Re: [CTRL] Is U.S. History Becoming History? (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- And just 2 days ago, the old town hall in Victory Gardens, New Jersey burned down, destroying about a hundred years' worth of records. Tenorlove --- Yardbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- Is U.S. History Becoming History? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42725,00.html __ 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] Great Book Massacre
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For those who are bibliophiles, there's a great article (goes on for about ten
pages) here:
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20010426016R
A little bit:
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REVIEW
April 26, 2001
The Great Book Massacre
ROBERT DARNTON
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on
Paper
by Nicholson Baker
370 pages, $25.95 (hardcover)
published by Random House
(order book)
1.
When journalists discuss their craft, they invoke contradictory clichs: "Today's
newspaper is the first draft of history," and "Nothing is more dead than yesterday's
newspaper." Both in a way are true. News feeds history with facts, yet most of it is
forgotten. Suppose newspapers disappeared from libraries: Would history vanish from
the collective memory? That is the disaster that Nicholson Baker denounces in his
latest book, a J'accuse pointed at the library profession.
~~snip~~
7. The destruction was brutal. Microfilming can be done without harming volumes, by
placing them in cradles and adjusting the camera to the appropriate angle. However,
that procedure takes time, and preservationists have been in such a hurry to save
books and newspapers from their misdiagnosed deaths that they have killed them by
"guillotining"-that is, by slicing them down their spines so that the unbound pages
could be photographed rapidly lying flat. Once dismembered, most of them were
pulped.
The experts at the Library of Congress and the Council on Library Resources have
also guillotined books in order to experiment with techniques for deacidifying
paper. Their most spectacular experiments involved a substance known as DEZ, or
diethyl zinc. Potentially, DEZ could destroy acidity by creating an "alkaline
buffer" in the fibers of the paper, but it has an unfortunate side effect: it bursts
into flames on contact with air and explodes if exposed to water. Although it works
better in bombs and missiles than in books, the library's experimenters used it as
the key ingredient in a facility intended to deacidify a million books a year. In
fact, as Baker remarks, they designed "a large fuel-air bomb that happened to
contain books." Sure enough, it exploded in trial runs conducted by NASA at the
Goddard Space Flight Center in 1985 and 1986. Further experiments produced further
disasters, until, thousands of books and millions of dollars later, the program was
abandoned.
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Meanwhile, however, the preservationists devised other experiments, including a
million-dollar project to force rats to inhale zinc oxide dust in order to prove
that deacidified books could be sniffed without harm. Together with the
microfilmers, deaccessioners, and demolition crews, they razored, guillotined,
chainsawed, pickled, gassed, baked, burned, and dissolved vast quantities of printed
matter. Baker may overdo the anthropomorphic verbs and slant the technical
descriptions in a way that makes librarians look like mad scientists. But he
produces enough hard evidence to make a book lover's skin crawl.
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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
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the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that
the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State
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[CTRL] Balkan Twister
-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : Europe : The Balkans Open clashes between NATO and Croat separatists in Bosnia-Hercegovina By Chris Marsden 11 April 2001 Back to screen version| Send this link by email Demonstrations by more than 3,000 Bosnian Croats took place on Monday in Bosnia- Hercegovina in support of Croat autonomy and to protest raids by NATO's Stabilisation Force (S-For). The demonstrations come after a series of clashes involving Bosnian Croat separatists, NATO and United Nation's troops since April 5. The rally was organised by the Bosnian Croat war veteran's organisation, which functions as a front for the Croatian National Union, or HDZ. The extreme nationalist party is leading the campaign to form a Croat mini-state corresponding to that set up during the three-and-a-half year Bosnian civil war that concluded in 1995, with the signing of the Dayton Accord. Since then, Bosnia has been run as a NATO protectorate, divided into a Serb mini-state and a Muslim-Croat federation. Now HDZ has initiated a separatist campaign to dissolve the Muslim Croat federation, threatening the further destabilization of the Balkans at a time when Albanian separatists organized from Kosovo are seeking the dissolution of Macedonia and the Serb republic of Montenegro is pushing for independence from Belgrade. The HDZ's campaign has already spread to neighbouring Croatia, with war veterans mounting their own demonstrations at the Divulje base near the Croatian resort of Split and at another NATO facility at the port of Ploce. They have also promised to blockade NATO bases on the Dalmatian coast supplying S-For in Bosnia. Last month the HDZ, the largest Croat party, withdrew from the Muslim-Croat federation and declared its intention to set up independent government structures to those administered by the Western powers. On March 19, it moved the deadline for self-rule back two months in order to take part in discussions with NATO, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the UN and other international bodies. Instead the intervening period has seen the HDZ step up its undeclared war against NATO and an aggressive response by S-For. On March 28, the majority of the 7-8,000 ethnic Croat troops deserted from the Bosnian army, leaving their barracks following an order to disband by the HDZ's self- proclaimed Croat National Assembly. The Assembly had previously been declared illegal and the Croat representative on Bosnia's rotating presidency, Ante Jelavic of the HDZ, was dismissed earlier this month for planning to establish an autonomous Croat state. Bosnia's international administration warned that deserters would not be paid, but the HDZ promised to pay them 20 percent more than they were receiving from the federal army. With the barracks in Croat-dominated Mostar deserted, weapons storage sites were placed under guard. The worst fears of S-For were realised on April 5. Ethnic Croat troops under the command of Colonel Josip Stojak, in charge of the Busovaca barracks, 35 miles west of Sarajevo prior to the mass desertion, returned to challenge the control of the barracks by Colonel Marinko Palavra, who had been installed by the Muslim-Croat federation government. The barracks in Vitez were also taken over by Croat forces. The previous day, police officials in two regional police headquarters in the south said that 99 percent of their officers support the nationalists and did not recognize the government, after the circulation of an HDZ petition. On April 6, NATO troops and UN police mounted a joint operation designed to cut the HDZ's financial lifeline, raiding and seizing monies held in the Hercegovacka bank in the capital, Sarajevo, believed to be channelling funds for the HDZ from Croatia. One account alone was said to contain nearly $30m originating from the Croatian capital, Zagreb. The Croat nationalists responded with violent demonstrations in Sarajevo, Mostar, Grude and other towns. In total, 21 S-For troops were injured, staff from various international organisations were beaten and their vehicles set ablaze while pro- separatist local police watched. Some employees of Bosnia's UN High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, who oversees the Western imposed government structures, were held hostage. Describing the incidents in Grude at a press conference the next day, Petritsch claimed that gunmen took several federation and international personnel hostage in the bank... One [Western bank] investigator was taken outside and threatened with execution." The man was rescued by the intervention of a Croat Franciscan priest, he added. Petritsch rejected dialogue with the Croatian separatists and said that leaders of the riot would be identified and prosecuted. Neither I nor (NATO) will tolerate mob rule, he warned. US Ambassador Thomas Miller echoed this hardline stance, denouncing the HDZ for using political power to cover its criminal activities, which are extensive. That
[CTRL] Fw: [narconews] AP Covers Bolivia Unrest - Photos of Marines in Peru
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: "Alberto M. Giordano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:45 AM Subject: [narconews] AP Covers Bolivia Unrest - Photos of Marines in Peru April 10, 2001 Dear Colleagues, Is it news that the Associated Press reports on the historic events in Bolivia? Tonight it is. The new AP correspondent, Vanessa Arrington - replacement for the disgraced 18-year "Mr. Bolivia" Peter McFarren at the agency - in fact covered the news of a social protest. The coca-growers, labor, environmental and social movements of Bolivia today began a 250-mile march to the capital of La Paz. The Banzer regime vows that the peaceful protest will never reach the capital. Civil Society in Bolivia has set April 25th as the deadline for a general strike. The movement is stronger today than it was in August and September when it paralyzed the nation and cut off food supplies to the cities. This was promised months ago, as reported by Narco News. Now it moves into the realm of immediate history. Meanwhile, Narco News watches with great interest the events in neighboring Peru, as the same U.S. media outlets that discounted the resurrection of the Peruvian Left now must reposition and admit: Former President Alan Garcia is knocking at the door of the presidency. And Washington's once-safe chokehold on a pro-Plan Colombia regime in Peru crumbles by the moment. Also tonight, Narco News publishes photographic evidence that the U.S. Marines are in Peru, at the Colombian border. Will Washington accept democracy in Peru? In Bolivia? In our América? President George W. Bush speaks of his new name for Plan Colombia - the "Andean Initiative" (we note that his father, George H.W. Bush, Sr., in 1989 also put forward an unsuccesful "anti-drug" program in the region titled "the Andean Initiative") - but what about the initiatives of the Andean people? What about "the Andeans' Initiatives"? Can the democratic will of the people co-exist with imposed US drug policy? Tonight we bring you the beginnings of two stories that will develop and explode in the coming weeks: - Bolivia's Long March - Plan Colombia at Stake in Peru Elections And the U.S. Marines are in Peru. The photos we publish are U.S. government property, taken by two Marine sargents, and therefore public record. Because you have a right to know: http://www.narconews.com/ Never again an América without access to information, salud y abrazo, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] So Goodbye Jesse Jackson
Boy the Chinese know when to fold; the thought of Jesse Jackson coming to China was just too much - and Clinton as backup man? Diplomacy is like, never having to say I apologize - but I am sorry will sufficeall save face - no Hari Kari (Chinese do they do this) and our 24 returns home - eveybody Happy - and Jesse can go back into retreat. Wonder what that pilot and co pilot were doing when they were on automatic pilot - reading novels in the John? Saba China says it will free U.S. crew U.S. says it's 'very sorry' for Chinese pilot's death, violation of sovereignty when U.S. plane landedApril 11 -- NBC's Ned Colt reports that China has agreed to release the crew of a U.S. reconnaissance plane. MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS April 11 China said Wednesday it would free the detained crew of a U.S. spy plane after receiving a letter from President Bush saying he was "very sorry" that an American spy plane was forced to land in Chinese territory after a crash that apparently killed one of China's fighter pilots. U.S. officials confirmed the deal and told NBC News that a plane would leave Guam shortly to retrieve the 24 Americans, who have been held in China for 11 days. 'The U.S. ambassador has received verbal assurances from the Chinese government that the air crew will be allowed to leave promptly.' WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT THE FATE of the high-tech EP-3E spy plane was not immediately clear, although Chinese officials indicated they still needed to conduct a lengthy investigation. U.S. officials had previously said they expected the aircraft to be returned. The wording of the letter from Bush will allow officials in both countries to claim victory after the 11-day diplomatic standoff, with China portraying it as the apology it had demanded and the United States saying it was not, Pentagon sources told NBC News. Chen Ci, a Foreign Ministry spokesman on Hainan Island, where the crew was being detained, said that U.S. Ambassador Joseph Prueher delivered the letter Wednesday afternoon to the Chinese Foreign Ministry saying the U.S. government was "very sorry" about the incident. Advertisement "Please convey to the Chinese people and to the family of pilot Wang Wei that we are very sorry for their loss," Chen said. He said the letter goes on to say that Washington is "very sorry the entering of China's airspace and landing did not have verbal clearance." The American letter also expressed appreciation for "China's efforts to see to the well being" of the crew, he said. 'VERBAL ASSURANCES' FROM CHINA The White House issued a statement saying, "The U.S. ambassador has received verbal assurances from the Chinese government that the air crew will be allowed to leave promptly." Bush was to make a statement at the White House within the hour. The 21 men and three women have been held on Hainan island in the South China Sea for 11 days. They made an emergency landing on Hainan after their U.S. Navy EP-3E surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet, which crashed at sea, apparently killing the pilot. U.S.-China face offLatest newsWashPost: Detainees develop a routineNewsweek: Special reportNewsweek: Crash in cloudsCrew of the U.S. planeOpinions: Diplomacy tipsChina's military: MSNBC special reportNBC: Was pilot top gun?Interactive: China's militaryWhat's your opinion? Sound off on our BBS Pentagon officials said that Chinese objected to the use of a military aircraft to retrieve the crew, so the U.S. was dispatching a commercial charter from Guam. The plane will carry specialists who will begin debriefing the crew on the return flight and psychologists for possible counseling, the officials said. After retrieving the crew, the charter will return to Guam to be refueled, but the crew will likely remain on the plane until it arrives in Hawaii, they said. The crew will spend several days there "decompressing" and being debriefed about the accident, the landing and their incarceration. China's Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said the crew was being released on "humanitarian grounds" and expressed hope that the dispute would not damage relations between the two governments. "China puts great importance on its relations with the United States," Tang said. Tang urged Washington to cooperate in settling the dispute, and to do nothing that would damage relations between the two governments. U.S. OFFERS EXPRESSION OF REGRET The compromise language that cleared the way for the release of the crew was hammered out Tuesday. The letter also notes that while the U.S. plane violated Chinese sovereignty, it was crippled by the crash, was flying under a mayday signal and had to make an emergency landing. Bush's expression for the U.S. plane landing on Chinese soil was part of a larger U.S. proposal offered to Beijing several days ago, with no immediate response, officials said. At only his second news briefing since opening the trip last Thursday in
Re: [CTRL] So Goodbye Jesse Jackson
Title: RE: [CTRL] So Goodbye Jesse Jackson Does anyone know if Jesse got a round trip or one-way ticket? I'm praying for the latter. Jamie -Original Message- From: Aleisha Saba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] So Goodbye Jesse Jackson Boy the Chinese know when to fold; the thought of Jesse Jackson coming to China was just too much - and Clinton as backup man? Diplomacy is like, never having to say I apologize - but I am sorry will sufficeall save face - no Hari Kari (Chinese do they do this) and our 24 returns home - eveybody Happy - and Jesse can go back into retreat. Wonder what that pilot and co pilot were doing when they were on automatic pilot - reading novels in the John? Saba China says it will free U.S. crew U.S. says it's 'very sorry' for Chinese pilot's death, violation of sovereignty when U.S. plane landedApril 11 -- NBC's Ned Colt reports that China has agreed to release the crew of a U.S. reconnaissance plane. MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS April 11 - China said Wednesday it would free the detained crew of a U.S. spy plane after receiving a letter from President Bush saying he was very sorry that an American spy plane was forced to land in Chinese territory after a crash that apparently killed one of China's fighter pilots. U.S. officials confirmed the deal and told NBC News that a plane would leave Guam shortly to retrieve the 24 Americans, who have been held in China for 11 days. 'The U.S. ambassador has received verbal assurances from the Chinese government that the air crew will be allowed to leave promptly.' - WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT THE FATE of the high-tech EP-3E spy plane was not immediately clear, although Chinese officials indicated they still needed to conduct a lengthy investigation. U.S. officials had previously said they expected the aircraft to be returned. The wording of the letter from Bush will allow officials in both countries to claim victory after the 11-day diplomatic standoff, with China portraying it as the apology it had demanded and the United States saying it was not, Pentagon sources told NBC News. Chen Ci, a Foreign Ministry spokesman on Hainan Island, where the crew was being detained, said that U.S. Ambassador Joseph Prueher delivered the letter Wednesday afternoon to the Chinese Foreign Ministry saying the U.S. government was very sorry about the incident. Advertisement Please convey to the Chinese people and to the family of pilot Wang Wei that we are very sorry for their loss, Chen said. He said the letter goes on to say that Washington is very sorry the entering of China's airspace and landing did not have verbal clearance. The American letter also expressed appreciation for China's efforts to see to the well being of the crew, he said. 'VERBAL ASSURANCES' FROM CHINA The White House issued a statement saying, The U.S. ambassador has received verbal assurances from the Chinese government that the air crew will be allowed to leave promptly. Bush was to make a statement at the White House within the hour. The 21 men and three women have been held on Hainan island in the South China Sea for 11 days. They made an emergency landing on Hainan after their U.S. Navy EP-3E surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet, which crashed at sea, apparently killing the pilot. U.S.-China face off*Latest news*WashPost: Detainees develop a routine*Newsweek: Special report*Newsweek: Crash in clouds*Crew of the U.S. plane*Opinions: Diplomacy tips*China's military: MSNBC special report*NBC: Was pilot top gun?*Interactive: China's military*What's your opinion? Sound off on our BBS Pentagon officials said that Chinese objected to the use of a military aircraft to retrieve the crew, so the U.S. was dispatching a commercial charter from Guam. The plane will carry specialists who will begin debriefing the crew on the return flight and psychologists for possible counseling, the officials said. After retrieving the crew, the charter will return to Guam to be refueled, but the crew will likely remain on the plane until it arrives in Hawaii, they said. The crew will spend several days there decompressing and being debriefed about the accident, the landing and their incarceration. China's Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said the crew was being released on humanitarian grounds and expressed hope that the dispute would not damage relations between the two governments. China puts great importance on its relations with the United States, Tang said. Tang urged Washington to cooperate in settling the dispute, and to do nothing that would damage relations between the two governments. U.S. OFFERS EXPRESSION OF REGRET The compromise language that cleared the way for the release of the crew was hammered out Tuesday. The letter also notes that while the U.S. plane
