[CTRL] Iraq Inspections
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Iraq ready to let weapons inspectors back in
Ewen MacAskill in Baghdad
Tuesday April 30, 2002
The Guardian
Iraq is preparing to back down on its refusal to allow UN weapons inspectors to
return to the country in the hope that this will avert a US attack.
The US and Britain have led calls for Iraq to permit the UN weapons inspectors to
establish whether Saddam Hussein is hiding biological and chemical weapons and
developing a nuclear capability.
Iraqi willingness to cave in, after more than two years blocking the entry of the
inspectors, comes amid reports that the US is planning an invasion of Iraq early next
year.
The Iraqi foreign minister, Naji Sabri al-Hadithi, is to begin three days of talks in
New
York tomorrow with the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, to discuss the weapons
inspectors and sanctions.
According to a participant in discussions at the Iraqi foreign ministry in recent days,
the Iraqi government will compromise, though it may try to string out the negotiations.
"I think it is now very likely that the inspectors will return," the participant said.
Both President Saddam and his deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, are said to be
extremely worried about the threats from the White House. The Iraqi government is
said to believe that any attack will be by missiles but does not know whether the
targets will be confined to military, presidential and ministry sites or will include
civilian infrastructure, such as power plants.
The UN weapons inspectors, who first went into Iraq after the 1991 Gulf war, spent
seven years checking whether Saddam had a hidden arsenal. They left before the
US and Britain bombed Baghdad in 1998.
Both the US and Britain insist that Saddam has built up his arsenal in the absence of
the inspectors. Iraq denies it.
Mr al-Hadithi will tell Mr Annan that the weapons inspectors can return but will try to
set conditions. The main one is that the inspections be time-limited rather than, as
previously, indefinite. Another condition is that they are not allowed into Saddam's
presidential palaces.
The Iraqis may be willing to back down on the second condition. The participant in
the foreign ministry talks said that the inspectors had been allowed in before: "It is
nonsense to think that Saddam would sleep above a pile of biological and chemical
weapons."
In the talks with Mr Annan, the Iraqi government will press him to be even-handed,
claiming it is a breach of international law for President George Bush to declare he
wants to overthrow the head of another sovereign state.
Mr al-Hadithi will also challenge Mr Annan on the legitimacy of US and British planes
attacking Iraqi positions and the continuation of sanctions, which are under the
auspices of the UN but are only vigorously pursed by the US and Britain.
Also on the agenda for New York is a new set of sanctions, in which almost all goods
other than military would be allowed through. Iraq opposes this, claiming the UN
would still retain control over Iraqi spending.
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[CTRL] How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:58:52 + From: robalini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Konformist: How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown April 26, 2002 --- Bullying people from your town to China Corporations rule. No other institution comes close to matching the power that the 500 biggest corporations have amassed over us. The clout of all 535 members of Congress is nothing compared to the individual and collective power of these predatory behemoths that now roam the globe, working their will over all competing interests. The aloof and pampered executives who run today's autocratic and secretive corporate states have effectively become our sovereigns. >From who gets health care to who pays taxes, from what's on the news to what's in our food, they have usurped the people's democratic authority and now make these broad social decisions in private, based solely on the interests of their corporations. Their attitude was forged back in 1882, when the villainous old robber baron William Henry Vanderbilt spat out: "The public be damned! I'm working for my stockholders." The media and politicians won't discuss this, for obvious reasons, but we must if we're actually to be a self-governing people. That's why the Lowdown is launching this occasional series of corporate profiles. And why not start with the biggest and one of the worst actors? The beast from Bentonville Wal-Mart is now the world's biggest corporation, having passed ExxonMobil for the top slot. It hauls off a stunning $220 billion a year from We the People (more in revenues than the entire GDP of Israel and Ireland combined). Wal-Mart cultivates an aw-shucks, we're-just-folks-from-Arkansas image of neighborly small-town shopkeepers trying to sell stuff cheaply to you and yours. Behind its soft homespun ads, however, is what one union leader calls "this devouring beast" of a corporation that ruthlessly stomps on workers, neighborhoods, competitors, and suppliers. Despite its claim that it slashes profits to the bone in order to deliver "Always Low Prices," Wal-Mart banks about $7 billion a year in profits, ranking it among the most profitable entities on the planet. Of the 10 richest people in the world, five are Waltonsthe ruling family of the Wal-Mart empire. S. Robson Walton is ranked by London's "Rich List 2001" as the wealthiest human on the planet, having sacked up more than $65 billion (£45.3 billion) in personal wealth and topping Bill Gates as No. 1. Wal-Mart and the Waltons got to the top the old-fashioned wayby roughing people up. The corporate ethos emanating from the Bentonville headquarters dictates two guiding principles for all managers: extract the very last penny possible from human toil, and squeeze the last dime from every supplier. With more than one million employees (three times more than General Motors), this far-flung retailer is the country's largest private employer, and it intends to remake the image of the American workplace in its imagewhich is not pretty. Yes, there is the happy-faced "greeter" who welcomes shoppers into every store, and employees (or "associates," as the company grandiosely calls them) gather just before opening each morning for a pep rally, where they are all required to join in the Wal-Mart cheer: "Gimme a `W!'" shouts the cheerleader; "W!" the dutiful employees respond. "Gimme an A!'" And so on. Behind this manufactured cheerfulness, however, is the fact that the average employee makes only $15,000 a year for full-time work. Most are denied even this poverty income, for they're held to part-time work. While the company brags that 70% of its workers are full-time, at Wal-Mart "full time" is 28 hours a week, meaning they gross less than $11,000 a year. Health-care benefits? Only if you've been there two years; then the plan hits you with such huge premiums that few can afford itonly 38% of Wal-Marters are covered. Thinking union? Get outta here! "Wal-Mart is opposed to unionization," reads a company guidebook for supervisors. "You, as a manager, are expected to support the company's position. . . . This may mean walking a tightrope between legitimate campaigning and improper conduct." Wal-Mart is in fact rabidly anti-union, deploying teams of union- busters from Bentonville to any spot where there's a whisper of organizing activity. "While unions might be appropriate for other companies, they have no place at Wal-Mart," a spokeswoman told a Texas Observer reporter who was covering an NLRB hearing on the company's manhandling of 11 meat-cutters who worked at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jacksonville, Texas. These derring-do employees were sick of working harder and longe
[CTRL] Konformist: BUSH OUSTS LEADERS OF THREE U.N. ORGANIZATIO
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:33:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Rolf Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Konformist: BUSH OUSTS LEADERS OF THREE U.N. ORGANIZATIONS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM -~-> (Like I've been saying all along. The US runs the UN) >From Democracy Now: http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow.html Story: FROM THE COUP IN VENEZUELA TO THE COUP IN THE UNITED NATIONS: BUSH ADMINISTRATION OUSTS LEADERS OF THREE U.N. ORGANIZATIONS The US dismissed the head the international agency charged with ridding the world of chemical weapons earlier this week. The popular Brazilian diplomat Jose Bustani had just been re-elected to a 5 year term. He had tried to get Iraq to join the organization. Critics say hardliners in Washington feared Iraq's membership would undercut their plans to attack Iraq on the grounds that the country is keeping out international weapons inspectors. Days before, the Bush administration ousted the head of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Robert Watson. Oil giant Exxon Mobil, who is a major contributor to the Bush campaign, had sent a memo to the White House requesting his removal. U.N. Human Rights Commission chief Mary Robinson has agreed to step down under U.S. pressure. Guest: Ian Williams, author of The U.N. for Beginners. Real Audio - http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20020426.ra&star t=36:10.0 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- End of forwarded message --- "In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes." http://www.truthout.com Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl 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] Is War a Ritual Human Sacrifice?
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Is War a Ritual Human Sacrifice?
by Acharya S
The purpose in exploring the connection between war and religion is to carefully examine deep wounds within the human familial body, particularly that arising from the last World War, a wound still very raw and representing far more than just a brief aberration in human history and in the mass human psyche. Indeed, WWII is a study of the entire human history condensed into decades. It contains all paradigms, ideologies and psychoses that possess the human mind. It represents a culmination of energies that have been fomenting and festering for millennia. And it is not over.
When one studies WWII, it becomes clear that no one group is entirely exculpable and no one is wholly to blame. It also turns out that this hideous affair, in which tens of millions were tortured and slaughtered, could have easily been predicted—and thus possibly prevented—had not history been suppressed, changed and censored for the benefit of a relative few. If there is one thing we can blame in the entire psychotic episode, it is censorship, now appearing in a milder form as "political correctness," which ordinarily would prevent us from discussing these painful and gruesome subjects. Yet the tendency toward fascistic censorship is just one of the ugly aspects of the human psyche required for such an orgy of insanity and violence to continue. The idea of a certain individual, group, nation or race being "chosen" or "superior" is another important factor.
This megalomania is usually accompanied by a belief that a god or THE god of the entire cosmos is favoring this "chosen" or "superior" race, group or individual above all others, an arrogant conceit that should be evident as being false. This mental illness, also called religion, is profound in the human species, and is at the root of practically all wars, those of the 20th century included, despite claims by religionists that Nazism and Communism were "godless" and "atheistic," a charge also laid against early Christians for their disbelief in the typical form of the supernatural. In addition to the following facts: that Communism is admitted by Jewish authorities to be a Jewish creation (Jewish Encyclopedia; The American Hebrew, 1920); that Hitler claimed all along to be a devout Catholic and gave many favors to the Catholic Church; and that Stalin had been groomed for the Russian Orthodox priesthood, is the fact that these dictators, as well as other dictators of the past, believed themselves to be chosen, superior, or destined to rule by supernatural forces that they attempted to propitiate. Be it "God" or the "Devil," it is still religion.
World War II did not happen in a vacuum. It was preceded by millennia of the same behavior on a smaller scale involving the same type of players. In particular, the history of the Germans and the Jews is oddly intertwined, beginning over 1,000 years ago in Germany. However, the conflict between these groups goes back to the time of the foundation of Judaism, i.e., the creation of the oppressive Law (7-6th centuries BCE) that Jewish or "Zionist" leaders imposed upon their often hapless followers. Even prior to that, the area in which Judaism arose was subjected to a number of invasions and continuous battling between and among Semites and Japhethites ("Aryans" or Caucasians). However, they also intermingled, such that "the Hebrews/Israelites" were not of one race, as confirmed by "Ezekiel," who said of them, "your father is an Amorite, your mother a Hittite," i.e., Semites and Japhethites, as well as being "sons of Ham" (Canaanite/ African/ Cushite).
In reality, the creation of Christianity was an attempt to unify these various warring factions, while on the one hand raising up the Jews and their God as "the chosen" ("salvation is from the Jews" Jn. 4:22) and on the other striving to end the exploitative Law and bloody sacrifices of the priesthood, which included human sacrifice and cannibalism. Of course, Christianity also incorporated human sacrifice in its exhortations to martyrdom. Furthermore, in order to end human sacrifice, the Christians had to sacrifice millions of humans! Indeed, human sacrifice was prevalent in many societies prior to the Common Era, including in the form of warfare, crusades, pogroms, inquisitions, ad nauseam, often purported by their orchestrators to serve the purpose of "obeying," "worshipping" or "propitiating" "God" in some way or another.
The Cult of Human Sacrifice
In fact, a tremendous portion of the Old Testament is a chronicle of genocide, human and animal sacrifice, and regicide—the sacrifice of the sacred king. Because of propaganda that the biblical peoples were "the chosen" and, therefore, everything they represented was "godly," the naïve masses are not aware of the bloodiness of the Old Testament, or of the gospel story serving as a record of a human sacrifice ritual based on the ubiquitous sol
[CTRL] Frontlie - fuster, offender lists, priests, mahony, 36% believe Gore won
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors Debunking Frontline's - Did Daddy Do It? ""Frank Fuster was living the American dream." Or so claims Frontline in the first sentence of promotional material for the April 25, 2002 program, "Did Daddy Do It?" Fuster had "a new house in the suburbs, a successful landscaping business, and a new wife." Then, according to the highly-acclaimed PBS program, Fuster "found himself" charged with sexually abusing children in their home day care. His subsequent conviction, considered ironclad by many, was the target of this hour-long program. But Frank Fuster was not living the American dream. He was on probation for a 1982 child molestation conviction for a lewd and lascivious assault on an nine-year-old girl. Fuster also served four years in New York for manslaughter, after shooting a man in after a traffic accident and then threatening an off-duty policeman with his loaded rifle. His "new wife" was also his third wife, a girl barely sixteen years old whose status as an immigrant was unsure. His business was not profitable. And he gained custody of his son after threatening his ex-wife's life if she contested the matter." http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/PBS/ Providence Journal - 04/26/2002 Frontline embraces child molester - Ross E. Cheit " Trial documents show that at the time of his arrest, Fuster was already on parole for child molestation, having been found guilty of squeezing the breasts and genital area of a 9-year-old girl two years before. He'd also served four years in a New York prison for manslaughter -- a charge that Frontline lets him dismiss unchallenged as an "accident." Court records, however, show that Fuster shot an unarmed man to death after a traffic dispute in the Bronx, in full view of an off-duty police officer." >From Lynne Moss-Sharman Sex Offender Registers and other information http://www.prevent-abuse-now.com/register.htm from Lynne Moss-Sharman "Catholic priest sex scandal isn't limited to United States - Dozens of similar cases are reported worldwide - Knight Ridder/tribune - 4/28/02 "London - The Vatican summit of American cardinals helped focus worldwide attention on the scandal of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the United States, but dozens of similar cases in other countries show the problem is not limited to Americangland's 4 million minority Catholic community has been rocked by scandal as well: 21 Catholic priests and bishops received criminal abuse convictions from 1995 to 1999. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.churches28apr28.story?coll=3Dbal %2Dho=meheadlines=20 Mouth Wide Shut - Cardinal Roger Mahony's harboring of pedo-priests didn't just start with the current Roman Catholic sex scandal. As his protection of a predator cleric in Stockton reveals, he's been at it for a long time by Ron RussellLawyers for two boys molested by O'Grady, James and Joh Howard, argued that Mahony and other diocesan officials knew that O'Grady was a child molester and that they covered it up for years, during which time the Irish-born priest abused at least 20 children." Http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2002-04-18/feature.html/1/index.html http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27408 Poll: 36% believe Gore won election But only 23% think things would be better with Al as president -- -- April 26, 2002 - Acording to a recent poll by Scott Rasmussen Public Opinion Research, 36 percent of Americans believe that Al Gore really won the last presidential election, but only 23 percent believe the country would be better off today with Gore in the White House. A slight majority, 52 percent, disagree with the statement that the former Vice President won the last presidential election, while 12 percent aren't sure. A larger majority, 56 percent, believes that the country is better off today with Bush as president, while another 12 percent say it would be pretty much the same with either man in office. http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EM
[CTRL] Please Don’t Inspect Iraq!!
http://polyconomics.com/showarticle.asp?heading=Memo+on+the+Margin Please Don’t Inspect Iraq!! Memo To: Rep. Henry Hyde, House International Relations From: Jude Wanniski Re: Iraq’s Threat to its Neighbors I tuned in Saturday to watch you interviewed on CNN’s Novak, Hunt & Shields, Henry, and decided I had to e-mail you the column by Gordon Prather that I had just read on WorldNetDaily.com. You indicated on air that you believed we may have to intervene militarily in Iraq if our intelligence discovers that it is getting close to acquiring weapons of mass destruction, and that you thought they may be in that position now. Dr. Prather, who is a nuclear physicist who served as deputy assistant secretary of the army for science and technology in the Reagan administration, believes the Pentagon’s civilian intellectuals know that Iraq does not have nuclear weapons or chem/bio weapons. He believes they are no threat to their neighbors, which is why we see the Pentagon trying to prevent the United Nations from sending chem/bio inspectors into Iraq along with the nuclear inspectors that have been there all along. They want to demolish the Baghdad regime and will invent any excuse it can to do so. Why? They want to eliminate any theoretical possibility that Iraq could threaten Israel as Israel refuses to permit a Palestinian state. The story they spread about Iraq’s weapons is what they hope to use as the pretext for another engagement. You really should make a serious effort to sift through the material coming to you, Henry, if only to assure yourself that you are not being manipulated. -- Supercritical Thoughts Gordon Prather - WMD in Iraq? Don't ask By Gordon Prather You remember Bill Clinton, don’t you? The guy who bombed tents in Afghanistan, aspirin factories in Sudan and just about every structure in Iraq left standing after the Gulf War? To take your attention away from minor embarrassments – such as the House of Representatives impeaching him? Yeah, that’s the guy. Clinton claimed he did most of that bombing because he suspected Saddam was about to produce ‘weapons of mass destruction’. Of course, you were led to believe Saddam was about to produce nukes, not another crock of wheat smut. You see, Saddam was known to have already developed and stockpiled chemical and biological weapons – and never used them. Nothing to suspect, there. But Saddam hadn’t been able to develop nukes. Aha! Bombs Away! Now, U.N. Resolution 687 -- which establishes the terms and conditions for the formal cease-fire in the Gulf War -- never defines ‘weapons of mass destruction’. The authors simply declare that they were “conscious of the threat that all weapons of mass destruction pose to peace and security in the area and of the need to work towards the establishment in the Middle East of a zone free of such weapons”. Resolution 687 required Iraq to accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless -- under the supervision of a special UN commission called UNSCOM -- of all chemical, biological weapons and ballistic missiles [with a range greater than 150 kilometers] as well as any subsystems or components or any research, development, support or manufacturing facilities. It also required Iraq to accept “urgent on-site inspection and the destruction, removal or rendering harmless” -- under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency -- of all “nuclear-weapons-usable material or any subsystems or components or any research, development, support or manufacturing facilities”. So, nukes, chem-weapons, bio-weapons and ballistic missiles have become in the lexicon ‘weapons of mass destruction’. The primary purpose of UN Resolution 687 is to force Iraq to comply with certain existing UN agreements. First, there is the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons -- to which Iraq is a signatory. The NPT verification mechanism is provided by the IAEA. Then, there’s the UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction -- to which Iraq is a signatory. The BTWC of 1972 didn’t provide for an effective mechanism for verifying compliance. Resolution 687 effectively provides such a verification mechanism for Iraq. Finally, there’s the UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction – to which Iraq is not a signatory. An effective mechanism for verifying CWT compliance has been established – the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Resolution 687 effectively provides the OPCW verification mechanism for Iraq. OPCW has already inventoried all 8.6 million chemical weapons “declared” by CWT signatories. One fifth of these chem-weapons -- together with 6,000 tonnes of chemical agents -- have actually been destroyed. All former chem-weapon production facilities have been shut down and
[CTRL] . . . At least, that's how we've been instructed to think. . . .
