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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/politics/recommendations/1623619

Oct. 20, 2002, 12:41AM

FOR KIRK

The better candidate in race for U.S. Senate seat

In the important race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Phil Gramm, the 
Chronicle
believes that Ron Kirk is the better choice and recommends him to voters in the Nov. 5
general election and in early voting, which began Saturday.

Kirk, the Democrat in the race, is an Austin native and former mayor of Dallas. He says
Houston voters need not worry that he will favor the needs of Dallas over those of the
Houston metropolitan area in Senate votes, pointing out, for example, that he'd oppose
budget cuts that would hurt the space program, which he recognizes is a national asset.
And he is well aware of the challenges here that could use a senator's Midas touch,
including flooding in the Texas Medical Center, transportation and rail, and pledges 
to work
with local leadership to find solutions to those problems.

Kirk says he would support unilateral action against Iraq if necessary, discerning 
that the
gravity of the decision to be made lies not only in protecting national security, but 
avoiding
providing justification for other states to unilaterally attack their enemies, such as 
China
against Taiwan. His pledge to work with President Bush on Iraq is apparent in his 
stated
willingness to take the administration's word that Saddam Hussein poses an imminent
threat of nuclear or chemical attack.

Noting that Bush had no trouble getting judicial nominees approved as Texas governor, 
Kirk
believes the president would have less trouble now if he appointed more moderate
candidates. Still, Kirk says, Bush has earned the right to make judicial nominations 
that
reflect his philosophy, and he therefore will support Bush nominees, barring any
extraordinary defect on their part.

Kirk says he is open to making the Bush tax cut permanent, but feels it would be 
prudent,
with the economy in flux, to wait to make that decision. He says the best approach to
dealing with the pending crisis in the Social Security trust fund is to stop stealing 
from it,
stop borrowing from it, and pay down the national debt. The Chronicle encourages him 
to
reconsider his opposition to privatizing any part of Social Security.

More inclined to seeking out cost- effective renewable energy sources, Kirk opposes 
drilling
in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a nonsolution to the nation's over-reliance 
on
imported oil.

Kirk has been criticized by his opponent for his attendance at a rally co- sponsored 
by a rap
musician, but the Chronicle believes the notion to be absurd that Kirk's presence was
tantamount to support for negative values associated with some rap music. Such rallies 
to
encourage young people to participate in the electoral process are positive and 
necessary.

Kirk is an attorney who earned his law degree at the University of Texas and is a 
partner
with the law firm of Gardere Wynne Sewell. He worked for two years in Washington as a
legislative assistant to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and says he learned much to emulate
from Bentsen. Kirk was appointed Texas secretary of state in 1994 and became Dallas
mayor in 1995.

Kirk says he wants to be judged on his record, and he has a fine one. As mayor, he 
ended
acrimonious and racially divisive politics in short order after taking office, and he 
built
coalitions that helped bring a $420 million sports arena to the city and win voter 
approval of
the $246 million Trinity River economic revitalization project.

The candidate says his priorities, if elected, would be education and solving the 
crisis of
health care, including the problems of growing numbers of uninsured Americans and
unaffordable prescription drugs. Kirk's suggestion -- that Congress should engage in a
wide- ranging discussion on what our common values as a nation are, in terms of 
border
security, the poor, education, the elderly and education, as part of the overall 
debate on the
national budget -- makes enormous sense.

As a centrist Democrat, Kirk would add an element of partisan balance -- and therefore
power -- to the Texas delegation in the U.S. Senate. He has the experience, the 
ability and
the record to give Texas voters confidence he'd do a fine job on their behalf in 
Washington.

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[CTRL] Blue Chip Investors

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http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/toporgs/index.asp

Blue Chip Investors
The Top 100 Donors to Federal Elections, 1989-2002

OCTOBER 2002

The 100 biggest donors to federal elections have given just over $1 billion to federal
candidates and political parties over the past 14 years. Find out who they are, how 
they
gave, and who got the money in this report, the most comprehensive analysis ever done 
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[CTRL] Chicago Reader: Hot Type

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http://www.chireader.com/hottype/2002/021025_2.html

The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a White Christian organization, standing up for 
rights and
values of White Christian America since 1865. For more information, please contact the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, at P.O. Box 525, Imperial, Missouri 63052. Let your voice 
be
heard!

The question of what to do about this business proposition shot up the ladder to the
chancellor of the University of Missouri-Saint Louis, which operates the station. KWMU 
told
Cuffley it would not accept the KKK as an underwriter. The Klan sued.

The alternative, chancellor Blanche Touhill testified in federal court, was financial 
disaster.
She predicted that if her school's radio station accepted the Klan's money and
acknowledged the gift -- which it would be legally bound to do -- annual gifts to UMSL
would drop by 20 percent, or $2 million a year, and 25 percent of the 1,565 black 
students
and 10 percent of the 9,142 white students would leave the school, at a further cost of
more than $3 million a year.

The Klan argued that KWMU's enhanced underwriting program was a straightforward
revenue-generating operation administered by sales people with business concerns, not
journalists with editorial concerns. The station was a public institution, supported 
by
taxpayers, that sold advertising space, and the Klan meant to purchase some of it. The 
Klan
drew a parallel between its suit and the successful suit filed by Planned Parenthood 
against
the Chicago Transit Authority in the mid-80s when the CTA, touchy about abortion, 
refused
to sell Planned Parenthood ad space in its trains and buses.

Three years went by before KWMU prevailed in the court of appeals. The court brushed
aside the CTA precedent, reasoning that an underwriting announcement wasn't the same
as an advertisement (for all the attempts of some stations and underwriters to blur the
difference), and that advertising was incidental to the CTA's primary function of 
providing
transportation, while announcements of funding sources relate to the journalistic 
purposes
of the station.

Among the countless differences between the Ku Klux Klan and the American Friends
Service Committee, the most significant here is that the Klan wanted to tap into an
unfamiliar and unlikely audience while the Friends asked public radio to help it reach
kindred spirits. It's not like we have a Pacifica Radio or something, says the 
Reverend Dan
Dale, director of Agape House at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a planner 
of the
Friends' peace forum. In terms of the Chicago area, this is the only station for 
progressive
folks in town, and if they start saying we can't use the word 'peace' -- and we're not 
talking
about editorial policy, we're talking about a paid ad -- it's very worrisome. He 
doesn't want
WBEZ to become just another corporate mouthpiece.

Our function, Malatia responds, is to have a free discussion of all kinds of issues 
on the
air, and if we put ourselves in the position of taking dollars to advocate for public, 
social, or
religious concerns on the air, it puts into question those very free discussions. It 
puts into
question our ability to talk about those things in an objective way if there's an 
exchange of
dollars taking place elsewhere.

Ultimately, I think it leads you down the path where you find yourself, as Saint 
Louis did, in
a position where you really have no policy to point to when the time comes to reject
something you really need to reject.

Next time the Friends might do better trying to post their message on the Red Line. So
might the Ku Klux Klan.

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[CTRL] Mexico may oppose the U.S.

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From http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=38357

Mexico may oppose the U.S. proposal on Iraq in the United Nations. File Photo,
TheNewsMexico.com
Fox says he might oppose U.S. resolution on Iraq
Bloomberg - 10/25/2002

LOS CABOS, Baja California Sur - President Vicente Fox said he may oppose the U.S.-
sponsored United Nations resolution seeking unrestricted arms inspections in Iraq.

Fox said he shares the concerns of Russia and France over language in the text they say
would allow the U.S. to automatically attack Iraq if it believes Saddam Hussein's
government is hindering inspections. The U.S., seeking to build support, has expanded 
talks
to include the UN Security Council's 10 elected members such as Mexico.

We are inclined and in a way sympathetic with the position of France, Fox said in an
interview before a meeting of Asia Pacific leaders on the west coast of Mexico. We 
are still
in the process of deciding.

Fox's stance would put Mexico at odds with its main trading partner. The U.S. buys 90
percent of Mexico's exports, accounting for a quarter of the 620 billion dollar Mexican
economy. Fox, who plans to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush in two days, has
failed in the past two years to win concessions from the U.S. for granting more rights 
to
Mexican workers living north of the border.

Fox's message to Bush will be: Lets get back to work, the Mexican president said.

Lets get back to discussing migration and let's get it solved, Fox said. It's going 
to be to
the betterment of the United States and to the betterment of Mexico.

White House spokesman Sean McCormack said the U.S. continues to consult with members
of the UN Security Council and Iraq will come up in Bush's discussions with Fox.
McCormack wouldn't comment further.

Immigration

Fox, a 60-year-old former Coca-Cola Co. executive, has struggled to put his demands for
increased protection for undocumented workers and other immigration initiatives back on
the U.S. agenda. Initial immigration talks were derailed by heightened security 
concerns in
the U.S. following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks last year.

The setbacks have led to criticism within Mexico that Fox hasn't made good on campaign
promises and is depending too much on winning concessions from Bush.

There is no question that there is evident frustration on the Mexican side, not only 
with the
U.S. but with Bush in particular, said Mexico City political analyst Luis Rubio, 
director of the
Center of Research for Development.

U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said this week that on the issue of
immigration talks, the two presidents continue to keep it on the agenda.

The U.S. also recognizes Mexico's role in negotiations with UN members.

Mexico is obviously an important player because it's a security council member, Rice 
said.

France asked for a council meeting Monday with UN chief arms inspector Hans Blix and
Mohamed El-Baradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. France
will vote for the resolution if Blix and El- Baradei support terms for inspections 
outlined in
the statement, diplomats said.

Russia and France have backed a two-stage process that would require a second UN
resolution authorizing force after the inspections are complete.

Fox said he would oppose any proposal backing force against Iraq in the first stage.

First we have to approve the visit of the inspectors, give them all the support to 
work with
Iraq, wait until they come back and give their report, and then take the next 
decision, Fox
said.



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[CTRL] Islamists triumph

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http://jang.com.pk/thenews/oct2002-daily/26-10-2002/world/w7.htm

Islamists triumph in Bahrain polls

MANAMA: Sunni and Shiite Islamist candidates triumphed in the first elections to 
Bahrain's
parliament since 1973, according to official results announced at dawn on Friday.

Five Sunni Islamists, including two heads of political groups, won parliamentary seats
outright in the first round of voting. Seventeen other Sunni and Shiite Islamists went
through to the second round to be held on October 31, most of them well ahead of their
nearest rivals.