Re: [CTRL] Open Letter to Clinton-Annonymous
-Caveat Lector- --- "c." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- anonymous because there is nothing of substance in the text whatsoever- just bile. Well, "c" whoever you are, it's his/her opinion of Clinton's despicable conduct during eight years in the Whitehouse. You obviously have not been paying attention or are incurably ignorant. do you believe her? why? because it suits you? Emmm, okay, I'll play. Although NBC finally backed off the story, they did spend several months checking her credibility and it stood up well. Especially considering a nurse friend backed it up. Yes, they could be lying. But given Clinton's misogynistic comtempt for woman, his sole preocupation with his own self-gratification and history of lying every time his lips move, I believe her. Good article below. Gavin. The Iceman Always Rapes Twice http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=the+icemansp-a=000512b2-sp "Ladies from the South don't tell." - American folklore === Around Christmas, it gets cold in Crawford County. One day near the end of 1998, it was both wet and cold. The dull morning sky was almost pink. A slight bite in the wind was a sudden reminder to Juanita Broaddrick that she wasn't wearing a coat. As she stepped back inside, the telephone rang. It was probably Lisa Myers again. Persistence could easily be Lisa's middle name. "Take a message David," she told her husband, as she headed out the door again. "Tell her I'll call her back in a couple of hours." The phone continued to ring. "How do you know it's her?" David yelled, instinctively knowing that she meant Lisa. "It is!" Juanita yelled back as the double storm door slammed behind her. Juanita had just gotten up and wasn't fully alert yet. She wanted to avoid talking to Lisa until she was clear-headed. She had forgotten to bring in yesterday's mail, and the walk down to the main road in the brisk air would give her a chance to think. Over the months, a bond of trust began to form between the two women. Lisa was as determined as any reporter, but not rude and arrogant, like the rest of them. Juanita wasn't kidding herself. Lisa wanted the same thing they all did - every dirty detail. Dredging all that up would be painful. Juanita was still avoiding going 'on the record'. She wasn't ready for that, not yet and maybe never. For twenty-one years she had kept the whole thing bottled up inside, except for confiding in a very few close associates. She did not report the assault because who would have believed "little ol' Juanita Hickey" against the chief law enforcement officer of the state? Surely in a trial the defense would have delved into her sex life. Her reputation in the small town of Van Buren, once people knew about her affair with David Broaddrick, would have been ruined. Bill Clinton probably had counted on her silence because of her fear of losing her place in her small southern community. Juanita was "healthy, wealthy and wise," as a friend liked to say. "Wise enough to keep her mouth shut." It was crucial that her husband was also firmly against her going public. Their hard-won privacy was starting to suffer. If her story came out now, would that give the senators enough spine to remove Bill Clinton from office? She doubted it. And why put herself though the trauma of a nationally televised interview unless she would be believed? It seemed to her that most of her fellow citizens were in no mood to take Bill Clinton to task. She stopped and leaned on a rustic wooden fence by the driveway, looking out at her fields. She mused about how quickly the White House released Kathleen Willey's letters. Earlier in 1998 Juanita had nearly convinced herself she could go forward. When she first watched Kathleen Willey put her reputation on the line on 60 Minutes, she felt an almost sisterly affinity for her. Willey was credible on TV, and maybe together they could force the sexual crimes of Bill Clinton into the open. But by late that evening her need for self-protection overcame her renewed outrage at the president. She would be trashed like Kathleen and like all the others. All too often, Juanita thought about telling her story. Then the televised House impeachment hearings began. Those evenings, she would watch Geraldo Rivera who is a master of manipulation. As he worked his spell, she was tempted to speak out in order to disput him. She despised Geraldo's fawning whilst spinning for Bill Clinton, the man who raped her and later became President of the United States. She pushed those thoughts aside when she reached the road and realized she hadn't brought the key along. The gate was locked. The mailbox was on the outside of the property, but it was mounted on a post close to the fence. By walking a few feet down the fence line, she retrieved her mail by reaching around from the back. Then she started back towards the house, wondering why some neighbor boys were sitting for so long out at the road in their truck. She didn't know it
Re: [CTRL] Mandela Questions Lockerbie Verdict
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 4/10/01 7:08:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Comparing Mandela to Farrahakan is a stretch. Is no stretch. And I didn't say Libya was responsible for anything, including it's self. You said that. Bill H 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] Eden Pastora bomb case reopened against GHWB
http://www.strategy.com Victims' Relatives Of 1984 Terrorist Attack Clamor For Justice Bomb San Jose, Apr 09, 2001 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The Costa Rican relatives of victims of the 1984 terrorist attack on former Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Eden Pastora on Monday appeared before the Supreme Court to complain about the lack of progress in the case. Roberto Cruz, a journalist and one of the 15 people injured in the bombing - in which three people were also killed - said that due to pressure from the United States, the crime has gone unpunished. May 30 will mark the 17th anniversary of the terrorist attack, one of the worst ever in Costa Rican history. In May 2000, Costa Rican Attorney General Carlos Arias announced he would reopen the investigation into the "La Penca" terrorist attack. Arias said he was preparing charges against at least 28 people. However, Cruz said on Monday that the "judicial branch's lack of action is causing a negation of justice, equivalent to a cover-up, caused by U.S. pressure." Cruz has called for a judge to investigate former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and then-Vice President George Bush, as well as former Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge and Vice President Armando Arauz, as the ultimately responsible parties. Also implicated are U.S. citizen John Hull, who faces extradition to Costa Rica, and Cuban-American Felipe Vidal. An individual identified as Per Anker Hansen, who was photographed and filmed at the time of the bombing, is also wanted by authorities. His true identity has not been established, but he is blamed for planting the bomb. The bombing took place May 30, 1984, in Nicaraguan territory a few kilometers from the Costa Rican border, where Pastora was holding a press conference. The attack claimed the lives of Costa Rican cameraman Jorge Quiros and his assistant Evelio Sequeira, along with a U.S. reporter for the local newspaper The Tico Times, Linda Frazer. Fifteen other Costa Rican and international reporters were seriously wounded in the bombing. EFE mds/kb/bg http://www.efe.es Copyright (c) 2001. Agencia EFE S.A. -- If Big League Drugwar is Fraud then Little League is Witch-hunt copvcia.com dcia.com madcowpress.com JFK disinfo.com almartinraw.com Your dead witches list Next list Click to subscribe to cia-drugs list Yahoo! Groups Sponsor 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 the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[CTRL] MIT Spotlight Unique Audio Technology in Concept Truck
-Caveat Lector- from: http://sound.media.mit.edu/~pompei/spotlight/DaimlerChrysler/ Click Here: A HREF="http://sound.media.mit.edu/~pompei/spotlight/DaimlerChrysler/"Audio Spotlight in Concept Truck/A - DaimlerChrysler Embraces Audio Spotlight Technology for Automotive Applications DaimlerChrysler Corporation and MIT "Spotlight" Unique Audio Technology in Concept Truck Auburn Hills, Mich. -- The days of fighting over who gets to choose the music during family trips may soon be over, thanks to a collaborative effort between DaimlerChrysler Corporation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Media Lab. The Dodge MAXXcab concept truck is the first automotive application of Audio Spotlight - an MIT Media Lab technology that directs a narrow beam of sound much like a spotlight projects light. Only the person whom the sound beam is "shined" at can hear it. This makes it possible for each passenger to listen to something completely different without interfering with each other. "The variety of sound sources is only going to increase with the availability of voice-enabled navigation, e-mail, cell phones, video games and movies in your future vehicle," said Steve Buckley, electrical product innovation manager at DaimlerChrysler Corp. "The Dodge MAXXcab is great test bed for this technology because it already includes features such as the back-seat 'Edu-tainment' system for the kids and front-seat plug-and-play computer with voice-activated features." In the MAXXcab, four Audio Spotlights are imbedded in the headliner directly above the passengers. Two speakers "shine" on the front-seat passengers while the other speakers are aimed at rear-seat passengers creating two distinct audio environments. In future applications, each passenger could have a unique sound environment, Buckley said. The technology was developed as an MIT Media Lab project by 27-year-old Joe Pompei. The MIT student and occasional musician was frustrated by the inability to control sound from traditional speakers. "The location of sound, and how it is distributed around the listener, greatly defines the listening experience," Pompei explains. "We're used to doing this with light -- we already use light bulbs, spotlights and projectors to control our visual environment. With the Audio Spotlight, we can now have the same control over sound." The Audio Spotlight consists of a thin, circular transducer array and a specially designed signal processor and amplifier. The lightweight transducer is about one-half inch thick and nonmagnetic. The signal processor and amplifier are integrated into a system about the same size as a traditional audio amplifier and it has similar power requirements. Unlike traditional speakers that transmit non-directed audible sound at wavelengths of several feet, the Audio Spotlight transmits millimeter-sized, ultrasonic waves which form a very narrow beam of sound which becomes audible as it travels through the air. The current system produces relatively low-volume sound at typical passenger positions as it has not been optimized for close-range listening, Pompei said. It is currently designed for long-range projection and further development in transducer design will solve that problem, he added. "Personalization of the various info-tainment features is a key development area for DaimlerChrysler," Buckley added. "This is especially important for the driver who needs useful information like traffic updates without being distracted by their spouse's music or a child's video game." The Audio Spotlight technology is still in development research and has commercial interest from several MIT Media Lab sponsors representing a variety of industries, Pompei said. None of the technologies in the system are inherently expensive, and many components are actually smaller than today's systems, according to Pompei. If produced in volume, he anticipates it could be competitively priced with conventional audio systems. June, 2000 - ### - ON THE INTERNET Visit DaimlerChrysler's Media Services Web Site for photos and graphics on this topic and additional DaimlerChrysler news. For more information on the Audio Spotlight, visit http://sound.media.mit.edu/~pompei/spotlight. All content (c) 2000 DaimlerChrysler and MIT Media Lab. All rights reserved. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End A HREF!ttp://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
[CTRL] Robert Hanssen/Opus Dei
-Caveat Lector- Yoichi Clark Shimatsu (Pacific News Service), 5 Mar 01, "Was FBI Agent's True 'Loyalty' To Opus Dei?" "Intelligence experts and congressional committees are puzzling over what motivated FBI agent Robert Hanssen to spy for Moscow over the past 15 years. Money seems to offer no clues, because Hanssen lived in an ascetic style. Nor is there yet any evidence that this happily married man fell into a "honey trap" involving a coy Natasha. The search for a motive is complicated by the fact that his colleagues say that Hanssen was fiercely anticommunist and a devout member of Opus Dei, an ultraconservative Catholic organization. He was a regular parishioner of St. Catherine of Siena Church, in a Virginia suburb of the capital, where an elite congregation, which includes Supreme Court justice Antonia Scalia, attend traditional Latin masses. It might be reassuring to believe that Hanssen acted alone. But if that is the case, he would likely have repented and confessed all. The opposite reaction -- his stony silence -- indicates something other than the sins of a prodigal son." 2177.txt 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] CommentMax
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.newsmax.com/commentmax/commentmax.shtml - Many columnists at one place. Om K CommentMax Diane Alden: A Complex of Napoleons, Part II: The Ultimate Aphrodisiac Dorian Ian Atherton: Time to Make Reparations Dave Barry: I Changed My Name to Bilk You Better Bruce Bartlett: More on the Estate Tax Neal Boortz: Reality of Civil Rights Lawsuits Linda Bowles: Hold Media Accountable Brent Bozell: Dan Rather, Democratic Fundraiser David Broder: Why Election Predictors Bombed Richard Brookhiser: The Right's Ideas Matter Dr. Michael S. Brown: Invasion of the Anti-gun Doctors Art Buchwald: More Than a Game William F. Buckley: The Long View on Hainan Howie Carr: Goldings Cash in Pols' Pockets Steve Chapman: U.S., China Continue at Odds Mona Charen: Bush and Diplomacy Linda Chavez: Judging a Doctor by His Skin Color Claremont Institute: 'Precepts': Campaign Finance Reform Progress? Alexander Cockburn: The Cleanup Crowd Ann Coulter: Racial Profiling in University Admissions Greg Crosby: Academy Award Winning Song? Lisa Dean: Clinton Scandals Boost Bush Maureen Dowd: Herd on the Street Steve Dunleavy: Poster Should Give Rudy a Clue Larry Elder: Burning Furniture to Warm the Room Barry Farber: Thanks for the Wake-up Call, China Steve Farrell: Enemies of Tyranny: Faith, Reason and the First Amendment Dick Feagler: Baseball Signals Arrival of Spring Don Feder: In Every Generation They Rise Up Against Us Dan Frisa: G.I. Joe or Soccer Moms? Ellen Goodman: Blinded by Bush's Science Col. David Hackworth: The CIA Strikes Out Again Argus Hamilton: Daily Column: Political Jokes Zoh Hieronimus: Minding, a Godly Power Dr. James Hirsen: China's Sorry Demand David Horowitz: Recalls, Ripoffs, and New$ You Can U$e David Horowitz: No Decency, No Shame Arianna Huffington: Joseph, George W. and the Amazing Technicolor Recession Reed Irvine: Non-Smoking Gun Unravels Cover-Up Molly Ivins: Handling China in True Texas Fashion Gerard Jackson: Melbourne?s Right Wing Betrays Market Jeff Jacoby: The Reason for HMO Double Talk Thomas L. Jipping: Politics and Judicial Selection Barrett Kalellis: Detroit Shoplifters Pay High Price Brad Keena: China's Fig Leaf of Our Imagination David Keene: Beware Campaign Finance Reform Michael Kelly: McCain-Feingold's Fatal Flaws Ed Koch: Give Mayor the Reins for City Schools Morton Kondracke: Bush Must Explain Foreign Policy Tony Kornheiser: The Comb-over That Came In From the Cold Hilton Kramer: Germans Had Beethoven, But Could They Paint? Charles Krauthammer: A Grand Compromise Howard Kurtz: The Quiet American John LeBoutiller: America Needs to Act Like America! John Leo: An Unnatural Stand Norman Liebmann: 'This Just In: ' Drives Another Wedge David Limbaugh: 'Courting' Politics Col. Stanislav Lunev: Putin's First Year Christopher Matthews: 'This Is Not Your Country' Geoff Metcalf: Snooping for Fun and Profit Jim Mills: China's Out. How 'Bout Ft. Lauderdale? Dick Morris: Tax-cut Scoreboard: Bush's Failed Pitch Bill Murchison: A Challenge to Be Met Deroy Murdock: Why I Boycott the New York Times Peggy Noonan: Give Him a Peabody Oliver North: Chinese Checkmate Robert Novak: Dem Hopes to Keep Fingers Off 'Trigger' Thomas Oliphant: Suddenly, Bush Is Bully on the Economy Page Six: The Latest Gossip Clarence Page: The Appearance of Integration John L. Perry: Good News . . . But!
[CTRL] Immigration paradox - Bush Amnesty, The Washington Times (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- The Washington Times - February 28, 2001 Immigration paradox - by Helle Bering Those who complain that no great issues ignite the passions of Americans the way ideology did during the Cold War struggle between East and West, need not fear that we are running out of things to fight about. The difference is that today's heated debates tend to focus on problems closer to home, more likely to have a direct impact on personal lives than a higher theoretical or philosophical dimension. Consider the issue of abortion, literally a life and death question, which echoes with religious undertones. Or free trade, which splits both Republicans and Democrats right down the middle and arouses the fierce antagonisms of the ludite anti-WTO crowd. Or consider the issue of immigration. Now, there's a topic to start the fur flying in all directions. It all depends on whether you believe we about to become an "alien nation" as Peter Brimmelow put it starkly or whether you believe this country's destiny and path to greatness lies in keeping the door open to the world's "poor and huddled masses." President George W. Bush in his first official foreign trip, paying a neighborly visit to Mexican President Vicente Fox, waded briskly into this thorny thicket. Under discussion were proposals to expand the visa program for temporary workers, the "H" visa category which currently is geared towards highly skilled labor, to include unskilled temporary workers in the agricultural sector as well. For his part, Mr. Fox is pressing the United States to agree to another sweeping amnesty of Mexicans living illegally in this country, and has said that immigration is his Number One priority. As governor of Texas, Mr. Bush acquired a better understanding of the human and economic costs associated with illegal immigration than most American would have. Texas has 27 border points with Mexico, more than California, Arizona and New Mexico put together and obviously more opportunities for illegal crossings. These are the front line states in the losing battle against illegal immigration. Making Latin America a foreign policy priority makes a great deal of sense, as Mr. Bush said as early as last August in a foreign policy address. "Weak neighbors export problems. Environmental problems, illegal immigration, even crime, drugs and violence. Strong neighbors export their goods, and buy ours creating jobs and good will." And he added significantly, "This can be the century of the Americas." Additionally, Mr. Bush has good domestic political reasons for grappling with immigration. In the last presidential election, the Republican Party worked hard to change its image with minority voters, with only limited success. The Republican Convention showcased minorities of all kinds, but Hispanics particularly could be pleased. One of the stars of the convention was George P. Bush, nephew of the president and son of the Florida governor, who addressed the audience in fluent Spanish. Hispanics will soon overtake blacks as the largest ethnic minority group. Strongly influenced by Catholic values and strong families, Hispanics are a natural Republican constinuency. In the November election, however, the fact that the Republican Congress the month before declined to grant the amnesty for several Latin American immigrant groups sought by the Clinton White House undercut expectations of large Republican gains. Mr. Bush is now trying to reach these voters again. All of which makes good demographic political tactics. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible for Republicans to do so, without alienating another constituency, a more traditionally one, the social and Christian conservatives who tend to take a dim view of the inevitable cultural changes large scale immigration entails. While the GOP hungered for the White House, they remained quiet, but their attendance at the polls was significantly down. As may be gathered, both these constituencies hold a passionate view of the issue of immigration. It is clear, however, that with some 8.5 million Mexican immigrants living in this country, and about 3 million of them illegally, an orderly and legal process is preferable to one that is neither process nor legal. In this, Mr. Bush is absolutely right. However, if resurrecting a temporary vise program is the answer, and it may be, it ought to be combined with internal enforcement efforts by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, something that has been all but abandoned by now. Once people have crossed the border regions, they vanish into the general population without a trace. Many probably hope for an amnesty eventually, like the amnesty of 1986 the third only in the entire history of the United
[CTRL] [BP] librarians destroy books (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- An interesting article from the New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20010426016R Rod -- Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] The History of Economic Thought Archive http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html Batoche Books http://Batoche.co-ltd.net/ 52 Eby Street South Kitchener, Ontario N2G 3L1 Canada - This message was sent via the Book People mailing list. Posting address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin. unsubscribe address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charter: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/bplist/ 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] Most Violent nation?
-Caveat Lector- This works much better if you clink the link. That way you can view the table. http://www.haciendapub.com/stolinsky.html Feature Article America: The Most Violent Nation? David C. Stolinsky, MD Is America the most violent nation on earth? Those who blame this country for most of the ills of the world would have us believe so. They frequently refer to high rates of homicide and suicide, though they rarely cite actual data. But before fear impels us to shred the Bill of Rights, we should determine whether our fear has a factual basis. The accompanying table (Table 1) gives suicide and homicide rates for all 86 nations for which data are available. Rates are per 100,000 population and come from the United Nations 1996 Demographic Yearbook published in 1998.(1) Note that the latest U.S. suicide rate (for 1997) is 11.4, slightly below the 11.9 listed, while the 1997 U.S. homicide rate is 7.3, far below the 9.4 listed here. Figures exceeding published U.S. figures are starred, while those exceeding only the most recent (1997) U.S. figures are doubly starred. For a more contemporaneous comparison, the singly starred figures should be stressed. Accuracy of the figures varies. Suicide may not be reported to spare the family. Thus Egypt claims a suicide rate of zero. On the other hand, Japan lists murder-suicides as suicides; if a man kills his family and himself, all are listed as suicides. The thousands of patients "euthanized" by doctors each year in the Netherlands are listed as dying from disease. There are 185 UN members, so over half of all nations, including the former Soviet Union and many African and Asian nations, reported no data at all. Regarding suicide, the U.S. is in the middle of the pack, with 35 of the 86 nations having higher rates (38 using the most recent U.S. figure). Compared to the U.S. rate of 11.9, Russia has a rate of 41.2, Hungary 32.9, Denmark 22.3, Switzerland 21.4, France 20.8, and Japan 16.7. In general, Northern and Eastern European and Asian nations tend to have high suicide rates, while countries in Southern Europe and Latin America tend to have low rates. Is there a relation between suicide and strictness of gun-control laws? Northern European and Asian nations tend to have high rates and strict laws, while Latin American nations tend to have low rates and more lax laws. Hence one could make a spurious claim that strict gun laws "cause" suicides. Such a claim would ignore many relevant facts. For example, Latin countries are mainly Catholic, with severe social pressures against suicide. Still, it makes as much (or as little) sense to say that gun laws "cause" suicides as that they "prevent" homicides. The U.S. suicide rate has fluctuated between 10 and 17 for a century, with peaks in 1908 and 1932, and shows no relation to gun laws or gun availability. The current rate is below the midpoint and falling slightly. Recently suicides in the young increased. Advocates of gun laws blame the availability of guns. But suicides in older Americans decreased. The advocates ignore this fact. If something bad happens, they blame guns; if something good happens, they ignore it. And this is called "research." Is there a correlation between suicide and homicide rates? Statistical analysis(2) shows none (r = 0.08). Nations with low suicide rates may have low (Greece) or high (Mexico) homicide rates.
[CTRL] Secrets of the Tomb: How a Small College Club Became America's Most Notorious Secret,
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.publishersweekly.com/index_articles/20010312_94780.asp Click Here: A HREF="http://www.publishersweekly.com/index_articles/20010312_94780.asp"PW: Hot Deals/A - All About Skull Bones Few secret organizations have had as much impact upon American history and politics in the past half century or more than Skull Bones, Yale University's hush-hush club that was, until quite recently, all male. Recent Yale grad Alexandra Robbins aims to change all that when she publishes Secrets of the Tomb: How a Small College Club Became America's Most Notorious Secret, which Little, Brown senior editor Geoff Shandler, also a Yalie (though not a member), has just bought from agent Paula Balzer at Sarah Lazin Books. He bought world rights, beating out several other interested parties with what Balzer called his understanding of the book and his plans for it. Robbins, who is only 24, works in the New Yorker's Washington office and has already done one book (Quarter-Life Crisis, due from Putnam/Tarcher in May), became interested in the subject when she wrote a big piece about George W. Bush's relationship to the society for Atlantic Monthly last spring and uncovered a number of sources willing to talk about the group. Skull Bones has been instrumental in fomenting many significant Washington relationships, was allegedly the basis of the early CIA, and its network of contacts is deeply woven into American life. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Wise to Do FBI Spy Book
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.publishersweekly.com/index_articles/20010312_94780.asp Click Here: A HREF="http://www.publishersweekly.com/index_articles/20010312_94780.asp"PW: Hot Deals/A - Hot Deals from: http://www.publishersweekly.com/index_articles/20010312_94780.asp John F. Baker -- 3/12/01 Wise to Do FBI Spy Book David Wise, a veteran author on American intelligence and espionage topics, has been signed by Random House executive editor Robert Loomis to do a book on the Robert Philip Hanssen FBI spy case--at least the third such book currently in the works. Loomis said of the acquisition, made from agent Sterling Lord at Sterling Lord Literistic: "When this case broke, David was the first person I thought of to write the story. He has the knowledge, experience and deep access it will take." Loomis bought U.S. and Canadian rights in the book, which he hopes to publish as soon as next year. Wise is the author of a number of books about the intelligence establishment and its doings, including most recently Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas. He was also coauthor of the bestselling The Invisible Government. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Riots continue in Ohio (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Regardless of whether the police were right or wrong - an out-of-control situation like this is exactly why we own firearms. There are not enough police officers to protect every innocent person's home or business during a riot. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010411/ts/shooting_protest_10.html Wednesday April 11 6:45 AM ET Ohio Shooting Protest Resumes By LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press Writer CINCINNATI (AP) - Gangs of roving youths looted stores, torched buildings and attacked motorists for a second evening, forcing residents to lock themselves indoors while clergy members and politicians appealed for calm. The rioting was sparked by the police shooting of an unarmed black man, who was killed while fleeing a white police officer. Timothy Thomas, 19, wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants, was the fourth black man shot dead by police since November. Police Spc. Scott Johnson advised peaceful protesters not to go into the streets Tuesday night for their own safety. ``There is fear everywhere,'' said Johnson, head of the Sentinel Police Association, a black officer's group. ``There is fear in the police and on the other side, and people are not distinguishing between those who are causing trouble and those who are bringing peace.'' Vandals have left a trail of broken windows and torched shops. Several motorists have been hit with bricks, seemingly in random attacks. Earlier Tuesday, officers clad in helmets and shields set up protective rings around City Hall and police headquarters and fired bean bags and rubber bullets at about 50 demonstrators who roamed downtown streets throwing rocks, cans and bottles. Police on horseback, accompanied by shotgun-armed foot patrols, arrested at least 20 people for rioting and disorderly conduct. Violence and vandalism continued overnight into Wednesday. Fire department paramedics took about 25 people to hospitals and treated about 40 others on the streets, said police Lt. Ray Ruberg. The injured included people hit by police with rubber bullets. James Johnson, 33, a Ford Motor Co. assembly worker, said he tried to help a bleeding neighbor who'd been hit in the head by a police-fired beanbag. He said police ordered him to get away from the woman, whom he identified as Juanita Jackson, 42, a resident of his apartment building. Jackson was later treated in an emergency room, a hospital official said. The City Council canceled its Wednesday meeting, saying the unrest posed safety concerns. Mayor Charles Luken appealed for calm discussion and an end to the violence during a news conference. ``If we can't do that, then I'm not optimistic that the future will be that much better than the past,'' Luken said. Rev. Damon Lynch III, pastor of New Prospect Baptist Church, also urged peace. ``There has to be another voice out there saying we understand your pain and we are with you, but violence is not the answer,'' Lynch, leader of Cincinnati Black United Front, told a meeting of about 150 people. Churchgoers who'd planned a peaceful march to a nearby park were turned back as police cordoned off the area. Police Chief Thomas Streicher Jr. on Monday offered condolences to Thomas' family. Police union president Keith Fangman said the officer, Steve Roach, thought Thomas had a gun and feared. Roach is on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure after police shootings. The FBI is investigating whether police violated federal civil rights law in the shooting. 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] Family sues over Russian roulette (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Fairly good article on a court case of interest to anyone who believes in personal responsibility for one's own actions. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/10/national/10TRIA.html April 10, 2001 Court Stories: Seeking Justice After a Fatal Spin of the Cylinder By WILLIAM GLABERSON NDIANA, Pa. There was one round in the cylinder. It was prom night at Marion Center High School in rural western Pennsylvania. Sean Miller was a senior, but he was not going to the dance. He and Carl Kellar, a ninth grader, were with Leila Dudek, another freshman; the three were listening to one CD over and over again in Carl's tiny basement bedroom. They were the only ones in the house. Early in the evening Carl went upstairs, grabbed the keys from where they were hidden on top of the family's gun cabinet and took out his father's .357 Magnum. It was Sean who first spun the cylinder of the revolver, put the eight-inch barrel to his head and pulled the trigger. Much later he would admit he took no chances because he could see where the cartridge with the bullet landed in the cylinder after each spin. That spring night came alive at a civil trial here last month that told an unusually detailed story of guns and teenage bluster. The trial came and went with little notice in this small town 60 miles east of Pittsburgh. But in a simply furnished courtroom here it raised the kinds of moral questions with no easy answers that are often on the dockets of courts across America. The Russian roulette was a performance of sorts for the benefit of Leila. "I was just trying to impress her," Sean testified. She testified, too. "It went click," she said. She was terrified, she said. Sean spun the cylinder and put the gun to his head again. Click. He spun it again. This time he handed the revolver to Carl, who, Leila testified, could not see the back of the cylinder. It was a dare, she said. "It looked," she told the jurors, "like he was gesturing for him to do the same thing." Then she heard the blast. Every day in courtrooms across the country, people grapple with the endless variety of human evil, nobility, error, stupidity and bravery. Because the oath to tell the truth is taken seriously by some people in courtrooms, from the biggest cities to the smallest towns, courtroom battles can offer unusually clear snapshots of American life even the parts that stubbornly defy explanation. For four days in March in the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County, a jury heard the civil suit of Carl's mother, Patricia A. Kellar, against Sean T. Miller, who is now 23. In Judge Gregory A. Olson's courtroom, the crack of that revolver was described so many times it seemed almost to break the silence of the two families facing off. The suit claimed Sean was negligent in prodding Carl to his death on May 26, 1995. In court, the Kellars' lawyer, Victor H. Pribanic of White Oak, Pa., said Sean "took the life of Carl Kellar as surely as if he had pulled the trigger himself." But Sean's lawyer, W. Alan Torrance Jr. of Pittsburgh, said the case hinged on "personal responsibility." Sean did a "dumb thing" that night, he said, but it was Carl who had pulled the trigger that final time. The suit asked for millions of dollars in damages. But a few days before the trial began, Mrs. Kellar, who is 39, said she wanted as much as anything to unravel the mysteries of that night. Sean and Leila lied at first about the events leading up to Carl's death, so she was left struggling with confusion as well as loss. "I'd like to know what happened that night," Mrs. Kellar said a few days before the trial, sitting next to her husband, John, in their modest ranch house where their son had died. During questioning by the state police the night of the shooting, Sean and Leila left out any mention of Russian roulette. After they had all looked at the gun, they said, Carl had suddenly and inexplicably shot himself. Sean Miller was never charged with a crime. So when the trial began on March 19, it became something of an inquest into the teenage world that is hidden from parents. It also shed light on corners of a story that for six years had remained dark. As the older of the two, Mr. Pribanic argued, Sean had power over Carl. Ms. Dudek testified, "Sometimes he got real bossy with him." Mr. Pribanic called Mr. Miller to the stand. Now a square-jawed young man with darting blue eyes, he simmered as Mr. Pribanic led him through a series of admissions. Yes, he had lied to the police that night. "I was afraid of what people were going to think" if they concluded he had provoked Carl to point the gun at his head. Yes, he had asked Leila to lie, too. The police had received anonymous phone calls after Carl's death saying that Mr. Miller had played Russian roulette before. They had called him in for another interview a month later. Then he admitted that he had spun the cylinder and pulled the trigger too that night; that he had begun the
Re: [CTRL] Riots continue in Ohio (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- "violence is not the answer" Tell it to the cops. A HREF!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL 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. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A o 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] Riots continue in Ohio (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Before you jump to the unwarranted conclusion that this was entirely about race, and not also about police brutality, especially against youth, check out the picture at: http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=5 A HREF!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL 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. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A o 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] Open Letter to Clinton-Annonymous
-Caveat Lector- the problem is, gavin, that it is not even reasoned argument or opinion- it is slanted inuendo. big difference. maybe it ain't me who is incurable! to make a judgement on whether she is telling the truth or not is irrelevent. as in the monica case- people want to believe that she was a victim- rather than seeing her as an equal partner in an illicit relationship. - Original Message - From: "Gavin Philips" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Open Letter to Clinton-Annonymous -Caveat Lector- --- "c." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- anonymous because there is nothing of substance in the text whatsoever- just bile. Well, "c" whoever you are, it's his/her opinion of Clinton's despicable conduct during eight years in the Whitehouse. You obviously have not been paying attention or are incurably ignorant. do you believe her? why? because it suits you? Emmm, okay, I'll play. Although NBC finally backed off the story, they did spend several months checking her credibility and it stood up well. Especially considering a nurse friend backed it up. Yes, they could be lying. But given Clinton's misogynistic comtempt for woman, his sole preocupation with his own self-gratification and history of lying every time his lips move, I believe her. Good article below. Gavin. 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] Riots continue in Ohio (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Can't pick this up for some reasonthis fuss started in Cincinnati some weeks back for alleged "racial profiling" - when in fact statistics proved it was criminal conduct - period. Black City Councilwoman was on the air - and I got a blast at her - for she said, well imagine a councilwoman being stopped for speeding, and then discover who I was; and a football player, stopped for something and I say - when they found out he was a football player they let him go. Remember one black football player in Columbus with a great future who loved to speed - he was killed speeding down a road. No police around to stop him I guess. This thing in Cincinnati was agitated; old Rosicrucian book written in 1960 period during time frame RFK murdered - a guy by the name of Weed (Pattie Hearst's boyfriend named Weed) said how to start a riot: Pick a nice hot day, and get a soap box and get going on hour abused these people are, etc.and how easy to start a riot. These are criminals in the streets - more power to the police. If there are brutal police then they are guilty of criminal conduct an because they are police, it makes no difference. Cincinnati has been asking for this; now consider Jerry Springer is going to run for Congress - wonder what he will stir up and if you ever get a load of the mess he has on this show, well Cincinnati will NEVER end up being another Chicago. Cincinnati is a beautiful city - Indian Hills I hope is still as it was - if blacks want to riot and burn - let them self destruct, but don't blame police brutality if someone gets the stick. I saw some of those people and I say this - you are welcome to them. A criminal is a criminal and a brutal cop who breaks the law, he is a criminal too The cop who shot that said he was scared; seems to be popular for police to cringe and cower and say I was afraid? Is this proper conduct for a policeman? They have the right to protect their lives; the kid should have stopped and who knows, he could have ditched the gun.many warrants, but the cop should have let him run. Like those stupid high speed chases in the streets...oh how the public loves to watch this on TV - but when your kid is run off the road and kill, maybe not so exciting? Saba SUPPORT YOUR POLICE but weed out the tares from the good. 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] THIS McDonalds Will Make You SICK!!
-Caveat Lector- Timeline of Treason IN THEIR OWN WORDS...70s ptVa 1.THIS McDonalds Will Make You SICK!! 2.HIGH THE MIGHTY PREPARE FOR WAR ...AGAINST US ( YOU!) 3.FEEDING THE FIRES of "FREE SEX" can be read at: The Joshua Report http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ -- Michael The Outlawlady The Joshua Report http://members.spree.com/education/2302410/ If One Forgets The Past, He Will Not Be Prepared For The Future A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] SPOTLIGHT EMAIL NEWSLETTER #68 (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:04:59 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SPOTLIGHT EMAIL NEWSLETTER #68 ** Please visit the controversial LIBERTY LIBRARY BOOKSTORE ONLINE! The store now has the full Liberty Library catalog and a shopping cart system! http://www.spotlight.org/store/commerce.cgi? ** In This Issue: Bilderberg To Meet On Swedish Isle Bilderberg To Meet On Swedish Isle The SPOTLIGHT has done it again, discovering where this years meeting of the Bilderberg Group will be held. Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT By James P. Tucker Jr. Bilderberg will hold its annual secret meeting at a resort near Gotesberg, or Gothenburg, Sweden May 24-28, The SPOTLIGHT has learned. Bilderberg will meet at the Quality Hotel Stenungsbaden, a luxury resort in Stenungsund, about 30 miles from Go tes berg. While accessible by land, the resort occupies an entire island off the coast. According to travel agencies, Bilder berg has chosen an ideal location for security purposessomething it has always emphasized but has become even more sensitive about in recent years. Not only is the resort surrounded by a moat, but travel agencies report finding no accommodations between Stenungs und and Gotesberg. However, people who have traveled there say modest accommodations can be found. In this remote but luxury setting, Bilderberg will deploy armed guards at the gates and around the hotel. Often, when meeting in Europe, Bilderberg de ploys the military as well, sometimes with dogs. The usual luminaries are scheduled to attend, including David Rockefeller and his valet, Henry Kissinger, who are also leaders of the Bilderberg brother group, the Trilateral Commission. Rockefeller shares power in Bilderberg with the Rothschilds of Britain and Eur ope, and has attended since meetings be gan under that name in 1954. How ever, Rockefeller is now more than 80 years old and has become stooped and feeble. PLUTOCRATIC AGENDA The broad outlines of Bilderbergs perennial agenda are long known: universal free trade to create a world government under the United Nations and elimination of nation-states so the international plutocrats can turn everyone into wage slaves on their Global Plantation. But the specific actions planned for the coming year will only be known after SPOTLIGHT completes its penetrations of Bilderberg in Stenungsund. After then, you will be able to read in-depth reports in The SPOTLIGHT and on several web sites which will present the information as their own, without crediting this populist newspaper. Ever since its founding in 1975, and before this by its publisher, Liberty Lobby, this newspaper has reported on the secret meetings and often the plans of this enigmatic group, Bilderberg. It will be interesting to see if this year the important news will be reported in the controlled media. Copyright 2001. All rights reserved. To subscribe to The SPOTLIGHT Newspaper, call 1-800-522-6292. (ADVERTISEMENT) HOW TO STAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL! How to avoid: - Skyrocketing Medical Costs - Surgery and Hospitalization - Surgery for Many Common Ailments Dr. Boyds book How To Stay Out Of The Hospital is a must read for those looking for treatments to common problems which are safe and inexpensive. Dr. Boyd has fought his entire career against a medical establishment that routinely performs unnecessary surgical procedures, and you can benefit from his knowledge in this book. Since 1950 Dr. Boyd has limited his practice to rectal diseases, the non-surgical treatment of hernia, and the management of prostate problems. He has treated 8,000 people from 30 states for these disorders. In simple, easy to understand terms, Dr. Boyd explains the techniques which have lead to his incredible success at treating patients and have saved clients pain and suffering as well as thousands of dollars! Note: Dr. Boyd is now retired and there are only a limited number of copies of this book left. Do your health a favor, and order How To Stay Out Of The Hospital today from the Doctor himself. Send $10 to: Dr. Boyd Loganville, PA. 17342 (Please note that no street address is needed for mail to reach Dr. Boyd.) (Please Note: This is a mail-in offer only. Please order from the address above.) Subscribe to THE SPOTLIGHT! Only $59.00 for 1 year or $99.00 for 2 years. Every week, get the important stories that the popular media either miss... or ignore. For around $1.00 per issue, THE SPOTLIGHT is a steal! Don't wait any longer. Make sure that you never miss another issue. Subscribe now! To subscribe online, visit our SECURE server at
[CTRL] FC: Amtrak joins drug war
-Caveat Lector- [For non-U.S. readers, Amtrak is the government-created rail service. It's about 30 years old, does not make a profit, and is heavily subsidized by the Feds by about $100 per passenger. See: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-266.html --Declan] ** http://www.abqjournal.com/news/301438news04-11-01.htm Wednesday, April 11, 2001 Amtrak Helps DEA Hunt Drug Couriers By Jeff Jones Journal Staff Writer Copyright © 2001 Albuquerque Journal Amtrak is providing federal drug police in Albuquerque with ticketing information about passengers - and Amtrak police get 10 percent of any cash seized from suspected drug couriers at the Downtown station. As part of what officials describe as a one-of-a-kind arrangement, a computer with access to Amtrak's ticketing information sits on a desk in the Drug Enforcement Administration's local office. It can provide drug agents with information such as passengers' last names, where they're coming from, where they're headed, whether they paid for their tickets with cash or credit and when they bought their tickets. A local DEA agent talked about the arrangement during pretrial interview in a court case last month. "I met with Amtrak probably two or three times in the early '90s to discuss use of the computer because I realized the computer was the key in catching ( drug couriers )," agent Kevin Small said. "And our agreement is anything we seize off the train, they get 10 percent." Information obtained from Amtrak helps drug agents narrow down who they want to speak with - and therefore whose luggage could eventually be checked by a drug-sniffing dog - when the agents board the trains that roll into Albuquerque. That team of law officers includes an Amtrak police detective. Small said the arrangement is vital to catching drug couriers, adding that tips are passed out "all over the country." Steven Derr, assistant special agent in charge of the DEA's Albuquerque office, said Tuesday he didn't know offhand how many arrests the team has made at the Albuquerque train station or how much alleged drug money has been seized. But he said both numbers are "substantial." Constitutional Concerns Critics say the practice could lead to targeting people based on their ethnicity or financial status. And they question whether it violates the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. "This would disturb anybody - you buy a ticket, and the DEA is looking over your shoulder," said Albuquerque defense attorney Randi McGinn. "It stinks. What they're trying to do is get around the Fourth Amendment." Peter Simonson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, called the arrangement "an insidious alliance" between Amtrak and the DEA and said the ACLU is now pondering whether to take legal action. [...] - 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] Better Research About Drugs Needed (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Better Research About Drugs Needed April 11, 2001 by: Phyllis Schlafly A report just released by the National Research Council concludes that, although federal, state and local governments spent $30 billion in 1999 on illegal drug enforcement and treatment, the research is woefully inadequate to draw any conclusion about how to reduce demand or supply. In addition, U.S. taxpayers have spent $6.3 billion on drug education over the last ten years without any measurable effect. Our fight against illegal drugs is severely weakened by the common claim that marijuana (also called pot) is relatively harmless. Research on marijuana in the 1970s, supported by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), proved that pot is highly dangerous. Friends of Andy Williams, the 15-year-old who killed two students and wounded 13 in a California high school last month, reported that he smoked marijuana regularly before going to class in the mornings, including the morning of the shootings. In 1970, typical marijuana contained 1 percent THC, the intoxicating chemical in pot, and the best had 3 percent. New varieties of marijuana have been developed that are much more potent and dangerous; typical street pot today has 12 percent THC and some has 25 percent. Not all pot smoking leads to heroin or cocaine, but practically no one uses cocaine or heroin who has not smoked pot extensively. The reason is apparent when we understand the very slow action of THC in the body. THC is strongly fat soluble, which means that THC dissolves readily in fat but cannot dissolve in water or in blood. It is well known that fat-soluble drugs operate slowly. THC is highly potent, but appears to be mild because very little reaches the brain at the time of the "high." Most of the THC entering the body is stored in fat, which releases it slowly over many weeks. When a person smokes pot regularly, a large supply of THC builds up in the body's fat, and its slow release into the blood produces continual sedation. Since THC is continually in the body, the "high" from pot gradually diminishes and pot smokers often take other drugs to get a kick. Nevertheless, they continue to smoke pot as they use other drugs because pot appears to make them "feel good all the time." Most pot smokers also drink alcohol heavily and, because THC inhibits nausea, a pot smoker can consume a lethal dose of alcohol without getting sick and vomiting. Teens often play around with pot, thinking it is harmless fun and no different from alcohol. They don't realize that THC is building up in their bodies and keeping them sedated all the time. With their minds confused by marijuana, it is difficult to escape from the trap. It takes over a month of abstinence before a regular pot smoker can think clearly again, and THC can be detected more than two months after a person quits pot. Because marijuana operates so slowly, its harm is obscured and the damage is often attributed to other drugs used by the pot smokers. Nevertheless, medical evidence has proven that marijuana itself severely damages the brain, the chromosomes, the hormones, the lungs, the immune system, and the sex and reproductive organs. Teenagers are particularly vulnerable because pot smoking can delay and even halt the process of sexual development. Some people support the legalization of marijuana in the naive belief that this will take profits out of illegal drug sales and thereby reduce crime. But pot is cheap to grow and is not the source of the big drug profits. The drug lords would be glad to give away marijuana free if they could. That would vastly increase the number of cocaine and heroin addicts who use those highly profitable drugs. It is obvious that plenty of money is flowing from somewhere for the legalization of marijuana in general, as well as specifically for medical use. Expensive campaigns have successfully passed referenda in eight states and carried this issue to the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments last week. The legalization of marijuana for medicine is an indirect means of legalizing pot for recreational use and legitimizing it in the public's mind. THC is already available in pill form with a physician's prescription, and there is no legitimate need for raw marijuana as medicine. THC as medicine can be dangerous. While THC reduces the nausea from chemotherapy, THC severely weakens the body's immune system and makes the patients more susceptible to infectious diseases. An excellent reference to marijuana research is Nahas and Paton, eds., "Marijuana, Biological Effects" (Pergammon Press, 1979), the proceedings from the 1978 Congress of the International Union of Pharmacological Sciences. An article by Dr. Robert Heath showed that marijuana severely damaged the brain waves and brain cells of monkeys. The 1988 White House Conference for a Drug-Free America strongly recommended an independent evaluation
[CTRL] Fwd: McVeigh Execution Protocol
-Caveat Lector- ` from The Smoking Gun site newsletter Dear Friends: TSG normally doesn't post documents clocking in at 54 pages, but today we're making an exception. That's because the Bureau of Prisons has produced a fascinating "execution protocol" to help guide government officials through the scheduled May 16 killing of Timothy McVeigh. The Oklahoma City bomber will be the first federal inmate executed since February 1963, when murderer/kidnapper Victor Feguer was hanged at the Iowa State Penitentiary. The government's how-to guide is at: http://www.thesmokinggun.com Regards, Your pals at TSG [ URL of document's start page: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.shtml ] - MMc ` 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] On Release of Crew
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Letter from U.S. to China -- -- The full text of the letter from U.S. Ambassador Joseph Prueher to Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan, as issued by the U.S. embassy on Wednesday Dear Mr. Minister, On behalf of the United States Government, I now outline steps to resolve this issue. Both President Bush and Secretary of State Powell have expressed their sincere regret over your missing pilot and aircraft. Please convey to the Chinese people and to the family of the pilot Wang Wei that we are very sorry for their loss. Although the full picture of what transpired is still unclear, according to our information, our severely crippled aircraft made an emergency landing after following international emergency procedures. We are very sorry the entering of Chinaâs airspace and the landing did not have verbal clearance, but very pleased the crew landed safely. We appreciate Chinaâs efforts to see to the well-being of our crew. In view of the tragic incident and based on my discussions with your representative, we have agreed to the following actions: Both sides agree to hold a meeting to discuss the incident. My government understands and expects that our aircrew will be permitted to depart China as soon as possible. The meeting would start April 18, 2001. The meeting agenda would include discussion of the cause of the incident, possible recommendations whereby such collisions could be avoided in the future, development of a plan for prompt return of the EP-3 aircraft, and other related issues. We acknowledge your governmentâs intention to raise U.S. reconnaissance missions near China in the meeting. Sincerely, Joseph W. Prueher Wednesday April 11 11:06 AM ET Jiang:No Comment on Crew Release Audio/Video Bush Administration Relieved as China Standoff Ends - (ABCNews.com) U.S. Navy Crew Set to Return from China - (ABCNews.com) By KEVIN GRAY, Associated Press Writer MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Chinese President Jiang Zemin (news - web sites) declined comment about his country's decision to release 24 U.S. crew members detained since their spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter and made an emergency landing. Midway through a six-country tour of Latin America, Jiang was approached by reporters during an appearance at the Uruguayan Congress, but only smiled as he walked past. China on Wednesday agreed to release the American crew, but indicated it would hold the plane pending further talks. The end to the stalemate came after the Bush administration sent China a letter saying the United States is ``very sorry'' for the plane's unauthorized landing and the death of a Chinese pilot. During his travels in South America, Jiang has only spoken twice about the standoff. On Tuesday, he said China's position was ``sufficiently clear'' and appeared to stand by earlier demands that the United States apologize. In Santiago, Chile, he repeated Chinese calls for the Bush administration to apologize and accept responsibility for the collision. Jiang opened the 12-day trip in Chile last Thursday. He then headed to Argentina and Uruguay and was traveling Wednesday to Brasilia, Brazil, before heading on to Cuba and Venezuela. *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!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL 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. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A o subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL
[CTRL] Standoff Over; China to Release U.S. Navy Crew
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Standoff Over; China to Release U.S. Navy Crew AP Chinese President Jiang Zemin Wednesday, April 11, 2001 Email this Article The 11-day standoff between the United States and China moved toward resolution Wednesday, with a U.S. plane arriving in China to retrieve the crew of a Navy surveillance plane that landed on Chinese soil after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet April 1, Pentagon sources told Fox News. The civilian plane landed at the airport at Haikou -- the capital of southern Hainan island --moments before a convoy of two minivans and several cars pulled out of the military guest house where the crew have been held headed for the airport as well. The plane is a chartered Continental Airlines Boeing 737 that hours earlier left the U.S. territory of Guam to retreive the Americans. President Bush told Reuters that he expected the plane to depart China with the 24-member crew for Guam, and then later Hawaii, in a matter of hours. Pentagon officials told Fox News that the plane could depart China even more quickly, possibly taking off as early as 7:00 or 7:30 p.m. It will take only minutes after takeoff from Hainan to be out of Chinese airspace. At that point the Pentagon will do a briefing, which will mainly focus on the homecoming schedule for the next 24 hours and the next few days. The crew, which has been detained on Hainan island since the collision, was being released Wednesday as part of a deal in which the Bush administration said it was "very sorry" both for the plane landing in China and for the collision that killed the Chinese fighter pilot. "This has been a difficult situation for both countries," President Bush said early Wednesday. "We are working on arrangements to pick them up and bring them home." In a carefully negotiated statement, the U.S. said it was "very sorry" that the U.S. plane was forced to land in Chinese territory, but stopped short of issuing the apology for the crash that the Chinese had been demanding. The statement also expressed regret for the presumed death of the Chinese pilot whose fighter jet collided with the U.S. Navy EP-3E surveillance plane, whom the Chinese media have lionized as a patriot who crashed defending his country. "I know the American people join me in expressing sorrow for the loss of life of a Chinese pilot," Bush said during a Wednesday press conference. "Our prayers are with his wife and his child." Bush said the American people and the relatives of the men and women who were detained "are proud of our crew and we look forward to welcoming them home." On Monday and again on Tuesday, Bush warned China that its relationship with the U.S. could be damaged or jeopardized if the 24 Americans were not freed soon. Stolen Secrets? While the crew members will be coming home Wednesday, their plane, which was loaded with high-tech surveillance equipment when it was forced into the emergency landing on Hainan, will remain in China. The agreement brokered between China and the U.S. calls for a meeting between the governments on April 18 to discuss the return of the plane. U.S. surveillance photos have shown a line of trucks near the plane, indicating that the Chinese are examining the highly classified aircraft. "We still have some problems with the airplane and we have to keep the airplane and to make further investigation," said Shen Guofang, China's deputy ambassador to the United Nations. "The airplane violates our territory and the land without permission, so that is the problem." U.S. officials are operating under the assumption that the Chinese have stripped the plane of sophisticated surveillance equipment. They said their focus in talks was getting the crew back to America, and the fate of the plane was unclear. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, praised the crew's efforts to destroy secret information. "These folks did an extremely good job under extremely difficult circumstances, and it appears that they minimized any possible compromise to the greatest degree possible," Goss said. Who's to Blame? A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the administration successfully resisted a Chinese demand that the letter to China say the plane violated Chinese airspace, a point Secretary of State Colin Powell had insisted upon. "With ... respect to the right of the United States to continue to operate our aircraft in international airspace, that really is a given," Vice President Dick Cheney said on the Diane Rehm Show on WAMU-FM in Washington. "That is not a subject that we would want to concede on." The letter notes China's demand that the future of U.S. reconnaissance near China be discussed at the April 18 meeting. U.S. officials said there were no plans to end the practice of flying surveillance planes in international airspace near China, but refused to
[CTRL] AF News 12 Apr 01
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 0500. McClellan closes with a 'final salute' MCCLELLAN AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- The Sacramento Air Logistics Center ended 63 years of service to the country during a "Final Salute Ceremony" here April 10. An estimated 4,000 well wishers and former employees attended the ceremony that concluded the Base Realignment and Closure action started nearly six years ago. The event featured remarks from acting Secretary of the Air Force, Dr. Lawrence J. Delaney and from Gen. Lester L. Lyles, commander of the Air Force Materiel Command. The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Chairman Roger Niello and District One Supervisor Roger Dickinson accepted the keys to the base from Jim Barone, center director. Lyles spoke of a story Barone had told him that symbolized everything he believes this organization stood for during the years. He told of a technician who was delayed reporting to personnel for out-processing on his final day of employment here. Several of this individual's co-workers were concerned and went looking for him. They found him at his workstation, but he refused to leave until he had finished his mission. "That man symbolizes the honor and professionalism displayed by Team McClellan, not only throughout this closure process, but throughout the long history of this installation," Lyles said. "The Air Force is honored by your accomplishments and a job well done," Delaney said. "McClellan's heritage is its people and their reputation for excellence. "You've made an impact on this country, playing a large role in preserving this great democracy," he said. "We will continue to celebrate the legacy of this base as we are celebrating your contributions today." The ceremony was concluded first with the encasement of the Sacramento Air Logistics Center flag to formally mark the completion of its mission and then the retirement of the U. S. flag by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Honor Guard. Following the ceremony there was a fly-by of several aircraft with a tie to McClellan AFB over the years including an A-10 Thunderbolt II, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, a P-51 Mustang, an F-15 Eagle and an F-117 Nighthawk. McClellan's history and heritage took center stage April 9 at the Sacramento Convention Center Ballroom as more than 1,100 people attended a dinner to mark the closure and transition of the facility to civilian control. In the convention center's lobby was a 60-foot long photographic display that depicted the base's history while several television monitors ran a video presentation on the same. Featured speakers included Delaney, Lyles and U.S. Rep. Doug Ose. Delaney spoke of McClellan's 63 years of service to the nation. "This installation, and the men and women who worked here, were instrumental in helping win the cold war and in shaping our world in the 20th century," he said. "I offer my heartfelt thanks to each and every one of them." Ose spoke of growing up in the Sacramento area, and how much McClellan had meant to the community through the years. "In 1967 the base reached its peak of 26,000 employees," he said. "These employees formed a team that in many cases spanned generations of their families." He said "team McClellan met every challenge presented to them through the years, and then asked 'is there anything else we can do for you?'" The evening and an era ended with the playing of the Air Force song by the Air Force Band of the Golden West. (Courtesy of AFMC News Service) 0497. Next overseas EQUAL set for release May 8 RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The newest Enlisted Quarterly Assignment Listing of available enlisted assignments overseas arrives at military personnel flights and on the Air Force Personnel Center's World Wide Web home page May 8. This list includes assignments for overseas jobs opening during the January through March 2002 time frame. Assignment preferences must be updated by May 18 to ensure the information is in the assignment computer system before actual assignments are released on or about June 4. EQUAL advertises upcoming assignment requirements, by Air Force Specialty Code and rank, and gives people a chance to update their assignment preferences to match vacancies that need filling in a particular cycle. People should review, prioritize and list specifically those assignment options available to them on EQUAL. Separate listings for assignments available at overseas locations as well as assignments available for those returning from overseas areas are published quarterly. Special duty assignments appear on EQUAL-Plus and are updated weekly. Military personnel flights and commanders support staffs will have copies of the listings and can help people update their preferences. People who are on temporary duty during the advertising period should contact the nearest personnel office for assistance. People can also access the
[CTRL] Did You Know?
-Caveat Lector- Did you know?... Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception. Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show? A. No theme song. Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace. Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? A. All invented by women. Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A. Father's Day Q. What trivial fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A. He was allergic to carrots. Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet. Did you know ... The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Coca-Cola was originally green. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear smell better. The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. That San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagnel; Diamonds - Julius Caesar 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 If a statue in the park of a person on a horse: * has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle * has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle * has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the 50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game. When a crowded school bus pulled over to make way for a speeding fire truck, several children spotted a Dalmatian seated by the driver. "Why did the firemen have that dog with them?" one child asked. "To bark at the crowds and keep people out of the way," another answered. "He's there for good luck," insisted a third. The discussion ended when one lad explained, "They use the dog to find the fire hydrant." 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
[CTRL] This Is Madness
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! This Is Madness John L. Perry April 10, 2001 "One half of the nation is mad â and the other not very sound." âTobias Smollett, 1721-1771 "Whom the gods would destroy they first drive mad." âEuripides, c480-406 B.C. Jesse Jackson to Beijing? Relax on the psychiatrist's couch. Is it you or the rest of the world that's gone bonkers ... bug-swattin' nuts ... barking mad? This individual steps forth during the nation's anxiety over 24 servicemen and women incarcerated on an Asian island and volunteers his priceless services to travel to China to negotiate their release from their communist captors. Yes, this is the same spiritual adviser and comforter to former president Bill Clinton, the same one who pronounced George W. Bush an illegitimate president. Jackson has, indeed, established himself a national authority, if not an ideal role model, on the subject of illegitimacy. The current president of the United States, busily engaged in unscrambling this Chinese puzzle, politely says thanks, but no thanks. The reverend, taking precious time away from his woes with the Internal Revenue Service, large corporations that suspect they just may have been extorted and his extended family, legit and otherwise, says that's all right: He might just go to Beijing anyway. And he makes it perfectly clear the first words to leave his mouth upon arrival would be an abject apology â the very thing, for right reasons, President Bush has been avoiding like the plague, which is what that would turn into. A Jacksonian apology for exactly what is not clear, but then Jesse, never at a loss for words, could be counted upon to think of something. He does have a way of saying whatever comes to his mouth, with little or no regard for truth or consequences. If a definition of sanity is a clear grasp on reality, is Jesse Jackson the very finest private emissary this nation could think of to send on such a delicate errand? Not to mention whether the Founding Fathers had Jesse in mind when they threw together the Constitution, giving the chief executive of the United States, not of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the sole powers to conduct the nation's foreign affairs. Consider now the following examples of whether the Founders, if around today, would be asking, "Have you people lost your cotton-picking minds?" ⢠OK, then if not Jesse, how about Bill Clinton, on or off his latest elephant? He's had plans to pick up a buck or two making speeches in China. Surely he could work a hostage rescue into his busy schedule. ⢠Or Marc Rich? He's able to move around the world a little more freely now, thanks to the expensive autograph he obtained from then-President Clinton. ⢠Or pick any one of a number of those who were in that parade of money-launderers Bill Clinton and Al Gore used in financing their re-election campaign. They couldn't have lost their Chinese connections this soon. ⢠Then there's, always, Barbra Streisand, whose considerable showbiz talents obviously qualify her for her latest hobby â advising the White House and Capitol Hill on matters of state, foreign and domestic. ⢠Ross Perot, it has come as no surprise, is already all ears to discover how he may intervene personally to effect a release of the captives. ⢠And, finally, there's that other Jesse â Ventura. He's been ginning up his own business-development trip to China in behalf of once-ruggedly enterprising Minnesota, which seems now to think of itself as one of those underdeveloped republics whose downtrodden citizenry is in need of entitled federal charity. ⢠The White House persists in calling America's captured military fliers "detainees." You can bet your shirt those 24 know they're being held hostage. ⢠Speaking of shirts, Ari Fleischer, the White House press flack, actually had the temerity to announce with a straight face at one of his no-news briefings that all was well with the "detainees." They had just that very day been given fresh T-shirts by the Army officer the Chinese were so gracious as to allow to visit them briefly, when and under whatever conditions those captors set for their captives. ⢠The general who has been running the negotiations for the Chinese is also the one who threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on Los Angeles. Not many in the United States, including L.A., still a part of the United States, seemed to care particularly. ⢠Vice President Dick Cheney, once a secretary of defense, told a Fox News Channel interviewer that he hadn't known of that bomb threat to Southern California. Granted California went for Al Gore last year, but isn't a possible mushroom cloud above all that smog worth more than a shrug? ⢠This is the same gang that President Bush has told getting the Hainan 24 home safely and soon was the overriding objective of the United States
[CTRL] China's Victory
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! China's Victory Christopher Ruddy Wednesday, April 11, 2001 China has won a major victory over the United States. Any spin that plays this story differently simply will seek to delude Americans to the reality of what has transpired in the past 11 days. For almost two weeks China held Americans and America hostage. So far, there have been NO repercussions, and today they received an effective "apology" from the U.S. government for having done nothing wrong. Ambassador Prueher's letter today states: "We are very sorry the entering of China's airspace and the landing did not have verbal clearance, but very pleased the crew landed safely." The operative words "very sorry" are nothing more than an apology. We are sorry that a Chinese jet collided with our propeller plane, causing it to almost crash, and forcing it to land in Chinese territory? Even worse in my mind was Prueher's statement that followed his "very sorry" concession: "We appreciate China's efforts to see to the well being of our crew." Do we usually thank hostage takers? The Prueher letter, in my mind, will settle little. Each day that passed after the first two days â the longest reasonable amount of time our military personnel should have been kept against their will â China demonstrated to neighboring Asian countries and the rest of the world that the U.S. is no longer a great superpower. If this was a dry run for China's upcoming crisis over Taiwan, it bodes well for the Chinese. The U.S. government did everything to please the Chinese. Policymakers and pundits were so fearful, they wouldn't even use the "H" word. The major media played down China's outrageous action. Major daily newspapers avoided running the story on Page One. The airwaves were filled with talking heads making excuses for China. This incident was good for China because it demonstrated that America will do anything to avoid confrontation, and will sacrifice its national honor to accommodate the Chinese. What message have we just telegraphed allies in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea? What about other rogue nations and terrorist groups that may take Americans hostage in the future? For almost two weeks China kept poking us in the eye with an ice pick. The best response our administration could come back with was: "If you keep poking us in the eye with that ice pick, we may have damaged relations." This from a great country like the U.S.! After the past 11 days, the rest of the world can no longer view us as a great power. In truth, we should now be "very sorry" for trading with China, opening up our universities to their students, opening our capital markets to their businesses, sharing our technology, and helping to make them a great power. We can only recover from this if we did what Reagan did after the Iranian hostage crisis: Rebuild America's defenses and lay down a new policy with those that will do us harm. *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!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL 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. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A o 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] We Bombed Chinese Embassy on Purpose
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! We Bombed Chinese Embassy on Purpose John LeBoutillier Tuesday, April 10, 2001 One of my best friends, who lives in D.C., told me something yesterday extremely relevant to the ongoing China Spy Plane Standoff. Not long ago he ran into a CIA man who privately told him: Two years ago, during the Kosovo 'police action', we purposively bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade! It seems that the CIA had good intelligence that the Chinese Embassy was helping Milosovic's Serbian forces so we decided to 'take out the embassy.' Of course publicly we have said all along that it was a 'mistake' â that we were operating from an "old, outdated CIA map." And, after many Beijing demonstrations against our embassy there, President Clinton did offer the all-important-to-the-Chinese 'apology'. Ironic, eh? We justifiably bomb their embassy because they are helping our enemy in trying to kill Americans and we apologize for it. (Clinton loved to say he was "sorry." I guess he had much in his life to apologize for.) But in this case they demand an apology for something they did. Looking back on the Kosovo operation, it is another example of why the United States of America should not engage in any combat operation without a formal declaration of war. Such a declaration â and the congressional debates leading up to it â prepare the public for the human cost of the war. If that had happened before we sent planes, copters and troops into combat, then we would not have had to lie to the American people! If we had good intelligence that Beijing was helping the butcher Milosovic, then that intel should have been shared with the American people. We, the people who send the bodies and the money, have a right to know â in a legitimate and legally declared war â who is trying to kill our troops. If, in the face of that, Red China wants to side with our enemy, then we had every right to hit their embassy. Diplomatic immunity be damned! It is a violation of such immunity to use it as cover to aid a party in a legally declared war. So we were entirely justified in taking out their embassy. The only mistake we made was not telling the American people and the world the truth about just how evil and complicitous Beijing really is. Now we have yet another opportunity to stand up to the Butchers of Beijing and cut them down to size â before they become so militarily strong that we cannot. *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!ttp://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER ÝÝÝCTRL 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. ÝÝÝÚrchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A o 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) [Mises Daily] Special: Bastiat Was Right
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Subject:[Mises Daily] Special: Bastiat Was Right Date sent: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:56:49 -0500 http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=652 Bastiat Was Right by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [Posted April 12, 2001] Frederic Bastiat was a French economist, a passionate and articulate believer in free enterprise, who lived from 1801 to 1850. But his writings speak to us today, and help explain why the recent conflict with China has ended through diplomacy and peace rather than belligerence and war. The answer can be summed up in one word: commerce. Glorious, peaceful, prosperity-making, peace-preserving commerce. It was the overwhelming fact that the health of our economies are linked that made the Chinese and US governments realize that both sides have more to gain from good relations than hatred and war. It was Bastiat who observed the trade-off between trade and war. When goods don't cross borders, he said, armies will. Without trade, there is less to lose from the mass destruction that war implies. Countries that trade have a mutual stake in the preservation of open, friendly relations. This is one reason that free commercial activities promote peace, and why protectionism and trade sanctions generate war tensions. History shows that war is good for government. In wartime, government gains massive power over society. It is granted a degree of latitude in its use of emergency powers that would not otherwise be permitted. War allows politicians and bureaucrats with a passion for power to use it to the hilt, through taxation, inflation, and regimentation. War destroys things and then permits governments to profit from rebuilding them. It drains the private sector of capital and entrepreneurial energy, and enriches the parasitical institutions of the State. No free society stays free after war begins. The mystery isn't why war exists but rather why, given the nature of government, it isn't the norm. Bastiat explained that free trade helps quell government's passion for war. It creates powerful lobbying groups on all sides that demand the preservation of peace and the triumph of diplomacy over hostility. International trade networks create intermediating structures of business relations that work as a barrier to bombs and belligerence. This observation was further elaborated on by Ludwig von Mises, who responded to the Marxist-Leninist theory that capitalism leads to war. Lenin saw war as the internationalization of the intractable conflict between capital and labor. On the contrary, Mises said, the basis of capitalism is trade and mutual cooperation to the benefit of everyone. Capitalism creates networks of commerce-including capital markets and wide circles of labor and entrepreneurial specialization-that become dependent on each other. The socialists of today understand this, which is why, since the end of the Cold War, so many of them have joined the war party. They too recognize that freedom, trade, and peace go together, so they've decided to oppose all three. Only last year, for example, the website of the World Sociologists complained that "The pledge to restart the talks [with China] came after a barrage of lobbying pressure by US companies alarmed over the prospect of losing the billions of dollars in trade and investment opportunities" Indeed, commercial ties are the very basis of international friendship, particularly that which thrives between the US and China. Each year, China exports $200 billion in goods to the world, and imports $170 billion, for a total dollar value of commercial world traffic in and out of China of nearly half a trillion. China's top trade partner is Japan but next in line is the US. Each year, China exports to the US $81 billion in electrical machinery and equipment, apparel, shoes, toys, games, iron and steel, furniture, leather goods, and a million other things, while importing $13 billion in machinery, fuel, medical equipment, paper product, aircraft, and a million other things. Our lives-by which I mean the lives of regular people in the US and in China-are made immeasurably better because of the freedom to trade. Our networks of exchange build private-sector prosperity in both countries. Was the "corporate lobby" influential in preventing the tensions over the US spy plane from degenerating into outright conflict? Very possibly, even likely-a fact which we should celebrate, not condemn. So entrenched are U.S.-China business ties that the warmongers among us have to think creatively to come up with excuses for protectionism and hostility. Lately they have been fulminating about human rights in trade, the supposed existence of forced and child-based labor, the claim that China is spying on the US, and the trade deficit. They say that all these things raise good reasons to curb or cut off commercial relations. The crucial question to ask about all these complaints
[CTRL] NAFTA's Investor RIghts-Corporate Dream,Citizen Nightmare
http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2001/01april/corp1.html NAFTA's Investor "Rights" A Corporate Dream, A Citizen Nightmare By Mary Bottari The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) includes an array of new corporate investment rights and protections that are unprecedented in scope and power. NAFTA allows corporations to sue the national government of a NAFTA country in secret arbitration tribunals if they feel that a regulation or government decision affects their investment in conflict with these new NAFTA rights. If a corporation wins, the taxpayers of the "losing" NAFTA nation must foot the bill. This extraordinary attack on governments' ability to regulate in the public interest is a key element of the proposed NAFTA expansion called the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). NAFTA's investment chapter (Chapter 11) contains a variety of new rights and protections for investors and investments in NAFTA countries. Specifically, Article 1110 of NAFTA guarantees foreign investors compensation from the NAFTA governments for any direct government expropriation (i.e., nationalization) or any other action that is "tantamount to" an "indirect expropriation." In addition, Article 1102 provides for "national treatment," which means that governments must accord to companies of other NAFTA countries no less favorable treatment than they give to their own companies. Article 1105 contains a "minimum standard of treatment" provision, which includes vague prose about fair and equitable treatment in accordance with international law. If a company believes that a NAFTA government has violated these new investor rights and protections, it can initiate a binding dispute resolution process for monetary damages before a trade tribunal offering none of the basic due process or openness guarantees afforded in national courts. These so-called "investor-to-state" cases are litigated in the special international arbitration bodies of the World Bank and the United Nations, which are closed to public participation, observation and input. A three-person panel composed of professional arbitrators listens to arguments in the case, with powers to award an unlimited amount of taxpayer dollars to corporations whose NAFTA investor privileges and rights they judge to have been impacted. Corporate investors have used these unprecedented NAFTA investment protections to challenge national and local laws, governmental decisions and even governmental provision of services in all three NAFTA countries. To date, companies have filed more than a dozen cases, claiming damages of more than US$13 billion [see "The Chapter 11 Dossier"]. "Tantamount to Extortion" In the largest Chapter 11 suit yet brought against the United States, the Canadian corporation Methanex in 1999 sued the U.S. government for $970 million because of a California executive order phasing out the sale of a Methanex product. Methanex claims that California's phase-out of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a gasoline additive, violates the company's special investor rights granted under NAFTA because the California environmental policy limits the corporation's ability to sell MTBE. If a NAFTA tribunal decides that California's environmental policy violates NAFTA's investor protections, the U.S. government can be held liable for the corporation's lost profits from not selling MTBE. The case is "a clear threat to California state sovereignty and democratic governance," says Martin Wagner of the California-based Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. If Methanex succeeds, California will be under pressure to rescind its executive order, to lessen the damage award. Associated with human neurotoxicological effects, such as dizziness, nausea and headaches and found to be an animal carcinogen with the potential to cause human cancer, MTBE has been found in ground water and drinking wells around California. On March 25, 1999, California required the removal of MTBE from gasoline sold in the state by December 31, 2002. Governor Gray Davis declared that "on balance, there is significant risk to the environment from using MTBE in gasoline in California." Methanex claims that adding MTBE to gasoline reduces air pollution. However, a 1998 University of California at Davis (UC-Davis) report, which informed the government action, found that "there is no significant additional air quality benefit to the use of oxygenates such as MTBE in reformulated gasoline." The report found "significant risks and costs associated with water contamination due to the use of MTBE." The report noted that "MTBE is highly soluble in water and will transfer readily to groundwater from gasoline leaking from underground storage tanks, pipelines and other components of the gasoline distribution system." It also noted that the use of MTBE in motor boat fuel results in contamination of surface water. The report concluded that "[w]e are placing our limited water resources at risk by using MTBE."