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes = Political Manipulation and Mond control in America Jonathan Vankin Pargon House©1992 319 pages - an oldie but a goodie. Om K - --The meaning of terrorism comes down to the meaning of "us" and "them." "They" are the poor, blacks, foreigners, and so on. "We" are American mainstream, white folks with a little money in our pockets. The reason the "we" seem so eager to accept that terrorism is a threat only from the extreme left is that the extreme left threatens "us." Since communism was concocted, Americans have been indoctrinated with the notion that the Left wants to take away all the things we treasure so deeply. The right wing, conversely and more comfortingly, is primarily concerned with them-minorities, the poor, foreigners-and directs its violence away from us. Right-wing terrorism isn't very terrifying because it doesn't terrorize us. At least, that's how we've been instructed to think. Despite the American delusion of terrorism as a left-wing phenomena carried out by radical Marxists lauding the people's struggle as they bomb department stores and gun down tourists, the right-wing, "Black International" is actually far more entrenched. The movement was founded by Skorzeny and other Nazis, include ing, "Butcher of Lyons" Klaus Barble, and, perhaps most important, the enigmatic old guard Nazi financier Francols Genoud. That conspiracy could not have formed, it's fair to say, without sustenance from the CIA. The CIA helped Nazis, Barbie among them, escape prosecution for war crimes. It used them as intelligence "assets," set them up with new lives and some of them with new identities. The right-wing terror network is still in evidence today. Palestinian terrorist organizations are part of it. Their spark was lit by Skorzeny and his SS compadres backed by the CIA. Agency connections reveal themselves right up to the present. The CIA schmoozed with Ali Hassan Salameh, leader of Black September, mastermind of the 1972 Munich massacre at the Olympics. The agency was so keen to make Salameh an "asset" that it gave him an all-expense paid vacation in sunny Honolulu. Salameh's day at the beach came to an end when the long arm of Israeli vengeance got to him in 1979. But the Israelis waited to hit Salameh until they'd received clearance from the CIA. Still more recently, as commandos backed by Iran and Libya were holding American hostages and staging suicide attacks against U.S. servicemen, a network of arms dealers based in the White House was arming Iran at the behest of CIA chief (and longtime intelligence agent) William Casey. That operation was the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal.-- 13 CIA: THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSPIRACY There exists in our nation today a powerful and dangerous secret cultthe cult of intelligence. VICTOR MARCHETTI and JOHN D. MARKS, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence The United States Central Intelligence Agency was created on September 18, 1947, when Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act. Most of the debate over the act centered on its restructuring of the military. The Army and Navy were joined, the Air Force was created, and all three branches were placed under the secretary of defense, a new position. All but lost on the public, and Congress as well, was an equally unsettling concentration of power. The act brought the nation's numerous intelligence services under a single department. It seemed almost an afterthought. Following the chaos of Pearl Harbor, the government was desperate to assemble some sort of clearing house for intelligence. Eisenhower himself bemoaned the "glaring deficiencies" of the manifold intelligence bureaus. Virtually every agency of the U.S. government has an intelligence wing. The Central Intelligence Agency was chartered to collect information from those diverse outfits, and pull it into a neat little package for the president. Hence the name, "Central" Intelligence Agency. The CIA was to be the central station through which all intelligence was routed. The CIA was never meant to do its own spying. And it certainly wasn't meant to conduct clandestine operations. The original purpose of the CIA was to summarize and analyze the information turned up by other intelligence operations. It was a report-writingdepartment. Truman's intention appeared innocuous-to create a smoother running intelligence collation machine. But when he'd created the CIA's immediate predecessor, the Central Intelligence Group a year earlier, Truman celebrated by throwing a party at which guests were presented with cloaks, daggers, and black hats. Strange, for a bunch of supposed pencil pushers. Truman was a devoted Mason, and therefore accustomed to clandestine rituals and bizarre symbolism. Maybe he was just being funny. Truman's possible true purpose notwithstanding, almost every thing the CIA does today violates the terms of its creation. The CIA's one loophole is a fuzzy phrase
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] New book examines the war against gold
--- Begin Message --- 7:53p ET Monday, April 29, 2002 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Our great friend and gold's great friend Ferdinand Lips has just written a book about the international struggle we're all engaged in. The book's title is "Gold Wars: The Battle Against Sound Money as Seen from a Swiss Perspective." Here's what Harry Schultz of the International Harry Schultz Letter says about it: "'Gold Wars' is extraordinary. It will be a classic. It is past, present, and future -- not only for and about gold but about society and what hope there is for liberty. At last you will understand what the gold standard really was, and why politicians make war on gold. You will want 50 copies for your best friends, press, and politicians. 'Gold Wars,' the best book ever written about gold." There's a publicity page about the book at the Internet site of Larry Parks' great organization, the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education, here: http://www.fame.org/goldwars.htm Please check it out. The page has links to the Amazon and Barnes & Noble Internet bookstores, so, if you like what you see, you can order those 50 copies of "Gold Wars" -- or even one, as I just did. CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/WfTolB/TM";>Click Here! -~-> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- End Message ---
[CTRL] Ain't the Internet neat . . Vreeland direct
-Caveat Lector- http://pub61.ezboard.com/fltvreelanddotcomfrm3.showMessageRange?topicID=7.topi c&start=1&stop=20 - Auhor Comment Calypso Registered User (4/14/02 6:17:09 pm) Reply Lt Vreeland I notice the term 'lian charter' on your note. What does that mean? ltvreeland ezOP (4/14/02 7:16:51 pm) Reply Community Supporter Re: Lt Vreeland Sorry, it states " Lian Chemical " Malasia. deoiler Registered User (4/14/02 9:06:14 pm) Reply Re: Lt Vreeland Lt Vreeland, We are doing some research on the Russian Oil companies Sibir and Evikhon. Can you tell us if there are any connections to US Oil companies that you are aware of. Thanks, deoiler ltvreeland ezOP (4/15/02 4:26:20 am) Reply Community Supporter Re: Lt Vreeland Can't say specifically what companies, but will say most assuradle that it is a very large part of the picture. I have been doing some oil research myself lately, mostly in the bush and cheny oil arena deoiler Registered User (4/15/02 5:21:21 pm) Reply The Oil Wars Part 2 Lt Vreeland, Here is some real information on the "War on Terrorism" currently being conducted by the USA for Big Oil. We can understand your reluctance to endanger the cutouts and "clean" agents, but surely you have no desire to protect the criminals of the New World Order who are attempting to rearrange the global economy by standing atop the bodybags of the innocent. As you can see much of the info is already out on the internet. We need names of the guilty parties. Chechnya: More Blood for Oil by Karen Talbot Media analysts and U.S. officials have been nervously trying to assess the "bewildering" policies of Russias Acting President Vladimir Putin, especially his actions in Chechnya. As the Russian elections approach in which Putin is favored to win the presidency, he increasingly is being dubbed as a nationalist even though he claims to be defending the territorial integrity and economic base of Russia in the face of escalating incursions on the part of the U.S. and other western countries. That there are grounds for these concerns on the part of the Russians is confirmed by numerous statements and articles in the western press such as the following one by William Pfaff: "The United States also is intervening in the Caspian region to establish an American-dominated oil pipeline route across Azerbaijan and Georgia, cutting out Russia, which is linked to a larger effort to displace Russian influence in the Caucasus and Central Asia."1 Chechnya, the Caucasus, and Caspian Basin Oil Nine years ago, the peoples of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union voted on the question: Should the Soviet Union dissolve itself, so Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and the other republics would become independent countries? Boris Yeltsin, supported by the Bush administration, championed such a breakup of the U.S.S.R. in an intense year-long campaign across the country. On March 17, 1991, 75 percent of the Soviet people voted overwhelmingly to retain the U.S.S.R.; nevertheless, within nine months, the Soviet Union was dissolved as Yeltsin took power.2 Now, those "independent" former republics of the U.S.S.R. are economically and militarily dependent on the U.S., major countries of Western Europe, and pro-western Arab states. Among these are Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. A tiny group of élites have become super-rich proxies for western corporations while the vast majority of the people are indescribably poor. These three republics are in the region of the Caspian Sea. Because the Caspian Sea is landlocked, the oil and gas have had to be transported mainly by pipeline. There is a major route through Chechnya and other parts of Russia to Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. In fact, the largest network of pipelines in the world had been built during the Soviet era, when the Soviet Union was the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world.3 Its gas and oil fields, refineries and pipelines extended from western Siberia, as well as from the Caspian Sea Basin, to the Black Sea, the Ukraine and the Baltic and East European countries.4. The U.S. wants the Caspian Sea under total U.S. domination. A consortium of 11 western oil companies now controls more than 50 percent of all oil investments in the Caspian Basinthese include Atlantic Richfield, Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, Pennzoil, Phillips Petroleum, Texaco, and British Petroleum-Amoco.5 Therefore, Washington is pursuing other routes, some or all of which ultimately may come to fruition. The intent is to bypass Russia, as with a proposed pipeline through Turkey to the Medi
[CTRL] Adam Weishaupt In His Own Words
http://www.freedomdomain.com/illumin.html Quotes By Adam Weishaupt, Founder of the Illuminati "The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge. I have reason to rejoice that these writings have appeared. They are a vindication of the order and of my conduct. I can and must declare to God, and I do it now in the most solemn manner, that in my whole life I never saw or heard of the so much condemned secret writings, and in particular, respecting these abominable means; such as poisoning, abortion etc. Was it ever known to me in any case that any of my friends or aquaintences ever even thought of them. I was indeed always a schemer and projector, but never could engage much indetail. My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. I had myself to form. In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head. But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents. It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati." -- Adam Weishaupt "I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of it's origin, of it's history, of it's object, nor any explanation of it's mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable. Hence have sprung up that variety of systems, which for twenty years has divided the order. The simple tale of the English, and the fifty degrees of the French, and the Knights of Baron Hunde, are equally authentic, and have equally had the support of intelligent and zealous brethren. These systems are in fact but one. They have all sprung from the Blue Lodge of three degree; Take these for their standard and found on these all the improvements by which each system is afterwards suited to the particular object which it keeps in view. There is no man, nor system in the world, which can show, by undoubted sucession, that it should stand as the head of the order. Our ignorance in this particular frets me. Do but consider our short history of 120 years - Who will show me the Mother Lodge? Those of London we have discovered to be self-erected in 1716. Ask for their archives. They tell you they were burnt. They have nothing but the wretched sophistications of the Englishman Anderson, and the Frenchman Desaguilliers. Where is the Lodge of York, which pretends to the priority, with their King Boudin, and the archives that he brought from the East? These too are all burnt. What is the chapter of old Aberdeen and it's holy clericate? Did we not find it unknown, and the Mason Lodges there the most ignorant of all the ignorant, gaping for instruction from our deputies? Did we not find the same thing at London? And have not their missionaries been among us, prying into our mysteries, and eager to learn from us what is true Masonry? It is in vain therefore to appeal to judges; they are nowhere to be found; all claim for themselves the sceptre of the Order; all indeed are on an equal footing. They obtained followers, not from their authenticity, but from their conductiveness, to the end which they proposed, and from the importance of that end. It is by this scale that we must measure the mad and wicked explanations of the Rosycrucions, the exorcists and Cabalists. These are rejected by all good Masons, because incompatible with social happiness. Only such systems as promote this are retained. But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon." - Adam Weishaupt "But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free
[CTRL] Could the Poles Flip?
