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December 8, 2001
If You Don't Want American Flag Stamps, Watch Out!
Even an innocuous trip to the Post Office can you get you into
trouble these days.
Daniel Muller, is the co-coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness, a
group dedicated to nonviolence and a leading opponent of U.S.
sanctions against Iraq.
On November 9, Muller and his colleague Andrew Mandell went to pick
up stamps at the Chicago post office they regularly visit. They were
paying with cash.
We needed 4,000 stamps for a mailing we were doing, and I asked for
ones not with the American flag on them.
The woman asked if Statute of liberty stamps were OK.
Yes, we love liberty, said Andrew Mandell.
She asked us to step aside from the counter, and she went to the
back, out of view, recalls Muller. I knew something was up because
this was a bit out of the ordinary. And Andrew said, 'She's calling
the cops,' but I didn't believe him.
No one said anything to us for about twenty minutes, and then two cops came in and
asked for our IDs. They asked if we had any outstanding warrants. They ran a check on
us. They asked us why we had asked for stamps witho
ut American flags on them. I said we're very rooted in nonviolent activities, and we
would rather have the Statue of Liberty than the American flag.
The Post Office told Muller and Mandell that they would have to come back the next
morning for stamps.
Mandell got his stamps the next day, but he also was asked to meet with a federal
postal inspector for more than a half-hour. The postal inspector, says Mandell, asked:
Why are you paying with cash? Where do you get your
money?
Afterwards, the group was permitted to send out its mailing.
The fact that they did ask for anything but flag stamps did raise a
question for the clerk, says Silvia Carrier, a public relations
officer for the U.S. Postal Inspector in Chicago. Plus, They were
buying postage with a large amount of cash, and usually a company
will use a meter or a business check. Right now, since September 11,
clerks have been told to be cautious, to be looking out for anything
suspicious.
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[CTRL] Inhibit Inhibitions ?
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.counterpunch.org/mwilliams1.html }}}Begin December 13, 2001 Prohibit Prohibition By Michael Williams Throughout the 20th century, the United States government has waged a war against a freedom of choice, disguised as protection of the collective good. Through this seemingly altruistic goal, the US government successfully created powers beyond that which the United States Constitution was originally founded upon. Society is harmed when a government prohibits a personal choice, as freedom is stripped away. The War on Drugs is centered around the ideology that illicit drugs present an inherent risk so great to the public, that prohibition, the banning of all of these plants and chemicals, is the only valid way to prevent massive negative societal and individual effects. Unfortunately, this does not protect the public from these unfavorable results, and in many cases, actually increases the dangers. Despite the fear that removal of prohibition will result in an increased danger to the public, foreign programs have shown this assumption to be false; the only valid solution to the problem is legalization of all drugs. Prohibition is unconstitutional; alcohol prohibition required a constitutional amendment to be created, and no such act was written to allow the illegality of drugs. Instead, a loophole was utilized, and with passage of the Marijuana Stamp Act in 1937 marijuana was prohibited. (ACLU). By refusing to allow anyone to purchase these stamps, the government effectively eliminated the legal sale and use of marijuana. This program followed the original Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, declaring opiates and cocaine illegal (ACLU) through the same tax laws, and has now evolved and been extended almost as a blanket rule to any new chemical that is created which al ters one's perception of self or reality, regardless of safety or medical merit. According to the constitution, the government does not have the power to regulate personal choice, but it created this alternative route to prohibition despite the massive legal hurdles. Many believe that health issues are the primary reason for drugs being illegal, yet the general public does not realize that legal drugs are more toxic than those which are illegal. In the United States, tobacco alone kil ls over 430,000, alcohol 110,000 (Drug War Facts), and prescription drugs kill approximately 32,000 people (Corey) yearly, while all illegal drugs combined, including cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, marijuana, LSD (lysergi c acid diethylamide), psilocybin magic mushrooms, ecstasy, GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), mescaline and PCP (phencyclidine), killed approximately 11,000 people in 1999 (DAWN). Interestingly, of those 11,000 people, only 5 5% can be attributed to accidental overdose, while approximately 16% were intentional overdoses in order to commit suicide (DAWN). Additionally, there has not been one reported death due to a marijuana overdose (Facts). N SAIDS, medicines such as aspirin and Tylenol were linked to 7,600 deaths in 1996 (Facts), making these nearly as lethal as their illegal counterparts, yet nobody questions their safety, or calls for their prohibition. Com pared to illegal drugs, there are many more lethal activities, including driving a car, participated in daily by the general public, yet these activities, unlike illicit drugs, are considered integral parts of daily life, and the dangers presented are considered accepted risks. Beyond the direct health impact, prohibition has not been shown to have a strong impact on the demand for drugs in general. Some countries, such as the Netherlands, have legalized soft drugs including marijuana and mag ic mushrooms, while others, such as Italy, Portugal, and Spain, have decriminalized the use of all drugs, including heroin and cocaine. They also have government subsidized programs to assist those addicted to hard drug s, such as heroin, by providing them with doctor supervised locations to ingest their drugs. The result of these programs has been lower addiction, use, and death rates in users. According to a study published in the Bri tish Journal of Psychiatry and reported by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), removal of criminal prohibitions on cannabis possession (decriminalization) will not increase the prevalence of marijuana or any other illicit drug . . . a far greater percentage of Americans age 12 and older (33 percent) report having tried marijuana as do their Dutch counterparts (16 percent), despite the fact that open sale a nd possession of pot is permitted in the Netherlands. If prohibition is claimed to lower the use and availability of illicit drugs in the populace, why do facts speak otherwise? By preventing valid manufacturers from making these products, prohibition increases the dangers associated with drug use by preventing regulation, and forcing drug users to buy products which
[CTRL] What is Bush Hiding?
-Caveat Lector- These feelings I have myself! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! What is Bush Hiding? By Chuck Baldwin December 14, 2001 During the election season last year, I warned my listeners and readers that should G. W. Bush get elected, he would never allow Congress or the American people learn the truth about Bill Clinton's copious acts of criminality. In other words, Bush would continue where Janet Reno left off: there would be more stonewalling and cover-ups. This prediction brought the ire and angst against me by Bush-backers. We now know I was right, although I do not expect the Bush people to be willing to admit it. News reports yesterday said, President Bush invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutor 's decision-making [regarding] the Clinton-era fund-raising probe. Bush said, Congressional access to these documents would be contrary to the national interest. Translated: Congressional access to these documents would be contrary to my interest. Bush's decision to cover-up the truth about Clinton's criminality makes him culpable to that criminality. It also means that there is no closure to the blight of eight years of corruption and degradation in the White House. Add Bush's cover-up to the long list of injustices left unaccounted for such as Ruby Ridge, Waco and now Chinagate. The question must be asked: what is Bush trying to hide? Could it be that if Congress uncovers foreign influence within the Clinton administration, it would it also uncover foreign influence within the Bush administration? The Boston Herald recently reported that billion-dollar arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy have served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S. government. The Herald goes on to say, Nowhere is the revolving U.S.-Saudi money wheel more evident than within President Bush's own coterie of foreign policy advisers, starting with the president's father, George H.W. Bush. The report further states, At the same time that the elder Bush counsels his son on the ongoing war on terrorism, the former president remains a senior adviser to the Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle Group. That influential investment bank has deep connections to the Saudi royal family as well as financial interests in U.S. defense firms hired by the kingdom to equip and train the Saudi army. This more-than-casual connection between Bush and the Saudi monarchy is causing U.S. policy makers to turn a blind eye to things that would otherwise cause our blood to boil, because no one wants to stop the gravy train. (Remember that the vast majority of the September 11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.) People mentioned in the Herald report as participating in ongoing covert, international influence peddling include former U.S. officials, former presidents, aides to the current president .people who are the pillars of American society and officialdom. That Bush is hiding much seems obvious. What exactly is he hiding? Maybe we do not want to know - and it looks like we never will. *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! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: MEET THE NAZIS THE CIA MARRIED: THE CROATIAN USTASHI by Petar Makara and Jared Israel
-Caveat Lector- URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/backin.htm Join our email list at http://emperors-clothes.com/f.htm. Receive about one article/day. Click here to email the link to this article to a friend. We encourage readers to reprint and re-post any Emperor's Clothes article. Please include the article's Web address and author(s). www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] === MEET THE NAZIS THE CIA MARRIED: THE CROATIAN USTASHI by Petar Makara and Jared Israel [Posted 9 December 2001] === NO SERBS, JEWS, NOMADS ['Gypsies'] AND DOGS - Text of signs on public establishments in secessionist Croatia in June, 1941. In the article, Worst Kept Secrets of the Bumbling Bear, we talked about the Vatican/U.S. government 'rescue' of Nazis from Eastern Europe and the Balkans at the end of World War II. (1) Many of those people and their children were sent back to Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s to help establish 'pro-Western' regimes. To get a better sense of what this actually meant, we have to look more closely at whom it was that the U.S. Establishment, and the Vatican, rescued. The following are scholarly snapshots of the so-called Independent State of Croatia, comprising Croatia and part of Bosnia Herzegovina. Croatia was a clerical-fascist state, set up after the German Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia during the spring of 1941. Jumping ahead to the 1990s, it was commonplace for the Western media to accuse Serbs of paranoia for resisting Croatian secession. Were they paranoid? Or did they have something very real to worry about? During the 1990s, the Yugoslav press referred to the Croatian secessionist forces as 'Ustashi.' Allow us introduce you. - Jared Israel SNAPSHOTS OF A HOLOCAUST by Petar Makara QUOTE #1 - ETHNIC SLAUGHTER [Start Quote] The greatest ethnic slaughter took place as Yugoslavia was carved up after the German invasion in April 1941. The creation of a separate Croatia ... controlled by the fascist, Catholic, extremist Ustasha movement was the catalyst for the tragedy... Now, historic Croatia was expanded to include Bosnia-Herzegovina and other territories, and the Ustasha were left ... to govern a population of nearly 7 million people, of whom about half were Croats, just over 2 million were Serbs, about 750,000 were Muslims, and small numbers were Protestants and Jews The Minister of Education, Mile Budak, made clear the Ustasha aims: 'Our new Croatia will get rid of all Serbs in our midst in order to become one hundred percent Catholic within ten years.' [End quote] Professor Clive Ponting, Armageddon, Random House, Inc., New York, 1995, pages 231-232. --- QUOTE #2 - UNSURPASSED SAVAGERY [Start Quote] In Bosnia... the Croatian fascists began a massacre of Serbs which, in the whole annals of World War II was surpassed for savagery only by the mass extermination of Polish Jews. [End quote] The above quote was repeated by all versions of Encyclopedia Britannica from 1971 until 1987. You can find it for example in Encyclopedia Britannica Edition 1971, Volume 23, page 922 or in Encyclopedia Britannica, Edition 1987, Volume 29, page 1054. (The entry is entitled, Yugoslavia, W.W.II) You may not find it in subsequent editions. Much of the previous record became politically incorrect since the U.S. and German Establishments began sponsoring a new, Independent Croatia in the late 1980s. QUOTE #3 - METHODS OF MURDERING 'FOREIGN ELEMENTS' [Start Quote] Croatia [under Fascist control called itself the 'Independent State of Croatia' or 'Nazavisna Drzava Hrvatska,' hence the initials NDH) ... Established during W.W.II...[it] was in existence from April 1941 to May 1945. Its area... consisted of what are today the Federative Republic of Croatia and the Federative Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina... Its capital was Zagreb. It had a population of 6.3 million, of whom 3.3 million were Catholic Croats, 1.9 million Serbs, 700,000 Muslims... 40,000 Jews, 30,000 Gypsies... ... Shortly after taking control, the Ustasha, with the support of many Croats, embarked upon what it called 'The Purge of Croatia from Foreign Elements,' which had as its main purpose the elimination of the Serb minority. In a brutal terror campaign, more than half a million Serbs were killed, a quarter of a million expelled, and 200,000 forced to convert to Catholicism. The Ustasha regime in Croatia, and particularly this drive in the summer of 1941 to exterminate and dispossess the Serbs, was one of the most horrendous episodes of World War II. The murder methods applied by the Ustasha were
[CTRL] House Delays Vote on Broadband Until 2002
-Caveat Lector- from - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011213/tc/congress_broadband_dc_2.html Thursday December 13 5:32 PM ET House Delays Vote on Broadband Until 2002 By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday dealt a blow to local telephone giants by delaying until next year a vote on a measure that would allow them to offer long-distance data services without first opening their networks to rivals. Dominant local telephone carriers like SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC - news) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS - news) have been pushing the legislation for months arguing that the measure would accelerate the deployment of high-speed Internet service using digital subscriber line technology. ``The (House) leadership has decided to move the vote on the broadband bill to a date certain after we return next year,'' Richard Diamond, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Richard Armey, said in a statement. ``The likely date would be March.'' The so-called baby Bells created from the 1984 breakup of ATT have been competing head-to-head against cable companies for lucrative high-speed Internet access customers. So far cable operators have been in the lead with 6.4 million subscribers compared to 3.1 million digital subscriber line customers. Both services cost about $50 per month. ``We are going to continue to work on this and continue to persevere,'' said Susan Butta, a spokeswoman for Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ - news), the biggest local telephone carrier. ``We think it's very important to the country and it will ultimately bring additional choices for consumers.'' The bill specifically would allow telephone giants to sell long-distance data services without opening their networks to rivals as they must under the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Additionally, the so-called Bells could deploy data services using fiber without having to sell rivals pieces of the network for the provision of high-speed Internet service, known as broadband, as required for voice services. ``We can't declare victory on this issue but it's a definite setback for the Bells and their strategy and advancing their ability to drive out competitors,'' said Jim Cicconi, general counsel for ATT Corp. (NYSE:T - news), the biggest U.S. long-distance telephone and cable company. The bill would also establish milestones for the Bells to deploy high-speed Internet service in hard-to-reach and rural areas. On Wednesday, Armey had tentatively scheduled for Friday a vote on the measure, which is sponsored by Reps. Billy Tauzin and John Dingell. There is stiff opposition to the bill in the Senate, raising questions about its chances of becoming law in its present form. ``This was simply a delay not a defeat,'' said Ken Johnson, a spokesman for Tauzin, a Louisiana Republican. ``We have a firm commitment for moving the bill to the House floor. We have the votes to pass it and we have the champagne ordered.'' One person familiar with the situation said the delay came after some in the Republican party expressed concern that a vote could shut off campaign contributions from various sources. However, Johnson said the delay was because lawmakers wanted to go home after a long week. Lobbying against the measure were long-distance telephone giants ATT Corp. (T.N) and WorldCom Inc. (Nasdaq:WCOM - news)(Nasdaq:MCIT - news). Sen. Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat who chairs the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, has said he does not support the measure, opposition that makes slim the legislation's chances of becoming law. 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] What is Bush Hiding?
-Caveat Lector- Bush has been fighting disclosure laws all along - mostly to keep reagan and bush pere's records under wraps; after all his father stopped all the investigations into the illegal funding of the contras, to keep the truth of that situation from coming out. -- - --- -- --- -- Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is a force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. George Washington NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 04:20:27 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] What is Bush Hiding? -Caveat Lector- These feelings I have myself! -- Bill WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! What is Bush Hiding? By Chuck Baldwin December 14, 2001 During the election season last year, I warned my listeners and readers that should G. W. Bush get elected, he would never allow Congress or the American people learn the truth about Bill Clinton's copious acts of criminality. In other words, Bush would continue where Janet Reno left off: there would be more stonewalling and cover-ups. This prediction brought the ire and angst against me by Bush-backers. We now know I was right, although I do not expect the Bush people to be willing to admit it. News reports yesterday said, President Bush invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutor 's decision-making [regarding] the Clinton-era fund-raising probe. Bush said, Congressional access to these documents would be contrary to the national interest. Translated: Congressional access to these documents would be contrary to my interest. Bush's decision to cover-up the truth about Clinton's criminality makes him culpable to that criminality. It also means that there is no closure to the blight of eight years of corruption and degradation in the White House. Add Bush's cover-up to the long list of injustices left unaccounted for such as Ruby Ridge, Waco and now Chinagate. The question must be asked: what is Bush trying to hide? Could it be that if Congress uncovers foreign influence within the Clinton administration, it would it also uncover foreign influence within the Bush administration? The Boston Herald recently reported that billion-dollar arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy have served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S. government. The Herald goes on to say, Nowhere is the revolving U.S.-Saudi money wheel more evident than within President Bush's own coterie of foreign policy advisers, starting with the president's father, George H.W. Bush. The report further states, At the same time that the elder Bush counsels his son on the ongoing war on terrorism, the former president remains a senior adviser to the Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle Group. That influential investment bank has deep connections to the Saudi royal family as well as financial interests in U.S. defense firms hired by the kingdom to equip and train the Saudi army. This more-than-casual connection between Bush and the Saudi monarchy is causing U.S. policy makers to turn a blind eye to things that would otherwise cause our blood to boil, because no one wants to stop the gravy train. (Remember that the vast majority of the September 11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.) People mentioned in the Herald report as participating in ongoing covert, international influence peddling include former U.S. officials, former presidents, aides to the current president .people who are the pillars of American society and officialdom. That Bush is hiding much seems obvious. What exactly is he hiding? Maybe we do not want to know - and it looks like we never will. *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! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no
Re: [CTRL] Pilgrims' Progress
-Caveat Lector- this really doesn't make all that much sense , does it? the mujahedeen were virulent anti-Communists. we are now allies with the Russians. too much in this article doesn't quite jibe -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. Edward R. Murrow NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew From: Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:24:34 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Pilgrims' Progress -Caveat Lector- From http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1209-02.htm }}}Begin Share This Article With Your Friends Published on Sunday, December 9, 2001 in the Toronto Sun America's New War: A Progress Report by Eric Margolis What has the U.S. achieved after waging war for the past two months in Afghanistan? * Afghanistan's de facto government, the Taliban, an Islamic religious movement with about 30,000 armed supporters, has been overthrown and scattered. After holding out for five weeks under massive U.S. bombardments, its leader, Mullah Omar, ordered his men to retreat to the mountains. Omar, who may be shortly captured or killed, claimed he ordered the retreat to spare civilians in Taliban- ruled areas from U.S. bombing. To date, the U.S. has dropped 10,000 bombs on Afghanistan, killing sizable numbers of civilians - in the range of 1,500-2,000, according to Afghan sources. U.S. bombing of cities, towns and villages has driven over 160,00 0 people into refugee camps. * On Dec. 3, 2000 - one year ago - this column said that overthrowing the Taliban would pave the way for a second Russian occupation of Afghanistan. This has now happened. The Northern Alliance, armed and funded by Russ ia, directed by the Afghan Communist party and under the overall command of the chief of the Russian general staff, Marshall Viktor Kvashnin, deputy KGB director Viktor Komogorov, and a cadre of Russian advisers, seized K abul and all of northern Afghanistan. U.S. President George Bush committed a colossal, inexcusable blunder. If this column could foresee Russian intervention, why didn't the White House? * Last week's much-ballyhooed Afghan unity conference in Germany produced precisely what this column predicted: a sham coalition government run by the Northern Alliance. One of the CIA's Pashtun assets, Hamid Karzai , who represents no one but himself, was named prime minister. There was no other real Pashtun representation, though they comprise half the population. Of 30 cabinet seats, two-thirds went to Northern Alliance Tajiks, notably the power ministries of defence, the interior and foreign affairs. Two women were added for window dressing to please the West. The 87-year old dep osed Afghan king, Zahir Shah, widely blamed for allowing the communists to infiltrate Afghanistan in the 1970s, was invited back as a figurehead monarch. In short, a communist-dominated regime, ruled by a king, whose stri ngs are pulled by Moscow. Quite a bizarre creation. FEUDING STARTS The very next day, feuding broke out among Alliance members. Old communist stalwart Rashid Dostam, who had just finished massacring hundreds of Taliban prisoners with American and British help, threatened war if his Uzbek s did not get more spoils. My old friend, the Alliance's figurehead president, Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani, a respected Islamic scholar, was shoved aside by young communists. * The Bush administration was apparently too preoccupied chasing Osama bin Laden to notice its new best friend, Russia, had broken its agreement to wait for formation of a pro- U.S., pro-Pakistani regime, and seized half of Afghanistan. Marshall Kvashnin rushed his men into Kabul, just as he outfoxed the Americans in 1999 in a similar coup de main in Kosovo. * The hunt for bin Laden and his Al-Qaida continues. A few senior figures have been killed, likely including Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of Egypt's Islamic Jihad. The net is closing around bin Laden's possible hiding pl aces. Unless he has escaped Afghanistan, his capture or death appear imminent. This will be welcome news for the Bush administration. If bin Laden somehow escapes, or his body is never found, Bush will be accused of blowi ng apart Afghanistan, killing large numbers of civilians, and allowing the Russians to grab back the country, all for nothing. * The late Pashtun leader Abdul Haq, whom I knew from my Peshawar days, warned the U.S. before his death that bombing Afghanistan was unnecessary and a grave mistake. Taliban control could be broken, where needed, by fina ncing tribal uprisings - the standard form of Afghan warfare - without foreign intervention. Otherwise, he warned, the
Re: [CTRL] News Bulletin
-Caveat Lector- inshallah this will all be over soon -- We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. President John F. Kennedy From: Bill Richer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:11:24 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] News Bulletin -Caveat Lector- Dear Friends: It was just reported on News on TV that Osama bin Laden is surounded in a cave complex by Allied and North Alliance Troops. God Bless; Bill Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests 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] Pilgrims' Progress
-Caveat Lector- Well Neuropsycotic - it does not make much sense - make sense of this: J Edgar Hoover's required reading list for new agents - Pilgrim's Progress.plus it took some of those guys two hours just to get the right handshake? So much for Pilgrims; however, reference material suggests and I always accepted same, the the only book the Pilgrims had when they landed on the Rock - was the King James Bible - sounds like the Mafia, Doctors, Lawyers, and Preachers - and then you see life as it is, but they forgot to mention the Undertakers. O'Saba 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] What is Bush Hiding?
