Re: [CTRL] Tripp: Clintons Changed Gift System
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/10/01 12:41:29 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, this article is grossly inaccurate. It states that she was fired on Inauguration day, yet starts with her claims about logging in gifts from heads of state. My mistake. She was fired by the Clinton WH just before he left office. Oh, and she's suing the DOD for leaking job-hunting info about her. Quote: "These leaks are shameful," the lawyers said. "They are designed to humiliate and embarrass Mrs. Tripp. They re designed to render her jobless and bankrupt." (http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/01/25/tripp.lawsuit.02/index.html) What a joke coming from the pig fart who delighted in publicly humiliating and destroying an unsuspecting friend. Samantha A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Bush Under Pressure to Boost Defense Spending - Are the puppet strings showing?
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bush Under Pressure to Boost Defense Spending Updated 6:57 PM ET February 9, 2001 By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, who made improvements in the military a centerpiece of his election campaign, is under pressure to spend a lot more money to reshape a ponderous U.S. armed forces for the 21st century. The White House said this week that apart from an extra $1 billion for a military pay raise to please troops in the next Pentagon budget, there were no current plans to raise defense spending beyond the $310 billion proposed by former President Clinton in 2002. "I have sent the message that I think it's very important for us to not have an early supplemental," Bush told reporters on Friday, referring to a possible emergency supplement to the current fiscal year's budget. "It's important for us to do a top-to-bottom review to review all missions, spending priorities." This kind of talk has set off alarm bells among security hawks in Congress and the military Joint Chiefs of Staff, who are already pressing for $8 billion extra in the current year for normal worldwide operations and maintenance of aging weapons. Bush promised in the campaign to spend about $45 billion extra on defense over the next decade. But many Pentagon officials and military analysts, complaining of a run-down in equipment, training and personnel, say that is not enough if current programs remain on track. They say that $50 billion to $100 billion will be needed in extra funds annually above the current proposed budget. Private military experts gave Bush good marks for taking a cautious approach to military spending until he has the results of a broad Pentagon policy review. But they said that major changes were needed in a superpower force depleted by post-Cold War cuts and which needs a major overhaul to face new challenges in the 21st century. "Terrorism, cyber-warfare, biological weapons, technology proliferation are here now. Changes in defenses must come in the next few years," said Michael Vickers of the private Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington. "Army mobility is more important than tanks and massed troops, information from space will be a key to victory, unmanned reconnaissance and attack aircraft will be the norm," Vickers said. NUCLEAR CHANGES PLANNED A senior U.S. official told Reuters on Friday that Bush also planned to order a complete review of the U.S. nuclear arsenal with an eye toward unilaterally cutting the U.S. arsenal from more than 7,000 warheads to as low as 2,000. That could help pave the way for Bush to proceed with his controversial planned National Missile Defense, but analysts have warned that conventional defense could even be more important than nuclear offense and defense in the new century. Specialists agreed in interviews that nothing like the 1991 Gulf War -- fought in open desert with easy Iraqi targets -- would be undertaken again by the United States. They said that U.S. troops must be increasingly trained for sneak attacks and urban fighting dominated by technology on both sides. Michael O'Hanlon of the private Brookings Institution, another Washington think tank, praised a broad review begun by new Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of U.S. military force structure, planning and weapons, including Bush's National Missile Defense (NMD). "The main thing we have to do here is to guarantee a process of innovation where you don't bankrupt your ability to research and develop new weapons by spending too much on stuff sparked by Cold War thinking," O'Hanlon said. He and others said the United States should build smaller "Silver Bullet" numbers of expensive F-22 air-superiority fighters and Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) than now planned in order to preserve technology and save money for research on everything from unmanned combat vehicles to chemical and biological sensors. RATTLING THE NAVY? The U.S. military has shrunk to 1.4 million troops from 2.1 million a decade ago, but analysts said size was not as important as maintaining a critical edge in electronic warfare. Take, for example, the Navy's heavy reliance on a dozen aircraft carrier battle groups to show the U.S. flag and project global power. A recent strategy study by the budgetary analysis center stressed that it might be much more important in coming years to rely on long-range conventional missiles fired from converted nuclear missile submarines than on aircraft carriers sailing near enemy shores with short-range jets. That kind of thinking rattles the Navy, which for decades has depended on giant aircraft carriers. But experts say those floating platforms may become increasingly vulnerable to attack from missiles and even future lasers. Experts also say there is a problem with continuing to develop short-range fighter jets such as the F-22 and the JSF to replace
Re: [CTRL] Chamish: Sharon - No Celebration (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- MICHAEL SPITZER wrote: -Caveat Lector- On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Nurev Ind Research wrote: Barry Chamish is usually 80% full of shit. This time he outdid himself by another 19%. I believe he's 80-plus percent on the money. In fact, I can pretty safely say that if he claims something as fact, IT IS! How do you know this? Just what I know of him. Let's not forget that this guy makes his living off of gullible conspiracy geeks. Just a friendly word of advice from someone who knows. ??? ??? what does this mean??? It means I don't know what you're talking about. I know, because I have called him on his more blatant bullshit. Some of those posts are probably in CTRL's archives. I know because I met with Bainerman some years ago and we talked about what he and Chamish do. They write to a specific audience. That's not the same as being an investigator and letting things fall where they may. I think the man has a great deal of integrity, and is a very fine and dedicated investigative journalist. Well, you might have a lot of work to do on refining your judgment. Could be. He's in the ' conspiracy writing ' business. His political analysis is off the wall. I personally corrected some of his more blatant drivel here on CTRL. I've seen your stuff, my friend. And so... I'll match anything I ever wrote for posting against ANYBODY for accuracy. Anybody. He and Joel Bainerman are good buddies who use each other as references as if the other is an expert at something when they are not. Bainerman uses phony names and Chamish quotes him under those names as well. Maybe that wasn't clear. Barry Chamish uses quotes and articles from stuff that Joel Bainerman has written to bolster whatever it is that he is writing about. Bainerman writes under different names. This is basically dishonest because the reader thinks Chamish's reference is valid and not contrived. These guys know who their most gullible target audience is. Zionist Christians, conspiracy geeks, and plenty of feeble minded UFO enthusiasts. I beg your pardon, my friend. You don't have to beg my pardon. This is by its nature an audience which is predisposed to fraud because these subjects are not underpinned by hard facts. Sometimes they just can't be. This means anybody can make up any kind of poo-poo they want. This is what Chamish does. He knows his audience, and he exploits the grey areas. I've been following his stuff for a few years now, and I'm very familiar with his views. I don't disagree with many of them, but that doesn't mean he's a reliable researcher. That's the point of all this. Chamish is NOT a reliable source of information. J2 Sorry Mike, No prob. J2 Mike A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Disorderly Conduct
-Caveat Lector- Those of us who are old enough to remember when the use of seat belts began might also recall that early on there was no penalty for not remembering to use one. Then after an interval, we were advised that if a police officer stopped us for something else and it was discovered that we were not using the seat belt, we wouldbe given an additional fine for a seat belt violation ($l0 I think).This morning's paper advised that police were going to get tough on seat belt requirements, and if they saw that you did not have your belt on, they would stop you and you would receive a fine of $50.00. This is just to mention that things escalate, for the following article also appeared in the same paper: POLICE CHARGE CORRY HITCHHIKER, CLAIM SHE MADE OBSCENE GESTURE AT PASSING DRIVER A Corry hitchhiker accused of making an obscene gesture to a driver who passed her by has been charged with disorderly conduct. Corry police identified the woman as KA. M__, 43, (address). Police said an officer was watching on Tuesday about 11:20 a.m. when M___ made the gesture to a driver who passed her by on East Main Street. End of quote. I thought you might like to know the direction that "law and order" is taking. Its purpose no longer appears to be to protect our citizens from harm. I'm not sure how many places an "obscene gesture" amounts to disorderly conduct, but I just thought we should all be aware of the enthusiasm with which our nation's finest are applying the law. In several years an offense as grevious as this one may put you in the slammer for five or ten years. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] [InTheShadows] Disorderly Conduct
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POLICE CHARGE CORRY HITCHHIKER, CLAIM SHE MADE OBSCENE GESTURE AT PASSING DRIVER In several years an offense as grevious as this one may put you in the slammer for five or ten years. Or sent to the organ banks. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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: Cuomo Leaves HUD in Shambles by Kelly O'Meara
My best guess is that in 1996, Gore and H. Clinton knew that Cisneros could not help them get Texas and they needed the New York and California drug/mob market to win. They moved Cisneros out with phony scandals and moved in Cuomo. Cuomo radically increased patronage that helped them lock up lots of supportCalifornia, Illinois and New York all critical pieces. My guess is that if we keep tracking how the money works, this will link back into the flow of Dominican drug money into the Gore-Clinton effort in 1996, 1998, 2000. There has to be comparable plays out in California http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200103057.shtml Cuomo Leaves HUD in Shambles By Kelly Patricia O'Meara [EMAIL PROTECTED] HUD continues to be plagued with fraud and wasteful mismanagement, yet the former chief, Andrew Cuomo, pretended that he cleaned up the billion-dollar mess. If there is one thing Big Daddy hates, the Tennessee Williams character told his family in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it is mendacity - the kind of verbal sleight of hand designed to deceive. On his way out of Washington, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton's secretary the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and wanna-be governor of New York, released a cloud of mendacity as odoriferous as any in living memory. In HUD Press Release 013, dated Jan. 17, Cuomo declared: "HUD's departmentwide high-risk designation is now a thing of the past." But HUD hasn't been removed from that watch list, and Cuomo has reason to know it. HUD has been on the annual General Accounting Office (GAO) list of federal programs vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement since 1994. This year a single HUD program, Community Development, was removed from the 2001 list, but the two programs that consume 75 percent of HUD's budget - Single-Family Mortgage Insurance and Rental Housing Assistance - remain on the GAO watch list for gross waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement. The former secretary's bold-faced mendacity was not missed by Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., who said: "HUD should be recognized for getting one of its major programs off the list, but it's a stretch to claim the agency is off the list. They still have a long way to go." A "stretch"? With 75 percent of HUD's programs still on the high-risk list, Cuomo's statement that "HUD's departmentwide high-risk designation is now a thing of the past" is a "stretch"? A congressional staffer familiar with HUD's high-risk programs spoke to Insight on condition of anonymity, euphemizing through clenched teeth that Cuomo was "taking liberties" with the truth. But perhaps the departing secretary was confused about the agency's status. Was he unaware that the two programs that remained on the high-risk list amounted to 75 percent of HUD's budget? "No way. This is pretty clear stuff," says the staffer. The GAO minces no words about the godawful mess Cuomo left at HUD, saying: "Significant weaknesses (internal controls, information and financial-management systems, organizational deficiencies and staffing programs) still persist in two of HUD's major program areas which remain at high-risk - Single-Family Insurance and Rental Housing Assistance." One of the problems with downplaying the former secretary's mendacity by referring to it as a "stretch" or "taking liberties" is that it lets those Cuomo left-behind at HUD continue to polish his image. Insight asked Jerry Brown, a spokesman for HUD's public-affairs office, why the exiting secretary would make such a transparent claim. Brown responded, "My understanding from the inspector general's office [HUD IG] is that it is true - that we were taken off the high-risk list as an agency." To try to clarify what might have been a misunderstanding by Brown, Insight contacted the HUD IG. Rather than confirm or deny that it had passed the erroneous information to public affairs, an embarrassed Mike Zerega, a spokesman for the HUD IG, punted. He said, "The GAO is responsible for the designation - it's not our list. I can't comment on what he [Brown] said." Apparently HUD's Cuomo-staffed public-affairs office is just reluctant to say that the agency has been so badly run under the departed Cuomo that it still is on GAO's high-risk list. In addition to Cuomo's exit pronouncements about the alleged accomplishments at HUD during his tenure, he also produced a 104-page book to convince doubters. For a mere $160,000 in tax money the outgoing secretary published a screed to celebrate HUD's achievements under his management, chronicled under the arresting title, Exposing Injustice: A Chronicle of HUD's Mission in the Forgotten America, 1997-2001. Not surprisingly, there is no mention in this book of the 1999 audit debacle in which billions went
Re: [CTRL] Ronnie White's Skeletons --Refused to Support his Illegitimate Child
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/08/2001 1:36:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Columnist Tony Blankley discovered in the files of the liberal St. Louis Post Dispatch that White fathered an out of wedlock child and resisted paying support until a blood test proved his paternity. The same paper also criticized White for outspokenness from the bench that it said "can border on vituperation. A capital offense if I've ever heard of one. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] High Noon in Fascist America-detailed history
In a message dated 02/09/2001 4:45:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: High Noon Date: 02/09/2001 4:45:21 AM Pacific Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janice_G) To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you seen this site? High Noon In Fascist America http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/noon.html Some links from the book. http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/pioneer/kaukas.htm http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/pioneer/forbes.htm http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/pioneer/helms.htm http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/pioneer/silent.htm http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/nation-world/html98/bapt_19990909.html http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/022.html Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details /FONTA HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/0/_/475667/_/981799829/"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM
[CTRL] [Fwd: [mil-corp] The Free Trade Area of the Americas]
