[CTRL] Meaters Need to Know the Truth about their Habit
-Caveat Lector- I think that we need a documentary that follows the life of a cow from birth to raising by a 4H club for instance to the evantual slaughter at a 'meat processing facility' to the eventual processing and then consumption, perhaps surreptitiously by those who raised the poor animals, maybe with little flags with the names of the animals. I'll bet that will really whet their appetites. I am really bad tonight. :) Steve ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.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
Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: SNET: Alert! UN sell-out NEXT WEEK!]
-Caveat Lector- There must have been a death threat or a tremendous amount of cash going under the table to persuade Jesse Helms to sell out his long-standing opposition to the Carnegie-Rockefeller founded and funded United Nations. Cliff Hume. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: Alert! UN sell-out NEXT WEEK! Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SNETNEWS Mailing List VIRGINIA TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION P. O. BOX 663 LYNCHBURG, VA 24505 - 25 years in the cause of freedom - TEL./FAX No.: 804 277-5255 Alert! UN Sell-out next week! A bill containing payment to the United Nations of 582 million alleged "back dues" we do not owe is likely to be "marked up" for passage by the House International Relations Committee next Wednesday, Mar. 21, WITHOUT ANY PUBLIC HEARING! This means that at no stage from the time this unlawful payment was introduced and passed in the Senate Feb. 7 to its likely signing by President Bush will grassroots spokesmen outraged by UN tyranny have a chance to address any congressional committee on dangers from UN takeover! This information just received comes from two highly reliable sources, one of them a member of the International Relations Committee staff. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) pulled S 84 "out of his pocket" on the Senate floor and got instant approval 99-0. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who voted for the payout, admitted that in his state there was "some opposition" to UN funding. But of course there was no Senate discussion of openly proclaimed UN objectives of "global governance", massively overruling our federal and state laws and destroying the U. S. Constitution! The reason the U. S. does not owe the UN back dues is that we have spent about 19 billion on UN peacekeeping activities since 1992. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) has repeatedly brought out that we have been credited with 1.8 billion of that against UN dues. So a precedent has already been made that if we spend money on an authorized UN peacekeeping activity, those monies that we have spent are in lieu of dues. Thus there is about 17 billion still outstanding that we have received no credit for, and the U. S. does not owe the UN a dime for any dues. What to do: Phone House International Relations Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.), 202 225-4561 Friday, Mar. 16, and tell him Americans want a public hearing before his committee so we can tell them why the U. S. should not pay the UN any money! (No time for letters, and his FAX line is permanently tied up!) If you want to stop the dangerous International Criminal Court from coming into existence, you need to help stop further UN funding now! Kenneth White, President E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 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] THE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS FOR FOOD
-Caveat Lector- THE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS FOR FOOD H A R O L D H I L L M A N Mb BSc PhD http://pacas.cjb.net/ Approximately 750, 000, 000 animals and 650, 000 tons of fish are slaughtered each year for food in Britain. The number of fishes is not known because they are weighed, and small fishes are thrown back dead into the sea, because it is illegal to land them. Anglers catch an additional number of fish, and an unknown number of birds and rabbits are shot. (Table 1) Methods of Slaughter Farm animals are stunned by electricity or percussion, and killed by cutting the blood vessels in the neck, causing exsanguination. The halal and shechita method, used by Moslems and Jews, involves cutting the neck without stunning the animals. Shooting may be at close quarters, e.g. of horses, or from a distance, e.g. birds and rabbits. Fish caught at sea or by anglers die of asphyxia, when they are taken out of the water; anglers sometimes throw fish back after withdrawing the hooks; the fish may then die of inability to eat, or microbial or fungal infections. Trapping, snaring and hunting are rarely used in Britain for animals which are to be eaten. Two Kinds of Stunning Most animals in Britain are stunned. Bailhere's Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary (1988) defines it as ?producing unconsciousness of head in carbon dioxide, gas, electrical shock ... all of them aiming to allow the animal to bleed out while it is still alive. An animal that is dead before it has bled out will be unsuitable for marketing.? The latter definition regards stunning as rendering an animal unconscious, and the exsanguination as the cause of death. However, the Oxford English Dictionary (1989) says that the aim of stunning is ?to deprive of consciousness or power of motion [my italics] by a blow, a fall or the like.? The author of this entry gives paralysis as an alternative to loss of consciousness. The captive bolt may penetrate the skull and destroy brain tissue, or cause a considerable rise in intracranial pressure. These result in instantaneous loss of consciousness (as a knock-out does in boxing), followed by collapse of the animal. If the brain tissue is not destroyed, the animal may come round, if the carotid arteries and jugular veins are not cut soon (?sticking?). Instant unconsciousness occurs if the aim is accurate, the animal is still, and the device works. Electrical stunning involves passing a large voltage across the animal's brain. Slaughtermen, butchers, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, Compassion in World Farming and most people who eat meat, assume that the electric current causes instantaneous unconsciousness, so that the animals feel no pain. Unfortunately, there is evidence that this assumption may not be warranted. Sensory and Motor Nervous Systems Early in the 19th century, the neurologists Sir Charles Bell in Britain and Francois Magendie in France recognised the distinctions - both anatomical and physiological - between the sensory and motor nervous systems. Electric stimulation of the skin with low voltages and currents causes a tingling sensation, while higher power causes pain and burns, due to action on the sensory nerve endings in the skin. Stimulation of motor nerves or of muscle directly with low voltages and currents, causes muscles to contract, while higher powers causes spasm and paralysis. It is an everyday experience that, for example, a patient whose finger is anaesthetised locally to lance a whitlow, can still flex it. A spastic person can still feel. It is not permitted to do experiments on paralysed animals, because they can still feel. Every physiologist, doctor and nurse, encounters examples showing the distinction between the sensory and motor systems. Can an Electrically Stunned Animal Feel Pain? There is evidence from human beings that electrical stimulation is painful. Electrical current is widely used to torture people in South America/ the Middle East and China; cattle prods or electric batons are used. Victims of torture attest that the larger the voltage or current, the more painful it is; they do not go unconscious immediately. The power used to torture people is of the same order as that used to stun animals. Greater energy used in the electric chair kills the victim after some minutes, or spoils the taste of meat. Of course, the voltages and currents experienced by the human beings or animals are much lower than those coming out of the devices they use, because the electrodes can not be applied accurately and firmly, and there are alternative pathways across the skin, through the skin and into the tissues. In the case of prisoners in the electric chair, the electrodes are moistened and bound firmly to the head and foot to ensure good contact. Burns occur at the sites of contact with the electrodes. Those due to torture of human beings may be very small. They have been detected
[CTRL] Coke on tap
-Caveat Lector- I must confess I am a sanctimonious ex-coke addict. I quit the stuff when my teeth started falling to pieces and I just couldn't drop any of the extra weight I was carrying. This story serves as a warning. From the updated daily http://leviathan.weblogs.com http://www.theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1814497%5E2702,00.html Plans for Coke on tap at home By Rupert Steiner 19mar01 IT may be a pipedream or perhaps just a plain daft idea but the Australian-born chief executive of Coca-Cola, Douglas Daft, is planning to compete with water by channelling Coke through taps in customers' homes. He has sunk venture capital into an innovations unit in New York that has created a system to mix carbonated water with Coke's secret syrup and pipe it around houses. "We have developed a prototype," he said. "You would have water mixing automatically with the concentrate and then connect it all up so that when you turn on your tap, you have Coke at home. "There's a lot more to it than that to ensure quality, and it has to be a sealed unit so people can't alter the formula to destroy the value of the brand." Pubs and fast-food chains already use similar systems, but Mr Daft is keen to take the concept a step further. "There's not a market yet," he said. "People still like to physically go and buy things, but one day, yes, this will be a reality." Another Daft idea has been to sink $1.5 million into an innovations unit trying to develop something called "Coke space" an area where teenagers can hang out. "It is being funded and developed in Europe," he said. "The unit is trying to define what a Coke space means to a teenager, so we can provide something a teenager would want to come to." The project began with the idea that teenagers hang out beside phone boxes because there is nowhere else to go where they feel comfortable. "Teenagers do like to sit down and chat about intelligent things, and they need to have somewhere to do that, so it came from that idea," Mr Daft said. The Sunday Times 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] Sv: [CTRL] Thou Shalt Not Tolerate
This writer compares Christian texts with Taliban actions. That is nonsense. It would only make sense, to compare todays Christian acts with todays Taliban acts. It appears, that todays political correctness also includes no criticisme of that evil movement which is Islam on the move. This includes armed struggle in Palestine, Bosnia, Kosovo, Libanon, Sudan, Eritrea, Tjetenien, Ethiopia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Usbekistan, Kirgisistan, Kashmir, Burma, Indonesia, The Philippines,Turky, Libanon, Israel, Egypten, Algier, to name the worst places. Best, Ole Gerstrom, Denmark - Original Message - From: William Shannon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 10:02 PM Subject: [CTRL] Thou Shalt Not Tolerate http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10599 Thou Shalt Not Tolerate Knute Berger, AlterNet March 13, 2001 Earlier this month, the Taliban -- the Islamic fundamentalist sect that controls Afghanistan -- ordered the destruction of Buddhist statues and relics throughout the country, including several large 3rd and 5th century statues that stand over 100 feet high. "These idols have been the gods of the infidels," the Taliban declared, "and are respected even now and perhaps may be turned into gods again." Despite howls of protest from western countries, museums curators, UNESCO, and many fellow Muslims, the Taliban's armed forces commenced the destruction of the Buddhas, blasting away at them with canons, tanks, and bombs. In doing so, they were carrying our the irreversible orders of their religions and political leaders. The Buddhas are being destroyed not because they are unimportant or disrespected, but precisely because they are seen by the Taliban -- and nearly the entire international community -- as powerful and important religious images. While the voices of tolerance argue that they should be preserved, the forces of religious fundamentalism have prevailed. Many in the West have decried the Taliban's vandalism. One museum professional I know called the acts of destruction a form of "savagery." Others have said it is typical of Muslim intolerance. Islam, said the Rev. Jerry Falwell recently, is a faith that "teaches hate." Before joining the chorus of those condemning the Taliban, let's consider religious intolerance closer to home. Christian intolerance for one. There is a strong move in America to post the Biblical 10 Commandments in courtrooms, schools and other public places and civic spaces. In fact, in 1999 Congress passed the 10 Commandments Defence Act amendment that would permit this -- though the law is Constiutionally questionable. Many Americans consider the 10 Commandments a no-brainier -- basic rules of behavior we can all agree upon. Pope John Paul II calls them "the universal moral law valid in every time and place." But the 10 Commandments are first and foremost a religious document. The 1st Commandment states "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," clearly saying that there is no room for worship of any other than the Judeo-Christian god, a statement of intolerance that hardly is inclusive of other religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism and many other of the world's faiths. The 2nd Commandment goes further: "Thou shalt make unto thee no graven images..." God goes on to pledge to punished those who worship such graven images "visiting iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the 3rd and 4th generation." So let's see, if you don't worship the Old Testament God, and if you make religious idols, God's wrath will be brought down upon you, your children, your grandchildren and your great grandchildren. Sounds a lot like the Taliban to me. Perhaps, indeed, they are simply doing God's work. The tension between the religious tolerance that we profess, and the religious doctrines we are taught is palpable. Examples are everywhere, and they're not just the Jerry Falwells. Earlier this year, a Presbyterian minister from Chicago dared to suggest at a religious conference that, while good Christians would attain salvation and go to Heaven, perhaps a merciful God had also designed other paths to salvation for Jews, Muslims, and other non-believers. His tolerant, broad-minded remarks uncorked a firestorm of controversy within the church and he was accused of heresy, for Presbyterian doctrine teaches specifically that salvation is only possible for Christians: the earth's other four billion inhabitants are on the fast-track to hell. So when we consider Islamic "savagery" related to Buddhist relics, I suggest we also consider another phrase found centuries ago on the wall of a ruined fort on the frontier of New France: "Nous somme tous sauvage" an anonymous French Indian fighter had carved. "We are all savages." Instead of focusing our moral
Re: [CTRL] Meaters Need to Know the Truth about their Habit
-Caveat Lector- If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? -- Best Wishes Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretenses, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. - Freda Adler A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [PCL] An alternative view on foot and mouth
-Caveat Lector- To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:19:34 + Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PCL] An alternative view on foot and mouth Hi Folks, I'm sure you've all been following the Foot and Mouth epidemic which has swept the UK. The British and foreign news media are having a field day, some of them lathering themselves up into an "end of the world is nigh" scenario over it. But this article paints a slightly different story, and unlike the +official+ version which doesn't let such trivia as scientific facts and figure get in the way, it points out some errors with those all important Government press releases. -Matt- http://web.ukonline.co.uk/goldenhart/b/fandm.htm -- Best Wishes ...the entire debate of hate crimes contributes to the devaluing of human life, by suggesting that one life should be more protected than another. Our response must be that every life is valuable, and harm to one life should be penalized with the full force of the law, no matter the motive. -Janet Parshall 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] NYT: Bush Chooses Chief for Federal Prosecutions
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/15/2001 2:40:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON, March 14 President Bush today named Michael Chertoff, formerly chief Republican counsel of the Senate's Whitewater inquiry and United States attorney in New Jersey, to head the Justice Department's criminal division, a powerful post that would place him in charge of all federal prosecutions. I get it, they're giving "E's" for effort now. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Dubya Won't Regulate
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/15/2001 6:29:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON D.C., March 14, 2001 - Turning his back on a campaign pledge, President Bush informed Congress today that he had decided not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. In an accompanying statement, Bush said he had also decided not to regulate the evacuation of his bowels. The decisions, which came after intense lobbying from industry, came as a blow to conservationists who hoped for strong government guidelines that would curb such emissions. Who out there believed Republican campaign promises? Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] ABC: Democrats say Clinton pardons probe escalates
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/15/2001 9:55:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key House Democrat said Thursday that Republican investigators were stepping up rather than winding down their probe of former President Bill Clinton's pardon of billionaire Marc Rich, issuing new subpoenas and opening new lines of inquiry. But of course, investigations of Clinton beat the heck out of constructive work. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] OJ: NOONAN: Write-Wing Conspiracy
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/16/2001 9:26:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But now I think that it has completely changed. Republicans--well, not Republicans but conservatives--care passionately about the world of ideas, and about history. They write books. And Democrats seem to care about money, and they don't write books, not serious ones. As usual, Noonan is wrong. It's just that the Republicans learned that sometimes books make money. They couldn't miss a chance like that. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] WSJ: BUSH BEGINS pushing Clinton-appointed prosecutors out the door