-Caveat Lector- This is what they call the CYA Club (Cover your ass) right out of the Garden of Eden - the Illuminati. At least we in American do have the fun if we would only use it full force - to kick the bums out ourselves for when the times get tough - the tough gets rolling. O'Saba Note how Rumsfeld stands when his picture take - he is member of CYA Clubas were a few Astronauts of which I am aware. 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 Funded Pakistani Terrorists
---BeginMessage--- http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,28%257E261718,00.html book review Eye of the storm U.S. gets blame for Muslim deaths HOLY WAR, INC. Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden By Peter L. Bergen Free Press, 283 pages, $26 By Steve Weinberg Special to the Denver Post Sunday, December 09, 2001 ³... While bin Laden is always the villain at center stage, Bergen sometimes places U.S. military and civilian officials in the wings. Even the most attentive media consumers probably will be surprised at the misguided decisions made year after year on behalf of the U.S. government. How many readers of Bergen's book, for example, already understood the disastrous consequences of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency disseminating $3 billion of taxpayer money to Pakistani sources, who in turn used at least $600 million of the total to support Gulbiddin Hekmatyar, an Islamic zealot controlling one of Afghanistan's seven political parties? Instead of fighting Soviet invaders effectively, Bergen reports, Hekmatyar used the new-found wealth to kill his Afghan opponents, while simultaneously training anti-American terrorists who would later assist bin Laden² ---End Message---
[CTRL] snips from a '97 article on central asian oil
-Caveat Lector- For Marty Miller, Central Asia is a Texas oilman's dream come true. Marty Miller: Central Asia, and if you go even further north up into western and central Siberia, there's a tremendous amount of oil, one of the world's most prolific oil provinces. And historically, the pipelines out of the area have gone generally to the west. What is really needed are pipelines that can transport that oil to what we call the Asia-Pacific market, which is the fastest-growing energy market in the world. ~snip~ US Official: Our strong preference is that Caspian petroleum resources reach western markets by non-Iranian routes. ~snip~ Stan Correy: Today Baku is booming again as it did last century. Foreign entrepreneurs are making fortunes, and the New York Times reports that the streets gleam with luxury cars, and swimming pools and tennis courts are paid for with suitcases full of $100 bills. There are 12 casinos in Baku. All this, and yet the first drop of oil only left Azerbaijan last week. ~snip~ The politics of the Caspian may be questionable, and the pipeline maps may read like a spider web out of control, but the Caspian Basin has heaps of oil, and there's an important bonus. In this area you can actually own the resources, unlike in Saudi Arabia or the Gulf, where no foreign investment is allowed. That's why so many of the world's biggest oil companies rushed to the Caspian after the end of the Soviet Union. ~snip~ That can-do Texan, Marty Miller, of Unical was in Turkmenistan last week to sign an agreement to build a gas pipeline through war-torn Afghanistan to Pakistan. But that may not be the end of it. The Taliban still haven't reached any agreement with Unocal, and thought not the official government, they have to be factored in. Not a problem if you're an oil man from Texas. Marty Miller: You know, it wasn't too long ago when people couldn't even contemplate the idea of investing in a place like Beirut. It wasn't too long ago that people could not even conceive the idea of, or even being able to do business in Central Asia. You know, Western companies doing business, with Izbekistan or Turkmenistan or Kazakhstan, you know, before the fall of the Soviet Union. So fair exchange. And while you characterise the Taliban or any of the other Afghan factions as being tough fighters, you're right on that. But on the other hand, I've met them and I've looked them right in the eye and I've talked to them, and they have concerns just like you and I do in terms of wanting to have a job or to be able to educate their kids, or to have a normal life. And what we are doing is explaining to all of the factions, the Taliban, the people in the north, the benefits of a project. And we also remind them that the fighting's got to stop and they've got to come together and form this government that I was talking about that the world's lending institutions would look at and say, 'Well, we believe these are people we can work with, and we can provide finance for the projects.' And without finance, particularly on the gas pipeline project, it's going to be very difficult to meet the price expectations on the gas for the Turkmen and the Pakistanis. for more, see: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s10511.htm __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL 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: FW: Former USA Attorney General Ramsey Clark's U.N. Letter on Iraq
---BeginMessage--- Former USA Attorney General Ramsey Clark's U.N. Letter on Iraq Sent to the ambassador and foreign minister of each member of the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly. * * * * * December 11, 2001 Dear Ambassador: The Security Council must direct the United States that it may not attack Iraq and must cease threatening to do so. Nor can it train, aid, or finance other forces seeking the violent overthrow of the Iraqi government. Any such acts would violate the obligations of nations under the Charter of the United Nations and constitute crimes under international law. U.S. military and economic assaults on Iraq in the past dozen years are a continuing crime against peace and humanity. They violate the Genocide Convention. The Pentagon admits it conducted 110,000 aerial sorties against a defenseless Iraq, dropping 88,500 tons of bombs equivalent to 7.5 Hiroshima bombs in 42 days from January 17 to February 28, 1991. The bombs targeted every type of structure and facility necessary to support civilian life. Family dwellings, water and food systems and supplies, industry, commerce, business, education, religion all across Iraq were the direct object of U.S. bombs punishing a whole population. More than 150,000 thousands defenseless people died in Iraq as a result of this military assault, which included thousands of individual war crimes. From August 6, 1990 to date, the most severe economic sanctions and forced impoverishment have deliberately inflicted hunger, malnourishment, sickness and death generously among the people of Iraq, killing and crippling infants, children, the elderly, pregnant women, nursing mothers, persons with chronic illnesses, and emergency medical cases first and most frequently. More than 1.5 million people have died as a direct result of these sanctions. More than half have been children under five years of age. The sanctions, coerced from the Security Council by the U.S., have violated the Genocide Convention because they have deliberately created conditions of life intended to destroy the Iraqi population in whole, or in part, because of the nationality, race, religion and ethnic origin of its people. The sanctions have had their intended effect. Every U.N. agency dealing with food, health and children has confirmed the human horror of the sanctions. They include the FAO, UNICEF, WFP, WHO. The most courageous and honorable of the U.N. employee's directly involved with enforcement of the sanctions and inspections under them have resigned their positions and publicly protested the sanctions and inspections policies. The food for oil program approved only in late 1996, and used thereafter primarily as a devise for delay, frustration and accusation, was initiated only when international protest against the savagery of the sanctions overwhelmed the fear in which Security Council members held the threat of U.S. reprisal if they did not support U.S. policies. The U.S. has bombed Iraq whenever it chose to do so at any time for the past twelve years. Missiles and bombs have targeted Saddam Hussein for assassination. Many hundreds have been killed, including as an illustration of the meaning of such bombing, Leila al Attar, the internationally famous artist, museum director, wife, mother, human being. The sound of U.S. jets over Iraq is omnipresent, keeping constant the terrifying memory of the continuous aerial and missile assault of February-March 1991 which averaged an aerial sortie every 30 seconds. In the face of these staggering crimes against Iraq, the U.S. has conducted a constant campaign of vilification in the international media it controls. While claims Saddam Hussein is the evil it seeks to destroy, its broad brush paints all of Iraq as a symbol of evil. The U.S. propaganda is racist, anti-Muslim, hate engendering and false. The U.S. has corrupted and seriously compromised the United Nations by appearing to act in its name, tragically diminishing humanities best hope for peace, dignity and decent conditions of life for all by its decade of brutish and criminal assaults on the people of Iraq. Though coerced, the Security Council is complicit in these crimes against peace and humanity, war crimes and genocide because it has at the least allowed its name and moral authority to be usurped by the United States. The United States time and time again has acted on the advice of Plato's Athenian Stranger, who fearing the judgment of history remains anonymous by waging ...war for the sake of peace. Consider how victims of U.S. wars, surrogate and direct, since World War II have fared: Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Liberia, Cuba, Guatemala, Grenada, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras, Angola, Croatia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iran, Indonesia, Afghanistan. Yet where is the promised peace? Consider the havoc direct U.S. military
[CTRL] There Goes the Meighborhood
NBC, With Conditions, to Accept Ads for Liquor By STUART ELLIOTT NYTIMES http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/business/media/14ADCO.html?ex=1009347991ei=1en=20fe7addff50c348 Free Subscription Required (BLAH BLAH BLAH) ~Five years after some liquor companies began producing television commercials for alcoholic beverages like vodka, cordials, rum, liqueurs and Scotch whiskey, a large national broadcast network has agreed to begin accepting those spots. NBC, part of the General Electric Company (news/quote), said yesterday that it would become the first of the four biggest broadcast networks to accept commercials for distilled spirits, so-called hard liquor, since liquor marketers lifted a voluntary ban against such spots in 1996. But the commercials must adhere to a long list of stipulations. They will appear only after 9 p.m., for instance; the actors in them must all be at least 30 years of age; and the liquor makers must first run for four months a series of social-responsibility messages on subjects like designated drivers and drinking moderately before they can run commercials for their distilled-spirits brands. People who oppose the move say they are concerned that the commercials could be easily watched by youngsters. "This is more than the camel's nose under the tent," said George Hacker, director of the Alcohol Policies Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group in Washington. "It's the first foot forward that will result down the line to opening the door for hard-liquor ads looking like beer ads." The decision by NBC, which takes effect with a commercial from the Guinness UDV division of Diageo (news/quote) that is scheduled to run tomorrow on "Saturday Night Live," comes as TV networks seek to reverse a steep revenue decline that began in the spring and accelerated after Sept. 11. The spending for the four-month series of commercials that Guinness UDV will run before the product spots is being called a multimillion- dollar campaign; neither the company nor NBC would be more specific. Plans call for the commercial to be shown tomorrow night to promote designating a driver before drinking and end with the words "From your friends at Smirnoff," the best-selling Guinness UDV brand of vodka. The NBC decision represents a major victory for liquor marketers seeking to gain access to the powerful advertising medium of television along with their traditional outlets like print ads and promotions. "We're very pleased we have the opportunity to gain the efficiencies in our advertising and marketing programs," said Gary Galanis, a spokesman for Guinness UDV in Stamford, Conn. Already, several national cable TV networks and an estimated 200 to 300 local TV stations - some owned by the broadcast networks like NBC - accept commercials for vodka, Scotch whiskey and rum as well as for lower-alcohol products like liqueurs and blended specialty drinks. The newsletter Television Digest reported, for instance, that the TV station owned by NBC in Providence, R.I., WJAR, runs commercials for Baileys Original Irish Cream liqueur, sold by Guinness UDV. Hard- liquor brands sold by Guinness UDV that have run TV commercials so far include José Cuervo tequila, Malibu rum, Tanqueray gin and Johnnie Walker Black Scotch whiskey. "There's a momentum gathering here," said Randy Falco, president for the NBC Television Network division of NBC in New York. "We thought we'd get in front of it" with "a pretty strict set of guidelines." "This is obviously a sensitive subject," he added, but as for any concerns for potential abuse, "the standards speak for themselves, particularly as they relate to young people." Beer and wine advertising has been on television since the medium carried commercials. There were no such spots for liquor from 1948, when the distilled spirits industry introduced its voluntary ban, until that ban was lifted in November 1996. When the ban was lifted, some members of Congress and federal regulators sought to have it reinstated or made into law. Those efforts faded as the end of the ban brought no flood of liquor commercials onto the broadcast networks; in addition, the Federal Trade Commission reminded critics that any spots for hard liquor would be subject to the same standards and scrutiny as all other ads. According to CMR, a division of Taylor Nelson Sofres that tracks advertising spending, in the first nine months of 2001, beer makers spent $606.7 million on local and national broadcast and cable television commercials, while makers of wine and wine coolers spent $25.4 million and liquor makers spent $17.1 million. By comparison, the liquor companies spent $194.9 million to advertise in magazines in the first nine months of 2001, according to the Publishers Information Bureau in New York, an affiliate of the Magazine Publishers of America. The
[CTRL] WIDE-SCALE MILITARY ATTACKS AND INCURSIONS INTO WEST BANK GAZA
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- From: hearpalestine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, 13 December 2001 ** WIDE-SCALE ISRAELI MILITARY ATTACKS AND INCURSIONS INTO OCCUPIED TERRITORIES ** TWO CHILDREN KILLED THIS EVENING, RAISING DEATH TOLL SINCE LAST NIGHT TO 5. SIX OTHERS KILLED ON TUESDAY ** OCCUPATION FORCES OPEN FIRE AT CHILDREN IN RAFAH ** OCCUPATION FORCES DESTROY PALESTINE RADIO AND TELEVISION TRANSMISSION TOWERS IN RAMALLAH ** Ariel Sharon's tanks are currently standing 200 metres from Yasser Arafat's presidential office in Ramallah with their machine guns pointed at his residence. American-made Israeli Apache helicopters flew over all night last night and have resumed again this evening, as have the louder no-pilot reconnaissance aircraft. The aim is clearly to wage severe psychological warfare, not just on the Palestinian leader but on the population as a whole. *WIDE SCALE MILITARY ATTACKS AND INCURSIONS INTO OCCUPIED TERRITORIES* The Israeli government is currently waging a wide-scale military attack on the occupied Palestinian territories, with helicopter and F- 16 fighter-jets constantly circling overhead, punctuated by bursts of shelling on their selected targets. In conjunction with this, occupation tanks have made audacious incursions inside the cities, towns and villages in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where they remain nestled between civilian homes, their cannons moving menacingly between targets. Last night's shelling was described as the most intense Israeli military attack on the occupied territories to date. Several buildings were flattened in the aerial bombardments, and explosions were heard throughout the Gaza Strip and West Bank. At the time of writing, helicopters are still droning over Ramallah and in the past hour there has been a burst of heavy shelling, destroying the Palestinian police station in the centre of Ramallah and other targets. Palestinian establishments and security locations are also being shelled and destroyed in other areas of the occupied territories. Last night was spent in fear and panic due to the intensity of the shelling and the continuous movement of warplanes breaking the sound barrier. THE GAZA STRIP Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip last night resulted in the death of one Palestinian woman, 40-year-old Hayat al-Haitham, and dozens of injuries. The attack, which started at 10:00 p.m. and continued for five consecutive hours near various residential areas in the Gaza Strip, placed inhabitants in a state of panic, with dozens of people, mainly children, suffering severe shock. Witnesses reported that Israeli warplanes conducted `fake' attacks at a low altitude alongside the actual air strikes, in a blatant attempt to add to the fear of the already heavily terrorised population. The shelling targeted most Palestinian Authority security locations in the Gaza Strip, as well as Gaza International Airport. Dozens of homes, schools and universities also suffered severe material damage in the onslaught. Israeli F-16 warplanes targeted a number of PA locations in the vicinity of President Arafat's Gaza City headquarters. At least 10 rockets were fired at the naval police headquarters, Arafat's private airport, a Force-17 location and other security locations in the area. Palestinian security sources reported that each of the rockets fired weighed 1000-1500 pounds. After midnight last night F-16 warplanes attacked the naval police headquarters in Beit Lahya (al-Soudaniya), destroying it completely with five heavy rockets. Nearby homes and civilian establishments also suffered severe material damage, and warplanes shelled radar equipment and storage rooms in Gaza International Airport. The Gaza Strip has once again been divided into three separated and isolated areas. Israeli tanks are deployed at all major junctions and main roads, while bulldozers dig ditches in the roads and place sand piles and cement blocks to prevent Palestinian movement. KHAN YOUNIS Two Palestinian children were shot dead by occupation forces this evening: 13 year-old Rami was shot in the eye by occupation soldiers based around the `Neveh Dkalim' settlement, and 15 year-old Ahmad al-Masri was killed when soldiers opened fire at civilians in al-Amal quarter. Israeli tanks have completely isolated Khan Younis from its surroundings. Another curfew has been imposed on the inhabitants of al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis. Over 7000 people are being prevented from leaving their homes, while occupation forces raid and search. Witnesses report that military reinforcements have been deployed in the area. Ten tanks are now standing at the entrances to al-Mawasi, while
[CTRL] Memo From Osama
MEMO From: Bin Laden, Osama Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:17 AM To: Cavemates Subject: The Cave Hi guys. We've all been putting in long hours but we've really come together as a group and I love that. Big thanks to Omar for putting up the poster that says "There is no I in Team" as well as the one that says "Hang In There, Baby." That cat is hilarious. However, while we are fighting a jihad, we can't forget to take care of the cave. And frankly I have a few concerns. First of all, while it's good to be concerned about cruise missiles, we should be even more concerned about the scorpions in our cave. Hey, you don't want to be stung and neither do I, so we need to sweep the cave daily. I've posted a sign-up sheet near the main cave opening. If it catches fire try to remember when your week is. Second, it's not often I make a video address but when I do, I'm trying to scare the most powerful country on earth, okay? That means that while we're taping, please refrain from trolling around on your razor scooter in the background. Just while we're taping. Thanks. This would be helpful. Third point, and this is a touchy one. As you know, by edict, we're not supposed to shave our beards. But I need everyone to just think hygiene, especially after mealtime. We're all in this together. Fourth: Food. I bought a box ofCheez-Itzrecently, clearly wrote "Osama" on the front, and put it on the top shelf. Today, myCheez-Its were gone. Consideration. That's all I'm saying. Finally, we've heard that there may be American soldiers in disguise trying to infiltrate our ranks. I want to set up patrols to look for them. First patrol will be Omar, Muhammed, Abdul, Akbar, and Bob. Love you lots. Osama DiVERSiONZ News, View, Issues AmusementsTo Hop On The Bushttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/DiversionzWeb Presence (Recent Highlights)http://www.geocities.com/peatluke/Diversionz.html
[CTRL] 3700 Civilian Casualties?
-Caveat Lector- The Independent's Robert Fisk also referred to thousands of Afghan civilians killed in the bombings. Gavin. Prof. Marc Herold reveals the number of civilian casualties killed in the US bombing of Afghanistan to be over 3700. http://www.democracynow.org/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] the real reason we are in this undeclared war???