-Caveat Lector- Original Message Subject: [mil-corp] The Free Trade Area of the Americas Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 11:06:50 -0500 From: International Network on Disarmament and Globalization [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mil-corp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network members: The next major gathering of anti-corporate globalization activists will be in April in Quebec City during the Summit of the Americas. Activists from around the world will gather there to protest the creation of a vast free trade zone - the Free Trade Area of the Americas - that will stretch from Canada to Chile. To learn more about the FTAA, you can read Maude Barlow's excellent report, "The Free Trade Area of the Americas and the Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in Canada and the Americas" http://www.canadians.org/campaigns/campaigns-tradepub-ftaa2.html The INDG is working to host a forum in Quebec City on Globalization, Militarism and Latin America. More info on this to come. Steve The Free Trade Area of the Americas and the Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in Canada and the Americas by Maude Barlow Summary The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), currently being negotiated by 34 countries of the Americas, is intended by its architects to be the most far-reaching trade agreement in history. Although it is based on the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it goes far beyond NAFTA in its scope and power. The FTAA, as it now stands, would introduce into the Western Hemisphere all the disciplines of the proposed services agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) - the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) - with the powers of the failed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), to create a new trade powerhouse with sweeping new authority over every aspect of life in Canada and the Americas. The GATS, now being negotiated in Geneva, is mandated to liberalize the global trade in services, including all public programs, and gradually phase out all government "barriers" to international competition in the services sector. The Trade Negotiations Committee of the FTAA, led by Canada in the crucial formative months when the first draft was written, is proposing a similar, even expanded, services agreement in the hemispheric pact. It is also proposing to retain, and perhaps expand, the "investor-state" provisions of NAFTA, which give corporations unprecedented rights to pursue their trade interests through legally binding trade tribunals. Combining these two powers into one agreement will give unequalled new rights to the transnational corporations of the hemisphere to compete for and even challenge every publicly funded service of its governments, including health care, education, social security, culture and environmental protection. As well, the proposed FTAA contains new provisions on competition policy, government procurement, market access and dispute settlement that, together with the inclusion of services and investment, could remove the ability of all the governments of the Americas to create or maintain laws, standards and regulations to protect the health, safety and well-being of their citizens and the environment they share. Moreover, the FTAA negotiators appear to have chosen to emulate the WTO rather than NAFTA in key areas of standard-setting and dispute settlement, where the WTO rules are tougher. Essentially, what the FTAA negotiators have done, urged on by the big business community in every country, is to take the most ambitious elements of every global trade and investment agreement - existing or proposed - and put them all together in this openly ambitious hemispheric pact. Once again, as in former trade agreements like NAFTA and the WTO, this free trade agreement will contain no safeguards in the body of the text to protect workers, human rights, social security or health and environmental standards. Once again civil society and the majority of citizens who want a different kind of trade agreement have been excluded from the negotiations and will be shut out of the deliberations in Quebec City in April 2001. However, the stakes for the peoples of the Americas have never been higher, and it appears a confrontation is inevitable. For the entire report, see http://www.canadians.org/campaigns/campaigns-tradepub-ftaa2.html -- International Network on Disarmament and Globalization 405-825 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 1K9 CANADA tel: (604) 687-3223 fax: (604) 687-3277 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.indg.org To subscribe to the e-mail list, send an e-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBSCRIBE mil-corp "FirstName LastName" [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the first and only line in the message body. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
[CTRL] Police Spying 101
-Caveat Lector- http://www.utne.com/bSocietyPr.tmpl?command=searchdb=dArticle.db eqheadlinedata=Police%20Spying%20101 Feb 10, 2001 Police Spying 101 A federal court ruling just made police surveillance of political activists even easier By Jim Redden, Special to Utne Reader Online Activists are alarmed by a recent federal court ruling which eases restrictions against political surveillance by law enforcement agencies. The ruling was issued on January 11, 2001 by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. It relaxed restrictions intended to prevent the Chicago Police Department from spying on law-abiding political dissidents. The restrictions were included in a 1981 consent decree stemming from a 1974 lawsuit by the Alliance to End Repression. The suit charged that the FBI's Chicago office and the Chicago police routinely violated First Amendment rights when investigating dissidents. The suit particularly targeted the police department Intelligence Division, dubbed the 'Red Squad' because of its infiltration on communist, socialist and other left- wing organizations. In its ruling, the court said today's political climate is so different from the 1960s and 1970s that the rules need to be changed. "The era in which the Red Squad flourished is history, along with the Red Squad itself," the court said. "The instabilities of that era have largely disappeared. Fear of communist subversion, so strong a motivator of constitutional infringement in those days, has disappeared. "Today, the concern, prudent and not paranoid, is with ideologically motivated terrorism," the ruling continued. "The city does not want to resurrect the Red Squad. It wants to be able to keep tabs on incipient terrorist groups. And if the ... investigation cannot begin until the group is well on its way toward the commission of terrorist acts, the investigation may come too late to prevent the acts or identify the perpetrators." Douglas Lee, a lawyer and legal correspondent for the First Amendment Center, says the ruling is based on faulty reasoning. "From a First Amendment perspective, no distinction exists between 'communist subversion' and 'ideologically motivated terrorism'," Lee wrote in the January 1, 2001 edition of The Freedom Forum Online. "As long as First Amendment conduct does not directly incite imminent illegal action, it is protected, whether it advocates communism or some other anti-democratic message. Conduct falling outside the freedoms of speech and assembly never has been protected by the First Amendment and was not protected by the decree. The effect of modifying the decree, therefore, can only be to permit investigation of pure First Amendment conduct." Lee is correct. And because the ruling came from a federal court, it potentially applies to all police intelligence divisions. So political activists across the country have a right to be concerned. But the truth is, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies never stopped spying on law-abiding political dissidents. That why the Washington DC police department is able to boast that it successfully infiltrated the protesters who demonstrated against the inauguration of George W. Bush on January 20. Confused? You should be. The corporate press has long pushed the myth that political spying in this country was substantially curtailed in the wake of the Watergate Scandal. Many aging liberals have embraced this myth as proof that they helped drive Richard Nixon out of office. Reality is a little different, as I documented in my recently-released book Snitch Culture: How Citizens are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State (Feral House, 2000). Here's what happened. Despite all the press coverage it received, Watergate was not the biggest political scandal of the early 1970s. A U.S. Senate subcommittee chaired by Frank Church discovered far more serious examples of illegal government surveillance than the botched break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and subsequent cover-up. Formally called the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activity, the committee documented such infamous surveillance operations as the FBI's Counter Intelligence Programs (COINTELPRO), the CIA's Operation Chaos, and the NSA's Watch List. The corporate media was so busy patting itself on the back over Nixon's resignation that it hardly covered the Church Committee's final report, which was released in April 1976. But the revelations were so shocking that the Department of Justice adopted new guidelines aimed at curtailing political surveillance. State legislatures and city councils passed similar restrictions, usually under threat of lawsuits by the ACLU. But these victories were short-lived. For starters, the DOJ guidelines only applied to the FBI. They did not cover such federal law enforcement agencies as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which is part of the Treasury
[CTRL] Colonial Charters
-Caveat Lector- from: http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/dye/docs/colonial.htm - Colonial Charters During the American colonial era, James II, king of England, repealed the charter of the colony of Connecticut. When Sir Edmund Andros was dispatched in 1687 to Hartford, Connecticut, to retrieve the document, he found it to have been hidden by Captain John Wadsworth, who had sequestered it in an oak tree. Later, after the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 in England, the charter was resurrected as the fundamental law of Connecticut, with the tacit acquiescence of subsequent English kings. The Charter Oak Affair is often cited as symbolic of the transfer of American allegiance from the person of the king to the concept of constitutional rights. Click here to read the full text of the Connecticut Colony Charter of 1622 . See also: The Virginia Charters of 1606, 1609, and 1612 See also: The 1629 Charter Of Massachusetts Bay See also: Maryland Charter of 1632 See also: Charter of Delaware of 1701 See also: Other Colonial Charters - 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 unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm - The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents Avalon Home Major Collections pre 18th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century SEARCH the Colonial Charters: Please click in the box, type your search term and press enter. General Charters Connecticut Delaware Georgia Maine Maryland Masachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Vermont Virginia General Charters 1492 - Priviledges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus; April 30 1498 - The Letters Patents of King Henry the Seventh Granted unto Iohn Cabot and his Three Sonnes, Lewis, Sebastian and Sancius for the the Discouerie of New and Unknowen Lands; March 5 1578 - Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte June 11 1584 - Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh; March 25 1621 - Charter of the Dutch West India Company; June 3 1629 - Sir Robert Heath's Patent 5 Charles 1st; October, 30 Connecticut 1639 - Fundamental Orders; January 14 1639 - Fundamental Agreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven, June 4 1643 - Government of New Haven Colony 1662 - Charter of Connecticut Delaware 1701 - Charter of Delaware 1776 - Constitution of Delaware Georgia 1732 - Charter of Georgia 1777 - Constitution of Georgia; February 5 Maine 1622 - A Grant of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, esq., 10th of August 1639 - Grant of the Province of Maine 1664 - Grant of the Province of Maine 1674 - Grant of the Province of Maine Maryland 1632 - Charter of Maryland 1776 - Constitution of Maryland; November 11 Amendments to the Maryland Constitution of 1776 Massachusetts 1620 - The Charter of New England 1620 - Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth 1629 - Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates 1629 - The Charter of Massachusetts Bay 1635 - The Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty 1640 - William Bradford, c. Surrender of the Patent of Plymouth Colony to the Freeman, March 2D 1688 - Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England. April 7 1691 - The Charter of Massachusetts Bay. October 7 1725 - Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay - August 26 New Hampshire 1629 - Grant of Hampshire to Capt. John Mason, 7th of Novemr. 1635 - Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to John Wollaston, Esq., 1635 - Grant of the Province of New Hampshire From Mr. Wollaston to Mr. Mason, 11th June 1635 - Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to Mr. Mason, 22 April , By the Name of Masonia 1635 - Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to Mr. Mason, 22 Apr., By the Name of New Hampshire 1639 - Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire 1641 - The Combinations of the Inhabitants Upon the Piscataqua River for Government 1680 - Commission of John Cutt 1776 - Constitution of New Hampshire New Jersey 1664 - The Duke of York's Release to John Ford Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret, 24th of June 1664 - The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, to and With All and Every the Adventurers and All Such as Shall Settle or Plant There 1672 - A Declaration
[CTRL] Computers and mind control /Mad computer-Illuminati off list
-Caveat Lector- There is nothing wrong with computers in general for most people. However my SO just got programmed and taken down by Aquino and he is close to them with someone of his monarchs that work for him. He is gone and mind control is very very true. Illuminati is out there and it is real. I cannot even communicate with him. I am devastated. So right now I hate computers, but so greatful for the knowledge they bring me. However, there is the dark side of them. But that is much less than the good side of them. Sorry am so mad I let my guard down to protect him. Very sorry I know this is a private list. But needed to show how this mind control shit hurts people still every day. It will never end. They always win. Bush is Illuminati and that is how he got in. Pretty fucking scary to me. Birds Private Mail Welcome - Original Message - From: Aleisha Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Mad Computer Disease -Caveat Lector- Well Birds - people behind computers are robots putting in knowledge of others. No need for use of intelligence or original thoughtsanyone can sit down and use a calculator or computer - but can someone sit down and add up figures in their heads? Empty heads behind computers - looking up reference books and using words of others? Make you look smart on computer in print out but boy, when some of these people try to sit down and write a letter their ignorance really shows? People sitting behind computers all day are also taller when sitting down than standing - for they are also sitting on brains? Glad I have a web tv which someone bought me just for fun. Oh Computers look so smart quoting Shakespeare, bible, Bryant, Longfellow, Hazlitt, Fitzgerald, etc, etc, etc. But did you ever break behind the computer image and see the typist sitting behind the lightduhh, duhh and more duhh. Loaded with knowledge in form of encyclopedians but empty headed; using words of others to look oh so smart, when collective iq averages 70.. Like who writes the speeches as compares to the guy who delivers same - and takes the bow. I wrote a speech once that was delivered over Stone Mountain in Georgia; I was quoted by Harry Truman way back, at a labor day celebration where I said " no matter what, the worst democrat is better than the best republican" and being in my teens and in college, I really meant that..I have been reported on Paul Harvey twice, made 60 minutes once and my words went all over the world..oh but fame, sometimes fleeting - but those were words that I wrote - and have been published once in FATE Magazine when only 16 - a magazine my mother loved to read. Flattered that Paul Harvey chose my words and actions twice on his show..and 60 Minutes, well I was a little shocked they gave me so much time and had to lay low for a week... Such is the life of a person with original thoughts as compared to the poor computer operator, the glorified typist, who uses the words of others, with no original thoughts of their own. This is what you call, empty headed morons. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance-not soap-boxing-please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, mis- directions 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, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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 unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests
Re: [CTRL] NYT: The Pardons Look More Sordid
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/09/2001 12:48:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whatever the outcome, Congress ought to remember that these abuses by a particularly insensitive chief executive are not a good reason to change the Constitution to curtail the president's powers to grant pardons. The Rich case itself suggests that future such abuses can best be avoided by pursuing meaningful campaign finance reform and by tightening government ethics rules. Oh yes they are. The pardon thing should go. Clinton's pardons are just so-so, but ex-President Bush (the elder), pardoned the whole bunch connected to Iran-Contra. Of course it was his own behind he was saving. Had Weinberger and others had to testify, our ex-Prez Bush might be in the slammer. The Rich case and the kind of self-serving pardons that George Bush did should all be gone. Let's stop letting these guys commit what amounts to treason and then insure that none of the witnesses ever needs to go to court. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] JP: Jerusalem Mayor Urged Pardon for Rich
-Caveat Lector- "Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert confirmed to The Jerusalem Post last night that he had written to Clinton urging him to pardon Rich. "I wrote to Clinton because Rich was a great friend of Jerusalem who donated $20 million to the city over the past 18 years," Olmert said." http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/02/09/News/News.21156.html Friday, February 9 2001 03:06 16 Shevat 5761 Clinton charged with bad judgment in Rich pardon By Janine Zacharia WASHINGTON (February 9) - Democratic and Republican legislators yesterday said president Bill Clinton had used bad judgment when he decided to pardon Marc Rich, a fugitive billionaire commodities trader whose ex-wife had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to democratic causes and to Clinton's presidential library fund. The lawyer for Rich and his associate Pincus Green, also came under fire for what congressmen described as misleading Clinton into what they deemed unjustified pardons. Rich fled to Switzerland in 1983 and renounced his US citizenship to escape prosecution for fraud, income tax evasion, and illegal oil trading with Iran. Rich has since donated millions to charity, including to Jewish and Israeli causes, and claims to have Israeli and Spanish citizenship. Clinton pardoned Rich in the last hours of his presidency on the basis of a plea prepared by lawyer Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel. Congressman Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Government Reform, which convened yesterday's hearing to investigate whether there had been wrongdoing in granting the pardon, said Clinton had exercised "incredibly bad judgment." Committee chairman Dan Burton expressed regret that Clinton had not consulted with intelligence agencies before granting the pardon and relied on the information provided to him by Quinn. Quinn said he had acted as an advocate for his client and was not responsible for making sure Clinton had all sides of the story. "The president should have taken an hour to get a briefing. Twenty minutes would have been enough," Burton said, adding that he had asked intelligence agencies to declassify information related to the case. Congress does not have the power to reverse pardons, which are an absolute presidential power. Members of the committee were probing allegations that Clinton may have been influenced by campaign contributions by Rich's ex-wife, Denise Rich, including an enormous but undisclosed donation to his presidential library fund. But Denise Rich, who would have been a key witness, refused to answer written questions submitted by Burton, citing the Fifth Amendment. Congressmen criticized Quinn for passing off thank-you letters to Rich for contributions he made as letters of endorsement for a presidential pardon. Quinn apologized that some of the writers were not told in advance that their letters would be used for a pardon application. But Quinn said he did not know that was happening at the time. In 1983, Rich was indicted on more than 50 counts of wire fraud, tax evasion, racketeering, and violating the Iranian oil embargo, and was accused of evading $48 million in taxes - the largest tax fraud case in US history. He faced up to 300 years in jail if convicted on all counts but fled the country to avoid prosecution. Rich's aides were found smuggling subpoenaed documents out of the country, and Rich paid millions in fines for refusing to turn over evidence. Etgar Lefkowitz adds from Jerusalem: Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert confirmed to The Jerusalem Post last night that he had written to Clinton urging him to pardon Rich. "I wrote to Clinton because Rich was a great friend of Jerusalem who donated $20 million to the city over the past 18 years," Olmert said. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] Sorry, Wrong President
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010226s=alterman COLUMN | February 26, 2001 ERIC ALTERMAN Sorry, Wrong President: Full Court Press Don't look now, but the various recounts under way in Florida are determining that the wrong guy is in the White House. The media have demonstrated remarkably little interest in this story. Nobody is saying that Bush should be removed, but the fact that he lost both the popular vote and, without the intervention of the Supreme Court, would probably have lost Florida and the Electoral College vote should count for something. Recall that before rendering its decision the Court acted so precipitately to stop the count, as Bush hero Justice Antonin Scalia helpfully explained, explicitly in order to insure public ignorance of the genuine result. "Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires." One aspect of the Court's controversial majority opinion dealt with the validity of Florida's 110,000 "overvotes," where a machine count recorded more than one vote for President. When examined by hand, many of these votes turned out to be legal, since the punch card (or check mark) matched the name of the candidate written in by the voter. The Gore team stupidly ignored these votes, and the refusal of the Florida Supreme Court to consider them (in favor of an "undervote only" count) was one reason given by the Supreme Court for overturning that decision. So count the overvotes and what happens? The final answer is not in yet, but it sure looks bad for Bush. In late December, the Orlando Sentinel took a look at about 3,000 overvotes in Lake County. They found more than 600 valid ballots that had been ignored by the machines, with Gore picking up 130 even in this heavily pro-Bush county. In late January the Chicago Tribune reported that in fifteen counties with a particularly high rate of overvotes, more than 1,700 votes that showed a clear choice had been discarded. Most of the counties in the Tribune's study were small, rural and predominantly Republican. Yet even so, Gore's net gain was 366 votes. And a Washington Post review of the computer records of 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's largest counties reported that overvotes trended toward Gore at a rate of three to one. Undervotes tell the same story. A study by the Palm Beach Post of 4,513 of that county's ballots set aside for possible court review indicates a Gore pickup of 682 votes, surpassing Bush's alleged 537 statewide margin. These patterns demonstrate that the Republicans' strong-arm tactics in Florida made sense. Without them, their guy would be cutting brush back in Crawford. Today, with the conspicuous exception of the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne Jr., most of the punditocracy appears to think it an act of bad sportsmanship to point out that the man appointing far-right extremists to oversee the nation's legal system and its natural resources is a pretender to the throne. Sam and Cokie mock the idea as a joke. George Will smirks, "I don't think when the country hears media declaring Gore the winner they're impressed." Perhaps the most instructive document of the "Get Over It" school of political science was an angry TRB column in The New Republic penned by the magazine's former editor and famed "gaycatholictory" Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan attacks writers he terms "the usual suspects" for questioning the quality of Bush's mandate. Suspects include such distinguished scholars and writers as Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel, Yale law professor Jack Balkin, New Yorker writer and successful former editor of The New Republic Hendrik Hertzberg and TNR senior editor Jonathan Cohn (whose argument did not even appear in the magazine until after Sullivan's attack on it). Each called upon the Democrats to resist Bush's extremist tendencies, most notably the nomination of John Ashcroft for Attorney General. Sullivan's ire is a bit puzzling. Leaving Florida aside, he is furious at folks opposing a potential chief law enforcement officer who, as senator, refused to approve the ambassadorial nomination of James Hormel because, like Sullivan, Hormel is gay--something Ashcroft believes is "a choice which can be made and unmade." Now, personally, I don't have a dog in this fight, but I can hardly imagine feeling such generosity should a President wish to turn over the legal system to a man who happily discriminates against those of us who have made the "choice" to be, say, Jewish. Sullivan argued that the rejection of Ashcroft would be "without precedent." In support of this view and "as a testament to the level to which liberalism has now sunk," he quoted from a TRB that appeared in 1925, "It is universally conceded the Executive has the right to select his own official family, and their submission to the Senate is merely a form." Leave aside the strange assertion that because somebody said something in
[CTRL] Hillary's mysterious bridal registry
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/02/09/gifts/print.html Hillary's mysterious bridal registry And other myths a biased and credulous press corps has created around the Clintons' exit. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Eric Boehlert Feb. 9, 2001 | During the nearly month-long controversy surrounding the gifts Bill and Hillary Clinton accepted last year, the political press has established three details as fact and repeated them endlessly. First, anxious to fill their new private homes, the Clintons received $190,000 worth of gifts in the last year. Second, Hillary pursued this by registering like a bride for gift at Borsheim's Fine Jewelry Gifts. Third, they moved fast, because once Hillary was sworn in as New York's new senator, she would be barred from accepting gifts worth more than $50. The first detail showed the Clintons were greedy. The second? That they were tacky. The third, that they were duplicitous, plotting to circumvent Senate ethics laws. From the perspective of the press, just one of those items would have constituted a good news story. A combination of any two was worth a running commentary. But all three justified a bona fide feeding frenzy. Problem is, none of them are true. The gifts in question were received over an eight-year period, not one. Hillary was never registered at Borsheim's. And the Senate gift ban would not have forbidden Sen.Clinton from receiving all the generous items. None of that, though, has gotten in the way of the press telling a story it likes. On President Clinton's final day in office, in accordance with federal law the couple disclosed that for the year 2000 they had accepted $190,027 worth of gifts, including sweaters, lamps, golf clubs, china and glass sculptures. That's an extraordinary amount, nearly double what the Clintons had received during their first seven years in the White House, combined. (For some context, during their four years in the White House, the least amount of gifts George and Barbara Bush accepted in any given year was $21,000; the most the Clintons accepted during their first four years was $16,000.) An important clue for 2000's lofty price tag, though, was included right on the Clintons' official Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report, which was distributed to the press: "This list includes gifts received over the last eight years, but which were not accepted by the Clintons until last year." (As gifts accumulate at the White House, first families can wait until their final year before officially accepting them or not.) It couldn't be more simple; last year the Clintons officially accepted $190,000 worth of gifts which they had received during the last eight years. And how was it reported? The Associated Press: "In the year before President Clinton left office and Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the Senate, the first couple received $190,027 worth of furniture and other gifts." New York Daily News : Friends "showered the Clintons with $190,027 in gifts in 2000." U.S. News World Report: "The Clintons got gifts worth $190,027 last year." (In an odd bit of schizophrenia, the Weekly Standard mocked the Clintons for "rattling their begging bowls last year" for gifts. Then two sentences later the magazine quoted from the couple's disclosure form, which stipulated the gifts were received "over the last eight years.") At least those news outlets put the gifts in terms of years. Others became even more creative, narrowing the gift giving down from years to weeks and even days. The Orlando Sentinel : The Clintons accumulated the gifts "in the weeks before" they left the White House. NBC's Andrea Mitchell: The gifts poured in "during the First Family's last days in the White House." NBC's David Bloom: The Clintons left with "the treasure trove of gifts they accepted in their final days in the White House." USA Today: In an editorial, the paper suggested the controversy surrounded "last-minute gifts." The Kansas City Star: The gifts arrived "as the former president was leaving office." National Public Radio's Scott Simon: The Clintons accepted their 50-plus gifts during "those few golden days between Sen. Clinton's election and her oath of office, when Senate ethics laws would prohibit accepting such a trousseau of treasures." We'll get to that Senate gift ban, but Simon's sinister construction became a common one: The gift giving was all a plot laid out only after Hillary won her election. The AP: There were "indications that some of the larger gifts rolled in late in the year, just before the Clintons left the White House ." The Washington Post: In an editorial, the paper suggested that "many of the items were given after Mrs. Clinton was elected to the Senate in November." Perhaps Post editorial writers know something its reporters don't. Because in three weeks of blanket coverage on this story no news outlet, including the Post or the AP, has been able to identify a single gift, let alone $190,000 worth, given to
[CTRL] FBI's DCS1000 Still A 'Carnivore' At Heart
http://www.sightings.com/general8/carn.htm FBI's DCS1000 Still A 'Carnivore' At Heart By Erich Luening Special to ZDNet 2-10-1 The FBI has dressed its online wolf in sheep's clothing, changing the name of its controversial e-mail surveillance system, known to this point as Carnivore. Carnivore now goes by the less beastly moniker of DCS1000, drawn from the work it does as a "digital collection system." The investigative agency built the tool to monitor the Internet communications of suspects under its surveillance, but the system, housed on computers at Internet service providers, also can collect e-mail messages from people who are not part of an FBI probe. A spokesman for the FBI denied that the name change stemmed from worries that the name Carnivore made the system sound like a predatory device made to invade people's privacy. But the Illinois Institute of Technology, which last fall issued an analysis of the system at the request of the Justice Department, recommended that the name be changed for just that reason, according to an IIT analyst. "We had a concern that it wasn't a good name for the system," said the IIT's Larry Reynolds. The group thought the name should be dumped, he said, "because of the very definition of the word." The name change is the latest development in the controversy surrounding the surveillance tool, which came under public scrutiny last summer when privacy advocates began to decry it. In September, the Justice Department picked the IIT Research Institute to perform a government-sponsored technical review of the software. The rechristening is part of an upgrade that incorporates other recommendations from the research group, according to Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the FBI. "It isn't because we were worried about negative privacy publicity. If it was, we would have changed (the name) months ago," he said. "This (system) is not something that remains static." The upgrade was supposed to be coordinated with a Justice Department report on DCS1000 scheduled for release prior to Janet Reno's departure last month as attorney general, Bresson said. He did not say when that report will be made public.