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/16/2001 9:27:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BUSH BEGINS pushing Clinton-appointed prosecutors out the door. Wouldn't you think that with this exodus, they could find some small spot for Linda Tripp? The new prosecutors will need staff members. George is being mean. After all the Republicans owe Linda Tripp big time. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] GWB's latest Golden Lawbreaker: Dick Cheney! (HALLIBURTON)
From http: //www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Baker022701/baker022701.html: GWB's latest Golden Lawbreaker: Dick Cheney! When will Burton hold hearings on this? By Tamara Baker SAINT PAUL, MN, Feb. 26, 2001When I first started my "Golden Lawbreaker" series, even I didn't realize where it would lead. As you know, the "Golden Lawbreakers" are those friends and donors of GW Bush who, if President Clinton's regulations had not been undone by Usurper Boy and his Prince Regent Cheney, would be barred from receiving Federal Government contracts because of their habitual lawbreaking. As expected, the pro-Bush US Chamber of Commerce raised a stink (now, what was this about conservatives and businessmen respecting "the rule of law"?), thus giving Shrub's minders the cover they needed to zap the regulations within hours of their gaining control of the Oval Office. It turns out that a company very near and dear to Dick Cheney's heart is one of these Golden Lawbreakers. Yes, folksI'm speaking of Halliburton. Here's the scoop: We all know that one of the two counts Rudy Giuliani filed against Marc Rich, way back when, concerned Rich's buying oil from Iran. However, it also seems that Halliburton has been caught violating President Clinton's 1995 executive order forbidding US companies/individuals from doing business with Iran: Halliburton Co., the U.S. oil-services giant until recently headed by Vice President Richard Cheney, has opened an office in Tehran and operated in Iran in possible violation of U.S. sanctions, Thursday's Wall Street Journal reported. Since 1995, U.S. laws have banned most American commerce with Iran. Halliburton Products and Services Ltd. works behind an unmarked door on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. A brochure declares that the company was registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is based in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is "non-American." But, like the sign over the receptionist's head, the brochure bears the Dallas company's name and red emblem, and offers services from Halliburton units around the world. Ooops! You know, I think that the 5th Federal Judiciary Circuit's Northern Texas District might find this rather interesting, don't you? Perhaps someone should bring this to its attention. Ah, but it gets even better: .. a U.S. official said a Halliburton (HAL) office in Tehran would violate at least the spirit of American law. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control declined to comment on a specific company, referring inquiries to a Web site summary of Iran sanctions that bans almost all U.S. trade and investment with Iran, specifically in oil services. The Web site adds: "No U.S. person may approve or facilitate the entry into or performance of transactions or contracts with Iran by a foreign subsidiary of a U.S. firm that the U.S. person is precluded from performing directly. Similarly, no U.S. person may facilitate such transactions by unaffiliated foreign persons." Got that? The law was written so that certain attempts to foil it, such as the transparent attempts by companies like Halliburton to create fake foreign "shell" (or "Potemkin") companies for that very purpose, would be thwarted. Even out of the Oval Office, our last elected president is still going to give Cheney and Bush fits: An executive order signed by President Clinton in March 1995 prohibits "new investments [in Iran] by U.S. persons, including commitment of funds or other assets." It also bars U.S. companies from performing services "that would benefit the Iranian oil industry." Violation of the order can result in fines of as much as $500,000 for companies and up to 10 years in jail for individuals. And guess what: The Halliburton brochure in Tehran says the company has performed oil-drilling services on two offshore drilling contracts in the Iranian sector of the Persian Gulf. One is the Sirri field, being developed by France's TotalFinaElf SA, and the other is Phase 1 of the South Pars field, being developed by an Iranian company. The Halliburton brochure continues: "We are committed to position ourselves in a market that offers huge growth potential." Obviously. So, we know that Halliburton has already given its drilling services to two Iranian projects: the Sirri Field and Phase 1 of the South Pars field. I Googled for Sirri Field and here's part of what I found: In the Middle East, the Sirri E field (TotalFinaElf 60%) in Iran started production in February 1999 and rose to a level of 90 mb/d by year end. Hmmm. Now remember, Cheney didn't leave Halliburton until July of 2000. Sounds like he may have been around when both the Sirri and South Pars fields were drilled by the company he led, and he certainly was around when the drilling deals were negotiated. I next did a Google on "South Pars Phase 1 Halliburton." At the very end of the Google cached
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Lover of Pakistani birds spied for US - stark naked
dawnstar wrote: You gotta read this, to the end, its really a good laugh for the day. Irregardless of politics, just enjoy the humor. I was at school with his daughter, very private girl. Class 76 I think. I remember when I was in the hospital, nearly dead, in Kathmandu when he and his family came trotting through on their way to look at the Himalayas, and visit the King Birendra Bikram Shah, just after we lost the reconicilation referendum for a multiparty system, with BP KOIRALA. (he had been bagged ina coup, US backed early sixties and had been fighting forever to for democracy in the kingdom. It was rigged of course, but thats part of the oppositional politics game against the status quo power. Anyway, Ripley didnt say a damn word for the Democrats. ) Lover of Pakistani birds spied for US http://www.dawn.com/2001/03/19/top14.htm By Our Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 18: A distinguished American who was an unlikely combination of bird-watcher, spy, art lover and museum expert has died in Washington. S. Dillon Ripley, who was 87 at the time of his death this week, was co-author, along with the distinguished orinthologist Salim Ali , of the authoritative 10-volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. He was also for a time an officer in the coordination of information office, the forerunner of the Office of Strategic Services, which in turn assumed the form of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and served in various postings in South Asia. Mr Ripley was secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and led this prestigious centre of art and culture during its period of greatest growth from 1964 to 1984. His interest in the birds of South Asia was aroused during a visit with his family to India in 1926-27, and thereafter he made several trips to the subcontinent. In an extensive obituary, The New York Times recalled that on his retirement from the Smithsonian he was asked in an interview whether he used his unlikely disguise of bird-watcher to spy on the Japanese in South Asia during the war. Mr Ripley was said to have replied: "Curiously enough, the British, and I suppose the Indians, Pakistanis, Ceylonese and so on, thought that it was such a marvellous part of an old-fashioned cover. "Their theory was that most obviously we were spies. It never seemed to be realistic because I never could discover what someone out in the bushes could discover in the way of secrets." Besides his dynamic leadership of the Smithsonian, where his credo was that art should be made accessible to as many people as possible, Mr Ripley was also instrumental in the establishment of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which houses Washington's most impressive collection of Asian art. During his spy work, he had kept up his passion for bird-watching, and one day while taking a shower in Sri Lanka, he had detected a bird through cracks in the bathroom door that he had been trying to collect. He wrapped a towel around himself and went out with a shotgun. Just then, Lord Mountbatten, Viceroy of India, with assorted officers and ladies, came around the corner and the towel fell off. But Mr Ripley got his bird. == SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html == *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to SPYNEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml -- To subscribe SPYNEWS send a blank message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-~ FONT COLOR="#99"We give away $70,000 a month! Come to iWin.com for your chance to win! /FONTA HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/r_1oCB/BJVCAA/4ihDAA/xrOVlB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A -_- Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[CTRL] Fwd: [BIOWAR] US Held Foot And Mouth Simulation 3 Months BEFORE UK Outbreak
SAVE up to 50% on almost EVERYTHING! If you are over age 50, search all types of businesses nationwide for great deals, quickly, easily, and FREE. Visit SeniorDiscounts.com today! http://click.topica.com/aaabCzbz8Q0WbAgsdRb/seniordiscounts US Held Foot And Mouth Simulation 3 Months BEFORE UK Outbreak From Patricia Doyle, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3-18-1 Well, isn't this a stroke of luck...or 'coincidence'... Three months before the FMD outbreak in the UK, the US/Canada/Mexico held FMD simulations. There has not been an outbreak in the US since 1929, yet, 3 months before the UK outbreak, the US holds simulations. Our FMD savior, Plum Island, is supposed to be our first line of defense against the virus. Incidently, the Plum happens to have a virus bank that is shared with, none other then, Canada and Mexico. One of the reasons that the Plum is a Biolevel 5 facility is because it studies FMD live virus. It is illegal to have this virus in the continental US, and the Plum is the ONLY place where various live FMD virues are found in North America. The news of the simulation makes me believe that the US knew an outbreak was going to occur. Did they have warning from a terrorist group? Or, from the NWO? I have just heard that FMD has broken out in Israel on the West Bank. It is in Kuwait and also Saudi Arabia. The strain is pandemic type O. It sure sounds like the US knew a FMD outbreak was going to happen. I wonder if the US had received terrorist threat of impending FMD outbreak. It sure makes a case for an unnatural outbreak in the UK. Patricia Doyle British Foot-Mouth Virus Epidemic Mimics US Simulation NYdailynews 3-18-1 WASHINGTON - Three months before Britain's foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, health officials in the United States, Mexico and Canada tested their ability to respond to a similar epidemic. The results weren't promising. Within four days of a simulated detection of the virus in a small, south Texas swine herd, the virus would have spread through 15 Texas counties and Mexico, a scenario eerily similar to the way a real epidemic now is playing out in Europe. The British government found itself caught yesterday between efforts to control its outbreak and farmers angry that hundreds of thousands of healthy animals are to be slaughtered. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals joined opposition to the slaughter, which calls for healthy sheep and pigs to be destroyed within 2 miles of infected sites in northern England and southern Scotland. Plans for the expanded slaughter have divided farmers. The National Farmers' Union supports the move, but the lobbying group Farmers For Action said it would take legal action to stop the cull. _ Please visit my website "Emerging Diseases" and message board http://goddess-of-fire.tripod.com/index-1.html http://disc.server.com/Indices/93896.html Patricia Doyle, PhD Investigator of Emerging Diseases Feeling blue about the state of your email inbox? Then you'll Be tickled pink to hear about our free email organization solution. Learn more at http://click.topica.com/aaabBybz8Q0WbAgsdRd/register Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info: www.topica.com/lists/biowar T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
[CTRL] Powell delivers stern warning to Russia, Iran
Home - Yahoo! - Help Asia's best news sources. Updated 24 hours a day. Home |Asia | World |Business |Technology |Sport |Entertainment | Newspapers Yahoo! Asia - News World Monday, March 19 11:37 PM SGT Powell delivers stern warning to Russia, Iran WASHINGTON, March 19 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered a stern warning to Russia and Iran Monday, putting both nations on notice that the United States was watching their actions closely and would respond should they make moves that could destabilize the Middle East. In an address before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Powell said Washington would not turn a blind eye to repression by Tehran or arms sales by Moscow to the Islamic Republic. The secretary said while President George W. Bush's administration was reviewing its policy toward Iran, it was troubled by Tehran's continued support for terrorism, opposition to Middle East peace efforts and its treatment of minorities, particularly Jews. "It is apparent that certain aspects of Iranian government behavior ... are of deep concern," Powell said, adding that Iranian Jews had been "unfairly charged and harshly imprisoned" in a series of recent criminal cases. "This is of deep concern to the United States and to the American people, and we will not turn aside and ignore this kind of behavior," he said to enthusiastic applause from the pro-Israel crowd attending the speech. At the same time, Powell said the Bush team was intrigued by recent events in Iran that indicated a resurgence of moderate sentiment against the conservative Islamic government. "We are aware of the intellectual and political foment taking place within Iran," he said. "Things are happening, things are changing and we will continue to watch these developments closely and hopefully." Powell also picked up on heavy criticism of Russia levelled by US officials last week after Moscow announced plans to boost military and nuclear cooperation with Iran. "We are also concerned about Iranian efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction and to increase its conventional military strength," he said, noting that he had raised the issue in meetings with Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and national security advisor Sergei Ivanov. "I have gone so far as to raise with senior Russian officials the role that Russia is playing in these dangerous and destabilizing efforts," Powell said. "We will not overlook what Russia is doing to cause this sort of problem." Washington has warned Moscow that it may face US sanctions should it sell advanced conventional weapons or sensitive technology to Tehran. Russia has dismissed the US concerns saying any weapons sales to Iran will be defensive in nature, will not violate non-proliferation agreements and will not affect the balance of power in the Middle East. Home |Asia |World |Business |Technology |Sport |Entertainment |Newspapers Questions or Comments Copyright © 2000 AFP. All rights reserved. All information displayed in this section (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the contents of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presses. Copyright © 1994-2001 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
[CTRL] Karmic Liberation Army
-Caveat Lector- From URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/train.htm For a printable version of this article, please click here. www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] 'We denied training the KLA? Oh. We lied.' From the March 18 'Sunday Times' [Thanks to Prof. John Peter Maher for this reference] "Embarrassingly for Kfor, it emerged that two of the Kosovo-based commanders leading the Albanian push were trained by former British SAS and Parachute Regiment officers in the days when Nato was more comfortable with the fledgling Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). "A former member of a European special forces unit who accompanied the KLA during the Kosovo conflict said that a commander with the nom de guerre of Bilal was organising the flow of arms and men into Macedonia, and that the veteran KLA commander Adem Bajrami was helping to co-ordinate the assault on Tetovo. Both were taught by British soldiers in the secretive training camps that operated above Bajram Curri in northern Albania during 1998 and 1999. '"The final irony of this is that Nato will be facing not only its own weapons but also its own tactics,' said the special forces soldier. 'And Nato simply can't handle a guerrilla war - the Albanians will beat them.' '"Even backed by howitzers placed in the football stadium by the Macedonian army, the special police were no match for the rebel group, said to number no more than 300 yesterday, and found themselves pinned down by shooting from Kale and from three subordinate positions in a bewildering combination of crossfire. "[INLINE] The NLA had also established three separate mortar positions in an arc about seven miles from Tetovo" For full story see http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/03/18/stifgneeu02001.html T' AER Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Integrity has no need of rules. -Albert Camus (1913-1960) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the "democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded subjects. [[For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard, Fox Wilkes, 1973, 1978, p. 25]] 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
[CTRL] The Lord McNair Report on Slavery in Sudan
