[CTRL] Hoaxes, Scams and Rumors
-Caveat Lector- http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display. jsp?vnu_content_id=1788770 REPORTER'S DIGITAL HOW-TO By Charles Bowen JANUARY 07, 2003 The Truth About Web Hoaxes, Scams and Rumors The Bunk Stops at Purportal.com Before the Web, urban legends were mainly just amusing. Alligators in the sewer. Millions of dollars discovered in discarded McDonald's cartons. Elvis spotted at the Kmart, at the car wash, at the KFC. But now that we're a world of Web surfers -- and not only for fun, but also for commerce and for the public's business -- hoaxes, scams, rumors, and half-truths have become the bane of our information-driven society. Increasingly, our Web-bound computers need not only a virus detector, but also a lie detector. That's not a built-in PC feature yet, but at least the Web is rapidly moving us in the right direction. A new site called Purportal.com boasts that the bunk stops here. Its introductory screen says, That story that your brother- in-law just sent to you and forty other people sounds true. ... Put it to the test here! The site provides assorted search engines and related tools that let you check out that latest rumor before you hit the forward button in your e-mail software. It even enables you to create customized URLs that can be sent back to people who forwarded you hoaxes, chain letters, and other bogus material. And, as you would expect, the site also keeps a running database of news stories and user reports on the latest scams making the rounds. To use the free service, visit http://purportal.com, where the introductory screen is topped with not one, but five data entry boxes with which you can debunk rumors. Enter a word or phrase in any to search the resources of: * Snopes Urban Legends Archives (http://www.snopes.com), the Web's premiere Urban Legends References Pages operated since 1995 by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson. * About.com's Urban Legends search (http://urbanlegends.about.com), hosted by writer David Emery, an avid chronicler of lore and the folklife of the Internet. * The CIAC Hoax Database and the Hoaxbusters page (http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org) of the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability. * The CERT Computer Security Database, provided by the CERT Coordination Center (http://www.cert.org). * The Symantec Virus Encyclopedia, provided by anti-virus software publisher Symantec Corp. (http://symantec.com). Besides searching out background on current rumors and possible hoaxes, the site also has an active news section. Simply scroll the introductory page to reach the Latest Headlines section, which appears to be updated frequently with summaries and links to stories from wire services and major newspapers and computer journals like Wired. Other considerations for using Purportal.com in your writing and editing: 1. If you write about the site in your news columns or Internet-related features, you might want to alert students to the site's extensive extension of links. Scroll the front page of the site to the bottom to find its Handy and Edifying Links section. 2. Purportal.com is operated by Paul Bissex and E-Scribe New Media (http://e- scribe.com), which specializes in database- driven Web development. 3. If you need to write the operators of the site, scroll to the bottom of the main screen and click on the Comments? Questions? link. To see the last 20 Reporter's Digital How-to columns, click here. Subscribers may access previous columns from our archives. Charles Bowen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes columns, articles, and books from West Virginia, and is host of the daily Internet News syndicated radio show at http://www.netnewstoday.com. His Web site is http://www.bowenbooks.com. Links referenced within this article http://purportal.com http://purportal.com http://www.snopes.com http://www.snopes.com http://urbanlegends.about.com http://urbanlegends.about.com http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org http://www.cert.org http://www.cert.org http://symantec.com http://symantec.com http://e-scribe.com http://e-scribe.com click here http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/how_to_archiv e.jsp archives http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/search/index.jsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Find this article at: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/features_columns/article_display. jsp?vnu_content_id=1788770 SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Uncheck the box to remove the list of links referenced in the article. A:E:R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who
[CTRL] CHEMTRAILS, BUSH, IG FARBEN, AND DEATH