[CTRL] How it works: Today North America. Tomorrow the world._ FTAA pt. 1/3
-Caveat Lector- The Free Trade Area of the Americas and the Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in Canada and the Americas by Maude Barlow Summary The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), currently being negotiated by 34 countries of the Americas, is intended by its architects to be the most far-reaching trade agreement in history. Although it is based on the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it goes far beyond NAFTA in its scope and power. The FTAA, as it now stands, would introduce into the Western Hemisphere all the disciplines of the proposed services agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) - the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) - with the powers of the failed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), to create a new trade powerhouse with sweeping new authority over every aspect of life in Canada and the Americas. The GATS, now being negotiated in Geneva, is mandated to liberalize the global trade in services, including all public programs, and gradually phase out all government "barriers" to international competition in the services sector. The Trade Negotiations Committee of the FTAA, led by Canada in the crucial formative months when the first draft was written, is proposing a similar, even expanded, services agreement in the hemispheric pact. It is also proposing to retain, and perhaps expand, the "investor-state" provisions of NAFTA, which give corporations unprecedented rights to pursue their trade interests through legally binding trade tribunals. Combining these two powers into one agreement will give unequalled new rights to the transnational corporations of the hemisphere to compete for and even challenge every publicly funded service of its governments, including health care, education, social security, culture and environmental protection. As well, the proposed FTAA contains new provisions on competition policy, government procurement, market access and dispute settlement that, together with the inclusion of services and investment, could remove the ability of all the governments of the Americas to create or maintain laws, standards and regulations to protect the health, safety and well-being of their citizens and the environment they share. Moreover, the FTAA negotiators appear to have chosen to emulate the WTO rather than NAFTA in key areas of standard-setting and dispute settlement, where the WTO rules are tougher. Essentially, what the FTAA negotiators have done, urged on by the big business community in every country, is to take the most ambitious elements of every global trade and investment agreement - existing or proposed - and put them all together in this openly ambitious hemispheric pact. Once again, as in former trade agreements like NAFTA and the WTO, this free trade agreement will contain no safeguards in the body of the text to protect workers, human rights, social security or health and environmental standards. Once again civil society and the majority of citizens who want a different kind of trade agreement have been excluded from the negotiations and will be shut out of the deliberations in Quebec City in April 2001. However, the stakes for the peoples of the Americas have never been higher, and it appears a confrontation is inevitable. What Is the FTAA? The Free Trade Area of the Americas is the name given to the process of expanding the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to all the other countries of the Western Hemisphere except Cuba. With a population of 800 million and a combined GDP of $11 trillion (US), the FTAA would be the largest free trade zone in the world. If reports coming from the Negotiating Groups working on the key elements of the deal are correct, the FTAA will become the most far-reaching free trade agreement in the world, with a scope that will reach into every area of life for the citizens of the Americas. The FTAA was launched by the leaders of 34 countries of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean at the December 1994 Summit of the Americas in Miami, Florida. At that meeting, then President Bill Clinton pledged to fulfil former President George Bush's dream of a free-trade agreement stretching from Anchorage to Tierra del Fuego, linking the economies of the hemisphere as well as deepening social and political integration among the countries based on the same free-market model as NAFTA. However, little real progress was made until the next Summit of the Americas, this one held in Santiago, Chile, in April 1998, at which time the countries set up a Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC), consisting of the vice ministers of trade from each country. With support from a Tripartite Committee made up of the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organization of American States and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and
Re: [CTRL] Hillary's mysterious bridal registry
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/10/2001 2:29:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eb. 9, 2001 | During the nearly month-long controversy surrounding the gifts A HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/bill_clinton/"Bill/A and A HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/hillary_clinton/"Hillary Clinton/A accepted last year, the political press has established three details as fact and repeated them endlessly. First, anxious to fill their new private homes, the Clintons received $190,000 worth of gifts in the last year. Second, Hillary pursued this by registering like a bride for gift at Borsheim's Fine Jewelry Gifts. Third, they moved fast, because once Hillary was sworn in as New York's new senator, she would be barred from accepting gifts worth more than $50. The first detail showed the Clintons were greedy. The second? That they were tacky. The third, that they were duplicitous, plotting to circumvent Senate ethics laws. From the perspective of the press, just one of those items would have constituted a good news story. A combination of any two was worth a running commentary. But all three justified a bona fide feeding frenzy. Problem is, none of them are true. The gifts in question were received over an eight-year period, not one. Hillary was never registered at Borsheim's. And the Senate gift ban would not have forbidden Sen.Clinton from receiving all the generous items. None of that, though, has gotten in the way of the press telling a story it likes. Isn't it amazing? We used to wonder if the press was doing spin. Now they make up whatever story they figure will get them a raise, and everybody buys it (the television repeats the press and the press repeats the television. I guess everybody's happy. It just used to be the politicians that lied. Now the media is in a contest with them, and I think the press is even better at it. How do we know when the media is lying. We're hearing or reading it. prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Fox to Air Moon-landing Conspiracy Show
-Caveat Lector- Fox television will air a show regarding the possibility that some [or all] of the moon landings were faked. http://www.globalchanges.com This is from the Fox site: CONSPIRACY THEORY (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) In Stereo-CC MOON LANDING QUESTIONED ON THE ALL-NEW SPECIAL 'CONSPIRACY THEORY: DID WE LAND ON THE MOON' Airs: FEB. 15 ON FOX NASA put a man on the moon for the first time in 1969 -- or did it? Could the entire moon program have been an elaborate deception staged to fool the public? The conspiracy theories are investigated in the all-new one-hour special, 'CONSPIRACY THEORY:DID WE LAND ON THE MOON' Thursday, Feb. 15 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). (SP-0139) (TV-PG) = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Search Continues for Victims of Sub Crash
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Search Continues for Victims of Sub Crash By JAYMES SONG .c The Associated Press HONOLULU (Feb. 10) - Rescue crews searched for nine people - including high school students on a fisheries training voyage - who were on a Japanese fishing vessel that sank after a Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine collided with it. The Navy and Coast Guard on Saturday morning continued looking in choppy seas for people clinging to the wreckage. ''We found some debris earlier today, but no sign of survivors yet,'' said Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Greg Fondran. The Ehime Maru left Japan with 20 crew members on Jan. 10 to hunt for tuna, swordfish and shark. The boat was also carrying two teachers and 13 students from the Uwajima Fisheries High School in the southwestern Japanese state of Ehime. The students were learning how to fish. Still missing were four of the students, both teachers and three crew members. Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke with Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono Saturday morning to convey his regrets and apologies and also the president's regrets and condolences, said David Denny, a State Department spokesman. Also Saturday, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatched a five-member team to Hawaii to investigate the collision. The incident falls under the agency's jurisdiction because it occurred in U.S. waters and involved at least one private vessel, said spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz. The USS Greeneville came up under the 180-foot vessel, ripping the engine room open and causing two resounding booms. Seconds later, water flooded the vessel, sinking it within minutes, said a Coast Guard translator describing Friday's collision nine miles south of Waikiki in waters about 1,800 feet deep. ''Most of the people were below deck in the rooms or galley,'' said Petty Officer Michael Carr, who interviewed the survivors. ''After the lights went out, everyone started yelling that the water is coming into the ship. That's when most of the people we saw started fleeing.'' The Greeneville, which remained at the scene of the collision, was not damaged, Navy spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Cate Mueller said in Washington. It was not immediately known how many crew members were aboard the Greeneville, a Pearl Harbor-based sub that is equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles. ''It's important to say the Navy regrets this unfortunate incident,'' said Cmdr. Bruce Cole, a spokesman for the Pacific Fleet. ''We're very concerned about the families and friends of those for whom we search.'' He said it is not known why the submarine surfaced under the vessel. Cole promised a full investigation. U.S. submarines normally use sonar to listen for ships that might be above them before surfacing, said Norman Polmar, a naval analyst and author. As the submarines rise to within about 25 feet of the surface, they raise their periscopes to visually inspect the area above. The collision is ''something that should have not have happened. It either happened because of a mechanical failure or a crew failure,'' Polmar said. Twenty-six survivors were found stranded amid the debris. They huddled in three life rafts before being rescued. Petty Officer Thomas Kron, who was on the Coast Guard patrol boat, said the survivors were soaked with diesel fuel that spilled when the boat sank. ''They seemed like they were in shock. They were fatigued by the time we got there. Some of them were seasick and some of them were glad to see us,'' he said. The survivors were taken to the Coast Guard station at Honolulu Harbor's Sand Island. Some walked off on their own; others were carried on stretchers and covered in blankets. Fourteen were cared for at the base, including showers to wash off the fuel, while the rest were taken to local hospitals. Fondran said a wounded shoulder appeared to be the worst injury. Dressed in blue jump suits, the survivors lined up to use the single phone available to them at the base, to let their families in Japan know that they were safe. Japanese officials said they were scrambling to coordinate a response to the accident. School and government officials were expected to arrive in Honolulu on Saturday. Family members were to arrive on Sunday. ''It's a bit chaotic right now,'' said Uwajima municipal official Masanori Mori. ''There's a great deal of shock.'' Mori said the Ehime Prefectural government had set up a crisis center to assist families and cull information on the accident. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said the United States had apologized. ''The United States extended its apologies and promised utmost efforts to find the missing,'' Mori said. The Greeneville was commissioned in February 1996. It is 360 feet long, has a diameter of 33 feet and displaces 6,900 tons submerged. The crash is the second major accident involving a Navy vessel near Hawaii in seven months. The USS Denver, a 570-foot
[CTRL] How it works: Today North America. Tomorrow the world. _ FTAA pt. 2/3
-Caveat Lector- 4.Market Access The mandate of the Negotiating Group on Market Access is to select a methodology and timetable for the elimination of all remaining tariffs and "non-tariff" barriers and agree upon the pace of tariff reduction. Tariffs are border taxes; under both NAFTA and the WTO, they have largely been eliminated in Canada and the Americas. Non-tariff barriers are all the rules, policies and practices of governments, other than tariffs, that can impact on trade. Non-tariff barriers can potentially include everything governments do, including delivering services and protecting the health and safety of their citizens. Their inclusion in the mandate of this Negotiating Group expands the scope of NAFTA market access provisions considerably. These provisions are expanded in another important way. Under NAFTA, market access is subject to national treatment. This means that imported goods coming into a country from another NAFTA country must be treated "no less favourably" than domestic goods. But national treatment in NAFTA did not extend to government procurement or to domestic subsidies and was applied to services only in a limited way. This protected most government programs from national treatment challenge. Under the proposed FTAA rules, however, it appears that services will be covered more fully by the market access rules. As well, government procurement restrictions that allow governments to protect local providers will be more open to challenge from an expanded mandate of the government procurement provisions. And the ability of foreign for-profit service corporations to use the national treatment provision to challenge government services monopolies will be greatly expanded under a proposed new agreement on services. Further, the Negotiating Group on Market Access has also been charged with identifying and eliminating any unnecessary "technical barriers to trade" in line with the WTO. The WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement is an international regime to harmonize environmental and other standards which effectively creates a ceiling but no floor for such regulation. Under its rules, a nation must be prepared to prove, if challenged, that its environmental and safety standards are both "necessary" and the "least trade restrictive" way to achieve the desired conservation goals, food safety or health standard. This means that a country bears the burden of proving a negative - that no other measure consistent with the WTO is reasonably available to protect environmental concerns. The WTO TBT Agreement also sets out an onerous procedural code for establishing new laws and regulations so arduous that it is very difficult for any nation to meet. While there are provisions in NAFTA on technical standards, they are not as stringent as those found in the WTO TBT Agreement. NAFTA does require that technical barriers not constitute "an unnecessary obstacle to trade." However, NAFTA acknowledges the right of all parties to maintain standards and regulatory measures that result in a higher level of protection than would be achieved by measures based on international standards as long as they apply these standards in a way that does not discriminate between national and domestic goods. By choosing the stronger provisions of the WTO, FTAA negotiators have introduced tougher restrictions on the governments of the Americas and their right to regulate in the best interests of their citizens. 5.Agriculture The mandate of the Negotiating Group on Agriculture is to eliminate agricultural export subsidies affecting trade in the hemisphere, based on the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture (AOA); "discipline" other trade-distorting agricultural practices; and ensure that "sanitary and phytosanitary measures" are not used as a disguised restriction to trade, using the WTO agreement as a model. The FTAA's AOA agriculture provisions set rules on the trade in food and restrict domestic agriculture policy, down to the level of support for farmers, the ability to maintain emergency food stocks, set food safety rules and ensure food supply. The WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) sets constraints on government policies relating to food safety and animal and plant health, from pesticides and biological contaminants to food inspection, product labelling and genetically engineered foods. As with TBTs, the WTO SPS Agreement goes further than NAFTA.
[CTRL] How it works: Today North America. Tomorrow the world. _ FTAA pt. 3/3