-Caveat Lector- The McNair Report on Allegations of Slavery and Slavery-Like Practices in Sudan Lord McNair The House of Lords Westminster London SW1A OPW Date of Publication: 17 November 1997 Introduction I have recently returned from a working visit to Sudan, from 4 - 11 October, 1997. This visit was the culmination of an examination of slavery allegations made against the government of Sudan, and took me to the states of South and North Kordofan. My first trip to Sudan was in September 1994. Before this first visit to Sudan, I had read several negative press reports of abuses on the part of the government against political opponents and against Christians in the south of the country. My overall impression was that there was something contrived about some of these reports which suggested to me the possibility of a deliberate campaign from some quarters to discredit the government. I spent one week in Sudan in September 1994 and visited Khartoum, Juba and Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan. My feeling that the Sudanese government was being unfairly portrayed was confirmed to a degree. In February 1996 I received an invitation to observe the parliamentary and presidential elections due to take place in March. I discovered that the entire electoral process was being shunned by all the countries of the "North". Between these two visits a new issue had emerged. Serious allegations of government involvement in slavery and slavery-related practices had been made by groups such as Christian Solidarity International, and its president, Baroness Cox, a deputy speaker of the British House of Lords. Understandably, the allegations attracted the attention of the media, of other members of parliament, and of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Any allegations that slavery is being inspired or endorsed to any degree by any government is a very grave matter indeed. My initial scepticism about the accuracy of these allegations increased in the face of the earnest good intentions I had noticed in the government officials I had met in 1994. I was, however, new to Africa and the Sudan and I decided to withhold judgment on this issue until I had a better understanding of the situation. I followed the allegations as they appeared until my most recent visit in October 1997. My October 1997 Visit On the occasion of this visit I accepted the invitation of the Human Rights Committee of the Sudanese Parliament to investigate the allegations of slavery. As an integral part of this investigation I visited the states of Northern and Southern Kordofan, the site of many of the allegations. I was accompanied by the vice-chairman of the Human Rights Committee, the Reverend Adi Ambrose, and the Member of Parliament for Kadugli East, Emir Hamid Harim, who is a traditional leader from the Nuba mountains. We travelled first to El Obeid in North Kordofan and then to Dellinge and Kadugli in South Kordofan. We had a number of different meetings in locations in both states. Two themes emerged. Firstly we could find no evidence of slavery. Secondly, the main concerns of the community leaders we met was for the hundreds, if not thousands, of Nuba and Arab children who had been abducted by the forces of John Garang. They appealed to us for help in having the children returned, and various ideas for achieving this were discussed. Indeed, it would appear to me that the abduction by the SPLA of upwards of ten thousand mainly southern Sudanese children over the past decade or more is a far more tangible manifestation of slavery or slavery-like practices than anything alleged by Christian Solidarity International. As early as 1991, the American state department had reported the forcible conscription of "at least 10 000 male minors" (1). The plight of these children has been well documented by Human Rights Watch/Africa, the Children's Rights Project and others. Many of these children have died in the course of the war, either through being forced into combat by the SPLA, or through the squalid conditions in which they were kept. There is no doubt that the abduction of these boys was a deliberate act of SPLA policy. It is a matter of record that these boys have been isolated in camps far away from the public gaze. They are held in preparation for forced labour or forced military service. From my understanding of what Human Rights Watch/Africa calls slavery, these children would appear to be living in conditions qualifying as slavery. It is puzzling to find CSI supporting the SPLA for whom such practices are deliberate policy. I hope that CSI will use its close association with the SPLA to persuade John Garang to release those children whom he is holding. It is well documented that the ICRC has for a number of years sought the release of these children. This has not been possible because of the intransigence of John Garang and the SPLA. I have, as I mentioned, followed the issue of slavery allegations for some time. This
[CTRL] Slavery in Sudan - When Is a Slave Not a Slave?
-Caveat Lector- "SLAVERY" IN SUDAN: WHEN IS A "SLAVE" NOT A "SLAVE"? An Examination of the 1999 Wunlit Accords The British-Sudanese Public Affairs Council 1 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5BW Tel: 0207 872 5434 Fax: 0207 753 2848 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date of Publication: February 2000 One of the continuing allegations focused upon the Sudanese government is that "slavery" exists in western and central Sudan. The Khartoum government's position has been to state that there is a problem with abduction and kidnapping within the context of inter-tribal violence between traditional ethnic rivals such as the nomadic Arabised Baggara communities and pastoralist Dinka tribes over access to grazing and water in parts of Bahr al-Ghazal and Kordofan. Such activity has also been a fact of life between the Dinka and Nuer, and within other tribes in southern Sudan since the last century, if not earlier. There is also no doubt that these long-standing inter-tribal conflicts have become more intense as a result of the Sudanese civil war. Inter-tribal raiding, which had been virtually dormant for decades was given a new lease of life as the Baggara and Dinka were armed with modern, automatic weapons by opposite sides in the Sudanese conflict and encouraged to attack each other. Additionally, given the vastness of Sudan, and even without the dislocation of civil war, several large areas of the country have proved difficult to administer - just as they had been during British colonial times - providing ideal circumstances for abduction and kidnappings. The escalating conflict has also made inter-tribal reconciliation conferences, the traditional mechanism for agreeing water and grazing rights and the exchange of abductees, usually overseen by government officials, difficult. What is disturbing is that the inter-tribal conflict between the Baggara and Dinka communities, and the resultant raiding, abductions and kidnappings within Bahr al-Ghazal and central Sudan has been presented by groups such as Christian Solidarity International (CSI) as "slavery", in the course of which "Arabised" northern tribesmen were "enslaving" black Christian southern tribesmen, women and children. Groups such as Christian Solidarity International have also made much of claims that they were "buying" back such "slaves" from northerners. The abduction of women and children was particularly highlighted by anti-Sudanese groups, as were what were presented as forced marriages between captors and captives. The eagerness of groups such as CSI to "buy" back "slaves" has resulted in a vast increase in the number of tribes people being abducted specifically to be "redeemed" by Christian fundamentalist activists. While it is clear that what has been increasingly presented as "slavery" by anti-Sudanese and anti-Islamic propagandists can in no way be compared to slavery as we understand it, this propaganda onslaught has clearly taken root within the North American and European media. Such claims have also been taken up and encouraged by the United States government, complementing the Clinton Administration's repeated attempts to isolate and destabilise the government of Sudan. Given the attempts by Christian fundamentalist groups such as CSI to redefine tribal abductions as "slavery", it is particularly significant to note the details of the Dinka-Nuer West Bank Peace and Reconciliation Conference, held at Wunlit, in Bahr al-Ghazal, between 27 February and 8 March 1999 (1). Dinka and Nuer chiefs and elders, church, civil and community leaders, women and youth met under the auspices of the New Sudan Council of Churches in an attempt to end years of bitter conflict between the Dinka and Nuer ethnic groups, both of them black southern tribes. A covenant and series of resolutions were agreed and adopted by the conference. The Wunlit Accords were hailed by several church groups, both within and outside of Sudan, as a very significant development in conflict resolution within southern Sudan. It should be noted that the Wunlit process has been supported by Christian Aid UK and DanChurch Aid of Denmark who funded and facilitated the meetings of the Peace Council. One of the major items discussed was the issue of those men, women and children abducted by either the Nuer or Dinka in the course of their inter-tribal raiding and fighting. Several of the main resolutions that central to the Accords specifically addressed this issue. Resolution A of the conference, for example, states that: "Girls who have been abducted but are not yet married shall be repatriated to their parents/relatives as soon as they are identified." Resolution B concerns "girls who have been married in captivity" and offered solutions for the repatriation of girls who have been abducted and were then married off to their abductors, stating that these girls can return to their own tribe if they so wish. Children from any such forced union can be "redeemed" by the father
[CTRL] The Reality of Slave Redemption in Sudan
-Caveat Lector- The European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council 1 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5BW England Tel:020 7872 5434 Fax:020 7753 2848 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date of Publication: March 2001 THE REALITY OF "SLAVE REDEMPTION" IN SUDAN Civil war has raged in Sudan off and on between the Sudanese government and rebels in southern Sudan since 1955. After a ten year period of peace the conflict reignited in1983, and the war in the south has been fought since then by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). (1) Since the mid-1990s several organisations and anti-Sudanese activists have claimed that as a consequence of this war there is a flourishing "slave trade" in Sudan in which the Sudanese government and its northern forces raid southern villages and "enslave" Dinka tribesmen, women and children. Groups such as Christian Solidarity International (CSI) and British activists such as Baroness Cox claim that the people involved in the "slave trade" are governments forces including northern Arab "slave traders" and "militiamen". These groups and activists then further allege that in the course of visits to parts of southern Sudan they have engaged in "slave redemptions" whereby southern Sudanese tribesmen, women and children are supposedly "bought back" from northern Sudanese tribesmen said to have abducted them. These groups claim to have "bought" back or "redeemed" thousands of slaves, often several hundred at a time, from Arab traders. (2) There is a considerable body of independent opinion that finds these claims deeply questionable. It should perhaps firstly be noted that the claims made by Baroness Cox and CSI have long been criticised by human rights organisations and activists. Amongst these have been the United Nations and its agencies such as UNICEF. (3) The respected human rights expert, and Sudan specialist, Alex de Waal, while co-director of the human rights group African Rights, has also said of the claims made by Baroness Cox that: "(O)vereager or misinformed human rights advocates in Europe and the US have played upon lazy assumptions to raise public outrage. Christian Solidarity International, for instance, claims that "Government troops and Government-backed Arab militias regularly raid black African communities for slaves and other forms of booty". The organization repeatedly uses the term "slave raids", implying that taking captives is the aim of government policy. This despite the fact that there is no evidence for centrally-organized, government-directed slave raiding or slave trade." (4) De Waal further observed: "the issue is a slippery one: slavery slides off into issues such as hostage taking. The difference between a hostage and a slave is important. It shows how Sudanese history must be seen in its local context, and how it is a mistake to impose stereotypes from elsewhere. It also points to solutions: intertribal negotiations rather than indiscriminate 'buying back' - which runs the risk of inflating the ransom beyond what families can afford and, even worse, creating an incentive for further raiding and abductions." (5) Peter Verney, the author of an official 1997 Anti-Slavery International report on allegations of Sudanese slavery, has also commented on allegations of government involvement in slavery: "[T]he charge that government troops engage in raids for the purpose of seizing slaves is not backed by the evidence." (6) The claims made by CSI and Baroness Cox have also clearly been of concern to groups such as Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organisation. In a submission to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Anti-Slavery International publicly stated: "There is a danger that wrangling over slavery can distract us from abuses which are actually part of government policy - which we do not believe slavery to be. Unless accurately reported, the issue can become a tool for indiscriminate and wholly undeserved prejudice against Arabs and Muslims. [WE] ARE WORRIED THAT SOME MEDIA REPORTS OF "SLAVE MARKETS", STOCKED BY ARAB SLAVE TRADERS - WHICH [WE] CONSIDER DISTORT REALITY - FUEL SUCH PREJUDICE." (7) (emphasis added) The judgement of some of those most vocal in allegations of "slavery" and "slave redemption" in Sudan has been called into question. As a general view on Baroness Cox's reliability on Sudan, it is worth nothing that in Andrew Boyd's sympathetic biography of her, 'Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless', Dr Christopher Besse of Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin), a humanitarian aid organisation with which Cox is closely associated (Dr Besse and Baroness Cox are both trustees of Merlin), is quoted as saying: "She's not the most popular person in Sudan among the humanitarian aid people. She has her enemies, and some of them feel she is not well- enough informed. She recognizes a bit of the picture, but not all that's going on." (8) For someone who is even said by her
[CTRL] Slave Redemption in Sudan - Independent Evidence of Fraud
-Caveat Lector- The British-Sudanese Public Affairs Council 1 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5BW Tel: 0207 872 5434 Fax: 0207 753 2848 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publication Date: April 2000 "SLAVE REDEMPTION IN SUDAN": INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE OF SYSTEMATIC FRAUD IN THE PRESENTATION OF "SLAVES" IN SUDAN In a July 1999 article entitled 'The False Promise of Slave Redemption', published by The Atlantic Monthly, American journalist Richard Miniter provided unambiguous first hand evidence that there was fraud and corruption in the process of "slave redemption" in Sudan, whereby southern Sudanese tribesmen, women and children are supposedly "bought back" from northern Sudanese tribesmen said to have abducted them during raids on southern villages.(1) This "redemption" process, closely associated with Christian Solidarity International, has already been extensively criticised by the United Nations and its agencies such as UNICEF. (2) Miniter was accompanied during a visit to southern Sudan by James Jacobson, the president of Christian Freedom International. Jacobson, a former Reagan Administration official, had previously served as Christian Solidarity International's Washington representative. In 1998, the American branch of Christian Solidarity International USA went its own way as Christian Freedom International, with Jacobson at its head. He was an enthusiastic supporter of "slave redemption" until he actually visited southern Sudan to see the "slave redemption" situation for himself. Jacobson subsequently publicly disowned "slave redemption" because the financial incentives involved encouraged both the taking of captives as well as fraud and corruption. SPLA Involvement in "Slave Redemption" fraud The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is the rebel movement waging war in southern Sudan against the Sudanese Government. The "Sudanese Relief and Rehabilitation Association" (SRRA) is an arm of the SPLA. Miniter's article clearly documents the involvement of what he terms "middle level" SPLA/SRRA officials in fraudulently presenting "slaves" to visiting Western would-be "redeemers". The following is a direct quote from Miniter's article: (Quote) I witnessed an attempted slave redemption that was unquestionably problematic during a recent visit to Nyamlell, a large settlement about fifty miles south of the Bahr al Arab river, in southern Sudan. Nyamlell has been the location of many slave redemptions covered by the U.S. media. The night before my visit officials from the local branch of the Sudanese Relief and Rehabilitation Association in Lokichokio, Kenya, asked for a meeting with James Jacobson, who had been hoping to redeem the slaves in Nyamlell. After half an hour of small talk the officials got down to business. "How much money are you bringing for slave redemption?" "Four thousand dollars," Jacobson said. "Ah, that is very helpful. There are forty slave children to be redeemed." "Forty children? That would be a hundred dollars each. Don't other groups pay fifty dollars each?" "No. Everyone pays a hundred." "What about Christian Solidarity International?" "Ah, they are different. They buy in much larger quantities."... Jacobson exchanged no money, but two mid-level SRRA officials insisted on accompanying him and me to Nyamlell. When we landed on the dirt runway, a local commissioner named Alev Akechak Jok met our plane. He refused to make eye contact with the SRRA officials, and was adamant about meeting privately with Jacobson and me...The commissioner offered tea and an admission: "There are no slaves here for you to buy."Hadn't the SRRA radioed his village the previous day and learned that there were forty children to be freed? He shook his head no. As we returned to the airstrip, the SRRA officials rejoined us. One said that he had just found a trader and ten children to be redeemed. Jok suddenly became angry and pulled me aside: the officials could not hear us over the whirling propeller. "You must leave now!" he demanded. Are the children slaves? I asked. "No," he said, "they are the children of the village." Jok has since been removed from his post, probably in retaliation for his honesty. (End Quote) The simple fact that Alev Akechak Jok was punished for his actions would clearly indicate continuing SPLA involvement in this fraud, a fraud which has obvious propaganda and financial advantages to the rebels. Miniter also documented a further way SPLA officials are involved in fraud with regard to "slave redemption": "Corrupt officials set themselves up as bankers and insist that redeemers exchange their dollars for Sudanese pounds, a nearly worthless currency...The officials arrange by radio to have some villages play slaves and some play slave-sellers, and when the redeemers arrive, the Sudanese pounds are used to free the slaves. When the redeemers are gone, the pounds are turned back over to the corrupt officials, who hand out a few dollars in return. Most of the