http://www.earthfiles.com/earth339.htm Earth's Magnetic Anomalies - Could the Poles Flip? by Linda Moulton Howe April 27, 2002 Cambridge, Massachusetts - Deep beneath our feet as we walk around in fact, 4,000 miles down is the center of the earth where an iron core is so hot it is liquid and boils around like cooking porridge. That moving, melted iron also produces the magnetic fields that surround the earth and upon which much of earth's surface life, satellites and space technology depend upon for orientation, and for protection. If magnetic fields did not trap highly energetic particles racing from the sun, all kinds of damage could be done to living organisms and space technologies. For nearly a million years, magnetic field lines have been coming out of the south pole and entering the north pole of the earth. That is called the magnetic dipole. Now a science team from Paris, France led by Gauthier Hulot at the Institute of Earth Sciences in Paris - working with other scientists such as Harvard University's magnetic field expert, Dr. Jeremy Bloxham - have compared satellite measurements of the earth's magnetic field strengths 25 years ago and today. Their discovery was published in the April 2002 science journal Nature and it boils down to this: there are strange and not very well understood variations now in the earth's magnetic field. In fact, down in South Africa there is a large region that already has a magnetic field pointing in the opposite direction from the rest of the earth's field and is getting stronger all the time, according to new satellite data. Further, the north and south pole magnetic fields have weakened in strength by about 10% of what they were. If the South African region continues to get stronger and the poles keep weakening, scientists think that within the next millennia, the pole magnetic fields could disappear altogether, or flip so the magnetic field lines would leave the north pole and enter the south pole. Meanwhile, could magnetic field anomalies and changes in strengths and geographical locations persist during a transition period to an unknown outcome? Based on ancient rock studies, geophysicists can say that such a situation happens three or four times every million years. There can even be a period when there are many magnetic poles all over the planet, not just at the poles. But no one knows for certain what the implications are for earth life and technology because it hasn't happened since 780,000 years ago. Recently, I talked with Dr. Bloxham's graduate assistant, Mathieu Dumberry from Canada, who specializes in the dynamics of the earth's iron core. I asked him if the last time a pole reversal occurred was nearly a million years ago, wouldn't that mean current surface life, including humans and geophysicists, have no idea what actually happens if the poles reverse? Interviews Mathieu Dumberry, Graduate Assistant to Prof. Jeremy Bloxham, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: "That's correct. The consequences for human life, in terms of what the actual exact sort of strength decrease in the overall magnetic field is and in terms of what the consequences are for the solar particles that are trapped in the magnetic field of the earth is, we don't really have a good idea on that. The magnetosphere plays such a strange and mysterious, but important role between the ionosphere, outer space and here on the earth. There are aurora borealis and all kinds of magnetic field effects. If the North and South poles suddenly changed and the magnetic fields were coming out of the North Pole and entering the South Pole, wouldn't you think there might be some dramatic effects on earth life? I think the most dramatic effects might occur during the reversal that is when the strength of the dipole field is going to be the weakest. Because if the dipole is oriented one way or another in terms I'm thinking in terms of the solar particles that are trapped in the magnetic field therefore, don't reach the surface of the earth. These sort of high energy particles could be damaging to life on the earth. If these particles are trapped by the fields, they don't reach the surface. However, if the strength of the dipole field decreases, then the ability of the magnetic field to stop these highly energetic particles is weakened. And so this might have an affect on life. But, as I said earlier, 780,000 years ago when it happened, of course, we did not have human society as we have now today, but the creatures that lived then in terms of humans and other animals have survived. Some have. But there have been periods of unexplained extinctions in the history of the earth. If I understand what you are saying, strong solar particles could be able to reach the surface of the earth uninterrupted by strong magnetic fields as they are deflected today. Such energetic particles reaching the surface of the earth unimpeded cou
[CTRL] Sharon's plan is to drive Palestinians across the Jordan
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/28/wpal28.xml Sharon's plan is to drive Palestinians across the Jordan (Filed: 28/04/2002) THE leading Israeli historian Martin van Creveld predicts that a US attack on Iraq or a terrorist strike at home could trigger a massive mobilisation to clear the occupied territories of their two million Arabs Two years ago, less than eight per cent of those who took part in a Gallup poll among Jewish Israelis said they were in favour of what is euphemistically called "transfer" - that is, the expulsion of perhaps two million Palestinians across the River Jordan. This month that figure reached 44 per cent. Earlier this year, when a journalist asked Ariel Sharon whether he favoured such a move, the Israeli prime minister said he did not think in such terms. A glance at his memoirs, however, shows that he has not always been so fastidious. In September 1970 King Hussein of Jordan fell on the Palestinians in his kingdom, killing perhaps 5,000 to 10,000. The then Gen Sharon, serving as Commanding Officer, Southern Front, argued that Israel's policy of helping the king was a mistake; instead it should have tried to topple the Hashemite regime. He has often said since that Jordan, which, according to him, has a Palestinian majority even now, is the Palestinian state. The inference - that the Palestinians should go there - is clear. During its 1948 War of Independence, Israel drove 650,000 Palestinians from their homes into neighbouring countries. If it were to try something similar today, the outcome could well be a regional war. More and more people in Jerusalem believe that such is Mr Sharon's objective. It might explain why Mr Sharon, famous for his ability to plan ahead, appears not to have a plan. In fact, he has always harboured a very clear plan - nothing less than to rid Israel of the Palestinians. Few people, least of all me, want the following events to happen. But such a scenario could easily come about. Mr Sharon would have to wait for a suitable opportunity - such as an American offensive against Iraq, which some Israelis think is going to take place in early summer. Mr Sharon himself told Colin Powell, the secretary of state, that America should not allow the situation in Israel to delay the operation. An uprising in Jordan, followed by the collapse of King Abdullah's regime, would also present such an opportunity - as would a spectacular act of terrorism inside Israel that killed hundreds. Should such circumstances arise, then Israel would mobilise with lightning speed - even now, much of its male population is on standby. First, the country's three ultra-modern submarines would take up firing positions out at sea. Borders would be closed, a news blackout imposed, and all foreign journalists rounded up and confined to a hotel as guests of the Government. A force of 12 divisions, 11 of them armoured, plus various territorial units suitable for occupation duties, would be deployed: five against Egypt, three against Syria, and one opposite Lebanon. This would leave three to face east as well as enough forces to put a tank inside every Arab-Israeli village just in case their populations get any funny ideas. The expulsion of the Palestinians would require only a few brigades. They would not drag people out of their houses but use heavy artillery to drive them out; the damage caused to Jenin would look like a pinprick in comparison. Any outside intervention would be held off by the Israeli air force. In 1982, the last time it engaged in large-scale operations, it destroyed 19 Syrian anti-aircraft batteries and shot down 100 Syrian aircraft against the loss of one. Its advantage is much greater now than it was then and would present an awesome threat to any Syrian armoured attack on the Golan Heights. As for the Egyptians, they are separated from Israel by 150 miles or so of open desert. Judging by what happened in 1967, should they try to cross it they would be destroyed. The Jordanian and Lebanese armed forces are too small to count and Iraq is in no position to intervene, given that it has not recovered its pre-1991 strength and is being held down by the Americans. Saddam Hussein may launch some of the 30 to 40 missiles he probably has. The damage they can do, however, is limited. Should Saddam be mad enough to resort to weapons of mass destruction, then Israel's response would be so "awesome and terrible" (as Yitzhak Shamir, the former prime minister, once said) as to defy the imagination. Some believe that the international community will not permit such an ethnic cleansing. I would not count on it. If Mr Sharon decides to go ahead, the only country that can stop him is the United States. The US, however, regards itself as being at war with parts of the Muslim world that have supported Osama bin Laden. America will not necessarily object to that world being taught a lesson - particularly if it could be as swift and
[CTRL] Atta's Meeting W/ Iraqi Agent In Prague FALSE
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-28-2002/0001715994&EDATE= Newsweek: Czech Officials Say Story That Sept. 11 Hijacker Atta Met with Iraqi Agent in Prague May Be Wrong; 'Nothing has Matched Up,' Says U.S. Official NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Czechoslovakian government officials have quietly acknowledged that they may have been mistaken about a supposed meeting at the Iraqi Embassy last April in Prague between suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent, Newsweek reports in the current issue. U.S. intelligence officials now believe that Atta, the hijackers'ringleader, wasn't even in Prague at the time the Czechs claimed. "We looked at this real hard because, obviously, if it were true, it would be huge," one senior U.S. law-enforcement official tells Newsweek. "But nothing has matched up." (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020428/NYSA010 ) Still, Pentagon analysts are still aggressively hunting for evidence that might tie Atta or any of the other hijackers to Saddam Hussein's agents,reports Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the May 6 issue ofNewsweek (on newsstands Monday, April 29). The story of the meeting came from the Czech Intelligence Agency, the BIS,when agents looked at surveillance photographs taken from the Radio Free Europe building in Prague. RFE started round-the-clock video surveillance in1998, after it began broadcasting anti-Saddam programs into Iraq. The security measure was taken because Tom Dine, RFE director, says U.S. officials warned him that "the Iraqis were plotting to blow us up." The cameras caught a heavy set Middle Eastern man hanging around the RFE building taking pictures and he was sometimes accompanied by a thinner, tallerman. The Czechs identified the heavier man as Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samiral-Ani, an Iraqi diplomat widely believed to be a spy. The thinner man wasnever identified. In late April 2001, al-Ani was again caught casing thebuilding and was expelled from the country. After Sept. 11, a Czechintelligence source inside Prague's Middle Eastern community saw Atta'spicture in the media and reported that he had seen the same person meeting al-Ani at the Iraqi Embassy five months earlier, Isikoff reports. On closer scrutiny, the evidence became less convincing. Although Atta had indeed flown from Prague to the U.S. in June 2000, the Czechs had placed thealleged meeting in April 2001. The FBI could find no visa or airline records showing he had left or re-entered the United States that month. "Neither wenor the Czechs nor anybody else has any information he was coming or going [toPrague] at that time," says one U.S. official.
[CTRL] Martin: Idle Afghan Women and Other Terrorist Threats
http://www.almartinraw.com/column57.html Idle Afghan Women and Other Terrorist Threats by Al Martin According to a Reuters news story called "US Planes Rain Money on South Afghan Areas," American aircraft are dropping money over Afghanistan - again. C-130 transport aircraft are once more dropping 10,000-afghani bills over south Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Reuters story quotes "Malik Zahir Khan," a resident of Spin Boldak (the name of the town sounds like it's right out of Star Wars) who said another person had found a complete bundle of 800,000 afghani. "I found eight bills of 10,000 afghani each," says Khan. The afghani is quoted at around 40,000 to the dollar. (FindLaw.com) It should be noted that this Reuters story also confirmed information from a previous Al Martin Raw column, which reported that in February, 2002, US aircraft dropped envelopes with a picture of President Bush, containing two $100 bills over the same area. (See Al Martin Raw column, Clueless in Afghanistan) Now the Afghans are taking their blocks of afghanis to Pakistan to buy microwave ovens. The Pakistanis have been complaining because the Afghans are creating a tremendous run on microwave ovens. Pakistani merchants say that they can't get them from Japan fast enough because the Afghans keep buying all of their microwave ovens. And what do they have to microwave? The US Army has put together special MRE's (Meals Ready To Eat) that have lamb and rice in them. The Afghan peasantry see these boxes, and they have no idea what it is. All they know is that you put it in, push the button, and it comes out hot. So the Afghan women are going to have a lot of time on their hands because they're not spending eight hours cooking the lamb and rice anymore. Uh-oh, we see a new terrorist threat coming - idle Afghan women. This could very well be the next problem in the war on terrorism. Idle Afghan women - a potential new source of terrorism. You read it here first. . . . . In other news, the Tampa International Airport is testing a new body-scanning device. When you see the pictures, you'll know that it leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination. It has been discovered by the FBI that security employees operating these machines (they say they're voluntary, but as the ACLU points out they wouldn't be spending millions of dollars on them if they were to stay "voluntary") have been selling some of the pictures of particularly attractive women to certain pornographic websites for cash payments -- in an envelope, shall we say. Because of this device, a new black market is developing. Apparently there is a segment of the pornographic market that is interested in this material and is willing to pay for it. You can also expect a black market for the coming National ID Cards. That is really an unknown at this time, but airport security photo porno is happening now. One employee turned whistleblower against all the others. She said that some of her male colleagues had been selling these photos of particularly attractive women to a website for $20 a piece. You can imagine the employees saying, "Excuse me, Ma'am, could you turn around a couple times?" In another story in Newsweek, called "A Street Fight," Evan Thomas says that the CIA calls US-made helicopters "flying coffins." "So the agency bought a better chopper from the Russians…" writes Thomas, confirming previous Al Martin Raw columns on US helicopter crashes due to spare parts that don't work because they have been "outsourced" to shadowy offshore corporations controlled by the Chinese government. (See "Fraud the American Way of Life") Another news story published in the Christian Science Monitor in March claims that Fruit Loops have become so popular among Afghan prisoners that they don't want to leave Guantanamo anymore. Afghans, who are used to a very low-calorie low-sugar diet have evidently become hooked on Fruit Loops -- that well advertised, brightly-colored, sugar-saturated All-American cereal. In fact, Fruit Loops are now being used to torture prisoners being held at Guantanamo. According to insider reports, Army Intelligence interrogators love Fruit Loops, and they're now using FLP (Fruit Loop Torture) on the hapless Afghan prisoners. In the room that's used for interrogation, there's a metal chair bolted to the floor. They sit the rag heads down in it. There's also a nut and bolt arrangement in the front of the seat. That's where their waist chain belts are bolted in so they can't get up. What they do, then, is put a big bowl of Fruit Loops just out of reach of the rag head, and they say to the rag head, "Hey, you want that big bowl of Fruit Loops? Then you'd better start answering all of our questions." Apparently this new interrogation tactic has been quite successful. A brigadier general has been quoted as saying that they're starting to ge
[CTRL] American navy 'helped Venezuelan coup'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,706802,00.html American navy 'helped Venezuelan coup' Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Monday April 29, 2002 The Guardian The United States had been considering a coup to overthrow the elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, since last June, a former US intelligence officer claimed yesterday. It is also alleged that the US navy aided the abortive coup which took place in Venezuela on April 11 with intelligence from its vessels in the Caribbean. Evidence is also emerging of US financial backing for key participants in the coup. Both sides in Venezuela have blamed the other for the violence surrounding the coup. Wayne Madsen, a former intelligence officer with the US navy, told the Guardian yesterday that American military attaches had been in touch with members of the Venezuelan military to examine the possibility of a coup. "I first heard of Lieutenant Colonel James Rogers [the assistant military attache now based at the US embassy in Caracas] going down there last June to set the ground," Mr Madsen, an intelligence analyst, said yesterday. "Some of our counter-narcotics agents were also involved." He said that the navy was in the area for operations unconnected to the coup, but that he understood they had assisted with signals intelligence as the coup was played out. Mr Madsen also said that the navy helped with communications jamming support to the Venezuelan military, focusing on communications to and from the diplomatic missions in Caracas belonging to Cuba, Libya, Iran and Iraq - the four countries which had expressed support for Mr Chavez. Navy vessels on a training exercise in the area were supposedly put on stand-by in case evacuation of US citizens in Venezuela was required. In Caracas, a congressman has accused the US ambassador to Venezuela, Charles Shapiro, and two US embassy military attaches of involvement in the coup. Roger Rondon claimed that the military officers, whom he named as (James) Rogers and (Ronald) MacCammon, had been at the Fuerte Tiuna military headquarters with the coup leaders during the night of April 11-12. And referring to Mr Shapiro, Mr Rondon said: "We saw him leaving Miraflores palace, all smiles and embraces, with the dictator Pedro Carmona Estanga [who was installed by the military for a day] ... [His] satisfaction was obvious. Shapiro's participation in the coup d'état in Venezuela is evident." The US embassy dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous". Mr Shapiro admitted meeting Mr Carmona the day after the coup, but said he urged him to restore the national assembly, which had been dissolved. Mr Carmona told the Guardian that no such advice was given, although he agreed that a meeting took place. A US embassy spokesman said there were no US military personnel from the embassy at Fuerte Tiuna during the crucial periods from April 11 to 13, al though two members of the embassy's defence attache's office, one of them Lt Col Rogers, drove around the base on the afternoon of April 11 to check reports that it was closed. Mr Rondon has also claimed that two foreign gunmen, one American and the other Salvadorean, were detained by security police during the anti-Chavez protest on April 11 in which around 19 people were killed, many by unidentified snipers firing from rooftops. "They haven't appeared anywhere. We presume these two gentlemen were given some kind of safe-conduct and could have left the country," he said. The members of the military who coordinated the coup have claimed that they did so because they feared that Mr Chavez was intending to attack the civilian protesters who opposed him. Mr Chavez's opponents claim pro-Chavez gunmen shot protesters while his supporters say the shots were fired by agents provocateurs . In the past year, the United States has channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to US and Venezuelan groups opposed to Mr Chavez, including the labour group whose protests sparked off the coup. The funds were provided by the National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit agency created and financed by the US Congress. The state department's human rights bureau is now examining whether one or more recipients of the money may have actively plotted against Mr Chavez
[CTRL] ISRAEL: A SOCIALIST SPARTA
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j042902.html April 29, 2002 ISRAEL: A SOCIALIST SPARTA Socialism is dead everywhere – except Israel If war is the health of the State, as Randolph Bourne put it, then the Israeli state must be bursting with a monstrous vitality – and so it is. The beleaguered and shrinking private sector groans under the burden of a parasitic state that grows fat on an endless stream of American "aid," both economic and military. As the Israeli economy goes into another of its periodic tailspins, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "right-wing" government calls for higher taxes and "belt-tightening," one can almost hear the cry to bail out our good and faithful ally even before it is uttered. Anticipating this, why not examine just what sort of economy we are subsidizing – and ask what we're getting out of it. THE SOCIALIST ROOTS OF ISRAEL Israel was conceived in the minds of its original founders and supporters as an explicitly socialist state. The very idea of private property was anathema to the founders of the state of Israel, who were socialists almost to a man. However, the early success of the Zionist project demonstrated, not the superiority of socialism over capitalism, but quite the opposite. As Alvin Rabushka points out, prior to independence, virtually all investment in the country was private, involving the purchase of land by private individuals and the dispensing of private funds raised by the Zionist organizations abroad. But it wasn't just ideology that prompted the still-birth of the Israeli private sector. After independence, private capital investments in Israel contracted to no more than 15 percent of the total between 1948 and 1990. The reason: German reparations. Rabushka writes: "In what must rank as one of the great ironies in economic history, German reparations financed the transformation of Israel from a private-investment, private-enterprise, free-market economy to a socialist system that fulfilled the vision of Jewish leftists…. The German government gave $850 million, a huge sum at the time, to the government of Israel as collective compensation for the millions of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazi regime and had their property stolen." Instead of being used to build the infrastructure so sorely needed by the infant economy, however, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion handed the dough over to the Jewish Labor Organization, the Histadrut, which established a network of state-owned enterprises. No private company or individual was allowed title or access to their own piece of personal "compensation." Instead, in accordance with their socialist ideology, the funds were administered by "the workers" – that is, by their alleged representatives in the Histadrut and the various political parties, who appointed the boards of directors and allocated the cash. ISRAEL'S POWER ELITE Rabushka minces no words in characterizing the Israeli economy as socialist through and through: "It is important to point out that the Central Bureau of Statistics describes business activity in Israel under the rubric of the business sector, not the private sector. The business sector in Israel is not really private in the meaningful sense of the word." Created by German reparations, Israeli socialism quickly strangled any emerging free markets, and, over the long stretch of the Israeli Labor Party's unbroken rule, "a system of almost total identity between political and economic power" – as Israeli economist Yair Aharoni describes it – was created that persists to this day. The defeat of the Laborites by the Likud did not change matters: "This high level of political involvement was a major characteristic also of the governments created by the Likud parties," Aharoni writes, who, if anything, deepened Israel's commitment to the centrally-planned economy: "Despite a wider recognition that market forces may be a better means for resource allocation decisions, government bureaucracy and politicians found it extremely hard to give up even a little bit of their cherished power. Despite much preaching, government intervention deepened; and the diverse methods of the intervention continued, irrespective of the party of power. Government intervention shifted from rationing, ad hoc decisions and administrative controls to the control of virtually all sources of capital and their administrative allocation at varying rates of subsidy." AN ENTIRE COUNTRY ON THE DOLE The great hope of the Zionist ultras, Bibi Netanyahu, when he was Prime Minister, accelerated the process of complete statization in a "right-ward" direction: handing out hundreds of millions in subsidies to the religious parties, the kibbutzim, and the privileged caste of bureaucrats, their offspring, sycophants, and other socialist spear-carriers. All were allowed by Netanyahu to feed ceaselessly at the public trough. A trough, one notes, that is regularly filled to the brim with over $3 billion per year in American aid (a f
[CTRL] The End of the World...Maybe
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wallace/wallace37.html
The End of the World...Maybe
by Bob Wallace
I decided many years ago I'm not excessively endowed with brainpower. I can't sing or dance, either, unless you want to count my imitation of Peter Boyle's Monster performing "Puttin' on the Ritz" in Young Frankenstein. My lack of genius is why I envy The Brain (of Pinky and the Brain fame). Although, I'm proud to admit, my head, as a child, was shaped like a lightbulb, just like The Brain's.
