[CTRL] Flight800: EMP Warhead?
-Caveat Lector- WAS FLIGHT 800 FELLED BY AN ELECTROMAGNETIC-PULSE WARHEAD? How could so many witnesses see a missile intercept Flight 800 and yet the only evidence found suggests that an electrical surge, not a missile, ignited the center fuel tank? Could there be a war- head designed to destroy aircraft with a powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would only leave evidence of an electrical surge? Looking for the answer at the Library of Congress I found it... The US Navy began developing a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) warhead for antiaircraft missiles ten years ago and was test firing them two years before the Flight 800 crash. An MHD warhead kills an aircraft by burning out its circuits with a powerful electrical surge induced by a electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from the warhead detonating near the aircraft. The systems from Flight 800 were riddled with evidence of a powerful electronic surge. In fact, the official cause was declared to be an inexplicable surge strong enough to put a spark into the center fuel tank. Goddard's Journal introduces and explores the theory that Flight 800 was downed by a missile equipped with an EMP warhead, offering an explanation for both eyewitness testimony and physical evidence. The report is replete with photographic evidence and an animation: EMP-warhead theory: http://users.erols.com/igoddard/twa-emp.htm 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] When CFR Stole the Democrat Party
Many govenors were around waiting like ladies in waiting, for the King to die...CFR Govenors took over the Democrat Party in Ohio and in other states, pushed for the AFSCME AFL CIO Union take over State Civil Service (which was contrary to law in Ohio for Consitution set up Civil Service)... Now this AFSCME bunch was taken over in the 60 period by Jerry Wurf - a man whom my old boss said he and Jock Yablotski (who would be later murdered in his bed, his wife and daughter were murdered too) took on before in the Union - stating they were communists? But this bunch sold out the Unions, and the Democrat party comes up with a guy who looked like Eddy Cantor for presidential Timber - Mike Dukakis - whose sister was of course, a movie star - this movie star connection - why even that Monday had daughter who was movie star? This inter marriage between Hollywood and Democrat Party - so there is no democrat party but the Republican party is turning into a party for all people, rich and poor. Now Clinton pardoned that bastard traitor treasonous Marc Rich - who wants to get his big foot back into USA - so he sends out his ex floosie wife who is indeed a predator but without her bank account, would be just another prostitute type from Soho.but this woman goes after the President who isn't exactly hard to get - but it was the big bucks which prove to be her fatal attraction. I remembr when the head Hog Henry Kissinger was dating Jill St. John and the Hollywood crowd was moving in on the government - paid stooges..But Richie Rich, this pig at the trough - see what the steelworkers did to this pig, the one Clinton pardoned. And then consider what remains unsaid? Saba See Marc Rich connection here to attempt to break the unio and destroy the steelworkers - then consider President Bush is attempting to help the steel industry...see Marc Rich as a Union Buster - meanwhile other Union brass were bought up by CFR into which they were invited..AFSCME, of the AFL CIA was one of first to join this bunch - but not Walter Reuther or Jimmy Hoffa and see what happened to them? So some think Clinton is a Democrat? Clinton is just another pig at same trough feeding on the poor with Kissinger and treasonous bastrds like Marc Rich - but then was Rich akak Reich ever an American Citizen an did he really do big time drug running in his private plane? Fall, 1996 Fighting the Union-busters Wheeling-Pittsburgh union-busting backfired The Steelworkers have triumphed in many bitter struggles with union-busting companies. When they refused to swallow huge wage cuts and the shredding of their union contract by Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel in 1985, the company locked the doors and kept 8,600 members from returning to work. With help from other unionists in Pennsylvania and Ohio during the 98-day struggle, they not only won a fair contract but forced out the company president and four members of the board of directors. Ravenswood workers and their supportes celebrate victory. Epic struggles in basic steel If you were around in 1959, you remember the industry-wide steel strike, triggered when the companies tried to seize the power to cut work crews. Workers stayed out 116 days, even though Steelworkers at that time didn't even have a strike fund, until an injunction forced them back for an 80-day cooling off period. They continued the fight on the job until the companies caved in and signed a good contract. Years later, in 1986, USX tried to slash wages and benefits and contract out union jobs, and locked out 22,000 Steelworkers, who now had a strong strike fund. It took them 184 days, but they won a strong contract that brought several thousand laid-off members back to work. Company president fired In 1993 National Steel tried to break the union at its Pellet Company on Minnesota's Iron Range during a strike. The union traveled to Japan to convince the parent company that the management team was endangering the company. Within a year the company president and his buddies were fired, the plant was reopened, and union members had won a new contract. Union tracks down Ravenswood owner Ravenswood Aluminum Corp. locked out 1,700 experienced Steel Workers in 1990, demanded a union-busting contract, circled the plant with barbed wire, and brought 1300 scabs into its West Virginia plant. Many UAW members joined caravans to offer support. For 20 long months locked-out workers picketed while the union mounted a worldwide campaign to chase down fugitive company owner Marc Rich, who was running from a 51-count indictment for things like tax fraud and trading with the enemy. They found him in a Swiss hideout. The company finally fired its president and the scabs, and signed a strong union contract with hefty raises. USWA fought imports In the 1980s, both the Steelworkers and the UAW were clobbered by the severe recession stemming from the high-interest-rate, free-trade and cheap-import policies of former
[CTRL] Marc Rich, Mafia Hoodlum
-Caveat Lector- High Gas/Oil and Energy because because of Jewish Mafia Example how Marc Rich and his corrupted friends cost Americans billions of dollars - and Clinton pardoned this pig who wants to return to America to do business while Hollywood entertains his floosie former wife who received 350 million in divorce settlement from her hoodlum husband? So this is what the Democrat Party is like today under the auspices of Clinton organized crime figures? See how Steel Workers took on Marc Rich .Bush also now comes to Steel Workers aid. Marc Rich was a Union buster - but this item is from 1998 - now how much did HIll and Bill and their criminal family take for all those pardons - those low life sleaze are the reason California is experiencing energy crisis for Meyer Lansky and Rich got into energy field some time ago, in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia - but first they had to bust the unions? This pig Marc Rich when caught of course and fleeing the country - in trying to get off the hook stated he regretted what he had done to honest working men in America...this pig who owes billions by now in taxes - attempts to destroy unions while stealing billions of dolars from US citizens?. Now Clinton was offered 8 million dollars a year as investment broker = Kissinger is into gold in the Indonesian area - and natural resources are being looted over the world by this sleaze - how deep is he in with Rich for I believe it was Marc Rich who offered him the 8 million dollar a year job but Rich needed a pardon to do business in USA? Where is Israel getting the billions in diamonds - for Israel DOES NOT HAVE DIAMONDS..consider KGB paying this FBI double agent traitor guilty of treason in diamonds? See how Israel tried to infuence Clionto to let Rich have his pardon ..might add that Hollywood bunch - did you know the little Princess of Wales stayed with Goldie Hawn (jewish) and such connections led to the Versace connection and the homosexuals had their hooks in this little Princess who was not too bright and taken for the last ride ..wonder if expert race track driver was hired to clip that car and run it into steel cement pillars? Cui bono here? Married to an Egyptian descending from ancient Pharaohs - how could Mossad withstand that one? NOw Marc Rich got messed up in the steel industry and in aluminum - this is Jewish Mafia and think of the billions and billions and billions of dollares they have stolen from the American peopleThis garbage, i.e. Denise Rich, buying the President of the USA? Maybe we should be confiscating some of that property? Saba How did Russia GET plumdered? Forbes Sept 7 Date: 3 Sep 1998 21:59:23 -0400 Forbes - September 7, 1998 Russia used to live off its commodities exports. When a handful of privateers got control, the country went bankrupt. This is your life, Marc Rich "Tomorrow they will take up arms" A chat with Russia's former trade minister Oleg Davydov by Paul Klebnikov THE YELTSIN GOVERNMENT allowed the cream of the Russian economy to fall into the hands of a tiny group of adventurers who, instead of growing their businesses, shipped the profits abroad. In this "privatization" the government received almost nothing. Oleg Davydov occupied top trade ministry posts in both the Soviet and the Yeltsin governments. FORBES interviewed him in Helsinki recently. FORBES: How did Russia let itself be plundered? Our Western advisers and the IMF told us that the state had to abandon all its business activities, that government revenues had to come only from taxes. But it was a utopian vision. We privatized all the biggest companies, all the most profitable ones, the biggest exporters. The government thought it would get strategic investors from the West. Instead, we got some kind of offshore companies [really owned by Russians]. Look at the aluminum industry. Not one strategic investor appeared. Not Alcoa. Not Pechiney. Instead we got the Chernyi brothers [shady metals traders]. They gained control of aluminum exports at a time when aluminum cost $2,000/ton on world markets but could be bought at $500/ton inside Russia. All the producers became deeply indebted to the brothers, who made deals with the plant directors to acquire aluminum at the Russian price. Which they then sold at the world price. The tragedy is that if the privatized companies were state enterprises today, they would be recording good profits, they would be paying taxes, paying workers' wages, investing in their plant and equipment. But these so-called owners arrived, and what happened? There are no profits. No tax payments. The plant and equipment are getting worn out. And the money goes abroad. Did privatization go too far, too fast? Why did they [the "reformers"] have to privatize the alcohol monopoly? Vodka production is by far the most profitable part of the economy. In the U.S.S.R. it used to account for 23% of government revenues. Another mistake was to immediately
Re: [CTRL] When CFR Stole the Democrat Party
-Caveat Lector- That presidential candidate was Mondale, not Monday - fame is fleeting.sorry. 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] Enquirer now reporting Clinton, Denise had White House affair
-Caveat Lector- D*mmit, this calls for a full Congressional Investigation with parallel Independant counsel/s. Incidentally, my weblog http://leviathan.weblogs.com Is being updated regularly again now that my brother has finally moved the h*ll out and had to disassemble the network to get his furniture out9it is now reassembled). On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:57:25 EST "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/03/2001 8:47:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When the truth comes out about the affair between Clinton and Janet Reno I'll be (mildly) surprised. There were some posts the other day accusing Clinton of (of all things) Lesbianism. I think Clinton would seriously be on the shortlist of Americans who defiantely aren't ga They didn't accuse him of being gay; they said he was a Lesbian. If true, we need an investigation into his sex change. It might have been done at taxpayer expense. He might have used Air Force I to travel to and from where ever it was done. There is great opportunity here for really good investigators. 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 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] Is it Time for Bush to Apologize for America's Arming of the Talib...
-Caveat Lector- I don't find the (ex) statues (what I've seen of them) terribly artistic. They are big, and they are old. As far as art, I could make something the same if I wanted to waste my life (and quite possibly lose it) in the construction. I consider it art of the same importance as the fibreglass Ronald McDonald in the local playground, or the schoolchildren's mural on the wall of the local primary school. Ugly, not functional, I won't be shedding any tears. On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:16:49 EST "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/05/2001 3:33:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ``All officials, including the ministry of vice and virtue, have been given the go-ahead to destroy the statues,'' the Taliban's Information Minister Qadratullah Jamal said Thursday. ``The destruction work will be done by any means available to them.'' ``All the statues all over the country will be destroyed,'' he said. The statues mentioned in the article are statues of Buddha. One of them is 175 feet tall and one is 120 feet tall and they date back to the 3rd and 5th century AD. UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura said of the planned destruction, ``In Afghanistan, they are destroying statues that the entire world considers to be masterpieces,'' UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura said. ``This iconoclastic determination shocks me.'' The Taliban should not be considered Moslems, not even fundamentalist Moslems. Mohammad would be ashamed of them. It is forbidden for Moslems to create or worship idols. They have not been given the task of destroying historical objects of other religions. The Taliban apparently have such a weak faith that the very presence of idols in their territory creates an enticement. It is for that reason that their leader has had to order the destruction of the statues of Buddha. 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 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] Federal Rule: Your Medical Records to Be Shared
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/12/212002.shtml Federal Rule: Your Medical Records to Be Shared NewsMax.com Tuesday, March 13, 2001 A key part of Hillary Clinton's original health care plan that would have allowed third parties to collect your private medical data and records may become federal law in a matter of weeks. President Bush's new Health and Human Services Secretary, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, is considering whether last-minute regulation changes made by Bill Clinton should go through. The new federal rule would allow doctors, hospitals, druggists, HMOs and insurance companies to pass and share your medical information without your permission. But Thompson put the rule changed on hold, partly because they allow marketers access to private medical records they can use to sell their products. The new rules were ordered by then-President Bill Clinton and due to become effective Feb. 26, but have been delayed until April 14. The rule changes are supported by powerful special interests in the health care and insurance industries. But privacy advocates are worried about a system that will work much like a credit bureau, but with information far more important than one's financial status. The issue has gotten little ink, but consumer advocate and nationally syndicated columnist Robert Heady has highlighted concerns about the new federal rule. The rule was issued by the Clinton administration in December pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Under the Congressional Review Act, before major regulations can take effect, a federal agency must submit to Congress a report containing a copy of the rule, the proposed effective date and a concise general statement about the rule. For the most part, the regulations become effective 60 days after the later of the date that: (1) Congress receives the agency's report, or (2) the rule, if published, appears in the Federal Register if Congress takes no action in that time frame. The privacy regulation was published in the Federal Register on Dec. 28, 2000. However, because of an error, the regulation was not sent to Congress until the week of Feb. 12, pushing back the effective date to mid-April. There are problems with the new rules, however, and Thompson wants time to study them. Sharing Your Records with Marketing Firms Although intended to improve the confidentiality of medical records, the regulations contain a sleeper provision that allows health-care providers the right to use confidential medical information for selling their products that could make such noble intentions into a sick joke. Under the proposal, doctors can even share the information with a "business partner" who can conduct marketing on behalf of a provider. "It's perfectly legal under the rule for someone to knock on your door and say, 'I've learned from your doctor you have hemorrhoids, would you like to buy this treatment?'" said Bob Gellman, a medical privacy consultant and former congressional staffer. "You can only opt out after you have been marketed to. I've been working on this issue for 20 years, and it's the worst anti-privacy thing I've seen." Right now, there are no federal limits on the use of medical information for marketing purposes, so the new rule will not allow the industry to do anything it can't do already. Traditionally, ethical concerns and logistical impracticalities have prevented much marketing from taking place. In the long-gone days of family doctors, the medical field didn't seem so driven by profits as it is today in the world of HMOs, Gellman said. Also, he noted, medical records - more and more stored electronically - weren't so easy to get hold of in the old days. The marketing loophole is part of the "final privacy rule" that HHS published on Dec. 28, 2000. The regulation is part of the effort to implement the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 - a bill that sought to fill the gaps in health coverage that commonly occur when workers get laid off or change jobs. An important part of that law requires HHS to develop electronic standards that all health-care providers and insurance companies must use to communicate with one another about treatment and bills. The idea is that, if records are stored electronically according to a standard protocol, a patient can change medical coverage and care easily and efficiently. In short, HIPAA requires the entire medical industry to enter the digital age. A problem is that electronic storage makes your medical records easily accessible to many people who you may not want to know that you take anti-depressants or have a urinary tract infection. Gellman isn't the only one who's unhappy with the final draft. On Feb. 23, Thompson said that his department would reopen public comment on the final rule. Thompson has called for more discussion and cautioned against too much regulation.