[CTRL] FC: Federal worker fired over Web map of Arctic caribou (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010315/t22700.html WASHINGTON--Last week, Ian Thomas posted a map on a U.S. government Web site of the caribou calving areas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area the Bush administration wants to open up for oil exploration. This week, Thomas is looking for a new job. "I'm really flabbergasted," Thomas said Wednesday. "After putting out 20,000 maps with no problem and then putting out one where baby caribou like to hang out, I got fired." [...] Government officials say he was fired for working outside of his assigned duties. And besides, some of the map information was wrong. [...] * Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 05:11:20 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Bissex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USGS employee fired after posting ANWR map (fwd) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Declan, A reasonable interpretation of these events, differing of course from the official explanation, would be that this guy was fired because he was making it more difficult for Bush to sell the idea of drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. pb ~ Paul Bissex [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Scribe New Media http://e-scribe.com/ PO Box 847 Northampton MA 01061-0847 USA Hotline: 413-290-5510 Landline: 413-584-6731 -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pol-sci-tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:54:48 -0800 Subject: web censorship A good reason to archive websites! Check out the LA times story as well: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010315/t22700.html Hi All, Well, I have been fired for posting to the internet a single web page with some maps showing the distribution of caribou calving areas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). My entire website http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/geotech/ has now been removed from the internet. This represents about 3 years worth of work and 20,000 plus maps showing bird, mammal and amphibian distributions, satellite imagery, landcover and vegetation maps for countries and protected areas all around of the globe. As far as I aware it was one of the biggest collections of maps online and certainly the biggest collection showing maps of biodiversity and the environment. The website was often visited by over a thousand visitors each week. In addition, I was fulfilling roughly a dozen requests for geospatial data and information from colleagues, other researchers and the general public each day. All of this comes as a rather big surprise to me. I was given no chance to remove the webpage or even finish writing an appeal before my position was terminated. I was working under a contract so I believe I have very little legal recourse. I have received no written explanation (or even an email) stating the exact reasons for the termination decision and I understand that even though this would be a reasonable courtesy to expect, it is unlikely to be forthcoming. From my viewpoint my dismissal was a high-level political decision to set an example to other Federal scientists. I base this belief on the following information I received from a colleague in Alaska who is a leading researcher on the issues involved: "I really hope you don't get fired. In fact, had the timing of what you did not been so inappropriate based on everything else that was going on, I doubt that anyone would have noticed. Your work showed a lot of initiative..." "...the fallout would not have been so great had the subject matter not been one of the three USDOI super hot topics with the new administration and had we not been briefing the Secretary at the nearly exact time your website went up. Everyone is nervous and as I mentioned earlier, consistency in presentation is paramount." So now, I believe my only recourse is to appeal to the general public in the hope that in the future what just happened to me will not happen to others. I would recommend anybody in a similar circumstances to contact the fine people at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (http://www.peer.org) or a similar organization. The response and support I have received from friends online has been truely amazing. I very much appreciate how quickly people have acted on my behalf and helped publicize my plight and I especially wish to thank the international mapping community...receiving letters of support from far away places cheers me up no end. Please feel free to forward this email to other lists and media contacts! I would also be grateful if anybody who misses all the maps I put on the internet please contact the USGS to let them know and to ask that the maps be reposted. I feel very bad that these events are also affecting my colleagues at Patuxent. Patuxent was a great place to work, has amazing researchers and everybody I worked with is very supportive. Many, many thanks for your support,
[CTRL] [radtimes] # 184
-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 184 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" --- Send $$ to RadTimes!! -- (See ** at end.) --- Contents: --We are here. We have arrived. [Marcos speech] --Stop the Torture Trade --A Call to Take a Closer Look at the Culture of 'Whiteness' --Out of the jungle, a global hero --Mexico's Masked Man Strides Into the Capital --Reader commentary === We are here. We have arrived. Speech by Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN March 11, 2001 in the Zocalo of Mexico City Translated by Justin Podur City of Mexico: We have arrived. Here we are. We are the Indigenous National Congress and Zapatistas who together, salute you. If the place we're standing is where it is, it is not an accident. It is because from the beginning, the government has been at our backs. Sometimes with armed helicopters, sometimes with paramilitaries, sometimes with bomber planes, sometimes with tanks, sometimes with soldiers, sometimes with police, sometimes with offers to buy or sell consciences, sometimes with offers of rendition, sometimes with lies, sometimes with strident declarations, sometimes with forgetfulness, sometimes with expectant silences. Sometimes, times like today, with impotent silences. Because of this the government never sees us, because of this they never hear us. If they would hurry up a little maybe they could reach us. They could see us then, and hear us. They could discover the long and strong horizontal-ness of one who is persecuted and who nevertheless is not distressed, because she knows that it is the step that follows the one that requires attention and persistence. Brother, Sister: Indigenous, worker, farmer, teacher, student, homemaker, driver, fisher, cab driver, office worker, employee, street vendor, gang, unemployed, journalist, religious, homosexual, lesbian, transexual, artist, militant intellectual, activist, marine, soldier, athlete, legislator, bureaucrat, man, woman, child, youth, senior. Brother, Sister of the Indigenous National Congress, indigenous peoples of Mexico: We should not be here. After hearing this, I'm sure that, for the first time, those behind me are applauding furiously. For this reason I'll repeat myself. We should not be here. The ones who should be here are the indigenous Zapatista communities, their 7 years of struggle and resistance, their voices and their faces. The Zapatistas, the men, women, children and seniors, bases of support of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, who are the feet that we walk, the voice that we speak, the face that makes us visible, the sound that gives us our voice. The ones who should be here are the insurgents, their persistent shadow, their quiet strength, their risen memory. The insurgents. The women and men who are the regular troops of the EZLN and who are the guardian of the heart of our peoples. It is they who deserve to see all of you and hear all of you and speak to all of you. We should not be here. And yet we are. And we are here with those, with all of those who people the indigenous peoples throughout Mexico. The indigenous peoples, our most first peoples, our most first speakers, our most first hearers. To those who, being first, last to appear and perish... Indigenous Brother, Sister: Tenek. We come from very far. Tlahuica. We walk time. Tlapaneco. We walk the earth. Tojolobal. We are the bow and arrow. Totonaco. The walking wind. Triqui. We are the heart and blood. Tzeltal. The warrior and protector. Tzotzil. The friendly embrace. Wixaritari. They think we are defeated. Yaqui. Dumb. Zapoteco. Silenced. Zoque. We carry much time in our hands. Maya. We have come here to name ourselves. Kumiai. We have come to say 'we are'. Mayo. We have come to be seen. Mazahua. We have come to see that we are seen. Mazateco. Here our name is said by our walking. Mixe. We are this. The one who grows between fences. The one who sings. The one who cares for the old word. The one who speaks. The one who is of corn. The one who lives in the mountain. The one who walks the earth. The one who shares an idea. The true us. The true person. The ancestor. The person of the web. The one who respects history. The one who dresses humbly. The one who speaks flowers. Who is rain. Who has knowledge to give. Who hunts with arrows. Who is the river. Who is the desert. Who is the sea. The different. The one who is a person. The one who walks faster. Who is the people. Who is the mountain. Who is painted with color. Who speaks the truth. Who has three hearts. Who is father and elder brother. Who walks the night. Who works. The man who is man. The one who walks among the clouds. The one who has words. The one
[CTRL] I Had a Dream
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! I Had a Dream Diane Alden March 16, 2001 You have to ask yourself sometimes: If you could dream up a world where things made sense to you, what would that world look like? I suspect those dreams are as individual as the dreams of each single individual. Ted Turner's dreams would be a lot different from the pope's or Jerry Falwell's. The dream of the EarthFirsters! would be different from the dreams of Exxon. Rosie O'Donnell's dream would be antithetical to Charlton Heston's, and Bill Clinton's would be vastly different from Ronald Reagan's. To have a dream is to have hope. To have a dream is to begin the process of reinventing ourselves and the society around us. To be free to dream is the best of all possible worlds. I had a dream that all the politicians of all political persuasions decided that the government had grown vastly too large and too powerful. That it had become corrupt and unresponsive. That it was swayed by notions that really had nothing to do with what was good for people, but rather that which was good for government. I had a dream that the leviathan state went on a diet and lost about 2/3 of its girth, thereby becoming slimmer and healthier. The dream of limited government and individual liberty. I had a dream that the First Amendment to the Constitution and its subgroupings such as freedom of religion, press and speech were respected across the board. That toleration and freedom meant each and every person understood the Bill of Rights as written. That it was a list of particulars which were simple in concept and meaning and did not require nine people in black robes, with their individual prejudices and mindsets, getting in the way of the simplicity of meaning. I dreamed that everyone understood that with the rights contained in that document, each citizen of the United States had the same respect for responsibilities toward exercising those rights. That self-discipline based on the founding principles under the Judeo-Christian tradition was recognized as the basis for our rights and duties. I had a dream that 50,000 pages of the Federal Register had to be archived because they no longer applied. I had a dream that the country lost its obsession with sex, with perversions of the sexual act, that we once more connected that act with consequences â moral, mental, spiritual and personal. That we understood it is at its root an act of creation rather than recreation. That it is about the beauty of life rather than the ugliness and selfishness of seeking the perfect sex partner in serialized narcissism. I had a dream that people talked to each other again rather than talking AT each other. That for two days a week the TV went silent. That we introduced ourselves to reading a good book, hard copy or on the Net, and had an understanding what really great literature is about. To paraphrase William Faulkner in his Nobel Prize for literature acceptance speech: âIf it isn't about honor, growth, courage, if it does not speak to both the heart and mind of man, it is not great literature.â Frankly, we live in a culture where most modern literature is nothing but words on paper. Difficult to understand because it has become cute tricks of style rather than substance, raising victimology above insight into the human condition, meanwhile overlooking the irony in life as well as the simple good things in the triumph of the human spirit. It is mean and debasing, bringing us closer to a dark age of the mind and the soul. It no longer enlightens or illuminates, and even the rage in much of it is canned and phony and predictable. It is boring and self-defeating and is full of forgettable characters that are neither interesting nor humorous in their evil, debauchery or downtrodden condition. They are forgettable because they are self-absorbed. I had a dream it was just as easy for a conservative writer to get published as it was for Toni Morrison or Norman Mailer. That conservative male writers other than Tom Clancy were given opportunities to have their works of fiction published even when they are not politically correct. I had a dream that music returned to itself as it sings to the mind and heart rather than to the crotch or the ego. That music left infantile self-abuse in Eminem and Madonna behind. If there are no more great musical forms to be discovered, and dissonant noise is not music and verbal guttural certainly not, then return to the old great musical forms and improvise until new instruments and greater forms come along. Remake the radio and MTV airwaves as places to hear and see music that involves rather than music that requires you sit back and comment on how outrageous it is. Todayâs music will not last. Today's pop music will not have the staying power of Scott Joplinâs Charlie Parker's jazz. Nor will it be resurrected in the future like the Big Band music of the â30s and
[CTRL] Energy needs may spur rebirth of nuclear power
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Energy needs may spur rebirth of nuclear power By Patrice Hill THE WASHINGTON TIMES SPECIAL REPORT One surprising result of the past year's energy crisis is a revival of interest in nuclear power â an industry that was declared dead only a few years ago. Top Stories ⢠Support for faster tax relief grows in Senate ⢠Senate support for McCain-Feingold weakens ⢠World's leaders beat a path to Bush's door ⢠Secret Service battles surge in counterfeiting ⢠Investigators seek cause of derailment ⢠Auction of historic salvage ship tugs at heartstrings Perhaps the most visible sign that nuclear power is back came last month when Silicon Valley executives declared that it would be the best solution to the chronic electricity shortage facing California, though it still faces formidable political obstacles. "Nuclear power is the answer," said Craig Barrett, chief executive of Intel Corp., "but it's not politically correct." The computer-chip executive said his company risks losing millions of dollars each time power fluctuates during one of California's rolling blackouts, disrupting the manufacture of microchips. Nuclear, which provides about one-fifth of America's power, is one of the most reliable and plentiful sources of electricity since nuclear plants can run 24 hours a day, seven days a week and are not affected by drought or frigid weather like hydroelectric and conventional power sources. But Mr. Barrett acknowledged that resistance to nuclear power remains strong, particularly in Northern California, where the Green Party and other environmental groups are major political forces. He said local officials have consistently blocked efforts to build new power facilities in the valley, and the company would not expand there for that reason. Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun Microsystems Inc., agreed in a speech at the National Press Club last month that nuclear is the best alternative for California. "In terms of environmental and cost and competitiveness and all of the rest of it, I just don't see any other solution," the software executive said, alluding to another nuclear selling point: It is largely pollutant-free and requires no disruptive drilling in sensitive environmental areas, unlike oil and gas. The hard facts The statements from high-tech executives may appear mostly symbolic. But hard statistics show that nuclear no longer is the dying industry that only a few years ago was biding time waiting for aging power plants built during the 1970s to crumble toward their inevitable burial. Today, with the cost of natural gas and oil soaring, old nuclear plants that had been mothballed because they were too expensive to maintain and operate suddenly can be brought back on line and made profitable once again. A brisk business in buying and selling closed plants has developed, and 80 percent to 90 percent of the nation's 103 nuclear plants are expected to seek 20-year extensions of their operating licenses. Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s Calvert Cliffs plant in March 2000 was the first to win relicensing. With demand for electricity at record highs, existing nuclear power plants have been producing a record amount of power â up 3.7 percent to 755 billion kilowatt hours last year, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute. Improvements in maintenance procedures that mean, among other things, less down time for refueling also enabled the plants to operate at a record 89.6 percent of capacity in 2000, the institute said. Also for the first time in more than a decade, nuclear production has become less expensive than any other source of electricity generation. "It's the best year ever in performance," said Alfred C. Tollison, executive vice president of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. "The foundation is being put in place for a renaissance in nuclear power," though he added, "that depends on the industry remaining accident-free." Safety questions persist All sides agree that public perceptions about the safety of nuclear power and the question of how to permanently dispose of nuclear wastes remain significant obstacles. Because of that, no new nuclear plants have been built in the United States in the last two decades, and none are on the drawing board. But there are signs that the political opposition may not be as potent as in past years. The interest shown by many technology professionals suggests that younger generations are not as worried by the scare surrounding the Three Mile Island and the Chernobyl nuclear accidents that made the power source untouchable to older generations. Observers say nuclear's clean record on safety after decades of operating power plants in the United States, France, Japan and other industrialized nations also is vindicating the reputation of the industry.