Thirteen independent Sunni and Shiite candidates took second place while two liberals 
and
two women could enter parliament after the second round. The first parliamentary
elections in the Gulf Arab archipelago since 1973 were billed as the crowning glory of 
the
political reforms launched by King Hamad after his accession in March 1999.

Even though four of Bahrain's 15 political groups, including the most influential 
Shiite
Islamist group, decided to boycott the election, their leaders have all welcomed the 
king's
reforms. The groups are unhappy at an amendment to the 1973 constitution stipulating 
that
legislative power be split equally between the elected chamber and a consultative 
council to
be appointed by King Hamad.

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Re: [CTRL] please forward to all

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10/25/02 8:34:40 PM, William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  - eliminate proven teaching methods that work well (bilingual education -
  which teaches English), replacing them with one method that has been proven
  to be less successful (English immersion).

  Bilingual education is essentially classes taught in Spanish...it ought to
  be abolished. Immersion is the only way. Our language is at risk of
  extinction and needs to be protected. Our country is an English-speaking one
  and must remain that way.
  Bill.

Don't know 'bout you but I speak American ... anyway, the more languages the kids 
learn to
speak (aside from American) is mucho beneficialissimo.  This of course works many ways,
everyone gets to not only learn the majority lingo but learn (and teach) others as 
well.
There's nothing more pathetic than an American meeting a furrenner -- here or abroad --
and can't demonstrate some facility in a language beyond his or her own.  A great 
example
in Chevy Chase in Nat'l Lampoons Euro Vacation.

This English-only effort is just another ruse by the Englanders theyselfs who 
imposed this
@#$%*^ rule on their empire in order to bleed the Celts and others dry of any 
cultural
heritage other than what emanated from the dictates of Londonistan.  It's been a real 
pain
in the arse 'n ail for the Welsh and the Scots and the Bretons (France playing along) 
and
the Manx and the Irish to throw off the yoke of lingual serfdom and subserviance to the
latent haemophaeliac crowd.  I've even seen movies made o'er there -- supposedly in
English -- that had to have subtitles for American audiences.  May as well learn a
Continental language ... helps with the eavesdropping in public places.  Nothing more 
fun
than watching the expression on a non-native American speaker's face when he tells a 
joke
in a furren tongue and then you laugh right along with 'em.  Beyond the Englanders and
their unsuccessful attempts to cow their conquered,  we have a whole buncha peoples who
have heritages that should permit a little more cross-conversation between the New and
Old Worlders.  This will tend to lessen the alienation of those who are coming here and
gonna be here whether we like it or not.  The emphasis is on sharing, not the old-style
imperialist throat ramming-jamming-cramming.

They be havin' whole bunchas o' fun in the Mid East and South Asia 'cause there ain't 
no
one willing to come forward and practice what they know or learn what they don't know.
You learn real quick that the least reliable person is your interpreter, 'cause he or 
she has
you by the tongue.


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[CTRL] Money and Morals

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From http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2002/021025_1.html

This is the first part of the other one that had to do with the KKK.  The linque I 
used
took me to page two and I didn't realise I had gone to the second page instead of the 
first
which is where I had intended to go.  So here you go.  AER 

For the week of October 25, 2002
By Michael Miner

Money and Morals: WBEZ Draws the Line

I want to share with you an encounter I just had with WBEZ. So began the E-mail last
month from Chuck Hutchcraft, Chicago-area coordinator of the American Friends Service
Committee. I wasn't asking for free time, he went on, but was planning to spend 
nearly
$2,000 for one of those brief blurbs that say 'Support for this WBEZ program . . . '

What Hutchcraft called a blurb WBEZ calls an underwriting announcement, and WBEZ has
its rules about how they're worded. Among other things, announcements cannot contain
inducements to buy or calls to action, and cannot contain language advocating 
political,
religious or social causes.

The Friends, a Quaker organization, sent WBEZ a flyer it wanted turned into an
underwriting announcement. The flyer said: Have we given up on peace? No we have not.
Candlelight vigil and forum. A community conversation on the need for a moral voice
against war. At the bottom of the flyer were the time and place of the forum.

Account executive Steve Adler massaged the flyer's language, and here's what he sent 
back
to Hutchcraft: Support for this WBEZ program is provided by the American Friends 
Service
Committee, holding a community convention and forum exploring issues of morality and
war. This Sunday at 7 PM. Information at grassrootsvoices.org.

Well, the point of the forum wasn't to explore issues of war. It was to oppose war.
Hutchcraft says he got back to Adler with alternative language: holding a community 
forum
and peace vigil proclaiming a moral voice against war with Iraq. Again Adler said no. 
He'd
checked with his bosses, says Hutchcraft, and he was told he could not use the word
'peace,' 'candlelight,' or 'vigil' because it would compromise their neutrality. We 
said
basically, 'We're a peace organization, and we can't be neutral about that.'

So the Friends kept their money, and Hutchcraft fumed. It is odd, he observed in his 
E-
mail to me, that while WBEZ wants to maintain the appearance of neutrality on the
questions of this country's ever-expanding theater of war, [it] will blindly accept
sponsorships such as the one we often hear on the station, 'Support for this WBEZ 
program
is provided by ADM, supermarket to the world.'

Does Chicago's public radio station value empty rhetoric above conviction? Adler 
didn't want
to comment, but my sampling of opinion around the station suggests that people who work
there believe WBEZ's policy is dictated by federal law. That's not exactly true. The 
1934
Communications Act (last revised in 1996) does flatly forbid public radio stations 
from airing
advertising -- a message intended to promote any service, facility, or product -- of 
a
profit-seeking concern. But when the advertiser is a not-for-profit such as the 
Friends, the
stations have a lot of latitude. The [Communications Act] does not prohibit 
noncommercial
educational stations from airing announcements that promote its own activities, or 
those of
other not-for-profit entities, a senior FCC attorney told a 1999 National Public Radio
conference.

Law or no law, counters Torey Malatia, general manager of WBEZ, I think it's 
improper
to accept money to push for causes on a public station that's supposed to be offering
information to allow people to make up their own minds.

Underwriting, says Malatia, covers 18 percent of WBEZ's $12 million budget and as much 
as
half the budget of some other public stations. It's a source of revenue a lot of 
stations
need to use. We need to use it. It's got to be watched very carefully.

Asked about that supermarket to the world announcement, Malatia makes two points. The
first is that the FCC -- and WBEZ -- allow bona fide corporate slogans. Unlike 
transient
campaign slogans, these watchwords are forever. 'LaSalle, the bank that works.' 
That's a
corporate slogan, he explains. But they might do something like 'Free checking and
more.' That's a campaign. We wouldn't allow that to be used.

Malatia's second point is this: Just for the record, we haven't gotten a dime from 
ADM.
That's all NPR. NPR sells announcements for the programs it distributes, and it 
expects
stations like WBEZ to carry those announcements unaltered when the programs air. NPR's
standards, Malatia says, are looser than his own.

Consider this announcement: Support for this program is provided by Microsoft, helping
business make the connections to quickly act, react, and succeed. Learn more about
software for the agile business at microsoft.com/ enterprise.

When this copy arrived a few weeks ago from NPR, WBEZ refused to let its announcers
read it. The

[CTRL] 10 Reasons

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From http://www.weeklyplanet.com/current/cover.html

10 Reasons Not to Vote for Jeb Bush

BY ROCHELLE RENFORD


Make no mistake. Americans do love their royalty. Our founding fathers may have given 
the
finger to the royals in England, but generations later the monarchy still rules. The 
lack of an
official king and queen has only allowed the American public to anoint several 
unofficial
royal lines instead. As much as Americans extol the virtues of hard work, most of us
probably would have preferred the silver spoon route. Work is fine, but really, wasn't
leaving the womb hard enough? For some lucky sperm, the birth canal is the last tight 
spot
they'll have to find their way out of. Like the Kennedys and the Rockefellers, the 
Bush clan is
a monument to unearned privilege and power, but they've distinguished themselves with
their capacity for denial.

Gov. Jeb Bush has said that after college, he was on his own financially and made his 
own
way through his own hard work. So what if that hard work was for his father's 
campaign,
and for corporations run by his father's friends. While working at IntrAmerica 
Investments,
a real estate development firm owned by Bush Sr. supporter Armando Codina, Bush's
salary jumped six figures in about six years. He has said his family name wasn't an
advantage but spent much of his career wooing clients who wanted to get next to his
family. He was cut in on investment deals, even though he didn't actually have any 
cash to
invest, and he walked away from scandals involving attempts to defraud the U.S.
government, claiming that he wasn't a fraud but a dupe. Only he knows which is true, 
but
it's clear that if he hadn't used his family connections to do favors for his wealthy 
comrades,
some of the scandals wouldn't have happened. When developer Hiram Martinez Jr.
requested $18-million in federal loan insurance for an apartment development in 1985, 
the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development questioned its land value and delayed
the request. Rather than allow HUD to do its job, Bush wrote a letter to the U.S. 
agency's
undersecretary on Martinez's behalf. The loan was approved, the land values were 
inflated
and Martinez got six years in prison on fraud charges. Bush has amnesia about the 
letter.
Later he made a call to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help 
another
associate looking to get out of following some pesky federal rules.

Bush denies that he received special treatment in both of those incidents, but any 
citizen
who's dealt with either agency knows that's not true. It's pretty damn special to have 
a top
manager take your call, instead of getting a clerk who transfers your call or tells 
you to fill
out forms.

It's his denial that makes Bush an ineffective governor. It's not possible to see why
minorities would need affirmative action when you refuse to see that alumni and legacy
admissions are a form of affirmative action too. It's easy to focus on punishment 
rather
than rehabilitation when you've never had to be accountable for your own questionable
dealings. Recognizing every citizen's right to vote is harder when you really believe 
that the
only rights that count are yours.

Bush has had four years to prove that he's more than just the product of the lucky 
sperm
club instead he's proven that ego and privilege are a costly mix. Bush may have been 
to
the manor born, but the governor's mansion belongs to the people. Here are 10 reasons 
to
kick him out.

1. He's Not Stupid, But He Thinks Voters Are

Much has been made of a reporter catching Gov. Jeb Bush showing one face in public and
another when he thinks he's safely in his inner sanctum. This is called politics, and 
it's
nothing new. But Bush wasn't just strategizing or playing politics when he made light 
of a
serious issue -- a missing human being that was in the state's care. Referring to 
gossip
about the ongoing criminal investigation as juicy isn't a misstatement; it's a 
character
flaw. Telling Republican legislatures that the two women arrested in the case may be
lesbians because one referred to the other as the wife is irrelevant information if 
your
real interest is finding a child. Bush should be completely torn up about the hundreds 
of
missing children that disappeared on his watch, both in public and in private. How can 
he
be expected to take the task of fixing the system seriously if he doesn't sincerely 
care about
the tragic consequences of doing nothing?