[CTRL] Fwd: An Open Letter to Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Abraham Foxman is the head of ADL which has put CHRISTIANS AND MILITIA AS WELL AS MOSLEMS on FBI Hate Hit Lists - Now Foxman is the man who attempted to influence Clinton to pardon Marc Rich - who has gone into hiding since being caught? This pig HATES Christian values - HATES the Militia and HATES Moslems in general - see how perverted and twisted this parasite really is but this is the last straw.why isn't Foxman on FBI Hate List? Remember Oklahoma - it was Foxman's ADL that called the FBI, BATF, and one Judge - to warn them to stay home that dayremember a few other organizations where this one man was connected - and all these people are dead? Read what Abraham Foxman does for a living? See who is behind the attempt to corrupt the little boy scouts, even the little cub scouts? Note this St. Patricks Day parade - the sodomists wanted to march with the Knights of St. Patrick? How much did Marc Rich pay out to ADL in order to get Clinton to pardon Rich Could it be that it was Marc Rich and Mossad who set up Clinton with the sodomist Monica Lewinsky a trained prostitute? Tapped the President's phone line through Monicas? This ADL Sleaze with Morris Dees - what did they have to do with Oklahoma bombing? Saba FAMILY DEFENSE COUNCIL P.O. Box 310478 ~ Jamaica, NY 11431-0478 Howard L Hurwitz, Chairman [Back] [Home] [Next] January 15, 1998 AN OPEN LETTER TO ABRAHAM FOXMAN National Director, Anti-Defamation League 823 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 There is an old Yiddish axiom: "OUR OWN JEWS WILL DESTROY US." You, Abraham Foxman, are that Jew. In the decade that you have directed a once prestigious and respected organization, you have defiled it. In the newly issued Anti-Defamation League Resources for Classroom and Community, you, Foxman, are promoting "It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School". This is the title of a 78-minute film being shown to elementary school teachers nationwide. In my 40 years of frontline experience in the schools, I have never seen so scandalous a plan for indoctrinating children. Efforts of Communist teachers to impose their views on students, elementary through university, were infantile compared with this sophisticated program for gaining ACCEPTANCE (NOT TOLERATION) of homosexuality by first to eighth-graders in our nation's schools. Your endorsement of this pro-homosexual film, prepared by professed lesbians, is consistent with your amicus briefs in opposition to state governments that have sought to prevent special protection for homosexuals. You, Abraham Foxman, have sunk so low as to go on record opposing the right of the Boy Scouts of America to exclude a homosexual as an adult scout leader. You, Abraham Foxman, have opposed the right of sponsors of Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade to exclude Irish-American "gay and lesbian" groups from marching under their own banner. You are combating a provision of the Telecommunications Reform Act that you allege is "a significant threat to the continued flow of information about abortion on the electronic superhighway, and could seriously interfere with a woman's right to receive abortion material on-line." I am urging all who decry ADL's departure from Jewish causes to WITHHOLD CONTRIBUTIONS TO ADL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS ADL CEASES TO ADVOCATE PRO-HOMOSEXUAL (GAY) AND PRO-ABORTION POSITIONS. ADL UNDER ABRAHAM FOXMAN'S MISLEADERSHIP UNDERMINES TRADITIONAL FAMILY VALUES! Howard L. Hurwitz, Ph.D. Chairman, Family Defense Council Form for Reader Comments [Back] [Home] [Next] Website last edited in November, 2000 Copyright1998-2000 by Family Defense Council. All rights reserved http://familydefensecouncil.webprovider.com/fdc15i98foxman.htm
[CTRL] Fwd: The ADL and racist terrorist groups
So does ADL have a hidden agenda - that of attempting to create hatred of the Jews as did the facists in days of leading to WWII? Bnai Brith - a masonic order - who warned FBI and BATF and one Judge to stay home that day in Oklahoma? Well got news for you - I want to know more about this Mark Lane aka Mark Levy who is always a few steps behind and ahead of the murderers? From Kilgallon to her interview with Jack Ruby aka Rubenstein, to the shooting of Larry Flynt, new kid on block in Columbus, Ohio with pornography fronting for drugs - and boy there was Mark Lane with his garbage influencing Larry Flynt? Flynt gunned down by a collector's gun, a 45 Have I been looking for a renegade Masonic Order all these years - you better believe it, and I think this ADL and Bnai Brith is it... From JFK to little John John to the sabotage of the Space Program - notice this crap about USA did not go to moon? We had the black Moses Martin Luther King suckered into a communist movement and this NAACP founded by what and whom? Any researcher if you put all this stuff together - are these people correct in believing that the ADL and this Bnai Brith maybe using reverse psychology? ADL attempting to censor the press - note their complaint of Farakhan the great Islam Leader - how they want his voice silenced and how they went to Ted Turner to squelch this voice? Are Americans going to be intimidated by this handful of sleaze who wanted Marc Rich pardoned and why? All that money, you think this sleaze cares about a pardon when he is not even an American Citizen? Stop an think - why does he care - because he wants to be able to come to American and work with his sleaze wife in the looting of America and Unions Beware - for it was this sleaze who attempted to destroy steelworkers - why are the Unions so quiet? Why is oil and gas so high? Remember it is a handful of people orchestrating the destruction of America but to me this sleaze involved in pushing sodomists on the little boy scouts? Tell me why does ADL and Bnai Brith cause people to hate Jews - note Jews, not Zionists? As Prince Turki Faisal told us at a dinner (and thisi man todays heads up inelligence in this one agency) - the young prince toldl us in 1967 that it was the Zionist coming to Holy Land causing all the problems, that the domestic jew and arab moslems wanted to live in peace? Marc Rich - Zionist - Jewish Mafia - part of criminal syndicate and that bastard wants to come to America now and work from within? So a year after the young Prince made his visit here - his father was murdered by a black from Berkley California? Figure that one? A Black Nationalist Panther??? Remember the Black Panthers sent in to intimidate Mrs. Bush with Uzis? Consider this - it was the year of the take over and these bastards lostyet they plot ahead in the destruction of Americafor this like the pyramids they believe, is their promised land? No wonder God gave Ishmael all that oil? Saba Jews for Morality ON THE SOCIO-MORAL ISSUES OF THE DAY From a Traditional Jewish Perspective [Back] [OpeningPage] [EssayIndex] [Next] 28 Av 5759 / 10 Aug. 1999 ADL and Racist Terrorist Groups A Symbiotic Relationship ADL Attacks on American Conservatives Help Racist Groups Gain New Recruits, While New Terrorist Attacks on Jewish Centers Help ADL Raise More Funds Almost totally ignored in the reporting on the Los Angeles Jewish Center shooting, is the rapid growth in the membership of white racist terrorist groups in recent years. This increased membership is the most important factor in the recent increase in terrorist incidents. Most people have the mistaken notion that the ADL (Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith) is simply a Jewish defense organization whose purpose is to protect Jews in the United States from discrimination and physical harm. Nothing could be further from the truth. In recent years, the ADL, under the leadership of Abraham Foxman, has metamorphosed into a left-wing organization that closely coordinates its activities with some of the most radical groups in America. The ADL works closely with the homosexual lobbies in Washington and in the state capitols to promote the "Gay" agenda, including the current "hate crimes" bill, which would effectively silence all of the religious organizations who consider homosexuality an "abomination", and focus scarce law enforcement resources into efforts to give special protections to homosexuals, at the expense of all other Americans. The ADL works closely with pro-abortion groups to make certain that no restrictions whatsoever are placed on abortionfor any purpose, at any time in the development of the baby in the womb, and including "partial-birth" abortion (infanticide). The ADL works closely with the "gun-control" lobby to promote legislation as a panacea for all school shootings. This legislation would disarm decent people and make them and their families easy targets for armed predators
[CTRL] Fwd: ADL Opinion - The Dangers of Holocaust Restitution
Read this garbage by Abraham Foxman - for only 6 million jews died in WWII - hey what about the 55 million moslems and Christians and how many Christians did the Russian's murder? Time we went after this bunch for reparations... of this 6 million many were children? What about Iraq - Sadaam Hussein offered us cheap oil - thnk Marc Rich and his Jewish Mafia wanted Americans to have economical and cheap oil? This is the conspiracy. What about the 55 million who died in WWII - note is always these 6 million jews until they had me believing it was 6 million jews who died in that war when my own father - this war killed him? I had forgotten to include him in this, so would that make it the six million plus 1? Read this article about this corrupt Foxman who is behind sodomist being taught in schools and who pushes to have sodomists invade the Knights of St. Patrick? My father's family - St. Patrick carried their Coat of Arms? This sleaze - 6 million jews only died in that war and these pigs at trough note it is the gold they rae after and the memorials to the Holocaust vitims - oh such money is made promoting their shrines - did you know no shrine was ever made to the 55 million or to our soldiers and men who died in WWII trying to save their asses. And hey do not forget Madelline Albright who was in on the blowing up of the Balkans for it ws then she discovered oh my goodness, I am jewish and did not know it..she had stolen art and jewellry taken by her parents as all the rich ones paid their way out of Germany - instead of going to Israel? Same goes for Henry Kissinger - for he alone with millions of others escaped - but what about a monoument to the 55 million. Now is the time to sue Russia and to sue Marc Rich for it is this element behind the theft of the natural resources. Sadaam Hussein offered us heap oil? Hey, tht offer looks pretty good now doesnit itnow where do you think this Denise Rich and her 350 million dollars in divorce settlement - from whence did it come? Take a good look here for this is Zionism and it is causing hatred of the jews and christians and moslemsfor NWO Zionism will have its own religion - the falling down on all fours before degenerates such as Marc Rich and his floosie wife? The music maker Saba December 1998 The Dangers of Holocaust Restitution Abraham H. Foxman National Director Anti-Defamation League Now that Swiss banks have reached a settlement on Nazi gold, investigations into that country's Holocaust-era past are closed and the tide has turned to investigations of other countries, corporations, insurance companies and institutions like museums. This week General Motors and Ford became the latest to be named for allegedly assisting Hitler's war effort. Also this week, representatives of 44 nations, Jewish groups and other interested parties gathered in Washington at the Holocaust Memorial Museum to examine a variety of issues related to Holocaust restitution, including insurance, property and stolen art. Certainly, individuals who had bank accounts, insurance policies or works of art that were stolen have a right to pursue their claims. But when these legitimate claims become the main focus of activity regarding the Holocaust, rather than the unique horror of six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, being murdered simply because they were Jewish, then something has gone wrong. A new "industry" has sprung up, The focus must remain on discovering the truth, on revealing and owning up to the past.spearheaded by lawyers and institutions, in an effort to get what they call "justice" for Holocaust victims. As a Holocaust survivor, I question for whom they speak and how they define "justice" The focus must remain on discovering the truth, on revealing and owning up to the past. Lawyers have filed a civil suit against Ford accusing it, through its German-based subsidiaries, of aiding the Nazi effort, using slave labor and earning huge profits. Similar charges against GM are being documented in a book to be released next year. Both of the American automotive giants had plants in Germany, established before the war, which flourished under the Nazi regime and continued operations even after the U.S. joined the war. What they "owe" for this in dollars and cents is not yet clear, but they do owe us the truth. While the corporations' current leaders cannot be held culpable for what transpired during the Nazi era, they will be judged by how they deal with it. They must vigorously, voluntarily and honestly confront that past by opening up their archives. Seeking restitution is important, but at what price? Look at what happened in Switzerland. Yes, we got a check, but what about morality, reconciliation and confronting the past? The Swiss have yet to come to grips with the realities that their history, not the Jews, is their enemy, and that the settlement was not blackmail but a moral debt they should have paid voluntarily. We can only
[CTRL] To Live Let Live
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.antiwar.com/goldstein/pf/p-g031201.html Note the JS Mill text is at http://ethics.acusd.edu/Mill.html Embedded linques in the original }}Begin Airstrip One by Emmanuel Goldstein Antiwar.com March 12, 2001 Im Really Sorry Please accept my apologies for the awful behaviour of our masters THE VISIT Like a naughty schoolchild, the United States was told that it really should stop executing murderers. A three man delegation from the European Union came to lecture Colin Powell on the subject. In the first meeting between the European Union and the US administration, they said the Americans were wrong to execute murderers. One of the trio, the Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh, said that there was "strong sentiment" in Europe over Americas system of punishing criminals. STRONG SENTIMENT There is strong sentiment in Europe, and this sentiment means that our masters will not let us have a vote on the matter. The British people are overwhelmingly in favour of the death penalty. They argue, reasonably, that since the death penalty has been abolished the murder rate has dramatically increased an effect that John Stuart Mill predicted a century before. Some will look to places like New York City, which has seen the murder rate plummet since the death penalty was introduced, or South Africa where the murder rate rocketed when the death penalty was lifted. Statistics seem to back up the common sense argument that death poses more of a deterrent than a long prison term. After all, a far higher proportion of death row appeal their death sentence than lifers attempt suicide. This must tell us something. THE ANTIS The customary thing to do here is to say that I am personally opposed to the death penalty. I am no such thing. I am a convert from the anti case. This makes me more realistic about them than many proponents of the death penalty. The antis are not advocates of child murder, although I think that it would be fair to say that their concern for murder victims is not all it could be. The reason they oppose the death penalty is because either they oppose the use of lethal force by government or that they believe that innocent people are killed in these cases. The fact that these same people often supported the bombing of places like Iraq or Serbia was due to inconsistency rather than callousness, stupidity rather than evil. The factual analyses are often a smokescreen to cover noble moral sentiments, as is shown by the hysteria when these arguments are inevitably picked apart. The fact that these moral arguments are obscured by fatuous claims that the death penalty does not work are inspired by fear that the great unwashed will not follow them, and a justified fear too. SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES Lets be clear, this trio, the former NATO boss Javier Solana; the Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh; and the failed governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten did not speak for the people of Europe. They spoke for themselves. The death penalty may not be popular among the European elites, but it is demanded by many European populations. Indeed, it goes further than Parliament denying the will of the voters, now even the will of Parliament is denied. Under the European Convention on Human Rights, to which (although separate from the EU) all EU countries now have to adhere, the death penalty is illegal. It is under the same convention that murderers are not extradited to the United States because of the chance that the courts might rule on the death penalty. To pass the death penalty would be to break with the European Convention, and to break with the Convention would be to break with the European Union. Many legal and political authorities contend that Parliament does not have the right to leave the EU. NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS This is not, however, the biggest tragedy. The argument over the death penalty is rightly one for sovereign states. What a country does about crime is surely, a home affair. This is the most astounding factor of the European visit. Not only are they misguided and undemocratic, but they are also imperialist. The brutish Yanks must learn to doff their cap to European civilisation. The American government may be, as George Bush himself said, arrogant; but this is European arrogance on sticks. American politicians have little choice but to let the people decide on this issue. These Europeans, like others before them, have taken a particular dislike to the death penalty and they tell Colin Powell to behave like the establishment boy they believe him to be. The real target for their genteel wrath are the people of America, they are the targets of the insult. COMIC TURNS The moral imperialism was shown before Bushs