[CTRL] Halt arms sales to Taiwan, China urges US
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Halt arms sales to Taiwan, China urges US By Toby Harnden in Washington and David Rennie in Beijing Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China News - Defencelink: US Department of Defence National Missile Defence - Federation of American Scientists 30th anniversary of "ping-pong diplomacy" marked in Beijing [19 Mar '01] - Xinhua News Service China's Qian to US, aiming to block arms to Taiwan [18 Mar '01] - Inside China Today White House reveals Taiwan arms sale [17 Mar '01] - Washington Post Beijing eases stand in missile defence [15 Mar '01] - Washington Post China lobbies to block an arms sale to Tiawan [3 Mar '01] - Washington Post QIAN QICHEN, China's Vice-Premier and foreign policy supremo, arrived in America last night in an attempt to block arms sales to Taiwan and restrict plans for a missile defence shield. Qian Qichen arrives at La Guardia airport in New York Mr Bush has signalled a tougher stance against China, regarding it as a "strategic competitor", rather than talking, as Bill Clinton did, of a "strategic partnership". He has also made it clear that he sees Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as America's main allies in Asia. To symbolise this, Yoshiro Mori, the beleaguered Japanese Prime Minister, will meet Mr Bush this week before Mr Qian's appointment on Thursday. China, in response, has announced a sharp increase in defence spending. Several Asian countries, especially Japan, fear that they will be awkwardly caught in a new confrontation between China and America. Washington's new attitude towards China is part of a foreign policy that is tightly focused on what the Bush administration regards as national interests. More than a third of the 55 special envoy posts created by Mr Clinton have already been abolished and Mr Bush has said America will intervene abroad only when it has a direct stake in the outcome. In addition to the perennial disagreements over human rights and Taiwan, the democratic American ally which Beijing still regards as a rebel province, Mr Bush's missile defence proposals are likely to strain relations. Beijing fears that plans for a theatre missile defence system to counter the threat from North Korea, Iran and Iraq could neutralise China's nuclear capability. At his meeting with Mr Bush, Mr Qian will ask him to prevent American sales to Taiwan of advanced weapons such as the Patriot anti-missile and Aegis battle-management systems. In contrast to the latest tensions, Communist leaders last night hosted a 30th anniversary reunion of the Beijing table tennis tournament that ended decades of silence between the Cold War rivals. The guest of honour was Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State under President Nixon, who met many of the now-ageing diplomats who took part in "ping pong diplomacy". Students played a fresh Sino-US match in the same state guest house in western Beijing where Mr Kissinger stayed 30 years earlier before Mr Nixon's 1972 visit to China and Mr Kissinger played a match with Li Lanqing, a Chinese Vice-Premier. Chairman Mao once told Mr Nixon that he preferred dealing with Right-wingers because he found them more straightforward. Communist leaders have found that Republican administrations focus on trade, rather than thorny issues such as human rights. China makes little secret of its belief that all new US presidents can be "trained" in the ways of pragmatism, no matter how tough their talk about human rights or Taiwan on the election trail. Mr Bush, however, is conscious of the number of Republican friends that Taiwan has on Capitol Hill and in the early weeks of his administration has shown a determination to stick to his campaign pledges. Although Mr Clinton was seen in America as "soft on China", senior Chinese officials complained that he was untrustworthy and two-faced. He presided over the normalisation of trade ties with China but also said this would undermine one-party Communist rule. Mr Bush, whose father was ambassador to China before he became president, has accepted an invitation to visit Beijing in October. Mr Bush has already shown that he intends to be tougher on communism than Mr Clinton. When Gen Colin Powell, the Secretary of State, said he wanted "to pick up where President Clinton left off" on North Korea, Mr Bush was quick to disagree and has refused to endorse the "sunshine policy" of bringing the two Koreas together favoured by President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CTRL] North Korea says U.S. ties at critical juncture
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! North Korea says U.S. ties at critical juncture Sunday, 18 March 2001 12:25 (ET) North Korea says U.S. ties at critical juncture By CHARLES LEE SEOUL, South Korea, March 18 (UPI) -- North Korea on Sunday said its ties with the United States were at a "critical juncture" and urged the Bush administration to follow the constructive North Korea policy pursued by its predecessors. If the United States reconsiders a Clinton-era deal to help the communist country build nuclear reactors, it will risk drastically worsening relations, the North's state-run press said. North Korea will "take up an extreme hard-line stance" if the United States takes a tough stance against it, Radio Pyongyang said. It blasted U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who reportedly has recommended President George W. Bush to scrap the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea. The U.S. newsletter Defense News reported that Helms made the recommendation to the president in a letter sent March 9. Under the landmark agreement, the United States and its allies agreed to supply North Korea with two 1,000-megawatt light-water reactors and 500,000 tons of fuel heavy oil annually until the completion of the first reactor, in return for an end to North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons development program. But the $4.6 billion project has been delayed following Pyongyang's test-fire of a ballistic missile in 1998 over Japan, a main financial contributor to the project. The North's mouthpiece threatened to revive nuclear weapons development program, saying it was "entitled to take an option." "It is its revolutionary determination to counter the use of force with force and return war for war and surely win with a thousand-fold retaliation," Radio Pyongyang said. "The United States should drop its daydream of isolating and stifling the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea by force of arms and opt to sincerely implement the agreed framework. This is also beneficial to the United States," it added. It was the latest in a series of attacks on the new U.S. administration since the Seoul-Washington summit earlier this month which raised questions about the reliability of North Korea. Meeting with South Korean President Kim Dae-jung on May 7, Bush said he didn't trust the communist dictatorship in Pyongyang and had no plans to immediately resume talks on scrapping its long-range missile program. Bush's tough stance has prompted North Korea to launch a bitter diatribe against the new administration which it insists has employed "provocative approach" against the Stalinist state. The North warned that "the army and people of (North Korea) would take thousand-fold revenge on them." Bush plans to travel to South Korea in October before attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Shanghai, China. Officials here said Bush's Seoul trip would focus on policy coordination between the two allies in dealing with North Korea. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Top defense contractors rapidly building up China's air fleet
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! U.S. planes to fly PLA to Taiwan? Top defense contractors rapidly building up China's air fleet -- -- Editor's note: In collaboration with the hard-hitting Washington, D.C. newsweekly, Human Events, WorldNetDaily brings you this special report every Monday. You can subscribe to Human Events through our online store. By Terence P. Jeffrey © 2001 Human Events Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reported last week that the People's Republic of China has built a second short-range missile base just 135 miles from the shores of Taiwan. This underscores the obvious military threat the worldâs last great communist power poses for one of the most promising new democracies of Asia. Yet, China is swiftly creating another, more insidious, threat to Taiwan, and U.S. policymakers seem oblivious. That threat is the rapid build-up of the PRCâs commercial air fleet. The planes of this fleet may become to 21st-century warfare what amphibious landing vehicles were to 20th-century warfare in the hands of commanders like Nimitz and MacArthur -- in places like Iwo Jima and Leyte. If so, it is the United States that taught the People's Liberation Army what it could do if it controlled enough large jets and could seize an airfield on which to land them. In the build-up to the 1991 war with Iraq, the U.S. Defense Department Federal Expressed 9,000 soldiers to the Persian Gulf. No, the Pentagon did not wrap them up in red, white and blue boxes and drop them off by 8:00 p.m. for overnight delivery. But it did commandeer an entire fleet of Federal Express 747s and DC-10s -- along with their pilots -- and made them instant instruments of the largest military airlift in history. âIndustrial Cooperationâ Between August 1990 and July 1991, 34 commercial air carriers contributed 110 aircraft and their crews to this cause. They operated as part of what the Defense Department calls the Civil Reserve Air Fleet -- a concept developed in 1952 during the Korean War, but not used until the crisis in the Persian Gulf. All told, the commercial airliners of CRAF brought two-thirds of U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf and one-fifth of the cargo. Many of the flights went to the air base at Dhahran, which was vulnerable to Iraqi Scud attacks throughout the war. Without these commercial jets, it would have taken the U.S. much longer to amass the forces needed to defeat Saddamâs army. With these jets, the United States was able to rapidly deploy enough forces in the Persian Gulf to deter an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia, and quickly change the military and psychological balance of power in the region. If the Gulf War proved the effectiveness of laser-guided bombs and cruise missiles, it also established the importance of large commercial jets to modern war. Since the Gulf War, the PRC has invested billions to modernize and expand its commercial air capacity. That should not be surprising. But perhaps it should be surprising that some top U.S. defense contractors have helped them do it. The same companies that built the equipment that U.S. air carriers used to carry troops and materiel to the Persian Gulf are now building the equipment that the PRC may someday use to carry troops and materiel across the Taiwan Strait. Boeing, listed by the Defense Department as its No. 2 contractor, boasts on its corporate website of the help it has given the PRC in bolstering its commercial air capability: "China has requested Boeing assistance in developing its air transportation infrastructure," says the company. "The Boeing Co. has invested several hundred million dollars in infrastructure development since 1993. From 1993 to 2000, Boeing has instructed over 11,000 Chinese aviation professionals, half of whom are pilots, maintenance and flight operations people." Boeing is helping the PRC develop the ability to build aircraft components and train the personnel needed to maintain and fly large jets. "Training takes place in Seattle, Long Beach, Calif., and China," says Boeing. "A number of those trained by Boeing in the United States return to China as trainers themselves." "Boeing is assisting the CAAC [Civil Aviation Administration of China] in its effort to further develop the Civil Aviation Flying College (CAFC), Chinaâs premier pilot training academy," says the company. "Boeing has given the college two multi-million-dollar 737 simulators, which are used to complete training for instructor pilots." "In the 1980s," the company says, "Boeing helped the CAAC establish an aircraft maintenance certificate course at the Civil Aviation Institute of China (CAIC) in Tianjin." Boeing says on its website that it produces elements of its 737s, 747s and 757s in China as part of an "industrial cooperation" program. It also operates three joint ventures in China: an
[CTRL] US soldiers in firing line for first time
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! MONDAY MARCH 19 2001 US soldiers in firing line for first time FROM MICHAEL EVANS IN TANUSEVCI WITH artillery fire booming up the mountainside from Macedonian gunners seeking out rebel Albanian fighters, American airborne rangers are now regularly placing themselves in harmâs way for the first time since entering Kosovo as part of the Nato-led peacekeeping force. Up in these 4,000ft, thickly wooded hills that criss-cross the Kosovo and Macedonia border, the Americans, who used to spend their peacekeeping shifts hemmed into armoured personnel carriers guarding street corners, are looking out for Albanian gunmen along tracks which are a natural haven for guerrillas. About 30 miles away lies Camp Bondsteel, the American fortress barracks that offers every type of comfort from gyms to cinemas. However, for these troops from the 82nd Airborne Division, the previously risk-free military mission has changed over the past 48 hours dramatically and put them directly in the firing line. On patrol yesterday, 3 Squad from Charlie Company 1st 325 Airborne Infantry Regiment reached Tanusevci, the scene of gunfire exchanges with Albanian âterroristsâ two weeks ago, after an hourâs hard hike from Debelde. Once over the rise, the Americans are so close to Macedonia that it makes no difference. Uncomfortably aware of a Macedonian sniper nearby, Captain Marcus Evans from Georgia walks into Macedonia to meet his counterparts guarding the same mountain from the same enemy. A Macedonian major shakes the Americanâs hand and thanks him for helping to protect his country from the rebels. These few words say everything about the new relationship that has suddenly developed in these treacherous border areas. The United States and the rest of Nato owe a debt of honour to the Macedonians for allowing the alliance to park its troops and tanks on their territory for the Kosovo peacekeeping operation and Skopje has now made it clear itâs pay-back time. Nato officially says it has no mandate to operate in Macedonia but, in the eyes of the major, this is precisely what the Americans are now doing. The expansion of the American role began on March 8 when Charlie Company and Bravo Company set up home in the schoolhouse at Tanusevci. Now cooperation and consultation with the Macedonians occur on a daily basis. The Macedonian major tells Captain Evans of an Albanian âterrorist cellâ which is known to be holed up not far away in a place called Two Graves. Itâs in Kosovo, he says, hinting that his new friends in the US airborne forces should get over there and sort them out. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Powell delivers stern warning to Russia, Iran
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Monday, March 19 11:37 PM SGT Powell delivers stern warning to Russia, Iran WASHINGTON, March 19 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered a stern warning to Russia and Iran Monday, putting both nations on notice that the United States was watching their actions closely and would respond should they make moves that could destabilize the Middle East. In an address before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Powell said Washington would not turn a blind eye to repression by Tehran or arms sales by Moscow to the Islamic Republic. The secretary said while President George W. Bush's administration was reviewing its policy toward Iran, it was troubled by Tehran's continued support for terrorism, opposition to Middle East peace efforts and its treatment of minorities, particularly Jews. "It is apparent that certain aspects of Iranian government behavior ... are of deep concern," Powell said, adding that Iranian Jews had been "unfairly charged and harshly imprisoned" in a series of recent criminal cases. "This is of deep concern to the United States and to the American people, and we will not turn aside and ignore this kind of behavior," he said to enthusiastic applause from the pro-Israel crowd attending the speech. At the same time, Powell said the Bush team was intrigued by recent events in Iran that indicated a resurgence of moderate sentiment against the conservative Islamic government. "We are aware of the intellectual and political foment taking place within Iran," he said. "Things are happening, things are changing and we will continue to watch these developments closely and hopefully." Powell also picked up on heavy criticism of Russia levelled by US officials last week after Moscow announced plans to boost military and nuclear cooperation with Iran. "We are also concerned about Iranian efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction and to increase its conventional military strength," he said, noting that he had raised the issue in meetings with Russian officials, including Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and national security advisor Sergei Ivanov. "I have gone so far as to raise with senior Russian officials the role that Russia is playing in these dangerous and destabilizing efforts," Powell said. "We will not overlook what Russia is doing to cause this sort of problem." Washington has warned Moscow that it may face US sanctions should it sell advanced conventional weapons or sensitive technology to Tehran. Russia has dismissed the US concerns saying any weapons sales to Iran will be defensive in nature, will not violate non-proliferation agreements and will not affect the balance of power in the Middle East. -- -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Unique Health ID Numbers-The Ultimate Invasion Of Your Privacy?