People who make racist or homophobic comments only in private are still racists and
homophobes; there's no such thing as a part-time bigot. The Nixon tapes have shown that
private bigotry becomes public policy, whether voters know it or not. Bush may 
genuinely
feel that the class-size amendment is a mistake and he's entitled to make his case. 
But his
saying that he's concocting devious plans to undermine it if it passes shows a 
genuine
disregard for democracy.

He is nothing more

[CTRL] Watch Where You Point That Weapon! by Casey Khan

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/khan2.html



Watch Where You Point That Weapon!

by Casey Khan



The other night I was watching television, fixated on the DC area sniper shootings. 
They
were showing footage of the lock down on I-95 after one of the shootings. The footage
included a scene of a man who was pulled over in a white van. Just for driving a white 
van,
the man had the pleasure of being forced out of his vehicle by three police officers at
gunpoint. The three officers pointed their weapons directly at the man even though he
posed no immediate threat to the officers. The man proceeded to lie down on the
pavement. With that, the footage ended.

This brings us to a disturbing trend that has been occurring in police agencies and
departments across the country. Police are more apt to brandish weapons and aim in on
the citizens they have sworn to protect. Much of this can be explained by the recent
militarization of U.S. law enforcement. The spirit of posse comitatus has been 
weakened by
incidents like: Ruby Ridge, Waco, Elian Gonzales, Amidu Diallo, and now the DC sniper. 
All
these incidents have shown just how much the government is willing to threaten us in 
order
to protect us.

Lets say Congress decides to repeal the Posse Comitatus Act and allows for an overtly
military stance amongst law enforcement organizations. That would still not excuse the
pointing of weapons against innocent civilians. Why? Even in the military, unlike the 
recent
illustrations by U.S. law enforcers, there are strict rules regarding the use of 
weapons and
deadly force. Lets examine some military rules for weapons safety and apply them to a
militarized law enforcement.

The U.S. Marine Corps represents the best marksmanship techniques and philosophy of any
branch of the U.S. armed services. Here are the safety rules, which govern Marines in 
the
handling of all firearms whether on the rifle range, in garrison, in field training, 
or in
combat. These rules are universal and should be applied by any handler of firearms. 
First,
it is important to note that these rules assume control of a firearm by an individual.

Treat every weapon as if it was loaded.
Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you intend to fire.
Keep your weapon on safe, until you intend to fire.

Violation of any of these rules could lead to punishment as a safety violator with a 
punch in
the face by an NCO, a written reprimand, or prosecution under the UCMJ, depending on
what may have occurred during the violation. You will notice that these rules do not
mention if the weapon is loaded or not. It does not matter. All weapons are assumed to 
be
loaded. What matters is intent and responsibility for individual actions. The Marine 
Corps
knows well that weapons are inanimate objects, and are powerless without human actions
to employ them. In a logical manner, we can correctly make the following implications 
to
the following rules.

If your weapon is off safe, then you intend to fire.
If your finger is on the trigger, then you intend to fire.
If you point a weapon at anything, then you intend to shoot it.

Whether an individual means to or not, that individual is responsible for the weapon 
he is
controlling, and his intent is quite clear, especially when in violation of the rules. 
The last
rules implication is the most important. It will be granted that a weapon has to be 
pointed
in some direction when not employed, and that direction is either directly up or down 
to
maintain a safe situation. Most importantly, a weapon should not be pointed at other
people, unless the individual intends to shoot at other people. Which leads us to the 
next
logical implication.

If you point your weapon at a person, then you intend to shoot that person.



These rules are quite simple and easy to follow. Now lets apply them to some actions
recently taken by law enforcement officers.

In this first picture we see an officer standing in the middle of traffic after one of 
the recent
DC sniper shootings. The weapon he is carrying looks to be a carbine version of an 
AR-15
or M-16. Lets look for any rule violations. It looks as if he is treating the weapon 
as a
loaded one, with a magazine inserted, with his finger extended off the trigger in good
technique. From this picture, it is hard to decipher if his weapon is on safe. So like 
good
Americans, well assume he is innocent until proven guilty, even though this is 
something he
is not doing for the owner of the red truck. Where is the officer pointing the weapon? 
In this
case he clearly points the weapon at the red truck. This officer, whether he means to 
or
not, intends to shoot this red truck. Should he shoot this red truck? Probably not, no
warrant has been issued nor has any probable cause occurred.

In this case, using the weapons safety rules combined with the highest law of this 
land, he
is in clear violation. Looking to the

[CTRL] Confused

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From http://www.guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,2763,819706,00.html

 Mr Muhammad converted to Islam in 1985 and joined the Nation of Islam, for whom he
said he had carried out security.  

 Last year, John Lee's mother, Uma James, contacted the police to complain about the 
way
Mr Muhammad appeared to have taken over control of her teenage son. She and the boy
had been detained by immigration officials as illegal immigrants after they moved from
Florida to Tacoma, but had been released. Now her son was living with Mr Muhammad in a
Christian shelter in Bellingham.   


Nomadic life of a confused killer with short fuse

Picture emerges of 'sergeant-recruit' relationship between Gulf veteran and young 
illegal
immigrant

Duncan Campbell in Tacoma, Washington state
Saturday October 26, 2002
The Guardian

The FBI agents may have completed their search of the humble backyard where John Allen
Muhammad used to take late-night potshots at a tree trunk, but outside the run-down
single-storey house, his former friends and neighbours are carrying out a different 
kind of
search.

They want to discover what turned the self-confident, imposing disciplinarian who 
became
a devout Muslim into someone who went on a wild killing spree.

I thought the world of him, said Felix Strozier, his partner in the karate school 
they ran in
Tacoma from 1997 to 1998. He was a quiet person, he was quite aggressive but it was
easy to talk to him and calm him down. I was hoping it wasn't true - it's not the John
Muhammad I knew. It's totally out of character.

But Mr Strozier could also recall a man who did not like to be crossed, who claimed 
falsely
to have been in the US special forces (the equivalent of Britain's SAS) and whose fuse 
was
short. The two fell out over the running of the now defunct school. I can remember him
being bitter about life, Mr Strozier said.

Among Mr Muhammad's neighbours there was incredulity at the news. In this city, no
more than 150 years ago, they lived by the gun - so we're back there again, said
Christopher Miller.

I'm glad he was caught, said Chris Waters, an army private who lives in the house
opposite, which is for sale for $130,000. There's a price to pay and he must pay it.

I think he's a bitter coward, said Kelvin Farley, who works in the lumber industry 
and lives
nearby. This is a close- knit community, I can't believe it.

The picture that is emerging is of inter-generational nomadic killing spree by a Gulf 
war
veteran sharpshooter who had already terrorised one ex-wife, and a teenage illegal
immigrant who called him father.

Mr Muhammad is seen as a controlling, dominant presence who told his children to refer 
to
people as sir or mister, and who appeared to have finally found in John Lee Malvo
someone who would obey his instructions on everything from what he ate to whose life he
terminated.

His motives remain confused: an angry killer who demanded money and a man who
eventually seemed to want to control even the way he was caught.

The journey that may now take him and John Lee to death row has already spanned
Louisiana, Alabama, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington state, Jamaica and Antigua, as well
as the states in which they chose their human targets.

Mr Muhammad, 41, was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his days at Scotlandville
high school as John Williams appear to have been happy. His mother died young, his 
father
was not around and he was brought up by aunts before he married his childhood
sweetheart, Carol, and had a son, Travis. But the marriage did not last and yesterday 
his
former in-laws, Sheron and Ronald Norman, recalled a man who did as he pleased. He
became arrogant at times, said Mrs Norman, a paramedic If he wanted something, he
would just take it. The marriage ended in 1987.

Gulf war

In the meantime, he had joined the army and would serve for nine years, including in 
the
Gulf war, before an honourable discharge. His interest in the military had been 
fostered by
time in the national guard in Louisiana as a young man, where he was once sentenced to
seven days detention for punching a sergeant. Outside the service he moved from job to
job and state to state, living at various times in Oregon, New Jersey and Washington. 
He
also spent time in Antigua, which he left because it was pretty backward - no 
internet or
technological advances. It is there he may have met John Lee. He ran a car repair 
business
in Tacoma and then the karate school where the teenager was a student. He did odd jobs
in Bellingham, north of Seattle.

When his second marriage, to Mildred Williams, ended, he wanted their three children. 
He
took them in 2000 from their Tacoma home for 18 months, against her will. His wife did 
not
know where he had taken them, but remained in her home in the hope that they would be
able to find her. When he was tracked down she sought a protection order.

He is behaving very irrational, she said in her legal statement in 2000. Whenever 
he does

[CTRL] For your attention

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Parisian art moved out of flood's way
Jon Henley in Paris
Friday October 25 2002
The Guardian


Leading Paris museums, including the Louvre and the Mus#233;e d'Orsay, are to move 
thousands of priceless artworks from their basement storerooms because of a feared 
superflood in the French capital this winter.

The unprecedented operation is part of a town hall contingency plan which also 
includes measures to secure gas and electricity supplies, public transport and 
hospital care in the event of flooding which could force the evacuation of up to 
50,000 people from central Paris and affect more than 700,000 in the greater Paris 
area.

We're not saying the great centennial flood is coming this winter, we're just saying 
we know it will come some time soon and the signs are not encouraging, Michele Merli, 
the plan's coordinator, said. We have to make sure we can deal with it when it 
happens.

Experts say that conditions between December and March could conspire to produce 
flooding on a scale not seen in Paris since 1910, when the Seine burst its banks, 
rowing boats were seen on streets more than a mile from the river, and much of the 
Ile-de-France region were under water.

The director of the Louvre, Henri Loyrette, said the world's most-visited museum could 
not afford to sit back and do nothing in the face of persistent early warnings, 
particularly given what happened in Germany and central Europe this summer.

Widespread flooding in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary devastated 
ancient city centres in August, forcing a frantic attempt to save tens of thousands of 
valuable artworks and books in museums and libraries.

The Louvre's reserve works will be moved to storage buildings outside the capital, Mr 
Loyrette said. Similar measures are under way at the Mus#233;e d'Orsay, the Pompidou 
Centre, the Jeu de Paume and the new national library.

Although flood barrages and overspill reservoirs have been built outside Paris since 
1910, experts say they are unsure of the impact of a sudden surge in the level of the 
Seine because the urban landscape has changed beyond recognition.