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- Title: Here is the real reason we are in this undeclared war Here is the real reason we are in this undeclared war!! This is a critical key to understanding why things happen the way they do. This is why we started this war. This is why the war needs to be a long one. Read this thoroughly, twice if need be, and save a copy. Source: The Unseen Hand By: Ralph Epperson First Printing 1985 Sixteenth Printing 1995 ISBN: 0-9614135-06 I SUGGEST YOU PURCHASE THIS BOOK. IRON MOUNTAIN CHAPTER 22 Wars are fought because one nation wants something another nation has. Protecting a nation from outside attack is another reason for war. These two reasons for war are called the visible reasons for war. Research now has concluded that there are what are called invisible reasons for war, as well. One such report that has done research into the Invisible Reasons for War is a report called the Report From Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace. (1) Written in 1963 and released in March 1966, this report examines the visible and invisible functions or reasons of not only war but peace as well. The report claims to have been written at an underground nuclear hideout near the town of Hudson, NY, that has been provided as a substitute corporate headquarterswhere essential personnel could presumably survive and continue to work after [a nuclear] attack. The corporations that have created Iron Mountain include Standard Oil of New Jersey (the Rockefeller interests); Manufacturers Hanover Trust (the Morgan interests); and Shell Oil (the House of Orange,) amongst others. The report dates back to at least 1961, when Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, and Dean Rusk, all members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), noticed that no serious study had been made about planning for a long-term peace. Not only were they concerned about the lasting effects of a long-term peace, they also wished to examine the functions, both visible, and invisible, of war. The report states that: War has providedsociety with a debatable system of stabilizing and controlling national economies. No alternate method of control has yet been tested in a complex modern economy that has shown it is remotely comparable in scope or effectiveness. War, therefore, was not fought for the usual reasons outlined above. It was fought to control economies. These individuals apparently were concerned that there had been no efforts made to detail how they were to control economies during a time of peace: War fills certain functions essential to the stability of our society; until other ways of filling them are developed, the war system must be maintained, and improved in effectiveness. So, in a manner not detailed in the report itself, these three somehow arranged for a study of these problems. The report states that 15 members of the investigating team got together to write the report, and that it was unanimously agreed to. Furthermore, no minutes of the meeting were maintained, as it was thought they would be too inhibiting. The team which wrote the report recommended that the report not be made public after it was completed. One of those who read the report attempted to locate the authors. It was his theory that it had been written by the Hudson Institute and Herman Kahn.There is an Iron Mountain just a stones throw (literally) from the Hudson Institute near Croton-on-Hudson,[New York.](2) The Hudson Institute is not well known among the American public, but it is known to government officials who have used it as a think-tank by hiring it to report on issues of national concern. The Hudson Institute was started in 1961 when Mr. Kahn, the owner, decided to help determine the entire future of the U.S.---and, time permitting, much of the world beyond.(3) The Institute primarily receives its income from the government. Hudson listed five sources of income in 1968: The Office of Civil Defense, the Military Services, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Other Government, and Non-U.S. Government. (4) Kahn and his think-tankers have become so important to the American government that they are frequently accused of setting older administrations on a path that new administrations cannot alter. This is a process of invisible power. At its extreme this influence can commit a nation to special programs and military actions, which have neither been fully explained nor publicly debated. One day, as that power pervades and grows more sophisticated, it may so affect the course of government that any nations policies may be locked in, as if by automatic pilot, years before the men who are elected to govern ever take
[CTRL] Mysterious deaths and disappearances of top microbiologists
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [ParanoidTimes] Mysterious deaths and disappearances of top microbiologists (forwarded response) Patricia Doyle wrote: Hello: I am concerned about the fact that they all died, or went missing etc within a period of a few weeks. This disturbs me greatly. I think that, as mentioned previously, when each scientist completed his designated research, he was murdered. A conspiracy can only continue when very few know of it, and those few are at the top level. I believe that the scientists did not know what they were really working on, therefore, they were eliminated after their work was completed. This prevented them from realizing what was really going on. This is in the highest levels of govt. military and biotech. You may start to see military bigwigs begin to die off as well, followed by govt. people. I am not sure if it plays in with 9/11. I don't think that this is bin laden or mid east terrorists at all. This is bioweaponeers and the military/pharmaceutical industrial complex. I believe that the mousepox that was altered to 100% kill rate is a give away. Remember, the recent death of Dr. Nguyen in his lab CSIRO was the same lab that altered mousepox with the IL4 making it virulent. We are in the dawn of a new age of bioweapons, i.e genetic weapons. Legionella that causes pneumonia that triggers Mutiple Sclerosis was created by Soviets. We will have such diseases that incapacitate and cause autoimmune diseases like lupus. I think you will see a lot of Lupus in the next year. Then we will have the doomesday bioweapons that target specific genetic DNA types. This is what I think the new smallpox weapon will be. Vaccine will not work. The only people protected will be those who are not genetically ethnically targeted by bioweaponeers. Vaccines will be useless and obsolete. They might even be altered to infect people. I won't be rolling up my sleeve any time soon for anthrax, ebola, plague, or smallpox vaccines. Bacterias that trigger autoimmune illness, or vaccines that do the same. Anthrax vaccine during the Persian Gulf war come to mind. Patricia Paul Walker wrote: My reaction is to say that many of these people just knew too much about the government's involvement in these attacks and needed to be silenced. The socalled terrorists would have little to no reason to bump them off when they would be far more useful to them alive. Paul From: Patricia Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Dec 13, 2001 7:51 am Subject: Re: another one?? November Deaths Dr. Benito Que, cell biologist found comatose outside his lab at Miami Med. School he specialized in infectious diseases and HIV Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, (UK)former Biopreparat scientist who developed the polymer coating for aerosolizing plague also developed binary weapons (Novichok) Dr. Don C Wiley, Harvard Professor and Howard Huges Inst. scientist who specialized in immunology and infectivity of viruses, bacterias, and mycoplasmas. December Dr. Robert M Schwartz, DNA sequencing expert who founded the Virgina Biotechnology Assoc. His expertise in DNA sequencing. Lastly, Dr. Set Van Nguyen: A microbiologist killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong had logged 15 years' experience with the unit, police said today. Victoria Police said Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died yesterday morning after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from work. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Stop Smoking Now Nicotrol will help http://us.click.yahoo.com/2vN8tD/_pSDAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM -~- == IF YOU'RE NOT PARANOID, THEN YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION! == To Post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ParanoidTimes Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml == Your use of
Re: [CTRL] on John Walker
-Caveat Lector- --- Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35014-2001Dec12.html The Conservative Take on John Walker . . . By Richard Cohen Thursday, December 13, 2001; Page A37 Every parent in the country should save the Newsweek cover of John Walker, the young Californian who joined the Taliban. They could refer to it when their kid comes home with purple hair, body piercings and his lower lip stapled to his navel. a very gross distortion of some good kids __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL 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: [smashthestate] Bush Halts Inquiry of FBI (Boston Globe 12-14-01)
---BeginMessage--- Friday, December 14, 2001 in the Boston Globe Bush Halts Inquiry of FBI and Stirs Up a Firestorm by Glen Johnson http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.htmhttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.htmhtm WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday invoked executive privilege to block a congressional subpoena exploring abuses in the Boston FBI office, prompting the chairman of a House committee to lambaste his fellow Republicans and triggering what one congressman said is the start of ''a constitutional confrontation.'' ''You tell the president there's going to be war between the president and this committee,'' Dan Burton, the Indiana Republican who heads the House Government Reform Committee, told a Justice Department official during what was supposed to be a routine prehearing handshake. ''His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost, and the same thing can happen to him,'' Burton added, jabbing his finger and glaring at Carl Thorsen, a deputy assistant attorney general who was attempting to introduce a superior who was testifying. ''We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. ... Your guy's acting like he's king.'' The searing tone continued for more than four hours from Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. All objected to the order Bush signed Wednesday and made public yesterday. It claimed executive privilege in refusing to hand over prosecutors' memos in criminal cases, including an investigation of campaign-finance abuses, saying doing so ''would be contrary to the national interest.'' Committee members said the order's sweeping language created a shift in presidential policy and practices dating back to the Harding administration. They complained also that it followed a pattern in which the Bush administration has limited access to presidential historical records, refused to give Congress documents about the vice president's energy task force, and unilaterally announced plans for military commissions that would try suspected terrorists in secret. Representative William D. Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat and former district attorney, said: ''This is the beginning of a constitutional confrontation. In a short period of time, this Department of Justice has manifested tendencies that were of concern to Senate members during the confirmation hearings for John Ashcroft as attorney general.'' The Government Reform Committee is investigating the FBI's use of confidential informants while the bureau investigated New England organized crime activities. The committee seeks information on deals FBI officials struck with suspected murderers Stephen ''the Rifleman'' Flemmi and James ''Whitey'' Bulger. It is also exploring what FBI officials, including former director J. Edgar Hoover, knew about the innocence of Joseph Salvati of Massachusetts. Salvati spent 30 years in prison for the 1965 murder of Edward ''Teddy'' Deegan in Chelsea, but the Governor's Council commuted his sentence in 1997. His conviction was overturned in January after a judge concluded that FBI agents hid testimony that would have cleared Salvati because they wanted to protect an informant. ''The federal government wanted Joe Salvati to die in jail because dead men don't tell tales,'' said Salvati's lawyer, Victor J. Garo, at the hearing yesterday. In buttressing the executive order, Michael E. Horowitz, chief of staff for the Justice Department's criminal division, told the committee that providing documents about prosecutorial decision-making could have a ''chilling effect'' on the advice that lower-level attorneys may be willing to provide to top prosecutors. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Ronald Reagan invoked such a privilege three times, while Bill Clinton did so on four occasions. Forms of privilege were also claimed in the Nixon administration during the Watergate investigation. Fleischer said the Justice Department has already turned over 3,500 pages to Burton's committee, although members complained that many were heavily redacted. The Justice Department offered to provide summaries of 20 documents it believes would be covered by the subpoena. Representative Barney Frank, a Democrat from Newton, said he and Burton, a conservative, had sometimes disagreed on the committee's inquiries into the Clinton administration. He said the chairman's strong words for his fellow Republicans showed he had not merely been partisan. Turning to Horowitz, Frank asked why the Bush administration might cover up mistakes made in a previous administration. ''I don't know what bureaucratic reflex drives people to do this,'' the congressman said. © Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company ### Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Any power that can be abused will be abused. Tyranny Law #1 Abuse always expands to
Re: [CTRL] The Truth, the Whole Truth (If It's the Truth)
-Caveat Lector- --- Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- From http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4319868,00.html }}}Begin As Arabs cry foul, American 'proof' highlights gulf between the two sides New Yorkers welcome tape despite fabrication claims Michael Ellison in New York and Ewen MacAskill Friday December 14, 2001 The Guardian Reaction to the Osama bin Laden tape highlighted the polarisation between the US and the Arab world. New Yorkers unquestioningly saw it as an admittance of guilt did they? is anyone who doesn't going to volunteer for interview or ask to be interviewed?? i saw otherwise staunch pro-war supporters admitting that the video 'evidence' was weak.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Black List
-Caveat Lector- From http://commondreams.org/views01/1213-05.htm }}}Begin Friday, December 14, 2001 Featured Views Share This Article With Your Friends Published on Thursday, December 13, 2001 in the San Jose Mercury News Lynne Cheney-Joe Lieberman Group Puts Out a Blacklist by Roberto J. Gonzalez AN aggressive attack on freedom has been launched upon America's college campuses. Its perpetrators seek the elimination of ideas and activities that place Sept. 11 in historical context, or critique the so-called war on terrorism. The offensive, spearheaded by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a Washington-based group, threatens free speech, democratic debate and the integrity of higher education. In an incendiary report, ``Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America,'' the American Council claims that ``colleges and university faculty have been the weak link in America's response'' to Sept. 11. It also asserts that ``when a nation's intellectuals are unwilling to defend its civilization, they give comfort to its adversaries.'' The report documents 117 campus incidents as ``evidence'' of anti-Americanism. More than 40 professors are named, including the president of Wesleyan University, who suggested in an open letter that ``disparities and inju stices'' in American society and the world can lead to hatred and violence. Other examples abound. A Yale professor is criticized for saying, ``It is from the desperate, angry and bereaved that these suicide pilots came.'' A professor emeritus from the University of Oregon is listed for recommend ing that ``we need to understand the reasons behind the terrifying hatred directed against the U.S. and find ways to act that will not foment more hatred for generations to come.'' Dozens more comments, taken out of context and culled from secondary sources, are presented as examples of an unpatriotic academy. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni was founded in 1995 by Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Its Website claims that it contributed $3.4 billion to colleges and universities last year, making it ``the largest private source of support for higher education.'' Cheney is cited several times in the report, and is reportedly a close associate of its authors, Jerry Martin and Anne Neal. Although the council's stated objectives include the protection of academic freedom, the report resembles a blacklist. In a chilling use of doublespeak, it affirms the right of professors to speak out, yet condemns those who have attempted to give context to Sept. 11, encourage critical thinking, or share knowledge about other cultures. Faculty are accused of being ``short on patriotism'' for attempting to give students the analytical too ls they need to become informed citizens. Many of those blacklisted are top scholars in their fields, and it appears that the report represents a kind of academic terrorism designed to strike fear into other academics by making examples of respected professors. The report might also function to extend control over sites of democratic debate -- our universities -- where freedom of expression is not only permitted but encouraged. At my campus, symposiums, teach-ins and lectures about religion, terrorism, central Asia, the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy have been organized recently. A teach-in entitled ``Background for Understanding'' drew hun dreds of students, faculty and citizens from many political and intellectual perspectives. The audience had the opportunity to ask questions and comment freely. The discussion was lively and at times contentious. As a microcosm of society, the university is a place where people of different ethnicities, religions, generations, and class backgrounds exchange ideas and opinions. Anyone who has visited Bay Area colleges knows that th ey are especially rich places for intercultural exchange. The vigorous and often heated debates typical of such encounters are a hallmark of democratic processes. On most campuses this can still be done freely, but official accusations of anti-Americanism might intimidate and si lence some voices. That is not patriotism, but fascism. The American Council's position is inaccurate and irresponsible. Critique, debate, and exchange -- not blind consensus or self-censorship -- have characterized America since its incept ion. Our universities are not failing America. On the contrary, they are among the few institutions offering alternatives to canned mainstream media reports. The targeting of scholars who participate in civic debates might signal the emergence of a new McCarthyism directed at the academy. Before it escalates into a full-blown witch hunt in the name of ``defending civilization, '' faculty, students and citizens should speak out against these acts of academic terrorism. Roberto J. Gonzalez is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at
[CTRL] Fwd: WTC 1993
---BeginMessage--- Dear Bill: My source is a telephone intervierw with the lawyer Ron Kuby. He claims to have heard the tape.This was in the period leading up to the first WTC Conspiracy trial. I have not had contact with Kuby since. I have a tape of this conversation. I will make a copy of it if you like and send it to you. I recommend that you get a hold of him in New York and get his current take on things...I am curious to know what he has to say. Let me know...I do NOT think the FBI was the instigator, as they were on the last go-round. I think Osama really jumped ship and turned on them. For once, the CIA was double-crossed. The other item for research: the collapse of the buildings and were there items inside the towers which facilitated their fall and the manner in which it occurred? It would take a structural engineer with knowledge of demolitions to answer. I am busy with book and article writing, producing a weekly television program, and running the Portland Free Press (both hard copy and on-line editions). My politics are different from the Progressive Community, which I have discovered (through hard experience spanning over thirty years) is nothing but another asset of the power structure and a plaything of the CIA and the ADL. That includes all the well-known people in that Community. I am against the System, the Fascist Global System with its capitalist HQ in DC and NY. I am one of those who was in no way saddened or horrified. I was one of billions who celebrated. And when they start their phony mourning over it, it prompts me to actually dance for joy all over again. Many places I lived in and grew up in and have deep ties to have been bombed by the USA-Israel-Britain Fascist Axis: Baghdad, Tripoli, Palestine, Egypt and Kurdistan, to name a few. We are dealing with the most vicious social entity in the history of the world, unprecedented in scope and reach. Anything that attacks and fights back against it is commendable, so long as the target is right and the aim is true. I am being out front with you so that you are not misled into thinking that I am one of the fools fiddling aropund with the deck chairs on the Titanic. Step one is STOP TRYING TO REFORM IT. I still feel that your KILLING HOPE should be the one text in any course covering the CIA and USFP, at least until my book(s) finally come out. Best Wishes, Husayn Al-Kurdi. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:14 PM Subject: WTC 1993 Dear Husayn, Hi. In NCX you wrote the following about the WTC 1993 bombing trial: The tape recordings made by Salem have also been doctored by the prosecution. For example, at one point Salem says to the Sheikh, We really should blow up the World Trade Center. The Sheikh responds by saying, That's interesting BUT ISLAM IS AGAINST IT. The 'ISLAM IS AGAINST IT portion of his reply is left out of the transcript prepared by the prosecution I'd like to know what the source of this is. Did you hear the tape and/or see the transcript or read someone who did? I'm speculating that there was an FBI agent amongst the 9-11 terrorists, whether as a provocateur or not. Have you given much thought to this possibility? In solidarity, Bill Blum ---End Message---
[CTRL] Exfiltration
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=14122001-114236-4366r }}}Begin Exclusive: The porous Afghan border By Arnaud de Borchgrave UPI Editor at Large Published 12/14/2001 12:06 PM OGHAZ PASS, Pakistan, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- (Along the Pakistan- Afghanistan border) Pakistan's tribal areas are free passage zones for Taliban and al Qaida's foreign legionnaires escaping from Afghanistan, a UPI team has verified in a weeklong investigation. The Pakistan army has announced that two brigades, each made up of three battalions of 850 men each, or a total of 5,100, have been deployed along a 30-mile stretch of jagged, zigzag mountainous and totally porous border and have now sealed the frontier tight. Helicopter gunships, military authorities have assured the United States, are surveilling mountain passes against infiltration. Presidential spokesman Gen. Rashid Qureshi went so far as to publicly deny that any al Qaida fighter had made it across the border into Pakistan. Junior officers --- all officers and most non-coms speak English --- speculate that such assurances are given to make the Americans feel good. Border tribal zone populations have long been pro-Taliban and pro-al Qaida a s countless painted slogans and posters of Osama bin Laden are visible in towns and villages throughout the three key tribal agencies --- Kurram, Orazkai and Kohat. Tribal elders, over post-fast Iftar dinner, told this reporter, accompanied by a Pakistani friend and a multilingual guide, that while the army had established interlocking fields of fire at four key mountain passes, it c ould not possibly check dozens of other routes invisible from the air. A Pakistani captain, who asked that his name not be used, shared the same assessment. As the UPI team walked over a three-mile strip of foothills on the Pakistan side of the Spin Ghar range, one crest over from Tora Bora mountain, two helicopters flew overhead at about 3,000 feet in poor visibility and cou ld not have seen anyone on the ground. During the 2 ½-hour walk, several dozen tribesmen were seen coming from the direction of Afghanistan. Scanning snow-capped Spin Ghar with binoculars revealed a wide range of ravines, crevasses, valleys and dry river beds, so many potential exfiltration routes for bin Laden's Arab fighters. Dressed in khameez shalwar and p ie-shaped hats, the UPI party did not attract attention as it moved in local buses through border towns and villages. Bin Laden's picture, inscribed Father of the Revolution, covered half the rear window of one bus that passed through army and frontier constabulary checkpoints without so much as an ID check of the passengers. Scores of pickup trucks loaded to the gunwales with civilians similarly drove through unchallenged. Rubber- wheeled donkey carts with three or four passengers also were part of the traffic pattern. UPI was stopped once an d when the U.S. passport was produced, the civilian security official made clear Americans were not welcome. When asked whether that went for Taliban, too, he answered, Taliban always welcome. From Kohat, army headquarters for some of the tribal areas, to Parachinar, on the western edge of the frontier under surveillance, rock formations along the road had been daubed with slogans glorifying terrorist organizat ions and vilifying President Pervez Musharraf as an American agent. Towns like Dera Adam Khel, Hangu, Doaba and Thall, headquarters for one of the army brigades deployed along the frontier, are identical to towns across the border in Afghanistan. The men look the same because they are the same. The few women spotted --- fewer than six in Thall, a town of 250,000 --- wore head-to-foot burkas. The men were doing the sopping for the four-d ay Eid holiday that starts Sunday and marks the end of Ramadan. Bin Laden's poster picture was pinned to shutters and windows. Open air markets also displayed it on the side of stalls. Sipah-e-Sahaba, or Army of the Friends of the Prophet, and Shaish-e-Mohammed, are among the most ext reme religious organizations in Pakistan. They are particularly strong in the tribal belt and in Punjab, the country's largest province. One rockface advertisement said, For Commando Training, Contact Shaish-e-Mohammed. Another one proclaimed, Shaish-e-Mohammed and Al Qaida are Bubbling Blood Brothers. Kill America was painted on the outer wall of the Handyside army fort (named after a prominent colonial during the British Raj) before the narrow road twists and turns alongside an ochre-colored, shrub-pocked limeston e mountain one side and a 3,000-foot precipice on the other. Five-ton 10-wheelers manage to squeeze by in both directions, many adorned with bin Laden's face. Shopkeepers and a cot-and-breakfast employee told our interpreter, an English-speaking native of the North Waziristan Tribal Agency, that al Qaida has an extensive network in the region. They did not believe that bin La den would be
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-Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], NY Transfer News [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [Several articles on the videotape follow. BBC is quite specific in identifying with whom the person identified as Osama bin Laden is speaking; Reuters and BBC say he is talking to an unknown sheikh. All the reports contradict the US government's claim that bin Laden laughed about the fact that the hijackers did not know they were about to lose their lives. The reports say instead that they only knew they were about to be involved in a martyrdom operation [Note to US Government: this meant that they knew they were likely going to end up dead] but that no details were revealed to them until the last moment. Neither report mentions mirth or laughing about the hijackers' martyrdom. The tape was allegedly made on November 9, nearly two months after the attack, and the day that Mazar-i-Sharif was overrun by the Northern Alliance. Odd timing for this animated reprise of the attacks, if indeed the players are Osama and his close lieutenants. For some reason, the successful attack on the Pentagon -- an even more spectacular target -- is either not mentioned on the video, or if it is, not reported on here, which is very curious. There is, however, prominent play given to the role of Mohammed Atta, the one hijacker the US says it has absolute, positive ID on. Apparently the sound and video quality are considerably poorer than the average tourist tape taken on a sightseeing trip. There are bits of it available on abcnews.com and several other sites. See http://www.yahoo.com for more links, or wait for your local TV station to present it in all its muddy, grainy glory. BBC commentary suggests that the content of the tape itelf is bound to be controversial, and it will be interesting to seem how convincing it turns out to be to skeptical allies and public opinion, from whom the US now wants support for bombing more countries. It also remains to be seen if anyone disputes the translation, or whether the tape actually shows Osama bin Laden, after all the talk about his 70 doubles. Much is made by the US Government of the fact that the attacks delighted the speakers, which is hardly surprising. Many people around the world reacted with glee and delight when the towers were hit.] BBC Online - Thursday, 13 December, 2001, 17:27 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk US releases Bin Laden video The US has released a video that it says implicates Osama Bin Laden in the 11 September attacks on New York and the Pentagon, in which more than 3,000 people died. In it, the Saudi-born militant suggests that some of the hijackers did not know that their mission was to end in their own deaths. They were trained and we did not reveal the operation to them until they are there and just before they boarded the plane, he added. Before releasing the tape, the Pentagon asked four nongovernment Arabic-speakers to listen to the remarks and agree on a uniform translation. The 40-minute recording is of very poor audio and visual quality and US officials said that translators worked long to ensure the utmost accuracy before the footage was released. Martyrdom operation Bin Laden is seen in the video with the number two in the al-Qaeda network, Ayman al-Zawahri, and a spokesman, Abu Ghaith, in what the Pentagon says is a guest house in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. Speaking of the men who carried out the 11 September attack, Bin Laden said: The brothers who conducted the operation, all they knew was that they have a martyrdom operation and we asked each of them to go to America, but they didn't know anything about the operation, not even one letter, according to the US translation. Bin Laden said that before the attacks on the World Trade Center, he and his men were estimating how many people would be killed. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors, he said, gesturing with his hands to show a building and a plane flying into it. I was the most optimistic of them all, he said. We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day, he said, chuckling. He then described hearing the news reports. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on, he said. It was 5:30 pm our time. I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu-al-Khair. Immediately, we heard the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We turned the radio station to the news from Washington. The news continued and no mention of the attack until the end. At the end of the newscast they reported that a plane just hit the World Trade Center, he said, laughing out loud. Bin Laden says on the tape that he told his followers that there would be more destruction after the first plane hit the World Trade Center. They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building, so I said to them: be patient, he said with a smile. The US administration hopes the video will
[CTRL] Osama Show: What Does it Prove?