-Caveat Lector- original message -- Excellent!! Turn up your speakers, sit back and watch all the way to the end... http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html --- Forwarded message follows --- From: World-Action [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 January 2003 07:11 To: Jim Kirwan; George Paxinos; Nancy Keiler; GrannyluvsYah; John Kaminski; Ellistayla Subject: RE: Bush No Nazi Regarding: http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html This mail - 'BUSH NO NAZI' - and link was forwarded to me through all the people I'm replying to. When watching the Bush connection to IG Farben and the concentration camps I remembered making myself watch, about 18 months ago, the 'WORLD AT WAR' TV series - which shows a lot of film and details of the Concentration Camps. They used Zyclon B gas to kill people in the gas chambers. And they even managed to fool many Dutch Jews into paying their own rail fares to go to 'the new world' the concentration camps.. Immediately I thought of the worldwide CHEM-trail spraying which may have killed more people than the AIDS epidemic over the past 5 to 10 years. We may even be paying for the planes to spray the Chemtrails - just like the Dutch Jews paid their own rail fares to the death camps. How many people worldwide have died over the past several years from pneumonia, breathing difficulties, bad immune system, flu, strange viruses, etc?? Perhaps more than 20% of total world deaths over the past 5 years are attributable to Chemtrail spraying. That's a lot more people than died in the whole of World War II. http://www.world-action.co.uk/chemtrails.html --- End of forwarded message --- -- Steve Wingate ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Cradle Land - 1
-Caveat Lector- These are the three sons of Noah, and of them was the whole earth overspread. (Genesis 9:19) This is a perfectly intelligible statement and must be capable of demonstration if the Bible is anything but a will-o'-the-wisp. We find history continually verifying the statements of Scripture, and no monument ever dug up, no manuscript that has ever been discovered, has been other than an evidence of Bible truth. The determined efforts of modern philologists to reach the truth have proven that language is no sure test of race and have given rise to a still more determined search to trace modern nations to their remote ancestors. The Saxon riddle came first in interest because English philological historians believed there was no such race as Aryan and that the whole distribution into Aryan, Semitic and otherwise was, from the first, simply a distribution of languages; a classification of types of speech and nothing more. And true it is in this day that the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations (Isaiah 25:7) is being destroyed. The literal meaning of the Hebrew words translated the covering cast over is the hiding that hides them. Thus it was that the people and their history beyond a span of centuries were hidden. But this uncertainty is to be removed. Scripture says the veil shall be lifted off. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. (Isaiah 25:7) The cradle of the human race was, undoubtedly, Central Asia. Most Biblical students have acquiesced in the long prevalent localization of Ararat in Armenia, forgetful of the fact that the first migration recorded in Scripture was to the plain of Shinar from the east, (Genesis 11:2) while Armenia is due north of Shinar. Not one of the three distinct races, it must be noted, resided around this Armenian mountain; Turkish, Armenian or Persian, call it Ararat. Traditions have arisen connecting this spot with the point of Noah's exit from the Ark, but in the face of the strong concurrent testimony of the Scripture statement and modern ethnological researches this association of Armenia with Ararat can only be one of the many instances extant in the world's topography of transference of site. In the United States, for example, are towns named Cairo, Syracuse, Paris, Troy, etc.; and by old geographers the Hindyu Kush mountains, running west from the eastern extremity of the Himalayas were called Caucasus but now the name is applied to the range which crosses the interval between the Black and the Caspian Seas. The Ararat of Genesis was not a mountain, but a land; a land of mountains. Indian legends tell of the land of Arya-varta in the northern highlands of Kashmir, whence the early patriarchs descended to replenish the earth. This name is nothing, but a lengthened form of Ararat. Now ar, or and ur, in Hebrew, mean light and rt is a Hebrew root meaning thrust out, so Ararat means the issuing forth or the thrusting forth of light. Northward, from the point of junction of the two great mountain ranges of Hindu Kush and Karakorum mountains, a third lofty chain divides Russian from Chinese Turkestan. This was of old, called the Bolor Tagh or Bolor mountains. The word Bolor bears this meaning in Hebrew, The issuing forth of light. The light was the light of true religion let out on a yet to be renovated earth from the sanctuary of the Ark of Noah; and from these lofty mountains, towering peaks succeeding each other at close intervals, rising to a height of 25,000 feet or more above the sea, no gathering of high mountains to match them elsewhere in the world; from these mountains of Ararat, Noah and his sons, and their wives passed down to renew the earth. This region of Bolor and the table lands of Pamir; the roof of the world, was also at one time called Thibet, and Great Thibet is that province of the Chinese Empire which lies immediately north of the main chain of the Himalayas. Now Thibet is a word from the Hebrew root, Th'be, the word used in Genesis 6:4, for the Ark of Noah. Moreover, the Chinese claim that their ancestors came form the Tarim Basin, and this immense Basin fills nearly the whole southwestern part of Chinese Turkestan, of which Kashgar is the capital and it lies closely adjacent to the land of Kashmir and the Indus River, where Noah and his sons dwelt after coming forth from the Ark. This, coupled with the known fact of Chinese veneration for Noah and their traditional ancestor worship shows a national subconscious recognition of a lineage tracing directly to the patriarch. The line of descent will be shown to come first from Ham and additionally from Japhet. Some people, once they adopt an idea, bury it in the ground and go on the rest of