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Australia adds to Phuket warning
David Fickling in Sydney and Richard Norton-Taylor
Friday October 25 2002
The Guardian


Australia became the second country yesterday to say that it has received intelligence 
that the popular Thai resort of Phuket is a potential terrorist target.

Despite the British government's continued insistence that there is no direct threat 
against the holiday resort, Australia's foreign minister, Alexander Downer, said: We 
know from the Bali experience that you can't be too cautious, and we have had some 
information in relation to Phuket, and Phuket is a favoured holiday resort for 
Australians.

A spokesman for the foreign affairs department confirmed that the warning was based on 
specific Australian intelligence about an attack on the island, which attracts up to 
three million tourists a year.

The department said the information had been gained in the past 24 hours.

Similar advice was issued by the Danish government on Wednesday about threats to Thai 
resorts, including Patong beach on Phuket.

Asked again by the Guardian yesterday about the warnings, the Foreign Office confirmed 
that it was not naming any locations in its travel advice for Thailand.

It said it had issued new advice for Thailand on October 18 stating that the threat 
had increased significantly.

A spokeswoman said the government was aware of the advice given by other countries to 
their citizens but Whitehall had no reason to change its views.

Australia has warned travellers to exercise extreme caution in Thailand, but has 
stopped short of urging its citizens to leave the country.

In response, the Thai government deputy spokeswoman, Sansanee Nakpong, said the 
government was confident about Phuket's safety and that authorities were on maximum 
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Forgotten man emerges into the light

October 26 2002

In the bitter cold of a winter's night in 1965, US Army Sergeant Charles Robert 
Jenkins was
leading his three-man squad on patrol near the demilitarised zone that divides North 
and
South Korea.

It was just past 2.30am when Jenkins signalled to his troops to wait while he went 
forward
to check something. That was the last they would see of him.

Three weeks later, North Korean radio triumphantly announced that Jenkins, a 
25-year-old
from small town America, had seen the light and defected.

For the best part of 40 years, Jenkins was essentially a forgotten man, leaving behind 
an
army that regarded him as a traitor. However, his family in North Carolina refused to
believe he had gone of his own free will.

Suddenly, almost 38 years after he left his patrol, Charles Jenkins has emerged from 
the
shadows in a most unexpected and unusual way. When Japan's Prime Minister, Junichiro
Koizumi, returned from his historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-il last month, 
he
brought news that the Stalinist state had admitted abducting 13 Japanese nationals.

In a strange twist to an already bizarre story, Japan learnt that one of the five 
surviving
abductees, Hitomi Soga, had married a US Army defector. His name: Charles Robert
Jenkins.

Ms Soga, now 43, had been shopping with her mother on Sado Island off the Sea of Japan
coast in 1978 when they were bundled into bags by agents of Pyongyang. Ms Soga, a
teenage nursing student, was spirited away to North Korea to train its agents in 
Japanese
language and culture. She never saw her mother again.

Gradually accepting her fate, she asked to learn English. Her teacher was Charles 
Jenkins.
They fell in love and married in 1980, and have two daughters, Mika, 19, and Belinda, 
17.

In the past week, since Ms Soga returned to Japan with the four other survivors for a 
visit,
the missing years in the life of Charles Jenkins have started to assume some form.

Jenkins, now 62, and his daughters came to the airport at Pyongyang to see off Ms Soga.
Japanese officials asked Jenkins if he wanted to go with her, but explained that 
because of
his situation it's not easy.

Jenkins also told the officials about his life with Soga.

Hitomi is almost 20 years younger than me, but she made us a very good family, he 
told
the officials, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported.

I do appreciate her for that, even though she may have felt lonely for marrying a man 
this
much older.

Jenkins stood at the fence waving goodbye, a very lonely figure.

Ms Soga has told her relatives of their life in Pyongyang, getting up early to make 
lunches
for their daughters, who are students at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies. 
Her
husband, she said, was kind, though we sometimes argue.

As debate continues over whether Ms Soga and the other returnees will eventually settle
back in Japan, Jenkins's official status as a deserter has emerged as a pressing 
issue. He
would presumably face immediate arrest should he leave North Korea.

In a move that underlines how strongly Japan wants the five abductees to come home,
Tokyo has made a special request to Washington that Jenkins be granted amnesty.

Back in North Carolina, his family is elated to know he is alive, but refuses to 
accept that
any amnesty is necessary.

I don't believe this about him being a deserter, his sister, Pat Harrell, told The 
New York
Times.

His family has always questioned the authenticity of a farewell letter the army says 
Jenkins
left behind, which began: Dear Mother, I am sorry for the trouble I will cause you.

For the past 37 years the question has been whether Jenkins was a deserter or was
abducted. Now, as the story of the Japanese abductees unfolds, we are tantalisingly 
close
to the answer.

On the superficial evidence, it would seem that Jenkins did betray his country. He is 
one of
four US servicemen who are alleged to have deserted to the North during the 1960s,
subsequently used as Cold War trophies by Pyongyang in propaganda material.

In 1996 the Pentagon classed Jenkins and the other three servicemen as defectors. In
addition, there are apparently between 10 and 15 US prisoners of war from the Korean
War still in North Korea.

What would make Jenkins, an average young man from an average American town, turn to
the embrace of a communist enemy?

His life until then holds few clues. In his home town of Rich Square, a farming hamlet 
of
1000 people, Jenkins was given the nickname Super because his strength was out of
proportion to his slender frame.

After struggling at school, he seemed to have found his niche with the army, a logical
extension of enjoyable days in the National Guard. He served at a US base in Japan 
before
his tour of duty in South Korea.

While family and friends have remained loyal, others are not so

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Terror fighting agency tangled up in red tape
By Robert Lusetich in Los Angeles
26oct02

AS the Washington DC region cowered in fear this past fortnight, many Americans were
wondering where was Tom Ridge and the Department of Homeland Security?

Certainly not co-ordinating the response to what may have been an act of terror. 
Instead,
Ridge was sitting in his office as Congress bickered over the shape of the new 
department,
which would represent the biggest shake-up in the structure of the federal bureaucracy
since the creation of the Department of Defence and the CIA in 1947.

There is no doubt the US needs a homeland security post to co-ordinate federal 
agencies in
the face of attack.

There was no better example of how lost the US is on this front than the US Immigration
Department's clearance of Mohammad Atta's application to study at a flight school six
months after he plunged a plane into the World Trade Centre.

But whether the creation of a new cabinet-level federal bureaucracy -- which will cost 
an
estimated $US37.7 billion ($68 billion) a year and will report to an unprecedented 88
congressional committees and sub-committees -- will really protect Americans from
another major terrorist attack is far from certain.

While no one disputes that there needs to be better co-ordination between federal 
agencies
and swifter sharing of intelligence and potential threats, many critics believe little 
will
change even if congressional Democrats go along with President George W. Bush's
proposed department.

Unless agencies such as the CIA and FBI -- which are notoriously reluctant to share
sensitive intelligence -- change their cultures, the war on terror could become as 
unwieldy
and as unsuccessful as the war on drugs.

At meetings of the National Security Council's counter-terrorism security group, the 
CIA and
FBI do not share information if members of about 15 other agencies represented do not
have appropriate security clearances.

Local and state police agencies have also complained that while they provide hard
information to the federal agencies, in return they get only vague warnings.

If this homeland security is going to work, they're going to have to have the 
intelligence
and not just what people want to give them, says senator Richard Shelby. Otherwise,
we're going to waste our money.

Surprisingly, Ridge acknowledges such a possibility. We need a new kind of government
organisation that isn't so doggone cumbersome and isn't micromanaged, he says. If all
you've done is move the boxes around, you create a new department in name only.

The real question, however, is whether there really is anything any government can do 
to
stop another attack.

The FBI, after all, was warned by one of its own agents of suspicious behaviour by the 
men
who became the suicide hijackers and ignored it. The CIA is similarly guilty. What is 
to say
the same advices won't again be cast aside?

While there has been a tremendous expansion of increasingly sophisticated security at 
US
airports, there is still no screening method to identify plastic knives or plastic 
explosives of
the kind the would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid smuggled on to a flight from London to
the US.

At US ports, only 2 per cent of cargo containers that enter the country are checked by
customs officers. In New York's subway system, there is no real security checks. A 
suicide
bomber could just walk in.

The US borders with Canada and Mexico are porous. The Immigration Service, which 
critics
contend is perhaps the most incompetent department in the US Government, recently said 
it
would take up to two years to install cameras on poles along the Canadian border 
because
the sites are undergoing five- to seven-month environmental assessments prior to
disturbing any land where a pole may be placed.

What we needed was (Gulf War commander, General Norman) Schwarzkopf-type
leadership and Marine Corps discipline, and what they've created is the (Department of
Motor Vehicles) from hell, said Michael Boyd, an aviation and security consultant.

Instead of responding in a warlike manner, we have countered terrorism with
overwhelming bureaucracy.


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Did the Right-Wing or CIA or Someone Close
to Bush Tamper with Sen. Wellstones plane?
by Jackson Thoreau   October 25, 2002



My first hunch about Sen. Paul Wellstone's tragic plane crash less than two weeks 
before
this pivotal election is that the plane was tampered with by right-wingers, possibly 
the CIA,
either directly or through some psychic mind games.

I'm not a big conspiracy nut who worries about this kind of thing all the time - just 
an
average one like Oliver Stone who knows there's something sinister and weird going on 
in
our world - but I have done extensive research into the 1963 JFK assassination in 
Dallas.
The right-wing-CIA was heavily involved in that, from Oswald's CIA connections to the
Dallas mayor at that time being the brother of the former CIA deputy director who lost 
his
job after the Bay of Pigs fiasco and blamed that on JFK. The Dallas mayor also changed 
the
parade route on that fateful day so it would go right by the grassy knoll and triple 
overpass,
where JFK met his death.

I have interviewed numerous people who report weird things that occurred during that
time, such as key witnesses dying in strange ways like mysterious plane crashes and 
being
run over by trains in the middle of the night. I have written numerous stories on this 
and
covered it in my book on Dallas history - and have received my share of threatening 
phone
calls, mail opened, and the like to know I was stepping on some powerful toes. But I 
know
how to mentally protect myself - two can play at that game. I continue to pursue the 
truth.

There were also numerous JFK murder witnesses committing suicide in the months after
that tragedy. The CIA has done extensive mind control work for decades - I know several
psychics personally who have worked for the CIA - and could possibly convince someone
through such mind games to commit suicide. Could they psychically work on making a 
plane
crash? Who knows. Anything is possible.