[CTRL] FC: Industry studies attack U.S. data collection regulations (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:52:08 -0800 From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: Industry studies attack U.S. data collection regulations "Industry Studies Attack Web-Privacy Laws" Wall Street Journal (03/13/01) P. B6; Bridis, Ted A new campaign is underway to impress legislators with the dangers online privacy laws pose to businesses. Four industry studies were published yesterday by the Direct Marketing Association, which is working closely with the Online Privacy Alliance--including tech companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and AOL Time Warner--to preempt Internet privacy legislation at both the state and federal level. Although observers say any laws are unlikely to be passed this year, businesses in the tech sector are jittery over what they say is a $17 billion threat to the 90 largest financial institutions. According to one of the studies released, the costs of Internet privacy laws would be passed onto consumers in the form of an informal $1 billion information tax. Adding to the concern is companies' worry that sensationalism over privacy infringements on the Web could result in fast-moving laws they would be hard-pressed to stop. Tech companies maintain that the best solution to online privacy problems are new technologies, not new laws. However, the Electronic Privacy Information Center's Marc Rotenberg says the issue is too big and too pressing to ignore. "This is not an issue on the radar screen. It is the radar screen," he says, although he admits that laws dealing with Internet privacy will take some time. Already, some corporate technology interests, such as Intel and Hewlett-Packard, have conceded that moderate Internet privacy regulation would prove beneficial and that some form of legislation is inevitable. - POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ - 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] Spiritwheel, An Interesting Hopi Prophesy
-Caveat Lector- Notice: This post contains information which may be enlightening or confrontational. If the latter, consider deleting. Thank you. ___ From: Cosmic Comentary - http://CosmicRose.tripod.com/CCC.html http://www.spiritwheel.com/hopiproph.htm Hopi Prophecy The end of all Hopi ceremonialism will come when a "Kachina" removes his mask during a dance in the plaza before uninitiated children [the general public]. For a while there will be no more ceremonies, no more faith. Then Oraibi will be rejuvenated with its faith and ceremonies, marking the start of a new cycle of Hopi life. World War III will be started by those peoples who first revealed the light (The divine wisdom or intelligence) in the other old countries (India, China, Islamic Nations, Africa.) The United States will be destroyed, land and people, by atomic bombs and radioactivity. Only the Hopis and their homeland will be preserved as an oasis to which refugees will flee. Bomb shelters are a fallacy. "It is only materialistic people who seek to make shelters. Those who are at peace in their hearts already are in the great shelter of life. There is no shelter for evil. Those who take no part in the making of world division by ideology are ready to resume life in another world, be they Black, White, Red, or Yellow race. They are all one, brothers." The war will be "a spiritual conflict with material matters. Material matters will be destroyed by spiritual beings who will remain to create one world and one nation under one power, that of the Creator." That time is not far off. It will come when the Saquasohuh (Blue Star) Kachina dances in the plaza and removes his mask. He represents a blue star, far off and yet invisible, which will make its appearance soon. The time is foretold by a song sung during the Wuwuchim ceremony. It was sung in 1914 just before World War I, and again in 1940 before World War II, describing the disunity, corruption, and hatred contaminating Hopi rituals, which were followed by the same evils spreading over the world. This same song was sung in 1961 during the Wuwuchim ceremony. The Emergence to the future Fifth World has begun. It is being made by the humble people of little nations, tribes, and racial minorities. "You can read this in the earth itself. Plant forms from previous worlds are beginning to spring up as seeds. This could start a new study of botany if people were wise enough to read them. The same kinds of seeds are being planted in the sky as stars. The same kinds of seeds are being planted in our hearts. All these are the same, depending how you look at them. That is what makes the Emergence to the next, Fifth World. "These comprise the nine most important prophecies of the Hopis, connected with the creation of the nine worlds: the three previous worlds on which we lived, the present Fourth World, the three future worlds we have yet to experience, and the world of Taiowa, the Creator, and his nephew, Sotuknang." The Hopi and others who were saved from the Great Flood made a sacred covenant with the Great Spirit never to turn away from him. He made a set of sacred stone tablets, called Tiponi, into which he breathed his teachings, prophecies, and warnings. Before the Great Spirit hid himself again, he placed before the leaders of the four different racial groups four different colors and sizes of corn; each was to choose which would be their food in this world. The Hopi waited until last and picked the smallest ear of corn. At this, the Great Spirit said: "It is well done. You have obtained the real corn, for all the others are imitations in which are hidden seeds of different plants. You have shown me your intelligence; for this reason I will place in your hands these sacred stone tablets, Tiponi, symbol of power and authority over all land and life to guard, protect, and hold in trust for me until I shall return to you in a later day, for I am the First and I am the Last." The Great Chieftain of the Bow Clan led the faithful ones to this new land, but he fell into evil ways. His two sons scolded him for his mistake, and after he died they assumed the responsibilities of leadership. Each brother was given a set of Tiponi, and both were instructed to carry them to a place to which the Great Spirit directed them. The elder brother [of the shining light] was told to go immediately to the east, toward the rising sun, and upon reaching his destination to start back immediately to look for his younger brother, who remained on Turtle Island [the Continental United States of America]. His mission was to help his younger brother to bring about the Purification Day, at which time all evildoers would be punished or destroyed, after which real peace, brotherhood, and everlasting life would be established. The elder brother would restore all land to his younger brother, from whom the Evil one among the white men had taken it. The
Re: [CTRL] Flight800: EMP Warhead?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 01-03-13 03:33:13 EST, you write: WAS FLIGHT 800 FELLED BY AN ELECTROMAGNETIC-PULSE WARHEAD? How could so many witnesses see a missile intercept Flight 800 and yet the only evidence found suggests that an electrical surge, not a missile, ignited the center fuel tank? Could there be a war- head designed to destroy aircraft with a powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would only leave evidence of an electrical surge? = See also New York Review of Books article: http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?2921092F 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] (en) Mexico, [S26-global] Speech given by Subcomandante Marcos on Monday...
-Caveat Lector- Notice: This post contains information which may be enlightening or confrontational. If the latter, consider deleting. Thank you. ___ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ Text presented by the insurgent subcomandante Marcos in the intercultural meeting "The Roads of Dignity: Indigenous rights, memory and culture patrimony" celebrated the 12th of March 2001 in the stadium of Olimpic village, called by ENAH. GOOD AFTERNOON TO ALL: We would like to thank the community of the national school of anthropology and history for the opportunity they are giving us to speak our words beside these people who, by their ability to give light to words, add to their humanness by accompanying a struggle that is only a part of the greater struggle for humanity. Beginning this discussion is not easy. Not only because the lights that are here with us are shining and leaving very few dark spaces, the favorite place of shadows like us. But also because an impertinent beetle has prevented me from preparing something settled and well-worded, interrupting me with all kinds of absurd and unintelligible things. Maybe you have heard of him. He goes by the name of "Don Durito of Lacandona" and he has assigned himself the task of, as he says, righting wrongs and helping the needy and the helpless. For some reason that I don't begin to understand, Durito has decided that I belong to the category of the needy and the helpless, and that, as he puts it, my whole life is a wrong. So now you know that what has been keeping me awake all these nights was not the flood of fox's contradictory declarations, nor was it the death threats generously lavished on us by the PAN [the right-wing National Action Party, of which Fox is a member.â¹translator]. No, it was Durito, who has insisted that the bus is not a bus but a ship, and that the march in reality doesn't march, but sails, since the sea holds it up. According to the little that I was able to understand, Durito will attend the rock concert that will take place today in the Zocalo Square in Mexico City and in which will participate, so they tell us, JoaquÃn Sabina, Maldita Vecindad, Santa Sabina and Panteón Rococó, plus a whole bunch of young people. But that, like everything else on this march, is history yet to happen. It is in the cultural sphere that Zapatismo has been able to find open audiences and echos that speak their own dignity. In music, particularly in rock, in the visual and scenic arts, in literature and in science we have met good people, humane even, who follow their own path of dignity. So we would like to take this opportunity to salute all those who, through cultural activities, are fighting for humanity. In order to speak like Zapatistas about roads of dignity, we will tell a story called : THE OTHER PLAYER. "In their serious corner, the players move the slow pieces. The chessboard keeps them until dawn in its severe enclosure in which two colors hate each other. (...) When the players have gone, When time has consumed them, The ritual will certainly not have stopped. (...) The player is also a prisoner (the sentence is of Omar) of another chessboard of black nights and of white days. God moves the player, and he in turn moves the piece. What God is there behind God who starts the scheme Of dust and time and dreams and agonies?" CHESS. Jorge Luis Borges. This is the story: A group of chess players is engrossed in an important high-level chess game. An indigenous person comes by, watches for a while and asks what it is that they are playing. Nobody answers. The Indian approaches the board and contemplates the position of the pieces, the serious and scowling faces of the players, the expectant attitude of those around them. He repeats his question. One of the players takes the trouble to respond: "It¹s something you wouldn¹t be able to understand; it¹s a game for wise and important people." The Indian keeps silent and continues to watch the board and the movements of the contestants. After a time, he ventures another question: "And why do you play if you already know who is going to win?" The same player that responded to him before says: "You will never understand. This is for specialists; it¹s out of your intellectual reach." The Indian doesn't say anything. He continues to watch, and goes away. In a little while he comes back bringing something with him. Without so much as a word he approaches the table and puts right in the middle of the chessboard an old boot covered in mud. The players are perplexed and look at him angrily. The Indian smiles maliciously while asking: "Check?" The End. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet from the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries,
[CTRL] School Children as Political Cannon Fodder for Social Causes
-Caveat Lector- Why is our children's education was being sacrificed to some teachers' and administrators' pet political project? School Children as Political Cannon Fodder for "Social Causes" By Thomas Sowell (March 10, 2001) [CAPITALISM MAGAZINE.COM] Test scores are not the only things that tell us how bad our public schools have become. In San Francisco, the school board voted unanimously to have the city's students take Friday, March 9th, off to go to Berkeley, in order to stage a protest demonstration, demanding the reinstatement of affirmative action in the university's admissions policies. Only after the Berkeley police contacted San Francisco education officials was the rally called off. The police were concerned about such logistical things as where all the buses carrying students from San Francisco were going to be parked and where all these students were going to eat. A school board member then admitted, "there would be no easy way to get that many kids over and back." The more basic question is why these children's education was being sacrificed to some teachers' and administrators' political project. Nor is this the first time that school children have been used as political cannon fodder or as guinea pigs for social experiments. Nor is California the only place where this happens. Nothing is easier than to call any project or activity engaged in by a school "educational." So long as parents and voters buy it, the schools will keep selling it. But one of the big reasons students in other countries consistently outperform American students on international tests is that many other countries' students are actually being taught academic subjects while ours are spending their time on "activities" and "projects" that our education officials call "exciting." An even more grim example of what is wrong with our schools are the fatal shooting sprees that have broken out at various schools across the country, most recently in Santana High School near San Diego. Gun control advocates have seized upon this incident to call for more gun control laws. Facts don't seem to bother gun control advocates, but let's look at some facts anyway. Many of the guns used in various deadly shooting sprees -- in schools, at workplaces and elsewhere -- were perfectly legal under existing gun control laws and would remain perfectly legal under new gun control laws that are being proposed. Moreover, even if guns were outlawed completely, there would still be a couple of hundred million guns already in existence in American society, and they are not going to disappear into thin air. Guns don't wear out very fast and may never wear out if properly cared for. So the current 200 million or so guns in existence today may still be around two centuries from now, even if laws ban any new guns from being produced or imported. But none of these facts is likely to affect gun control crusaders. They must have their symbolic victories, whether with trigger locks and other cumbersome devices that make it harder to use a gun in self-defense or with other petty and costly nuisances that law-abiding citizens will be put through. Meanwhile, violent criminals will be wholly unaffected, since they are in the business of violating laws anyway. The only effect on criminals will be to make their victims less able to defend themselves, thereby making mugging, burglary and armed robbery safer occupations. There is another aspect of this that needs to be considered because it also has a bearing on the gun controllers' arguments and assumptions. At Santana High School, as at Columbine and other high schools where fatal shootings have occurred, people have been particularly shocked because these were affluent, predominantly white schools. Given the much higher rates of violence in low-income and ghetto schools, why have these shooting sprees seldom, if ever, occurred there? For better or worse, there are likely to be more armed people in or near schools in low-income and minority neighborhoods. Some have armed guards in the schools themselves. Some have armed gangs in or near the schools. In other words, when you open fire in a school in a high-crime neighborhood, you are likely to face more bullets coming back your way. It is in nice, wholly disarmed, affluent white schools that a gun makes you instant king of the hill -- at least until armed police arrive on the scene. The needless and tragic deaths at Columbine, Santana and other schools where shooting sprees have snuffed out young lives are part of the high cost already being paid for the fetish of disarming law- abiding people. We don't need to make this tragedy even worse by disarming more people all across the country. COPYRIGHT 2001 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. -- Best Wishes I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right 'to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise.' And because there
Re: [CTRL] Flight800: EMP Warhead?