Being simple-minded, I seek simple rules. After putting in my time in public schools and college, I realized I had mostly been miseducated (except for a few classes, all of which I can count on one hand, excluding my thumb), and decided I had better find some basics. What I found is that the ancient rules, the ones that have been around for thousands of years, are the ones that work the best. The Ten Commandments, for example, are ten, easy-to-remember bits of eternal wisdom.
"Commandments" is an incorrect translation; "Utterances" or "Words" is much more accurate. I prefer "Laws," as in "Natural Laws." If you break them, bad things automatically happen. No cops are needed. The 20th century was a time of worshipping the false idols of Man and State, in violation of the First Law ("have no other gods but the one true God"). It doesn't matter to me if people believe in any sort of God or not; these Ten Laws still exist, and violation of their practical wisdom brings unhappiness, destruction and death. You can say, "As you sow, you reap," or "What goes around, comes around," or karma ("the moral law of cause and effect") or kismet, or the Tao, or whatever name you want to give it. Those laws are part of human nature. Steal, murder, commit adultery, and give false testimony ... and watch what happens to people and society.
And if people can't do it, it's doubly forbidden for governments (which in a sense don't really exist, since they are composed of people). The big difference is that governments try to claim a monopoly on force, which makes them unimaginably destructive. I've read estimates that up to 200 million people died in the 20th century at the hands of various governments. And all because of the violation of "You shall not murder."
Of all the wars the US was involved in in the 20th century, not one was any of our business. WWI was a European war; we should have stayed out of it. Woodrow Wilson (about whom H.L. Mencken wrote, "He thought he was Jesus Christ") got us into it to "make the world safe for democracy." It led directly to WWII. The Communist FDR manipulated the Japanese into attacking us so that Russia would not have to fight a two-front war against the Germans and Japanese. FDR also gave Eastern Europe to the USSR. WWII led to Korea and Vietnam. Panama, Kuwait, and Serbia were also none of our business. Kuwait led to 9/11 and Oklahoma City. Every one of these wars has led to unintended consequences and more war. As will our current war. And before 9/11, the US government was trying to start a war with China (I wonder if the Chinese are stupid enough to attack Taiwan? Or do they want their citizens to be "collateral damage" from having their water and waste treatment facilities war-crimed into oblivion, as we did in Serbia and Iraq?)
Right now there are a number of people who believe the world – as we now know it – might come to an end soon because of the events in the Middle East. They are entitled to their beliefs. I know a woman who believes aliens kidnapped her and took her eggs. She's entitled to her beliefs, too. Unfortunately, a number of these people are – in the name of God – actively working to achieve Armageddon. And they are trying to do it in some truly strange ways.
This raises the question: how can they reconcile "You shall not murder" with their attempts to bring the world to an end? They can't have it both ways. What a Catch-22! If you follow the prohibition against murder, you can't attempt to end the world. But if you don't attempt to end the world ... no Rapture, no Great Tribulation, no Jesus returning to sit on a throne.
Quite a few fundamentalists today unswervingly support Israel, the reason being they believe the restoration of that country in 1948 fulfills the Biblical prophecies in Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Revelations, and in Matthew and Luke. Therefore, Israel must be supported at all costs, so that the End Times may soon come.
This is why I believe we are involved in a religious war, one that King Dubya the Narrow-Headed doesn't really understand. If he did, our policy in the Middle East wouldn't be as it is. This religious war is why there is so much support for Israel among fundamentalists, and such silence on the slaughter over there. (What's that old saying? "Kill them all and let God sort them out"?) To these people, it's all part of God's plan before Jesus returns and gives a whuppin' to the Anti-Christ.
If I was King, I would take all the Christians and
[CTRL] Henry Kissinger: the wanted man
http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=243&mode=thread&order=0 "Henry Kissinger: the wanted man" Posted on Monday, April 29, 2002 @ 07:51:40 EDT By Christopher Reilly YellowTimes.org Journalist (YellowTimes.org) – Henry Kissinger's dark past seems to be enclosing around him as various countries in South America and Europe have sought to question him about actions taken by the Nixon and Ford administrations in which Kissinger was National Security Adviser and Secretary of State respectively. The latest move to question Kissinger was by Peter Tatchell, a British human rights activist. While Kissinger was speaking in Britain at the UK's Institute of Directors annual conference on April 24, Tatchell attempted to have him arrested for committing war crimes under the Geneva Conventions Act. Judge Nicholas Evans at the Bow Street magistrates' court rejected Tatchell's request because Tatchell did not present enough evidence implicating Kissinger to war crimes. However, according to Tatchell, the judge left the door open for future attempts to arrest the former U.S. official if suitable evidence is presented. According to Tatchell's recent contribution to London's The Guardian, if he is able to "produce stronger evidence of Kissinger's culpability in the killing, maiming, torture and forced relocation of civilian populations in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the late 60s and early 70s," then there is a possibility an arrest warrant for Kissinger may be issued in the future. Tatchell believes that Kissinger is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in Indochina. Tatchell mentions how the Nixon Administration dropped "nearly 4.5 million tons of high explosives on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia"; an amount double that dropped during the entire Second World War. Tatchell explains that much of the evidence against Kissinger and his role in Indochina is highlighted in the book, "The Trial of Henry Kissinger," by Christopher Hitchens. According to Hitchens, Kissinger approved bombing runs that resulted in widespread civilian casualties. Kissinger was also responsible for the "premeditated, wholesale destruction of the environment using chemical defoliants such as Agent Orange," as Tatchell wrote in The Guardian. "These are war crimes under the 1957 Geneva Conventions Act." Tatchell also mentions the comments made by United States General Telford Taylor, the former chief prosecuting officer at the Nuremberg trials, who stated that the Kissinger-Nixon air strikes against hamlets allegedly hiding Vietnamese guerrillas were "flagrant violations of the Geneva convention on civilian protection." Tatchell also points to freelance investigator Fred Branfman, who "secretly taped U.S. pilots on bombing missions over Cambodia in the early 70s. At no point did any pilots check before or during the raids that they were not bombing civilians. His exposé that no precautions were taken to protect civilians was later written up in the New York Times by Sydney Schanberg; offering compelling evidence of the indiscriminate nature of U.S. aerial attacks." Kissinger, who was aware of all these actions, has defended them by saying, "No one can say that he served in an administration that did not make mistakes." Kissinger seems to have forgotten that most administrations are not responsible for tens of thousands of dead innocents. According to Tatchell, 350,000 civilians in Laos and 600,000 in Cambodia were killed during the U.S. bombardments. This does not even count the number of civilians maimed or wounded due to the bombings and the threat of unexploded cluster bombs (yes, this administration used them in conflict too). Kissinger also failed to mention the Nixon Administration's use of chemical defoliants and pesticides, including Agent Orange, that have, according to Tatchell, "caused birth defects and rendered significant areas of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia too toxic for people to live in or farm - creating an environmental disaster that will continue to affect many generations to come." However, Indochina is not the only area that Kissinger may have been involved in the killings of thousands of innocents. Earlier in the month of April, Judge Baltasar Garzon, of Spain, wanted to question Kissinger's involvement in supporting Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet; a man responsible for human rights abuses resulting in many deaths. Garzon's request was rejected. And in 2001, Juan Guzman, a Chilean judge, submitted 30 questions to Kissinger about his relationship with General Pinochet, to which Judge Guzman received no response. Pinochet came into power after the CIA, with the knowledge of Kissinger, conspired to overthrow democratically elected leader Salvador Allende. A few months before Allende became president, Kissinger made the famous statement on democracy, "I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people." His remarks
[CTRL] Interview of Steve R. Pieczenik (1 of 2)
http://infowars.com/pieczenik_transcript.htm Interview of Steve R. Pieczenik Alex Jones Show April 24, 2002 (Partial Transcript) Dr. Pieczenik served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, and James Baker. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations Go to His Website AJ: Our guest tonight is Dr. Steve Pieczenik and he’s one of the world’s most experienced international crisis managers. He has over twenty years experience in resolving international crises, working for four U.S. administrations. Dr. Pieczenik served as Deputy Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance and James Baker. Working with Secretary of State George Schultz, Dr. Pieczenik has used his psycho-political expertise for the Secretary’s mediation of conflict in the Middle East between Israel, Jordan, Syria, again it goes on and on. He’s got best selling books. He’s basically an infowarrior, a crisis manager. In fact he, according to this and some of the news articles that we pulled up on him, coined the phrase, if these articles are accurate, this isn’t even in his bio here, but it says it there in some of the news articles, the “crisis mediation” and it’s just endless. It says in one of the bios here that he is also a member of the CFR. Steve Pieczenik, I really appreciate you joining us on the show. Of course, he is also a doctor and PhD as well. Good to have you on the show this evening, Sir. SP: Can I call you Alex? AJ: You certainly can. SP: You can call me Steve, Dr. Pieczenik or Steve, that’s fine with me. AJ: Well, Sir, I mean you’ve got a long bio here. (Crosstalk) just want to mention to the listeners out there. SP: Sure, anyway what would you like to start with Alex? AJ: Tell us a little bit more about yourself. Any key areas of your life, so folks know who you are. SP: Sure, I’ll be happy to. I started as a, I was a medical doctor training at Cornell University Medical College here. I worked my way up through scholarships and then got into the military. I was, during the Vietnam War, I was a very young O6, as many of you know, that is a colonel at the age of 32. I then went on to my training in psychiatry, at the same time at Harvard, and at the same time, I got a PhD from MIT in International Relations. AJ: Now that was the first MIT PhD, in this particular form of psychology. SP: Correct, Alex. And the reason for that was that I understood very clearly, a long time ago, thirty years ago that the very essence of relationships between countries and understanding what our national security is about has to lie in the psychological political arena. It’s not, necessarily that I am interested in what mother did or your father did, but I am much more interested in what kind of image perception propaganda has been created against us and what propaganda information we have to create against someone else. For example, one of the presidents whom I served. Unfortunately, he is ill now. But one of the most brilliant presidents I served and most people don’t recognize his brilliance. I think history will (garbled) and that is President Reagan, who was, as you know, an actor. But he had a photographic memory. And he understood the importance of psychology because he had been an actor and he understood that perception becomes reality. Well, this is a gentleman who using the study that I had worked on thirty years ago and had been intimately involved with him, using psychology and the concept of the perception, we were effectively able.. It’s a team effort. I’m not saying myself only. But Reagan was effectively able and the Reagan administration to bring down an entire Soviet empire without firing a gun by simply manipulating the psychology of perception. That we were forcing them into bankruptcy, which we were through the SBI (?) program and at the same time, manipulating their mind using the Chief of Staff. If you want me to go through the detail and showing him what our military capabilities were. And once he saw that both on land and on sea, he basically gave up. And that was Akhromeyev, who was then Chief of Staff of the Soviet military who was an Admiral, and who eventually committed suicide. But from that point on, we broke the entire, we won a war without having to fire a bullet. And that is the kind of thing that I talk about – psychological or psycho-political dimension. AJ: We are talking to Dr. Steve Pieczenik and he has worked at the highest levels of the psychological operations for four administrations. You are talking about controlling paradigms – paradigm management. SP: Well, that’s interesting. I’ve never used that word paradigm but you clearly – you must be a professor, Alex. But the notion is. No, what it is it’s a more sophisticated concept. For example, what I do is, I don’t just manage a conflict. I may sometimes be sent in on behalf of, for example, Secretary of State Schultz and Reagan. I was sent down to give Noriega a message of
[CTRL] Interview of Steve R. Pieczenik (2 of 2)
http://infowars.com/pieczenik_transcript.htm AJ: We are excited to have a great guest, an intelligent guest, like Dr. Steve Pieczenik on the show. He has worked in four administrations. He has worked for the deputy secretary of state, hostage negotiator, the list goes on and on. He is a critically acclaimed author of psycho-political novels and co-creator of the best-selling Tom Clancy’s Op-Center and Tom Clancy’s Netforce series. He is a Harvard psychiatrist with an MD from Cornel University and PhD in International Relations from MIT. The doctor served for four presidential administrations. Again, now let’s start getting into this whole bin Laden situation and I’ve got a bunch of emails and I got a partial transcript of it and I called the station to confirm that you were on but they didn’t have a transcript. And SP: You know, what I said was Alex, this is following issue. AJ: We are talking about bin Laden for those that just joined us. SP: Right, but we are talking about bin Laden. The issue is what the relationship is between the bin Laden family and the Bush family. It’s much more complicated than has been revealed, than has been revealed by anyone. And that is that it goes back for several decades. AJ: Back into the mid-70s. SP: It goes back, exactly. They have now, Bush, Sr, who I have served as well, and Bush, Jr. have literally gone to the bin Laden family and the Carlyle Group. This is the private equity group here in Washington, which the bin Laden family have been in. And they claimed they only had 2 million dollars, but my sense is that it was far more extensive, that they owned all kinds of companies, including one of the largest conglomerates in our military contracting. And bin Laden was, remember, our ally, supposedly our ally in 1979, ’80, when he worked with us to drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. He was just a young kid. AJ: Brzezinski talks about that in “The Grand Chessboard”. SP: Right, and that he then turned against us and we created a political Frankenstein. And that’s not the first time we’ve done that Alex and this is what I want to tell your audience. AJ: You are saying it is blowback. SP: It’s blowback, exactly. And what I was saying about a blowback was that if we tend to have a pattern here in the United States and it has to do, I think primarily with the fact that we don’t have good intelligence or good CIA capability to handle all of our so-called in between or gray-zone friends/enemies. And what happens is we just dump them. It was the same thing with Noriega. We had to go in and send in 22,000 troops. It was the same thing with Saddam Hussein, we fought with him for five years against Iran. We killed over a million people. We supplied him with the actual biological and chemical weapons. It was the CIA that did that. Suddenly we find ourselves at war with him. That was a blowback. Then we go to war and we don’t finish the war. Now we are going back to war again. And I am trying to say, wait a minute guys, if you messed up the first time, what makes you think you are going to do it again the second time. And so we have a blowback with Osama. But what made it more difficult was, I found out through my sources that he had had kidney disease. And as a physician, I knew that he had to have two dialysis machines and he was dying. And you could see those in those films, those made-up photos that they were sending us out of nowhere. I mean, suddenly, we would see a video of bin Laden today and then out of nowhere, they said oh it was sent to us anonymously, meaning that someone in the government, our government, was trying to keep up the morale on our side and say oh we still have to chase this guy when, in fact, he’s been dead for months. AJ: You are talking about the obvious fat guy, sitting there that looked nothing like bin Laden. SP: You’ve got it. I mean the whole thing was a, I mean it was such a hoax. I mean I said you would have to be, you know, blind and stupid to not realize that this is really being manipulating in trying to manipulate us. AJ: The type of psyops that we’d see coming out of Dr. Steve Pieczenik. SP: It’s not the kind of thing that I would do to the American public. But the more important part was that ... BREAK AJ: We are talking about Osama bin Laden, the CIA asset during the ‘80s, right into the early ‘90s and now the mainstream reports here out of Europe and the U.S. confirming that he was involved in the situation in the Bosnian and the Serb war. And then what Dr. Pieczenik is calling the classic term “blowback” – the bad boy getting out of control and this report of him in the American hospital. It’s been in the Washington Times, you name it, getting nursed back to health, meeting with the CIA Section Chief for ten days. Dr. Pieczenik, a former undersecretary of State and member of the CFR, you name it, can say, oh yeah that’s true but he’s got an explanation for it. Please elaborate doctor. SP: Well
[CTRL] Will France Say Goodbye To Globalism?