I know the CIA can make -and has made - murders look like suicides or heart attacks. I
sometimes wonder if J.H. Hatfield, author of the explosive Bush biography, Fortunate 
Son,
was such a victim last year. And what about Democratic Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who
was killed when his small plane crashed right before the 2000 election? What about 
John F.
Kennedy Jr., who had intelligence, political ambitions, charisma, and the name, dying 
in a
1999 plane crash? Do you really think these are mere coincidences?

Add to that Raytheon Co., one of the biggest U.S. military contractors and 
manufacturer of
the plane that crashed, being a huge donor to Republicans, and the mind continues to
wonder. U.S. House Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, for instance, 
received
$48,201 alone from Raytheon in 1997-98. The Republican National Committee received at
least $170,000 from Raytheon since 1999. Raytheon donates to Democrats, too, but more
than twice as much money goes to Republicans.

Raytheon has all kinds of CIA connections, as does Bush, whose father was once 
director of
the CIA. It would take little for the right wing to physically tamper with that plane, 
and even
less to mentally tamper with it.

I know all this might sound weird, but it's happening. The CIA and related agencies 
cover
their tracks well and are in the business of confusing others. You can't look at 
things in
logical ways all the time when you're dealing with the CIA. Up is down, left is right, 
JFK is
Nixon.

The bottom line is it would not surprise me to learn that the right-wing or CIA or 
someone
close to Bush was involved in Sen. Wellstone's tragic crash.

Bush, for his part, issued some strange comments immediately after the crash, even for
him. He called Wellstone - who was an articulate, energetic, intelligent political 
science
professor for 21 years before he was a senator - a plain-spoken fellow. He said he
wanted to issue his condolences for the loss of the Senate. Did he mean the 
Democrats'
sudden loss of the Senate? Did he know something more than he let on?

The freepers' comments I read about this tragedy were mostly tasteful - on the surface 
-
though some jokes and conspiratorial posts were published on their right-wing site. 
Right
after the news of the crash, some posted comments like prayers for control of the
Senate. Several comments were removed by the moderator. One that was not said, You
do realize that as we sit here praying for one of our biggest political enemies' 
safety,
President Bush will be blamed by the Democrats [including the rabid leftists at DU and 
other
brain-sucking sites] for the crash.

Another joked, Maybe it was shot down by a right wing militia. We've got to ban
handguns. And another implied, Ted Kennedy may

[CTRL] Dead Parrot Society

2002-10-26 Thread Jei

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/opinion/25KRUG.html

Dead Parrot Society
By Paul Krugman
New York Times | Opinion

Friday, 25 October, 2002

A few days ago The Washington Post's Dana Milbank wrote an article
explaining that for George W. Bush, facts are malleable. Documenting
dubious, if not wrong statements on a variety of subjects, from Iraq's
military capability to the federal budget, the White House correspondent
declared that Mr. Bush's rhetoric has taken some flights of fancy.

Also in the last few days, The Wall Street Journal reported that senior
officials have referred repeatedly to intelligence . . . that remains
largely unverified. The C.I.A.'s former head of counterterrorism was
blunter: Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level
pronouncements. USA Today reports that pressure has been building on the
intelligence agencies to deliberately slant estimates to fit a political
agenda.

Reading all these euphemisms, I was reminded of Monty Python's parrot: he's
pushing up the daisies, his metabolic processes are history, he's joined the
choir invisible. That is, he's dead. And the Bush administration lies a lot.

Let me hasten to say that I don't blame reporters for not quite putting it
that way. Mr. Milbank is a brave man, and is paying the usual price for his
courage: he is now the target of a White House smear campaign.

That standard response may help you understand how Mr. Bush retains a public
image as a plain-spoken man, when in fact he is as slippery and evasive as
any politician in memory. Did you notice his recent declaration that
allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power wouldn't mean backing down on
regime change, because if the Iraqi despot meets U.N. conditions, that
itself will signal that the regime has changed?

The recent spate of articles about administration dishonesty mainly reflects
the campaign to sell war with Iraq. But the habit itself goes all the way
back to the 2000 campaign, and is manifest on a wide range of issues. High
points would include the plan for partial privatization of Social Security,
with its 2-1=4 arithmetic; the claim that a tax cut that delivers 40 percent
or more of its benefits to the richest 1 percent was aimed at the middle
class; the claim that there were 60 lines of stem cells available for
research; the promise to include limits on carbon dioxide in an
environmental plan.

More generally, Mr. Bush ran as a moderate, a uniter, not a divider. The
Economist endorsed him back in 2000 because it saw him as the candidate
better able to transcend partisanship; now the magazine describes him as the
partisan-in-chief.

It's tempting to view all of this merely as a question of character, but
it's more than that. There's method in this administration's mendacity.

For the Bush administration is an extremely elitist clique trying to
maintain a populist facade. Its domestic policies are designed to benefit a
very small number of people -- basically those who earn at least $300,000 a
year, and really don't care about either the environment or their less
fortunate compatriots. True, this base is augmented by some powerful
special-interest groups, notably the Christian right and the gun lobby. But
while this coalition can raise vast sums, and can mobilize operatives to
stage bourgeois riots when needed, the policies themselves are inherently
unpopular. Hence the need to reshape those malleable facts.

What remains puzzling is the long-term strategy. Despite Mr. Bush's control
of the bully pulpit, he has had little success in changing the public's
fundamental views. Before Sept. 11 the nation was growing increasingly
dismayed over the administration's hard right turn. Terrorism brought Mr.
Bush immense personal popularity, as the public rallied around the flag; but
the helium has been steadily leaking out of that balloon.

Right now the administration is playing the war card, inventing facts as
necessary, and trying to use the remnants of Mr. Bush's post-Sept. 11
popularity to gain control of all three branches of government. But then
what? There is, after all, no indication that Mr. Bush ever intends to move
to the center.

So the administration's inner circle must think that full control of the
government can be used to lock in a permanent political advantage, even
though the more the public learns about their policies, the less it likes
them. The big question is whether the press, which is beginning to find its
voice, will lose it again in the face of one-party government.

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[CTRL] US Government Planned Sniper Attacks

2002-10-26 Thread Jei

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For Immediate Release:  October 24, 2002

US GOVERNMENT PLANNED SNIPER ATTACKS
PENTAGON PLANNED TO CARRY OUT SNIPER ATTACKS IN DC AND MIAMI

On April 24, 2001 the Baltimore Sun and ABC News reported on a shocking,
declassified Pentagon document, titled Operation Northwoods.  In Operation
Northwoods the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for hijacking
jet airliners, attacking US military bases, blowing up US ships and wounding
civilians in Miami, Florida and Washington, DC using paramilitary sniper
teams.  Page eight of the formerly Top Secret Pentagon plan stated that
casualty lists in US Newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national
indignation.  The opening paragraph in the Baltimore Sun read US leaders
proposed in 62 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and
blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion.

The Northwoods Document spells out the US Government's plan to frame
innocent people for the shootings and bombings that the US Government was
preparing to commit. Page 9 of the Northwoods Document states that after the
Government carried out shootings and bombings in Washington DC that the
arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating
Cuban involvement also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an
irresponsible government. Now in 2002 they're telling us that they think
that they have the two men responsible for the sniper shootings in DC. Can
the government be trusted?

Forty years after the Northwoods plan was rejected by John F. Kennedy, we
see striking similarities between the sniper attacks and the terrorist
activities called for in the Northwoods plan.  Whereas the  Northwoods
document planned to create a pretext for war with Cuba, the sniper attacks
are being used as a pretext to put military on the streets of America and to
push for gun control.  Now, White House officials are saying that theres a
good chance that al-Qaeda or Iraq are behind the sniper attacks and are
warning the American people to look for similar attacks in other cities,
thus creating a timely pretext justifying  military action to capture Middle
Eastern and Central Asian oil supplies in a war with Iraq.

On his Nationally Syndicated Radio Show, Documentary Filmmaker Alex Jones
has consulted with many law enforcement and military experts, including
Colonel Craig Roberts (formerly of US Army Intelligence, a former Marine
Corps Sniper and the Best-selling Author of One Shot One Kill) who stated
on-air that this operation could only be State-sponsored and was clearly the
work of a rogue element from the top levels of global intelligence agencies.
On The Alex Jones Show, Roberts said that the MO of the sniper attacks are
indicative of a 2-3 man team trained in the Special Forces ambush tactics of
reconnaissance, insertion, concealment and successful evasion.  According to
Jones research, the sniper teams attack profile is consistent with US
Special Forces ambush assassination tactics.

Best-selling Doubleday Author James Bamford, who broke the Northwoods Story
in His Book, Body of Secrets reported on page 82 that, the plan, which had
been written with the approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff called for innocent people to be shot on American Streets.

Says Jones, In Operation Northwoods, we have a declassified US Government
document, approved right up to the President, that advocates carrying out
terrorism against the American people to terrify them into accepting
tyranny.  It is now public knowledge that Roosevelt allowed the Japanese to
attack Pearl Harbor as a pretext for war and that the Gulf of Tonkin attack
that launched the Vietnam War was staged by LBJ.  This is all now admitted
historical fact, and there is no way to ignore the US government terror plan
contained in the Northwoods document.  The plan even lists the cities to be
targeted, and one of them is DC.

The national media from day one told us that the sniper was a lone gunman.
Now politicians are telling us that we must give up our liberties for
security, Senator Charles Schumer wants to ban so-called assault rifles and
to institute ballistic fingerprinting on all guns as well as on ammunition,
the new North American Military Command (NORTHCOM) that was activated
October 1, 2002 has been provided with a mission on the ground and in the
air over America just weeks after the White House told us that we needed to
get rid of Posse Comitatus (Federal law prohibiting US military forces in
search in seizure operations of US soil) for our safety. Now the
Washington Post is reporting that the CIA will be directing local FBI field
offices in 56 US cities. Vice President Cheney has pubicly threatened
Congress not to investigate the 911-Government prior knowledge story. He
cryptically made the statement on Meet the Press that Congressional
investigations would only cause a larger terrorist attack.

Theres

[CTRL] Heroin Crop Production Spikes Under US Military Control / CIA Bush Links

2002-10-26 Thread Jei

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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021025-064738-3134r

Afghan heroin crop spikes this year

By Eli J. Lake
UPI State Department Correspondent
From the International Desk
Published 10/25/2002 7:06 PM
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Poppy cultivation increased nearly
19-fold between 2001 and 2002 in Afghanistan, the world's leading
exporter of heroin, according to a new U.S. study of poppy cultivation
in the post-Taliban state.