-Caveat Lector- Environment The FTAA draft, as it now stands, contains no safeguards for the environment. The original mandate for the FTAA, drawn up at the first Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994, contained a promise to promote economic integration of the hemisphere in such a way as "to guarantee sustainable development while protecting the environment." A major Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Bolivia in 1996 in order to ensure that the principles of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit would be integral to the FTAA process. Out of that meeting (at which civil society groups and environmentalists were notably absent), came 65 initiatives know as the "Santa Cruz Action Plan," and a new body, the OAS Inter-American Committee on Sustainable Development. However, the whole process was badly underfunded and had no clear mandate for action; it has been widely regarded as a failure. As a consequence, the whole goal of sustainable development was completely dropped from the FTAA's new mandate at the Santiago Summit in 1998, and the tracks of trade and environment were completely separated. With George W. Bush now in the White House, it is even more certain that environmental concerns about the hemispheric free trade deal will be set aside. The Canadian government's recently published "position paper" on the FTAA contains a reference to the environment in its proposed Preamble. It calls for the FTAA to commit to "Better protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development by adopting trade and environmental policies that are mutually supportive." However, Preambular language in trade agreements is non-binding and unenforceable, so any promise in this section of the agreement is fairly meaningless. In any case, it is not possible to find compatibility between a trade agreement that contains investor-state rights for corporations and environmental stewardship. Chapter 11 As briefly documented above (see Investment in "What's in the FTAA?"), and well documented in a number of other sources, the investor-state provisions of NAFTA have already had a very serious impact on government environmental policy. Not only have a number of health and environmental regulations in Canada, the United States and Mexico already been successfully challenged by the corporations of the continent, Chapter 11 is used to create a "chill effect," whereby governments are warned not to contemplate certain new regulatory measures for fear of running afoul of the investment provisions of NAFTA. As legal trade expert Steven Shrybman explains: "The investor-state suit provisions of NAFTA represent nothing short of a radical departure from both the domestic and international legal norms in at least three fundamental ways. First, by providing corporations with the right to directly enforce an international treaty to which they are neither parties, nor under which they have any obligations. Second, by extending international commercial arbitration to claims that have nothing to do with commercial contracts and everything to do with public policy and law. Third, by creating substantive legal rights - concerning expropriation and national treatment that go far beyond those available to Canadian citizens or businesses." Any new regulations that are brought to Parliament or any provincial legislature can be challenged by American corporations with interests in the sector in question. In essence, governments have to be prepared to pay dearly for the right to protect the ecological, human and animal health concerns within their mandate. As trade lawyer Barry Appleton explains, "They could be putting liquid plutonium in children's food; if you ban it and the company making it is an American company, you have to pay compensation." To avoid this scenario, Canadian federal and provincial governments now have to allow all prospective environmental and natural resource protection regulations to be vetted by DFAIT. In an October 2000 exchange at a Parliamentary Environment Committee meeting, Liberal MP Clifford Lincoln asked senior DFAIT officials Nigel Bankes and Ken Macartney whether it was true that International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew is fighting against the inclusion of the precautionary principle in domestic environmental legislation, such as the proposed new law to protect endangered species, so as to ensure that Canada is in compliance with the WTO. The trade bureaucrats confirmed that this was indeed so. Environment ministers now have less power over their jurisdiction than their trade counterparts. When the environment ministers of the three NAFTA countries announced in December 1998 that they were going to allow the Commission for Environmental Co-operation (CEC) - the NAFTA side deal that has become a toothless "environmental watchdog" - to scrutinize these Chapter 11 cases, they stepped way over the line drawn for them by
Re: [CTRL] How it works: Today North America. Tomorrow the world. _ FTAA pt. 2/3
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Re: [CTRL] How it works: Today North America. Tomorrow the world. _ FTAA pt. 3/3
-Caveat Lector- Real free trade would mean no subsidies, no trade taxes, no loan guarantees, and, for Heavens sake, no bailouts of foreign banks and governments. --Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] (NWO) President considers halving US nuclear arsenal
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! President considers halving US nuclear arsenal By David Usborne 10 February 2001 George Bush is expected shortly to ask the Pentagon to reassess its nuclear arsenal with a view to possibly cutting the number of American nuclear warheads by well over half. The President acknowledged yesterday that he will ask the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to begin a "top-to-bottom review" of the US military and of its spending. Mr Bush made no direct comment about unilateral cuts in nuclear weapons but officials indicate that will become a priority. President Bush alluded often during his election campaign to scaling back the nuclear arsenal. Large cuts could also help to assuage concerns in China, Russia and among the European allies about US plans for a nuclear missile shield, known as the National Missile Defence programme. "The review, I understand, could be a step toward a new strategic doctrine," one senior defence source said. "We would balance strong defence with a smaller nuclear offence â unlike the massive number of warheads during the Cold War." Answering reporters' questions yesterday, Mr Bush confirmed that the military is to reassess itself. "Secretary Rumsfeld is beginning a review of the defence â a top-to-bottom review of what's happening in today's military, reviewing missions, reviewing opportunities for change," he said at the White House. The US currently has about 7,000 nuclear warheads while Russia has 6,000. The latest arms control treaties between Washington and Moscow call for levels to fall to between 2,000 and 2,500 for each side. Mr Bush could seek to cut these levels even further. Analysts suggest that a unilateral reduction in its nuclear arsenal will give the US room to back away from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. At present the ABM, considered a foundation stone of disarmament, would stand in the way of the US building or even testing a missile defence shield. Cutting the nuclear capability would also allow Mr Bush to reinforce the US military in other ways, with new conventional weaponry and a boost in pay for US personnel. He said that pay rises and other defence priorities would be one of the issues he will discuss while "travelling the country next week". Mr Rumsfeld has also kept his counsel on the nuclear weapons question. But asked by reporters recently about the prospect of a sharply reduced US nuclear arsenal, he noted that, "it is a different world, we know that". President Bush's insistence on a comprehensive review of all military priorities has not won him praise from all quarters of the Pentagon. Many in the military would like Mr Bush to commit more money to the US armed forces now before starting the reassessment. Mr Bush stressed yesterday, however, that there would be no "early supplemental" for the Pentagon, meaning that he would not seek any early increase in the current Pentagon budget of $297bn (£205bn). Aides say that he could ask for additional defence money from Congress in the summer. Some senior US officers have also expressed deep reservations about any unilateral cuts in America's nuclear strike force while Russia retains its full arsenal. Last year, however, senior officials from the Pentagon conceded during hearings in Congress that US defence needs could easily be met with a much reduced number of missiles. Next week, Mr Bush is to travel with Mr Rumsfeld to several US military bases, including the US Joint Forces Command in Virginia. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A
[CTRL] Analysis of The Bush Inauguration Speech
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Analysis of The Bush Inauguration Speech Date: Sunday, February 04, 2001 4:06 AM As a British citizen I was intrigued why Britian should be able to view the inauguration of George W Bush. Why should we, the people of Britian, watch the swearing in of the President of the United States? Well, perhaps he had to communicate with people in Britian that he could not communicate with directly. Perhaps the signals that Bush were sending were not meant for the public in general. Perhaps he was giving some signals to certain people in Britain that had to be hidden, concealed. I thought I noticed a signal during the inauguration when he didn't bow his head, close his eyes and pray. He looked directly at the camera that was on him at the time, as if he knew. I also noticed that his speech was intended to be 13 minutes long. I am not an expert in occultic symbolism, but I have learned a bit from reading "Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated" by Dr Cathy Burns. I know what the word "Obelisk" means. And to think that obelisks are in London, Washington and Rome tells me that something evil is underway. I've found an analysis that confirms that Bush was indeed giving signals to supporters of the New World Order that he is working towards the creation of an evil, genocidal one world government. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RMNEWS_DAILY_EMAILS/message/13075 I am not religious. But you don't have to be religious to believe that somebody else believes in Satan. I am really beginning to get concerned that a world war is being provoked in the Middle East, as prophecised by Illuminatus Albert Pike. This war will bring about the one world government. Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons will be used to create a war so horrifying, much more horrifying than world war II, that those left alive would willingly submit to a one world government on its terms. A person will appear during the war who will claim that he can stop the (arranged) fighting. He will propose the creation of a one world government. But this world government will be run by Satanists, paedophiles and eugenicists. These people are in positions of power now, as you read this, and are working towards its installation. You've read about the paedophile rings in Belgium, Australia and Britain. I am currently reading about the Franklin Coverup involving satanists and child abuse. There are plenty of other examples of coverups of satanic ritual abuse of children. This might sound like a lot of religious ranting, mumbo jumbo. But I state again. I am not a member of any religious establishment or political party. I have come to believe, from my own research, that during the last two centuries a massive plot to install a satanic one world government has been in motion. George W Bush is continuing with those plans. Those plans include a horrific war in the Middle East, with a potential staged/simulated biowar attack on the USA to bring martial law to the USA. If Britain gets involved then it could happen here too. Just think of all the drugs in Britain now. If a fraction of those were explosives there would be big trouble. But that's how the NWO work; cause a problem provoke the reaction install the solution. -- "What luck for rulers, that men do not think" - Adolph Hitler Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL
[CTRL] State Appeals Court upholds vehicle forfeiture by parked drunken driver
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Police State coming to your neighborhood soon! State Appeals Court upholds vehicle forfeiture by parked drunken driver Paul Gustafson / Star Tribune The Minnesota Appeals Court has upheld the forfeiture of a $40,000 sport-utility vehicle whose owner was arrested on a drunken-driving charge as he listened to music in the vehicle in his driveway. . According to Appeals Court Judges Gary Crippen and Daniel Foley, the New Brighton officials didn't violate constitutional prohibitions against double punishment or excessive fines when they seized Bruce R. Barnes' 2000 Ford Excursion after his arrest on Oct. 19, 1999, the day he bought it. But dissenting Judge R.A. (Jim) Randall said that forfeiting the $40,000 truck is "grossly disproportionate" under the circumstances. "Barnes was not convicted of drunken driving. Barnes was convicted of 'drunken listening to music in his own car, in his own driveway, in his own yard,'" Randall wrote. "If he had not had the [misfortune] to be playing the Rolling Stones rather than Mantovani or Neil Diamond, he would still have his $40,000 vehicle." New Brighton city prosecutor Thomas Hughes defended the forfeiture, saying that Barnes was charged with a drunken-driving offense because he was in the driver's seat of his truck with the engine running and therefore had physical control of the vehicle. State law makes it a crime to be in control of a vehicle while drunk, he said. Hughes also said that the state vehicle-forfeiture law is triggered when a vehicle owner has three drunken-driving convictions within five years. "He [Barnes] didn't lose it [the truck] for just that one incident," the prosecutor said. Neither Barnes nor his attorney, Sam McCloud, could be reached to comment. Barnes, 50, bought the truck, drove from the car dealership to a bar and drank alcohol, then drove to his New Brighton home and parked the truck in his driveway. Later that evening, he went back out to the truck to test its audio system. A neighbor called New Brighton police to complain about loud music. Police found Barnes sitting in the driver's seat, and arrested him. He was tested and found to have a 0.14 percent blood-alcohol level, exceeding the state limit of 0.10 percent. It was his third charge related to drunken driving. After Barnes pleaded guilty to a gross-misdemeanor drunken-driving charge, New Brighton officials filed a forfeiture action to take the truck. The Appeals Court majority upheld the constitutionality of the forfeiture, saying that it was not excessive. "We conclude that the perceived harshness of the forfeiture of Barnes' vehicle does not exceed the gravity of Barnes' third DWI offense within five years," Foley wrote. Stephen Simon, an instructor at the University of Minnesota Law School and chairman of a state task force on drunken driving, said there is logic in the law prohibiting intoxicated people from being in physical control of a vehicle. "If the person is drunk, we don't want you to get in the car, because if you get in, you may drive off. If you're impaired, don't get in the car, because you do so at your own peril," he said. In one case, however, a Minnesota court threw out a drunken-driving conviction because the intoxicated defendant had taken refuge for the night in his vehicle after an argument with his wife, Simon said. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL]
[CTRL] Fwd: Sharon Maneuvers For Starting Position
___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! * * * * * * * IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHARON PREPARES FOR CONFLICT WITH "MODERATE" PROPAGANDA OFFENSIVE AND ATTEMPTS TO CO-OPT EVERYONE MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 2/09: It's time for serious political confusion and disinformation now. As the armies prepare themselves for the clashes likely to come in one form or another, the politicians maneuver for new starting positions. Of course in many cases, especially that of Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak, the armies and the politicians are one in the same. Part of preparation for conflict and war these days is positioning oneself in public opinion. And that is precisely where Sharon has gone, full-speed ahead. Top-level propaganda teams have already been dispatched to Washington and European capitals. They will court the media in public; discuss things with key allies and political leaders in private. As for Arafat and Regime...ill-prepared and not up to the task as usual. The Palestinian people are saddled with this corrupt, inept, and incompetent regime. They are now paying the price for so many years of mistakes and, at best, mediocrity. Unless the Palestinian people can somehow remove Arafat and Regime and replace it with some of the far more capable and far more principled Palestinians -- Dr. Haider Abdul Shafi at the top of the list -- they cannot expect things to get better for them. Indeed, far more tragic times might be ahead for the Palestinian people facing the thugs of Sharon and the right-wingers in the U.S. -- even the possibility of another mass expulsion or the forceable conversion of the Hashemite Regime into the Palestinian State. More on this from MER in the weeks ahead. As we've said before...stay tuned. SHARON OFFERS BARAK DEFENSE POST By Laurie Copans JERUSALEM (AP - 9 February): Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon on Friday offered his predecessor, Ehud Barak, the job of defense minister in a joint government, even though the two disagree sharply on how to make peace with the Palestinians. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Sharon, meanwhile, spoke by phone - their first direct contact since Sharon's election victory Tuesday. Palestinian officials confirmed the call, but would not reveal what was said. Israeli radio stations said Arafat told Sharon he was interested in resuming peace talks with Israel, and congratulated him on the recent birth of twin grandsons. Sharon responded that peace was important to him and not an election gimmick. Sharon also said he wants to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians, but that first there must be an end to violence, the radios said. In their meeting Friday, Sharon offered Barak the position of defense minister, according to a Sharon aide. Barak's aides were not available for comment on how he responded to the offer, but Israeli radio stations said Barak told Sharon he would stay out of politics for a while. As Sharon and Arafat spoke, an intense gun battle erupted between Israeli troops and Palestinians near the West Bank town of Ramallah. Twenty-seven Palestinians and a Belgian news photographer were injured, Palestinian medics said. Of the injured, eight were hit by live fire, including the photographer who was shot in the leg. During the gun battle, which raged for most of the afternoon, Israeli soldiers aimed machine gun fire at empty high-rise apartment buildings used by Palestinian gunmen as cover. Smoke billowed from one of the buildings as shots hit the wall. In the Gaza Strip, the Islamic militant group Hamas threatened to carry out more suicide attacks against Israel; on Thursday, unidentified assailants had exploded a car bomb in Jerusalem, injuring an Israeli woman. In the Gaza march, some 2,500 Hamas supporters chanted "Destroy the center of Tel Aviv," and burned effigies of Sharon and President Bush. One Hamas banner held up by the crowd read "Generals like Sharon only understand the language of resistance and holy war." Overnight, Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen battled for about three hours near the Jewish settlement of Psagot, adjacent to the Palestinian town of El Bireh. Several buildings in a residential neighborhood of El Bireh were damaged by Israeli fire, including the offices of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German aid group, and the Red Crescent, a Palestinian first aid organization. No one was injured. Sharon said in an interview published Friday that he would seek an open-ended
[CTRL] Tenet On National Security In A Changing World.