http://www.americanfreepress.net/04_28_02/Will_France_Say_Goodbye_To_Glo/will_france_say_goodbye_to_glo.html Will France Say Goodbye To Globalism? Populist Jean-Marie Le Pen’s strong showing in the recent French election is sending a strong message to America’s and Europe’s leaders that the world is beginning to reject the self-serving policies pursued by the international plutocratic elite. Exclusive to American Free Press By Jack Ross Without question, the recent victory of Jean-Marie Le Pen represents a new birth of freedom in Europe. Even if he is smashed by Jacques Chirac in the May 5 runoff it is only the calm before the storm. The media is attempting to write off Le Pen’s victory as a fluke due to disunity on the French left. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Trotskyist candidate Arlette Laguiller was expected to take at least 11 percent of the vote in an upsurge similar to Le Pen’s, but came away with only 6 percent. Leftist Jean Pierre Chevenement was expected to get roughly 13 percent and ended up with only 5 percent. Green candidate Noel Mamere was polling at 8 percent and finished with only 5 percent. These numbers point to what the media has readily conceded: Le Pen captured the anti-establishment vote. But it doesn’t stop there. Polls also expected Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to at least tie with Chirac, but Le Pen came in 2 points above what the polls projected. All this reflects the main reason Le Pen’s numbers soared as they did: His base now includes the younger sections of France’s working class. The fact that at least a third of the votes lost by Laguiller, Chevenement and Mamere probably went to Jospin is only further proof of Le Pen’s appeal to the left and the working class. Le Pen appears to have learned a lot from this campaign. On the heels of his victory with the working class, Le Pen is now emphasizing a broad-based program, appealing to all the people of France regardless of age, race, or class. A strong campaign aimed at the Chirac corruption scandals and at the EU will surely bring him a respectable score at least in the runoff, as surely these is sues still matter. Chirac appears gun-shy: Breaking with tradition in French elections, he refused to debate Le Pen. The arrogance of the ruling class politicians and EU promoters is bound to backfire, especially since there is not a shred of similar outrage at the second place finish of the Communist Party (PDS) in high-profile state elections in Germany last week. As Le Pen himself put it in response to the most classic canard used against him: “I have nothing to do with fascism—it is fascists who violently protest a democratic election.” Still, this is not keeping the establishment from acting its worst. EU ministers and other politicians across Europe speak of the situation as if the French people are children who have misbehaved. Chirac speaks of preserving “national cohesion” in a statement reminiscent of John Ashcroft’s admonishment of those who defend the Constitution for “aiding and abetting terrorists.” And, in the United States, NBC talk show host Chris Matthews tells us we need to be thankful for our two-party system. In 1986, the court-killed populist publication, The Spotlight, interviewed Le Pen while visiting the United States for what was described as “informal consultations with American political leaders.” At the time, Le Pen also spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, which was covered by all of the major media outlets. Le Pen’s message then—just as it today—was blacked out by the Establishment press which focused heavily on the French leader’s critics, ignoring the populist’s statements.
[CTRL] Queers Want Your Children
-Caveat Lector- Start facing the facts people, Queers want your kids .and your dog, and your cat, and your pet Iguana, and anything else that moves or breathes. The world has know this for years, but through a conspiracy of very effective and aggressive propaganda, this sick behavior has been accepted by an increasingly dumbed down and decadent society, who no longer knows the difference between liberty and licentiousness. --- Report: Pedophilia more common among 'gays' Research purports to reveal 'dark side' of homosexual culture Posted: April 29, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Child molestation and pedophilia occur far more commonly among homosexuals than among heterosexuals on a per capita basis, according to a new study. "Overwhelming evidence supports the belief that homosexuality is a sexual deviancy often accompanied by disorders that have dire consequences for our culture," wrote Steve Baldwin in, "Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement," soon to be published by the Regent University Law Review after Stanford Law Review backed out. Baldwin is the executive director of the Council for National Policy in Washington, D.C. "It is difficult to convey the dark side of the homosexual culture without appearing harsh," wrote Baldwin. "However, it is time to acknowledge that homosexual behavior threatens the foundation of Western civilization the nuclear family." Though the homosexual community and much of the media scoff at such accusations, Baldwin who chaired the California Assembly's Education committee, where he fought against support for the homosexual agenda in the state's public schools says in his report that homosexual activists' "efforts to target children both for their own sexual pleasure and to enlarge the homosexual movement" constitute an "unmistakable" attack on "the family unit." Baldwin's research is substantiated in a recently completed body of work written by Dr. Judith Reisman, president of the Institute for Media Education, former member of the Meese pornography commission and author of numerous authoritative books debunking sexual myths, including "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences." In her thesis also written for the Regent University Law Review Reisman cited psychologist Eugene Abel, whose research found that homosexuals "sexually molest young boys with an incidence that is occurring from five times greater than the molestation of girls. " Abel also found that non-incarcerated "child molesters admitted from 23.4 to 281.7 acts per offender whose targets were males." "The rate of homosexual versus heterosexual child sexual abuse is staggering," Reisman wrote. She said "Abels data of 150.2 boys abused per male homosexual offender finds no equal (yet) in heterosexual violations of 19.8 girls." Jay Heavener, spokesman for PFLAG Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, counters that federal crime data refute claims that homosexuals molest children at higher rates than heterosexuals. "According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), this claim is false," he told WND by e-mail. "The gay and lesbian community calls into question any dubious research which flies in the face of our own experience." And Gary Schoener, a clinical psychologist who has been diagnosing and treating clergy abuse for 28 years, told Salon.com, "There are far more heterosexual cases than homosexual." In terms of sheer numbers, that may be true. But in terms of numbers of children abused per offender, homosexuals abuse with far greater frequency; and boys, research shows, are the much-preferred target. Baldwin says evidence he examined disproves the assertion that child molestation is more prevalent among heterosexuals. Both he and Reisman found that media coverage of adult homosexual abuse of minors is also slanted. "The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) recently boasted that although homosexuals are less than two percent of the population, three-fourths of the people who decide the content of the front page of the New York Times are homosexual," Reisman wrote. That one fact is especially noteworthy, experts point out, given the recent child sex scandals taking place within the American Catholic church. A survey by WorldNetDaily of recent news reports found that rarely did the media describe priestly sexual abuse as "homosexual" or "gay" activity even though the worst incidents involved male-to-male contact, and a spate of investigative reports has revealed that the Vatican is concerned about an upsurge of homosexuals in seminary schools throughout the world. Gay press promotes sex with children Baldwin says his research not only "confirms that homosexuals molest children at a rate vastly higher than heterosexuals," but it found that "the mainstream homosexual culture" even "commonly promotes sex with children."
[CTRL] Buried Hearts
-Caveat Lector- Professor Afflitto I would like to thank you for your article, entitled, "Bury My Heart at Wounded ... Jenin", read at Media Monitors. [ http://www.mediamonitors.net/index.html ] It was disturbing on one level, though: I was thinking about writing something along the same lines. Now, you've done it and so much better of a job. I have been hesitant in writing my thoughts as I am not an expert in legal or Indian affairs and would hate to come off like Barney Fife with bullets. All pretense on my part aside, what you've written is very important from the American historical perspective. Some weeks ago, I all of a sudden got the insight that the real value of the on-going Middle Eastern TRAgedy in Unlimited Morbid Acts (TRAUMA) is the vicariosity that the Eastern Elites (EEs) enjoy at the expense of those whose blood is shed and whose lives' veins and arteries are eventually collapsed. The events in the American West were chronicled, reported, and serialised by those who made their livings off of pulp fiction and dime novels. It mattered not much how truthful the contents were so long as the EEs' imaginations could be ever titillated and stimulated with an insatiable appetite for the unrealities of the West. How many of the nation's leaders ever ventured west of the Mississippi except on railroad cars, reading yellowing printed pages, listening to the imaginings of companion travelers, hearing the yarns of those who had wits whetted and whistles wetted by those eager to float into the clouds of unspun cotton, having their puffy dreams fluffed by the otherwise thirsty dullards? Again, we find ourselves amidst a real Wild West Show, courtesy of that wizened and windswept oasis of holiness, the Holey Land, having been thrust back twenty- five centuries for the lifelike theme park recreation of tribal wars for the benefit of those whose only blood, sweat and tears would emanate from the boom-box. The daily dispatches from the region increase the intensity of the fixation on "good versus evil", "civilisation over barbarism", "right and might against wrong and unstrong". Our EEs, like so many vampyres risen after a lonnggg night's sleep, know from where the scent of sanguineous succor streams. Their peace now disturbed, they will never know it again until sated. Reason be damned!!! It's a hunger!!! A thirst!!! This all came to me when I was reading an article about the failure of the Federal government to properly abide by their promises, treaties, and laws with regard to the Original American Indian trusts. [One of these articles is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25625-2002Apr21.html ] While reading about this, in between reading about the Middle East's version of events, it suddenly occurred to me that the same thing was going on, with the only difference being the side of the World and the wrong century. It's as if the whole collective consciousness of the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Presidency has forgotten which country they serve and the history thereof. Perhaps this is a blessing disguised in that the various American tribes can now gain some sort of status improvement and inclusion; but perhaps not. Perhaps this is just to reiterate, reaffirm, reinforce notions that all is well with the status quo. When we speak of truth, justice, and the American way, something we (through our leaders) try to project on the nations around the globe, we do indeed speak with forked tongue, not forked like a snake, but forked like a four-tined cheap metal fork, each tine bent in a different direction. But this is no revelation, just mass amnesia among the EEs. What becomes even more distressing is when we have the 21st Century version of the war dance in the nation's capital, featuring such prominent professional proponents of pro-war propagandisement as BiBi Netanyahu. BiBi has now taken the leaders by storm. In their efforts to weather same, the sunshine of their reason and memory is shown to be overcast by cloudiness when BiBi instructs them on the meaning of September the 11th last, that the United States and Israel have been joined, bonded, fused by the fires of terrorists' . "Excuse me?!?" The myopic tunnel- visionists accept this despite the chronicles of NON-Original American Indian history. How many terrorist attacks have been focussed on the United States in the form of assassinations, riots, extrajudicial groups such as the Klu Klux Klan, the protesters against the KKK, or Olympian abortion clinic bombers? How many of Mother Nature's whims been endured, the fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards, and droughts? How many of our natural resources, our rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands, pasture lands, farmlands, towns, cities, how many of these have contended with pollution, some reversible, much not? And we have BiBi lecturing our leaders on adversity? Terrorism? The dangers of not keeping our words, promises, and legal obligations? An
[CTRL] Buried Hearts at Jenin
-Caveat Lector- >From http://www.mediamonitors.net/index.html }}}>Begin Bury My Heart at Wounded... Jenin by Frank M. Afflitto For the past two decades, I have contended that the Palestinian fight is the same as the fight of Native Americans in the United States, and that the oppression of the Palestinians, even more noticeable when one looks at the reservation-bantustans that were offered to them in the peace, or was it "piece"?, negotiations, was the same as the oppression of the European descendants towards Native Americans. In teaching a course on Terrorism this semester, I have ended up the semester taking a step back in our own history here in the country where I was born and reside along with nearly 200 undergraduate students, and we have just completed a reading of Dee Browns reprinted 1970 classic, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West" (Thirteenth Anniversary Edition, Henry Holt and Company, 2001). Striking throughout the five required chapters, from the arrival of the Spaniards to the (re) concentration of Navahos, Apaches, Comanches and Kiowas on government- administered reservations (concentration camps without walls?) ringed by soldiers, to the killing off of the natural resources, such as the bison, necessary to be able to maintain viable Native communities outside of the militarized sphere of the reservation- concentration system, were the similarities between U.S. actions 140 years ago or less and the advent and establishment of Zionism on Palestinian soil and lives. In quoting from author Browns informative work, I am easily capable of demonstrating to the reader what I am talking about. To begin with, it will be necessary to view the last of the maps offered to Palestine by the Zionist government of Israel in the piece negotiations, from Camp David in July, 2000, in order to begin the discussion with a common point of reference: Click here or on the Map to see the larger (pdf) version of the Map http://www.mediamonitors.net/images/campdavid.pdf In viewing the map offered by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to the Palestinian nation, it is quite easy to dismiss the propagandish lie that President Arafat had turned down an offer of 95% of complete Palestinian sovereignty over their remaining lands. One can see that, on the eastern slopes leading to the Jordan Valley, Israel offered to keep those lands a closed military zone, with complete Israeli military control (read "occupation") over them. While the Israeli government would most assuredly state that they were keeping such land only temporarily as a security buffer zone, the fact that those eastern lands contain the bulk of the West Banks aquifer systems, necessary for both cultivation and industrial waters on illegal Jewish colonies, as well as for swimming pools and drinking water in their illegal colonialist residences, the security metaphor becomes ever more doubtful and fallacious. What one sees when viewing the Barak piece-plan map is a continuous string of discontinuous and discontiguous islands of land under proposed Palestinian control, surrounded by Jewish-only roads, Jewish-only settlements, and Jewish-only closed military zones. These Jewish-only zones are akin to the European descendants establishment of "whites- only" zones outside of the American Indian reservations, which were enforced by the shoot-to-kill orders given to U.S. troops and European- descendant vigilante death squads living outside the reservations, should they happen to see an Indian off of the allotted reservation lands. Many instances of this policy are detailed in Browns book, whereby Native Americans were ordered to come into and live on a particular reservation, as all those who remained outside the reservations boundaries would "face extinction by being hunted down and killed by Bluecoat soldiers (p. 243)." Moving away from the maps of the proposed Palestinian "sovereign" Bantustan- reservation system, one is able to find numerous other similarities between the U.S. system of Indian oppression and the on-the- ground realities for the Palestinians since the Oslo Piece Accords, especially in the recent era of the Al Aqsa Intifada. For example, in examining historical forms of U.S. anti-Indian violence, the study of war crimes and state-sanctioned terrorism being a specialty of mine, Brown writes that "[t]housands of Bluecoats armed with repeating rifles and artillery were in search of a few hundred Indians who wanted only to save their buffalo and live out their lives in freedom (p. 269)." This situation is synonymous with the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza. Just like the U.S. European-descendants, the Israeli military oppresses the Palestinians through the employment of more and better weapons and the deployment of comparably many more soldiers against a relatively few mujahadeen and their fellow citizens who want simply to maintain their attachme
[CTRL] Coup de (dis)Grace
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>From http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,706802,00.html
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American navy 'helped Venezuelan coup'
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Monday April 29, 2002
The Guardian
The United States had been considering a coup to overthrow the elected Venezuelan
president, Hugo Chavez, since last June, a former US intelligence officer claimed
yesterday.