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[CTRL] Fw: The Body Snatchers
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - The Body Snatchers by Russell Madden http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.11/body_snatchers.html The Texas legislature has apparently come up with a new twist on a very old practice. In a story reported by CBS news, the wise and compassionate lawmakers of the Lone Star state are in the process of emulating their more enlightened European brethren. What they hope to do is to alter Texas law so that your body and its contents will be put to good use when you die. The goal is to create a condition called "presumed consent," sort of like your book club sending you their latest selections unless you expressly tell them not to. In this case, your organs will be harvested for distribution to various sick folks upon your demise unless you affirmatively deny that such is your desire. Such "opting out" works wonders in Europe for increasing the supply of organs available for transplantation. And we all know what a fountainhead for freedom our European cousins are... With over 70,000 Americans waiting desperately to receive acceptable replacement parts for failing organs, there is obviously a need to increase the supply of substitute organs. Unfortunately for these patients, not enough of their fellow citizens are signing their donor cards. Ingenious souls that they are, the Texans pushing this plan know that many of these ill folks could benefit from the deaths of others. If those who die are so uncaring that they do not voluntarily offer to surrender their bodies to the State, well, then... In the old days in Europe, of course, researchers delving into the mysteries of the human body paid various unsavory characters to visit cemeteries and remove the corpses of the recently departed. They, too, did not bother with such messy niceties as gaining consent from the dead person's relatives. After all, they might say no. What would happen to medical progress if these inquisitive scientists let grieving kinfolk deprive them of the bodies they needed to continue their studies? The dead no longer had use for their flesh and bones. The survivors would be none the wiser, either, if the snatch was made under the cover of darkness. Sadly, despite their noble intent, grave robbers received neither the gratitude nor the blessings of those who did discover what happened to their loved ones. All Not Forbidden Is Permitted One can only marvel at the amazing progress the centuries have bestowed upon us. Modern day body snatchers need no longer scurry about in the dark of night nor fear a ready noose for their temerity. No, nowadays the grave robbing is to be sanctioned by the power and glory of the State. Imagine if those skulking figures of old had stood boldly and offered in their defense that, well, no one said we couldn't dig up the corpse and slice it open. Why, maybe the Texas authorities have come up with a novel principle for guiding social interactions perfect for the era in which we labor! As long as someone doesn't explicitly say you cannot do something, then the sky's the limit. Carte blanche. Conjure the possibilities... Your neighbor walks unbidden into your house. He takes food out of your refrigerator and munches on a hot wing while rifling through your wallet. Shoving a few twenties into his pocket, he reaches over and kisses your wife. Then nonchalantly, he strolls over, punches you in the mouth, lifts up your new DVD player, picks your pocket for your car keys, then drives away in your new SUV. Who's to stop or criticize him? After all, you did not explicitly tell him not to do any of those particular acts. Where's the notice on the door? And if you do place a long list of forbidden behaviors there, why, I'm sure your neighbor's a creative lad. I have no doubt whatsoever that he can think of a myriad of things he can do that you cannot possibly foresee and explicitly forbid. Robbery, rape, murder, fraud... Gosh. The opportunities for getting what you need are mind-boggling. (Why stop at "needs," though? In today's subjectivist culture, wants and desires are magically transformed into "needs" simply because you say so. Plus, "needs" trump any objections. Don't they?) We Take Your Money, Why Not Your Body? On second thought, maybe this principle of "presumed consent" is not so novel in the annals of the State, after all. Currently when you die, if you were too frugal, too successful, too prudent in your life, and you amassed too much money, the State has no compunction stepping in and seizing over half the wealth you accumulated. Who cares that such property represents years of your life and the creative energy of your mind? You lived in this society and therefore you gave "presumed consent" to whatever laws the majority deemed proper. Estate taxes are a mere drop in the bucket, though. Income taxes, social security taxes, Medicare taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, sin taxes, property taxes, and on and on are taken from you whether you want to surrender them or not.
[CTRL] Campus Revolt Challenges Yale Over $40 Million Aids Drug Deal
-Caveat Lector- Notice: This post contains information which may be enlightening or confrontational. If the latter, consider deleting. Thank you. ___ Published on Tuesday, March 13, 2001 in the Guardian of London Campus Revolt Challenges Yale Over $40 Million Aids Drug Deal University claims its hands are tied by deal with drug firm by Julian Borger and Sarah Boseley Yale University is under growing pressure from its students to put conscience before profit and allow an Aids drug invented in its laboratories to be made affordable to millions of sufferers in developing countries. Yale earns $40m a year in licence fees for the drug, d4T, but the university administration insists its hands are tied by an agreement signed with Bristol-Myers Squibb giving the giant pharmaceutical company exclusive manufacturing rights. However, the university has so far refused to publish the agreement, outraging Yale students who say they do not want to be part of an institution complicit in denying essential medication to the poor. An Indian drug producer has offered to produce d4T, an antiretroviral treatment otherwise known as stavudine or by its brand name Zerit, at a thirty-fourth of the price charged by Bristol-Myers Squibb, which would put it in range of hard-hit health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. The case has highlighted the growing tension in US universities between their identity as icons of academic independence on one hand and wealthy "profit centres" for corporate sponsors on the other. Yale received a $250,000 donation from Bristol-Myers Squibb three years ago, and there are other close ties between research staff members and the pharmaceutical industry. Most of the academic staff interviewed by the Guardian asked not to be quoted by name, saying the issue was too sensitive within Yale's administration. But the drug's inventor, Professor William Prusoff, now semi-retired, expressed support for a student campaign to make his discovery more affordable. Pressure group Some Yale law students have formed a pressure group aimed at shaming the university into taking greater responsibility for the social impact of the inventions it licenses for profit. The group, the Yale Aids Action Coalition, announced its first victory yesterday, an offer of a meeting from Yale's Office for Cooperative Research (OCR), in charge of patents. One of the student group's founder members, Amy Kapczynski, said it was still not clear whether the OCR would relent from its earlier refusal to make available a copy of the Bristol-Myers agreement. "We really hope they would give us a chance to look at this in a creative manner," Ms Kapczynski said. "There are probably things Yale can do to be a model actor in this situation." The managing director of Yale OCR, Jon Soderstrom, issued a statement to say the university's hands were tied when it came to granting permission to other companies to produce d4T. "Although Yale is indeed the patent holder, Yale has granted an exclusive licence to Bristol-Myers Squibb, under the terms of which only that entity may respond to a request," he said. However, the students argue there is a lot more the university could do. They are backed by Prof Prusoff. Although he shares in Yale's Bristol-Myers royalties, Prof Prusoff has called on the company to make the drug affordable in poor countries. "One of the things that should be done is that the pharmaceutical firms should reduce their prices and the industrialised nations, the US, Britain, France and Germany should give the WHO (the World Health Organisation) a certain amount of money to distribute to countries where the medication is needed." The students have also allied themselves with the French-based medical aid agency, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which is spearheading a campaign to force the pharmaceutical industry into relaxing their patent rights and allowing generic forms of Aids drugs to be marketed. In a letter to Mr Soderstrom on Friday, MSF pointed out that in Yale's own patent policy guidelines published in 1998, the university sought to pursue "the benefit of society in general" and to draw up li cencing agreements with manufacturers to "protect against failure of the licensee to carry out effective development and marketing within a specified time period." Toby Kasper, who runs the MSF campaign for cheaper medicines in South Africa, said yesterday: "If the university says their hands are tied, they are violating their own policy." Mr Kasper also said the university had the right to breach the terms of its Bristol-Myers Squibb licence, allowing the production of generic versions of d4T, and pay damages to the company. Those damages, he said, would only be a small fraction of the $40m Yale makes from the patent, as sales of all drugs in the same class of antiretrovirals in South Africa only amounted to $600,000. Ms Kapczynski said the next steps taken by the Yale Aids Action Coalition would depend on the outcome of its
[CTRL] Christian Coalition bias case growing
-Caveat Lector- Christian Coalition bias case growing http://www.sptimes.com/News/030801/Worldandnation/Christian_Coalition_b.shtml By MARY JACOBY St. Petersburg Times, published March 8, 2001 WASHINGTON - A former white employee of the Christian Coalition charged in federal court Wednesday that he was fired for refusing to eavesdrop on black employees who are suing the organization for racial discrimination. Trent Barton, 31, a former congressional aide and Gulf War veteran, said in an interview that he thinks Christian Coalition director Roberta Combs ordered his dismissal Feb. 28 for sympathizing with the black employees. "I believe they have a lot of factual information on their side," Barton said. Barton and two black former Christian Coalition employees filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday accusing the evangelical organization of discrimination and retaliation. Their complaint comes after a Feb. 23 lawsuit by ten current employees, all black women from the coalition's remittance/data entry department. The women allege they were prohibited from entering the front door of the coalition's Capitol Hill-area offices. The employees say they were told to enter the back door but were not given key cards to unlock it, forcing them to pound on the door for entry. The lawsuits said Combs made statements that black staffers would wear out an oriental rug in the reception area if allowed to come and go through the front door. Combs also allegedly said "she did not want important people seeing the 'girls' from remittance/data entry in the reception area." Furthermore, the black employees say they were segregated from whites in a break area because Combs thought they were "talkative and waste too much time in the kitchen." In the suit filed Wednesday, former employee Samantha Henson said Combs "became uncomfortable" when she and another black employee joined office prayer gatherings. Henson stopped attending the prayer meetings because she felt unwelcome. Soon thereafter, black employees stopped receiving notice of the meetings, the lawsuit said. On Feb. 27, four days after the first lawsuit was filed, Combs prepared a memorandum denying that the coalition had a policy against black employees entering the front door, according to the second complaint. Also that day, Combs issued key cards for the back door to the black staffers, the suit said. Barton, the white employee, said he was hired as a lobbyist in December but spent most of his first month helping to organize a Christian Coalition inaugural dinner celebrating the election of President Bush. He says in the lawsuit that Tracy Ammons, a consultant to the coalition who is Combs' son-in-law, asked him on Feb. 22 to eavesdrop on the black employees' conversations. When "Barton told Tracy Ammons that he was unwilling to spy on former employees," Ammons searched Barton's office, the suit said. Ammons phoned Barton at 10:30 p.m. Feb. 28 to dismiss him, the suit said. Ammons then told Barton that he was "a good Christian," the suit said. Barton took the comment to mean "that any support for the racial discrimination lawsuit would be contrary to Barton's religious and ethical beliefs," the suit said. Combs did not return phone calls Wednesday. But in a statement to the Washington Times last week, she said: "This pro-family organization, one of the most effective in the nation, is committed to fighting religious bigotry and defending expressions of faith in the public square, and we view any act of discrimination as morally reprehensible." The suits seek a combined $39-million in compensatory and punitive damages, an amount that will be virtually impossible to recover from the financially strapped coalition. A settlement seems more likely, since the coalition may not want to risk going to trial in the District of Columbia, a city that is predominantly African-American. 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
[CTRL] Doctor Links Viagra to Five Cases of Blindness
-Caveat Lector- Monday March 12 12:07 PM ET Doctor Links Viagra to Five Cases of Blindness By Edward Tobin NEW YORK (Reuters) - A US ophthalmologist says there appears to be a very small risk that men taking the impotence drug Viagra could suffer permanent vision loss, but the firm that makes the drug on Friday played down the reported threat. Howard Pomeranz, director of neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Maryland Medical Center, said he knows of five men across the United States who were diagnosed with permanent vision loss by doctors after taking the impotence drug. More than 10 million people have taken the drug since it was approved in 1998. The condition, called ischemic optic neuropathy, is caused after blood flow is cut off to the optic nerve in the eyeball. It usually occurs in people with diabetes, hypertension and other vascular disorders. A spokesman for Pfizer Inc., which makes Viagra, dismissed Pomeranz's observations, which were first presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Conference in Dallas in November. The company spokesman told Reuters that the three-year old product is not a threat to its users. ``From all clinical experience with Viagra, there have been no cases of treatment-related blindness reported, and reports of serious visual problems have been extremely rare,'' said Geoff Cook, the Pfizer spokesman. Viagra, which is available in 100 countries, is known to cause some temporary vision problems such as blue/green color distortions in some patients. Blood Flow To Optic Nerve Constricted Pomeranz said the five men diagnosed with the condition after taking Viagra had a low cup-to-disk ratio, which is a way doctors measure the small circular indentation where the optic nerve connects to the eyeball. The low cup-to-disk ratio means that the blood vessels and nerves are tightly bundled together into the small space in the back of the eye, according to a University of Maryland release about the issue. ``We know that Viagra regulates a chemical in the body to constrict the arteries. The constriction may cut off the blood flow to the optic nerve, especially in people with a low cup-to-disk ratio, where the blood vessels and nerves are tightly bundled,'' Pomeranz said in the release. Pfizer's Cook associated potential permanent visual damage with the known risk factors for men taking the drug, such as diabetes, and not the drug itself. ``In the population of men who take Viagra, many men with diabetes and other conditions have significant associations with long term visual problems,'' he said. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which reviews reports of drug side effects, said it had not received any complaints of sudden blindness in patients taking Viagra. ``We do not have any reports of people losing their sight like that,'' FDA spokeswoman Susan Cruzan said. ``We would take any such reports seriously, and we encourage health professionals to submit any such information to us,'' she added. Leonard Yaffe, analyst with Banc of America Securities, said more information was needed before evaluating what effect the report would have on Pfizer. ``I'd want to know how often the men were taking the drug, for how long a period of time?'' he said. ``You need to know a lot more than these five guys had this problem.'' Pomeranz, who is also assistant professor of ophthalmology and neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, called for more research into the matter. ``People who take Viagra who have this particular configuration of their optic nerve at least need to be aware that this is a potential problem that may occur if they use this medication,'' he said. ``Whether this is a significant increased risk, I don't have the statistics to back that up.'' http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010312/hl/viagra_blind_1.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are 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
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: The ADL and racist terrorist groups
-Caveat Lector- Still an idiot huh? You seem to be an expert in train of thought stupidity. Joshua2 Aleisha Saba wrote: So does ADL have a hidden agenda - that of attempting to create hatred of the Jews as did the facists in days of leading to WWII? Bnai Brith - a masonic order - who warned FBI and BATF and one Judge to stay home that day in Oklahoma? Well got news for you - I want to know more about this Mark Lane aka Mark Levy who is always a few steps behind and ahead of the murderers? From Kilgallon to her interview with Jack Ruby aka Rubenstein, to the shooting of Larry Flynt, new kid on block in Columbus, Ohio with pornography fronting for drugs - and boy there was Mark Lane with his garbage influencing Larry Flynt? Flynt gunned down by a collector's gun, a 45 Have I been looking for a renegade Masonic Order all these years - you better believe it, and I think this ADL and Bnai Brith is it... From JFK to little John John to the sabotage of the Space Program - notice this crap about USA did not go to moon? We had the black Moses Martin Luther King suckered into a communist movement and this NAACP founded by what and whom? Any researcher if you put all this stuff together - are these people correct in believing that the ADL and this Bnai Brith maybe using reverse psychology? ADL attempting to censor the press - note their complaint of Farakhan the great Islam Leader - how they want his voice silenced and how they went to Ted Turner to squelch this voice? Are Americans going to be intimidated by this handful of sleaze who wanted Marc Rich pardoned and why? All that money, you think this sleaze cares about a pardon when he is not even an American Citizen? Stop an think - why does he care - because he wants to be able to come to American and work with his sleaze wife in the looting of America and Unions Beware - for it was this sleaze who attempted to destroy steelworkers - why are the Unions so quiet? Why is oil and gas so high? Remember it is a handful of people orchestrating the destruction of America but to me this sleaze involved in pushing sodomists on the little boy scouts? Tell me why does ADL and Bnai Brith cause people to hate Jews - note Jews, not Zionists? As Prince Turki Faisal told us at a dinner (and thisi man todays heads up inelligence in this one agency) - the young prince toldl us in 1967 that it was the Zionist coming to Holy Land causing all the problems, that the domestic jew and arab moslems wanted to live in peace? Marc Rich - Zionist - Jewish Mafia - part of criminal syndicate and that bastard wants to come to America now and work from within? So a year after the young Prince made his visit here - his father was murdered by a black from Berkley California? Figure that one? A Black Nationalist Panther??? Remember the Black Panthers sent in to intimidate Mrs. Bush with Uzis? Consider this - it was the year of the take over and these bastards lostyet they plot ahead in the destruction of Americafor this like the pyramids they believe, is their promised land? No wonder God gave Ishmael all that oil? Saba Jews for Morality ON THE SOCIO-MORAL ISSUES OF THE DAY From a Traditional Jewish Perspective [ Back ] [ Opening Page ] [ Essay Index ] [ Next ] 28 Av 5759 / 10 Aug. 1999 ADL and Racist Terrorist Groups A Symbiotic Relationship ADL Attacks on American Conservatives Help Racist Groups Gain New Recruits, While New Terrorist Attacks on Jewish Centers Help ADL Raise More Funds Almost totally ignored in the reporting on the Los Angeles Jewish Center shooting, is the rapid growth in the membership of white racist terrorist groups in recent years. This increased membership is the most important factor in the recent increase in terrorist incidents. Most people have the mistaken notion that the ADL (Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith) is simply a Jewish defense organization whose purpose is to protect Jews in the United States from discrimination and physical harm. Nothing could be further from the truth. In recent years, the ADL, under the leadership of Abraham Foxman, has metamorphosed into a left-wing organization that closely coordinates its activities with some of the most radical groups in America. The ADL works closely with the homosexual lobbies in Washington and in the state capitols to promote the "Gay" agenda, including the current "hate crimes" bill, which would effectively silence all of the religious organizations who consider homosexuality an "abomination", and focus scarce law enforcement resources into efforts to give special protections to homosexuals, at the expense of all other Americans. The ADL works closely with pro-abortion groups to make certain that no restrictions whatsoever are placed on abortionfor any purpose, at any time in the development of the baby in the womb, and including "partial-birth" abortion (infanticide).