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/UNCLASWWT_02072001.html Statement by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the "Worldwide Threat 2001: National Security in a Changing World" (as prepared for delivery) 07 February 2001 As I reflect this year, Mr. Chairman, on the threats to American security, what strikes me most forcefully is the accelerating pace of change in so many arenas that affect our nation’s interests. Numerous examples come to mind: new communications technology that enables the efforts of terrorists and narcotraffickers as surely as it aids law enforcement and intelligence, rapid global population growth that will create new strains in parts of the world least able to cope, the weakening internal bonds in a number of states whose cohesion can no longer be taken for granted, the breaking down of old barriers to change in places like the Koreas and Iran, the accelerating growth in missile capabilities in so many parts of the world—to name just a few. Never in my experience, Mr. Chairman, has American intelligence had to deal with such a dynamic set of concerns affecting such a broad range of US interests. Never have we had to deal with such a high quotient of uncertainty. With so many things on our plate, it is important always to establish priorities. For me, the highest priority must invariably be on those things that threaten the lives of Americans or the physical security of the United States. With that in mind, let me turn first to the challenges posed by international terrorism. TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES We have made considerable progress on terrorism against US interests and facilities, Mr. Chairman, but it persists. The most dramatic and recent evidence, of course, is the loss of 17 of our men and women on the USS Cole at the hands of terrorists. The threat from terrorism is real, it is immediate, and it is evolving. State sponsored terrorism appears to have declined over the past five years, but transnational groups—with decentralized leadership that makes them harder to identify and disrupt—are emerging. We are seeing fewer centrally controlled operations, and more acts initiated and executed at lower levels. Terrorists are also becoming more operationally adept and more technically sophisticated in order to defeat counterterrorism measures. For example, as we have increased security around government and military facilities, terrorists are seeking out "softer" targets that provide opportunities for mass casualties. Employing increasingly advanced devices and using strategies such as simultaneous attacks, the number of people killed or injured in international terrorist attacks rose dramatically in the 1990s, despite a general decline in the number of incidents. Approximately one-third of these incidents involved US interests. Usama bin Ladin and his global network of lieutenants and associates remain the most immediate and serious threat. Since 1998, Bin Ladin has declared all US citizens legitimate targets of attack. As shown by the bombing of our Embassies in Africa in 1998 and his Millennium plots last year, he is capable of planning multiple attacks with little or no warning. His organization is continuing to place emphasis on developing surrogates to carry out attacks in an effort to avoid detection, blame, and retaliation. As a result it is often difficult to attribute terrorist incidents to his group, Al Qa’ida. Beyond Bin Ladin, the terrorist threat to Israel and to participants in the Middle East peace negotiations has increased in the midst of continuing Palestinian-Israeli violence. Palestinian rejectionists—including HAMAS and the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)—have stepped up violent attacks against Israeli interests since October. The terrorist threat to US interests, because of our friendship with Israel has also increased. At the same time, Islamic militancy is expanding, and the worldwide pool of potential recruits for terrorist networks is growing. In central Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia, Islamic terrorist organizations are trying to attract new recruits, including under the banner of anti-Americanism. International terrorist networks have used the explosion in information technology to advance their capabilities. The same technologies that allow individual consumers in the United States to search out and buy books in Australia or India also enable terrorists to raise money, spread their dogma, find recruits, and plan operations far afield. Some groups are acquiring rudimentary cyberattack tools. Terrorist groups are actively searching the internet to acquire information and capabilities for chemical, biological, radiological, and even nuclear attacks. Many of the 29 officially designated terrorist organizations have an interest in unconventional weapons, and Usama bin Ladin in 1998 even declared their acquisition a
[CTRL] LAT: The Lobbyist Behind Rich's Pardon
-Caveat Lector- The Lobbyist Behind Rich's Pardon Scandal: Sure, he caused a stir, but Jack Quinn got the job done. Some feel he's tainted the profession, but he will likely survive. By RONALD BROWNSTEIN, GERALDINE BAUM Los Angeles Times Staff Writers WASHINGTON--Jack Quinn was vilified this week at a House committee hearing as an amoral fixer who manipulated friendships for financial gain during an effort to obtain a presidential pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich. With two congressional committees investigating the controversial pardon granted by former President Clinton to Rich and with politicians in both parties lining up to denounce it, Quinn could be viewed as a would-be power broker who short-circuited his own career. But in the world of Washington lobbyists, this chapter in Quinn's life may not be so dim. Certainly, other prominent Washington consultants have survived brushes with scandal to become influential players in the capital minuet of politics, lobbying and public relations. In fact, many might just like to be in Quinn's shoes. After all, he did pull off a spectacular feat--deftly obtaining a presidential pardon for Rich despite extraordinary legal obstacles. And although the uproar over Rich has caused some to question Quinn's judgment and ethics, almost everyone agrees that it also demonstrated his effectiveness and access. The question is which end of that equation shapes more heavily the career that Quinn, 51, has been building as a Democratic insider over the last two decades, more recently as Clinton's White House counsel and now as a well-paid Washington lobbyist. It is a question that might be asked in Hollywood, on Wall Street or at any city hall: Is it better to be viewed as principled or powerful? The dominant answer probably says more about Washington than about Jack Quinn. Among Quinn's contemporaries in the lobbying world, the prevailing view: powerful. Many say that Quinn could not buy at any price the kind of publicity generated in the last few weeks by the controversy. "It wasn't pretty, but Jack's now in fat city. He got the job done," said one former Clinton aide. The minority view is that the near-universal condemnation of the Rich pardon has made Quinn too toxic for big corporate clients who prefer that their string-pulling not attract subpoenas and television cameras. Then there is the grumbling among some Clinton allies who believe that Quinn did not fairly alert the then-president to a potential pardon backlash. This, they said, could make other elected officials Quinn hopes to lobby wary about what he is not telling them. "There's a danger that Jack has to overcome that people [he is lobbying] will be a little bit gunshy about his advocacy," said attorney Lanny J. Davis, a former White House special counsel for Clinton. "Notoriety cuts both ways." The unusual circumstances around the pardon have left a bad taste that some Washington lobbyists worry could hurt the image of their profession. Even so, the Rich case has become a consuming preoccupation along the K Street corridor of Washington lobbyists. "Everybody I've talked to thinks [Quinn] just taints the whole image," said one prominent lobbyist. "You can say a lawyer has to represent somebody. But he tried to be too cutesy and he hurts us all." Others said that such high-mindedness is nothing more than professional jealousy. In the end, these lobbyists said, the thing potential clients will remember most about this imbroglio is the bottom line: Quinn got Rich off. And when Quinn was put on the griddle Wednesday for a full day's inquisition by the House Government Reform Committee, he kept his cool, delivering a performance that even Republicans considered polished and calm. "After all the rubbing of hands and clucking of tongues and a little of 'There but for the grace of God go I' . . . Washington and the clients will only remember that Jack Quinn was rather dogged in his defense," said attorney Leonard Garment, a White House counsel for President Nixon. "He didn't wince or whine or moan during a couple of hours of testimony when he was being beleaguered by that air of sanctimony that pervades those congressional hearings. And . . . he got his guy off." Before the Rich controversy, Quinn was rising inside the Washington lobbying community. The Brooklyn, N.Y., native began his political career working for Democratic candidates as an undergraduate at Georgetown University. Later on, Quinn joined the law firm Arnold Porter, acquiring important corporate clients. His big break in politics came in 1988, when he backed Al Gore in his first presidential run. When Gore and Clinton won in 1992, Gore first named Quinn his counsel and, six months later, his chief of staff. In 1994, Clinton drafted Quinn as White House counsel. In December 1996, he returned to Arnold Porter. Then, about a year ago, he established his own lobbying firm with Ed Gillespie, a prominent
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 153
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 153 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- How to assist RadTimes-- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Report finds wide money-laundering --EU plans to issue 'identity number' for every citizen --Phony banks moving dirty money through U.S. --The dangers of genetically modified food --Beyond the Fringe: J20 report --NIMA: The Eyes of the Nation === Report finds wide money-laundering http://www.msnbc.com/news/526369.asp Banks, regulators let billions slip through, Senate panel says By Kathleen Day THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 The failure of U.S. banks and regulators to track transactions with foreign banks enables criminals to route billions of dollars from drug sales, Internet gambling, tax evasion or other illegal activities into the United States each year, a new Senate subcommittee report concludes. ALTHOUGH REGULATORS have prodded U.S. banks in recent years to bolster their efforts to control money laundering through individual accounts, the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations found that banks and regulators have been lax in applying similar standards to correspondent banking, in which foreign banks use U.S. banks to perform wire transfers and other transactions. The subcommittee's report, which concludes a yearlong investigation, is to be made public today. Regulators and bankers familiar with the inquiry say it is the first comprehensive look at this aspect of banking and how it facilitates money laundering. "Inattention and disinterest by U.S. banks in screening the foreign banks they take in as clients have allowed rogue foreign banks and their criminal clients to carry on money laundering and other criminal activity in the United States and to benefit from the protections afforded by the safety and soundness of the U.S. banking industry," said Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the subcommittee. RUSSIA SCANDAL SPARKS PROBE The subcommittee launched its investigation after a Russian money-laundering scandal erupted at Bank of New York 18 months ago. It examined a number of well-known banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase Co. and First Union Corp. In all, the subcommittee staff questioned 20 institutions and pursued, in detail, cases at more than a dozen U.S. banks involving "dirty money" flowing through U.S. accounts from suspicious foreign banks, especially offshore banks in jurisdictions with weak money-laundering laws, according to the report. J.P. Morgan Chase Co., Bank of America, Citigroup and First Union each said they terminated the accounts studied by the subcommittee as soon as they became aware of suspicious activity. They also said they are constantly monitoring and improving oversight of money laundering, correspondent accounts in particular. "We're constantly trying to balance a customer's right to privacy with the monitoring of bank activity," said Shirley Norton at Bank of America. "It's not easy." Correspondent banking is a legitimate banking practice, allowing companies to transact business globally for clients. So is offshore banking. Most U.S. financial institutions have established offshore banks in jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands or the Bahamas because they have fewer regulations than the United States and can offer higher interest rates or lower tax rates. But the estimated 4,000 offshore banks in such jurisdictions are also used by criminals to launder money into the United States, according to the subcommittee report. That's because many of these jurisdictions have secrecy laws that prevent law-enforcement inquiries and have few if any money-laundering regulations. The correspondent relationships that offshore banks have with American banks have become a major tool to facilitate such laundering, the report says. $1 TRILLION LAUNDERED ANNUALLY Money laundering, which the Clinton administration declared a national security threat, is the act of concealing the source of funds obtained from an illegal activity. An estimated $1 trillion is laundered each year about half of it, or $500 billion, through the United States, according to the report. Although money laundering is a crime and the law requires banks to have policies to guard against it, neither criminal statutes nor bank regulations detail what banks must do. Regulators have issued guidelines telling banks that one important way to guard against money laundering is to know each customer, and banks have stepped up their efforts when individual accounts are opened. But this "know-your-customer" standard has been routinely ignored by correspondent divisions of
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-Caveat Lector- Isn't it Rich? Marc, Bill, what a pair Clinton owes the country a complete, truthful explanation for the pardon Did Clinton trade a pardon for library money? On Dec. 9, 2000 he unveiled plans for his presidential library. By John H. Fund MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR Feb. 8 - Former presidents are well treated by taxpayers. Secret Service protection for life, a generous pension, staff and office space and maintenance costs for a presidential library are all part of the retirement package. IN RETURN, little is usually expected. But Bill Clinton owes the country a better explanation of his pardon of the fugitive billionaire Marc Rich, a man who traded with America's enemies and has been described by top Justice Department officials as "a real-life James Bond villain." SOLELY ON THE MERITS? Clinton gave an impromptu news conference on the sidewalks of New York recently to say he granted the pardon "on the merits" of the case. He said the move had nothing to do with his friendship with Denise Rich, the billionaire's ex-wife, who wrote or called Clinton three times to ask for a pardon. Since Clinton's terse explanation, much has happened. Denise Rich took the Fifth Amendment before Congress, in part to avoid answering questions about whether all of the $1 million she gave to Democrats in recent years was her own money. Her lawyer admitted to Congress that Rich gave an "enormous sum of money" to Clinton's presidential library foundation. Time magazine reports that $400,000 of that contribution was made before the Rich pardon was issued. Rich apparently consulted with Beth Dozoretz, a close Clinton friend. Dozoretz discussed the matter with Clinton only nine days before the pardon was rushed through without any formal consultation with the Justice Department or national-security agencies. On Jan. 10 an ally of Rich's in Switzerland sent an e-mail to Jack Quinn, the former White House counsel who secured the pardon for Rich. The e-mail said Dozoretz got a call from the president who said he was "doing all possible to turn around" the White House counsels who opposed the pardon. Congress steps in February 8, 2001 Congress has many questions about former President Bill Clinton's pardon of international fugitive financier Marc Rich. NBC News' Lisa Myers reports. STORY THAT REEKS All of this reeks. Even Robert Reich, a Clinton friend and his former secretary of labor, says it has all the appearance of "a political payoff." A new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll taken February 7 to 8 asked 649 people if it was more likely that Clinton granted the pardon on the merits or because he "received contributions and favors from Rich's friends and family." Cynics were in the clear lead by 68 percent to 9 percent. Only 12 percent of the public isn't bothered by at least one of the three most recent Clinton scandals (the pardon, the taking of gifts and his outrageous office rent). For now, Congress is focusing just on the Rich pardon. Members of Congress were told that if the White House had contacted either the CIA or the National Security Agency about Rich's overseas activities with foreign powers, no pardon would ever have been granted. Next week, subpoenas are likely to be issued to compel the testimony of Clinton White House counsels Beth Nolan and Bruce Lindsey. Other subpoenas will seek the records of the Clinton presidential library foundation, because the library refuses to release the list of its donors. LIBRARY HONOR SYSTEM "The list of library donors is important because so much of the $200 million it plans to raise came in before Clinton left office," former Clinton loyalist and advisor Dick Morris has said. "It's absurd that we require full disclosure of a $1,000 campaign contribution to a Senate candidate, but a $1 million contribution to a president who can still do favors for people while in office can go unreported." Full list of Clinton pardons Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton foundation board, says he would consult with lawyers before responding to any congressional subpoena. "I don't know about a public interest" in the records he has said. "There may be some sort of media interest." The Marc Rich pardon went to a man who made millions by trading oil with Iran, while 53 American hostages were held captive there. He later renounced his U.S. citizenship and helped transfer North Korean missiles to Iran. I have news for Rutherford. There is and will continue to be media interest. And its because of the long, sordid progression of Clinton lies, evasions, half-truths, rolling disclosures and stonewalling that has culminated in the Rich pardon. It's all too rich. The pardon went to a man who made millions by trading oil with Iran, while 53 American hostages were held captive there. He later renounced his U.S. citizenship, helped transfer North Korean missiles to Iran, traded with Saddam Husseins Iraq and brokered oil deals with the apartheid regime
[CTRL] Fwd: NYPOST.COM Regional News: RABBIS: WE LOOTED HOLOCAUST CHARITY By DAVID SEIFMAN and DAN MANGAN