It is also alleged that the US navy aided the abortive coup which took place in
Venezuela on April 11 with intelligence from its vessels in the Caribbean. Evidence is
also emerging of US financial backing for key participants in the coup.
Both sides in Venezuela have blamed the other for the violence surrounding the
coup.
Wayne Madsen, a former intelligence officer with the US navy, told the Guardian
yesterday that American military attaches had been in touch with members of the
Venezuelan military to examine the possibility of a coup.
"I first heard of Lieutenant Colonel James Rogers [the assistant military attache now
based at the US embassy in Caracas] going down there last June to set the ground,"
Mr Madsen, an intelligence analyst, said yesterday. "Some of our counter-narcotics
agents were also involved."
He said that the navy was in the area for operations unconnected to the coup, but
that he understood they had assisted with signals intelligence as the coup was
played out.
Mr Madsen also said that the navy helped with communications jamming support to
the Venezuelan military, focusing on communications to and from the diplomatic
missions in Caracas belonging to Cuba, Libya, Iran and Iraq - the four countries
which had expressed support for Mr Chavez.
Navy vessels on a training exercise in the area were supposedly put on stand-by in
case evacuation of US citizens in Venezuela was required.
In Caracas, a congressman has accused the US ambassador to Venezuela, Charles
Shapiro, and two US embassy military attaches of involvement in the coup.
Roger Rondon claimed that the military officers, whom he named as (James) Rogers
and (Ronald) MacCammon, had been at the Fuerte Tiuna military headquarters with
the coup leaders during the night of April 11-12.
And referring to Mr Shapiro, Mr Rondon said: "We saw him leaving Miraflores
palace, all smiles and embraces, with the dictator Pedro Carmona Estanga [who was
installed by the military for a day] ... [His] satisfaction was obvious. Shapiro's
participation in the coup d'état in Venezuela is evident."
The US embassy dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous". Mr Shapiro admitted
meeting Mr Carmona the day after the coup, but said he urged him to restore the
national assembly, which had been dissolved.
Mr Carmona told the Guardian that no such advice was given, although he agreed
that a meeting took place.
A US embassy spokesman said there were no US military personnel from the
embassy at Fuerte Tiuna during the crucial periods from April 11 to 13, al though two
members of the embassy's defence attache's office, one of them Lt Col Rogers,
drove around the base on the afternoon of April 11 to check reports that it was
closed.
Mr Rondon has also claimed that two foreign gunmen, one American and the other
Salvadorean, were detained by security police during the anti-Chavez protest on April
11 in which around 19 people were killed, many by unidentified snipers firing from
rooftops.
"They haven't appeared anywhere. We presume these two gentlemen were given
some kind of safe-conduct and could have left the country," he said.
The members of the military who coordinated the coup have claimed that they did so
because they feared that Mr Chavez was intending to attack the civilian protesters
who opposed him.
Mr Chavez's opponents claim pro-Chavez gunmen shot protesters while his
supporters say the shots were fired by agents provocateurs .
In the past year, the United States has channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars
in grants to US and Venezuelan groups opposed to Mr Chavez, including the labour
group whose protests sparked off the coup. The funds were provided by the National
Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit agency created and financed by the US
Congress.
The state department's human rights bureau is now examining whether one or more
recipients of the money may have actively plotted against Mr Chavez.
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[CTRL] Succors All Around
-Caveat Lector- I read your piece on Sharon being the succor(er) at http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,707155,00.html This is interesting considering the extent to which our leaders try to convince us that Ariel is such a good ally. Everything he is doing is undercutting the efforts of the same leaders to establish their objectives and impose their wills on the otherwise less indulgent, less enlightened, and lesser regimes of the World. Ariel, has, after all, become one with "them", one with his adversaries. Rather than being able to suggest to anyone any longer that his is the way of democracy or the legacy of any "holocaust" (other than the one he is perpetrating), he is left with being just another Middle Eastern thug. By comparison to all those he or his predessors could point to as being the intolerant bullies intent on driving his people into oblivion, Ariel has taken their tack and is now not only an equal to his adversaries but has proven himself to be superior to them ... unsurpassed in bullying and thuggery. And he proves his mettle over and over again with the use of donated weapons, donated by those middling meddling champions of democracy, justice and freedom, the United States and other well-intended belligifactors. And, not only is he a succor for Saddam Hussein, but an interesting twist of fate here is how well all of this will play out for Slobodan Milosevic, currently on trial in the Hague for taking actions to prevent the spread of terrorism in his own country. To twist a little bit tighter, there is a report at WorldNetDaily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27423 that describes the composition of the UN team expected to go to Jenin that includes the (apparently) sightedly challenged forensic investigator who flubbed her professional role, leading to the destruction of Yugolavia. As Ariel lumbers into the last act of the drama of his life, like some prehistoric reptile licking at other peoples' homes with an insatiably indiscriminate tongue and fiery breath, his graceless feet stumbling, crushing all that they trip over, his tail sweeping aside the remnants of life, Ariel, with his incapacity for reason, sets about to return the region to a time more conducive to his nature. Anything that Slobo has done looks measured and supremely rational by comparison. And so, by virtue of the power invested in the leaders of the free world, Sharon becomes everyone's favourite fall guy. The more he falls flat on his probiscus, the taller and stronger others will appear. But: who is to say that they did not intend for this to happen? Who is to say that it is not some Knights of the Realm of Freedom and Justice who continue to need some pretext to make themselves, in their own turn, glisten in the sun. And, who cares if these knights are shedding their shredded aluminum foil skins or if their cardboard swords have long since become flaccid? A<>E<>R Red River Rover of the North Grand Forks, North Dakota, US of A http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl 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] Sharon the Succorer
-Caveat Lector- >From http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,707155,00.html }}}>Begin World dispatch Sharon gives succour to Saddam Israel's obstruction of the UN team set to investigate the attack on Jenin has given support to the Iraqi dictator, who has used the same tactics with weapons inspectors for years, writes Brian Whitaker Brian Whitaker Monday April 29, 2002 The Guardian The Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, celebrated his 65th birthday in great style at the weekend, but he also has another reason to be cheerful. His strategy for defying the United Nations now has unexpected support from the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon. In 1998, following a series of confrontations with the Iraqi authorities, UN weapons inspectors were forced to leave Baghdad. The United States, supported by Britain, responded with a series of military strikes intended, as the Pentagon put it, "to demonstrate to Saddam Hussein the consequences of violating international obligations". The inspections were ordered by the UN security council back in 1991 and therefore have the force of law: Iraq is obliged to accept them or face the consequences. But, for the last four years, Iraq has been haggling over the inspectors' return. It wants, in effect, to vet the members of the inspection team, to have an agreed list of alleged weapons sites that will be inspected and to have a time limit for the inspections to be completed. The US, not unreasonably, suspects this is a ruse to ensure that any inspections will find nothing untoward. Iraq, the US believes, wants inspectors who have as little knowledge as possible of the weapons they are looking for, wants a list of inspection sites so that it can clean them up well in advance, and wants a time limit so that it can prevaricate and eventually call a halt if the inspectors ever get close to finding something incriminating. All this is remarkably similar to the developing confrontation between the UN and Israel over the investigation of suspected war crimes at Jenin. The allegations are: · That the Israeli forces, aware that they were attacking a densely populated refugee camp, failed to take reasonable steps to protect civilians; · That after the battle was over they wilfully prevented humanitarian access to the injured or dying, and that medical workers were attacked; · That they bulldozed houses without checking that there was no one inside; · That they used detainees as human shields; · That they shot some Palestinians who had either surrendered or were in the process of doing so. These extremely serious allegations result from investigations by several respected bodies such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Amnesty International, as well as the reports of numerous foreign journalists. Israel's argument that the action was justified because Jenin had become "the capital" of suicide bombers does not cut much ice in international law. "When we are confronted with the extent of destruction in an area of civilian concentration, it is difficult to accept that international humanitarian law has been fully respected," Rene Kosirnik, the head of the ICRC delegation in the region, said. "What the law says is that you cannot attack or destroy civilians or civilian property. If you are in a military operation you have to take utmost care. If you suspect that your operation will cause disproportionate damage to civilians or civilian property then you have to stop the operation." As in the case of Iraq and the weapons inspections, there are good reasons for having a thorough investigation of events in Jenin to determine whether Israel has met its international obligations and - to borrow the Pentagon's phrase - "to demonstrate the consequences" if it turns out to have violated them. The UN security council's efforts got off to a half-hearted start with Resolution 1403, approved on April 19, which talked about sending "a fact-finding team" but without giving them any powers to subpoena witnesses or requisition evidence. This means that the mission's effectiveness - or otherwise - will be heavily dependent on cooperation from the Israeli authorities. As soon as the resolution was approved, Israel launched into Iraq's choose-your- own-inspectors game by issuing a list of people who would be "unacceptable" as members of the team. These included Mary Robinson, the UN human rights commissioner, and Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN coordinator for the Middle East peace process. In the event, the UN secretary-general chose Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland who is also a veteran trouble-shooter from the Balkans conflict, to lead the team. He was joined by Cornelio Sommaruga, the Swiss former president of the ICRC, and Sadako Ogata of Japan, a former UN high commissioner for refugees. Concerned that the investigation would concentrate on human rights abuses and possible war crimes (as it should), Israel has been seeking to pack th
[CTRL] Jenin to Receive Racak "researcher"
-Caveat Lector- >From WND }}}>Begin This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27423 Monday, April 29, 2002 TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND Jenin inquiry a witch hunt? 'Expert' forensic adviser to U.N. commission held back info to 'prove' Kosovo 'massacre' Posted: April 29, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Aleksandar Pavic © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The forensic expert picked to advise the United Nations Jenin inquiry commission, charged with determining whether Israelis conducted a "massacre" there, was previously appointed by the European Union and NATO to investigate claims that a "massacre" took place in the Kosovo village of Racak in January 1999 at which time she allegedly withheld vital information and thus helped usher in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and subsequent troop deployment in its southern Kosovo province. Finnish pathologist Dr. Helena Ranta was named as an adviser to the three- man panel appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan last week. The commission was named in response to Palestinian claims of civilian slaughter and mass graves in the wake of Israel's successful search-and- destroy mission targeting terrorists and their infrastructure in several West Bank towns. Israel decided yesterday not to grant the U.N. team access, sparking a meeting by the Security Council which decided to give Israel an additional day to reconsider. 'Crime against humanity' Ranta, when she was head of the EU Forensic Expert Team, was engaged to investigate reports that Yugoslav armed forces slaughtered Albanian civilians in the Kosovo village of Racak on Jan. 15, 1999. Following the forensic investigation by her team, at a March 17, 1999, news conference, Ranta referred to the Racak deaths as a "crime against humanity," charging that the "victims" were "unarmed civilians," according to BBC reports. Despite contradictory results gathered by two other forensic teams as well as doubts concerning the events in Racak raised by European media, including the Paris Le Monde and the London Times one week later, NATO began its 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. In the midst of the campaign, on May 22, 1999, the "International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia," or ICTY, issued indictments for "Crimes against Humanity and Violations of the Laws or Customs of War" against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four of his associates for their part in the alleged Racak massacre. Although Ranta made the charges that directly led to the NATO intervention, her team's full report was suppressed by the U.N. and the EU for a full two years, until February 2001. When it was finally published in Forensic Science International, the report revealed that there was no evidence of a massacre, even though the OSCE observer mission in Kosovo, led by U.S. diplomat William Walker, was quick to come to such a conclusion. However, by that time, Yugoslavia had been bombed, leaving its infrastructure heavily damaged and part of its territory occupied, while its former president currently stands trial at The Hague for charges that include the Racak "massacre." As an April 18, 1999, Washington Post article stated: "Racak transformed the West's Balkan policy as singular events seldom do." This echoes the words of Daniel Bethlehem, a Cambridge University international legal expert and Israel's external adviser on the U.N. Jenin inquiry. As reported by Ha'aretz, in a memorandum sent to the Israeli government, Bethlehem writes: "If the committee's findings uphold the allegations against Israel even on poor reasoning this will fundamentally alter the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian leadership and may make it impossible for Israel to resist calls for an international force, the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state and the prosecution of individuals said to have committed the alleged acts." Thus, the lessons of Racak and the role of Dr. Helena Ranta concerning it may be highly indicative of the direction in which the U.N. Jenin inquiry is headed. Withheld information As the Hague indictment against Milosevic and his associates claims: "On or about 15 January 1999, in the early morning hours the village of Racak ... was attacked by forces of the FRY (Yugoslavia) and Serbia. After shelling by ... [Yugoslavian forces] the Serb police entered the village later in the morning and began conducting house- to-house searches. Villagers who attempted to flee from the Serb police were shot throughout [Racak]. A group of approximately 25 men attempted to hide in a building, but were discovered by the Serb police. They were beaten and then were removed to a nearby hill, where the policemen shot and killed them." In her March 17, 1999, press conference and statement, Ranta herself claimed that "... there were no indications that the people ... [autopsied were] ... other than unarmed
[CTRL] Friedman Walk-out
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Dubai | By Mildred Fernandes | 29/04/2002
Thomas Friedman walking out of the open forum during the first session as Ben
Bradlee, Eric Rouleau and Martin Wollacott look on. ©Gulf News
The dramatic walkout by Thomas Friedman, the award-winning Foreign Affairs
columnist for the New York Times, cast a temporary pall over the opening session of
the second Arab Media Summit at the Emirates Towers hotel yesterday.
Friedman, whose appearance at the summit was a last-minute surprise, was the first
guest speaker of the day, following speeches by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum and Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League.
Although Friedman began his presentation by assuring the assembled audience that
he would welcome a dialogue on specific questions, that assurance was short-lived.
In the question-and-answer session that followed presentations by Friedman,
Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, Eric Rouleau of Le Monde and Martin
Woollacott of The Guardian about the Western media and its views of the Arab
world, three audience members questioned Friedman about the bias in his work and
about Israeli injustices toward Palestinians.
The fourth question, from a Saudi Arabian national, prompted an outburst from
Friedman. "Let's get one thing real clear," he said, in response to the Saudi
national's
statement about Friedman accepting a Saudi government-sponsored trip to the
kingdom.
Mohammed Boo Dai
"I came here now at my own expense, at the expense of the New York Times. That
applies to my trip to Saudi Arabia also. You can say whatever you want, but I will not
sit here and listen to that garbage."
A visibly angered Friedman then flung his translation headset into the air, stormed
past the other delegates and out of the hall.
Friedman, whose impressive career includes an eight-year stint with the New York
Times reporting from war zones in and around Israel, the Palestinian territories,
Egypt and Lebanon, was also recently responsible for breaking the news of Saudi
Crown Prince Abdullah's peace plan to the world after being invited to the kingdom
by the prince.
"I'm paid to have an opinion, paid to be subjective and not objective," he told
audience members before the walkout. "I'm paid to be biased, as it were. That's the
object of being a columnist."
It was that openness that surprised Mohammed Boo Dai, the Saudi Arabian lecturer
whose question triggered the Pulitzer Prize-winner's walkout. Boo Dai said
Friedman's reaction could have been caused by a translation mistake.
"I am not happy with what happened, because I respect Friedman," Boo Dai said
after the end of the summit's first session. "I wanted to ask him why, when he had
the chance to come to Saudi Arabia and meet many people, he would walk out in the
same way if somebody said something he did not like."
Boo Dai was disappointed by the columnist's behaviour despite Friedman's eventual
return to the hall.
"He came back, yes, but he cut my speech, he did not let me finish, which is not
good. He must wait till I am finished and then speak. I am not saying he took the
plane from America to here, but that he made round in Saudi Arabia by special
plane, not from America - this was to make it easy for him to meet people from all
over, because Saudi Arabia is a big country.
"But I think he did not understand me, and maybe something was wrong in the
translation." Boo Dai, who holds a doctorate in Arabic literature, said he reads Arabic
translations of Friedman's columns.