http://etherzone.com/fath032601.shtml UNIQUE HEALTH IDENTIFIER NUMBERS THE ULTIMATE INVASION OF YOUR PRIVACY! By: Steven Fath "Bow down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve..." ---Nine-Inch Nails. "Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions" ---Albert Einstein. I was recently reminded of the impending deadline for the public comment period concerning the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) new Final Privacy Rule. To mark the beginning of the largest and most intrusive "dataveillance" base in the history of the world and the death of private practice healthcare in America, I thought a review of HIPAA, the privacy debate, and the subsequent stealth implementation of unique health identifier numbers would be prudent for several reasons: First, despite overwhelming public apprehension, every individual, employer, health plan, and health care provider will be forced to comply with this law and the information contained within the number will not and cannot remain private while in the hands of our government. Non-compliance with these Leviathan rules and regulations will be punishable by fines and imprisonment. This will become the official National ID system desperately wanted by our friendly government. Indeed, these "marks" will usher in a new official era of government control of the individual and the health industry. Finally, I hope this inquest will illustrate how our government actually works and how it is unified towards the common goal of control and "The Third Way" despite the empty rhetoric of feigned liberty and differing ideologies. "Trust me, I'm from the government." ---Unknown HIPPA was created ". to make sure that you could take your insurance with you from one job to the next. To make sure that in this new economy, you would continue to have access to health insurance, as you moved more frequently from job to job," stated the recently crowned Secretary of Health and Human Service king, Tommy Thompson. However, this is a mere sugarcoating of these intrusive and controlling laws stated by a new administration bent on also deceiving its slaves. Donna Shalala had a different, but equally dishonest view, back in 1997; " Until today, Americans had no federal privacy protections for their medical records.these standards are an important step forward in protecting the privacy of some of our most personal information." She added, "We cannot allow the absence of privacy protections to compromise the quality of care in our nation." This statement reeks with the philosophy of responsive communitarianism. You know, balancing individual rights with the common good of the community and social responsibilities. However, how can a "community" determine the extent of those rights when it is really a collection of individuals? It can't because only individuals choose, act, and pursue interests. Therefore, this philosophy is only a euphemism for mob rule. A perfect fit, by the way, for our Social Democracy, but I digress. My favorite statement from Donna Shalala reads, "Gone are the days when our family doctor kept records sealed away in an office file cabinet. Patient information is now accessed and exchanged quickly." God knows the majority of us incompetent Americans need Big Brother to handle our most private records by keeping them out of a sealed locked cabinet in some doctors office. She also rambled on about the five principles reflected in this law. Tommy didn't mention these: Consumer Control, Boundaries, Accountability, Public Responsibility, and Security. Remember, the buzzwords are "protection" and "privacy". These are the thoughts the federal government wants you to envision as it legislates the complete opposite. Ultimately, this law will totally alter, for the worse, the relationship between our federal government and its citizens. Again, it can be enlightening to Americans when they finally understand every new administration is essentially the same old administration in an otherwise unified government seeking to continue the same overall socialistic plans. Nobel, isn't it? HIPPA is a gargantuan law also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act. Specifically, this is a wildly complex myriad of rules and regulations meant to: 1) Standardize patient health, administrative, and financial data in an electronic format. 2) Provide unique health identifies for individuals, employers, health plans, and health Providers. 3) Provide security standards protecting the confidentiality and integrity of "individually identifiable health information," past, present, or future. For the rest of us, this means the government is going to assign everyone a number, collect all of their medical records, store them in a giant centralized computer bank, and decide who or what entity has access to them. Because the final rule does
[CTRL] Conspiracy Con, Speakers (fwd)
visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:06:52 -0800 From: John Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ACT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Conspiracy Con, Speakers From the, "For What It's Worth" box... http://www.conspiracycon.com/speakers.html -- "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." -- John Adams Title: Conspiracy Con, Speakers home Support Conspiracy Con, put a banner on your website Speaker Lineup David Icke and Jordan Maxwell to present both Saturday and Sunday click any book to order online David Icke says"When you are constantly moving forward, searching for the cutting edge, everyone behind you always believes you have gone too far. The further back from the cutting edge they are, the more extreme and, indeed, insane, you appear, to them, to be. In this way, one person's "madness" can be another person's commonsense. David's presentation picks up where talk radio leaves off... Order The Biggest Secret from Barnes and Noble Workshop: Children of the Matrix: Using hundreds of visuals, video footage, and lots of humor, David Icke will present more than ten years of research into the secret manipulation of the human race going back thousands of years. Icke, the writer of ten books, including The Biggest Secret and the latest, Children of the Matrix, reveals how the same interbreeding bloodlines going back to ancient Sumer and Egypt continue to control the positions of power to this day as royalty, US presidents, banking and business leaders. His stunning information also exposes the subtle and less subtle methods of mass mind control which lead the human race like sheep in the direction the controlling few desire. This is leading to world government, world central bank and currency, a world army, and a microchipped population. This has long been predicted in his books and now it is on the very brink of happening. Also included is suppressed information on humanity's ancient extraterrestrial origins- the origins of the bloodlines that continue to control the planet. No one who hears Icke speak will ever see the world in the same light again. www.davidicke.com Jordan Maxwell continues as a preeminent researcher and authority in the field of occult/religious philosophy since 1959. He served for three and a half years as the Religion Editor of Truth Seeker Magazine, America's oldest Freethought Journal (since 1873). His work exploring the hidden foundations of Western religions and secret societies has created an enthusiastic response from audiences for many years. He has conducted dozens of intensive seminars, hosted his own radio talk shows, guested on more than 600 radio shows, and written, produced and appeared in numerous television shows and documentaries (including three 2-hour specials for the CBS TV network, as well as the internationally acclaimed 5-part (Ancient Mystery Series) - all devoted to understanding ancient religions and their pervasive influence on world affairs today. His extraordinary presentations include thousands of slides featuring documents and photographs never seen elsewhere. Order Symbols, Sex and the Stars from Amazon.com Workshop: Toxic Religion & The Occult Establishment: Jordan Maxwell discusses the three foundation stones on which the modern-day "world of chaos" is based. Government - Religion - Commerce: The three-legged stool on which the powers that be sit. The word "Occult" simply means "hidden." There has been more information hidden from your eyes than you will ever suspect. Your decisions in life are only as good as your information. This whole subject is not only interesting to explore, but too important to ignore! Come step into the occult world with Jordan Maxwell. If ever the devil was in the details, this is it! www.bbcoa.com Dr. Len Horowitz is a Harvard educated expert in public health education. He is also a dentist, behavioral scientist, and has authored more than two-dozen books, audiotapes and videotapes, among them, the national best selling book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS &
[CTRL] America orders £17bn fleet of spy satellites
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-101030,00.html MONDAY MARCH 19 2001 America orders £17bn fleet of spy satellites FROM BEN MACINTYRE IN WASHINGTON THOUSANDS of American scientists are being quietly recruited to build a vast new network of spy satellites, in a top secret $25 billion (£17.5 billion)project that will enable America to peer into every corner of the globe at any time with far greater accuracy. A group of Californian aerospace companies will employ about 20,000 people to build the new generation of spy satellites over the next 20 years in what is believed to be the biggest intelligence-related contract, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. Using high-powered telescopes and radar, up to two dozen spy satellites will be able to photograph anywhere in the world, day or night, regardless of the weather, zooming into specific areas and sending back thousands of images. The project is expected to be comparatively more costly than the building of the atomic bomb. There are about half a dozen spy satellites now in orbit, but these will be replaced by smaller, more powerful and more versatile satellites that will play a key role in American intelligence-gathering for decades. The project, officially known as Future Imagery Architecture, is being co-ordinated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), one of the most secretive and well-financed government intelligence agencies. The NRO has released only a brief statement, saying that Boeing has won the contract to launch and operate “the nation’s next generation of imagery reconnaissance satellites”. The Federation of American Scientists recently concluded that the satellite project “will be the most expensive programme in the history of the intelligence community”. About 5,000 scientists and computer programmers will be brought into the project over the next five years, during the initial design phase. Thousands more will be needed to build and operate the system. “The programme is so secret that most of the people who work on it won’t have a good sense of what they are doing,” Loren Thompson, a defence analyst at the Lexington Institute, was quoted as saying. The project was partly inspired by intelligence problems encountered during the Gulf War, when military commanders complained that satellite reconnaissance photographs were late to arrive, patchy and insufficiently detailed. The new system will be able to focus on a single area for twice as long as the existing satellites, beaming back up to 20 times as many high-resolution images of activity on the ground. The NRO, which dates back to 1960, has an annual budget of $6 billion and spends more than either the CIA or the National Security Agency. The Los Angeles Times calculated that the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, which employed up to 125,000 people starting in 1942, cost the equivalent of $20 billion in today’s dollars. Most of the research and development work on the new breed of satellites is likely to be carried out at the Boeing plant in El Segundo, California, and the company has started recruiting technicians from Lockheed Martin Corporation, the company that built many of existing spy satellites. Refugees from ailing high-tech and Internet companies are also being recruited. “I don’t think most people are aware of how big this thing is,” a spokesman for the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency, said. The new satellites will be about two thirds smaller than the 15-ton models now in orbit, and positioned further out in space, making them far harder to detect. Advances in optical and radar technology will enable the satellites to take pictures with greater frequency, while the higher orbit will allow the target area on the ground to be filmed for a longer period. A spokesman for the NRO declined to give details of the massive space-spying project but confirmed that a new species of satellite would be launched starting in 2005 that would be “more capable of fulfilling the nation’s imaging needs”.