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Top Official in Cicero, Ill., Gets 8 Years in Fund Theft
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hasn't Sherman Skolnick been writing about this case? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Top Official in Cicero, Ill., Gets 8 Years in Fund Theft January 10, 2003 By JOHN W. FOUNTAIN CHICAGO, Jan. 9 - Nearly two years after federal officials declared the Cicero candy store officially closed, Betty Loren-Maltese, the former town president, was sentenced today to eight years and one month in prison for helping steal $12 million from a municipal insurance fund. Ms. Loren-Maltese stood calmly, at times shaking her head and at other times with head bowed, as Judge John F. Grady of Federal District Court here announced her sentence and rebuked her. ``This is a situation where the defendant was given absolute and complete discretion,'' Judge Grady said. ``She was trusted completely. She could do no wrong. It was the wholesale betrayal of the naïve face of a whole town.'' Cicero, which abuts west-central Chicago, has about 85,000 residents. Ms. Loren-Maltese was convicted of racketeering, wire fraud and mail fraud. In addition to her maximum prison term, she was fined $100,000 and ordered to pay more than $8 million restitution. Judge Grady said she must surrender to the authorities on April 1. The authorities said much of the stolen money was used to buy a hotel with a golf course in Wisconsin, a horse farm in Indiana and luxury cars. Before sentencing, Ms. Loren-Maltese, 52, gave a brief emotional statement in which she sought leniency on the grounds that a lengthy prison term would harm her 5-year-old adopted daughter. ``When it comes to my daughter,'' Ms. Loren-Maltese said, ``she is the most important thing to me. I love her and miss her. I believe an adoptive parent loves her child and is even more concerned about them than a natural parent, because they know how lucky they are. I take special care and concern when it comes to my daughter.'' After her sentencing, Ms. Loren-Maltese hurried from the courthouse surrounded by bodyguards and lawyers. She offered no comment. She was the sixth of seven people convicted last year in the Cicero scandal to be sentenced this week. Michael Spano Sr., a reported organized-crime boss, was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for his role in the scheme. Emil Schullo, a former chief of police, was given nearly 6 years; Michael Spano Jr., more than 6 years; Bonnie LaGiglio, more than 3 years; and Charles Schneider, a lawyer for Mr. LaGiglio and the elder Mr. Spano, 7 years. Mrs. LaGiglio's husband, John, is awaiting sentencing. Mr. LaGiglio was the founder of Specialty Risk Consultants, an insurance administrator through which, prosecutors said, the money was funneled from the insurance fund. A federal jury convicted the seven in August after a 10-week trial. At the time of the arrests in 2001, law enforcement authorities accused Cicero's municipal officials of turning the city into a personal piggy bank. With the filing of charges, the head of the Chicago office of the F.B.I., Kathleen McChesney, said, ``The Cicero candy store is closed.'' In the months before sentencing, Ms. Loren-Maltese had insisted that a long term would be detrimental for her daughter, but in court papers filed last week prosecutors said Ms. Loren-Maltese's time spent being a parent had been offset by the time spent being a gambler. Prosecutors said that in the last three years Ms. Loren-Maltese bet nearly $19 million at casinos, mostly in Las Vegas, where she has a second house. In 2000-01, they said, Ms. Loren-Maltese spent nearly 1,600 hours gambling, suggesting that someone other than her was caring for her daughter. Lawyers for Ms. Loren-Maltese said in court today that the daughter would be placed in the care of a grandmother, 80, who might not live long enough to provide adequate care for the girl. Judge Grady said that children's welfare was often involved in such cases and that although a child might be adversely affected, it was not enough to minimize the penalty that a parent had to face for a serious crime. Ms. Loren-Maltese's lawyers also presented the court with a stack of letters from supporters, but those did not help her. ``That's the kind of thing that makes this abuse of trust more severe,'' Judge Grady said. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/10/national/10CICE.html?ex=1043200389ei=1en=2363542072627edc HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot
[CTRL] The Cradle Land - 2