Re: [CTRL] IN THEIR OWN WORDS...70s ptIVf
-Caveat Lector- Religionist drivel. Joshua2 = Outlawlady wrote: -Caveat Lector- Timeline of Treason IN THEIR OWN WORDS...70s ptIVf Special Emergency Note from the Editor Testimony from POW Hearings SPECIAL SENATE REPORT on the State of the Nation continued "THE PROPHECY" Part IVf can be read at: The Joshua Report http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ -- Michael The Outlawlady The Joshua Report http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ If One Forgets The Past, He Will Not Be Prepared For The Future 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 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] [radtimes] # 180
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 180 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- Send $$ to RadTimes!! -- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --Hackers: The political heroes of cyberspace --FBI Chief's Appeal to Hackers --Globalization: a unique opportunity for humanity to change course --Scientists dispute military "raygun" claims --Quebec City Prepares To Crack Down On FTAA Protests --Copter Stoppers: Protests expose defense industry's role in Columbia --NSA, Carnivore, Others Win 'Anti-Awards' === Hackers: the political heroes of cyberspace Stuart Millar, technology correspondent Thursday March 8, 2001 The Guardian Hackers, the most maligned species of the digital age, will tonight be declared the ideological heirs to the great protest movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. Once hacking was regarded as the pastime of attention-grabbing nerds. But a meeting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London will be told how credible an activity it has become in the era of direct action. Old-fashioned hacking, the meeting will hear, has given way to hacktivism: a highly politicised underground movement using direct action in cyberspace to attack globalisation and corporate domination of the internet. "Hacktivists have provided a new political ethic for the hacking activity of the past 'that tended to be more about narcissistic power games than any real protest against the system," said Paul Taylor, a sociology lecturer at Salford university. "Hacktivism can be seen as the latest manifestation of a long history of opposition to capitalism and its disorienting effects." Targets - mainly multinational corporations and political parties - have been hit with a range of electronic weapons, from viruses to email bombs, which crash websites by bombarding them with thousands of protest messages. Paul Mobbs of a British hacktivist group, the electrohippies collective, will tell the meeting that the internet "removes the advantages that larger or mainstream groups possess, for example money, influence and preferential access to media. No longer are small minorities restricted by lack of access. On the internet all access is roughly equal." Companies are spending increasing amounts on protecting their computer systems while governments introduce tougher legislation. Under the Terrorism Act, which came into power last month, anyone who tries to "seriously disrupt an electronic system" with the intention of threatening or influencing the government or the public, and does it to advance a "political, religious or ideological cause", can be classed as a terrorist. Another new law, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, gives police and the security services the power to collect internet information without a warrant and to demand the keys to encrypted material. === FBI Chief's Appeal to Hackers http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42310,00.html Calling all nerds -- the Federal Bureau of Investigation wants you. by Michelle Delio Mar. 8, 2001 FBI Director Louis Freeh says the FBI badly needs the technology community's support and assistance in "one of the bureau's most challenging areas of investigation: cybercrime and computer security." During a speech to the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce in Virginia on Wednesday, Freeh said the FBI wants to work more closely with the technology industry and would like to establish relationships in order to share "codes and insight into networks and computer systems." The speech was greeted with mixed emotions by the crowd, consisting primarily of members of Virginia's technology community. Concerns were raised over how information shared with the FBI would be used, and whether the FBI would understand the difference between "cracking" and "hacking," said Mark Daniels, a consultant with Compservices. "Some of us wondered what the FBI's reaction would be to a report of a security hole that was discovered by the sort of surreptitious snooping around that some of us techies do on a regular basis," Daniels said. Daniels found confirmation for his fears -- and a touch of irony -- when the FBI was "honored" later on Wednesday with a Big Brother award from Privacy International at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. Big Brother awards are given out annually to government agencies, companies and initiatives that have invaded personal privacy. The FBI headed the list of this year's "Big Brothers" for its Carnivore e-mail surveillance system, which was judged the "Most Invasive Proposal." Carnivore can monitor all the information that moves through an Internet service
[CTRL] Fwd: Sharon Prepares To Take On USA
___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //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] U.S. MEDIA ESTABLISHMENT HELPS PREPARE SHARON'S WAY Palestinian Supporters Remain Weak, Co-opted, Mislead MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 3/13: Sharon's PR people are working hard preparing his way for a triumphant visit to the USA in a few days. They choose Lally Weymouth, long a "friendly journalist", for one of his first major interviews -- published in Newsweek this week. Actually, Weymouth is not quite a real journalist -- she's really the somewhat eccentric daughter of Washington Post owner Katherine Graham and owes her "job" to that simple fact of birth. Weymouth is extraordinarily Israeli-biased and has traveled the world for many years now gaining access because of her mother and wealth, few remembering that her interviews and columns are only published in the Post-owned publications because years ago she threatened to otherwise go work for the Moonie-owned Washington Times. The major TV interview Sharon gave in advance of his American tour was to another of the somewhat disguised Israeli-oriented journalists, CNN's Wolf Blitzer. And here too few remember that Blitzer came to CNN from being editor of the Israeli-Jewish lobby's newsletter, "Near East Report", and correspondent for the Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem Post. Meanwhile, Sharon is taking big steps to smash the Palestinian uprising. He probably personally gave the orders to try to assassinate the head of Fateh in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, yesterday -- the sniper missed, killing someone next to Barghouti (maybe purposefully). Trenches now surround Palestinian cities -- just as effectively as barbed wire, though that would look too much like concentration camps in photos. More torture (literally as well as collectively) and even more repression are on the way. Sharon's plans to extinguish the Intifada in one way or another, then to impose terms on the Palestinians, one way or another, with or without Arafat. And the Israeli propaganda machine is more than alive and well than ever. In fact it has been substantially beefed up and enhanced with the coming of Sharon. Much money and many very competent people, p.r. firms, and organizations are involved in coordinated efforts. The Arabs and the Palestinians on the other hand remain light years behind, continuing to busy themselves with misguided actions and continuing to compliment themselves for doing little things that don't even begin to keep pace with today's situation. For instance months ago Palestinian supporters in the USA -- given the green light to focus on the general theme of "Right of Return" but not on the crucial issues of the "peace process" itself, the corruption of the Arafat "Authority", the weakness of the Arab regimes, and the realities of their own co-opted organizations -- set April 7th for a major demonstration in New York City. What they should have done when they first learned the dates of Sharon's visit to the US is quickly stepped up the date of their demonstration to coincide with Sharon's visit and literally marched on his hotel and Embassy when he is here. But they continue to be so badly lead, so continually manipulated, and so pathetically confused that they are not capable of any serious, sustained, and timely efforts -- and everyone, themselves included, knows this. This is especially true of the ADC (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) which has mislead and deceived so many for so long and whose primary real goal is protecting the Arab regimes from criticism while continually feeding themselves with more money and self-given awards. Such is the situation in the opening months of 2001 with Ariel Sharon about to make a triumphant visit to the modern-day Empire and then likely to return to the once Holy Land to bleed and torture the Palestinians still further into submission. SHARON PREPARES TO TAKE ON AMERICA By Lally Weymouth NEWSWEEK - March 19,2001 Issue: It wasn't long ago that Ariel "Arik" Sharon was regarded as a has-been, an aging hawk who seemed ill-suited to Israel's modern era of peace and prosperity. THEN ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN tensions erupted in violence, and Israelis flocked overwhelmingly to Sharon, who took office last week as the head of a broadly based Israeli government. Soon after he was sworn in, the former general granted his first interview to Lally Weymouth of The Washington Post and
[CTRL] SADDAMS LAST LAUGH
http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/03/09/index.html SADDAM’S LAST LAUGH The Dollar Could be Headed for Hard Times if OPEC Switches to the Euro Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Maryland. For a considerable time the United States has enjoyed a position of undisputed power among the world's countries. The superpower has been able, with some exceptions, to shape critical global policies to serve its own internal needs. Yet, its huge appetite for oil has left it dangerously vulnerable to the policies of Middle Eastern oil exporters and to the vicissitudes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Historically, the fact that oil prices are denominated in U.S. dollars has accorded the United States a position of strength. This was bolstered by a strong military presence in the Middle East, which was welcomed until recently by at least some oil exporting states. But the global potential of the European Union's currency (the euro) and the rising anti-U.S. sentiment in the Middle East coupled with a series of other recent events, may lead OPEC to change oil pricing from the dollar to the euro -- a decision which could have a drastic effect on the U.S. economy and on global financial stability. Setting the Stage for Crisis U.S. domestic policy has generally been dominated by sentiment on two streets -- Wall Street and Main Street. But since the Israeli-Arab war in 1973 and the accompanying Arab oil embargo against the United States, the importance of a third "street" -- which might variously be called Oil Street or Middle East Street -- has grown steadily. Before the year is out, this last street may well dominate the scene. Oil is the energy and financial lifeline of the United States, Europe and Japan. It's a lifeline that runs through an area of intense conflict, where antagonism to U.S. and Israeli policies is as widespread as it is heated. In that context, rising tensions between the United States, the European Union, Russia and China could make for a dangerous and volatile crisis. Of the major powers, the United States is, in many ways, the most vulnerable. It certainly has the most to lose. Take the issue of oil imports. In 1973, the U.S. imported 34 percent of the oil it consumed. By 1989, that had grown to 41 percent. Today, the U.S. imports over half of the oil it consumes, and consumption is growing steadily. Western Europe imports about half the oil it consumes, but that is down from 80 percent two decades ago, and consumption has stabilized. China imports 30 percent of its oil. Russia is an oil exporter. Historically, the fact that oil prices have been denominated in dollars has benefited the U.S. economy enormously, as fluctuations in the value of the dollar had no direct effect on the price of oil for Americans. If the currencies of other countries decline against the dollar, the oil prices increase for those countries' citizens. For instance, last fall, oil prices increased faster for Europeans than for Americans, because the euro was plunging as petrol bills were soaring, triggering massive protests. At the Bretton Woods international economic conference in 1944, the U.S. dollar was assigned a fixed value of $35 to an ounce of gold, and so pricing in dollars essentially meant pricing in gold. That system unraveled between the mid-1960s and the early 70s because the "guns-and-butter policy" during the Vietnam War created high inflation. Foreign dollar holders began losing confidence and converted their depreciating dollars into gold in increasing amounts. By the early 1970s, U.S. gold supplies were running low. The U.S. devalued the dollar relative to gold in 1971 and, in 1973, unilaterally 'de-linked' it from gold. The U.S. dollar was no longer "as good as gold." Yet, oil exporters -- led by Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia -- decided to continue denominating the price of oil in U.S. dollars, ostensibly a sign of confidence in the United States and in its money. But, in fact, these countries had little choice but to continue to use U.S. dollars -- there was simply no realistic global alternative at the time. With oil linked to the dollar, and a substantial U.S. military presence in the Middle East, the position of the dollar seemed to be strong. At that time, Iran was the closest U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf and welcomed U.S. military presence. Iran was also the most powerful military force and the most populous country in the region, as well as the world's second largest oil exporter. To date, the oil-dollar link has given the United States a huge advantage in international trade. Corporations and countries carry out trade in U.S. dollars, making the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board the ultimate arbiters of global monetary policy. However, the stability of the U.S. dollar, and by extension the global monetary system, partially depends
[CTRL] TREASURY BOSS HAD RICH LINK AT ALCOA
http://www.nypostonline.com/news/nationalnews/26317.htm TREASURY BOSS HAD RICH LINK AT ALCOA Tuesday,March 13,2001 By BRIAN BLOMQUIST WASHINGTON - Alcoa bought an aluminum refinery from fugitive billionaire Marc Rich while the company was headed by Paul O'Neill, now treasury secretary. In a separate deal, Alcoa, on O'Neill's watch, sold Rich, a key figure in the Pardongate scandal, raw material for aluminum production through a middleman, trade reports show. O'Neill, 65, was tapped in January to be treasury secretary after 13 years as chairman of Alcoa. While at the world's largest aluminum maker, O'Neill amassed holdings valued at more than $90 million, which he plans to keep rather than sell through a blind trust. Rich, a billionaire commodities trader who was heavily involved in buying and selling aluminum, had been on the lam for 17 years in Switzerland when Bill Clinton pardoned him on his last day as president. Republicans and many Democrats reacted with outrage, but President Bush has taken a low-key approach and urged the country to move on. O'Neill has been mostly mum. In the context of its global aluminum interests, Alcoa's deals with Rich were fairly small and, in one case, done through an intermediary. In 1995, Alcoa bought a refinery in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands from Rich, according to an American Metal Market report. It wasn't known how much Alcoa paid for the refinery, which reportedly was capable of producing 600,000 tons per year of alumina, the white powder that is the raw material used to make aluminum. O'Neill's spokeswoman, Michele Davis, said Rich wasn't a factor in Alcoa's decision to buy the refinery. Davis said Alcoa bought the St. Croix refinery for "the same reason he [O'Neill] bought [plants] in Hungary and Italy. Alcoa bought a lot of aluminum refineries around the world in the last 10 years, regardless of who owned them. It was more about where it was, and capacity." In the other deal, Alcoa essentially sold Rich alumina produced at a refinery in Jamaica. Alcoa and the Jamaican government each owned equal shares in the refinery, which produced 750,000 tons of alumina per year. Rich bought about 375,000 tons directly from the Jamaicans and an additional 125,000 from Alcoa, through the Jamaicans, according to a 1990 report in the Mining Journal. Rich used the alumina to make aluminum ingots at smelters his companies operated in the United States and Australia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he had smelters in West Virginia and South Carolina. In 1994, he claimed to have severed ties from the aluminum company he controlled, Glencore International, which also owned the companies that operated the U.S. smelters. Some aluminum-industry observers say they've never been convinced Rich actually relinquished control of Glencore. The White House had no comment on O'Neill and Rich.