Is there anything else new under the sun? Isn't it nice these bastards ageed to pay back $162,000 and serve 33 months in jail? Are they going to confiscate their properties - their synogoge as they try to steal away the little Christian Church in Indianapolis If they can take a Christian Church and sell it for non payment of so called "income tax" on tax exempt property - why not these two and all their possessions?How much else have these thieves taken .. And Justice for All? NYPOST.COM RABBIS: WE LOOTED HOLOCAUST CHARITY Saturday,February 10,2001 By DAVID SEIFMAN and DAN MANGAN UNHOLY ACT: Hasidic rabbi Efroim Stein leaves Brooklyn federal court yesterday after pleading guilty to swindling the U.S. government through a charity for Holocaust victims. - Mary Altaffer Two Brooklyn rabbis - including an adviser to former Mayor Ed Koch - yesterday pleaded guilty to swindling the federal government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for Holocaust survivors. Rabbis Jacob Bronner, 51, and Efroim Stein, 55, each agreed to serve 33 months in prison and repay up to $162,500 in restitution. [note only repay $162,500 - they going to add penalties and interest as they did the little church in Indianapolis where US Marshall was to be sent in to Wacoize this little churchin holocaustSaba] The Hasidic rabbis - who controlled the not-for-profit charity Project Social Care - remain free on $500,000 bond until their June 8 sentencing. They read details of their crimes in Brooklyn federal court in front of U.S. Magistrate Viktor Pohorelsky, but would not comment afterward. Bronner served for 12 years as unpaid adviser on Jewish affairs to Koch, who appointed him to the city's Human Rights Commission. "I only have nice things to say about him," Koch said yesterday. Brooklyn-based Project Social Care was established in 1994 to provide Holocaust survivors and immigrants with medical, job training, and other services. In 1995, the organization applied for and received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development department. The application detailed a program "of support and counseling tailored to meet the needs of elderly Holocaust survivors," helping them "deal directly with the Holocaust experience." The court papers say Bronner and Stein conspired to misspend hundreds of thousands of dollars of the grant in three ways from 1995 to 1996: * Project Social Care allegedly paid companies for non-existent goods and services, with the bulk of that money then kicked back to the rabbis. * Funds were paid to an institute and several of Stein's relatives for nonexistent training; most of the institute-earmarked funds then went to a Stein-controlled synagogue. [We need to sue to take this synagogue away and then we have memoral to WWII veterans and descendents who were virtually forced into a war and a costly war to protect whom from what..now how man died in that war, just 6 million - what happened to the other 50 million dead bodies who died in that WarSaba] * Project Social Care paid the Council of Jewish Organizations of Borough Park (COJO) in a subcontracting deal that required the council to kick back money to businesses controlled by Bronner and Stein. Those included United Housing Community Services, BB Furniture Company, and CCI Community Consultants. COJO officials were prosecuted in Brooklyn federal court in the late 1990s on charges of swindling the federal government out of funds. Several were convicted. City records show Bronner signed a letter of intent with lobbyist Suri Kasirer on Dec. 29, 1998 to try to win city contracts. But the $3,000-a-month deal apparently was never consummated, since Kasirer reported receiving no payments and said she conducted no lobbying. Kasirer, who is married to Bruce Teitelbaum, Mayor Giuliani's former chief of staff, couldn't be reached last night. -30- Well Hilliary Clinton fits in nice with this bunch; might add, seems no comments from holocaust victims - so if they touch that little Church in Indianapolis better watch it - anything goes. Saba Print this story Back to Regional News Index | Home E-Mail This Story to a Friend Your Name Your E-Mail Address Your Friend's E-Mail NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings, Inc. NYPOST.COM, NYPOSTONLINE.COM, and NEWYORKPOST.COM are trademarks of NYP Holdings, Inc. Copyright 2001 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.nypostonline.com/news/regionalnews/23504.htm
[CTRL] Fwd: Tripp: Hillary Directed Waco, Bill Abused Monica
Tripp: Hillary Directed Waco, Bill Abused Monica http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb1075995 Saturday, 10-Feb-01 15:08:27 24.14.28.77 writes: With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Saturday Feb. 10, 2001; 11:32 a.m. EST Tripp: Hillary Directed Waco, Bill Abused Monica Hillary Clinton pressured the late Vince Foster to resolve the 1993 Waco stand-off in a move that led to the deaths of more than 80 men, women and children, former White House aide Linda Tripp charged in an interview Friday night. Tripp also alleged that Monica Lewinsky was more of a victim of Bill Clinton's sexual predations than the former White House intern has publicly acknowledged. Appearing on CNN's Larry King Live, Tripp suggested that Foster, at Mrs. Clinton's direction, transmitted the order to move on the Branch Davidian's Waco compound, which culminated in a military-style tear gas attack on the wooden structure. The compound burst into flames hours later as federal troops used a U.S. Army tank to ram the building and insert flammable gas. Tripp described Foster's demeanor as "dignified, decent, caring, smart" during his early days at the White House. But when Waco happened, she said, "that's when I first knew that Vince was falling apart." Foster was found shot to death in a Virginia park three months later. Tripp said she was with the former deputy White House counsel when the news of the Waco assault broke on television. "A special bulletin came on showing the atrocity at Waco and the children. And his face, his whole body slumped, and his face turned white, and he was absolutely crushed knowing, knowing the part he had played." "And he had played the part at Mrs. Clinton's direction," charged Tripp. Tripp was stunned by the contrast between Foster's heartfelt emotion at the Waco tragedy and what she observed from Mrs. Clinton. "Her reaction, on the other hand, was heartless," Tripp told King, adding, "I can only tell you what I saw." When asked how the decision to move on Waco was transmitted, Tripp said, "Foster, Mrs. Clinton, (deputy Attorney General) Webb Hubbell, (Attorney General) Janet Reno." Tripp's new charge corroborates allegations first leveled in the 1999 documentary on the deadly confrontation, "Waco: A New Revelation." In the film, director Michael McNulty included the account of former House Waco investigator T. March Bell. "One of the interesting things that happens in an investigation is that you get anonymous phone calls," Bell explains in the film. "And we in fact received anonymous phone calls from Justice Department managers and attorneys who believe that pressure was placed on Janet Reno by Webb Hubbell, and pressure that came from the first lady of the United States." At the film's premier, Bell told NewsMax.com that phone logs obtained by House investigators indicated that Mrs. Clinton, Foster and Hubbell worked on Waco together. "Those phone logs were Webb Hubbell's phone logs. There were calls from the first lady and Vince Foster to Webb Hubbell's office" during the Waco crisis, he said. Bell said Mrs. Clinton grew more and more impatient as the Waco standoff came to dominate the headlines during the early months of the Clinton administration. It was she, Bell's source claims, who pressured a reluctant Janet Reno to act. Reno, on the other hand, was not enthusiastic about launching the assault, said Bell. "Give me a reason not to do this," she is said to have begged aides. In another explosive revelation, Tripp charged that the president's relationship with Monica Lewinsky included an element of abuse. "This was abuse of a child," she told King. "Don't ever believe that this was consensual sex. And [Clinton] went to extraordinary lengths to cover that up. Criminal lengths." The former White House insider said that the-then 21-year-old Lewinsky was "a mixed-up, unstable, volatile child," who became emotionally overwhelmed by her involvement with Clinton. "Monica is 21 going on 14 on a good day," Tripp said. In 1998, Tripp told investigators that Lewinsky's private descriptions of her encounters with Clinton included the infliction of pain. "I don't mean abusive," Tripp said. "I mean very over the top, out of control, physically powerful, where he would repeatedly say to Monica, 'I'm not hurting you, am I?' And essentially he was, but she didn't say he was." White House steward Bayani Nelvis is said to have
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Tripp: Hillary Directed Waco, Bill Abused Monica
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 02/10/2001 5:21:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tripp also alleged that Monica Lewinsky was more of a victim of Bill Clinton's sexual predations than the former White House intern has publicly acknowledged. Did you ever think it strange that we've never read about Hillary abusing Monica? I'm afraid I would have snatched the little tart bare bottomed and bald headed if she came after my husband. She seems to have been an experienced seducer, and while no one inside the beltway thinks the floozies have a requirement to leave married men alone, out here among the great unwashed, it's not considered cricket to snap your thong at somebody's husband. I've met some Monicas in my time, and I always considered them pretty scummy broads. Instead of polishing her halo, I'm afraid I would have been stuffing her knee pads down her little rapacious throat. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Priest Allegedly Abused 2 Students During 1980s
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Below please find info on this article. Sincerely, Neil from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42041-2001Feb7.html Priest Allegedly Abused 2 Students During 1980s - Episcopal Rector Held on $2 Million Bond After Arrest in Illinois; Accusers Now in Their Thirties - by David Snyder -Washington Post Staff Writer - 2/8/01, Page B05 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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 Jack booted thugs, once again.
-Caveat Lector- Read this latest outrage - another "mistake" by professionals... http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/01/02/lc_41false07.frame A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] FWD Jack booted thugs, once again.
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/10/01 5:14:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Read this latest outrage - another "mistake" by professionals... Well on the positive side, they didn't kill anyone this time. Bill A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] electronic journals
-Caveat Lector- Dear List, Electronic Journals and Periodicals and their urls are at : http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/journal.html Sincerely, Neil Brick A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] What Does The CIA Have To Do With AIDS?
http://www.coastalpost.com/01/2/19.htm What Does The CIA Have To Do With AIDS? By Patricia Nell Warren The government wants to keep Americans believing that gay and bi men are still causing most of the HIV problems As our new President takes office, I will still be feeling that chill up my spine I felt when I saw the website for the "HIV Stops With Me" ad series (www.hivstopswithme.org). Aired in San Francisco, the TV ads derive from what the CDC calls "alarming" statistics showing a rise in unprotected sex among gay and bisexual men. The ads were funded by the CDC and the San Francisco Department of Public Health. These ads don't just "target" local men in the PR sense -- they put these men square in the sniper crosshairs. The message couldn't be clearer, with a funereal black page and the logline jumping out in flaming red -- "HIV+ gay and bisexual men have the power to stop the epidemic." Really? HIV-positive gay and bi men have that power as AIDS is declared a global security threat by the UN, and a national security threat by Washington? As the media declare that "millions are dying all over the world," and these estimated millions are said to be mainly heterosexual women and children? So what's behind these ads? Earlier this year, U.S. AIDS policy underwent a paradigm shift. The CIA and NSA (National Security Agency) were given oversight over AIDS. The nation's public-health system is now virtually on a wartime footing -- meaning that uniforms, not white labcoats, are in charge. CDC's website has a bioterrorist-alert page, equating AIDS with anthrax attacks by Iraq. Noting this shift, South African President Thabo Mbeki voiced concerns over CIA interference in his country's AIDS controversy. AIDS apologists snidely dismissed Mbeki as paranoid. Doubtless Mbeki reviewed the CIA's long history of covertly involving U.S. troops in other countries' affairs -- notably Vietnam, Guatemala, Colombia -- and felt a chill of his own. In short, epidemic disease is now the excuse for U.S. and UN interference in certain countries' political affairs. Behind its family-friendly facade, the CDC is a major player in international public-health wars. When Ebola virus broke out in Uganda recently, the CDC was one of the first on the scene. If we translate the CDC/SFDPH ads into political English, the message is: HIV-positive gay and bi men are responsible for the AIDS epidemic -- because those who "cause" it are the ones who can "stop" it. These men could be held accountable by military intelligence for any real (or perceived) failure to act as the government demands. As an old CIA watcher, dating from the sixties and seventies when I helped cover cold-war politics as a Reader's Digest editor, I suspect these ads are what spooks call "disinformation" (government-speak for propaganda). The federal government is retooling the 1980s "gay plague" for use in today's domestic political arena. For maximum credibility it launches the reinvention in gaydom's flagship city, San Francisco. Yet, internationally, the U.S. carefully refrains from talk of gays ending AIDS, and pours billions into fighting an AIDS that is "everybody's disease." Hence a hypocrisy, as Washington speaks with a forked tongue about AIDS. It won't be the first time that homosexuals are deemed "security risks." In the 1950s, the McCarthy hearings trained their crosshairs on gay men in sensitive government jobs. And this is not the first time I've mentioned the shell games that public-health officials play with some statistics while trying to justify their demands for funding and public support. The CDC has taken notice of my comments, and sent a letter to AU defending their crosshairing of gay and bi men (see this issue's Mailbox). Ronald O. Valdiserri, deputy director of CDC's national Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, insists that "men who have sex with men (MSM) still represent the single largest share of new infections, estimated to account for more than 40 percent of all new HIV infections." In his September 15 letter, Dr. Valdiserri adds that heterosexual men and women account for thirty-three percent of new infections. I can't help wondering about the sexual orientation of the remaining plus or minus twenty-seven percent. Is it lesbian and bi women? No -- according to the CDC, the mystery remainder is injection drug users, which is not a sexual orientation. Here we see the fallacy of "risk group" statistics -- they don't always add up. And they're just estimates, because -- as the CDC admits in its own fine print -- the counters don't always know the risk in reported cases. A recent AP story quotes different CDC statistics: "Blacks and Hispanics accounted for nearly 70 percent of new HIV infections from July 1999 to June of this year, a striking change in what was once known as a disease of gay white men. The groups hardest to reach in prevention campaigns -- high school dropouts, former inmates and the homeless -- are disproportionately black
[CTRL] Moonie Times On Morris Dees
http://www.washtimes.com/national/pruden.htm When a hate crime is something to love Black pain and white piety is a winning combination in contemporary America, as any number of phony liberals have demonstrated over the years. Nobody manipulates this combination better than Morris Dees. Few do it as well. Racism in America has become big business, real and otherwise, which is no doubt why Bill Clinton, who got caught several years ago peddling a phony story about church-burning in Arkansas, says he'll be getting into it from his $700,000-a-year offices in midtown Manhattan. The appetite for sensation, even when it is half-baked sensation, is insatiable, and Morris Dees could show him how to profit from it. Mr. Dees is a lawyer in Montgomery, Ala., who is the "national chairman" of something called the Southern Poverty Law Center, which sounds like the hide-out of a noble band of warriors against hate crime and other racial wrongs, but is actually a fund-raising scheme that could teach televangelists a thing or two. In fact, maybe it has. Morris Dees, says his former partner, "is the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement, though I don't mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye." Mr. Dees took in $44 million from gullible contributors, mostly white, in 1999 and spent $13 million actually trying to help the poor and beaten down, mostly black, fight for their civil rights. He has been well known for years to reporters in the South, most of whom have never written much about who he really is. Mr. Dees, like the late I.F. Stone or the living Jesse Jackson, became a pet rock of the media, engaged in a calling so noble that it is regarded as tasteless, or at least suicidal, to notice that he runs around naked. The Rev. Billy Don Moyers endorses his fund-raising schemes, so what else does anyone need to know? Ken Silverstein recently told another version of the Morris Dees story in Harper's magazine, and it's a tale well told. What captured Mr. Silverstein's attention is the most recent project of the Dees "law center," a kit called "Teaching Tolerance" that is available for only $30 on the Dees Web site, with the firm but meaningless assurance that's it's "a $325 value." (Why not $425? $525?) What the buyer gets is a compendium of hate crimes that any casual newspaper reader already knows about, described in vivid ink of a purple hue, spreading the alarm that the Ku Klux Klan, heavily armed white-citizen militias and six Nazi Panzer divisions that never made it to Omaha Beach are bearing down on Cleveland, or maybe Providence. Even a journalist for the 11 O'clock Eyeball News on Channels 3 through 10 would blush twice trying to peddle stuff like this. Then we get the dirty little secret of hate-crime reporting. "Horrifying as such incidents are," writes Mr. Silverstein, "hate groups commit almost no violence. More than 95 percent of all 'hate crimes,' including most of the incidents [Mr. Dees] cites (bombings, church burnings, school shootings) are perpetrated by 'lone wolves.' " Indeed, membership in the Ku Klux Klan, which is the most lucrative Dees fund-raising target, has shrunk so dramatically that the Klan would have been out of business years ago but for FBI infiltration. In some chapters the only members with paid-up dues are FBI informants. In one case cited by Mr. Silverstein, Morris Dees won a judgment for a black woman whose son was killed by Klansmen. She received $51,875 as settlement. Mr. Dees, according to an investigation by the Montgomery Advertiser, pulled in $9 million from fund-raising solicitation letters that featured a particularly gruesome photograph of the grieving mother's son. Mr. Dees, who pays himself an annual salary of $275,000, offered the grieving mother none of the $9 million her son's death made for him. Mr. Dees, in fact, earns — or is paid, which is not necessarily the same thing — more than nearly any officer of other advocacy groups surveyed by the National Journal, more than the chairmen of the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Children's Defense Fund. "You are a fraud and a con man," Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, which actually takes on dozens of death-penalty appeals for poor blacks every year, once told him. "You spend so much, accomplish so little, and promote yourself so shamelessly." Mr. Dees does not take death-penalty cases because this might scare off contributors in safe white liberal neighborhoods, many of whom imagine that the death penalty keeps black robbers, rapists and murderers off their streets. White guilt can be manipulated with black pain, but it has to be done carefully. It's a sordid scam. Some people would call what Morris Dees does a hate crime, but it's a living, and a very good one. Wesley Pruden is editor in chief of The Times.