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Providing Fodder for His Enemies
Bin Laden Tape May Have Planned Evidence Against Him {?}
By Andrew Chang and Deb Amos
[ABCNEWS.com]
Dec. 13 -- If Osama bin Laden is such a calculating terrorist
mastermind, why would he create a piece of evidence that justifies
America's pursuit of him?
That's the question that follows the broadcast today of a videotape
in which bin Laden acknowledges direct responsibility for the Sept.
11 attacks on the United States that killed more than 3,000 people.
Up until this point, the Saudi exile had praised the attack but
denied any involvement in its planning or execution.
But the video released by the Pentagon today shows bin Laden at a
dinner meeting with his top associates on Nov. 9, recounting his
involvement in and reaction to the attacks nearly two months earlier.
On the tape, bin Laden describes how he had calculated how many
civilians would die in the attacks, and how he was surprised that
both World Trade Center towers collapsed. He also says some of the
hijackers did not know they were going to die.
Some voices in the Muslim world, and among bin Laden's supporters,
have already expressed doubt about the tape.
The amateurish quality of the video, the many cuts, and that bin
Laden's voice is hard to hear, already have some arguing that it is a
U.S. fabrication.
Skeptics might also point out that the tape has emerged only two
months after a military action had already begun, and that it didn't
surface through normal channels, Thomas J. Badey, a terrorism expert
at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va.,said on Tuesday.
But there are also entirely feasible reasons for the tape's
existence, experts said -- even accounting for bin Laden's careful
planning.
An al Qaeda Production
Bin Laden's al Qaeda network has long been known to have a media
wing -- not only assembling propaganda, but also creating material
for internal use.
As opposition forces seize bases that once belonged to bin Laden's al
Qaeda network across Afghanistan, they have been discovering tapes
documenting executions, terrorist training exercises, and the
destruction of the ancient Buddahs in the Afghan city of Bamiyan.
Other al Qaeda tapes discovered by conquering opposition forces have
also shown everyday activities like building new hospitals and
handing out aid from Islamic aid agencies.
It is believed bin Laden's ultimate objective is a worldwide Islamic
revolution, and his supporters may have wanted a historical record of
such events.
The video, along with bin Laden's close associates, features a
visiting sheik.
In the course of the dinner, the sheik proclaims, In these days, in
our times, that it will be the greatest jihad in the history of Islam
and the resistance of [sic] the wicked people.
It could be devotees of Osama bin Laden preserving an important
moment for posterity, knowing that he could be a martyr, Roxanne
Euben, a political science professor at Wellesley College in
Massachusetts, said on Tuesday.
The tape might be used to claim an incredible success at the very
moment that morale may be falling, Euben said -- but most experts
agreed it was unlikely the current tape was made for the global
media.
Previous releases to the media have been much more polished and have
been efficiently dispatched, they said. If he wanted to state his
responsibility for it formally he would have done so with a big
bang, said Badey.
It was also unlikely that bin Laden was unaware that he was being
taped, they said.
Bin Laden would have been particularly attentive to video cameras,
says Badey -- especially after the assassination of famed Afghan
opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood.
Two suicide bombers killed Massood days before the Sept. 11 attacks
by pretending to be journalists to get close to him and setting off a
bomb hidden in a video camera.
However, the fact that the the video was left behind might be an
accident, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said today.
No Worries
Ultimately though, experts said, bin Laden might not care very much
whether or not the West has evidence against him.
Whether or not he killed innocents still does not diminish bin
Laden's political appeal, Lou Cantori, a lecturer for the State
Department and professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
said on Tuesday.
Bin Laden's criticism of the American foreign policy resonates in
the Arab and Muslim imagination even though they disagree with his
brutal and terrible methods and tactics, said Fawaz Gerges, a
professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Bin Laden's sympathy for the Palestinians, his concern about
sanctions on Iraq that are blamed for killing hundreds of thousands
of children, and criticism of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia -- those
causes generate support for him in the Muslim world, regardless of
the videotape, Cantori
[CTRL] Horowitz Cancels Himself Out
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A contradictory position
Rocky Mount Telegram
Ultra-conservative activist David Horowitz shot through North
Carolina last week to take aim at his favorite target: left-wing
college students and professors.
But his intent was quite a turnaround from his quest earlier this
year, when he argued that free speech often is stifled by the
political correctness practiced at many of the nation's universities.
Horowitz raised quite a ruckus as he sought to buy advertising space
in college newspapers to attack the rather dubious idea of paying
reparations to the descendants of African slaves. He crafted his ad
so it would be as offensive as possible to liberal and minority
students, in order to prove his contention that left-wing censorship
is running rampant in American academia. The response he got was
exactly what he had probably hoped for, if not more.
Now he's back with a very different message, which he promoted Wednesday at a luncheon
sponsored by the conservative Raleigh think tank, The John Locke Foundation, and at an
evening speaking engagement at UNC-Chapel Hill.
In his latest public campaign, he is lashing out at campus peace activists and
anti-war protestors, labeling the sometimes naive but generally well-meaning young
idealists as threats to national security. He reserved sp
ecial fire for UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser for not doing enough to promote
any responses to several of the recent anti-war rallies held on the campus.
It appears that Horowitz's conception of free speech is a purely one-way street,
reserved only for people who share his views. Unfortunately for this former 1960s
radical who has turned into the self-appointed head of the
university thought police, it just doesn't work that way.
Universities are meant to be places where young people can be exposed to the widest
variety of ideas possible, from Adam Smith to Martin Luther King Jr. And they should
be a fertile breeding ground for innovational though
t that students otherwise might not be exposed to in mainstream media outlets.
Reversing that could transform our institutions of higher learning into simple
vocational schools.
Horowitz apparently never learned the lesson he so fervently tried to teach with the
placement of his anti-reparations advertisements.
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[CTRL] Fwd: Please Post: Join Int'l Movement DEMANDING Inquiry into 9-11 n CIA collusion
---BeginMessage--- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin I urge you to consider this. Ashcroft continues to assail civil liberties, as Bush prepares America for possible invasion of Iraq, Somalia, North Korea, and a dozen other countries (Nightline), Bush gaff reveals he saw jet hit 2nd tower long before America saw it on TV (what station was he watching?), and Egypt's joins the parade of foreign state intelligence that warned Bush/CIA before 9-11. IF YOU HAVE HAD ABOUT ENOUGH, AND ARE READY TO JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT TO DEMAND INQUIRY INTO 9-11 AND POSSIBLE CIA / US GOVT. COLLUSION, reply to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=send_kit Right now the world activist community is running from one springing leak to another while the powers that be keep punching new holes in the dam, be it attacks on the environment, new wars, civil liberties being stripped, human rights abuses, US domestic terror threats, etc. Our scattered focus makes us relatively powerless. IF we could gather our strength and FOCUS LIKE A LASER BEAM on this issue of was there US govt. collusion in 9-11?, we could create a ROAR of demand worldwide that could command a full investigation into the inner workings of a network that has manipulated foreign govts, repressed peoples of the world, strip mined the environment, etc. in the name of greed. THIS IS THE ROOT! By DEMANDING an inquiry all other things can begin to heal. I believe that they like it when we are scattered in a million places arguing over this lake's clarity, or this country's human rights issue, or genetic engineering, or air pollution -- NEVER LOOKING AT THE ROOT that ships nearly ALL weapons to developing countries (World Bank stats), thereby retarding social progress in countries so they can have stable economic investments no matter how repressive those governments are, or manipulating elections to get more business friendly leaders in other nations (ones less concerned with environmental laws, labor laws, and less concerned with genetic engineered crops, etc.). OUR ABILITY TO CHANGE THE WORLD IS RIGHT HERE IN OUR HANDS, AND HAS BEEN BUILT OVER THE LAST 2 DECADES. WE ONLY NEED TO SEE IT FOR WHAT IT'S GREATEST STRENGTH IS. The organizations built in the last 20 years over the environment, human rights, civil rights, animal rights, the election irregularities and the stolen 2000 election, etc. -- HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF CHANGING THE WORLD -- IF WE CAN COME TOGETHER. The internet, and international coordination of activists worldwide, our networks, and ability to move mass information freely through the world via the internet is A POWERFUL TOOL. BUT NOT, if we have ten thousand different issues flying to the media and government. WE MUST CREATE A DRUMBEAT THAT WILL FORCE THEM TO LOOK AT THE ROOT!! The Activist Kit created through the work of journalists and academics worldwide offered freely to anyone is a tool that empowers individuals to MOVE BEYOND THE HAMSTER WHEEL OF ACTIVIST ONLY TALKING TO OTHER ACTIVISTS, AND AROUND AND AROUND and empowers them to move the 8 disturbing reports around 9-11 (all sourced to mainstream media articles) out to world media, world government, Congress, US Governors, etc. etc. to DEMAND inquiry. If we cannot focus on this, all our various issues are only noise. We must FOCUS. And THIS IS THE ISSUE OF OUR TIME! Why? Most activists are aware the CIA has been manipulating governments, elections, and supporting human rights abuses in other countries. HOWEVER, THEY STEPPED ACROSS THE LINE IF THEY HAD A PART IN 9-11. Because, Americans (I'm sad to say) were very acquiesent about the CIA doing their dirty deeds in other countries, BUT THEY WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE WHEN THEY BEGIN TO LEARN THEY MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE NY WTC TERROR ON INNOCENT AMERICANS. SECONDLY, some minor underling got a little greedy when he made the stock short profits off American and United Airlines the week before 9-11. This exposes a soft underbelly of a beast that normally is impregnable to investigation. PROBLEM is the US media is not looking into it (which is bizzare because they had a media orgasm over the insider stock trading discovery on 9-12 and 9-13 when they thought it was Arab terrorists). Of course now we know it leads to AB Brown Trust, an investment firm that has been close to CIA ops for some time, chaired up until a couple years ago by AB Krongard (now the #3 man at the CIA). In this light Bush's bizarre recent act of sealing presidential records from scrutiny for the first time in US history, becomes so suspicious it almost rattles you apart to try and deny just how suspicious it is. So, to recap of why we should be moving on this now: 1) Americans will FINALLY be repulsed by CIA ops if they find they were connected to 9-11 2) The greedy underling opened up the soft belly when he did the stock shorts, there lies a thread
[CTRL] US Govt 'Transcript' of Video
-Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], NY Transfer News [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [Note that although the US Government says this is a transcript the translators admit that it is not a verbatim transcription, but a free translation conveys the messages and flow of some of the conversation. It appears, if the video is genuine, that the photographer was very short of tape. The Osama Show begins 39 minutes into the tape, and runs through to the end of the tape following taped scenes of the downed US helicopter in Ghazni Province, which was apparently shot earlier (see NY Transfer's Middle East newsfeed of November 6 for story Taleban Displays Wreckage of Chopper US Says Wasn't Shot Down). The taping continues at the beginning of the tape, so the photographer apparently rewound and resumed, recording over whatever was on the beginning of the tape. This is not an unusual procedure if one is short of tape and rushing to get as much recorded as possible. However, the strange choppy nature of the conversation indicates edits by someone, or that the photographer simply kept turning on and off the video camera (he must have been *very* short of tape). The welcoming chatter, political discussion and religious quotations are suddenly interrupted by the person identified as Osama bin Laden making one statement that the US sees as highly significant about the attacks. Then back goes the conversation to smalltalk and political conversation about support in the mosques. Similarly a lot of bizarre and superstitious talk about premonitions of buildings being blown up by planes is interrupted by several very coherent and incriminating statements by the bin Laden character. Much of the context appears to have been left out of the translation, possibly due to all this inaudible sound, possibly because the US Government told the translators to excise any specific references to the travel arrangements of the crippled visitor from Saudi Arabia, or possibly because the camera person did not record large hunks of the action.--NY Transfer] * source - www.abcnews.com in .PDF format December 13, 2001 TRANSCRIPT OF USAMA BIN LADEN VIDEO TAPE [(Transcript and annotations independently prepared by George Michael, translator, Diplomatic Language Services; and Dr. Kassem M. Wahba, Arabic language program coordinator, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. They collaborated on their translation and compared it with translations done by the U.S. government for consistency. There were no inconsistencies in the translations.) In mid-November, Usama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters, possibly in Qandahar, Afghanistan. These comments were video taped with the knowledge of Bin Laden and all present. Note: The tape is approximately one hour long and contains three different segments: an original taping of a visit by some people to the site of the downed U.S. helicopter in Ghazni province (approximately 12 minutes long); and two segments documenting a courtesy visit by Bin Laden and his lieutenants to an unidentified Shaykh, who appears crippled from the waist down. The visit apparently takes place at a guesthouse in Qandahar. The sequence of the events is reversed on the tape-the end of his visit is in the beginning of the tape with the helicopter site visit in the middle and the start of the Usama bin Laden visit beginning approximately 39 minutes into the tape. The tape is transcribed below according to the proper sequence of events. Due to the quality of the original tape, it is NOT a verbatim transcript of every word spoken during the meeting, but does convey the messages and information flow.] [EDITOR'S NOTE: 39 minutes into tape, first segment of the bin Laden meeting, begins after footage of helicopter site visit.] Shaykh: (...inaudible...) You have given us weapons, you have given us hope and we thank Allah for you. We don't want to take much of your time, but this is the arrangement of the brothers. People now are supporting us more, even those ones who did not support us in the past, support us more now. I did not want to take that much of your time. We praise Allah, we praise Allah. We came from Kabul. We were very pleased to visit. May Allah bless you both at home and the camp. We asked the driver to take us, it was a night with a full moon, thanks be to Allah. Believe me it is not in the country side. The elderly...everybody praises what you did, the great action you did, which was first and foremost by the grace of Allah. This is the guidance of Allah and the blessed fruit of jihad. UBL: Thanks to Allah. What is the stand of the Mosques there (in Saudi Arabia)? Shaykh: Honestly, they are very positive. Shaykh Al-Bahrani (phonetic) gave a good sermon in his class after the sunset prayers. It was videotaped and I was supposed to carry it with me, but unfortunately, I had to leave
[CTRL] McCain Misstates
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Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
December 14, 2001
ET TU, ISRAEL?
Did the Israelis have advance notice of 9/11? Probably.
I couldn't help but laugh as I read the following entry in Andrew
Sullivan's weblog:
People ask why Americans tend to sympathize more with Israelis than
Palestinians. It's not racism. It's a recognition that, for all their
failings, the Israelis live in the same moral universe as we do. The
Palestinians palpably, brazenly do not.
OUR MORAL UNIVERSE, AND THEIRS
Sullivan is a bloated bag of wind begging to be punctured, and his delusions about
Israeli benevolence certainly have been pricked by the news that the 60 or so Israelis
being held by the US since 9/11 are what Fox News c
alls part of a long-running effort to spy on American government officials. And
that's not all: while there is no indication the Israelis were involved in the Sept.
11 attacks, we are told, investigators suspect that
they may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it.
If the Israelis had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and failed to inform us, then
just what moral universe are they living in? Surel
y one many light-years from our own.
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST
When the news first broke that not only Arabs are being held in the wake of 9/11, to
my knowledge I was the only columnist to deal with the subject of the mysterious
Israelis in custody: Israel and 9/11 Feds holding 6
0 Israelis in connection with 9/11 Why? While the Washington Post assured us that
the Israeli detainees were only observing a time-honored tradition in their country
touring the world after their mandatory service i
n the Israeli military, I was more than a little skeptical:
Something tells me these guys are no ordinary tourists, but since the US Government
is keeping mum about everything connected with this investigation, we just don't know.
THE PLOT SICKENS
Ah, but now some government officials are talking, and we know a lot more. We know
that some of the detainees have been identified as Israeli military or intelligence
agents, and that some failed polygraph tests when aske
d whether they had engaged in covert operations against and in the United States. We
also know, courtesy of Fox News, that as many as 140 Israeli agents may have been
rounded up in the US before 9/11: the extent of Isra
el's covert action operation is described as sprawling.
A GOOD GUESS
What were they doing here? Besides infiltrating a whole laundry list of government
agencies, including the DEA, the FBI, military bases, and even targeting the private
homes of government officials, they were also conduct
ing surveillance on a group of Arab immigrants in California that authorities believe
have connections to the 9/11 plot. I'll admit that the following was sheer speculation
on my part, but it looks like I was dead right.
As I wrote in November:
In rounding up untold hundreds of mostly Arab Muslim men, and interviewing thousands
more, the Ashcroft Sweep is clearly designed to gather information that might lead
them to the remaining conspirators. It could be that
the Israelis, or at least some of them, fall into this category: while not being
directly involved, maybe they know something.
RETALIATION PLUS
What did they know, and when did they know it? That is the question that must now be
answered, and pronto. For remember what the President said: You are either with us,
or you are with the terrorists. If the Israelis ha
d advance notice of 9/11 via their spy network in the US, which kept the hijackers
and their associates under surveillance then this is harboring terrorists, by any
definition of the term. Look what happened to the
Taliban when they harbored bin Laden. If Israel did indeed betray us, and let 3,500
people die at the World Trade Center, then they deserve what the Afghanis got plus a
little bit more.