[CTRL] BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY: THE UNFOLDING DISASTER
http://128.121.216.19/justin/j031201.html Behind the Headlines by Justin Raimondo Antiwar.com March 12, 2001 BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY: THE UNFOLDING DISASTER Three bad omens: the Balkans, Korea, and the Middle East Encouraged by campaign talk about the virtues of "humility" on the world stage, many hoped that the incoming administration would turn over a new leaf when it comes to foreign policy – or, at least, rake away some of the moldy old leaves left on the White House lawn by the Clintonistas. But the prospects for a clean sweep grow dimmer as we get closer to the 100th day of the Bush Restoration, and in the past few days there have been a number of indications that, from a foreign policy perspective, we may well be worse off for at least the next four years. SILENT COUP? A particularly nausea-inducing example is the news that the administration has delivered an ultimatum to the government of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica: either issue a statement recognizing the ultimate authority of the International Tribunal for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia by March 31, or else face a complete cutoff of badly-need US aid. Has Madeleine Albright somehow sneaked in the back door of the State Department and pulled off a silent coup? Particularly disgusting is an ancillary demand that Yugoslav legislators must take their marching orders straight from Washington: as Steve Erlanger puts it in the New York Times, "Belgrade is also being asked to pass a law that would allow transfer of indicted people to The Hague without making any prior determination of guilt or innocence..." Sitting in their bombed-out homes, suffering through a cold winter without adequate heat, and besieged by US-sponsored guerrillas who have launched attacks to "liberate" southern Serbia as well as Macedonia, the Serbs are being forced to do what they never did after the Kosovo war: cry "uncle!" Yugoslavia never surrendered: Clinton merely stopped bombing, but kept on the offensive – and not only with cruel and economically destructive sanctions. A SINISTER CONFLUENCE The American-backed insurgency in south Serbia's Presevo valley, we learn from the [London] Observer, was the creation of at least one Western intelligence agency, but the question is: why is this CIA sock puppet expanding its operations during the first hundred days of the Bush administration? It is a clear signal: the Balkan policy of this Republican president is going to be worse than Clinton's. Clinton, you'll recall, was reluctant to get involved, in spite of his campaign rhetoric: it took nearly seven years of relentless pressure from the War Party (and God knows how many payoffs) before the bombs fell on Belgrade. But it looks like Bush is starting on the same path early on, and with very little prompting The Observer piece notes that, after consulting with Team Bush last week, ambassador William D. Montgomery "delivered the demands in a three-page list" to Kostunica. The sinister confluence of these events – the issuing of a US ultimatum and the escalation of the US-created Albanian insurgency – speaks for itself. A LIVING LEGACY I oppose all "foreign aid," which generally falls into two categories: corporate subsidies for US exporters, and subsidies for our satraps and hit men abroad, such as the Albanian "liberation fronts" of Presevo and Macedonia. But the US tax dollars that would go toward reconstructing Yugoslavia are neither – they are just reparations for the damage inflicted by our illegal and immoral assault on a sovereign country that had never attacked us. Indeed, the paltry sum voted by our usually spendthrift legislators would hardly cover the cost of rebuilding a few blocks in bombed-out Belgrade. All the money in the world, of course, cannot right the wrong done to the Serbian people by the criminal gang in the Clinton White House: the death of over 5,000 Serbs during the war is a tragedy without a price tag. But the idea that we, therefore, owe them nothing is one that could only be accepted in this, our Clintonian era. The First Felon may be gone, and even disgraced, but his legacy lives on in the foreign policy of a new president seemingly intent on exacerbating the crimes of his predecessor. REINING IN POWELL Another example of the same ominous phenomenon is occurring on the other side of the world: in Korea, where the US has put the kibosh on President Kim Dae-jung's effort to speed up the reunification process begun last June. When secretary of state Colin Powell remarked that he saw "promising elements" in the prospect of continued negotiations with the North Koreans and unequivocally announced that the Bush administration would "pick up where President Clinton left off," the War Party went into cardiac arrest – and Powell was subsequently reined in by the dominant hawks in the administration. A [London] Telegraph article about the growing foreign policy split
[CTRL] Israeli troops fire lethal dart grenades
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=176872thesection=news thesubsection=world Israeli troops fire lethal dart grenades 13.03.2001 GAZA - A Palestinian farmer was buried in Gaza yesterday, his body riddled with nail-like projectiles fired by Israeli soldiers using a type of anti-personnel ammunition not seen in the Palestinian conflict before last week. Relatives said the man was shot near the Karni Crossing. The Israeli Army said he was in an area where there had been attacks on Israelis. He was admitted to Shifa Hospital in Gaza with one of the projectiles in his left eye, two pointing in opposite directions in his pelvis and one in his left lung, x-rays showed. Hospital officials could not immediately identify the ammunition used on the farmer, and on another man on March 2. An Army spokesman, when asked what type of weapon had been used, said: "The IDF uses means best suited to the overall security conditions and specific threats in the area." But Palestinian security sources said the Army appeared to have used a type of cluster bomb or rifle grenade which explodes, spraying the target with dozens of needle-like projectiles about the size of an average nail. Known as flechettes, the objects have tiny stabilising fins, like those used to stabilise rockets in flight or darts thrown at a dartboard in a pub. Israel has developed its own version of the flechette round, but the Army was not known to have used this type of ammunition in the Palestinian conflict before last week. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accused Palestinian President Yasser Arafat of doing nothing to stop violence against Israelis as Palestinians yesterday blamed Sharon for turning their cities into prison camps. Troops have dug trenches and put up sand embankments near the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jenin and Jericho and placed tanks near Ramallah, sealing the Palestinian-ruled cities off from other parts of the West Bank, home to two million Palestinians. Witnesses said additional roadblocks had been set up in the heart of Jerusalem, a prime target of Islamic militant suicide bombers who have vowed to launch a rash of attacks with Sharon's rise to power. Sharon told Fox News yesterday that Arafat's security forces, including his personal guards, were involved in "terrorist activities." "Most of the terrorist acts at the present time are carried out by Palestinian armed forces, security services and even the closest to Arafat forces, that is, what you call Force 17, the presidential guard," he said. The 73-year-old former general, who took power last week after defeating Ehud Barak in a February election, said he would shake Arafat's hand in a meeting only once the fighting ended. Sharon has previously said he would never shake the hand of Arafat, whom he has branded a "war criminal." Sharon said he was disappointed Arafat did not call for a end to hostilities in a speech to Palestinian lawmakers on Sunday in which he lashed out at what he called Israeli aggression. The Palestinian leadership issued a statement calling for the United Nations Security Council to convene and for the international community to act "to bring an end to this new racist Israeli policy that can lead to a full explosion in the entire region." Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo has accused the new Government of officially launching what he called a new war against the Palestinian people.
[CTRL] Officials attribute drop in crime to required weapons in home
http://www.mdjonline.com/StoryDetail.cfm?id=10017128Section=Home%20Page Its the law in Kennesaw Mayor Leonard Church is a staunch supporter of the citys gun law. You can t argue with the fact that Kennesaw has the lowest crime rate of any city our size in the country, he says. By Jonathan Hamilton and David Burch Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer KENNESAW Several Kennesaw officials attribute a drop in crime in the city over the past two decades to a law that requires residents to have a gun in the house. In 1982, the Kennesaw City Council unanimously passed a law requiring heads of households to own at least one firearm with ammunition. The ordinance states the gun law is needed to protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants. Then-councilman J.O. Stephenson said after the ordinance was passed, everyone went crazy. People all over the country said there would be shootings in the street and violence in homes, he said. Of course, that wasnt the case. In fact, according to Stephenson, it caused the crime rate in the city to plunge. Kennesaw Historical Society president Robert Jones said following the laws passage, the crime rate dropped 89 percent in the city, compared to the modest 10 percent drop statewide. It did drop after it was passed, he said. After it initially dropped, it has stayed at the same low level for the past 16 years. Mayor Leonard Church was not in office when the law was passed, but he said he is a staunch supporter of it. You cant argue with the fact that Kennesaw has the lowest crime rate of any city our size in the country, said Church, who owns a denture-making company in Kennesaw. The author of the ordinance, local attorney Fred Bentley Sr., attributes at least some of the decrease in crime to the bill. I am definitely in favor of what we did, he said. It may not be totally responsible for the decrease, [but] it is a part. Although he is pleased with the outcome, Bentley said he was originally opposed to drafting the law. I didnt think it could be written in a constitutional fashion, he said. Obviously, it was constitutional, because the American Civil Liberties Union challenged it in court and we won. Jones said the ACLU challenged the law in a federal court just after it was passed. In response, the city added a clause adding conscientious objectors to the list of those exempt. Although the law is now being credited with a drop in crime, Jones said that was not the laws original purpose. He also pointed out that Kennesaw did not have a big problem with crime before. The crime rate wasnt that high to start with. It was 11 burglaries per 1,000 residents in 1981, he said. According to the Kennesaw Police Department, the citys most recent crime statistics show 243 property crimes per 100,000 residents in 1998, or .243 per 1,000. The citys crime rate continues to be far below other metro Atlanta citys with similar populations, like Decatur. In 1998, Decatur recorded 4,049 property crimes per 100,000 residents. Jones said one motivation for the council passing the ordinance had to do with publicity. It was done in response to a law passed by Morton Grove, Ill., outlawing gun ownership within the city limits, he said. Several council members were upset Morton Grove had gotten a lot of attention with their ordinance so they decided to top them. They figured the gun ownership ordinance would knock that city right off the front pages. They were right. Jones said the ensuing publicity surrounding the law has given Kennesaw worldwide name recognition. I have been to Australia and Europe and when I tell people I am from Kennesaw they recognize the name as the place that requires everyone to own a gun, he said. But Stephenson said the issue was not publicity-driven but issue-driven. We believed in the right of people to own guns, he said. Jones said he has sold 550 copies of a 1994 book about the first-of-its-kind law, The Law Heard Round the World. He said the law in its final form has many loopholes, so not everyone is required to own a gun. There are many outs, he said. When you look at it, almost anyone could fit into one of the exempted groups. Kennesaw Police Chief Dwaine Wilson said no one has ever been prosecuted under the ordinance. Among those exempt are residents who conscientiously oppose maintaining firearms as a result of beliefs or religious doctrine. Others exempt include the physically and mentally disabled, paupers and those convicted of a felony. The law contains no clause addressing punishment for violating the law. If convicted, City Clerk Diane Coker said punishment would be determined by the general penalty clause of the Kennesaw Code Ordinance probably a fine of about $100. Jones said the unusual law has not deterred anyone from moving to Kennesaw. Our population has increased just like everyones in Georgia in the past 20 years,
[CTRL] What Are Spies For?
