non-viability is absurd. Early tests of any system are expected to fail. That's why they are called tests. You only have to think about the failures of missiles early in the space program to realize that. This failure tells us nothing. Which is not to say that an ABM system of this sort is a good idea. It just means that this failure should not influence anyone's opinion, one way or another. Let's consider how we got to this position. In 1972, the United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement banning the creation of an ABM system. The treaty was meaningless; no one really knew how to build such a system. The Soviets deployed some hardware around Moscow, but calling it an anti-missile system would have been charitable. The 1972 treaty, therefore, was a classic in diplomatic irrelevance, banning what was effectively impossible. By the 1980s, missile defense capabilities appeared to have evolved to the point that a serious defense was possible. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars, was a project intended to reconsider the question of whether an effective defense against missiles was possible under new technology. Opponents of SDI argued (a) that it would not work and (b) that it would de- stabilize the balance achieved by Mutual Assured Destruction, the doctrine that deterrence rested on assurance that an attack by one side would result in an annihilating attack by the other side. Now, If (a) were true, then (b) would not be. Nonetheless, the same people who criticized SDI for being ineffective were frequently the ones arguing that it was destabilizing. The defenders of SDI managed to get as tangled in logic as the opponents. The primary criticism of a missile-based ABM system was that it was like hitting a bullet with a bullet. A secondary criticism was that the interception would likely take place inside the atmosphere, with results as nasty as if they weren't intercepted. Finally, since each ground-based interceptor would have a very limited range, the number of interceptors needed to protect the United States from incoming missiles was mind-boggling. All of these were good arguments. SDI therefore focused on a new class of weapons. These weapons were to be based in space rather than on earth, so that they could intercept launches as they left the atmosphere or in mid-flight, rather than on the last seconds of their trajectory. More important, these weapons would consist of laser beams, particle beams, X-rays and other speed-of-light weapons. These speed-of- light weapons would take care of the problem of hitting a bullet with a bullet. A missile moving at seven miles per second was virtually standing still. Space-based, speed-of- light weapons would be able to handle any missile. That was probably true,