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[Heterosexual seminarians were "propositioned, harassed or even molested," Rose revealed. At one seminary, heterosexual students were forced to submit to homosexual behavior by faculty members who used upper classmen to recruit "Fresh Meat" to satisfy their perverted desires.] New Book Reveals Truth of Church Sex Scandal NewsMax.com The burgeoning sex scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic Church has mystified many Americans who are at a loss to understand how this outrage could have occurred and been kept under wraps for so long. But now a shocking new book provides the shocking answer. In Michael Rose's blockbuster "Goodbye, Good Men, How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two Generations of Vocations from the Priesthood" he exposes the corruption of the Roman Catholic seminary system in the United States. Already the liberal mainstream media does not want you to read the book and is keeping a lid on its revelations. In full and alarming detail, veteran investigative reporter Michael S. Rose examines the root causes of the so-called pedophile priest scandal. Rose lays bare the astonishing story of the deliberate infiltration of the seminaries by what has been called the "Lavender Mafia," a clique of militant gays, along with an underground of liberal faculty members determined to change the basic doctrines of the Catholic Church. Rose commits the unforgivable politically incorrect sin by courageously laying the blame for the widespread molestation of teenage boys by priests squarely at the door of the gay Mafia who dominate many of the seminaries responsible for the training and formation of Catholic priests. For this violation of the taboo against any unfavorable mention of homosexual behavior that exists in the mainstream media, he is being punished by having his book blacklisted by his fellow journalists who simply do not want you to read "Goodbye, Good Men," and learn the true facts. In the book, written before the latest abuse scandals erupted, Rose insists that the alleged shortage of priests is "artificial and contrived," and the direct result of policies adopted by scores of dioceses for many years - policies that turned the seminary system on its head - and have now driven a stake through the heart of the Catholic Church in America. "Good Bye, Good Men" is now available from NewsMax.com. Scores of honorable men faithful to the 2000 year-old doctrines of the Church have been driven out of the seminaries which have given preferential treatment to gays and others wedded to unorthodox doctrines. Young men who were perfect candidates for the priesthood were subjected to such ordeals as psychological evaluations by health professionals with anti-Catholic views. In one instance, a candidate was interviewed - and rejected - by a fallen-away Catholic who was a local Grand Master of the anti-Catholic Masonic Order. Another psychological analyst assigned to examine candidates for entrance into a seminary openly advocated homosexual behavior. Dr. David J. Brown, who screens candidates for the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown in Pennsylvania "has gone out of his way to make the case that homosexuality is perfectly normal," Rose reports. Brown publicly "argued on spiritual grounds for legitimizing homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle in the public schools." He said he was 'appalled' that the school district had excluded known homosexual speakers from Penn State University." The problem is so widespread that in 1999, the Catholic Medical Association asserted that "mental health professionals who do not support the teachings of the Catholic Church on sexuality have been chosen to evaluate candidates for the priesthood and reject candidates who do accept the church's teaching on grounds that they are 'rigid.'" and that "some mental health professionals do not report homosexual attractions and conflicts in candidates for priesthood to diocesan officials or religious superiors." So pervasive is the homosexual influence in many seminaries that one candidate for the priesthood told Rose, "The issue was never one of my suitability for ordination. Rather it was that the gay clique had been given veto power over who got ordained." Certain homosexually-dominated seminaries have earned nicknames such as Notre Flame (for Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans) and Theological Closet (for Theological College at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.); St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore has earned the nickname " The Pink Palace." In some seminaries, students openly prance around in "gay apparel", visit gay bars, and carry on illicit homosexual affairs in their rooms. Heterosexual seminarians were "propositioned, harassed or even molested," Rose revealed. At one seminary, heterosexual students were forced to submit to homosexual behavior by faculty members who used upper classmen to recruit "Fresh Mea
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forward Ruppert's work mentioned in a positive way --- Begin Message --- ___DEMOCRATS.COMThe Aggressive Progressives__ Democrats.com is the largest independent community of Democrats. We publish the only Democratic daily news service - and it's free! Our members make it possible through generous contributions. Please help by clicking below! http://democrats.com/donate ___.COMPOSITION__In This Issue___ Anti-Bush Protests Bill Clinton Raises $3.5 Million for Democrats in Harlem Pennsylvania Gains 66,000 Democrats DNC Launches 'Every Vote Counts' Voter Registration Drive Carville Reads Letter from Democrats.com Member Sam Park Katherine Harris Lies Again - This Time About Getting Respect from Democrats E-mail Reveals Bush Administration's Fascist Fantasies RED ALERT: Bush Plans Massive Invasion of Iraq WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL DECLARATION OF WAR - We Must Elect a Democratic Congress to Impeach Bush! Commander-in-Thief George W. Bush was AWOL Bu$h Struggles with 'Foreign Policy Stuff' - and Puts Us All at Risk Saudi Prince Sees More than One Turkey on His Trip to Crawford Mike Ruppert Argues the Bush Administration Could Have Prevented 9-11 It's (Nearly) Unanimous: Folks Want a 9-11 Investigation Bu$h Caught Lying About His CO2 Policy Reversal - We Demand His Impeachment! Bu$h Rule Will Let Coal Miners Fill Valleys and Streams With Debris Jeb's Education Ad Gets 'F' for Fraud Fritz Hollings Denounces 'Fast Track' Starting Saturday, the Government is Free! YOUR Tax Dollars Promote Evangelical Christian Group 'The Conservative Comedy Club' __Anti-Bush Protests On 4/29, protest Bush in Los Angeles and Albuquerque, NM. On 4/30, protest Bush in Foster City, CA. On 5/1, protest Injustice Kennedy in Boston, MA. http://legitgov.org/action.html __Bill Clinton Raises $3.5 Million for Democrats in Harlem "It was showtime at the Apollo last night, but Bill Clinton left his saxophone home. Still, he brought the house down by introducing Michael Jackson, who performed three songs that had the crowd at the star-studded Democratic National Committee fund-raiser snapping their fingers. Jackson's gig ended with wild applause and a shower of blue, purple and gold confetti that covered the audience of 1,400 in the packed Harlem landmark. Among others who performed were Tony Bennett, k.d. lang, Reuben Blades and the Harlem Boys Choir. But the sweetest sounds might have been those from the cash register. Organizers said "A Night at the Apollo" raised an estimated $2.7 million for voter education and registration drives aimed particularly at minorities. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) drew cheers when he hailed Clinton as "the last elected president of the U.S." and said, "It is our job to say we're not getting over Florida." So reports the NY Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-04-25/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-148808.asp __Pennsylvania Gains 66,000 Democrats "A southeastern Pennsylvania voter registration drive has added more than 66,000 Democrats in former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell's back yard. Rendell, facing a Democratic gubernatorial primary battle with Auditor General Bob Casey Jr., has openly wooed Republicans and independents... Final voter registration figures will not be available until next week, but most of the state's largest counties provided unofficial estimates yesterday. They showed southeastern Democratic Party gains that appeared to easily outpace those of the rest of the state. In Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware and Bucks counties, nearly 17,000 voters switched their party registration to Democratic for this primary. At least 49,000 more voters enrolled as Democrats in those counties since November. Montgomery County led with a net Democratic switchover gain of 6,048 voters. Philadelphia had 5,000 switchover Democrats and registered 38,661 new Democrats." You go, Democrats! http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/10198135312093358.xml __DNC Launches 'Every Vote Counts' Voter Registration Drive Newsday reports, "Democrats Wednesday kicked off a national voter registration drive in Manhattan and urged voters not to forget the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. 'This country belongs to you, but you have to claim it,' Clinton told the cheering crowd gathered outside of New York University for the noontime rally. 'We would win big for our side if all of you voted.' The Democratic kickoff of 'Every Vote Counts' is part of a national effort to court people of color, particularly African Americans and Latinos, who could be key to Democrats taking control of the House and the Senate this fall. Across the country, Democrats also launched voter registration drives at immigration and naturalization ceremonies and historically black colleges... 'It helps a lot (with Clinton) coming because it shows you that your right to vote is
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Interesting that so many "muslims" are after a book
written not by Hitler but by his catholic priest
confessor. source: Secret History of the Jesuits,
Edmund Paris.
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> for sale at newsstands on Edgware Road, an area with
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> In the preface, according to this month's Jewish
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[CTRL] Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures
This site is rather interesting. http://www.weirdload.com/mmonk.html “Awful Disclosures”— But No Longer Unbelievable Maria Monk Reconsidered In the light of modern revelations, 19th Century tales of immorality and crimes in Roman Catholic convents appear far less fantastic In 1836, a controversial book exploded upon the scene like an artillery shell, written by a woman who had supposedly fled the revered Hotel Dieu nunnery in Montreal, Canada. It bore the title, Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed! The book immediately touched off an acrimonious firestorm of wild polemics with its sensational allegations. And no wonder — for the author, “Maria Monk”, claimed that in the many years that she had been enclosed there in the cloister of the “Black Nuns,” as the sable-clad Sisters of Charity were called, she had witnessed or been subjected to a number of horrific crimes and abuses. The nun’s story Priests, Monk claimed, under the pretext that such godly men could not sin, regularly used nuns for sex in a private room reserved for “holy retreats.” On the very day she took her solemn vows, she said that she herself had been forced to have intercourse with three priests, and once again with the first for good measure. More on that later. Monk said she had personally witnessed an offspring from such a union being immediately baptized after birth, nonchalantly suffocated, and tossed into a pit of lime in the basement (where there were presumably others), with acid later added to dissolve the tiny corpse. A ledger she found in the Superior’s office listed many more. At the mere whim of a superior, disobedient or recalcitrant nuns were severely disciplined with punishments that ranged from petty annoyances up to Inquisition-like torture. In dark cells in the cellar near the pit, several sisters were imprisoned for unknown sins apparently for life. Nuns would disappear in the night for no known reason never to be spoken of again; Monk firmly believed some had been murdered. Suicides were also not unrumored. All of this took place in a forbidding atmosphere of medieval despotism, where the only thing expected of a nun was silent, unquestioning obedience. Superstition ruled supreme — hair and nail clippings of an elderly nun thought to be holy were prized as relics, for instance. Bizarre penances, such as drinking the Superior’s foot-bath, were often imposed and strange rituals were frequent. Nuns, for example, would be placed in their coffins upon taking their vows to show they had died to the world, and then propped sitting up in church after they died to show they now lived in Heaven. Meanwhile in this hell on Earth, the sisters were expected to constantly spy on each other and inform the Mother Superior of any defects, disobedience, or independence in themselves or others. Yet lying to outsiders was encouraged insofar as it would further the faith — especially if it brought in wealthy new recruits. The aftermath According to her own account, having become pregnant, she escaped, and told her story to a Protestant minister at a hospital for the poor in New York. He persuaded her to tell her story to the world. At any time, such outrageous charges would have sparked an outcry; in the jostling pandemonium of pre-Civil War America, they touched off an immediate conflagration of bombastic claims and counter-claims. For this was the era of the “Know Nothings,” stridently anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic nativists. Even before the Potato Famine brought starving hordes of Irish over, these men feared the influx of Roman Catholics as a sneaky invasion of papists determined to subvert the liberties of free, white Protestants and take over the country. Catholic apologists instantly saw that Monk was a tool being used by Protestant nativist agitators and fought back vigorously in kind. It was quickly realized that proof of Monk’s story hinged on the existance of certain secret entrances and passages built into the nunnery. She had described these in detail, showing how a priest could gain entrance to the cloister unobserved at any time, day or night, with secret signals so he did not have to mention his name or even speak a word. Like the much later controversy surrounding the McMartin Preschool, a Col. William Leete Stone found no signs of such secret passages in the Hotel Dieu during a brief inspection and after interviewing her, was convinced she had never even been there. This finding, along with the story that she was a actually a prostitute, had been in an asylum, and died in prison as a pickpocket, was loudly trumpeted throughout the press, and Catholic propagandists triumphantly labelled her an imposter and hoaxer to this day. But was she? She was not the only former nun to break silence at that time; shortly befor
Re: [CTRL] The Real Secret
Hola, Ah, nothing like a good piece of religious, psychobabble to entertain oneself with on a rainy Saturday. Prophecy? I think not. db }}>Begin THE LAST POPE The Decline and Fall of the Church of Rome The Prophecies of St Malachy for the New Millennium PUBLISHER: Element Books HARDBACK EDITION - 336 pages ISBN 1 86204 202 0 TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION Release Date: Fall 1999 Hardback edition released in 1998. Over 25,000 copies in print in 7 languages. Synopsis In 1139 St Malachy set out from Ireland on a harrowing pilgrimage to Rome. On sighting the Eternal City he fell to the ground and began murmuring cryptic Latin phrases, each signifying the future destiny of the Popes. For four hundred years the manuscript was locked in the labyrinth of the Vatican. On its rediscovery in 1595 it was rejected by the Church authorities as fraudulent but the content of the prophecies remains remarkably and chillingly accurate: to this day 90 percent have come true. In examining the context of St. Malachy’s life, his pilgrimages and his miracles John Hogue presents a fascinating account of the fates of the Popes and eight hundred years of Catholic prophecy; including those of contemporaries, St Hildegard von Bingen, Joachim de Fiore and the 16th-century Catholic seer, Nostradamus, whose vision of the papal succession closely resembles that of St Malachy. In this first complete study of the prophecies in over a hundred years, Hogue brings his expertise to new revelations regarding the authenticity of the Latin mottoes. As the Roman Catholic Church continues to witness an eclipse in papal power this masterly work uncovers the truth about St Malachy’s prophecies and reveals their significance as an account of the papal progression which Vatican policy makers have found too threatening to acknowledge. During the last persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there shall sit Peter of Rome, who shall feed the sheep amidst many great tribulations, and when these have passed, the City of the Seven Hills shall be utterly destroyed, and the awful Judge will judge the people St. Malachy prophesied an end to the Roman Catholic Church and predicted the fates of the Popes until Judgment Day. After John Paul II dies only two Popes remain on the Doomsday List…will this forbidding prophetic coda of a Catholic Apocalypse Be fulfilled? ENDORSEMENTS “Once again, the grand master of prophecy and super-biographer of Nostradamus has written a major book dealing with our future and our past. This is a scholarly work that reads like hot fiction…it will excite all those who view the Church of Rome dispassionately, warts and all.” Prof. Hans Holzer, author of Window to the Past and Prophecies: Visions of the World’s Fate. .