http://www.counterpunch.org/ What Are Spies For? In Intelligence committee rooms on Capitol Hill and in briefing sessions in the FBI, CIA, and other redoubts of the national security establishment the air now quivers with gloomy assessments of the secrets "compromised" by the FBI's Robert Hansen, a senior official who stands accused of working for the Russians since 1985. If you believe the FBI affidavit against him filed in federal court, Hanssen betrayed spies working for the US, some of whom were then executed. Among many other feats he allegedly ratted on "an entire technical program of enormous value,, expense and importance to the United States" which turns out to have been the construction of a tunnel under the new Soviet Embassy in Washington DC. He trundled documents by the cartload to "dead drops" in various suburbs around Washington DC, often within a few minutes walk from his house. It's amusing to listen to the US counter-intelligence officials now scorning Hanssen for lack of "tradecraft" in using the same drop week after week. These are the same counter-intelligence officials who remained incurious across the decades about the tinny clang of empty drawers in their TOP SECRET filing cabinets, all contents removed on a daily basis by Ames and Hanssen who deemed the use of copying machines too laborious. In just one assignment, the CIA later calculated, Ames gave the KGB a stack of documents estimated to be 15 to 20 feet high. Hanssen was slack about "tradecraft" because he knew just how remote the possibility of discovery was. The only risk he couldn't accurately assess was the one that brought him down, betrayal by a Russian official privy to the material he was sending to Moscow. The record of proven failure by US intelligence agencies is long and dismal. To take two of the most notorious derelictions, the CIA failed to predict the Sino-Soviet split, and failed to notice the Soviet Union was falling apart, a lapse that the Agency later tried to blame on Ames. In the mid-1990s CIA director John Deutch testified to Congress that "taken as a whole Ames's activities "facilitated the Soviet, and later the Russian, effort to engage in 'perception management operations' by feeding carefully selected information to the United States through agents they were controlling without our knowledge (O)ne of the primary purposes of of the perception management program was to convince us that the Soviets remained a superpower and that their military RD program was robust." So here was Deutch (himself scandalously pardoned by Clinton for personally perpetrating some of the most egregious security lapses in the CIA's history,) claiming that treachery by its man Ames was the reason the CIA failed to notice the Soviet Union was falling apart. Following that line of analysis Ames could have entered a plea of innocence on the grounds that in helping the Soviet Union exaggerate its might he was only following official Agency policy. One of the prime functions of the CIA in the cold war years was to inflate the military capabilities of the Soviet Union, thereby assisting military contractors and their allies in Congress and the Pentagon in the extraction of money to built more weapons to counter these entirely imaginary Soviet threats. Back in the mid-1970s CIA director George H.W. Bush found that the regular CIA analysts were making insufficiently alarmist assessments of Soviet might and promptly installed Team B, a group replete with trained exaggerators who contrived the lies necessary to justify the soaring Pentagon procurement budgets of the Reagan Eighties. Reviewing this torrent of lies at the start of the 1980s CounterPunch contributing writer Andrew Cockburn wrote The Threat, a pitilessly accurate estimate of Soviet military potential based on interviews with sources secured by Andrew's tradecraft, some of said sources being Russians immigrants, many of them living in Brighton Beach, New York. He described how the US civil and more seriously military intelligence organizations were grotesquely miscalculating the Soviet defense budget and routinely faking the capabilies of weapons systems such as the T-80 tank, the range of planes such as the MIG 23 and SU 24 and the accuracy of their long-range missiles. Military experts deprecated Andrew's findings as did many of the liberal Pentagon watchdogs, who found it too offensively simple to say that Soviet weapons were badly made, and overseen by semi-mutinous drunks. But as history was soon to show, Andrew had it right. Against the entire US intelligence budget for spying on the Soviet Union's military potential you could set the $19.50 necessary to buy The Threat and come out with superior information. Real secrets, such as amuse presidents over breakfast, don't concern weapons but gossip: the exact capabilities of Dick Cheney's heart; the precise amount of cocaine sold by George Bush at Yale and so forth. The nation's real intelligence work is being done
[CTRL] Mt.Weather
http://members.aol.com/poesgirl/mtweathr.htm FEMA - THE U.S. "SHADOW GOVERNMENT" More on our old friends at FEMA, those menacing Executive Orders, and the coming "National Emergency." Aren't you glad that the power to declare "National Emergencies" or to declare that individuals or groups are "terrorists" rests solely in President Clinton's wise and selfless hands? Few Americans--indeed, few Congressional reps--are aware of the existence of Mount Weather, a mysterious underground military base carved deep inside a mountain near the sleepy rural town of Bluemont, Virginia, just 46 miles from Washington DC. Mount Weather--also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations--is buried not just in hard granite, but in secrecy as well. In March, 1976, The Progressive Magazine published an astonishing article entitled "The Mysterious Mountain." The author, Richard Pollock, based his investigative report on Senate subcommittee hearings and upon "several off-the-record interviews with officials formerly associated with Mount Weather." His report, and a 1991 article in Time Magazine entitled "Doomsday Hideaway", supply a few compelling hints about what is going on underground. Ted Gup, writing for Time, describes the base as follows: Mount Weather is a virtually self-contained facility. Aboveground, scattered across manicured lawns, are about a dozen buildings bristling with antennas and microwave relay systems. An on-site sewage-treatment plant, with a 90,000 gal.-a-day capacity, and two tanks holding 250,000 gal. of water could last some 200 people more than a month; underground ponds hold additional water supplies. Not far from the installation's entry gate are a control tower and a helicopter pad. The mountain's real secrets are not visible at ground level. The mountain's "real secrets" are protected by warning signs, 10 foot-high chain link fences, razor wire, and armed guards. Curious motorists and hikers on the Appalachian trail are relieved of their sketching pads and cameras and sent on their way. Security is tight. The government has owned the site since 1903; it has seen service as an artillery range, a hobo farm during the Depression, and a National Weather Bureau Facility. In 1936, the U.S. Bureau of Mines took control and started digging. Mount Weather is virtually an underground city, according to former personnel interviewed by Pollock. Buried deep inside the earth, Mount Weather was equipped with such amenities as: private apartments and dormitories streets and sidewalks cafeterias and hospitals a water purification system, power plant and general office buildings a small lake fed by fresh water from underground springs its own mass transit system a TV communication system Mount Weather is the self-sustaining underground command center for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The facility is the operational center--the hub--of approximately 100 other Federal Relocation Centers, most of which are concentrated in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. Together this network of underground facilities constitutes the backbone of America's "Continuity of Government" program. In the event of nuclear war, declaration of martial law, or other national emergency, the President, his cabinet and the rest of the Executive Branch would be "relocated" to Mount Weather. What Does Congress Know about Mount Weather? According to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights hearings in 1975, Congress has almost no knowledge and no oversight --budgetary or otherwise--on Mount Weather. Retired Air Force General Leslie W. Bray, in his testimony to the subcommittee, said "I am not at liberty to describe precisely what is the role and the mission and the capability that we have at Mount Weather, or at any other precise location." Apparently, this underground capital of the United States is a secret only to Congress and the US taxpayers who paid for it. The Russians know about it, as reported in Time: "Few in the U.S. government will speak of it, though it is assumed that all along the Soviets have known both its precise location and its mission (unlike the Congress, since Bray wouldn't tell); defense experts take it as a given that the site is on the Kremlin's targeting maps." The Russians attempted to buy real estate right next door, as a "country estate" for their embassy folks, but that deal was dead-ended by the State Department. Mount Weather's "Government-in-Waiting" Pollock's report, based on his interviews with former officials at Mount Weather, contains astounding information on the base's personnel. The underground city contains a parallel government-in-waiting: "High-level Governmental sources, speaking in the promise of strictest anonymity, told me [Pollock] that each of the Federal departments represented at Mount Weather is headed by a single person on whom is conferred the rank of a Cabinet-level official. Protocol even demands
[CTRL] Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, dead at 64
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/obituary/20010313/tCB00V2866.html Tuesday, March 13, 2001 Convicted Texas Murderer Dies HUNTSVILLE, Texas--Henry Lee Lucas, the convicted killer who 18 years ago made and then recanted confessions to hundreds of unsolved murder cases, has died in prison. Lucas, who claimed he made fake confessions to make police "look stupid," was found dead in his bed Monday night at the Ellis I prison unit where he was serving sentences for nine murders, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said. He was 64. The one-eyed ex-drifter was narrowly saved from execution three years ago when then-Gov. George W. Bush commuted a death sentence to life in prison because of flimsy evidence in his capital case. After the commutation, Lucas had predicted an "80 percent chance" he would walk free someday. Lucas had recently complained of breathing problems and spent a night or two in a prison hospital a few months ago, said Larry Todd, a prison system spokesman. Todd would not be more specific on the cause of death, although Lucas also had a history of heart problems. There was no immediate word if any relatives might claim his remains. If Lucas' body is not claimed, the state will bury him in an inmates cemetery in Huntsville. Bush in 1998 commuted Lucas' death sentence of Lucas four days before the death row inmate was scheduled for lethal injection in the 1979 slaying in Williamson County of an unidentified woman known only as "Orange Socks." The victim was so named because the socks were all she was wearing when her body was found in 1979 in a ditch off Interstate 35 near Georgetown, north of Austin. Lucas was arrested in June 1983 for the slaying of a 75 -year-old Montague County woman. During a court proceeding there shortly after his arrest, he confessed to the murders of hundreds of women. Lucas' highly publicized confession spree prompted authorities to clear their books of more than 600 unsolved killings. He later recanted but many of those murder cases were never reopened. In recent years, Lucas insisted he committed just one murder, killing his mother in Michigan in 1960 -a crime for which he served time in prison and a Michigan mental hospital. Besides the life term for the Orange Socks killing, Lucas had six other life sentences and 210 years in prison for three other slayings. In 1999, he told reporters he had become fascinated by Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, who has been connected to at least eight slayings in Texas, Kentucky and Illinois. "If this was 1983, I'd claim these murders, too," Lucas told the Houston Chronicle at the time. "I made the police look stupid. I was out to wreck Texas law enforcement." Another prison spokesman, Larry Fitzgerald, said Lucas had spent most of his time in state custody since 1985 as a sewing machine operator, working in a prison garment factory that produces guard uniforms. "He was our best," Fitzgerald said. -- 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] Mort the Mouth: Morton Downey, Jr., dead at 67
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/obituary/20010313/tCB00V2890.html Tuesday, March 13, 2001 Lung Cancer Kills Morton Downey Jr. LOS ANGELES -Before Jerry Springer and Jenny Jones, there was Morton Downey Jr., a growling and opinionated TV talk show host who shocked viewers from behind a haze of cigarette smoke. America, he once told The Associated Press, saw him as "a loudmouth who gets in trouble just like they do, who's had problems just like they had, someone that they can identify with a lot more than someone who's squeaky clean." Downey, who reigned over "Trash TV" in the 1980s and tried to clean up his act for a return, died of lung cancer and other respiratory problems, his family said Monday night. He was 67. "The family is very grief stricken and very shocked right now," one of Downey's four daughters, Tracey Downey, told KABC-TV. "He was a wonderful, wonderful man, wonderful father. He will be deeply, deeply, deeply missed." A chain smoker for years until losing a lung to cancer, Downey was known for deliberately blowing smoke into the faces of guests who annoyed him when he was host of one of the most popular talk shows on television in the 1980s. After his cancer surgery in 1996, he became an anti-smoking crusader. Saying he had been "an idiot" for smoking, he taped public service announcements and told the syndicated TV show "Extra" that he hoped he could "undo some of the damage that I did during all the years that I did television." Downey was the son of popular singer Morton Downey and his dancer-wife, Barbara Bennett. He pursued a number of professions including businessman, author, radio host, singer and songwriter. But it wasn't until the 1980s that he became a household name with "The Morton Downey Jr. Show." Debuting in the New York City area in 1987, it became a hit almost immediately and was syndicated nationally the following year. In its heyday, he was known as "Mort the Mouth," the host who mocked his sometimes bizarre guests as "slime" or "scumbucket" and argued frequently with members of his studio audience, dismissing liberals in particular as "pablum pukers." One show erupted into a fist fight between civil rights advocates Al Sharpton and Roy Innis. Years later he would acknowledge that he probably carried things too far. "It got out of control because the producers ... wanted me to top myself every night," he said in the early 1990s. "If I did something outlandish on Monday night, on Tuesday night, we'd have to think of something even more outlandish. And after a while, you work yourself toward the edge of the trampoline and you fall off. I fell off a number of times and I found it very displeasing." The effort to top himself led to perhaps the biggest embarrassment of his career when he claimed neo-Nazi skinheads attacked him in a San Francisco airport restroom in April 1989, cutting off his hair and painting a swastika on his head. Authorities could never verify the attack, and Downey's critics pounced, calling it a publicity stunt. They noted he had been in San Francisco to promote his show when it happened. A few months later, the show was canceled. Five years later, Downey launched a comeback with a new show, titled simply "Downey." It met with less success, and Downey acknowledged he had toned it down. In a 1995 interview with AP, he described the show: "No meanness this time. Just as confrontational, just as tough, just as opinionated, but everyone else has the right to have their opinion and be heard." Still, that didn't stop him from claiming on one episode to have achieved psychic communication with the spirit of Nicole Brown Simpson, the murdered ex-wife of O.J. Simpson. Downey also acknowledged that he was proud of many aspects of the original show, crediting it for paving the way for shocking programs by Springer and others. "Everyone says, 'Well, Springer's doing your show now,"' Downey said in 1998. "That's not true. I didn't do sleaze. There were times that I did things that were a little sleazy, but I didn't do shows on my neighbor's collie dog having sex with my neighbor's wife." He also said the show provided a forum for working-class Americans fed up with what politicians in Washington, D.C., were doing with their tax money. "It isn't the rich people who come up and say, 'Oh, Mort, you're just great,"' Downey once said. "It's the blacks and the ethnics and the blue collars, those guys with too much hair on their shoulder blades. They want some answers." Born Sean Morton Downey Jr. on Dec. 9, 1933, the talk-show host grew up in privilege, attending military school and earning a marketing degree and a law degree. He also appeared as an actor in
[CTRL] Fwd: [news] Colombia's Youth Plays of Death
consortiumnews.com - http://www.consortiumnews.com --- ListBot Sponsor -- Build a marketing database and send targeted HTML and text e-mail newsletters to your customers with List Builder. http://www.listbuilder.com -- Colombia's youngsters adapt to the brutal civil war by creating plays with heroes who can defy death. The reality around them is far less magical, however, as the United States plunges into the complex conflict with a $1.3 billion aid package heavily weighted toward military hardware. For this and other stories on Colombia's civil war, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] Welfare Reform