[CTRL] Democrats Urge Bush Not to Slash Police Funding
-Caveat Lector- Friday February 9 Democrats Urge Bush Not to Slash Police Funding http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010209/pl/bush_budget_dc_1.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats lashed out at President George W. Bush's budget priorities on Friday, allegedly he was considering a $1 billion cut in the Justice Department's budget to help finance his sweeping tax cut plan. The Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) said the proposed cutbacks would hurt the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and local police, while helping to fund Bush's $1.6 trillion tax-cut package, which Democrats oppose. DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe said it was "clearly a case of misplaced priorities." The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives urged Bush to reconsider. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer would not comment on reports that Bush may cut the Justice Department's budget by $1 billion in the next fiscal year. But Fleischer said "spending has skyrocketed" and that the president "does believe that we have to be fiscally conservative." A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Chamish: Sharon - No Celebration (fwd)
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Re: [CTRL] Civil Rights Commission Seeks Testimony
-Caveat Lector- Someone better look into New York voting, also. --- On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:26:03 -0800 radman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- Civil Rights Commission Seeks Testimony US CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION EMPHASIZES PUBLIC TESTIMONY IN CONTINUING EXAMINATION OF FLORIDA VOTING PROBLEMS February 16 Hearing at Wyndham Miami Focuses on South Florida Counties Washington, DC Continuing its investigation into voting problems in Florida during the presidential election, the US Commission on Civil Rights will devote the morning of February 16 to airing the experiences of registered South Florida voters who had difficulties reaching the polls or casting their ballots. In addition, at the conclusion of the formal agenda, members of the public will have the opportunity to share their stories at an open public forum. The Commission has scheduled a one-day hearing at the Wyndham Miami, 1601 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL. As is its customary practice, the Commission has subpoenaed witnesses and documents for the Miami hearing, which will focus on Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach Counties. The Commission will take sworn testimony from registered voters, poll workers, elected and appointed county officials, an administrator of the Department of Motor Vehicles and representatives of Choicepoint, the firm contracted by the state to help it ensure that felons did not participate in the November 7, 2000, election. The Commission's investigation into Florida voting problems began last month with a two-day hearing in Tallahassee featuring testimony by Gov. Jeb Bush, Secretary of State Katherine Harris and registered voters from that area who had encountered problems at the polls. Among the allegations to be examined in Miami: persons were improperly purged form voter roles due to erroneous reports of felony convictions; voter lists did not include names of persons who had registered; properly filed voter registrations were processed too late for names to appear on voter rolls; polling places were closed early; polling places were moved without notice; some ballots were defective and confusing; officials failed to provide language assistance as requested; and officials failed to provide access to the polls for persons with disabilities. The Commission is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the federal government with authority to hold hearings and subpoena both witnesses and documents. It has very broad investigative authority in the area of voting rights, even when alleged abuses do not involve discrimination, fraud or other malicious intent. WHAT: The US Commission on Civil Rights' ongoing probe of Florida voting focuses on Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach Counties WHO: Registered voters, poll workers, public officials, Choicepoint officials WHEN: Friday, February 16 9 am 5:20 pm Public forum: 6:30 WHERE: Wyndham Miami, Bahama Room, 1601 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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 unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to
Re: [CTRL] Disorderly Conduct
-Caveat Lector- Prudence L Kuhn wrote: [snip] POLICE CHARGE CORRY HITCHHIKER, CLAIM SHE MADE OBSCENE GESTURE AT PASSING DRIVER A Corry hitchhiker accused of making an obscene gesture to a driver who passed her by has been charged with disorderly conduct. Corry police identified the woman as KA. M__, 43, (address). Police said an officer was watching on Tuesday about 11:20 a.m. when M___ made the gesture to a driver who passed her by on East Main Street. End of quote. I thought you might like to know the direction that "law and order" is taking. Its purpose no longer appears to be to protect our citizens from harm. I'm not sure how many places an "obscene gesture" amounts to disorderly conduct, but I just thought we should all be aware of the enthusiasm with which our nation's finest are applying the law. In several years an offense as grevious as this one may put you in the slammer for five or ten years. They'll just put offenders in the organ banks so they serve society better than they would in prison. -- Mark McHugh A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Tripp: Clintons Changed Gift System
-Caveat Lector- Linda Tripp is a patriot of the highest order. She is a very brave person who should be given a high award. God bless her for exposing what she did- so that the WHOLE WORLD now knows SOME of the filthy truth. As for the article below: Even today's (*^(*^ Washington Post, which drooled and slobbered over all the worms of the last 8 years, is reporting the same thing-from the White House usher. When you stir around in the garbage dump, you get a stink. - On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 01:41:19 EST "Samantha L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- Linda Tripp is a disgrace to all humanity. By the way, this article is grossly inaccurate. It states that she was fired on Inauguration day, yet starts with her claims about logging in gifts from heads of state. Tripp was transferred to the Pentagon in 1994 when her boss, Bernard Nussbaum, resigned. Samantha http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap22.htm Tripp: Clintons Changed Gift System by DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton did not always fill out the proper gift forms for presents received at the White House and kept some of them for themselves, according to Linda Tripp, whose tapes of conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to his impeachment. ''Most of it didn't make it to the gift unit,'' Tripp said Friday night on ''Larry King Live,'' describing a roomful of presents that had been sent to the White House by heads of state in honor of Clinton's inauguration in January 1993. ''I know on many occasions it went to them.'' She said that when she was filling out proper gift forms for logging in presents sent to the White House, that she was told, in so many words: ''Take off your Bush hat. This is the Clinton White House.'' ''They didn't want any part of that,'' she said. Tripp, who worked in the Clinton White House for a year and a half, taped her conversations with Lewinsky that helped lead to Clinton's impeachment. Tripp was fired from her $100,000-a-year political position on Inauguration Day. The Clinton transition office had no comment on Tripp's remarks. After being criticized for taking $190,000 worth of china, flatware, rugs, televisions, sofas and other gifts with them when they left the White House, the Clintons announced last week that they would pay for $86,000 worth of gifts. Then on Wednesday, the Clintons returned 19 items after some donors said their gifts were for the White House, not the former first family. The goods -- lamps, tables, chairs, sofas and prints -- were put on a truck in Chappaqua, N.Y., where the Clintons have a house, and shipped to a warehouse in a Maryland suburb of Washington where White House items are stored. After concluding that the items the Clintons took with them were the property of the White House, not personal gifts they were entitled to keep, the National Park Service on Friday released an inventory of the items returned. Questions remain about why the items ended up with the Clintons. The Clintons have refused to comment on the National Park Service determination. But early this week, the former president's office issued a statement saying every item accepted by him and the former first lady, who is now the junior Democratic senator from New York, had been identified by the White House gift office as a present to them. ''Gifts did not leave the White House without the approval of the White House usher's and curator's offices,'' the statement said. White House officials who handle gifts to presidents have refused to comment. Jim McDaniel, the National Park Service liaison to the White House, said Thursday that he had found no evidence of clerical errors that could have caused items meant for the White House to have been placed on the list of personal gifts the Clintons could chose to keep. The list released Friday did not give the value of the items returned. About a dozen of the gifts in question, however, were itemized on the Clintons' final financial disclosure report. The total value of those gifts was about $28,000. According to McDaniel's list, the Clintons returned: --Gaming table inlaid with presidential seal, checkerboard and backgammon board --Sofa upholstered in teal green with bold floral --Cream-colored TV armoire with green trim, painted with red berries on branches --Brass floor lamp --Pair of table lamps with antique finish --Print of a boy reading with a woman on a porch swing at a beach --Print of houses with American flag on a porch --Coffee table painted antique green --Round center table with dark green edge --White kitchen table --Four white chairs with woven sections and striped seat cushions --Two sofas, easy chair and ottoman upholstered in bold blue floral ^--= On the Net:
[CTRL] Elite Around George W. Bush
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Subject: Elite Around George W. Bush
Date: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:29 PM
The Elite members around President George W. Bush are:
Spenser Abraham - No
John Ashcroft - No
Elaine L. Chao - CFR
Dick Cheney - CFR, TC
Mitch Daniels - No
Donald Evans - No
Melquiados Martinez - No
Norman Y Mineta - No
Gail Norton - No
Paul H. O'Neill - TC
Rod Paige - No
Colin Powell - BB ('97), CFR
Anthony Principi - No
Condoleezza Rice - CFR
Donald Henry Rumsfeld - BB ('74,'75)
Tommy G. Thompson - No
Ann M Veneman - No
Christine Todd Whitman - BB ('98), CFR
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Re: [CTRL] How it works: Today North America. Tomorrow the world._ FTAApt. 3/3
-Caveat Lector- "M.A. Johnson" wrote: -Caveat Lector- Real free trade would mean no subsidies, no trade taxes, no loan guarantees, and, for Heavens sake, no bailouts of foreign banks and governments. --Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. There's no such thing as real free trade. There's only this. J2 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] How it works: Today North America. Tomorrow the world._ FTAApt. 2/3
-Caveat Lector- "M.A. Johnson" wrote: -Caveat Lector- War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength. -- George Orwell Helluva quote ya got there Johnson. J2 A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A 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] Clinton Caught Cracking Anti-Gay Jokes
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[CTRL] AP: Report: two businessmen cooperating in Torricelli investigation
-Caveat Lector- 02-10-01 Report: two businessmen cooperating in Torricelli investigation TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Two businessmen associated with fund raising abuses in Sen. Robert Torricelli's 1996 Senate campaign are cooperating with federal investigators, The New York Times reported in Saturday's editions. According to anonymous sources cited by the newspaper, investigators have uncovered evidence that Torricelli's chief fund raiser solicited illegal campaign donations from Marc A. Rousso and his associate, Philippe V. Hababou. The fund raiser, Adam C. Crain, is among three former campaign aides who the newspaper said have received ''target'' letters from federal prosecutors indicating that they could be indicted. The newspaper said Crain, 32, arranged for the campaign to accept proceeds from an art auction organized by the men and held for Torricelli at the Four Seasons hotel in Manhattan. Sources also said Crain spoke with Rousso about donating $500,000 in radio advertising to be used to support the 1996 campaign. Hababou and Rousso have agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges and are cooperating with federal investigators, the newspaper said. Torricelli attorney Robert Bauer said the campaign had acted properly in its dealings with Rousso and Hababou. ''These tabloid tales, told by admitted criminals with a history of fraud, are hardly worth of comment,'' he told the newspaper. ''But we do note that even these liars' stories collapse around the fact that none of what has been alleged ever came to pass.'' Torricelli spokesman Dale Leibach on Saturday told The Associated Press he had no comment to add beyond what Bauer had said already. A lawyer for Hababou, Kevin H. Marino, declined to comment. The newspaper was unable to reach Rousso. A lawyer for Crain, Adam F. Hoffinger, said his client has done nothing wrong. ''These unsubstantiated allegations of convicted con artists and liars are false,'' he said. ''No charges have been brought against Adam Crain, and he has engaged in absolutely no wrongdoing.'' Torricelli has said he has been reassured he is not a target of the investigation. However, targets do not have to be notified unless they are called before a grand jury. Justice Department spokesman Chris Watney declined to comment to the newspaper about the case. Both Rousso and Hababou had been wanted in Europe on various investment fraud charges around the time they met Torricelli, according to the newspaper. Shortly after he met Rousso, Torricelli sent Crain to follow up on a pledge the native of France had made to raise as much as $100,000 on the candidate's behalf, the newspaper reported. Hababou told investigators that around that time, Crain returned a $10,000 check from him because it was over the $2,000 limit for individual donations to a candidate, but said Crain told him to ask associates to write checks and reimburse them. Such contributions are illegal. Four checks of $2,000 sent to the campaign were credited to Hababou, although his check for the same amount was returned when it was learned he was a French national, the newspaper reported. Six people, including Torricelli's chief accuser David Chang, so far have pleaded guilty to making illegal contributions to that campaign. In addition, Chang aide Audrey Yu admitted plotting to obstruct the investigation. Torricelli raised and spent more than $9 million in defeating Republican Dick Zimmer in the 1996 campaign. Impressed, Senate Democratic leaders appointed Torricelli as vice chairman of their political and fund-raising arm, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. He served as chairman for the 2000 election cycle. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives 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://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL