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE
At least Mullah Omar and the Taliban never made any bones about the depth of their
contempt for the US. Israel, on the other hand, pretends to be our staunchest ally,
more royalist than the king when it comes to confronti
ng the declared enemies of the West. Yet an undeclared enemy, posing as a friend, is
in many ways a greater potential threat as, perhaps, we are beginning to learn.
CLASSIFIED AND CONFIRMED
When asked for details about the detention of the Israelis, a highly placed
investigator huffed that Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified, I
cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It is c
lassified information. Aside from affirming that such evidence exists, this same
source admitted to the Los Angeles Times that there were certain tie-ins with 9/11.
Some patriotic law enforcement officials seem to have
leaked just enough information to practically confirm our worst suspicions. As Brit
Hume put it
[CTRL] Bin Oop's Oops ?
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.angelfire.com/ab6/waragainstislam/contradiction.htm }}}Begin Oooops..! by Samata Ullah Shortcuts: 14th December 2001. Analysing Bin Ladin's comments. 13th December 2001. Analysing the video 12th December 2001. Contradiction in the video __ _ 14th December 2001. Something to ponder: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_171/1710483.stm The defence minister of the ousted Taleban regime in Afghanistan told the BBC that he was doubtful about the recording's authenticity, saying it was unlikely that Bin Laden would have been naive enough to say such things on a recording. No matter from what source the comment came from, I think that is credible to assume that. Why would he want to convict himself with this video, knowing that there is the slight possibility of it getting into the wrong ha nds and therefore cementing the weak case against him? Osama Bin Ladin said in an interview with a Pakistani newspaper; I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no kn owledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle. Why for instance, if he knew the consequences if he was caught, would he still run the risk of getting caught by making a video which explicitly shows him confessing to the attack? Surely, won't he'd keep that so secret t hat only close confidants would know that he did the WTC attack thus cutting the risk of getting caught? I think it is absurd that he'd even think about making such a video and it only shows the sheepish mentality of the people who assume he'd be stupid enough to make a video like that. An excerpt from the transcript of the Bin Ladin Video tape: [Speaking to Bin Ladin] Shaykh: (...inaudible...) You have given us weapons, you have given us hope and we thank Allah for you. A question, is there any proof that Osama Bin Ladin was giving weapons to people in Saudi Arabia? The video says so, so where is the evidence from intelligence sources which say that? It would be supremely stupid for the intelligence agencies not to have even mentioned that before or not to have knew that before, so where are those reports? This hints to me of a campaign of demonisation against Bin Ladin, they (whoever that may be) want t o further discredit him by suggesting that he provides weapons to foreign countries to support terrorism. Asides from the difficulties of smuggling weapons from Afghanistan, it is nearly impossible for him to buy illega l weapons for these people in Saudi Arabia if he chose an alternative to smuggling weapons from Afghanistan to give to them. Furthermore, where are these weapons used? Who uses them and for what purpose? Think about it, I have never even heard of an indigenous Saudi rebel attempt of overthrowing the regime, have you? There certainly were isolated cases but this was years ago, this video was recent so it would suggest that this funding of rebels in Saudi Arabia is ongoing, why do we not hear of Saudi militant rebel groups? Certainly there can be people whose ideology expresses that desire but the video suggests it is an armed struggle. I have not heard o f any recent armed struggle in Saudi Arabia from conventional news or intelligence sources. One to think about! A sample of the critical emails of the Bin Ladin video which appeared on Rense.com: * I have viewed exceprts from the Smoking Gun bin Laden video and I can't see how anyone could mistake the actor on the video for Usama bin Laden. It seems that UbL has been gulping down more than his fair share of the food aid that is being dropped because he is obviously carrying a few more pounds, mostly in the face, since the videos screened on Al Jazeera not long ago, reportedly recorded only a few days earlier. I seem to associat e the actor on the video more with Will Smith than with UbL. It must further be mentioned that the parts of the audio that can be heard do not sound anything at all like the audio of bin Laden on the Al Jazeera broadcasts. In fact it does not even sound like the arabic spoken by an arab. I wonder just how many people are falling for this deception after the planted spy American Taliban debacle did not have the desired effect. Sorry America, you guys are just being absolutely stupid in believing that shrub (bush jnr). You people should take note of the words of your Ben Franklin when he stated Those who would give up freedom for security deser ve, and will get, neither.-Haroon Sulaiman 2. The man that was purportedly Osama bin Laden was not. His
Re: [CTRL] Inhibit Inhibitions ?
-Caveat Lector- --- Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- From http://www.counterpunch.org/mwilliams1.html }}}Begin December 13, 2001 Prohibit Prohibition By Michael Williams Throughout the 20th century, the United States government has waged a war against a freedom of choice, disguised as protection of the collective good. while i agree with this i hope we can resist the temptation to assume that anyone that speaks of the collective good is automatically waging a war against freedom of choice.. not to mention that freedom of choice, if absolute, means the stepping on of others... it is entirely possible to be enslaved to one's CONCEPTS of freedom.. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL 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] September 11, 1990
-Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], angelilaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mailbox:/C|/Programmi/Netscape/Users/alan/mail/Drafts? id=3BD07AF1.E8F541E8%40iol.itnumber=5309013part=1.2.1.2 The date is very interesting...and casual only?? Thanks for all. Studio Angeli (bergamo-italy) --- End forwarded message --- 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) Anthrax Mailings Inquiries Lead to Battelle
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Subject:Anthrax Mailings Inquiries Lead to Battelle Please help circulate this information to others in your network(s). Thank you! Tetrahedron Publishing Group Health Science Communications for People Around the World 206 North 4th Avenue, Suite 147 #1776; Sandpoint, ID 83864 #1776; 208-265-2575 #1776; FAX: 208-265-2775 NEWS RELEASE Release: No. DITA-3O6 Date Mailed: Dec. 14, 2001 For Immediate Release Contact: Ingri Cassel208/265-2575; 800/336-9266 Anthrax Mailings Inquiries Lead to Battelle Sandpoint, ID Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) is increasingly becoming the central suspect in the anthrax mailings investigation according to a growing number of independent investigators and newspapers initially tipped by a report released last Monday by Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, a Harvard trained public health authority. The NY Times is the latest newspaper to include this West Jefferson, Ohio defense contractor that documents prove maintained close ties to the U.S. Armys Dugway Life Sciences center where the specific strain of anthrax was undergoing tests. The Baltimore Sun reported this week that, contrary to popular belief, the Defense Department maintained a potentially offensive biological weapons program using the Aimes strain of anthrax identified at Dugway. They failed to report that BMI largely administered and supplied this Life Sciences facility wherein a virtually identical strain of anthrax had been tested. After circulating his 20-page report (See: http://www.tetrahedron.org )to members congress and the press, Dr. Horowitz, the author of the prophetically titled book, Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare, contacted the William J. Broad, the anthrax mailings investigator for the New York Times, and co-author of Germs, to discuss the accumulating evidence against BMI. All roads lead to BMI, Broad agreed. Two days later, Broad and his co-author, Judith Miller, wrote that BMI participated in a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program, code-named Clear Vision begun in 1997, that allegedly used benign substances similar to anthrax. The Horowitz report also argued that only someone with national security clearances, such as CIA operatives assigned to this top secret program, could have commandeered the anthrax from BMI to the mailings sites such as Trenton, New Jersey. He said, CIA personnel are increasingly implicated in light of these revelations. Further implicating BMI and the CIA, both leading anthrax expertsAmericas William C. Patrick, III, and Russian defector, Kanatjan Alibekovare BMI consultants and on the CIAs payroll, according to earlier published reports cited in the Horowitz report. The whole truth would be severely embarrassing to the Bush administration, Dr. Horowitz said. HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson has, after all, commandeered a bioterrorism preparedness drug feeding frenzy. With five persons killed and thirteen others infected so far, military-industrial officials may be implicated in serial homicide, if not economic genocide, while wagging the dog for drug and vaccine company profits. Dr. Horowitz says that the Baltimore Sun report was highly significant regarding Dugways Life Sciences Division. Death Sciences seems to be a more accurate title for the lab largely developed, administered, and supplied by BMI where all roads appear to lead, Dr. Horowitz said. -end Note to journalists: For more information about Dr. Horowitzs investigation, or a review copy of his book Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare, please call Ingri Cassel at 1-888-508-4787, or visit www.tetrahedron.org. --- To remove yourself from further mailings, visit this webpage: http://GetResponse.com/r.cgi?a=tetrahedrone=alamaine_Xyuffdaonline.ne ti= --- End of forwarded message --- ~~~ Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of Teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and
[CTRL] Frost on White Mountain
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/564/7war.htm Graphix @ site }}}Begin Al-Ahram Weekly Online 13 - 19 December 2001 Issue No.564 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map Frost on the White Mountain US forces, facing not just an elusive enemy but also the certainty of a harsh winter, are still soliciting the help of a host of allies. Galal Nassar finds out what France, Turkey, and Israel have to offer It has been almost three months since the world's greatest military, technological, and economic power pledged to destroy Bin Laden, his outfit, and his Taliban chums. The United States, yet to provide convincing evidence of Bin Laden's guilt, sent forces trekking across Afghanistan with two military and political objectives: the liquidation of Bin Laden and Al- Qa'eda leaders and supporters; and the rehabilitation of the US's international image, badly shaken by the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. What Operation Enduring Freedom has achieved so far in Afghanistan has been acclaimed as an impressive military accomplishment. Still, it falls short of a decisive victory. It may even resemble failure on more than one level -- unless, that is, the war against terror was meant to sow the seeds of civil strife in Afghanistan, displace Afghans by the millions, send them fleeing into neighbouring countries, and gain a foothold in a strategic region. The United States cannot call itself a victor in the ongoing strife until it kills or captures three men: Bin Laden; his second in command, Ayman El- Zawahri; and Mullah Omar. According to US media reports, the fighting has claimed the lives of 10,000 people, mostly Taliban fighters making a last stand in Kandahar, in the past few weeks. US forces are still pummelling and combing various parts of Afghanistan, with a ferocity that has intensified in the past few days. Last Sunday saw some of the heaviest bombing so far, with US planes strafing the White Mo untain range of Tora Bora, despite reports that Bin Laden fled the area two or three weeks ago. Meanwhile, thousands of coalition troops continue to pour into the region, a sign that military operations will not end soon. Much is yet in store for the war-torn country. The US is seeking all the help it can get in capturing Bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and El-Zawahri and eliminate the pockets Taliban and Arab Afghan resistance. Secretary of State Colin Powell went to Ankara last week to solic it Turkish assistance. Having waged aerial and ground campaigns against the mountain strongholds of dissident Kurds almost every year as far back as anyone can remember, Turkey has just the kind of experience the American s need. Washington and Ankara are now putting the final touches on a memorandum of understanding paving the way for the deployment of a Turkish contingent in Afghanistan. The United States hopes elite Turkish troops can h elp extract Bin Laden and his associates from their mountain hideouts. According to the Turkish Daily News, Ankara has been promised a reasonable role in formulating Afghanistan's future. In return, Ankara would dispatch more of its elite forces than the 90 men originally suggested. Turkis h troops are also likely to serve in the UN- sponsored peacekeeping force. From the very start, Ankara has made it clear that it wants a key role in any international force deployed in Afghanistan. It has also suggested t hat the new regime should be modelled after its own secular system, which would prevent the country from slipping back into extremism and terror, as the Turks put it. France has pitched in with an advance party of 40 troops to protect the environs of the airport at Mazar-i Sharif. Its nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is steaming toward the northern Indian Ocean, where three F rench frigates and a nuclear submarine are already deployed. An oil tanker is expected to join this mission -- unprecedented for the French fleet -- at a later date. A total of 3,000 men are on the French flotilla, which will anchor some 100 nautical miles southwest of Karachi, Pakistan. All in all, France is expected to boost its participation in the campaign to about 5,000 men, backed by 10 vessels and 10 aircraft. US-Israeli military cooperation has also borne fruit in the ongoing conflict. B-52H Stratofortress bombers have begun using missile shells developed jointly by the US company Lockheed Martin and the Israeli company Rafael , on ground targets. The missiles, which can be precisely aimed by TV cameras and weigh anything between 500 and 3,000lb, are designed to infiltrate thick barriers and would be effective in demolishing cave entrances. The y cost up to $1.54 million each. The fall of Kandahar and the ongoing assault on Tora Bora caves have been somewhat anticlimactic, because of how easily the Taliban seemed to relinquish one city after another. Mullah Omar, an ethnic
Re: [CTRL] There Goes the Meighborhood
-Caveat Lector- So the whole city of Columbus went already and I am packed and ready to go..if things change. Now Booze Advertising - I have nothing against drinking anything you can control for you control the drinking or the drinking controls you - as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen once wrote how bad he felt about this poor guy sitting on a bar stool (so fasten up your seat belts) - anyway sitting on a bar stool and nothing meant more to him in the world, than that beer or booze before him. Only one booze advertisement I found completely revolting ..it went like this: A Father is standing at the bar, and in walks this handsome young kid...Hi Dad, today I am a man and boy first thing he does is head for the bar, looking for his father.. So picture this though was a nice bar with all the trimmings - nice people in same - but psychologically speaking I wonder how many kids grow up and end up sitting in bars, looking for that lost parent no longner seated on a barstool..for like his father he had not greater friend than this bottle of booze before him. So now they will attempt to sucker in the kids once again - Luckey Luciano used to give lots of money to the Women's Christian Temperence Union (probably as much as Larry Flynt pays in tribute to the ADL) - to bring back prohibition for that was a lot of tax free money. Some people when they drink, are pigs..I watched a friend, a TV Sportscaster, destroy himself with booze until all he had left was what he once was. So I hate this advertising booze on TV.then soon it will be pornography to go with the booze.like these mobsters here used kids to lure kids to motel room parties, where they served pornography and booze and drugs - and this kid holed up his horse on the farm where Lansky used to visit. So booze in America - it is as if they are slopping the hogs. Saba 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] COLOMBIA: OIL UNION LEADER MURDERED
-Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist- Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:49 PM Subject: Weekly News Update on Colombia #619, 12/9/01 From: Red Palante! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:56:21 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Weekly News Update on Colombia #619, 12/9/01 WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS ISSUE #619, DECEMBER 9, 2001 NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY NETWORK OF GREATER NEW YORK 339 LAFAYETTE ST., NEW YORK, NY 10012 (212) 674-9499 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *2. COLOMBIA: OIL UNION LEADER MURDERED On Nov. 30 paramilitaries from the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) kidnapped oil union leader Aury Sara Marrugo and his bodyguard, Enrique Arellano, in the Caribbean tourist port city of Cartagena de Indias, in Bolivar department. Sara was president of the Bolivar section of the United Union of Workers (USO), which represents workers at the state-run oil company Ecopetrol. On Dec. 1 the USO's 5,000 members went on strike to protest the kidnapping, shutting down the refineries in Cartagena and Barrancabermeja. On Dec. 3, the AUC leadership sent a letter via internet to the government's peace commissioner, Camilo Gomez, acknowledging that they were holding Sara. They claimed to have put him on trial before an AUC court, and that he had confessed to being the top leader of the Jaime Bateman Cayon Front of the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla movement. The AUC's tribunal found Sara guilty of multiple crimes, but the AUC would be willing to free him so he could be tried and sentenced by the Colombian state, the AUC leaders said in their letter to Gomez. But we are only prepared to hand him over to you in person in one of our jungle camps, and while you're there you can explain to us what it is exactly that you do, Mr. Commissioner, the AUC leaders warned, claiming Sara told them that Gomez provided helicopters to the ELN which were used in activities very distant from being humanitarian, something which you will have to clarify sooner rather than later. [El Diario-La Prensa (NY) 12/4/01 from AFP, 12/6/01 from AP] On Dec. 5, the bodies of Sara and Arellano were found in a rural area of Bolivar department; they had been shot to death. USO president Hernando Hernandez immediately announced the union would protest the killing by continuing an open-ended strike. Energy and Mines Minister Luisa Lafaurie said the refineries had been militarized and management had been instructed to take over operation as a contingency plan to maintain fuel supplies. [El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 12/6/01 from Reuters; ED-LP 12/6/01 from AP] In the past 10 years 187 workers, leaders and activists from our union have been murdered, said Jorge Galindo of the USO's commision on human rights and peace. On Oct. 19 Colombian authorities arrested six USO leaders and charged them with rebellion for alleged links to rebel groups [see Update #612]. One was provisionally released; the others remain jailed while their trials proceed. [ED-LP 12/6/01 from AP] Top ELN leader Nicolas Rodriguez accused Vice President Gustavo Bell, who is also Colombia's defense minister, of responsibility for the murder of Sara. Gomez, the peace commissioner, called Rodriguez's accusation slander, and said only the AUC was responsible for the murder. [ENH 12/8/01 from AP] Meanwhile, between 150 and 200 people were reportedly killed in combat between paramilitaries from the AUC and leftist rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) between Dec. 1 and 5 in the jungles of Choco department, in northwestern Colombia. The fighting has displaced hundreds of local residents. [ENH 12/6/01 from Reuters] == = Weekly News Update on the Americas * Nicaragua Solidarity Network of NY 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012 * 212-674-9499 fax: 212-674- 9139 http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/wnuhome.html*[EMAIL PROTECTED] == = Red Palante! Comunicacion Antagonista y Resistencia Cultural [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inquilino.net/palante _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ --- End forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational
[CTRL] latest abuses by Exxon at Tabaco, Columbia
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- Title: latest abuses by Exxon at Tabaco, Columbia From: Richard Solly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear friends, I am sending you the notes (below) that I took at a community meeting in Tabaco, La Guajira, in October, 2001, at which residents told me about the demolition of their homes by Intercor (100% owned by Exxon) on August 9th. I learnt yesterday that the company, with police, have just gone into the community a second time and demolished more homes. If you can, please send messages to Exxon (either at the UK subsidiary address given below or in your own country) and to the President of Colombia, demanding that the rights of the people of Tabaco be respected, that if they have to move they should receive a relocation package enabling them to move as a whole community to an alternative site where they can continue to live by farming. The Intercor compensation package of 2,400,000 pesos (just over US$1000 or £700) is completely inadequate and will only lead to homelessness and unemployment. Exxon: Ansel Condray, Chairman, Exxon UK, St Ketherine's House, Kingsway, London WC2. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Phone +44 (0)20 7412 4585 Fax: +44 (0)20 7412 4133. President of Colombia: Doctor Andres Pastrana Arango, President of the Republic, Palacio de Narino, Santafe de Bogota DC. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Fax: +57 1 336 2109/337 1351/286 7434/286 6842. Please send copies to: Richard Solly: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colombia Solidarity Campaign: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Armando Perez Araujo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thank you. Richard Solly. Notes on a visit by Richard Solly of the Mines and Communities Network to Tabaco, La Guajira, Colombia, on 20th October 2001 In October, 2000, I visited Tabaco with Roger Moody of the Mines and Communities Network, to assess the impact of Intercor's huge coal strip mine, El Cerrejon Norte, on the community's human rights and immediate environment. The company wants the whole community to move out so that the strip mine can expand. Intercor's pressure on the community increased during 2001, and on August 9th 2001 agents of the company, assisted by Colombian police and military, demolished 29 of the houses in the community, wrecking their surrounding fruit trees and gardens, confiscating people's possessions and injuring several of those who resisted. On 20th and 21st October, a workshop was held in Tabaco by the Cartagena-based representative of the Proceso de Comunidades Negras, a national organisation of African-Colombians campaigning for their rights under the Colombian Constitution. The aim was to inform the local people about the history of people of African descent in Colombia and about their legal rights. The workshop was preceded by a brief community meeting in which residents were informed about the progress of their legal case against Intercor and of actions taken by solidarity organisations in Britain and the USA; and residents told me about the events of August 9th. I also had the opportunity to photograph some of the damage done to people's houses by the company. Points made during the Community Meeting During the demolition, Intercor workers took people's household goods and personal possessions and kept them. This matter was to be taken to the Fiscalia in Riohacha because it was illegal. Armando Perez Araujo had met with the Minister of the Interior who had agreed that the actions of the Judge on the day of the demolitions were illegal. [The Minister was also informed that most of the inhabitants of Tabaco are African-Colombians, which gives them particular rights under the Constitution. The people of Tabaco have not previously claimed these rights because they did not know about them. There is a national office of African-Colombian affairs.] During the demolition, some of the inhabitants of Tabaco were beaten with clubs. Some of those whose houses were demolished were sick, including the children of community leader Jose Julio Perez. One of the women said that a man's head was badly wounded by a wooden club and his daughter, who was trying to help her father, was also attacked by the police, who beat her leg with wooden clubs. Emilio Perez was attacked by fifteen men - either policemen or Intercor security personnel - as soon as he left his house. He was clubbed unconscious and left on the ground. He spent eight days in hospital and still suffers from bad headaches and forgetfulness. Agents of the company demolished 29 houses before stopping. They threatened to demolish more and to come back and demolish the school and other public buildings. It may only have been the people's resistance that stopped them destroying more. This shows that it was not a legally enforced juridical process but a form
[CTRL] DYNEGY AGREES TO BUY TROUBLED ENRON FOR $7.8-BIL
-Caveat Lector- from: Click Here: A HREF=http://www.aci.net/kalliste/;The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Oops! The Energy Crisis that Wasn't Troubled Enron DYNEGY AGREES TO BUY TROUBLED ENRON FOR $7.8-BIL by James Norman New YorkTroubled energy giant Enron agreed late Nov 9 to be taken over by smaller rival Dynegy in a $7.8-bil stock-swap, with assumption of at least $12-bil of Enron debt. The deal includes an immediate asset-backed infusion of $1.5-bil from Dynegy's 26.6% owner ChevronTexaco, to shore-up Enron's cash-strained trading operations, with another $1-bil of new equity from ChevronTexaco when the merger closes. Dynegy will offer 0.2685 of its shares for each Enron share, giving Dynegy holders 64% of the combined company. At Dynegy's closing price Nov 9 of $38.76/share, that equates to $10.41/share for Enron, which has seen its stock plummet from more than $90 barely a year ago to a recent low of $7 before rebounding on Dynegy bailout rumors. Enron closed Nov 9 at $8.63/share. The merged company will be named Dynegy Inc and be headed by Dynegy CEO Chuck Watson. The only Enron executive moving to a senior position will be new president Greg Whalley, who will be an executive vice-president and part of a new office of the chairman at Dynegy. Enron will get to name three of 14 directors, which could include CEO Ken Lay. ChevronTexaco will maintain its three director seats. ChevronTexaco will make its investment in the form of $1.5-bil of Dynegy convertible preferred shares, with warrants to buy another $1.5-bil of Dynegy stock over three years. Dynegy will invest the initial ChevronTexaco cash in Enron in return for preferred stock and other rights in Enron's crown-jewel Northern Natural Gas pipeline unit. If the Dynegy-Enron deal fails to close, Dynegy can acquire Northern and ChevronTexaco can redeem its preferred at cost or convert it to common for 36% ownership of Dynegy. Dynegy said the deal should be strongly accretive to earnings in the first year. Merger savings are expected to be $400- to $500-mil a year, from exiting non-core businesses, eliminating overlap and lower interest costs. The deal, which will need shareholder and regulatory approval, is not likely to be consummated until the third quarter of next year. But it is by no means a sure thing. Vocal opponents are already emerging to the possible enlargement of Enron's huge trading operations. Among them: crusty Raymond Plank, CEO of US EP independent Apache. Plank blames electronic over-the-counter systems such as those run by Enron and Dynegy for much of the volatility that has whipsawed natural gas and power markets over the past year. Plank says this volatility is wreaking havoc on producers' capital spending plans and the creditworthiness of small upstream companies. Not to mention the disaster that hit California, PGE and SoCalEd. Plank extends his opprobrium to the New York Mercantile Exchange, which he views as another venue for moving prices up and down to generate volatility. Of course, volatility is not senseless to public trading companies using mark-to-market accounting. Under US GAAP, traders run through their income statements the theoretical mark-to-market profits being made on even far-out futures and derivatives positions. And under standard option pricing models, volatility is the key variable in calculating their present value. With enough volatility, and a long enough contract, any trader can persuade his accountants even the most far-fetched option position can have current mark-to-market value. The only test is the reasonableness of the assumed forward price curve, which Enron can tweek daily with its postings on EnronOnline. Both Enron and Dynegy employ Arthur Andersen as auditors and consultants. Indeed, Enron, Dynegy, El Paso, Duke, Aquila, Williams and any number of other trading houses make no bones about their affinity for volatility. On its last earnings conference call (the one that sparked Wall Street rage over CEO Ken Lay's disclosure of a looming $1.2-bil accounting nightmare), Enron whined its European earnings were a little light due to not as much volatility as we'd have liked in power markets there. They acknowledge the don't make money off price (differentials), gripes Plank: They make their money off volatility. Helping drive volatility on these electronic exchanges is the ability to move prices with very small trades, since only Enron or Dynegy see the volumes involved on their EnronOnline and Dynegy Direct systems. As some traders have pointed out to Platts, this can allow a market manipulator to gradually start an upward price stampede that can snowball into a short squeeze, spilling over onto the NYMEX futures and cash markets. Such may have been the case with last winter's irrational run-up in gas prices to some $10/Mcf. Did Enron cause it? Probably not. Would it have been able to see it developing and position itself accordingly? Without question. An added beauty
[CTRL] For Al Giordano, a victory and a precedent
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/02048 649.htm Click Here: A HREF=http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents /02048649.htmThis Just In | MEDIA/A - MEDIA For Al Giordano, a victory and a precedent BY DAN KENNEDY In what could prove to be a groundbreaking First Amendment precedent, a New York judge has thrown out a libel suit against online journalist and Phoenix contributor Al Giordano, ruling that he is entitled to the same protection against such suits as a mainstream news organization. Giordano, the publisher and author of a Web site called the Narco News Bulletin (www.narconews.com), and Mexican journalist Mario Menéndez had been sued by Roberto Hernández, the head of the powerful bank Banamex. The reason: Menéndezs newspaper, Por Esto!, reported that Hernández had purchased Banamex in part with profits from the illegal drug trade, an accusation that Giordano repeated in Narco News and at a public appearance at Columbia University (see Dont Quote Me, News and Features, April 13). Giordano had also written about Banamex for the Phoenix (see Clintons Mexican Narco-Pals, News and Features, May 14, 1999). New York State Supreme Court judge Paula Omansky cited the 1964 case of Times v. Sullivan, in which the US Supreme Court held that a public figure cannot successfully sue for libel unless he or she can prove actual malice a legal term that means the defendant must be shown to have knowingly disseminated false information, or to have demonstrated reckless disregard for whether the information was true or false. That high standard, as Omansky called it, has long been cited by free-speech activists as necessary to foster freewheeling and robust debate about public issues in this case, the so-called War on Drugs. Omansky ruled that even though Banamex was a private institution, the War on Drugs was an issue of such public concern that Giordano was entitled to the protection of Times v. Sullivan. The nature of the articles printed on the website and Mr. Giordanos statements at Columbia University constitute matters of public concern because the information disseminated relates to the drug trade and its effect on people living in this hemisphere, she wrote, according to a report by Wired.com. Giordanos lawyer, Tom Lesser, says that the judge also threw out the complaint against Menéndez, ruling that her court had no jurisdiction over a newspaper published in Mexico. Calling it extraordinary that Omansky would reject Banamexs suit even before the discovery phase of the case could begin, the Northampton-based Lesser an old friend of Giordanos dating back to the latters days as an anti-nuclear activist in the 1970s told the Phoenix that a countersuit against Banamex is being considered. I think the expectation is that well try to recoup the damages that we have suffered, he says. But Banamex lawyer Michael Madigan, of the Washington firm of Akin Gump, says Hernández continues to insist that Menéndez and Giordanos charges are false and he refuses to rule out an appeal of Omanskys decision. The only thing I can tell you at the moment is that the matter is under review, Madigan told the Phoenix. Banamex will continue to take any lawful action to protect itself from false and libelous statements. Meanwhile, media observers and First Amendment advocates are hailing Giordanos victory. Al Giordano has always fancied himself a dragon-slayer, and now hes got a few more dragons on his belt, says Danny Schechter, executive editor of MediaChannel.org, which has carried some of Giordanos work. Im encouraged not just by the outcome of the case, but by the example of the case. Paul McMasters, First Amendment ombudsman for the Freedom Forum, says whats most heartening is that Judge Omansky recognized that the Constitution does not specify who may and who may not be a journalist. Because the First Amendment prohibits the definition of a journalist, just about anybody with a Web site, it seems to me, can define themselves as a journalist entitled to the protection of Times v. Sullivan. And that, to me, is a good thing, McMasters says. In an e-mail to the Phoenix from Bolivia, where he is reporting this week, Giordano noting that his problems with Banamex began with his May 1999 Phoenix story said in part, The story was airtight, factual and fair then, and it has remained so ever since Its a great victory and one to be shared by so many journalists and readers. On to the next one! Issue Date: December 12, 2001 Back to the News and Features table of contents. home | feedback | about the phoenix | find the phoenix | advertising info | privacy policy © 2001 Phoenix Media Communications Group - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona
[CTRL] Phantom Flight From Florida
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA3F78EFSC.html Click Here: A HREF=http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA3F78EFSC.html;Phantom Flight From Florida: From The Tampa Tri /A - Phantom Flight From Florida By KATHY STEELE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Published: Oct 5, 2001 TAMPA - The twin-engine Lear jet streaked into the afternoon sky, leaving Tampa behind but revealing a glimpse of international intrigue in the aftermath of terrorist attacks on America. The federal government says the flight never took place. But the two armed bodyguards hired to chaperon their clients out of the state recall the 100-minute trip Sept. 13 quite vividly. In the end, the son of a Saudi Arabian prince who is the nation's defense minister and the son of a Saudi army commander made it to Kentucky for a waiting 747 and a trip to their homeland. The hastily arranged flight out of Raytheon Airport Services, a private hangar on the outskirts of Tampa International Airport, was anything but ordinary. It lifted off the tarmac at a time when every private plane in the nation was grounded due to safety concerns after the Sept. 11 attacks. Local and federal authorities will say little about the flight. ``It's not in our logs ... it didn't occur,'' said Chris White, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration's regional office in Atlanta. For private investigators Dan Grossi and Manuel Perez, the bodyguards on the Lear, it was a trip they can't forget. A Special Situation Grossi said Tampa police intelligence detectives called him about 11 a.m. Sept. 13, needing help with a special situation: They had been watching three young Saudi men - at least one a student at the University of Tampa - at their south Tampa apartment, and the trio was scared and wanted to go home. Jim Harf, director of UT's international programs, confirmed one of them is the son of Prince Sultan, the defense minister. University spokesman Grant Donaldson refused to provide details. Perez said he understood the men arrived in Tampa three weeks earlier to receive tutoring in English. The Tampa detectives guarding the men were ordered to stay in Tampa by Police Chief Bennie Holder, so Grossi was offered the job of escorting the trio to Lexington, Ky., where the prince's relatives were buying race horses. Lexington police Lt. Mark Barnard confirmed a Saudi relative had asked for help in getting protection for the men in Tampa. Two off-duty detectives were assigned. Tampa police records list Sultan bin Fahad as the one requesting the security detail. But Tampa's official assistance ended at Raytheon's airport terminal. ``There was a perceived threat, and the family of the person wanted him home right away,'' said Tampa police Sgt. John Solomon. ``The job lasted about five hours. It was handled very quickly.'' `Out Of A Tom Clancy Movie' Meanwhile, Grossi had put Perez on alert and went home to wait. Both men provide security for the National Football League at Raymond James Stadium. Grossi, who retired from the Tampa Police Department in August, has worked in internal affairs and homicide. Perez, who has his own investigative company in St. Petersburg, worked for the FBI for more than 29 years and has experience in counterterrorism and as a bomb technician. At 2:30 p.m., Grossi got the call from the police department. ``They said it was happening,'' Grossi said. ``This was out of a Tom Clancy movie.'' Grossi said he was told the clearance came from the White House after the prince's family pulled a favor from former President Bush. Prince Sultan, the Saudi defense minister, was part of the coalition that fought the Persian Gulf War in 1991. To the United States, Saudi Arabia is a key component in the emerging coalition of nations in the war on terrorism. The White House referred questions on the trip to the State Department, which denied involvement, and the National Security Council, which did not return messages. At Raytheon airport, Grossi met with the Tampa detectives who had brought the young men. The Lear's pilot, who had flown in from Fort Lauderdale, introduced himself. By 4:30 p.m., the twin-engine, eight-passenger jet lifted off. ``They [the trio] looked like typical college students with knapsacks,'' Perez said. ``I didn't realize the prince's son was onboard until we landed.'' Grossi and Perez recalled the strange feeling of flying in the near-empty sky, knowing of the ban on private flights. ``My first reaction to the pilot was, `We're not going to get shot down are we?' '' Perez said. Grossi said he spoke only briefly to the prince's son. ``He wanted to leave,'' Grossi said. But he also said he would like to return, Grossi said. In less than two hours, the Lear landed at the Blue Grass airport, where the passengers were met by Saudi security officials, Grossi said. He and Perez saw several private 747s parked on the tarmac with foreign flags on the tails and Arabic lettering on the sides. Within the hour, the Lear took off
[CTRL] High Crimes and Conspiracies
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/lfctimes/high_crimes.htm Click Here: A HREF=http://www.aci.net/kalliste/lfctimes/high_crimes.htm; High Crimes and Conspiracies, by Wolf DeVoon/A - High Crimes and Conspiracies by Wolf DeVoon White House staff scripted every question asked at President Bush´s set piece town hall meeting in Orlando, proof of which is the fact that CNN had the question graphics loaded in show order, ready to air at the precise moment when hand-picked shills stood up on cue to recite them. When I worked at ITN, long ago, I was shocked to discover that news outlets were given printed transcripts of speeches, hours before they were actually delivered, on the agreement that such foreknowledge of public policy announcements were embargoed (i.e., unreportable) until they were read from teleprompter by the talking head in question. But nothing in my jaded experience as a journalist prepared me for what happened in Orlando. Allegedly there to promote tourism, Bush´s tightly scripted standup before a smiling pack of cheering Florida flagwavers resembled an evangelistic tent revival, determined to put a happy face on two deeply sad developments: (1) the United States is engaged in unconcionable mass murder of a defenseless enemy in Afghanistan, and (2) the Bush White House is taking orders from Ariel Sharon, not vice versa. Part of the problem is that Deputy Dubya is so damned dumb that he was unable to form an independent assessment of what happened at the World Trade Center and what the U.S. response should be to faceless, cowardly terrorism a ludicrously false characterization that demands we trash plain English in favor of Zionist Newspeak. All 19 WTC hijackers were identified, their faces flashed on every television screen in America. They were Saudis and Egyptians, not Afghans. And Bill Maher was factually, if not patriotically correct: the Islamic commandos who attacked Israeli-owned Cantor Fitzgerald were certainly not cowards. In response to guest Dinesh D'Souza's assertion that people who are willing to die in service to their cause, whatever else they may be, are not cowards, Maher said: We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. I was sitting next to Bill when he said this. And not only did I not object, I wholeheartedly agreed. (Arianna Huffington, September 24, 2001) Giving Control to Thugs Here´s cowardice in capital letters: our high-altitude bombardment of massed Taliban troops and defenseless civilians who can´t shoot back. Russian-equipped opposition Northern Alliance forces have basically fought no one. They waltzed through the rubble and rifled the pockets of dead men, bayoneting the wounded. To hand control of Afghanistan to such thugs is compounding U.S. war crime upon war crime, all of it at Israel´s behest, to perpetrate the lie of Taliban culpability in sheltering bin Ladin, and blanking out the truth of U.S.-backed Israeli, Saudi, and Egyptian tyrannies. In the mess of global power politics, created by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, there´s no mystery in who´s driving the braindead Pentagon brass. When Tom Ridge announces that the threat level of another U.S. terror attack has risen, he´s quoting Mossad. The Bush sham town meeting in Orlando blanked out much more than who´s really in charge at this desperate moment in history. The United States is not merely in recession, calmly waiting out some temporary downturn in a predictable business cycle. For decades, we´ve robbed our children and grandchildren to party hearty, ignoring who got bank credit and who didn´t. It is a trusted principle of criminal investigation to follow the money. Most of it leads to the Oil Patch Posse and their proxies. None of it ended up in Afghanistan, Palestine, or the slums of Cairo, where the last refuge of desperation is an imaginary salvation in heaven. The U.S. is only a whisker away from the same fate, no matter how fat we feel. And of all the dung flung in our faces to explain away American guilt, the worst is Dubya´s insistence that enemies of freedom will be brought to justice a doublespeak promise that sounds right and guarantees wrong after wrong: detention without due process, military trial without appeal, economic recovery by spending spending spending. The Founding Fathers knew better. It isn´t hard to find a copy of the U.S. Constitution, and the Federalist Papers that obviate its intent. The United States was designed to govern guess what? the contiguous, 18th century territory of the 13 original states, preserving the civil liberty of ordinary Americans. Where is your liberty now? No matter what else you may see and hear, no matter what the hypocrites and lapdogs at AOL-Time Warner-CNN pump at you, pitting liberal Jews against bloodthirsty Jews in fake debate and fantasy pronoucements of imminent victory, I say get the hell out. The only honest and moral thing to do is think of and for
[CTRL] Paving the way for 'uncrackable' codes
-Caveat Lector- from - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1709000/1709322.stm Thursday, 13 December, 2001, 19:59 GMT Paving the way for 'uncrackable' codes By BBC News Online's Ivan Noble The heart of a new light-emitting diode (LED) developed in Cambridge, UK, can be controlled so precisely that it emits just one single photon of light each time it is switched on. The device could be a key component in quantum cryptography, a code-making technology which, it is hoped, will be uncrackable. The ability to send single packets of light already exists but this is the first time a device has been built without using lasers. Its designers say they are optimistic that the device could be produced cheaply and quickly in industrial quantities. Cool operator Quantum cryptography provides a way for two people to form a secret key. The laws of quantum mechanics dictate that it provides a way to guarantee that no-one has intercepted that key, Andrew Shields of Toshiba Research Europe Limited (TREL) told BBC News Online. Dr Shields and colleagues from TREL and the University of Cambridge built the single photon-emitting diode using standard semiconductor manufacturing techniques. At the moment it only works at extremely low temperatures. That can be improved and we know how to do it, said Dr Shields. Our device is made by photolithography... and could potentially be produced quite cheaply. Eavesdropper's downfall The reason security experts are interested in using single photons to carry encoded messages is that they appear to provide the guarantee of secrecy that other technologies lack. The kind of encoding currently used to protect messages relies on the fact that, without the key, it would take an extremely long time to do all the calculations needed to unscramble a secret message. But there is no guarantee the key has not been stolen, or that computers will not improve to a point where the time factor is less significant. With quantum cryptography, the very act of intercepting a single photon on its way down an optical fibre would change the information it was carrying. The interception would then be apparent to the sender and receiver. Missing pieces There are, however, obstacles to the development of this super-secure technology. We need the detection technology for single photons, said Dr Shields. But most of the other elements are there. It uses standard telecoms cables. There is attenuation in the fibre so at present fibre lengths are limited to between 50 and 100 kilometres, but it would be useful in cities, he added. The Cambridge team is proud of the fact that its device is so controllable. Previous emitters have occasionally let out more than one identical photon at a time, a problem that could have opened the door to an eavesdropper. That's a security loophole and our device is going to plug that, said Dr Shields. The device is described in the journal Science. 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] McVeigh, MK, Biochips
-Caveat Lector- http://mindprism.com/__ocbpt/chpt2a.html snip Miniaturized telemetrics have been part of an ongoing project by the military and various intelligence agencies to test the effectiveness of tracking soldiers on the battlefield. The miniature implantable telemetric device was declassified long ago. As far back as 1968, Dr. Stuart Mackay, in his textbook entitled Bio-Medical Telemetry, reported, Among the many telemetry instruments being used today, are miniature radio transmitters that can be swallowed, carried externally, or surgically implanted in man or animal. They permit the simultaneous study of behavior and physiological functioning.â¦[190] Dr. Carl Sanders, one of the developers of the Intelligence Manned Interface (IMI) biochip, maintains, We used this with military personnel in the Iraq War where they were actually tracked using this particular type of device.[191] It is also interesting to note that the Calspan Advanced Technology Center in Buffalo (Calspan ATC), where McVeigh worked, is engaged in microscopic electronic engineering of the kind applicable to telemetrics.[192] Calspan was founded in 1946 as Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, which included the Fund for the Study of Human Ecology, a CIA conduit for mind-control experiments by émigré Nazi scientists [and others under the direction of CIA Doctors Sidney Gottlieb, Ewen Cameron, and Louis Jolyn West]. snip http://mindprism.com/__ocbpt/cover.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL 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] ET TU, ISRAEL?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html December 14, 2001 ET TU, ISRAEL? Did the Israelis have advance notice of 9/11? Probably. I couldn't help but laugh as I read the following entry in Andrew Sullivan's weblog: "People ask why Americans tend to sympathize more with Israelis than Palestinians. It's not racism. It's a recognition that, for all their failings, the Israelis live in the same moral universe as we do. The Palestinians palpably, brazenly do not." OUR MORAL UNIVERSE, AND THEIRS Sullivan is a bloated bag of wind begging to be punctured, and his delusions about Israeli benevolence certainly have been pricked by the news that the 60 or so Israelis being held by the US since 9/11 are what Fox News calls "part of a long-running effort to spy on American government officials." And that's not all: while "there is no indication the Israelis were involved in the Sept. 11 attacks," we are told, "investigators suspect that they may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it." If the Israelis had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and failed to inform us, then just what moral universe are they living in? Surely one many light-years from our own. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST When the news first broke that not only Arabs are being held in the wake of 9/11, to my knowledge I was the only columnist to deal with the subject of the mysterious Israelis in custody: "Israel and 9/11 – Feds holding 60 Israelis in connection with 9/11 – Why?" While the Washington Post assured us that the Israeli detainees were only "observing a time-honored tradition in their country – touring the world after their mandatory service in the Israeli military," I was more than a little skeptical: "Something tells me these guys are no ordinary tourists, but since the US Government is keeping mum about everything connected with this investigation, we just don't know." THE PLOT SICKENS Ah, but now some government officials are talking, and we know a lot more. We know that some of the detainees have been identified as Israeli military or intelligence agents, and that some failed polygraph tests when asked whether they had engaged in covert operations "against and in the United States." We also know, courtesy of Fox News, that as many as 140 Israeli agents may have been rounded up in the US before 9/11: the extent of Israel's covert action operation is described as "sprawling." A GOOD GUESS What were they doing here? Besides infiltrating a whole laundry list of government agencies, including the DEA, the FBI, military bases, and even targeting the private homes of government officials, they were also conducting surveillance on a group of Arab immigrants in California that authorities believe have connections to the 9/11 plot. I'll admit that the following was sheer speculation on my part, but it looks like I was dead right. As I wrote in November: "In rounding up untold hundreds of mostly Arab Muslim men, and interviewing thousands more, the Ashcroft Sweep is clearly designed to gather information that might lead them to the remaining conspirators. It could be that the Israelis, or at least some of them, fall into this category: while not being directly involved, maybe they know something." RETALIATION PLUS What did they know, and when did they know it? That is the question that must now be answered, and pronto. For remember what the President said: "You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists." If the Israelis had advance notice of 9/11 – via their spy network in the US, which kept the hijackers and their associates under surveillance – then this is "harboring" terrorists, by any definition of the term. Look what happened to the Taliban when they harbored bin Laden. If Israel did indeed betray us, and let 3,500 people die at the World Trade Center, then they deserve what the Afghanis got – plus a little bit more. WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE… At least Mullah Omar and the Taliban never made any bones about the depth of their contempt for the US. Israel, on the other hand, pretends to be our staunchest ally, more royalist than the king when it comes to confronting the declared enemies of the West. Yet an undeclared enemy, posing as a friend, is in many ways a greater potential threat – as, perhaps, we are beginning to learn. CLASSIFIED AND CONFIRMED When asked for details about the detention of the Israelis, a highly placed investigator huffed that "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified, I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information." Aside from affirming that such evidence exists, this same source admitted to the Los Angeles Times that there were certain "tie-ins" with 9/11. Some patriotic law enforcement officials seem to have leaked just enough information to practically confirm our worst suspicions. As Brit Hume put it in his lead-in to the first of Carl Cameron's four-part investigative