[CTRL] NYP: THE HIDDEN THREAT OF AGRO-TERROR
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/26705.htm THE HIDDEN THREAT OF AGRO-TERROR Sunday,March 18,2001 By DEBORAH ORIN Think how easily a few bad guys could spark an outbreak of wildly contagious foot-and-mouth disease like the one now devastating Britain's livestock. It's the latest fear on the terrorism front: agricultural terrorism. Experts say there's no sign that terrorists caused the disaster in Britain - where a million animals may have to be destroyed - but it could easily happen here. Or anywhere. "We know it can be simple. We know it can be anonymous. We know we don't have any good way to detect it," said Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. Adds military analyst Dan Goure: "We should be quite worried. For something as infectious as foot-and-mouth, all it takes is to run across a field or smear cow dung from sick cows on your boots, hide your boots in your luggage, then start tromping around Iowa." He says that until now, terrorists have targeted people or buildings, so hitting cows or sheep didn't seem "as sexy" - but a "clever terrorist" could see the potential. Foot-and-mouth doesn't hurt humans, but it's so contagious it can spread 50 miles on the wind, on shoes, on clothes, on car wheels. Entire herds are being destroyed in Britain because a single cow was exposed. An agro-terrorist attack could devastate farmers, scare Americans about the safety of their food supply and threaten an industry that accounts for 13 percent of U.S. gross national product. And foot-and-mouth is far from the only disease that terrorists could use. A Pentagon report this January listed over 20 diseases that could be used to devastate U.S. farms - from soybean rust to anthrax. So far, there hasn't been a verified case of international agro-terrorism - but fears are growing. That's why the National Security Council now serves on a working group on agriculture and food safety - agro-terrorism is seen as a weapon of mass destruction just like bio, chemical and nuclear weapons. But this year, only $30 million is being spent on U.S. research. "Did you ever think of agriculture as part of the national security system?" asks a U.S. official who says intelligence is the best protection but it isn't perfect, any more than it is for embassy bombings. The official says "psychological impacts" are a special worry. A country can be paralyzed if people fear the food they eat; a few years ago, apples suddenly became an object of fear over the alar scare. Even more worrisome, the official adds, is the risk of phony agro-terror scares. Last year, there were 400 false anthrax scares across the country, and every single one had to be taken seriously. Actually, agro-terror is nothing new. A CSIS report says Germany tried to infect French and U.S. livestock in World War I. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union weaponized diseases such as foot-and-mouth. Saddam Hussein's Iraq "seriously explored" ways to use wheat rust and camel pox to attack Iran. Today, experts say any country with modern veterinary medicine could develop agro-terrorism. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Rangers Declare Win in Beret Battle
-Caveat Lector- --- Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rangers Declare Win in Beret Battle By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Rangers raised a ruckus when Army chief of staff Gen. Eric Shinseki announced in October that the black beret the Rangers wear proudly as an exclusive badge of honor would become standard-issue headgear for everyone from Army cooks and clerks to colonels and generals. The Rangers considered it a slap in the face, a cheapening of their hard-won right to wear an exclusive hat. Nakano comments: The decision to take away the exclusivity of the black beret comes from the same mentality as "outcome based education". This holds that no one can excel or achieve any special place or recognition for outstanding effort and accomplishment. Indeed the very term "outstanding" is contrary to the concept of universal mediocrity. The decision to make the black beret a standard part of the uniform for all armed forces personnel was a "slap in the face" to our elite military units. It was designed to further demoralize the most highly-trained and combat-ready units. This is simply another part of an on-going strategy to reduce the effectiveness of the U.S. Military. Putting women into combat units was another part of the same scheme. Spreading U.S. Military personnel out via assignments in more than 100 foreign countries is also part of it. The Army Rangers have not won a "victory" by getting the brass to agree to a tan beret, but at least it's not a pink beret. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.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 PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush signs off from the internet
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003864436460684rtmo=psUSIbpeatmo=rrrq pg=/et/01/3/19/wemai19.html ISSUE 2124 Monday 19 March 2001 Bush signs off from the internet By Toby Harnden PRESIDENT BUSH has been forced to withdraw from cyberspace after lawyers warned him that any future emails could be made public.In a mournful farewell computer message to 42 "dear friends" and relatives, Mr Bush said: "My lawyers tell me all correspondence by email is subject to open record requests. Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace. This saddens me. I have enjoyed conversing with each of you."With that, Mr Bush announced "sadly I sign off", adding: "I will miss your ideas and encouragement. So perhaps we will talk by phone." The email message and its addressees were obtained by the New York Times. Under government regulations, White House emails form part of the federal presidential record and could be subject to subpoena.Bill Clinton never sent emails during his presidency for fear that they could be used against him. But emails from Monica Lewinsky formed part of the evidence gathered by his prosecutor, Kenneth Starr.Mr Bush's email address list included Don Evans, the Commerce Secretary, Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, chief strategist, and Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser. Also among them were his mother, Barbara, the golfer, Ben Crenshaw and Patrick Oxford, a Houston lawyer and old friend.Mr Oxford said: "The President is a candid guy and I was candid with him. Sometimes old friends aren't as discreet as they should be."
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[CTRL] NYDP: US Held Foot And Mouth Simulation 3 Months BEFORE UK Outbreak (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- [The following is part of a thread from a list dealing with biological warfare. --MS] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:48:35 -0800 From: Patricia Doyle, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: US Held Foot And Mouth Simulation 3 Months BEFORE UK Outbreak US Held Foot And Mouth Simulation 3 Months BEFORE UK Outbreak By Patricia Doyle, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3-18-1 Well, isn't this a stroke of luck...or 'coincidence'... Three months before the FMD outbreak in the UK, the US/Canada/Mexico held FMD simulations. There has not been an outbreak in the US since 1929, yet, 3 months before the UK outbreak, the US holds simulations. Our FMD savior, Plum Island, is supposed to be our first line of defense against the virus. Incidently, the Plum happens to have a virus bank that is shared with, none other then, Canada and Mexico. One of the reasons that the Plum is a Biolevel 5 facility is because it studies FMD live virus. It is illegal to have this virus in the continental US, and the Plum is the ONLY place where various live FMD virues are found in North America. The news of the simulation makes me believe that the US knew an outbreak was going to occur. Did they have warning from a terrorist group? Or, from the NWO? I have just heard that FMD has broken out in Israel on the West Bank. It is in Kuwait and also Saudi Arabia. The strain is pandemic type O. It sure sounds like the US knew a FMD outbreak was going to happen. I wonder if the US had received terrorist threat of impending FMD outbreak. It sure makes a case for an unnatural outbreak in the UK. Patricia Doyle ### British Foot-Mouth Virus Epidemic Mimics US Simulation A HREF="http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-18/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/ a-103822.asp" NYdailynews/A 3-18-1 WASHINGTON - Three months before Britain's foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, health officials in the United States, Mexico and Canada tested their ability to respond to a similar epidemic. The results weren't promising. Within four days of a simulated detection of the virus in a small, south Texas swine herd, the virus would have spread through 15 Texas counties and Mexico, a scenario eerily similar to the way a real epidemic now is playing out in Europe. The British government found itself caught yesterday between efforts to control its outbreak and farmers angry that hundreds of thousands of healthy animals are to be slaughtered. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals joined opposition to the slaughter, which calls for healthy sheep and pigs to be destroyed within 2 miles of infected sites in northern England and southern Scotland. Plans for the expanded slaughter have divided farmers. The National Farmers' Union supports the move, but the lobbying group Farmers For Action said it would take legal action to stop the cull. Please visit my website "Emerging Diseases" and message board: http://goddess-of-fire.tripod.com/index-1.html http://disc.server.com/Indices/93896.html Patricia Doyle, PhD Investigator of Emerging Diseases = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] AP: Castro Up for Nobel Peace Prize
-Caveat Lector- [I was somewhat surprised that Bill Clinton did't even make the nomination list last year, and he tried. --MS] Thursday March 15 3:12 PM ET Castro Up for Nobel Peace Prize OSLO, Norway (AP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of developing nations, a Norwegian politician announced Thursday. Hallgeir Langeland, a left-wing member of Parliament, said he knew his decision to nominate the Cuban leader might be seen as controversial. But he said Castro deserved recognition for helping other nations despite the hardships of U.S. sanctions imposed on Cuba after his communist government seized power in 1959. Cuba is a small, poor country that still has managed to send doctors, engineers and aid workers to developing countries, said Langeland. The awards committee last month announced that 132 Nobel Peace Prize nominations were received by the Feb. 1 deadline. It never reveals the names or comments on candidates. Some of those nominated for the 2001 peace prize are known because those backing them announced their choice. They include U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), U.S. peace broker Richard Holbrooke, Chinese Falun Gong (news - web sites) movement founder Li Hongzhi, and former President Carter. The winner of this year's prize will be announced on Oct. 12. The Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901, and are always presented on Dec. 10, the date their creator, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, died. Langeland has nomination rights as a member of a national legislature. http://frontpagemag.com/columnists/radosh/2001/rr03-19-01.htm PERHAPS IT WAS only a matter of time. Judging from the way so many in the West idealize and rhapsodize about totalitarian leaders and regimes, it was a foregone conclusion. But finally, a left-wing Norwegian parliamentarian, Hallgeir Langeland, has announced his nomination of Fidel Castro for the coming years Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian M.P. has presented all his reasons for what he says he knows some will see as a "controversial" nomination. Cuba, he explains, is a small and poor nation that sends doctors, engineers and aid workers to developing nations. Somehow, the M.P. has managed to leave out Castros extensive aid in Africa in the form of military troops sent to Angola as shock troops on behalf of Soviet policy in Africa. And of course, we do not find any mention of what happened to the popular commander of those troops after he returned home as a hero General Ochoa was put on trial for treason, accused of dope smuggling, and executed. His trial, a Stalin-era-style purge trial, featured a "defense" attorney who proclaimed Ochoa guilty. Nor does he point out the obvious that Castro has ruined his countrys economy, and turned his small land into a virtual nation-state prison. Nor does Mr. Langeland talk about the growing political repression practiced by Castro against his own people at home the continued arrest of dissidents, the suppression of a free press, and the refusal of Castro to allow any internal dialogue among his own people about the future of their country. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bill would allow school principals to carry
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22049 Thursday, March 15, 2001 Bill would amend anti-gun school law Texas principals, superintendents could carry firearms to work By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com In the wake of two more shootings at U.S. high schools last week, a Texas state lawmaker whose parents were killed by a gunman 10 years ago has introduced a measure to allow some school officials to carry concealed weapons while at work. Republican Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp introduced H.B. 2353, as yet untitled, which would amend current state law prohibiting concealed weapons on school grounds. According to the text of the bill, if passed the law would be changed to allow a school superintendent or principal to carry a concealed gun as a protective measure for children. The law would apply only to school officials in counties of 20,000 or less, and only if the official currently has a state-authorized concealed weapons permit. The law would take effect Sept. 1; any violations of current state law prohibiting concealed weapons at school would be prosecuted, the bill said. Hupp, who is also a licensed chiropractor, is recognized worldwide as a leading advocate for the individual right to carry a concealed weapon. In 1991, after leaving her gun in her car in order to comply with Texas law, Hupp witnessed the killing of both her parents and 21 others in a Luby's Restaurant in Killeen. Since the shooting, she has successfully run for the Texas legislature and has testified numerous times across the country in support of gun rights. As a first-term congresswoman, her accomplishments include legislative approval for the establishment of an upper-level, public university in central Texas, the inclusion of additional days for the ballots of overseas military personnel to be counted in an election and the creation of a toll-free hotline to verify the safety record of an abortion facility. Jon E. Dougherty is a staff writer for WorldNetDaily. 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] FC: Germany weighs mandatory DNA testing for all men (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- http://foxnews.com/world/031701/germany_palkot.sml Child's Murder in Germany Prompts Debate Over Mandatory DNA Testing Saturday, March 17, 2001 By Greg Palkot The brutal murder of 12-year-old Ulrike Brandt, who went missing from her hometown north of Berlin last month, sparked outrage across Germany when her strangled and sexually abused body was found by authorities... The emotional case sparked a wider debate when some politicians called for all German men to submit to DNA testing to help find the girl's killer, and prevent similar crimes in the future. That call has been rejected by other leading officials, and brought back for the some the terrible memories of Germany's Nazi and Communist past, when individual rights were systemat ically disregarded... This new proposal has a much wider potential impact, however, and could theoretically involve 41 million people. Supporters have promised to push their case. "I am ready to go very far with legislation," Norbert Geis, legal spokesman for Germany's CDU/CSU opposition coalition told Fox News, "in order to catch sexual offenders against children." [...] - 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] FC: SpyTV, interactive television, and lessons about free software (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- --- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:42:35 -0700 (MST) From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Interactive TV and its lessons about free and non-free software Please take a look at www.spyinteractive.com. It explains how interactive TV can be turned to unsavory ends by the developers of the system. This problem creates a paradox for personal-data-protection laws, because Interactive TV can be used to manipulate you even if the information it gathers about you is never sent out of your house. A lesson can be drawn from this which I think the site itself does not draw: that any non-free program that you allow into your life, if it is in a position to receive complex instructions from the Internet, is a potential agent to manipulate or interfere with you, and cannot be trusted. Hence free software is not just important for programmers. It is the only way non-programmers can have software they can trust. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ for more about the philosophy of the Free Software Movement. - 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] Mexican President Vicente Fox discusses drug legalization in newspaper interview
-Caveat Lector- Mexican President Vicente Fox discusses drug legalization in newspaper interview By JOHN RICE, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (March 19, 2001 8:11 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Struggling with the violence and corruption drug trafficking has caused, President Vicente Fox says the solution might be to eventually legalize drug use. In an interview published by two newspapers Sunday, Fox indicated agreement with a police official who suggested last week that the only way to win the war on drugs was to legalize drugs - eliminating the profits and violence caused by illegal trafficking. "That's right, that's true, that's true," the newspaper Unomasuno quoted Fox as saying. But the president quickly qualified that statement, saying Mexico could not move alone and indicating he did not expect such a step soon. "When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world because we would gain nothing if Mexico did it but the production and traffic of drugs ... continued here," he said. "So humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense," he said in remarks also reported by El Sol de Mexico. On Monday, Fox spokeswoman Martha Sahagun was asked to elaborate. "The president was very clear in what he said, that drugs and drug smuggling is a serious affair not only for Mexico, it is an affair that affects many countries in the world," she said. "... We have to follow this problem closely, in a joint and global manner, taking solutions at the appropriate times." Fox has vowed to cooperate closely with the United States against traffickers who have used Mexico both as a transit route and production site for narcotics. On Jan. 24, the new president announced a "great crusade" against drugs, saying, "I pledge a war without mercy." Fox promised to overhaul the nation's corrupt prison system and to follow a Mexican Supreme Court ruling last week that removed barriers to extradition of Mexicans for trial in the United States. His government has announced record seizures of drugs since Fox took office Dec. 1. Yet some Mexican experts - including Fox's Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda - have long suggested that the drug war is being lost and that some drugs should be decriminalized. "One thing is (Fox's) personal attitude and another is pragmatism faced with the United States," said Luis Astorga, a sociologist at the National Autonomous University who studies the drug trade. He said "Fox has gone further than previous governments" in accepting U.S. demands to fight drugs. A U.S. expert, Frank Cilluffo of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that suggesting legalizing drugs "sends the wrong message to our children." "While some of the gang violence may be mitigated, the bad consequences of drug use would not," said Cilluffo, who heads a task force on the narcotics industry for the center. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.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] FC: Microsoft wants to be Big Brother... and wants you to pay (fwd)
-Caveat Lector-
According to CBS MarketWatch, below, Microsoft now wants to be the holder
of *much* of our most sensitive medical, financial and other personal
information. Before reading about MS' latest "service," consider --
* Only a few months ago, Microsoft's own network was cracked and it's
believed that massive amounts of internal information may have been
downloaded from it before the network was killed.