-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : North America : Social Inequality Reports document the impact of US welfare reform By Alan Whyte 14 March 2001 Back to screen version| Send this link by email While politicians across the United States have hailed the recent cuts in the welfare rolls, very little attention is being paid to what actually happens to those individuals who lose their public assistance. The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) has attempted to answer this question in a recent document consisting of two separate reports. The first report was conducted by the FPWA itself and deals with poverty rates in America. The second involves their summary of over 30 studies conducted by various organizations dealing with the consequences of welfare cuts in New York City. The FPWA begins its own report by making the point that since the federal welfare reform act of 1996 the reduction in welfare rolls has been greater than the reduction of poverty. In 1999 there were 3.4 million fewer children on welfare than in 1996, but there were only 2.2 million fewer poor children. Many politicians also point to recent official statistics that indicate a drop in the national poverty rate in recent years. The report comments on this data. First, the official poverty rate in 1999, 11.8 percent, was close to the 12.1 percent rate that existed in 1969. Second, the report contends that the approximate 2 percent drop in poverty is not the result of the 1996 law, but rather the relative job growth in the recent period. The report also explains that, according to the government, a family of four with an annual income of more than $17,029 is not considered to be poor. As the FPWA explains, this figure understates the true extent of poverty: the line was set at a low percentage of average income when established, and [with rising costs] over time has dropped further and further below the average income. If the official income level of the poor were adjusted for inflation it would be impossible to claim that there has been a 2 percent decline in poverty. The FPWA's second report, which is a summary of about 30 different studies in New York City, analyzes the impact of the reduction of the city's welfare rolls under Mayor Rudolph Giuilani. The number of welfare recipients has been reduced from 1.1 million in July 1995 to 560,000 in July 2000, and the report examines what has happened to these people who have lost their benefits. The report concludes: Hunger and homelessness remain at high, apparently growing levels, despite the economic boom and a substantial decline in unemployment. In support of this conclusion, they point to a 24 percent increase in emergency food assistance from January 1997 to January 1998, and a 36 percent increase in emergency food assistance from January 1998 to January 1999. As a whole, 71 percent of soup kitchens and food pantries in the city reported an increase in demand since the enactment of the federal welfare law in 1996. One of the main reasons for this growth of hunger is that Between a third and half (or more) of welfare leavers are unemployed, most report very modest or no income, and up to a majority (or more) have also been cut from food (food stamps) and health care (Medicaid) assistance. The report concludes that one of the reasons for this growth in poverty in New York City is that thousands upon thousands of eligible people have been denied entry to welfare or kicked off. The report summarizes a class action suit in which the court found that, beginning in 1998, the city began implementing procedures that discouraged qualified applicants for welfare, food stamps and Medicaid from seeking benefits. In February 1999 the federal civil rights office found that city welfare offices discriminated against both those applicants who had difficulty communicating in English, as well as those who were hearing-impaired. Furthermore, a study issued in July 2000 focused on the fact that about 60 percent of applicants who were denied welfare two or more times were not informed that they had the right to request a hearing. The FPWA also examined the city's workfare program that compels welfare recipients to work for their benefits. The report found that parents are frequently forced to leave their children in unregulated and uninspected care out of fear they will be removed from welfare if they claim lack of proper child care as a reason why they cannot work. More than half of the parents interviewed stated that their caseworkers gave them no assistance in finding proper child care facilities. Caseworkers were often unaware that parents can be excused from working if they cannot find appropriate child care. The report also found that individuals on the city's workfare program have been used to replace civil servant employees who were doing the same work. For example, the overall acceptability of city parks increased from 57 percent in 1992 to 89 percent in
[CTRL] CitSubjs
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.rockfordinstitute.org/News/Wilson/NewsCW031201.htm }}Begin Monday, March 12, 2001 "CITIZENS AND SUBJECTS" REVISITED by Clyde Wilson "Citizens or Subjects?" was the interrogatory title of an essay of mine published in 1980 in Robert W. Whitaker's New Right Papers. In it, I discussed what was, from the point of view of the Founding Fathers, the progressive imperialization of the American regime and the different condition and fate to be expected by people as imperial subjects rather than republican citizens. I do not claim any originality for describing what was, to me, obvious. Thinkers of the Old Right had already pointed out the imperializing effect of global warfare; and Murray Rothbard had, I believe, already used the phrase "military-industrial-welfare complex." At best, my essay was an early entry in the contemporary discussion, but it got considerable attention at the time. National Review, then still a semi-principled journal, called me the "silver-tongued voice of the New Right," and the article was widely reprinted. Since then, Citizens or Subjects has become a hotter concept. It was a theme of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign. I am even told that the phrase was used by George W. Bush in a recent message. (I never listen to those things. I do not have so many years left that I can waste time on meaningless babble.) If so, I am sure Bush, in a typical imperial maneuver, turned the concept inside out. I was concerned with the governments threat to citizenly virtue; the President sees citizenship as a support for imperial government. I concluded the essay with this statement (Reagan had just become president): What the future will resemble if we succeed in the renewal of the republic cannot be predicted, because for communities of self-confident, self-governing citizens, the future is open. If we fail, the future is certain to be shaped by the sad, sullen outlines of servitude. The verdict may not have been formally announced so far, but it is pretty clear from the evidence how the jury will have to vote. The counter-revolution hoped for in 1980 is as dead as can be, and the imperialization of American society has progressed beyond what we could then have imagined. In a republic, I argued, citizens had intrinsic value--to protect them was the purpose of government. In an empire, people are material for the rulers to do with as they wish. They may be expended in the interest of or even for the whims of rulers. What have we learned in the decade of Bush Senior and Clinton? If you prove irritating enough to the government or powerful groups it favors, the government will kill you, your wife, your children, and your dog. Congress, the federal courts, and the media will cover up for the killers. Indeed, state and local police have been federalized and militarized to a significant degree. As one would expect in an empire, the primary mission of the police is no longer to protect the people: it is to manage the people for the benefit of the government. The common law traditionally distinguished between malo in se (something wrong by nature, such as murder and robbery} and malum prohibitum (something wrong only because the government says so, like driving over 55 or not filing your income taxes). Emphasis has shifted dramatically to the latter. While federal judges make it difficult to prosecute and punish the criminals who prey on you and me, it becomes ever more dangerous for a citizen to infringe government regulations or oppose government agents. The chief mission of the police now is not to protect the people from criminals but to protect the government from the people. There can be no more certain evidence of this than "gun control. A President, like an emperor, may lie at will to the people (Bush: "Read my lips." Clinton: "I did not have sex with that woman.") and suffer no adverse consequences in law or public opinion. Abortion is now just as acceptable in the U.S. as in a country that has never been Christian. The same is true of sodomy. The GOP has abandoned all but the pretense of opposing the imperial agenda on any significant matter and has no identifiable purpose or principle other than serving its leaders. Anyone who still thinks at this date that our present condition is all the fault of the Democrats and the Republicans will save us is either a fool or a paid or unpaid shill for the party. Government, The Media, and Big Business have become almost interchangeable. Our regime approximates what Hillaire Belloc described early in the 20th century as the servile state. It is true the enemies of the free market have been vanquished intellectually and praxeologically. Nobody believes the strange pseudo-science/pseudo-religion of Marxism any more except the American
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-Caveat Lector- [HardGreenHerald] # 9 "Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." --Dr. Seuss, 'The Lorax' --A RadTimes production-- --- Contents: --- --Rocketdyne's Radioactive Rock Roll --Industrial farming practices spread disease and concern --Genetically Modified To Kill Its Own --Selling tiger parts - real and fake --Forum on Human Cloning Turns Raucous --Human clone lab is in Caesarea --Senator Calls For Moratorium On Livestock and Meat Imports === Rocketdyne's Radioactive Rock Roll Protesters gathered last week at the gates of Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory as trucks rolled out, hauling 14,000 tons of radioactivity-contaminated soil from the military contractor's site above the San Fernando Valley to a dump in Kern County. Over residents' objections, the Department of Health Services had approved dumping the hot soil at a landfill near Buttonwillow, a town heavily populated by migrant workers. Two years ago, Health Services objected when Buttonwillow received radioactive waste from an old Manhattan Project bomb facility in New York state, saying the gunk should go to a licensed facility. Now the department has reversed position, declaring that radioactive waste can go anywhere - a municipal trash dump, a chemical-waste facility - as long as its radiation dosage is calculated at less than 25 millirem per year, the equivalent of 170 additional chest X-rays over a lifetime. That level is estimated to increase the cancer risk to one death for every 1,000 people exposed - a standard about 1,000 times more lax than is permitted for other carcinogens, the nuclear-watchdog group Committee To Bridge the Gap says. The Kettleman city dump refused the Rocketdyne shipment, but Buttonwillow let it through. Rocketdyne's own tests showed that seven out of eight radionuclides in the Rocketdyne soil emitted radiation above normal background levels. One radionuclide, plutonium 238, was measured at 13.5 times the background level. Health officials and Rocketdyne portrayed the radiation as negligible. "We live, whether we like it or not, in a sea of radiation," Health Services official Robert Gregor said. The soil also contains PCBs, dioxin, mercury and the highly toxic rocket-fuel oxidizer perchlorate. The dumping is expected to continue for up to five months. "The trucks have started rolling out of Rocketdyne, creating the precedent for free release of radioactive material throughout the state," said Dan Hirsch, president of Committee To Bridge the Gap. "If you thought deregulation of electricity hurt California, just wait until you see the consequences of deregulating radioactive waste." -Michael Collins "We're all downwinders!" Check out http://www.downwinders.org === Industrial farming practices spread disease and concern http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/03/03102001/suzuki_42404.asp Saturday, March 10, 2001 By David Suzuki Burning pyres of dead animals are once again dotting the British countryside as the nation is gripped in another livestock crisis. This time it's foot-and-mouth disease, and across the water Europe is holding its breath, hoping the highly contagious illness does not get a foothold on its shores. It's a chilling reminder of the BSE epidemic that swept through Britain just a few years ago. Unlike BSE, foot-and-mouth disease is not dangerous to humans, but it is highly contagious and devastating to cattle, pigs and sheep. So far, North America has been spared this sort of disaster. Foot-and-mouth disease has not been reported in Canada since the 1950s, and there has never been a reported case of BSE in the country. But intensive, industrial farming practices that gave rise to the outbreak of BSE and have likely contributed to the spread of foot-and-mouth disease clearly show the need to reform the way we produce and consume meat. Cattle in Britain likely developed BSE because they were fed the rendered carcasses of dead sheep that were infected with the disease known as scrapie. The public was told that this was not a problem because scrapie did not infect cattle. Eventually, however, those cattle developed BSE, which spread because infected cattle were, in turn, rendered into food for other cattle. Then the public was told that BSE was not a problem because it did not infect humans until people began to die from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human version of BSE. In continental Europe, leaders insisted their nations were BSE-free, a claim that was later disproved. Now they are insisting again that their beef is safe, but that assertion is questionable given that there is no reliable way to test live animals to see if they are harboring the disease. North American
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-Caveat Lector- MEDIAFile Volume 20 #1 January / February 2001 International News: Where is it coming from? http://www.oneworld.net/anydoc_mc.cgi?url=http://www.media-alliance.org/mediafile/20-1/schurmann.html by Franz Schurmann American newspaper readers traditionally haven't taken much interest in "foreign" news. Nevertheless foreign news has been on newspaper front pages for a long time. And America has had foreign policy ever since the USA was formed. Where do the ideas and intents of those policies - and the news shaped by them - come from? To get some answers, this historian takes a longitudinal look at three periods in foreign news coverage. The first period went from World War I to the Vietnam War, specifically from 1918 to 1968. During this period the ideas came from a matrix spawned by national, regional and local elites. The second period emerged in 1969 and lasted till the end of 2000. During this period an ideological revolution spawned by the civil rights and anti-war movements rose up against the existing elites. As a result the ideas that shaped foreign policy and news for the last 30 years came from an unstable mix of old elites and new "special interests." A third period is now beginning as George W. Bush constructs his administration. Older interests and ideologies voted for Bush and newer ones supported Gore. Both the winner and the loser call for unity but emotions are polarizing the two sides. America now is more into the world than ever. It is now involved in a low intensity war in Colombia. It could soon become openly involved in another one in the Middle East. And wobbly markets reflect fears of a possible American and worldwide recession. Foreign news could dominate the media and computer screens much more than the second period and at least as much as in the first. The First Period One man in particular, Walter Lippmann, shaped the first period, especially through his book "Public Opinion" (published in 1922). Earlier he had been a key adviser to President Wilson who launched the League of Nations, the UN's predecessor. Lippmann was pessimistic about any democratic foreign policy. By public opinion he meant the informed views of local, state and national elites. Lippmann was a key player in the formation of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. The CFR then spawned a network of World Affairs Councils (WAC) all over the country. The concept was to bring politicians, businessmen and academics together to discuss foreign affairs that the general public had little interest in. Newspapers, magazines and other publications created public opinion by publishing articles on salient issues. Editorials voiced opinions on those issues. Lippmann also had a big influence on George Gallup who launched American public opinion polling in 1935. In the 1916 elections President Wilson campaigned on a peace theme that was popular among the American electorate. But hardly a month into his second term, on April 6, 1917 he took America into World War I. What Lippmann a few years later would call public opinion gave him the support he needed. President Franklin Roosevelt was a key advocate of the Neutrality Act adopted by Congress in 1935. But in the summer of 1940, when Hitler's armies defeated France, public opinion gave him the needed support for arming Britain. During World War II the newly coined term bipartisanship came to signify elite consensus. Bipartisanship and public opinion supported the Cold War against world communism. Bipartisanship at the top defined agendas and formulated the different opinions. Newspapers publicized agendas, issues and opinions. Polls measured how informed populations lined up for or against an issue or initiative. The public opinion system worked well until the Vietnam War took a bad turn. Elite and sub-elite consensus broke apart in early 1968. The Second Period Even as the first period emerged from World War I, the second one emerged from the Vietnam War. Like Wilson in 1916, President Johnson in the 1964 presidential campaign kept saying "I do not seek a wider war." But, again as in Wilson's case, less than a month after his re-inauguration, he plunged us into war. But whereas Wilson delivered victory in 20 months, the Vietnam War went on till April 30, 1975. The makers of policy during the first period belonged to a network of club-like institutions that shaped public opinion. But in the second period diverse "special interests" arose that contested the policies and the elites behind them. The new interests became particularly prominent in the media and academia. They did not form clubs the way the elites did but rather were linked by a common liberal ideology. Earlier in the 1960's the liberal elites urged Americans to go out into the world. The Peace Corps was popular. But after 1968 Americans turned inward. In 1972 Senator McGovern campaigned with the theme "come home, America." The word