[CTRL] Link-Official Complaint Against JDL Terrorists
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Re: [CTRL] High Crimes and Conspiracies
-Caveat Lector- good article. Thanks for posting it to me- molli -Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/lfctimes/high_crimes.htm Click Here: A HREF=http://www.aci.net/kalliste/lfctimes/high_crimes.htm; High Crimes and Conspiracies, by Wolf DeVoon/A - High Crimes and Conspiracies by Wolf DeVoon White House staff scripted every question asked at President Bush´s set piece town hall meeting in Orlando, proof of which is the fact that CNN had the question graphics loaded in show order, ready to air at the precise moment when hand-picked shills stood up on cue to recite them. When I worked at ITN, long ago, I was shocked to discover that news outlets were given printed transcripts of speeches, hours before they were actually delivered, on the agreement that such foreknowledge of public policy announcements were embargoed (i.e., unreportable) until they were read from teleprompter by the talking head in question. But nothing in my jaded experience as a journalist prepared me for what happened in Orlando. Allegedly there to promote tourism, Bush´s tightly scripted standup before a smiling pack of cheering Florida flagwavers resembled an evangelistic tent revival, determined to put a happy face on two deeply sad developments: (1) the United States is engaged in unconcionable mass murder of a defenseless enemy in Afghanistan, and (2) the Bush White House is taking orders from Ariel Sharon, not vice versa. Part of the problem is that Deputy Dubya is so damned dumb that he was unable to form an independent assessment of what happened at the World Trade Center and what the U.S. response should be to faceless, cowardly terrorism a ludicrously false characterization that demands we trash plain English in favor of Zionist Newspeak. All 19 WTC hijackers were identified, their faces flashed on every television screen in America. They were Saudis and Egyptians, not Afghans. And Bill Maher was factually, if not patriotically correct: the Islamic commandos who attacked Israeli-owned Cantor Fitzgerald were certainly not cowards. In response to guest Dinesh D'Souza's assertion that people who are willing to die in service to their cause, whatever else they may be, are not cowards, Maher said: We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. I was sitting next to Bill when he said this. And not only did I not object, I wholeheartedly agreed. (Arianna Huffington, September 24, 2001) Giving Control to Thugs Here´s cowardice in capital letters: our high-altitude bombardment of massed Taliban troops and defenseless civilians who can´t shoot back. Russian-equipped opposition Northern Alliance forces have basically fought no one. They waltzed through the rubble and rifled the pockets of dead men, bayoneting the wounded. To hand control of Afghanistan to such thugs is compounding U.S. war crime upon war crime, all of it at Israel´s behest, to perpetrate the lie of Taliban culpability in sheltering bin Ladin, and blanking out the truth of U.S.-backed Israeli, Saudi, and Egyptian tyrannies. In the mess of global power politics, created by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, there´s no mystery in who´s driving the braindead Pentagon brass. When Tom Ridge announces that the threat level of another U.S. terror attack has risen, he´s quoting Mossad. The Bush sham town meeting in Orlando blanked out much more than who´s really in charge at this desperate moment in history. The United States is not merely in recession, calmly waiting out some temporary downturn in a predictable business cycle. For decades, we´ve robbed our children and grandchildren to party hearty, ignoring who got bank credit and who didn´t. It is a trusted principle of criminal investigation to follow the money. Most of it leads to the Oil Patch Posse and their proxies. None of it ended up in Afghanistan, Palestine, or the slums of Cairo, where the last refuge of desperation is an imaginary salvation in heaven. The U.S. is only a whisker away from the same fate, no matter how fat we feel. And of all the dung flung in our faces to explain away American guilt, the worst is Dubya´s insistence that enemies of freedom will be brought to justice a doublespeak promise that sounds right and guarantees wrong after wrong: detention without due process, military trial without appeal, economic recovery by spending spending spending. The Founding Fathers knew better. It isn´t hard to find a copy of the U.S. Constitution, and the Federalist Papers that obviate its intent. The United States was designed to govern guess what? the contiguous, 18th century territory of the 13 original states, preserving the civil liberty of ordinary Americans. Where is your liberty now? No matter what else you may see and hear, no matter what the hypocrites and lapdogs at AOL-Time Warner-CNN pump at you, pitting liberal Jews against bloodthirsty Jews in fake debate and fantasy pronoucements of
[CTRL] Bushs Faith-Based Star Wars Initiative
http://www.dangerous.com/12-13-01.htm Bush’s Faith-Based "Star Wars" Initiative In what may be the single most ill-advised move of his presidency, so far, George W. Bush will announce, in the next few days, that the United States will withdraw from the 1972 ABM treaty, so he can "move ahead" with Star Wars. The decision makes absolutely no sense, and it’s incredibly ill-timed. Bush’s proposed "missile defense system" doesn’t work; it likely will never work; and even if, by some yet unforeseen miracle of science, it could work, it still wouldn’t work, because it doesn’t begin to address the real threats America faces in the coming decades. Not only will Bush’s announcement signal to the rest of the world that America can’t be trusted, even to act in it’s own best interest, it signals that the president and his handlers are dupes of the corporate elite that paid for the president’s campaign, and are now standing in line for the big payoff - billions in government contracts. Foreign policy and defense experts have warned that abandoning the treaty will strain relations with Russia, damage U.S. associations with even our allies, taint a number of other international pacts, and will likely lead to an arms buildup by China and other nations. Bush is willing to risk all this for a far-fetched scheme that would address only an infinitesimally small portion of the possible threats to America’s security and has been repeatedly shown to be unworkable, besides. But the backers of Bush’s move claim the newest vision of Star Wars is theoretically possible, because it is a drastically scaled-back version of Reagan’s missile defense "shield." The new goal is to intercept only a small number of warheads. But that’s a specious argument. Upon inspection, the Bush plan fails to overcome the very same set of problems that caused Reagan’s scheme to flounder, after wasting billions of tax dollars. The Bush Administration claims that a July 14th test over the Pacific was a success. It wasn’t. They initially said that a "kill vehicle" had intercepted a "dummy warhead." Actually it did no such thing. When newspapers discovered that what was reported as a "hit," was really a "miss," the Administration made the excuse that, "the prototype radar used to measure the collision between the interceptor and a mock warhead had malfunctioned." So in what way, exactly, was it a success? What’s even more telling is that, in the latest test, the "mock warhead" was launched carrying a device that emitted a signal to guide the "kill vehicle" right to it. It is unlikely that "rogue states" will be so accommodating. When asked about future tests supposedly scheduled for 2005 or 2006 - to deploy a laser from a satellite that would target a missile in the earth’s atmosphere - the director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization said: ""It's not clear we know how we're going to do that." He’s overstating his case. The technology to make the system work simply does not exist. The Union of Concerned Scientists and the MIT Security Studies Program have unequivocally stated that Bush’s proposed testing program "is not capable of assessing the system’s effectiveness against a realistic attack." Bush’s Star Wars is not based on science, but on science fiction. Senator Richard Durbin announced in May of this year: "I have come to the conclusion that missile defense is becoming more like faith, than science or reason. If only we believe, it will work." But will it? The best scientists in America, who’s business it is to know, have tried, again and again, to explain that, even if a system could be deployed, it could quickly and easily be defeated. The fundamental problem of countermeasures remains unsolved. Deployment would inevitably result in a never-ending game of obsolescence and "catch-up" that would require more, and more, and more, ... and even in a best-case scenario, it would result in a whole new arms race. And that’s without taking into account the fact that the system would provide no protection whatsoever from gas, or germs, or "nuclear brown bombs," or even hijacked domestic airliners, which are all far more likely threats. Incredibly, Bush is using September 11th to argue for the need to abandon the ABM treaty. Such a position is indefensible - it’s utter nonsense. The Administration has yet to explain how a missile defense system would have thwarted box-cutter wielding hijackers. Vladimir Putin recently explained in an address to the Russian Parliament that if Bush withdraws, "... we can, and will withdraw ... from the whole system of treaty relations having to do with the limitation and control of strategic and conventional arms." When Bush announces the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty next week, so he can spend billions on a faith-based, science fiction fantasy, you will not be safer. You certainly won’t be any more protected from terrorists, who have countless weapons at their disposal that are
Re: [CTRL] Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies :SuspectedIsraeli Spi--j2
-Caveat Lector- How about less theory and more conspiracy. J2 how about putting a stop to the fact that you sit and wait for anything anti-israeli and, in your blind fury, post pseudo-rebuttals... __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL 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] Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies :SuspectedIsraeli Spi--j2
In a message dated 12/14/01 6:22:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how about putting a stop to the fact that you sit and wait for anything anti-israeli and, in your blind fury, post pseudo-rebuttals... Gee that'd be nice! I bet he's next in line o'er at the JDL now huh? Biding his time...waiting his turn and POOF!! Alas there it is!! Bill.
[CTRL] Hentoff-Organize to Bring Back the Bill of Rights
http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/opinion/ashcroft.html Organize to Bring Back the Bill of Rights With Congress caving in to the Bush administration's assault on the Bill of Rights, Nat Hentoff argues that ordinary Americans will have to act to safeguard their Constitutional protections. by Nat Hentoff December 12, 2001 The chief value of Attorney General John Ashcroft's anticlimactic appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dec. 6, was his naked public contempt for the First Amendment right to dissent, coming as it did after Ashcroft had repeatedly promised that the domestic campaign against terrorism would not threaten Constitutional rights. Said Ashcroft: "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies..." So much for the hearing. True, some senators asked pertinent questions, but many key developments were never addressed. Ashcroft left as he came -- utterly confident in the overwhelming public support for his and the president's shredding of the Constitution. However, this support is based largely on the public's chronic lack of knowledge of their own constitutional rights, let alone those of non-citizens. At the hearing, the senators could and should have started to show the American populace that citizens as well as non-citizens are candidates for the Bush-Ashcroft dragnet and its assault on the Bill of Rights. For example, the attorney general was not asked about his resurrection of long-abandoned FBI practices -- practices which were set aside because they were shown to be attacks on the First and Fourth amendments. From 1956 to 1971, under an initiative known as COINTELPRO, the FBI infiltrated and disrupted political and religious groups supposedly linked to communism. Among them: anti-war and civil rights organizations, and other liberal groups dissenting from various government policies and operations. In 1975, Senator Frank Church's Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, after an extensive investigation, charged COINTELPRO with being "a sophisticated vigilante program aimed squarely at preventing the exercise of First Amendment rights or speech and association." The Church committee indignantly said that "The American people need to be reassured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers threats to the established order." But, as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have reported, that war against us has begun again as our protections against such activities are being eroded. Recent Justice Department orders suspend regulations -- insisted upon by the Church committee -- requiring the FBI to show probable cause before moving to monitor domestic political and religious groups. Today, the standards are likely to return to what they were during the days of the COINTELPRO operations. The senators should also have confronted Ashcroft with the facts of the anti-terrorism bill he championed -- The USA Patriot Act -- which radically lowers standards for electronic surveillance of telephones, emails and other computer activities and which will effect untold numbers of citizens under the bill's broad and vague definitions of terrorist activities, including "support" of terrorism. Now, the attorney general has already said that criticism of his policies gives ammunition to America's enemies, and most of Congress is clearly in fear of being targeted as disloyal and unpatriotic in the approaching 2002 elections. As a result, the only way we have to get enough members of Congress to bring back the Bill of Rights is to exert our own sustained pressure on them -- as was done in the 1960's -- with teach-ins on campuses and at town meetings; newspaper ads; marches and virtual online gatherings. Similar efforts back then changed the direction of the nation, even when the majority of Americans did not at first support either the anti-war or civil rights movements. The same can be accomplished today. During what passed for a debated on the anti-terrorism bill, the ACLU pulled together the largest and most diverse coalition of opponents to a bill I have ever seen. The members of that coalition -- left, right and center -- must not stay dormant if we are to avoid conservative Congressman Bob Barr's prophecy that "this massive suspension of civil liberties will likely set precedents that will come back to haunt us terribly." Ashcroft speaks of "phantoms of lost liberty." They are not phantoms to those already detained under the anti-terrorism campaign authorized by the bill.
[CTRL] Dead Scientists, Big Hoodoo
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=8contentid=408page=2 Dead Scientists, Big Hoodoo by PATRICIA DOYLE Over the past few weeks several world-acclaimed researchers, geniuses by many accounts, specializing in infectious diseases, as well as DNA sequencing have been found dead or have been missing. I believe these scientists were unaware of their participation in the developing of a genetic bioweapon that will wipe out as much as one third of the population on planet earth. In Novemeber, Dr. Benito Que, cell biologist working on infectious diseases like HIV was found comatose outside of his lab at the Miami Medical School. Within of week of Dr. Que's assault, Dr. Don C Wiley, foremost infectious disease researcher was declared missing. His rental car was found with a full tank of gas and the keys in the ignition. His disappearance made to look like a suicide. According to colleagues and Dr. Wiley's family, the Harvard Scientist associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute would NEVER commit suicide. Associates who attended the St. Jude's Children Research Advisory Dinner with Dr. Wiley, just hours before he disappeared, said that he was in good spirits and NOT depressed. On November 23rd, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, the foremost Soviet Biopreparat scientist who was responsible for aerosolizing plague and was the successful developer of binary weapons known as the 'Novichok group' of weapons was found dead. Dr. Pasechnik defected from the Soviet Union in 1989 while visiting the UK where he lived until his death in November. There were NO media reports of his death for one full week. At that time, an official from the UK intel community announced that Dr. Pasechnik had 'a stroke.' No autopsy or futher details were forthcoming. On December 10th, Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was found murdered in his secluded farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. Dr. Schwartz was a well-known DNA sequencing researcher. He founded the Virginia Biotechnology Association where he worked on DNA sequencing in his lab for 15 years. Halfway around the world in December, a skilled microbiologist was killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. He had logged 15 years' experience with the unit. Victoria Police said Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from work. I believe there a cabal exists in the US and that this group is responsible for the anthrax hoax mailings of 1998 and the recent, deadly anthrax mailings of 2001. This cabal consists of some members from the highest levels of Government, the Military and the Biotech Industry. There appears to be a clandestine plan to develop a virulent infectious disease and quite possibly a 21st century version of the 1918 Spainish flu or other virus. This pathogen is going to be genetically-altered to only infect a certain group of people. I believe that Dr. Wiley's research of immunity factors of viruses, bacterias and mycoplasmas will be used to create a pathogen that will NOT infect (will leave untouched) a designated genetic type. This portion of the genetic target weapon was no doubt developed with research from Dr. Schwartz. In essence, a doomsday bioweapon can be released with a guarantee that the genetic code of certain individuals, and the virus itself, will protect these individuals from infection. If an unaltered pathogen were released, such as a virulent strain of Ebola or other level 4 bioweapon, those who release it would also fall victim to it. A type of MAD, mutually assured destruction, has thus far prevented the release of Level 4 pathogens. However, if there was a bioweapon that would NOT kill those who release it, then we would see a worldwide pandemic with a protected group left unaffected by the pandemic or "plague." It has been stated throughout the Bible that when the lost 10 tribes of Israel return to their homeland to fight and win the battle of Armadeddon and Solomon's temple is rebuilt, the return of the Messiah and end of the world as we know it will be at hand. Nine of the ten tribes have been found. They have been found in areas of the world now involved in the Afghan war. One of the missing tribes is thought to be Pathan peoples of Afghanistan. Other tribes have been found in Uzbekistan, in India on the border of Burma as well as in Pakistan on the border of Afghanistan. A tribe that consists only of direct desendants of Biblical priests has been found on an island off the coast of Tunisia. There is but one tribe to be found, that is the tribe of Asher. I believe that we are going to see the prophecy of the return of lost tribes to Israel fulfilled this year. At that time, there will be a release of the genetic bioweapon created in the US under the direction of a cabal who take orders from the Antichrist. Before the year 2001 ends, there will be
Re: [CTRL] Feds Arrest Sixty Israeli Spies :SuspectedIsraeli Spi--j2
-Caveat Lector- Hey Eric - read where this Jewish Defense League guy Rubin was it? That he murdered this arab...did they get the goods on himso you see America is becoming a terrorist nation. Israel is bringing all this destruction opon the USA - just read the Lavon Affair to see how they operate - and then wonder why those 4 pilots who died in the Kamikazi planes still live? No doubt Egyptian Jews...but the little red arrows leading to a copy of a Koran - ludicrous, childish...and this little flyspeck on the map, one swat and POOF gone with the wind for he who troubles his own house, will inherit the wind. Saba 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] Failure of US to respond to Jewish Terrorism proved War On Terror is a fraud
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/JDL.html Failure of US to respond to Jewish Terrorism proved "War On Terror" is a fraud. CHAIRMAN OF JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE ARRESTED IN BOMBING PLOT! JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE PLANNED TO BOMB CONGRESSMAN'S OFFICE! The JDL's attempted bombing is terrorism by any definition of the word, and as the following will demonstrate, not the first. Now is when we see if Bush's "War On Terror" is what it claims to be, or just an excuse to grab someone else's oil. Will Bush treat Israel the way he treated Afghanistan? Or will Bush look the other way? Jewish Defense League Unleashes Campaign of Violence in America Another view of the JDL. Verbatim translations of Mexican media stories (and original source links) about Mossad agents arrested with bombs inside the Mexican Congress. A former Mossad agent blows the whistle. If it is okay to cluster bomb the innocents of Afghanistan for Osama's terror, then why is it not okay to bomb the innocents of Israel for Rubin's terror? Terror is terror. And with the arson fires against Muslim targets in Chicago, it is clear that such terror continues. The United States Goverment has declared that starving and bombing the people of Afghanistan, the forcible removal of that government, the seizure of funds and banning of all fundraising by arab groups inside the United States are all valid and legal responses to the acts of terror of which Osama bin Laden is accused, but for which proof has not yet been established. In contrast, Irv Rubin's involvement in plots to bomb targets in Los Angeles including a US Congressman has been established with far greater certainty. He was, after all, arrested with the bomb materials in hand. If Bush's "War On Terror" is legitimate, and not just a political fiction designed to justify a grab for the Caspian Sea Oil, then the same actions taken against Arab groups and Arab nations must now be taken against Jewish Groups and Jewish nations. If the people of Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq must be punished for Arab terrorists in the United States, then the people of Israel must be punished for Jewish terrorists in the United States. Every bomb into Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, etc. must be matched by a bomb into Israel if the "War On Terror" is to maintain the appearance of legitimacy. If Arab groups with suggested links to Arab terrorists can have their assets seized, their ability to fundraise halted, then so to should Jewish groups with with suggested links to Jewish terrorists have their assets seized, and their ability to fundraise halted, if the "War On Terror" is to maintain the appearance of legitimacy. Why isn't the "War On Terror" sending cruise missiles into Jeruselam with the same enthusiasm with which we sent cruise missiles to attack an aspirin factory in Sudan? Or is the "War in terror" really just a fancy and meaningless lable for the "War for other people's oil". In truth, the answer is that it is NOT appropriate to bomb the people of Israel for what Rubin has done. The people of Israel have no more control over what the Mossad does than the American people have over the CIA, which like Rubin, has a history of planting bombs among civilian populations to make their point. Likewise, the people of Afghanistan have no control over what Osama bin Laden (also CIA it should be remembered) does. Therefore it is not and never was appropriate to bomb them. The US Government is doing so ONLY because the oil company consortium planning an oil pipeline into the Caspian Sea oil fields demanded the removal of the Taliban before the start of construction, because the Taliban demanded too much for the pipeline right-of-way. The US envoy to the Taliban offered them a " "carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs". The Taliban did not think the Americans could be trusted and called off the deal. That's why bombs fall on Afghanistan and not on Israel. There is no "War on Terror". It's a war on refusing to do business with American oil corporations at the price the American oil corporations set. Mr. Rubin may have failed to destroy the Mosque and the offices of Congressman Issa, but what Mr. Rubin has succeeded in destroying is the justification for a continued bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, or the other 47 nations on Mr. Cheney's list, supposedly as punishment for ex (?) CIA agent Osama bin Laden's crimes of 9/11, if indeed he was ever guilty of them in the first place. But one action which can and must be taken to preserve the appearances of an unbiased "war on terror" is to place the JDL and all organizations linked to it on the list of terrorist organizations operating within the United States, and as a result, to freeze their asserts and to deny them the ability to raise funds for further terrorist actions. because when all is said and done, Mr. Rubin is a terrorist. And the JDL, of which he was chairman, is a terrorist organization. He, and they, must be treated as one.