[CTRL] Skolnick-Greenspan Hoodwinks Stock Commodity Markets
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/hoodwink.html GREENSPAN HOODWINKS STOCK AND COMMODITY MARKETS by Sherman H. Skolnick 4/6/01 Federal Reserve Commissar Alan Greenspan and his newsfaker wife are reportedly busy deceiving the stock and commodity suckers. Acting together with the Chief of the New York District Federal Reserve Bank, Greenspan is manipulating the markets at a time of suspected meltdown. To fool those who fancy up their position by calling themselves "investors", the Fed boss has been spending billions and billions of dollars from the PRIVATE central bank masquerading as a "U.S. government" entity. And how are markets massaged? One way, is to support, temporarily, the Dow Jone 30 Industrials, a psychological barometer often with little meaning except to know-nothings unaware of the tremendous leveraging of the Dow figures. Acting like a Soviet-style dictator, Greenspan is referred to by savvy folks as REDSPAN. If the 30 Industrials really go down hard, to some that would be a sign of collapsing financials. So, Redspan not only doctors up the 30 Industrials in that index, but has extended his hocus-pocus to Nasdaq, which since April, 2000, has been the killing ground for the phantasies of would-be get-rich-quick types. One major stock that for a while declined has been General Electric. NBC Network is owned by G.E. and Redspan's spouse, Andrea Mitchell, has been an NBC Network correspondent. Do we understand that "Mrs. Redspan" knows more about the rotten schemes of her husband and his conspiratorial bank gang than mere "pillow talk"? Some NBC honchos have been speculating, unlawfully and unfairly, using insider data reportedly made available to them through Andrea Mitchell. Not just NBC types but other network and White House correspondents have for years been spending part of their time on the phone to their stock and/or commodity brokers, some in Chicago, Frankfort, Singapore, Geneva, and elsewhere. The exchange regulators are willfully blind to these crimes committed by top-level news whores, men and women both. Of course, poorly informed sorts have entirely too much confidence in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, S.E.C., and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CFTC. Both of the supposed regulatory agencies are highly politicized and corrupt, afraid to dare finger network bigshots. [The S.E.C. Enforcement Division boss in Chicago, in the past when I visited him, was so afraid of talking to me, he would leave his office and talk to me only in the hallway. I considered him a master crook after seeing how he dealt with my complaints about matters like herein. He dared let slip once that he traveled around on the private airplane of a key figure in Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI. The S.E.C. honcho saw nothing wrong with socializing with a bigtime bank and espionage criminal.] During the Clinton Administration, the White House with the apparent connivance of White House Senior Advisor and reputed "bagman", Rahm Emanuel, sought to blackmail White House and Network correspondents. To persuade the press pundits to steer clear of Clinton's treason aiding the Red Chinese with U.S. industrial, financial, and MILITARY secrets. Packages with no return address shown, were received by various loudmouths. The apparently authentic records in the packages tended to show reportedly that news big dealers and their relatives got rich with insider stock and commodity market details. The records included the federal tax returns of network correspondents and their relatives, together with reports and little-known court records of nasty divorces, child custody battles and related dirt, psychiatrists reports on treatments of network biggies. Included were lists of married correspondents and their mistresses and gigolos. [Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife, apparently to blackmail reporters, likewise reportedly keeps track of such mistresses and gigolos.] After all, White House correspondents were quite aware that Clinton, as President, used to meet from time to time with Wang Jun, head of the Red Chinese Secret Police. Supposed "independent" counsel Kenneth W. Starr was perceived by naive folks as running after Bill and Hillary Clinton. Not so, other than much less important matters, such as the sex goings on of Monica Lewinsky. Starr spent the bulk of his time in PRIVATE law practice. His PRIVATE law client was Wang Jun. Further, Starr reportedly was the UNREGISTERED foreign lobbyist for the Red Chinese government. The Clinton Justice Department could have nailed and jailed Starr any time they wanted to. Starr's conflicts of interest and brazen criminality were not that secret, certainly not to knowledgeaqble sorts. Starr benefitted the espionage agencies, for whom he acted as their "stooge", by covering up the murder of Clinton White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr., an espionage operative before his short White House service, with the super-secret National
[CTRL] Bilderberg 2001 In Sweden
http://www.spotlight.org/04_10_01/Bilderberg_To_Meet_On_Swedish_/bilderberg_to _meet_on_swedish_.html Bilderberg To Meet On Swedish Isle The SPOTLIGHT has done it again, discovering where this year's meeting of the Bilderberg Group will be held. Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT By James P. Tucker Jr. Bilderberg will hold its annual secret meeting at a resort near Gotesberg, or Go th enburg, Sweden May 24-28, The SPOTLIGHT has learned. Bilderberg will meet at the Quality Ho tel Stenungsbaden, a luxury resort in Sten ungsund, about 30 miles from Go tes berg. While accessible by land, the resort occupies an entire island off the coast. According to travel agencies, Bilder berg has chosen an ideal location for security purposes—something it has always emphasized but has become even more sensitive about in recent years. Not only is the resort surrounded by a moat, but travel agencies report finding no accommodations between Stenungs und and Gotesberg. However, people who have traveled there say modest accommodations can be found. In this remote but luxury setting, Bilderberg will deploy armed guards at the gates and around the hotel. Often, when meeting in Europe, Bilderberg de ploys the military as well, sometimes with dogs. The usual luminaries are scheduled to attend, including David Rockefeller and his valet, Henry Kissinger, who are also leaders of the Bilderberg brother group, the Trilateral Commission. Rockefeller shares power in Bilderberg with the Rothschilds of Britain and Eur ope, and has attended since meetings be gan under that name in 1954. How ever, Rockefeller is now more than 80 years old and has become stooped and feeble. PLUTOCRATIC AGENDA The broad outlines of Bilderberg's perennial agenda are long known: universal free trade to create a world government under the United Nations and elimination of nation-states so the international plutocrats can turn everyone into wage slaves on their Global Plantation. But the specific actions planned for the coming year will only be known after SPOTLIGHT completes its penetrations of Bilderberg in Stenungsund. After then, you will be able to read in-depth reports in The SPOTLIGHT and on several web sites which will present the information as their own, without crediting this populist newspaper. Ever since its founding in 1975, and before this by its publisher, Liberty Lobby, this newspaper has reported on the secret meetings and often the plans of this enigmatic group, Bilderberg. It will be interesting to see if this year the important news will be reported in the controlled media.
[CTRL] ACLU Ad Highlights US Government Electronic Surveillance
New ACLU Advertisement Highlights Massive U.S. Government Electronic Surveillance FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 9, 2001 NEW YORK--From using a cell phone to sending e-mail over the Internet, Americans' right to information privacy is in peril, the American Civil Liberties Union said today in its latest national advertisement. The ad, appearing in the April 15 issue of The New Yorker and the April 16 issue of The New York Times Magazine, features a large photo of a cell phone, with the headline: "Now equipped with 3-way calling. You, whoever you're dialing, and the government." The statement, the ACLU said, is no exaggeration. Through surveillance programs with ominous names like "Echelon" and "Carnivore," government agencies are violating the Fourth Amendment, which was adopted for the express purpose of protecting Americans from unwarranted government surveillance. "The same technological advances that have brought enormous benefits to humankind also make us more vulnerable than ever before to unwarranted government snooping," said Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Through this advertisement, the ACLU hopes to increase awareness of the privacy threat and mobilize our lawmakers into action." The advertisement urges readers to visit a special ACLU website http://www.aclu.org/privacyrights to learn more about these invasions of privacy rights and to send a free fax message urging their Members of Congress to stop the use of Carnivore and to hold hearings on the secretive Echelon program. According to the ACLU ad, five nations (the U.S., England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) are members of a spy network -- dubbed Echelon -- that aims to intercept virtually all forms of electronic communications. Its purpose: worldwide surveillance, not just of other intelligence agencies, but of civilians. Meanwhile, through the FBI's Internet wiretap system, dubbed "Carnivore," U.S. Internet service providers are forced to attached a black box directly to their networks -- a powerful computer through which much of their customers' communications may flow. "Congress must cage Carnivore and determine if the Echelon program is as sweeping and intrusive as has been reported," said Gregory T. Nojeim, Associate Director of the ACLU's Washington National Office. "Congress must ensure that our government does not intercept Americans' conversations without a court order. That is why the ACLU has called upon Congress to embark on a national legislative program to shore up the information privacy rights of this and future generations." The creative minds behind the ad series, DeVito/Verdi Advertising, also developed last year's ACLU advertising series, which included messages on racial profiling, juvenile justice and the death penalty. The ACLU advertising campaign will be featured on the organization's website, http://www.aclu.org, with links to relevant documents and news about each issue. The next advertisement, on the subject of asset forfeiture -- police seizure of innocent people's private property -- is scheduled to run in the April 29 issue of The New York Times Magazine and in the May 7 issue of The New Yorker. The ACLU is a nationwide, non-partisan organization dedicated to defending and preserving the Bill of Rights for all individuals through litigation, legislation and public education. Headquartered in New York City, the ACLU has 53 staffed affiliates that cover every state, more than 300 chapters nationwide, and a legislative office in Washington, DC. The bulk of the annual $40 million budget is raised by contributions from members -- 275,000 strong -- and gifts and grants from other individuals and foundations.
[CTRL] Fw: Housing Now: Vermont Homelessness Affordable Housing Crisis Ad-Hoc Co
-Caveat Lector- It's nice to read about SOME good being done up in the Green Mountain state... Perhaps those with aspirations to political office in that state would do better devoting themselves to such good works as that described below, rather than campaigning on a platform of hate... - Original Message - From: "Anthony Hempfer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:29 PM Subject: Housing Now: Fwd: Vermont Homelessness Affordable Housing Crisis Ad-Hoc Co "HOUSING FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT" --- Start of forwarded message --- From: "Morgan W. Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:52:33 -0400 This is to announce the newly forming, grass-roots oriented, Vermont Homelessness Affordable Housing Crisis (VHAHC) Ad-Hoc Committee. The sole purpose of this ad-hoc committee is to bring about clear and direct action to begin seriously addressing the housing and related needs of people who are most in need throughout Vermont. It is envisioned that the ad-hoc committee will explore and carry out various types of holistic and diverse action and approaches needed at the national, statewide, regional and local levels to have these needs addressed , etc and go forward from there. This is not intended to be yet another committee that has meetings at which discussion and studies are about the only result regarding these matters. It is hoped that this ad-hoc can help bridge gaps in Vermont that have not yet been attended to by other efforts whether existing or abandoned. Contact information is: Vermont Homelessness Affordable Housing Crisis (VHAHC) Ad-Hoc Committee Contact person: Morgan W. Brown E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The VHAHC Ad-Hoc Committee is just beginning to form, but is hoped to do so quickly. I e-mailed invitations to a certain number of various people, organizations, agencies, government and elected officials in or representing Vermont. As the committee forms, members will communicate via e-mail on an ongoing basis. In addition, when enough people join and show interest, we will begin holding meetings meet in person when meetings begin to be held. In the meantime, I will send out updates and informational material to members either on a once a week or every other week basis as needed. Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Morgan W. Brown Montpelier Vermont Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.~ Margaret Mead 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: #27 Bilderberg 2001 - On the agenda: The future of the Net
This is being sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of the mailing list that you joined. List: PEPIS URL: http://www.bilderberg.org 10Apr01-Here is the news the BBC or your favourite paper neglected to tell you. On the agenda: The future of the Net It is strongly suggetsed, but not confirmed, that the Bilderberg Group is meeting this year in Sweden. Last year they changed their minds rather late, and ended up on the street near Bruxelles, right in front of us, so I guess they won't want to do that again. We can assume then that, either we are getting a 'bum-steer', or this is correct. It sounds plausible enough, given their interest (read 'role') in EU matters, that they would meet in Gothenburg, just before the Summit. They have a tendency to do this with G7/8 as well. A larger than usual delegation the last two years also tends to support this. It is quite interesting that Sweden is the choice. We saw (and photographed) a few Swedes at last years: Barnevik (Steering Committee), Bildt, Pagrotsky, Leif Johansson, Lars-Eric Petersson and Jacob Wallenberg. See: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/grattan_healy/Bilderberg.html and: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/grattan_healy/Bild-Sweden.html Also, Bildt would have met Esther Dyson at last year's meeting. That seems innocent enough, until you notice that he is suddenly chairing a major panel for ICANN, the internet Domain Names organisation, which she was President of until recently. I imagine Bildt will take over from Barnevik as Steering Committee member, and is a rising star in the elite. He is now well placed to influence the development of the internet, that delinquent medium the elite would love to control (as they control all other media). And IT is a growing aspect of these summits! Just a small bit of elite politics I thought might interest you. The location is apparently: QUALITY HOTEL STENUNGSBADEN - SWEDEN 50 KM NORTH OF GOTHENBURG MAY 24-28 2001 Tel: + 46 303 726800 c. 50 km north of Gothenburg route E6 http://www.stenungsbaden.se Given the growing interest, it is possible that a bigger welcome committee will turn out this year. Tempted to go along myself - never been to Sweden! Hej Då, Grattan Where is Bilderberg 2001? Previously reliable source, Jim Tucker from Spotlight has just announced this year's probable Bilderberg meeting date and venue and is calling for people to come and witness the event. The Quality Hotel in Stenungsbaden [near Stenungsund], is 50 km north of Göteborg [Gothenburg - Eng.], Sweden, close to Landvetter airport is thought to be the venue. BY FERRY Ferries run to Göteborg from Newcastle-upon-Tyne(GB), Amsterdam(NL), Harwich(GB) and Kiel(D) BY AIR direct flights to Gothenburg from:: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Basel, Belgrade, Billund, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Helsingborg, London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick, Malta, Manchester, Munich, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Sandefjord, Skopje, Teheran, Vienna and Zurich. Göteborg-Landvetter Airport is situated close to the 40 trunk road between Gothenburg (25 km) and Borås (40 km). The nearest village is Härryda. A motorway connects Gothenburg with the airport. Check out Jon Ronson's new book: 'Them' through http://www.jonronson.com don't forget last year they gave us the run-around. Tony Click to be removed: http://MessageBot.com/r.cgi?[EMAIL PROTECTED]list=PEPIS Powered by http://MessageBot.com/ Get Cool Images at http://www.flamingtext.com/mb.html
[CTRL] America's Secret Establishment