According to the new survey, local farmers cultivated approximately
30,759 hectares in 2002, during the peak season for poppy in
Afghanistan, the first since the December 2001 Bonn Agreement which
established the first interim authority after the Taliban were ousted.

During the same period in 2001, only 1,685 hectares of poppy were
cultivated in the last year of the Taliban's rein in the Central Asian
state. The 2001 decline was due largely to a ban on poppy cultivation
imposed by Taliban leader Mullah Omar in July 2001.

Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is a serious problem, U.S. drug
Czar John Walters said in a statement released Friday. Drug
cultivation and trafficking undermine the rule of law and the ability
of the Afghan people to rebuild their country and join the
international community.

Under the December 2001 Bonn Agreement, the Afghan interim authority
agreed to cooperate with the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime
to end trafficking and cultivation of all illicit drugs. One U.S.
official said Friday however that the spike in poppy cultivation was
not due to lack of cooperation from Hamid Karzai's government, but
rather a lack of law enforcement infrastructure.

The principal regions for poppy cultivation in Afghanistan are the
provinces on its border with Pakistan -- Nangarhar, Helmand, Kandahar,
and Oruzgan. These regions, largely populated by Pashtuns (the Afghan
ethnic faction most closely linked to the Taliban) are largely immune
to the edicts from the government in Kabul.

While the Taliban had significant success in eradicating most poppy
cultivation in these provinces in 2001, their methods are not likely
to be repeated by the Karzai government. The State Department's 2001
report on international drug trafficking released in March says, The
success of the Taliban poppy ban was a significant accomplishment
during 2000, but success was achieved through draconian enforcement
actions with no concern for poor farmers' welfare, a series of policy
actions unlikely to be replicated by a civilized administration.
Indeed, despite the decrease in cultivation, heroin traffic from
Afghanistan did not decrease under the Taliban's poppy ban as many
farmers sold their surplus supplies.

But other factors may impede Karzai's government from cracking down on
the heroin trade. Indeed, some warlords still influential in
Afghanistan have profited in the past from their country's illicit
drug trade.

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The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire

The Bush family's involvement in drug-running is an open secret, but Dick
Cheney's direct link to a global drug pipeline through a US construction
company is less well known.

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FROM MEDELLIN TO MOSCOW WITH BROWN ROOT

Halliburton Corporation's Brown Root is one of the major components of
the Bush-Cheney Drug Empire. The success of Bush Vice-Presidential running
mate Richard Cheney at leading Halliburton, Inc. to a five-year, US$3.8
billion pig-out on federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans is only
a partial indicator of what may happen, now that the Bush ticket has won
the US presidential election.

A closer look at available research, including an August 2, 2000 report by
the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) (A
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money has played a role in the successes achieved by Halliburton under
Cheney's tenure as CEO from 1995 to 2000. This is especially true for
Halliburton's most famous subsidiary, heavy construction and oil giant
Brown Root.

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Here in Minnesota the question for some of us will be whether the plane
crash killing Senator Paul Wellstone was a random accident or one which had
a little help, considering the closeness of the race and its importance to
the Bush White House. He wasn't getting my vote anyway but neither was the
Republican candidate. Now a replacement must be found and no speculation has
started, at least publicly.

Seems most of us are becoming suspicious that every time there's a close race in which the Republicans have a marked interest, the Democrats seems to be at risk of dying in an aircraft accident. I think that Democrats must learn not to go anywhere by airplane. This time was better than usual. They don't even have to worry about the possible appointment of the wife. Republicans hate that. Prudy
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Re: [CTRL] CHRISTIANS FORCED INTO ISLAMIC SCHOOLS

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e you getting senile Prudy?

It's not that they are Muslim like the Turks.

It's that they are Arabs/Palestinians.

Buy the way. Are you aware that the Turks really hate Arabs?

J2


Well probably, but it's been a long time since the old Donahue shows. 

I'm not sure what Arabs/Palestinians are. 

I never buy my way, and of the Turks I knew, a lot of them were Arabs. 

Perhaps if we had a glossary, we could establish a better dialogue. 

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Re: [CTRL] Mysterious group spends $1 million

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Mysterious group spends $1 million on anti- Wellstone campaign

Americans for Job Security, a Virginia-based interest group that opposes the reelection

of Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, has made an unprecedented $1 million ad buy that
will fill the airwaves in the last two weeks before the election, according to Wellstone
campaign officials.


Wow, look at the money they've saved. Plane crashes are cheaper political tools. Prudy



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Re: [CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Anti-Semitic 'Elders of Zion' Gets New Life o...

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The series, "Horse Without a Horseman," traces the history
of the Middle East from 1855 to 1917 through the eyes of an
Egyptian who fought British occupiers and the Zionist
movement.

Pity that it takes a country like Egypt to play this interesting series while our allegedly free-press wouldn't ever dare upset their controllers by doing so...
Every country is subject to propaganda by their media...it's too bad ours is coming from the wrong direction...

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Re: [CTRL] Forgotten man

2002-10-26 Thread Joe Gillaspie

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 From http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/25/1035504882647.html

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 Forgotten man emerges into the light

 October 26 2002

 In the bitter cold of a winter's night in 1965, US Army Sergeant Charles Robert 
Jenkins was
 leading his three-man squad on patrol near the demilitarised zone that divides North 
and
 South Korea.

 It was just past 2.30am when Jenkins signalled to his troops to wait while he went 
forward
 to check something. That was the last they would see of him.

 Three weeks later, North Korean radio triumphantly announced that Jenkins, a 
25-year-old
 from small town America, had seen the light and defected.

 For the best part of 40 years, Jenkins was essentially a forgotten man, leaving 
behind an
 army that regarded him as a traitor. However, his family in North Carolina refused to
 believe he had gone of his own free will.

 Suddenly, almost 38 years after he left his patrol, Charles Jenkins has emerged from 
the
 shadows in a most unexpected and unusual way. When Japan's Prime Minister, Junichiro
 Koizumi, returned from his historic meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong-il last 
month, he
 brought news that the Stalinist state had admitted abducting 13 Japanese nationals.

 In a strange twist to an already bizarre story, Japan learnt that one of the five 
surviving
 abductees, Hitomi Soga, had married a US Army defector. His name: Charles Robert
 Jenkins.

 Ms Soga, now 43, had been shopping with her mother on Sado Island off the Sea of 
Japan
 coast in 1978 when they were bundled into bags by agents of Pyongyang. Ms Soga, a
 teenage nursing student, was spirited away to North Korea to train its agents in 
Japanese
 language and culture. She never saw her mother again.

 Gradually accepting her fate, she asked to learn English. Her teacher was Charles 
Jenkins.
 They fell in love and married in 1980, and have two daughters, Mika, 19, and 
Belinda, 17.

 In the past week, since Ms Soga returned to Japan with the four other survivors for 
a visit,
 the missing years in the life of Charles Jenkins have started to assume some form.

 Jenkins, now 62, and his daughters came to the airport at Pyongyang to see off Ms 
Soga.
 Japanese officials asked Jenkins if he wanted to go with her, but explained that 
because of
 his situation it's not easy.

 Jenkins also told the officials about his life with Soga.

 Hitomi is almost 20 years younger than me, but she made us a very good family, he 
told
 the officials, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported.

 I do appreciate her for that, even though she may have felt lonely for marrying a 
man this
 much older.

 Jenkins stood at the fence waving goodbye, a very lonely figure.

 Ms Soga has told her relatives of their life in Pyongyang, getting up early to make 
lunches
 for their daughters, who are students at the Pyongyang University of Foreign 
Studies. Her
 husband, she said, was kind, though we sometimes argue.

 As debate continues over whether Ms Soga and the other returnees will eventually 
settle
 back in Japan, Jenkins's official status as a deserter has emerged as a pressing 
issue. He
 would presumably face immediate arrest should he leave North Korea.

 In a move that underlines how strongly Japan wants the five abductees to come home,
 Tokyo has made a special request to Washington that Jenkins be granted amnesty.

 Back in North Carolina, his family is elated to know he is alive, but refuses to 
accept that
 any amnesty is necessary.

 I don't believe this about him being a deserter, his sister, Pat Harrell, told The 
New York
 Times.

 His family has always questioned the authenticity of a farewell letter the army says 
Jenkins
 left behind, which began: Dear Mother, I am sorry for the trouble I will cause you.

 For the past 37 years the question has been whether Jenkins was a deserter or was
 abducted. Now, as the story of the Japanese abductees unfolds, we are tantalisingly 
close
 to the answer.

 On the superficial evidence, it would seem that Jenkins did betray his country. He 
is one of
 four US servicemen who are alleged to have deserted to the North during the 1960s,
 subsequently used as Cold War trophies by Pyongyang in propaganda material.

 In 1996 the Pentagon classed Jenkins and the other three servicemen as defectors. In
 addition, there are apparently between 10 and 15 US prisoners of war from the Korean
 War still in North Korea.

 What would make Jenkins, an average young man from an average American town, turn to
 the embrace of a communist enemy?

 His life until then holds few clues. In his home town of Rich Square, a farming 
hamlet of
 1000 people, Jenkins was given the nickname Super because his strength was out of
 proportion to his slender frame.

 After struggling at school, he seemed to have found his niche with the army, a 
logical
 extension of enjoyable days in the National Guard. He served at a US base in Japan 
before
 his tour of duty in

[CTRL] SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE ASSASSINATED BY COVERT US TERROR GROUP LINKED TO BUSH

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SENATOR PAUL WELLSTONE ASSASSINATED BY COVERT US TERROR GROUP LINKED TO BUSH

The eerie resemblence to an identical Senator assassination two years ago goes completely unmentioned in the media.
by voxfux

America is gripped in a protracted, internal power seizure - this much is certain. The whole world is united against the policies of this shadow American government. Yet it appears that each and every violent act since 911 and including 911 has been perpetrated by Americans, NOT Muslims.

And now, Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone is the latest victim of this clandestine assassination group, racing to consolidate total power in the hands of George Bush.

In my May 25th Article of 2001, I laid out an explicit warning that a Democratic Senator would meet an untimely death by either an Anthrax hit or in a plane crash. (Click here for the article which predicted Wellstone's assassination) This article was written four months prior to the Sept 11th attacks and six months before the anthrax letters to Daschle and Foley.