* At great expense, an increasing number of federal agencies and foreign
government agencies are abandoning Microsoft server and other software,
stating that it's simply too insecure for them to risk using it any longer.
* Holes in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and/or Outlook Express has been
estimated to be responsible for covertly circulating to millions of entries
in naive users' address books, a huge number of viruses, Trojan horses, and
DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks, including several that cost
their targets hundreds of thousands of dollars in down-time, lost business
and consumptive recovery efforts.
* Microsoft is also the company that said they absolutely did not collect
information about user machines when users did online software registration
-- until it was proven that they WERE doing exactly that (covertly picking
off each machine's globally-unique Ethernet-card serial number).
* Microsoft's Word includes "features" that are estimated to have
facilitated about 1/4-1/3 of *all* of the world's computer viruses in the
last 4-5 years.
Geee ... thanks very much ... but I think I'll keep my most sensitive
personal information in my OWN files -- and copy'n'paste it if/when needed!
--jim, Jim Warren; [EMAIL PROTECTED], technology public policy columnist
Also GovAccess founder/list-owner/editor, and DataCast founder/owner
345 Swett Rd, Woodside CA 94062; voice/650-851-7075; fax/off due to spam-glut
[self-inflating puff: Playboy Foundation's Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award;
Soc.of Prof.Journalists-Nor.Calif.'s James Madison Freedom-of-Information
Award;
founded InfoWorld; Dr. Dobb's Journal; Computers, Freedom Privacy
Conferences;
Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award (in its first year), blah blah]
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http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?print=1guid={BAF153AC-EAF5-4449-8DC8-C837376B5912}siteid=mktw
Microsoft unveils awaited software
By Mike Tarsala, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 5:07 PM ET Mar 19, 2001
REDMOND, Wash. (CBS.MW) - Bill Gates is trying to convince anyone who's
ever filled out a form on the Internet to trust him with their lives - and
pay his company for it.
Gates unveiled Internet-based software Monday that lets people store and
manage their personal records [making] the world's largest software company
a central repository for storing credit card numbers, birth records and
other types of personal information. The company will charge a
to-be-determined monthly fee for the service.
Code-named Hailstorm ...
... The software keeps people from having to root through file cabinets any
time they want to make a big-ticket purchase, file a medical claim or apply
for a loan.
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[CTRL] Autopsy unlikely for Oklahoma City bomber McVeigh
-Caveat Lector- (Maybe because he has an implant in his butt? --SW :( Autopsy unlikely for Oklahoma City bomber McVeigh The Associated Press DENVER (March 19, 2001 2:48 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A judge said Monday he approves of Timothy McVeigh's agreement with a coroner and the government that no autopsy would be conducted after the death sentence is carried out in May. But the judge said he lacks the authority to order that no autopsy be performed on McVeigh, who was found guilty in the Oklahoma City bombing. Lawyers for McVeigh, the federal government and the coroner in Vigo County, Ind., signed the agreement March 9. McVeigh's lawyers asked U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch for a ruling to ensure that no autopsy be carried out. Matsch rejected McVeigh's motion for the order. "I don't have the authority to make this agreement an order of the court," Matsch said. "I do, of course, approve of it as an appropriate solution to an awkward situation for the coroner and everyone involved." He added: "I'd like to be helpful, but I also have to be careful about my jurisdiction." Matsch, who presided over McVeigh's trial, said he believes his jurisdiction in McVeigh's case ends the moment McVeigh dies. McVeigh is scheduled to be executed May 16 at the federal prison in Vigo County. McVeigh was convicted of murder, conspiracy and weapons-related charges for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion killed 168 people. ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.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
Re: [CTRL] Massive Spy-Satellite Program to Cost Billions
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 06:52:31 -0800 From: Harv Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: IMAGES: Massive Spy-Satellite Program to Cost Billions To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks-- I have been interested in the black triangles for many years. It started with my personal investigation of a remarkable account back in 1985 here in Texas. In 1989, in Laramie, Wyoming, I and about 20 other people had a sighting that lasted about 20 minutes. On the Cosmic Conspiracies website at: http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk I have two, admittedly highly speculative, articles regarding these fabulous craft. Over the years, I've come to regard about all rocket technologies as old-fashioned and dangerous, surviving and existing as cover for the real work of back-engineering UFO technology and to keep the all- precious economy juggernaut rolling along. The space shuttle, of course, being the prime example of these "make-work" activities. (Only one hundred flights in 20 years is outrageous.) The Osprey aircraft probably is another multibillion- dollar boondoggle/diversion as would be the recently canceled X-33 space plane, etc.) As a result, I've been long interested in exactly how the fleets of operational UFO-derived craft would be funded. Building a few prototypes is one thing, but to start putting together operational fleets for active duty is quite another. I've been waiting for a contrived program to be feed to the public which would provide such funding while offering an explanation to the public for the expense. A key component for such a program would be to place it against a national defense backdrop such that few would want to attack it in terms of expense or purpose. This news article posted by Steve gives us clues about how this charade is going to be pulled. I have extracted a couple of pertinent sections, but if you glossed over the entire article, go back and carefully read between the lines. HH Still, most state officials said they know little about the project. "I don't think most people are aware of how big this is," said Mike Marando, spokesman for the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency. "We know California benefits substantially, but by exactly how much we just don't know." The National Reconnaissance Office hasn't helped. The enigmatic agency announced the contract in a three-paragraph news release posted on its bare-bones Web site little more than a year ago. The project is officially known as Future Imagery Architecture. Despite slowly opening itself up in recent years, the NRO still remains one of the most secretive government agencies. Even its innocuous logo--a space probe circling the globe--was a secret until 1994. Besides saying it awarded the contract to Boeing "to develop, provide launch integration and operate the nation's next generation of imagery reconnaissance satellites," not much else has been revealed. Virtually everything else about the contract--its dollar amount, the number of satellites to be built, who is doing what and where, and the capabilities of the satellite--is secret. Even the duration of the contract is deemed classified. "This program is so secret that most of the people who work on it won't have a good sense of what they are doing," said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Arlington, Va.-based Lexington Institute. --- End of forwarded message --- ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.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] NM: Pardongate Flashback: Lasater Party Girl Speaks Out
-Caveat Lector- Newsmax-Inside Cover Monday, March 19, 2001 4:47 p.m. EST Pardongate Flashback: Lasater Party Girl Speaks Out In a little-noticed report last month on the 11th-hour pardons Roger Clinton sought from his brother, the Washington Post revealed what may turn out to be the most explosive aspect of the clemency-for-cash scandal now swirling around the former first family. Buried on page 7 of the Post's little-read Saturday edition, the headline seemed rather mundane: "Clinton's Brother Promised Pardons." But scattered throughout the story was a name that should have set off smoke alarms in newsrooms all across America. "Dan R. Lasater, a Little Rock bond broker convicted in 1986 of cocaine distribution, said Roger Clinton told him late last year he would put in a good word on his behalf with the president," the Post reported. "A millionaire entrepeneur who backed several Arkansas Democrats, including Bill Clinton's campaigns, Lasater got a conditional state pardon from then-Governor Clinton in 1990. Lasater said he lent Roger Clinton $8,000 in 1984 to pay off cocaine debts." But there's more - much, much more to the Lasater story, information so radioactive that there's little doubt Bill and Hillary Clinton are more worried over the Bush Justice Department's decision to make Roger a target of its Pardongate probe than about any other aspect of the investigation. The best account of Dan Lasater's world comes from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the former Washignton bureau chief of the London Sunday Telegraph whose 1997 biography, "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton," was largely overlooked by the press. "Dan Lasater's Drug Trafficking Organization" reads the key chapter heading. On the pages inside, the author quotes excerpts from law enforcement documents covering the accounts of several Lasater party girls who inhabited a world not exactly unknown to both Bill and Roger Clinton. Here's the opening paragraph from the police statement of Patti-Anne Smith, who was only 16 years old when she met Little Rock's most notorious "bond daddy": "I was a virgin until two months after I met Dan Lasater. He plied me with cocaine and gifts for sexual favors and I finally gave in and slept with him. ... I could get an eight ball [from Lasater] whenever I wanted it. I carried a vial of it around at school." After a visit to a Lasater-supplied gynecologist, who put Patti-Anne on birth control pills, Lasater was making her available for the sexual entertainment of his business colleagues. When investigators tracked her down to gain testimony against Lasater two years later, the terms they used to describe Patti-Anne were "drugged-out party girl" and "basket case." And she was not alone. Here's the police statement of Michele Cochran - 19 years old when she met Lasater. "He used drugs and money eventually to seduce me. As a result of the relationship I became addicted to cocaine." Another teen-age Lasater alum told police that after a few months in his orbit, she "would sometimes get up and snort cocaine in order to start my day." Author Evans-Pritchard managed to track Patti-Anne Smith down some 13 years later. Her account is fascinating for two reasons. First, for the pure shock value of what she endured during her days as an inhabitant of Lasater's world. And second, because the fact that an American president pardoned a thug like Lasater once on state charges - only to have the president's brother seek a second, federal pardon - is absolutely beyond belief. "I was the youngest of all the girls," Patti-Anne told Evans-Pritchard. "We were like hens in a roost, with the rooster. We got along in a bitchy kind of way because we didn't want to be expelled from the roost." "I knew a lot more than I should have known. ... Chuck Berry [Lasater's enforcer/driver who was later killed himself] told me that I was one of Dan Lasater's most trusted people and knew a lot about cocaine and his personal life. If I ever betrayed his personal trust and hurt Lasater in any way I would not 'see daylight' to tell about it anymore." Patti-Anne told Evans-Pritchard that Bill as well as Roger Clinton was a part of the Little Rock drug scene. "I met Bill Clinton several times, he'd know my name and I thought he was a wonderful person. But I can tell you that he was never acting like a governor when I saw him." The former Lasater good-time girl says she was present for one late-night meeting between her boss and then-Governor Clinton. "He was doing a line," Patti-Anne said of the future president. "It was just there on the table." Whether the current Pardongate investigation will probe deep enough to warrant revisiting any of this is anybody's guess. But if the feds are looking for clues as to why Dan Lasater's name turned up on Roger Clinton's pardon list, they might start by asking Patti-Anne Smith. = Kadosh, Kadosh,
[CTRL] NM: Hillary's Greed Covered Up by Press Before Election
-Caveat Lector- Newsmax-Inside Cover Monday, March 19, 2001 11:25 a.m. EST Hillary's Greed Covered Up by Press Before Election It's too bad that the mainstream press kept Hillary Clinton's record for using taxpayer resources to feather her own nest a secret from New Yorkers during last year's election campaign. After she was safely ensconced in her U.S. Senate seat, the dam broke on Mrs. Clinton's financial gluttoney, much to the surprise of New York voters, if not NewsMax.com readers. First came the reports that New York's new senator had snagged an $8 million book deal - a blatant conflict of interest given that the Senate has regulatory power over her publisher's parent company. Then America learned that Hillary had solicited friends through a furniture fund of sort, whereby donors could buy her all sorts of pricey goods through a bridal-like registery at her favorite department store. (Denise Rich donated a $7,000 couch.) Next came news that the sticky-fingered first lady had made off with all sorts of furnishings when she departed the White House - pieces donated by folks who thought they were helping to redecorate "The People's House." What a shame none of this news broke before New Yorkers installed Hillary in the Senate, where she's keeping up the fine family tradition of cashing in at every turn. Today New Yorkers awoke to discover they'll be picking up the cool half-million-dollar annual tab for Mrs. Clinton's Manhattan Senate office, which makes it the most expensive congressional digs in the country. "She's like royalty. She's the ex-president's wife. She lived in the White House for eight years, for crying out loud," one real estate agent told the New York Post, which first reported Mrs. Clinton's gold-plated rental. (See the full Post report on NewsMax.com's main page.) Looking back, wouldn't it have been nice if a reporter or two had spent a moment before the election revisiting Cattlegate - just so New Yorkers might have had a clue as to what they were getting themselves into. Would it have been too much to ask of the journalists Mrs. Clinton deigned to speak to that they inquire about the lies she told in 1994, regarding that scandal, in a press conference where she claimed to have turned $1,000 into $100,000 by reading the Wall Street Journal? Or how about a story that foreshadowed in spades Mrs. Clinton's cavalier attitude toward the hard-earned money of New York taxpayers. When NewsMax revisted reports nine months before the election that Hillary had personally bilked New Yorkers out of $100,000 in education funds way back in 1991, the establishment press kept obediently silent. Personal entreaties to newspaper editors went nowhere, despite the fact that some of their own reporters had broken the story in 1994 and covered it again in 1996, when New York governor George Pataki launched an official investigation. How unfortunate that New York voters weren't told how Hillary aced a sweetheart deal 10 years ago that allowed her to collect $8,000 a month from the state's taxpayers, courtesy of a bureacratic boondoggle created by New York's then-Democratic governor Mario Cuomo. It was called "The National Center on Education and the Economy" and Hillary milked it for all she could until her husband announced he was seeking the White House. Investigators never did figure out just what Sen. Clinton did for all that money. There were no time sheets or any other record of her labors. Unless you count travel expenses, for which she was reimbursed an additional $11,000. Perhaps the establishment press thought it would be unfair to report this sort of thing before the election - lest Americans get the impression their first lady was, well, a money-obsessed, greedy gold digger with a sense of entitlement Queen Victoria would have envied. Better New York voters learn that now, when it's too late. = Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends = A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