-Caveat Lector- from: http://skullandbonesbooks.netfirms.com/americas_secret_establishment/about_the _book.html BUY NOW $19.95 + 4.00 SH ISBN 0-937765-02-3 After 16 books and 25 years in basic research I thought I'd heard it all ... the world was a confused mess, probably beyond understanding and certainly beyond salvation -- there was little I could do about it. Back in 1968, my Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development was published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In three substantial volumes I detailed how the West had built the Soviet Union. However, the work generated a seemingly insoluble puzzle: Why have we done this? Why did we build the Soviet Union? Why did we transfer technology to Hitler's Germany at the same time? Why does Washington want to conceal these facts? Why have we boosted Soviet military power? Why have we simultaneously boosted our own? In subsequent books, the Wall Street series, I added more questions -- but no answers. I had more or less arrived at the conclusion that there was no rational answer that could be proven. Then a year or so ago, I received an 8-inch batch of documents -- nothing less than the membership lists of an American secret society. Glancing through the sheets it was more than obvious -- this was no ordinary group. The names spelled Power, with a capital "P." As I probed each individual, a pattern emerged ... and a formerly fuzzy world became crystal clear. The book you will read here is a combined version of a series reporting on this research. Each volume builds on the previous volume in a logical step-by-step process. These volumes will explain: Why the West built the Soviets and Hitler. Why we go to war, to lose. Why Wall Street loves Marxists and Nazis. Why the kids can't read. Why the Churches have become propaganda founts. Why historical facts are suppressed. Why politicians lie. and a hundred other whys. This series is infinitely more important than the original Western Technology series on technological transfers. If I have a magnum opus, this is it. Antony C. Sutton July 30, 1983 Click here for links related to Yale's Skull and Bones Home | About Author | Secret Establishment | Best Enemy | Purchase | Other Books | Contact Us Liberty House Press P.O. Box 80650 Billings, MT 59108-0650 Fax (406) 245-9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Design by e-focus A HREF!ttp://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. rchives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF!ttp://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF!ttp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A o 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: GOP News Views - April 12, 2001
To unsubscribe send "leave chuckmuth" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or hit reply with "remove" in subject or go to http://www.incor.com/l10003/newsletter.htm to remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] * SF Mayor Follows in Jesse Jackson's Footsteps "San Francisco's flamboyant Democratic mayor, Willie Brown, announced that one of his chief political fund-raisers has given birth to his daughter. Mr. Brown, 66, is married and already has three grown children and two grandchildren. The baby, Sidney Minetta Brown, was born Sunday to mayoral fund-raiser Carolyn Carpeneti, 38." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 4/11/01 *** Tales From the Left Side Welcome to the good, the bad and the ugly of American politics. Liberal excesses, conservative successes. Clowns to the left; jokers to the right. Catch 'em all right here in GOP News Views ... a daily Internet e-newsletter for Republican activists, supporters, political leaders and elected officials. If you know someone who does not receive our FREE GOP News Views briefings, send their e-mail address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also now read GOP News Views daily on the Republican Liberty Caucus web site at: http://www.RepublicanLibertyCaucus.com . Toward a More Color-Blind Society "Civil rights provocateur Ward Connerly will announce today his effort to secure a ballot measure that would prevent California public agencies, including colleges and universities, from collecting data on race and ethnicity. ... Mr. Connerly's group, the American Civil Rights Coalition, will begin this month to solicit 700,000 signatures from registered voters in order to put the new measure on a March 2002 ballot. The coalition noted the heavy focus on race in the 2000 census, which many saw as intrusive, as proof that U.S. governments have become too race-conscious." - Washington Times, 4/11/01 *** Size Doesn't Matter "A good teacher can capably lead a classroom of 50; a bad teacher can't handle five." - Columnist Ken Ward, 4/11/01 *** Why Don't Republicans Speak, Act Like This? "Strange as it sounds, George W. Bush could learn a thing or two about education and government spending from Minnesota's professional-wrestler-turned-Governor, Jesse 'The Governing Body' Ventura. After two years of pulling his punches, Mr. Ventura's second two-year budget calls for a hefty $1 billion tax cut and holds spending to a 5% increase. He has also body-slammed the biggest myth of state spending: that more money equals better education. He calls the education bureaucracy a 'black hole' that consumes 44% of the state's expenditures. 'For them no amount of money would be enough,' he laments. "The Governor has even challenged school districts that have sent groups of students to the state capitol on school days to lobby for more spending. He says it's time for Education Minnesota, the behemoth union, created by a merger of the state's two teachers unions, to stop 'using kids as political pawns.' He also argues that educators should be reclassified as 'essential state employees' and thereby lose their ability to legally strike." - Wall Street Journal editorial, 4/11/01 ** GOP Behind the 108-Ball in Battle for Senate Control "Republicans will probably need to win at least a Democratic-held seat or two in order to retain control of the Senate in the 108th Congress, and they think they've found an incumbent they can take out in Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu. But in reality, Landrieu is a good example of the problems Senate Republicans are facing heading into the next election. For if the Louisiana freshman is the weakest Democratic link, then the Republicans could have trouble knocking off even a single Senator in 2002." - Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call, 4/9/01 ** Rosie's Gun Poll Backfires "Talk show host and anti-gun activist Rosie O'Donnell is conducting a poll on gun control at her online magazine 'Rosie.' Given her views, she may wish she hadn't. Among respondents, 82 percent say, 'I think everyone has a right to own a gun with no restrictions.' Only 2 percent say, 'I'm for gun control.' A combined 13 percent support private ownership if licensing or point-of-sale background checks are in place. The site doesn't say how many people have participated in the poll but the percentages are probably giving the Koosh-loving host heartburn." - Peter Roff, "UPI's Capitol Comment," 4/10/01 * Your Union Dues At Work * A federal grand jury handed down a 56-count indictment Mar. 21 against Donald G. Martin, ex-boss of United Steelworkers of Am. Local 8681 in Knoxville, Tenn., for union corruption. Allegedly, he embezzled more than $6,875 in union funds. * Allegedly, members of the N. Ohio Firefighters Union have accused a member of
[CTRL] Covert Action in Africa
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Paul Wolf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Covert Action in Africa Date: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:15 PM SAVE THIS DATE * FRIDAY APRIL 6, 2001 * SAVE THIS DATE * FRIDAY APRIL 6 * Who: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney What: Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, DC A roundtable discussion by a team of international investigative journalists concerning the link between the powerful in Washington DC and the crises in Africa Where: 2200 Rayburn House Office Building When: 10:00 am to noon Why: Come and Hear the Most Important Inside Story Ever Told On April 6, 1994 a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in a terrorist attack, resulting in the deadliest convulsion which has gripped the African Continent since colonization. diamonds * oil * tantalum * uranium * cobalt * SAVE THIS DATE * FRIDAY APRIL 6, 2001 * SAVE THIS DATE * FRIDAY APRIL 6 * Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Explore Our Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL 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] Second Gunman Fired at Kennedy
-Caveat Lector- .. From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Note: We archive similar "assassination posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Second Gunman Fired at Kennedy Date: Monday, March 26, 2001 6:37 AM From The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56560-2001Mar25.html - Study Backs Theory of 'Grassy Knoll' New Report Says Second Gunman Fired at Kennedy By George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 26, 2001; Page A03 The House Assassinations Committee may have been right after all: There was a shot from the grassy knoll. That was the key finding of the congressional investigation that concluded 22 years ago that President John F. Kennedy's murder in Dallas in 1963 was "probably . . . the result of a conspiracy." A shot from the grassy knoll meant that two gunmen must have fired at the president within a split-second sequence. Lee Harvey Oswald, accused of firing three shots at Kennedy from a perch at the Texas School Book Depository, could not have been in two places at once. A special panel of the National Academy of Sciences subsequently disputed the evidence of a fourth shot, contained on a police dictabelt of the sounds in Dealey Plaza that day. The panel insisted it was simply random noise, perhaps static, recorded about a minute after the shooting while Kennedy's motorcade was en route to Parkland Hospital. A new, peer-reviewed article in Science and Justice, a quarterly publication of Britain's Forensic Science Society, says the NAS panel's study was seriously flawed. It says the panel failed to take into account the words of a Dallas patrolman that show the gunshot-like noises occurred "at the exact instant that John F. Kennedy was assassinated." In fact, the author of the article, D.B. Thomas, a government scientist and JFK assassination researcher, said it was more than 96 percent certain that there was a shot from the grassy knoll to the right of the president's limousine, in addition to the three shots from a book depository window above and behind the president's limousine. G. Robert Blakey, former chief counsel to the House Assassinations Committee, said the NAS panel's study always bothered him because it dismissed all four putative shots as random noise -- even though the three soundbursts from the book depository matched up precisely with film of the assassination and other evidence such as the echo patterns in Dealey Plaza and the speed of Kennedy's motorcade. "This is an honest, careful scientific examination of everything we did, with all the appropriate statistical checks," Blakey said of Thomas's work. "It shows that we made mistakes, too, but minor mistakes. The main thing is when push comes to shove, he increased the degree of confidence that the shot from the grassy knoll was real, not static. We thought there was a 95 percent chance it was a shot. He puts it at 96.3 percent. Either way, that's 'beyond a reasonable doubt.' " The sounds of assassination were recorded at Dallas police headquarters when a motorcycle patrolman inadvertently left his microphone switch in the "on" position, deluging his transmitting channel with what seemed to be motorcycle noise. Using sophisticated techniques, a team of scientists enlisted by the House committee filtered out the noise and came up with "audible events" within a 10-second time frame that it believed might be gunfire. The Warren Commission had concluded in 1964 that only three shots, all from behind, all from Oswald's rifle, were fired in Dealey Plaza as the motorcade passed through. But the House experts, after extensive tests, found 10 echo patterns that matched sounds emanating from the grassy knoll, traveling carefully measured distances to nearby buildings and then bouncing off them to hit the open motorcycle transmitter. They also placed the unknown gunman behind a picket fence at the top of the grassy knoll, in front of and to the right of the presidential limousine. The House committee concluded that this shot missed, and that Kennedy was killed by a final bullet from Oswald's rifle. Thomas, by contrast, believes it was the shot from the knoll, seven-tenths of a second earlier, that killed the president. The NAS panel, assigned to conduct further studies after the committee closed down, said in 1982 that the noises on the tape previously identified as gunshots "were recorded about one minute after the president was shot." The NAS experts, headed by physicist Norman F. Ramsey of Harvard, reached that conclusion after studying the sounds on the two radio channels Dallas police were using that day. Routine transmissions were made on Channel One and recorded on a dictabelt at police headquarters. An auxiliary frequency, Channel Two, was dedicated to the president's motorcade and used primarily by
Re: [CTRL] Second Gunman Fired at Kennedy
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Re: [CTRL] We Bombed Chinese Embassy on Purpose
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sfbg.com/News/35/28/28pc.html 4. Did the U.S. deliberately bomb the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade? On May 7, 1999, U.S. planes bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. President Clinton called the bombing "a tragic mistake," the result of faulty maps provided by U.S. intelligence services. That was good enough for the American media, but it wasn't good enough for their overseas counterparts. Working together, reporters from the London Observer and Copenhagen's Politiken found U.S. and NATO government and military sources who told a different story. One official at the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, perhaps piqued at the assertion that his agency had botched its job, called the faulty-map story "a damned lie." In fact, according to these high-ranking sources, NATO deliberately targeted the Chinese Embassy, which was serving as a rebroadcast station for the Yugoslav army. After the Observer broke the story, the Associated Press wire service picked it up, but few major papers ran it. The Washington Post gave it 90 words in an international news briefs section, under the headline, "NATO Denies Story on Embassy Bombing." The New York Times didn't mention it at all. When the press watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting asked the Times why it ignored the story, the paper's foreign editor described the Observer's piece as "not terribly well-sourced, by our standards at least." "It sounds like the Times might be holding out for a named official source," FAIR's Seth Ackerman told In These Times, "which is a standard of evidence that the Times likes to apply in cases where they would rather not report the story at all." Seth Ackerman, In These Times, 6/26/00; Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, 12/12/99; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting staff report, 2/9/00; Yoichi Shimatsu, Pacific News Service, 10/20/99. Foreign coverage: the Observer (U.K.), Politiken (Denmark), Glasgow Herald (Scotland), the Scotsman (Scotland), South China Morning Post, the Times (U.K.). 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] In These Times - Mission Implausible
-Caveat Lector- http://www.inthesetimes.com/ackerman2415.html A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL 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] FAIR ACTION ALERT New York Times on Chinese Embassy Bombing Nothing to Report
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Re: [CTRL] America's Secret Establishment
-Caveat Lector- The original URL was incomplete, this one should work OK. http://skullandbonesbooks.netfirms.com/americas_secret_establishment/about_the_book.html Kris Millegan wrote: -Caveat Lector- from: http://skullandbonesbooks.netfirms.com/americas_secret_establishment/about_the _book.html BUY NOW $19.95 + 4.00 SH ISBN 0-937765-02-3 After 16 books and 25 years in basic research I thought I'd heard it all ... the world was a confused mess, probably beyond understanding and certainly beyond salvation -- there was little I could do about it. Back in 1968, my Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development was published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In three substantial volumes I detailed how the West had built the Soviet Union. However, the work generated a seemingly insoluble puzzle: Why have we done this? Why did we build the Soviet Union? Why did we transfer technology to Hitler's Germany at the same time? Why does Washington want to conceal these facts? Why have we boosted Soviet military power? Why have we simultaneously boosted our own? In subsequent books, the Wall Street series, I added more questions -- but no answers. I had more or less arrived at the conclusion that there was no rational answer that could be proven. Then a year or so ago, I received an 8-inch batch of documents -- nothing less than the membership lists of an American secret society. Glancing through the sheets it was more than obvious -- this was no ordinary group. The names spelled Power, with a capital "P." As I probed each individual, a pattern emerged ... and a formerly fuzzy world became crystal clear. The book you will read here is a combined version of a series reporting on this research. Each volume builds on the previous volume in a logical step-by-step process. These volumes will explain: Why the West built the Soviets and Hitler. Why we go to war, to lose. Why Wall Street loves Marxists and Nazis. Why the kids can't read. Why the Churches have become propaganda founts. Why historical facts are suppressed. Why politicians lie. and a hundred other whys. This series is infinitely more important than the original Western Technology series on technological transfers. If I have a magnum opus, this is it. Antony C. Sutton July 30, 1983 Click here for links related to Yale's Skull and Bones Home | About Author | Secret Establishment | Best Enemy | Purchase | Other Books | Contact Us Liberty House Press P.O. Box 80650 Billings, MT 59108-0650 Fax (406) 245-9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Design by e-focus A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER =CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A