Wellstone was assassinated under the exact same circumstances as Mel Carnahan, two years ago. Carnahan the Democrat was beating John Ashcroft, but with just two weeks remaining before election day, Carnahans plane conveniently crashes. It is still not enough for the widely un-popular Ashcroft - When the voters considered the prospects of another six years with this Ashcroft, THE VOTERS VOTED FOR THE DECEASED CARNAHAN ANYWAY (actually his wife) RATHER THAN HAVE ASHCROFT FOR ANOTHER TERM !
What was Ashcroftâs reward for getting beaten by the man he just murdered? He became top cop for Bush.

Welcome to the fourth Riech.

What's most chilling about these series of identical assassinations demonstrates the sheer brazenness and boldness of the operations of this shadowy group of private clandestine intelligence operatives, currently buttressing Bush. Itâs as if they are feeling out their limits of carte blanche with the press and the American people and finding they have NO limits. - Seeing how much we will take - And finding that there is no limit to how much we will take and how much we will let them get away with. As for whether there will ever be a mention of their operations in the major media... Apparently not.

Just a tiny beacon of light called VOXNYC.COM (VOXNYC the only place right now to get the hard truth. No other media is even going near our conclusions) There appears to be no limits. The media is simply signalling that there is no limits to what they can get away with. They are getting away with blatantly suspicious murders without even a mention in ANY American major media that there are some strange corollaries here, between the Carnahan and the Wellstone âaccidents (assassinations)

But this time these killers left nothing for chance. They murdered Wellstoneâs whole family - wife and daughter - to prevent the voters of Minnesota from launching a similar protest vote like the oneâs in Missouri did against Ashcroft. (They voted for the murdered Carnahanâs wife Jean.) So this time they wiped out the whole family - they are leaving nothing for chance. They are absolutely ruthless and dedicated to achieving their mission.

It is sickening to hear Ashcroftâs recollection of Carnahanâs death (murder) just as it was sickening to witness Bushes comments about Carnahan's "accident" (murder), the man Bush sought to oust - the man who life Bushes forces just extinguished.

This âhitâ should send a chill up the spine of every awake and decent person American. The "Coincidental Premature Deaths" surrounding anyone who stands in the way of the Bush families' power seizures are impossible to ignore.

Constant fear is now the single biggest media currency. Fear is the principle focus of all our leaders and all in the major media. It is the heaviest traded commodity. More net capital is exhausted in the promotion by our leaders and media of fear than of SUV's. And while the circumstances of that fear shift from day to day the fact remains that it is vague and non specific fear alone which rules in America.

Sound the alarms and alert each and every adult person in America. Also help in any way you can with massive grassroots campaigns to assist Minnesota in assuring that these assassins behind Bush donât get their victory in Wellstoneâs murder. Converge all efforts onto Democratic Senate races and especially the Minnesota race. Do not let them have their victory. There is a protracted, calculated, and extraordinarily bloody seizure of power currently gripping America. If we resist we can hold them off. If we sit like sheep we deserve everything these wolves have in store for us. For these wolves think we are easy pickings. And we have given them no reason to think anything contrary.

The American Simulacrasphere is a swarming ocean of bullshit and lies, stoked by spineless cowards called American

[CTRL] Google censoring web content

2002-10-26 Thread klewis

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2360351.stm

Friday, 25 October, 2002, 11:38 GMT 12:38 UK
Google censoring web content

Should  Google decide what counts as an unacceptable website?
Bill Thompson doesn't think so.

Since its creation in 1998 Google - at www.google.com, as you
probably know already - has become the world's best search engine
and the starting point of choice for almost all my web queries.

It has even generated its own verb - to do some googling around
means sitting there playing with queries and exploring the obscure
parts of the Web that are revealed by looking for odd or even
improperly spelled phrases.

Nobody expects Google, or any index, to be perfect, since the Web
is growing and changing so fast and many parts of it are generated
from databases and therefore essentially impossible for a search
engine to find or classify.

However, researchers at the highly-respected Berkman Center for
Internet and Society at Harvard University have found that the
company is actively removing sites from its database, and that this
censorship is going unnoticed.

Regional differences
Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman have built up a reputation
for their careful analysis of the ways in which web content is filtered,
censored and controlled.

They have looked in detail at the practices of national governments,
specifically China and Saudi Arabia, and provided lots of useful
information for those of us who want to promote freedom of speech
both online and offline.

Their latest paper deals with the differences between the results
returned when searching google.com, the US/world version of the
site, the French site at google.fr and the German site at google.de.

They have discovered over one hundred sites which can be found
by searchers in the US but not by those in Germany or France.

They are mostly sites that feature racist material or that deny the
existence of the Holocaust, such as Stormfront, a white pride site
filled with white nationalist essays by former Ku Klux Klan leader
David Duke.

Legal battles
Responding to the discovery, Google spokesman Nate Tyler said on
tech news programme ZDNN that the sites were removed to avoid
the possibility of legal action being taken against the company, and
that each site was removed only after a specific complaint from the
government of the country concerned.

On first sight this seems perfectly reasonable - after all, Google isn't
a public service but a private company trying to make money out of
its technology and database, and it has no obligation to index
everything.

It certainly has a duty to its owners (it's a privately held company) to
stay out of legal battles with governments, since they can be pretty
expensive.

Unfortunately things are not that simple, and the censorship of the
French and German versions of the Google database is a clear
demonstration of just what is wrong with internet regulation today.

What is happening is that a government is saying to Google: 'we
don't like that website - so drop it from your database' and the
company is acquiescing.

The people running the website aren't told. The people looking for
the website aren't told - they aren't even told that this policy exists.

The rest of us aren't being told either - Google's Nate Tyler said
clearly that 'as a matter of company policy we do not provide
specific details about why or when we removed any one particular
site from our index.'

No due process
The result is that one of the web's most important tools is being
deliberately broken at the request of governments, with no publicity,
no legal review and no court orders.

The sites involved  may or may not be illegal in France or Germany -
we don't know because the case never comes to court, and is never
tested. All we know is that they aren't wanted.

The problem is not that content is being censored - that is inevitable
and in many cases desirable.

I agree with our current laws against child pornography and have no
difficulty at all endorsing the view that these sites should not be
allowed online.

I'll support the team at Google if they want to spend their time
removing them. In fact,  a search for 'lolita pictures' finds 291,000
entries in the US index, so this is obviously less of a priority for
them.

The problem is that Google itself is deciding what should be
censored and that its motives are entirely commercial, making it
possible for government agencies to influence it without having to go
through due process or defend their requests in public.

I believe we need to move towards an internet that is properly
regulated, where decisions like this can only be made through the
courts.

I would rather have a net where Google and other search engine
providers had a legal obligation to provide full and comprehensive
results to the best of their technical ability and to inform searchers of
any areas where content had been removed from their index on
legal grounds, even if that also gives

[CTRL] Worldwide press freedom index

2002-10-26 Thread M.A. Johnson

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~~for educational purposes only~~
[Title 17 U.S.C. section 107]

Worldwide press freedom index

Rank   CountryNote
 1 Finland0,50
 - Iceland0,50
 - Norway 0,50
 - Netherlands0,50
 5 Canada 0,75
 6 Ireland1,00
 7 Germany1,50
 - Portugal   1,50
 - Sweden 1,50
10 Denmark3,00
11 France 3,25
12 Australia  3,50
 - Belgium3,50
14 Slovenia   4,00
15 Costa Rica 4,25
 - Switzerland4,25
17 United States  4,75
18 Hong Kong  4,83
19 Greece 5,00
20 Ecuador5,50
21 Benin  6,00
 - United Kingdom 6,00
 - Uruguay6,00
24 Chile  6,50
 - Hungary6,50
26 South Africa   7,50
 - Austria7,50
 - Japan  7,50
29 Spain  7,75
 - Poland 7,75
31 Namibia8,00
32 Paraguay   8,50
33 Croatia8,75
 - El Salvador8,75
35 Taïwan 9,00


How the index was drawn up

This index measures the amount of freedom journalists
and the media have in each country and the efforts made
by governments to see that press freedom is respected.

Reporters Without Borders sent out a questionnaire
based on the main criteria for such freedom and asking
for details of directs attacks on journalists (such as
murders, imprisonment, physical assaults and threats)
and on the media (censorship, confiscation, searches
and pressure). It also asked about the degree of impunity
enjoyed by those responsible for such violations.

The questionnaire recorded the legal environment for
the media (such as punishment for press offences, a
state monopoly in some areas and the existence of a
regulatory body) and the behaviour of the state towards
the public media and the foreign press. It also noted
the main threats to the free flow of information on the
Internet.

Reporters Without Borders has not just taken into
account the excesses of the state but also those of
armed militias, underground organisations and pressure
groups that can be serious threats to press freedom.
In addition, the state does not always use all its
resources to fight the impunity the perpetrators of
such violence very often have.


The questionnaire was sent to people with a real
knowledge of the press freedom situation in one or
more countries, such as local journalists or foreign
correspondents living in the country, researchers,
legal experts, specialists on a region and the
researchers of the Reporters Without Borders
International Secretariat.


The countries included in the index are those about
which Reporters Without Borders received completed
questionnaires from several independent sources. Other
countries have not been included for lack of reliable
information. Countries that got equal scores have been
ranked in alphabetical order.

This index of press freedom is a portrait of the
situation based on events between September 2001 and
October 2002 . It does not take account of all human
rights violations, only those that affect press freedom.

Neither is it an indicator of the quality of a country's
media. Reporters Without Borders defends press freedom
without regard to the content of the media, so any
ethical or professional departures from the norm have
not been taken into account.

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[CTRL] Mysterious group spends $1 million on anti-Wellstone campaign

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Mysterious group spends $1 million on anti-Wellstone campaign
Patricia Lopez

Star Tribune

Published Oct 23, 2002
AMER23

Americans for Job Security, a Virginia-based interest group that opposes the reelection of Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, has made an unprecedented $1 million ad buy that will fill the airwaves in the last two weeks before the election, according to Wellstone campaign officials.

Campaign manager Jeff Blodgett said the buy is so large that it may equal what Wellstone and Republican rival Norm Coleman and the two state parties each are expected to spend on media in the closing weeks.

Blodgett said his biggest concern is that no one knows who funds the mysterious group, which has found a legal loophole that apparently allows it to keep its donors secret.

"In a state with a reputation for clean, transparent campaigns, this is an outrage, that a group can come in and spend this kind of money and no one knows who their donors are," Blodgett said at a Tuesday morning news conference. "We demand to know. We ask Norm Coleman to join us in this."