[CTRL] Fwd: India Blames Pakistan (Uncle Sam's PAID Ally) for Bloodbath
---BeginMessage--- Pakistan To India: Watch Your Step * India Blames Pakistan-Based Islamic Group For Parliament Bloodbath NEW DELHI, Dec. 14, 2001 AP (CBS) India said it has evidence that a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group was to blame for the suicide attack on Parliament that claimed 12 lives. Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said Friday that India issued a formal complaint to the Pakistan High Commission claiming it has technical evidence that the attack on Parliament was the work of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants. The Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrillas denied responsibility. As tension ran high between the nuclear-armed arch enemies, Pakistan warned India against any misadventure in retaliation. Gen. Rashid Qureshi said during a discussion on state television. Pakistan would take a strong action against any border or airspace violation, he added. Five gunmen armed with AK-47s and explosives stormed the red sandstone complex in a suicide attack Thursday, killing six security force personnel and a gardener. Singh said the complaint, given to Pakistan High Commissioner Ashraf Jahangir Qazi by Indian Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyer, demanded that Pakistan halt the activities of two Pakistan-based Islamic militant groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. The demand also called on Islamabad to arrest the leaders of the militant groups and freeze their financial assets. I wish to emphasize that these demands are in accordance with necessary international obligations and commitments in countering terrorism, Singh said. We have made a demarche that India has technical evidence that yesterday's terrorist attack on Parliament House was not just against the symbol of Indian democracy and the sovereignty of the Indian people, that it was the handiwork of a terrorist organization based in Pakistan, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Singh said. The Pakistan government's response was measured. Pakistan is against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, said Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman, Aziz Ahmed Khan. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and the government have already condemned the incident. Simply issuing a statement is not enough, he said, adding India would have to provide us some evidence. The Jaish-e-Mohammed group is accused of carrying out a massive suicide bombing attack against the Jammu-Kashmir state legislature on Oct. 1. That assault claimed 40 lives and was similar to Thursday's attack on Parliament. Speaking from Islamabad, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba spokesman Yahya Mujahid said: This is drama staged by Indian intelligence agencies in collusion with the Indian government to have the jihadi (militant) groups and Pakistan declared as terrorists. India wants to use the present international atmosphere against terrorism against Pakistan. No Kashmiri group is involved in attacks on civilians. Singh would not reveal the evidence India claims to have against the militant organizations. There are obvious difficulties in revealing the evidence right now, he said. The agencies of government have many means of obtaining intelligence. He said India had held consultations with the United States and other countries to pass on this evidence. India has accused Pakistan of sponsoring and funding Islamic militants fighting for independence in the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir. India and Pakistan have gone to war twice over the territory, which both countries claim in its entirety. India has been skeptical of Pakistan's new role as a key ally in the U.S.-led global war on terrorism. Pakistan has asserted that it is with the rest of the international community in combatting terrorism and that it does not promote terrorism, Singh said. We expect that Pakistan will abide with what it says itself. Asked whether India intended to take military action against the militants on Pakistani territory, Singh said: India has said what it has to say through the voice of the statement of the Cabinet. On Thursday, the Cabinet issued a pledge to fight terrorism. We will liquidate the terrorists and their sponsors, wherever they are, whoever they are, the statement said. ©MMI, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press and Reuters Limited contributed to this report. ---End Message---
Re: [CTRL] High Crimes and Conspiracies
-Caveat Lector- Well how about this one - Globe, the cheap Tabloid, had a story on the front of their publication stating that Osama bin Laden murdered Princess Diana. So my old friend worked for Globe and the National Enquirer - made good money, but she was also MI6 and Globe and National Enquirer at the time - fronts for fronts, etc. These Tabloids can make or break someone..blackmail, the worksif a star gets out of line a little bad press can destroy them. For instance this little Wyona Ryder arrested for shoplifting over 5 thousand dollars worth of trinkets and played in the movie HEATHERS about a kid in a black trench coat who pulls a gun in a cafeteria and wants to blow up his school, and set the stage for Littleton - so they like this little star who is now 30 years old, was in the family with Timothy O'Leary - and etc., but they like her so the papers say all a big mistake. Well who the hell cares - but the stars love to read all about themselves.now I would like to have read the story as to how Osama murdered the little Princess.but, would not waste my money on same - had I been at the super market I would have read it. Now Mohamed Al Fayed - I say, I would not want this man mad at mehe lost his son, whom he obviously adored..but he was not good enough for the royal family as Prince Philip said we will not have a son of a bedoiun camel driver as a step father to the future King of England...blah, blah, blah. So the first to go was the guy in the white Fiat, one of the press who hounded the Princess to hell - her every move watchedwherever she went - they were watching herbut evidently this white Fiat left enough paint that he shared part of the blame for the death of the princessand Dodi Fayed, who of course produced Chariots of Fire.. Never saw the movie - but anyway, this reporter for the cheap Tabloid - they found him in his white Fiat, in a wooded are, car and reporter, the Chariot had been set afire, with reporter in same. Now - can't help thinking of the Astronauts at at the funeral of the Challenger Astronautsthey went down January 28, 1985 - and the Apollo astronauts died in a fiery chario of the gods.on January 27, 1967.but the Psalm they read (the astronaut) at the funeral, ws the 46th Psalm ..the Shakespearian cipher psalm, and God set their chariots afire. So - Something connects here for Acts 19 playes a role in each of the above murders assuming the little Princess Dianawhom it was said the Queen despised.was murdered and obviously she was for she and John F. Kennedy Jr. were a great threat to this New World Order bunch but most of all a threat to Israel..imagine the Princess of Wales married to a descendent of the Pharoahs of Egypt. So as the stomach churns - the show musta go on. Can you imagine Osama bin Laden involved in the murder of the Princess of Wales - the Princess used to stay at Goldie Hawns house when in USA and prior to her death she had met with her astrologer psychic - she might have well as met with Jack the Ripper. So - guess who subsidizes all these cheap Tabloids - did you ever notice there are always so many left when new ones come in? Murdochs New York Post is subsidized by Murdoch .. and it was his Star that had the first anthrax letter as I recall.. Does anybody really care? saba 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] UBL Tape (some ongoing observations)
-Caveat Lector- On 13 Dec 2001, at 11:33, RevCOAL wrote: Some of my preliminary thoughts/observations: 3. UBL looks a tad tubbier than he has in other tapes That's cause those caves in Tora Bora are world-famous for their goat curry. sno0wl 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] High Crimes and Conspiracies
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Saba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well how about this one - Globe, the cheap Tabloid, had a story on the front of their publication stating that Osama bin Laden murdered Princess Diana. I saw that one at the local convenience store. The Globe is about a half-step from the Weekly World News, but not nearly as funny. I'll even buy the WWN for the fantastic (and completely fake) alien and/or Satan and/or Batboy pictures. If they gave away The Globe, I might read it just for kicks ... but again, it's not really that funny. - jt 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] High Crimes and Conspiracies
-Caveat Lector- The Enquirer you can tell so obvious now Joshua R, it is really a propaganda tool. Used to be you would not see a President of the United States in these publicationsnow you see Gary Condit and the Clintons on their front pages - and they obviously think this is big timing it to get in the tabloids. Always wondered about this one thing - who the hell cares about the private lives of the Royal Family of England for without the Tabloids, one would never read of them. It is said you cannot embarrass or insult a Royal.National Enquirer few weeks ago called George Bush Our Hero and some of this stuff on Giuliani - well they are making celebrity status. Now this is where you can tell the difference between a Star and a Cometso that is why I assume was it Emerson who said Hitch Your Wagon to a Star - for comets always seem on a disaser course. Tabloids needed something to get involved and are trying to acquire respectibility again but when they do, nobody will buy them I suppose. Think most people do as I do - when standing in line at a Super Market I read them not because I am to cheap to buy them, but am just passing time. The linking of Osama bin Laden to the death of Princess Diana is just a little too muchbut I am wondering if Mohamed Al Fayed did not get a certain amount of revenge for he has the money and connections without a doubt to carry out such a plan - he is Egyptian. Propaganda is all..unsolved mysteries and crimes all deserve equal time and space, but those Tabloids - just think, MSNBC had to get news from the Tabloids and they are so stupid they do not realize who and what is behind the Tabloids. I believe Globe had advance information that JFK Jr. was going to be killed - and no matter where he was that day - he would have been killed .. These reporters way back in late 70 period then some made $50,000 per year for just a story or two.my old friend wrote or them strictly for the money and you sign contracts (she was also their astrologer and astrologer to Reagan - nice to have a spy working for a Tabloid??) Pretty bad when to get the facts and nothing but the facts, you have to find a foreign press with no personal axe to garind. Putting Presidents on TV shows and in Tabloids adds celebrity status - and cheapens the offices..no more Gary Condits and Bill Clintons, please O'Saba 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] Trimmin' The Fat
-Caveat Lector- From www.wsws.org WSWS : News Analysis : North America US companies shed 800,000 jobs in two months Retail sales drop a record 3.7 percent By David Walsh 15 December 2001 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author Retail sales dropped by a record 3.7 percent in the US in November, led by an 11.9 percent plunge in auto sales. The large declines followed big increases in October, when consumers responded to free financing offers from the automakers. Excluding the wide swings in auto sales, retail sales were still weak in November, dropping by 0.5 percent. Fueling the drop in spending has been the loss of some 800,000 jobs in the past two months through layoffs, as the US economy officially entered into recession for the first time since 1990-91. There have been more than 1.6 million layoffs so far in 2001. The number of job cuts carried out by individual corporations this year is staggering: General Electric, 75,000; Nortel Networks, 50,000; Lucent Technologies, 40,000; Motorola, 39,000; B oeing, 38,600; DaimlerChrysler, 28,700; Montgomery Ward, 28,000; Solectron, 20,850; UAL Corp. (parent of United Airlines), 20,000; AMR Corp. (parent of American Airlines), 20,000; Honeywell, 16,000; General Motors, 15,000 , and so on. In the newest wave of job cuts, telecommunications company Qwest the dominant phone company in 14 Midwestern and Western statesannounced December 13 that it was cutting its workforce by 7,000, or more than 11 percent. Q west Chairman Joseph Nacchio remarked, Demand is weaker across all our product lines. The company acquired Baby Bell US West last year. The day before, financial services giant American Express reported that it was slashing 6,500 jobs. The company, which helps companies with their travel plans and issues credit cards, has cut 15 percent of its workforce s ince the beginning of the year. The firm is hurting as a result of the global slump in travel. Travel sales fell 46 percent in October from the same month in 2000, and about 38 percent in November. According to Reuters, The stock market downturn also is taking a toll on American Express, which has extensive money management operations. The companys Wall Street rivals have fired thousands of people as money made from selling stocks, bond s, and mutual funds evaporated. Aetna, the managed health care provider headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, is planning to cut 6,000 jobs, or 16 percent of its total employees. More than 4,000 will be laid off, while the other positions will be lost through attrition. Last month Aetna posted a third-quarter loss of $54.4 million. The firm is the countrys leading provider of health care and related group benefits, serving 17.5 million health care members, 13.7 milli on dental members and 11.7 million group insurance customers. These numbers are down considerably from a year ago. Chip equipment maker Applied Materials announced December 12 that it will cut 1,700 jobs in response to the continuing slump in the semiconductor industry. In September, the company cut 2,000 workers from its payroll. LTV Corp., the bankrupt steel company, is laying off more than 1,600 workers at its Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago. A number of steel companies, including U.S. Steel (a division of USX), Bethlehem Steel and Wheeling -Pittsburgh Steel are currently engaged in merger talks. LTV is not included. LTV is going out of business. We are marketing the facilities, and our first choice is to sell them as an entire unity, but some portions may be sold off separately, commented a spokesman for the Cleveland-based company. On December 7, Sheffield Steel, a small producer in Oklahoma, became the 29th US steel company to file for bankruptcy since 1997. Firestone Tire closed its Decatur, Illinois plant on Friday, throwing 1,500 workers out of their jobs, including many with decades of experience. Many of the tires cited over the past year in rollover deaths, mostly in Fo rd sport utility vehicles, were manufactured at the plant, resulting in millions of recalls. The largest supermarket operator in the US, Kroger Co., disclosed plans December 11 to slash 1,500 jobs, primarily management and clerical positions. The company reported its third- quarter earnings fell by 33 percent and promptly saw the value of its shares drop by 12 percent. Kroger operates 2,401 supermarkets in 32 states under two dozen names, and employs some 310,000 people. Delphi, the Troy, Michigan-based auto parts maker, announced December 10 that it will lay off an additional 1,400 employees because of an expected slowdown in auto sales. Delphi revealed a restructuring plan last March, c alling for the elimination of 11,500 positions, the closing or consolidation of nine plants and the reduction of the workforce at more than 40 others. Textbook publisher and financial information provider McGraw-Hill, whose properties include Business
[CTRL] Connect the Enron Dots to Bush
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:16:34 -0800 From: Russ Kick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Konformist: Connect the Enron Dots to Bush To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Unlimited PC-PC calling at Crystal Voice! - Only $1/Mo. Download your free 30 day trial. Click here. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Gb1xVB/GxbDAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM -~- LA Times, 11 Dec 2001 Connect the Enron Dots to Bush Robert Scheer Enron is Whitewater in spades. This isn't just some rinky-dink land investment like the one dredged up by right-wing enemies to haunt the Clinton White House--but rather it has the makings of the greatest presidential scandal since the Teapot Dome. The Bush administration has a long and intimate relationship with Enron, whose much-discredited chairman, Kenneth L. Lay, was a primary financial backer of George W. Bush's rise to the presidency. It was Enron that provided the model for the administration's trickle-down attempt to revive an economy that's been in steep decline during Bush's tenure. That model gives the fat-cat corporate hotshots everything they want in return for bankrolling political campaigns. Not to worry about the rest of us because, hey, what's good for Enron is good for America. That it hasn't been is now painfully clear. What did Enron get in return for its contributions? It got its way on deregulation, for one thing. Remember when the administration refused to assist California and other states during the energy crisis, and consumers paid the steep price? So greedy was Enron that it locked its own workers into a pension plan based on inflated company stock values and suspect hidden partnerships, while the top leadership led by Lay made out like bandits. Bush should be called as a witness in the congressional hearings scheduled to unravel this mess. One thing that should come up in the hearings is then-Gov. Bush's October 1997 telephone call on behalf of Lay to then-Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to help Enron crack into the tightly regulated Pennsylvania electricity market. I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on, Lay told the New York Times about the 1997 phone call, and I said that it would be very helpful to Enron, which is obviously a large company in the state of Texas, if he could just call the governor [of Pennsylvania] and tell him [Enron] is a serious company, this is a professional company, a good company. Since we now know Enron lacked those virtues, it's clear Bush was used to sell a bill of goods to the unsuspecting Pennsylvania folks. That Lay was instrumental in Bush's rise to the presidency is indisputable. Since 1993, Lay and top Enron executives donated nearly $2 million to Bush. Lay also personally donated $326,000 in soft money to the Republican Party in the three years prior to Bush's presidential bid, and he was one of the Republican pioneers who raised $100,000 in smaller contributions for Bush. Lay's wife donated $100,000 for inauguration festivities. As governor, Bush did what Enron wanted, cutting taxes and deregulating utilities. The deregulation ideology, which George W. long had adopted as gospel, allowed dubious bookkeeping and other acts of chicanery that shocked Wall Street and drove a $60-billion company, seventh on the Fortune 500 list, into bankruptcy. This emerging scandal makes Whitewater seem puny in comparison; clearly there ought to be at least as aggressive a congressional inquiry into the connection between the Bush administration and the Enron debacle. Facts must be revealed, beginning with the content of Lay's private meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney to create the administration's energy policy. What was Lay's role in the sudden replacement of Curtis Hebert Jr. as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman? As the New York Times reported, Hebert had barely settled into his new job this year when he had an unsettling telephone conversation with Kenneth L. Lay, [in which Lay] prodded him to back ... a faster pace in opening up access to the electricity transmission grid to companies like Enron. Lay admits making the call but in an unctuous defense of his influence peddling said, The final decision on [Hebert's job] was going to be the president's, certainly not ours. Soon after, Hebert was replaced by Texan Pat Wood, who was favored by Lay. Other questions: Was there any conflict of interest in the roles played by key Bush aides? Political advisor Karl Rove owned as much as $250,000 in Enron stock. And economic advisor Larry Lindsay and Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick went straight from Enron's payroll to their federal jobs. There are other Enron alum in the