[CTRL] (Fwd) FC: Emory U. prof who wrote guns-were-rare book says ema
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Here's what Emory University prof. Michael Bellesiles has to say: http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2001nov/bellesiles.html http://www.emory.edu/HISTORY/BELLESILES/ And that of critics: http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment112601.shtml http://www.gunowners.org/opagny02pt28.htm http://www.stats.org/newsletters/0201/gun.htm A good summary: http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=691 What we need, of course, are the full headers of that message. -Declan --- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:04:28 -0700 (PDT) From: herror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The dog wrote my email part II To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-UIDL: 5f30a2a2ef91c0e6527ab26ee720e428 Declan, The Bellesille's phony scholarship case gets funnier. First it was records destroyed in a flood, then hacked a website. Now emails that catch him in lies must have ben forged. tom brennan phila pa original here: http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/04/25/3cc820eb8af19 Professor of History Michael Bellesiles Bellesiles insinuates professor forged e-mails in his name By Andrew Ackerman Asst. News Editor April 25, 2002 Professor of History Michael Bellesiles suggested this week that one of his main critics fabricated e-mails in his name. The accusation complicates an already confusing debate swirling over Bellesiles' award-winning book on gun culture in early America, which is now widely-considered fraudulent by academics who have studied Bellesiles' book. Bellesiles is the author Arming America: Origins of a National Gun Culture, which claims that guns were more rare in early America than previously thought. While the book was initially praised in its September 2000 debut for its innovative use of historical records to support Bellesiles' claim, the academic consensus has recently shifted against the book. Prompted partly by outside academic concerns, the University launched its own formal investigation in February into allegations Bellesiles engaged in research misconduct. As of Wednesday night, the University remains silent on its investigation, the first into the work of a College professor, though a public statement is expected any day. Bellesiles' accusations this week concern e-mails between him and James Lindgren, a law professor at Northwestern University (Ill.) and an expert on probate records. The e-mails, which Bellesiles seems to deny writing, were allegedly sent to Lindgren in the final months of 2000. In August 2000, Lindgren asked Bellesiles in an e-mail to explain where he found most of the probate records cited in Arming America. Bellesiles allegedly replied that the records he used were stored at the National Archives at East Point in southeast Atlanta. "The probate records are primarily on microfilm in the [East Point] federal archives," Bellesiles allegedly wrote in a message dated Aug. 31, 2000. But now Bellesiles denies that he wrote that e-mail -- after Lindgren learned no microfilmed probate records are housed at East Point -- which Lindgren forwarded to the Wheel and HistoryNews-Network.org, a historical Web site for historians. [...] For continuing coverage of the Bellesiles controversy, please see: * Emory announces outside panel to review Bellesiles' research http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/04/25/3cc89bcfe177d * E-mails may include lies http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/04/25/3cc821c6a1b9c -- --- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -- --- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -- --- --- End of forwarded message -- http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org 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. ===
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-Caveat Lector- From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/28/wpal28.xml&sSh eet=/news/2002/04/28/ixworld.html }}}>Begin Sharon's plan is to drive Palestinians across the Jordan (Filed: 28/04/2002) THE leading Israeli historian Martin van Creveld predicts that a US attack on Iraq or a terrorist strike at home could trigger a massive mobilisation to clear the occupied territories of their two million Arabs Two years ago, less than eight per cent of those who took part in a Gallup poll among Jewish Israelis said they were in favour of what is euphemistically called "transfer" - that is, the expulsion of perhaps two million Palestinians across the River Jordan. This month that figure reached 44 per cent. Ariel Sharon Earlier this year, when a journalist asked Ariel Sharon whether he favoured such a move, the Israeli prime minister said he did not think in such terms. A glance at his memoirs, however, shows that he has not always been so fastidious. In September 1970 King Hussein of Jordan fell on the Palestinians in his kingdom, killing perhaps 5,000 to 10,000. The then Gen Sharon, serving as Commanding Officer, Southern Front, argued that Israel's policy of helping the king was a mistake; instead it should have tried to topple the Hashemite regime. He has often said since that Jordan, which, according to him, has a Palestinian majority even now, is the Palestinian state. The inference - that the Palestinians should go there - is clear. During its 1948 War of Independence, Israel drove 650,000 Palestinians from their homes into neighbouring countries. If it were to try something similar today, the outcome could well be a regional war. More and more people in Jerusalem believe that such is Mr Sharon's objective. It might explain why Mr Sharon, famous for his ability to plan ahead, appears not to have a plan. In fact, he has always harboured a very clear plan - nothing less than to rid Israel of the Palestinians. Few people, least of all me, want the following events to happen. But such a scenario could easily come about. Mr Sharon would have to wait for a suitable opportunity - such as an American offensive against Iraq, which some Israelis think is going to take place in early summer. Mr Sharon himself told Colin Powell, the secretary of state, that America should not allow the situation in Israel to delay the operation. An uprising in Jordan, followed by the collapse of King Abdullah's regime, would also present such an opportunity - as would a spectacular act of terrorism inside Israel that killed hundreds. Should such circumstances arise, then Israel would mobilise with lightning speed - even now, much of its male population is on standby. First, the country's three ultra-modern submarines would take up firing positions out at sea. Borders would be closed, a news blackout imposed, and all foreign journalists rounded up and confined to a hotel as guests of the Government. A force of 12 divisions, 11 of them armoured, plus various territorial units suitable for occupation duties, would be deployed: five against Egypt, three against Syria, and one opposite Lebanon. This would leave three to face east as well as enough forces to put a tank inside every Arab-Israeli village just in case their populations get any funny ideas. The expulsion of the Palestinians would require only a few brigades. They would not drag people out of their houses but use heavy artillery to drive them out; the damage caused to Jenin would look like a pinprick in comparison. Any outside intervention would be held off by the Israeli air force. In 1982, the last time it engaged in large-scale operations, it destroyed 19 Syrian anti- aircraft batteries and shot down 100 Syrian aircraft against the loss of one. Its advantage is much greater now than it was then and would present an awesome threat to any Syrian armoured attack on the Golan Heights. As for the Egyptians, they are separated from Israel by 150 miles or so of open desert. Judging by what happened in 1967, should they try to cross it they would be destroyed. The Jordanian and Lebanese armed forces are too small to count and Iraq is in no position to intervene, given that it has not recovered its pre-1991 strength and is being held down by the Americans. Saddam Hussein may launch some of the 30 to 40 missiles he probably has. The damage they can do, however, is limited. Should Saddam be mad enough to resort to weapons of mass destruction, then Israel's response would be so "awesome and terrible" (as Yitzhak Shamir, the former prime minister, once said) as to defy the imagination. Some believe that the international community will not permit such an ethnic cleansing. I would not count on it. If Mr Sharon decides to go ahead, the only country that can stop him is the United States. The US, however, regards itself as being at war with parts of the Muslim world that have supported Osama bin Laden. America will not necessarily object t
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Friday, April 26, 2002
Hitler's Book a Hit in Arabic
An Arabic translation of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is a best-seller in the
Palestinian
territories. Now it's being sold in Britain.
The autobiography, which includes anti-Semitic rantings, is normally found in
England only in academic or political bookstores, but the London Telegraph found it
for sale at newsstands on Edgware Road, an area with a large population of Arabs.
In the preface, according to this month's Jewish Voice/Iyar, translator Luis al-Haj
writes: "National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald. Rather, its seeds
multiplied under each star."
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[CTRL] Giving an election (in France) and wanting no one to come
-Caveat Lector- >From World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org >>>This was the strategy I was thinking of last week when the discussion came up about a "real" second party. A vote for LePen as a vote against Chirac (or the other way around) is not mature politics; it only validates the system that many or most would want to remove or renovate. Thus, to show the politicians the juvenility of their ways, put them in the corner in their rocking chairs with their stuffed animals and make them stay there until they promise to behave themselves and act their ages. And quit being menaces to society! A<>E<>R <<< }}}>Begin WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : France No to Chirac and Le Pen! For a working class boycott of the French election An open letter to Lutte Ouvrière, Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire, and Parti des Travailleurs By the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board 29 April 2002 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author Download this statement as a PDF leaflet to distribute http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/open-a29.pdf For the leaders, members and political supporters of Lutte Ouvrière (LO), the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire, and the Parti des Travailleurs (PT), the 2002 French presidential election poses a great political responsibility. More than three million people have given your candidates an unprecedented vote in the first round. But the first round also saw a breakthrough by the National Front, with the fascist candidate Le Pen finishing second and facing President Chirac in the May 5 runoff. The millions who voted for your candidates look to you to speak clearly and forcefully about the political crisis. The question is posed, and must be answered: where do your organizations stand on the May 5 vote? How shall French workers and youth carry forward a struggle to defend their social interests and defeat the fascist danger? The World Socialist Web Site urges every organization seeking to defend the working class to campaign actively for a boycott of the May 5 presidential vote. No political support to either Le Pen or Chirac! Mobilize French working people and youth against this false and anti- democratic choice. Despite the well-known historical and political differences between your three parties and the International Committee of the Fourth International, which we do not seek to conceal, we feel it is essential to propose this campaign and explain the political basis for it. Why a boycott? Because it is necessary to deny any legitimacy to this fraudulent election; because it is necessary to establish an independent political line for the working class; because an active and aggressive boycott would create the best conditions for the political struggles that will arise in the aftermath of the elections. A boycott, called for and campaigned for aggressively by your three parties, would have a far different character than individual abstention. It would serve to politically educate the masses, and especially the young people who have been set into motion by the shock of Le Pens success in the first round. These new forces must learn important political lessons. They must learn to see through the lies of the whole bourgeois political establishmentthe governmental right and governmental left, as well as the mediawho claim that a vote for Chirac represents the defense of democracy, the salvation of Frances honor, the creation of an anti-fascist front, and so on. The working class cannot rely on the corrupt and reactionary French bourgeoisie to defend democratic rights or oppose fascism. Chiracs own campaign, which adopted wholesale the law-and-order rhetoric of Le Pen, is a clear demonstration of this fact. Some may argue that boycotting the May 5 vote will strengthen Le Pen and his fascist movement. We reject such claims entirely. Politics is not arithmetic, and opposition to Le Pen does not require support for Chirac. On the contrary, it is the official campaign for Chirac, uniting the governmental right and governmental left, which reinforces Le Pens entirely false and demagogic claim that he alone gives voice to popular opposition to the political establishment. A widespread campaign of boycott and opposition to May 5, spearheaded by the socialist left and mobilizing workers and youth against both Le Pen and Chirac, would puncture Le Pens false pretenses and demonstrate to the broad masses that there is a progressive social force which challenges the existing social and political order. We must state frankly that to this point the position of the representatives of the LO and the LCR amounts to tacit acceptance of a vote for Chirac. The LO is not calling on workers to abstain in the second round, says LO presidential candidate Laguiller. An LCR Political Bureau statement declares: The LCR campaigns for Le Pen to have the smallest possible vote on Sunday, May 5. We understand those voters who vote for Chirac to oppose
[CTRL] Bondsteel
-Caveat Lector- >From World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org >>>Isn't interesting that "KLA" backwards could be AL K[aeda]?" }}}>Begin WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : The Balkans Camp Bondsteel and Americas plans to control Caspian oil By Paul Stuart 29 April 2002 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author Camp Bondsteel, the biggest from scratch foreign US military base since the Vietnam War is near completion in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. It is located close to vital oil pipelines and energy corridors presently under construction, such as the US sponsored Trans-Balkan oil pipeline. As a result defence contractorsin particular Halliburton Oil subsidiary Brown & Root Servicesare making a fortune. In June 1999, in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia, US forces seized 1,000 acres of farmland in southeast Kosovo at Uresevic, near the Macedonian border, and began the construction of a camp. Camp Bondsteel is known as the grand dame in a network of US bases running both sides of the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. In less than three years it has been transformed from an encampment of tents to a self sufficient, high tech base-camp housing nearly 7,000 troopsthree quarters of all the US troops stationed in Kosovo. There are 25 kilometres of roads and over 300 buildings at Camp Bondsteel, surrounded by 14 kilometres of earth and concrete barriers, 84 kilometres of concertina wire and 11 watch towers. It is so big that it has downtown, midtown and uptown districts, retail outlets, 24-hour sports halls, a chapel, library and the best- equipped hospital anywhere in Europe. At present there are 55 Black Hawk and Apache helicopters based at Bondsteel and although it has no aircraft landing strip the location was chosen for its capacity to expand. There are suggestions that it could replace the US airforce base at Aviano in Italy. According to Colonel Robert L. McClure, writing in the engineers professional Bulletin, Engineer planning for operations in Kosovo began months before the first bomb was dropped. At the outset, planners wanted to use the lessons learned in Bosnia and convinced decision makers to reach base-camp end state as quickly as possible. Initially US military engineers took control of 320 kilometres of roads and 75 bridges in the surrounding area for military use and laid out a base camp template involving soldiers living quarters, helicopter flight paths, ammunition holding areas and so on. McClure explains how the Engineer Brigade were instructed to merge construction assets and integrate them with the contractor, Brown & Root Services Corporation, to build not one but two base camps [the other is Camp Monteith] for a total of 7,000 troops. According to McClure, At the height of the effort, about 1,000 expatriates [former military personnel] hired by Brown & Root, along with more than 7,000 Albanian local nationals, joined the 1,700 military engineers. From early July and into October [1999], construction at both camps continued 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Brown & Root Services provides all the support services to Camp Bondsteel. This includes 600,000 gallons of water per-day, enough electricity to supply a city of 25,000 and a supply centre with 14,000 product lines. It washes 1,200 bags of laundry, supplies 18,000 meals per day and operates 95 percent of the rail and airfield facilities. It also provides the camps firefighting service. Brown & Root are now the largest employers in Kosovo, with more than 5,000 local Kosovan Albanians and another 15,000 on its books. Staff at Camp Bondsteel rarely venture outside the compound and their activities are secretive. Whilst other KFOR patrols are small and mobile with soldiers wearing soft caps and instructed to integrate with the local population, US military personnel leave Bondsteel in either helicopters or as part of infrequent but large heavily armed convoys. In unnamed interviews US troops complain that hostility to their presence is growing as local inhabitants compare the investment in Camp Bondsteel with the continuing decline in their own living standards. Those visiting Camp Bondsteel describe it as a journey through 100 years in time. The area surrounding the camp is extremely poor with an unemployment rate of 80 percent. Then Bondsteel appears on the horizon with its mass of communication satellites, antennae and menacing attack helicopters circling above. Brown & Root pay Kosova workers between $1 and $3 per hour. The local manager said wages were so low because, We cant inflate the wages because we dont want to over inflate the local economy. The escalating US presence at Bondsteel was accompanied by increased activity by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Since its appearance most Serbs, Roma and Albanians opposed to the KLA have been murdered or driven out. Those remaining dare not leave their houses to buy food at the local stores and the
[CTRL] NYC Anaemia
-Caveat Lector- >From World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org }}}>Begin WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Budget gap grows to $5 billion New York City mayor wants even bigger cuts By Peter Daniels 29 April 2002 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author New York Citys budget crisis continues to worsen, with the projected deficit for the fiscal year beginning on July 1 having grown from about $4.7 billion to $5 billion in the first three months of the administration of the citys new mayor, Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg, who proposed massive cuts in public and social services in his budget message in February, called a news conference April 17 to say that even greater spending cuts would be required. The mayor presented a contingency plan that he said he will implement if the $1.3 billion in projected savings from federal and state aid as well as union concessions fails to materialize. The additional measures include the elimination of eight fire companies; closing another 15 senior centers; and slashing another $115 million from city schools, 7.5 percent more from the citys libraries, and 7.5 percent more from the Department of Cultural Affairs. Further, the Bloomberg administration would eliminate the citys Food Assistance Program; close five community health clinics and 10 dental clinics; and scrap 57 neighborhood programs of the citys Department of Youth and Community Development. It would cut 2,600 more city jobs, mostly through attrition, but the plan also envisions unspecified additional job cuts, possibly as many as 5,000 in total. All of this would be in addition to the cuts outlined in February. Then the mayor called for cuts in city agencies ranging up to 26 percent, and the elimination of 6,000 jobs through attrition and employee buyouts. The $115 million reduction in public education, for instance, would be on top of $354 million already planned. The 7.5 percent from the libraries would be in addition to 15 percent proposed two months ago, and so on down the line. The new proposals came in response to projections of lower city revenues because of continuing economic recession as well as the growing realization that help from state and federal authorities in Albany and Washington is highly unlikely. The state budget is itself already nearly a month overdue, and legislation to allow the city to raise its cigarette tax and also the fines for parking violations is stalled in the state legislature. What the cuts will mean in human terms is not difficult to imagine. The vast majority of the working population will foot the bill in terms of further deterioration of already inadequate public services like sanitation, libraries and parks. The most vulnerable sections of the working class the poor, and especially the elderly and youthwill suffer the most, with the closing of social programs and community centers. Perhaps the most appalling and callous of the proposed cutbacks is aimed at the school system. As one newspaper columnist reported this week, the parents at a typical public school in one of the better-off working class neighborhoods of Queens are being asked to pay for items such as paper and the cost of maintenance of the schools photocopier. More than 40,000 students in the citys overcrowded system have classrooms in converted hallways or bathrooms. Even as the budget crisis produced calls for city job cuts, the March unemployment figures in the city showed another increase, to 7.5 percent. It was 6.9 percent in January, and 5.6 percent a year earlier. On Wall Street, the securities industry has shed 17,000 jobs, shrinking by 9 percent, in the past year. Business services, including temporary agencies and advertising, have lost 36,000 jobs over the same period. An estimated total of 110,000 jobs were eliminated in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, either directly in lower Manhattan, or indirectly because of the drastic decline in tourism. Moreover, while those who lost jobs in the area around the World Trade Center received some assistance through the various charities established after September 11, tens of thousands of others have not been eligible for any aid. Hotel workers in midtown, for instance, who lost their jobs because tourists stopped coming to New York, have joined the unemployment lines. Many thousands of other workers have had their hours cut. Now people are having to turn to the traditional sources people go to when they are in dire straits, an executive at the United Way reported. We may very well see a spike in the number of people going to welfare for the first time. The agency issued a study that found that 50,000 workers who lost their jobs as a direct result of the September 11 catastrophe received no aid. These include 9,000 airline and airport workers at LaGuardia and JFK Airports in Queens, where traffic has been cut by more then 20 percent. Most of them are low-paid employees such as parking atte