Michael Dubke, president of Americans for Job Security, would neither confirm nor deny the amount of the ad buy "because I don't want to play their game," but said that "we're up [on TV] in Minneapolis, Duluth, Rochester, Fargo and statewide with radio and let's just say Minnesota's not an inexpensive state."

He said the group would have a "significant presence" on radio and TV over the next two weeks. Dubke said he has made similar-size buys in South Dakota and Missouri -- the two other states that are top targets in President Bush's attempt to put Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate.

Dubke is unapologetic about the group's refusal to disclose its donors, saying the decision is legal and is common among issue advocacy groups.

Coleman campaign manager Ben Whitney said Tuesday that Coleman would not be contacting Dubke's group or asking it to disclose its donors.

Wellstone, he said, had benefited for months from ads run by liberal interest groups. "He's getting money from radical groups like Council for a Livable World -- and we don't know who its donors are -- and then he demands that we ask someone else not to advertise in Minnesota because he doesn't like what they're saying," Whitney said.

He noted that Coleman, at the beginning of the race, had offered Wellstone a joint agreement to keep third-party money out of the race and that Wellstone refused. "It's brazen hypocrisy and it leaves me kind of breathless," Whitney said.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications, said the group's tactic is "the reason issue advocacy is so problematic. You can disguise the nature of the group through a lovely sounding name."

Jamieson, a national expert on political ads, said the sheer magnitude of such an ad buy could change the course of the election.

"Large amounts of money from a third-party group late in a tight race can, in fact, shift votes, unless the message is off-strategy," she said.

The high-buck, high-profile race has been one of the tightest in the country, drawing celebrities and political luminaries from across the nation, along with a raft of outside interest groups.

Americans for Job Security has been a player in the race since June, when it began a round of radio ads that labeled Wellstone a "money-grubber" for his opposition to a permanent repeal of the estate tax, which it calls the "death tax."

A new TV ad criticizes Wellstone for taking special-interest money and for breaking a promise not to run for a third term.

Blodgett said Tuesday that he was less concerned about the content of the ads than the sheer magnitude of the buy, which he said might be the largest ever by an outside group in a Minnesota race.

Little is known about Americans for Job Security, which is based in Alexandria, Va., just outside Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1997 with a $1 million contribution from the American Insurance Association, which Dubke says is no longer associated with Americans for Job Security.

The Annenberg Public Policy Center Web site, which analyzes issue ads, describes the group as a "tax-exempt, conservative, business-backed, pro-Republican organization" that was an offshoot of a coalition of business leaders who came together in 1996 to advocate against issues promoted by the AFL-CIO.

Americans for Job Security has taken several unconventional tacks in this race -- it flew a banner over the State Fair this summer asking Wellstone to "stop taxing the dead." Its latest radio ad features a couple speaking in English and Norwegian.

In the ad, Lloyd tells Ruth in Norwegian that Wellstone is a money-grubber and should stop taxing the dead. "If he doesn't get it in English," Lloyd says, "maybe he'll get it in Norwegian."

Dubke said the group is trying to "cut through the clutter."

Re: [CTRL] CHRISTIANS FORCED INTO ISLAMIC SCHOOLS

Title: Re: [CTRL] CHRISTIANS FORCED INTO ISLAMIC SCHOOLS
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Its pretty simple

Arabs come from the Arabian peninsula and speak Arabic.

The Arabs swept out of the peninsula and also inhabit parts of north Africa.

Turks come from turkey and speak Turkish


on 10/26/02 9:18 AM, Prudy L at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Well probably, but it's been a long time since the old Donahue shows. 

I'm not sure what Arabs/Palestinians are. 

I never buy my way, and of the Turks I knew, a lot of them were Arabs. 

Perhaps if we had a glossary, we could establish a better dialogue. 




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[CTRL] Algeria gunmen 'kill 21 family members'

2002-10-26 Thread klewis

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2362985.stm

Friday, 25 October, 2002, 21:40 GMT 22:40 UK

Algeria gunmen 'kill 21 family members'

The Algerian news agency says suspected Islamic extremists have
killed 21 people from the same family, including a three-month-old
baby.

The attack took place in the north-western province of Chlef.

Five other people were reported to be in a serious condition with
bullet wounds to the head.

The attack came in the early hours of Friday local time in a remote
village about 125 miles (200 km) west of the capital, Algiers.

Security services sent to the area have launched an operation to
track down those responsible.

The Algerian government says the Armed Islamic Group - or GIA -
is known to be active in the area.

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How the hell can anyone say that English is at risk of extinction. It is the
most widely spoken second language in the world and 3rd most spoken language
in the world ( maybe second when you consider Chinese isn't really one
language)

The old joke:

what do you call someone who speaks 2 languages: bilingual
what do you call someone who speaks many languages: multilingual
what do you call someone who speaks 1 language: American


The more languages you speak the more different approaches to reality you
have.

The problem is not Spanish kids learning English, It's Americans who will
not learn anything else.



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 10/25/02 8:34:40 PM, William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  - eliminate proven teaching methods that work well (bilingual education -
  which teaches English), replacing them with one method that has been proven
  to be less successful (English immersion).

  Bilingual education is essentially classes taught in Spanish...it ought to
  be abolished. Immersion is the only way. Our language is at risk of
  extinction and needs to be protected. Our country is an English-speaking one
  and must remain that way.
  Bill.

 Don't know 'bout you but I speak American ... anyway, the more languages the
 kids learn to
 speak (aside from American) is mucho beneficialissimo.  This of course works
 many ways,
 everyone gets to not only learn the majority lingo but learn (and teach)
 others as well.
 There's nothing more pathetic than an American meeting a furrenner -- here or
 abroad --
 and can't demonstrate some facility in a language beyond his or her own.  A
 great example
 in Chevy Chase in Nat'l Lampoons Euro Vacation.

 This English-only effort is just another ruse by the Englanders theyselfs
 who imposed this
 @#$%*^ rule on their empire in order to bleed the Celts and others dry of
 any cultural
 heritage other than what emanated from the dictates of Londonistan.  It's been
 a real pain
 in the arse 'n ail for the Welsh and the Scots and the Bretons (France playing
 along) and
 the Manx and the Irish to throw off the yoke of lingual serfdom and
 subserviance to the
 latent haemophaeliac crowd.  I've even seen movies made o'er there --
 supposedly in
 English -- that had to have subtitles for American audiences.  May as well
 learn a
 Continental language ... helps with the eavesdropping in public places.
 Nothing more fun
 than watching the expression on a non-native American speaker's face when he
 tells a joke
 in a furren tongue and then you laugh right along with 'em.  Beyond the
 Englanders and
 their unsuccessful attempts to cow their conquered,  we have a whole buncha
 peoples who
 have heritages that should permit a little more cross-conversation between the
 New and
 Old Worlders.  This will tend to lessen the alienation of those who are coming
 here and
 gonna be here whether we like it or not.  The emphasis is on sharing, not the
 old-style
 imperialist throat ramming-jamming-cramming.

 They be havin' whole bunchas o' fun in the Mid East and South Asia 'cause
 there ain't no
 one willing to come forward and practice what they know or learn what they
 don't know.
 You learn real quick that the least reliable person is your interpreter,
 'cause he or she has
 you by the tongue.


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If you run for gov. against Jeb Bush

TAKE THE TRAIN  FOR GODS SAKE  TAKE THE TRAIN



on 10/26/02 7:36 AM, Prudy L at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Seems most of us are becoming suspicious that every time there's a close race in which the Republicans have a marked interest, the Democrats seems to be at risk of dying in an aircraft accident. I think that Democrats must learn not to go anywhere by airplane. This time was better than usual. They don't even have to worry about the possible appointment of the wife


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Re: [CTRL] Wellstone - TAKE THE TRAIN

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TAKE THE TRAIN FOR GODS SAKE TAKE THE TRAIN

Then again, maybe not...

F.B.I. Issues a Terror Warning, Citing Possible Threat to Trains

October 25, 2002
By JOEL BRINKLEY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - The F.B.I. issued a warning this
evening that Al Qaeda may be planning to attack passenger
trains, possibly using operatives who have a Western
appearance.

The public warning, the second from the government in the
last two weeks, was based on interviews in mid-October of
Qaeda followers in custody in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the
bureau said.

The statement said the intelligence had not given details
about the method, place or timing of a possible attack. As
a result, the government has decided not to raise the
national threat level, which remains elevated, or
yellow.

Still, while the bureau has passed dozens of threat
warnings to law enforcement agencies since Sept. 11, 2001,
officials said, the government issued public warnings like
this one only six times before today.

Officials said the decision was made to issue a public
warning because the intelligence was specific - at least in
terms of the possible target - and because they hoped that
railroad workers and travelers would look out for
suspicious people or activities.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation statement said:
Additional information suggests operatives may try a
variety of other attack strategies, such as destroying key
rail bridges and sections of track to cause derailments, or
targeting hazardous material containers. Recently captured
Al Qaeda photographs of U.S. railroad engines, cars and
crossings heightens the intelligence community's concern of
this threat.

There was no indication whether the threat involved
commuter or long distance trains, or both.

Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the White House Office of
Homeland Security, said the administration wanted to urge
Americans to continue to ride our nation's rails.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/25/politics/25ALER.html?ex=1036651968ei=1en=aecfc7b678ecb3e0

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The problem is not Spanish kids learning English, It's Americans who will
not learn anything else.

The PROBLEM is that "Spanish" kids AREN'T learning English and grow up speaking a foriegn language on our shores and demanding such services as bilingual ballots and bilingual clerks, things that WE the taxpayer end up providing. 
Immersion is the only method we ought to provide...the bilingual education crap ought to be banned outright.

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Re: [CTRL] CHRISTIANS FORCED INTO ISLAMIC SCHOOLS

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Its pretty simple

Arabs come from the Arabian peninsula and speak Arabic.

The Arabs swept out of the peninsula and also inhabit parts of north Africa.

Turks come from turkey and speak Turkish

Well it's not that simple. The Arabs must have swept out a long, long time ago. The Turks came originally from Central Asia, and spoke Turkish. They changed to Arabic eons ago, and it was only at the direction of Kemal Ataturk that they went back to their Turkic culture and language. There are reams of books about Turkey still in Arabic and not translated. The Ford Foundation offered to do it quite a long time ago, and the authorities turned them down. I think they wish they had accepted the offer now. Everybody who speaks Arabic is not an Arab, but it contents some to think they are. Many Turks speak Arabic for many reasons, but not usually because they are Arabs. Prudy
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