-Caveat Lector- Tracking The Tarim Mummies A solution to the puzzle of Indo-European origins? Archaeological and linguistic evidence places the Indo-European homeland in the North Pontic region. Members of one Indo-European group (the Yamnaya culture) that migrated to the western Altai Mountains, where they are identifiable as the Afanasievo culture, may have later moved into the Tarim Basin of what is now western China. The Indo-European problem is one of archaeology's oldest, most contentious questions. More than 200 years ago, in 1786, English jurist and scholar Sir William Jones realized that Latin and Greek shared a common origin with Sanskrit, the ancient language of Hindu law and religion. These three languages, he proposed, had developed from a single ultimate parent language, now called Proto-Indo-European. Linguists soon added most of the languages of Europe (including English), Iran, and northern India- Pakistan to the family, and eventually discovered several extinct cousins, including Hittite, spoken in Anatolia about 2000-1000 B.C., and Tocharian, a group of two (or possibly three) languages spoken about A.D. 500-800 in the Buddhist monasteries and caravan cities of the Tarim Basin in what is now western China. All of these languages still display telltale traces of the same Proto-Indo-European grammar and vocabulary. But where and when was the elusive mother tongue spoken? And by what historical circumstances did it generate daughter tongues that became scattered from Scotland to China? In 1995, media reports brought to the public's attention astonishingly well-preserved remains of European-looking people, dressed in European- looking clothes, buried in the Tarim Basin between about 1800 B.C. and A.D. 500. This came about through the persistent efforts of Victor Mair, a professor of Chinese and Indo-Iranian literature and religion at the University of Pennsylvania. Long known to specialists but poorly understood and little studied, the Tarim mummies (not really mummies, but bodies preserved by dry conditions) quickly became the focus of intense interest and debate. Riveting photographs appeared in Archaeology (March/April 1995, pp. 28-35) and Discover. Academic papers on the mummies were edited by Mair for the 1995 Journal of Indo-European Studies. Film crews working for Nova and the Discovery channel soon followed Mair to the deserts of northwestern China; the Discovery show (The Riddle of the Desert Mummies) was nominated for an Emmy. In 1996, Mair hosted a conference of 50 international experts on the archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology of the Central Eurasian societies related to the mummies; the proceedings were published in two dense and informative volumes in 1998, and textile specialist Elizabeth Barber issued a book on the Tarim textiles. Now Mair has teamed with James Mallory, a distinguished Indo-European linguist and archaeologist at Queen's University in Belfast, to write The Tarim Mummies, which explores the difficult and controversial questions about the languages, identities, technologies, migrations, and physical traits of the mummies. It is a fascinating and readable account and presents a valuable compendium of recent research on a little-known region that has long been the focus of romantic speculation by travelers and explorers from Marco Polo to Aurel Stein. To determine the ethnic and linguistic identity of the Tarim mummies requires, as they say, a feat of archaeological and linguistic legerdemain, but it is an intriguing game to follow, for it sheds light on the documentary, linguistic, archaeological, and skeletal evidence that must be used to attempt a linguistic and ethnic prehistory of eastern Central Asia. In the end, their working hypothesis is that the earliest Bronze Age colonists of the Tarim Basin were people of Caucasoid physical type who entered probably from the north and west, and probably spoke languages that could be classified as Pre- or Proto-Tocharian, ancestral to the Indo-European Tocharian languages documented later in the Tarim Basin. These early settlers occupied the northern and eastern parts of the Tarim Basin, where their graves have yielded mummies dated about 1800 B.C. They did not arrive from Europe, but probably had lived earlier near the Altai Mountains, where their ancestors had participated in a cultural world centered on the eastern steppes of central Eurasia, including modern northeastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tadjikistan. At the eastern end of the Tarim Basin, people of Mongoloid physical type began to be buried in cemeteries such as Yanbulaq some centuries later, during the later second or early first millennium B.C. About the same time, Iranian-speaking people moved into the Tarim Basin from the steppes to the west. Their
[CTRL] http://www.grandlodge-nc.org/nc-mason/archives/1996/ENCM_4_1.TXT
-Caveat Lector- DISPATCHING A FEW MYTHS BY ALLEN E. ROBERTS Editor's note: A couple of issue's back, the editor officially announced himself a poor historian. He offered further evidence in the last issue of the North Carolina Mason by publishing Masons Weren't Always Politically Quiet, an article picked up from another publication. It seems that we were taken in. Among the letters we got correcting the article was one from internationally respected Masonic author Allen Roberts, to whose historical authority we happily defer. Roberts has fought Masonic myth for years. He sent along the following article which appeared in The Northern Light publication of the Scottish Rite's Northern Jurisdiction. Myths and outright falsehood are continually spread concerning Freemasonry. This is an attempt to set and keep the history of the Craft straight. Throughout the centuries Freemasonry has taught its valuable lessons through allegory and symbols. The man from Galilee used parables extensively and well. Many historians and better speakers constantly employ anecdotes to illustrate the points they want to make. These methods emphasize the search for truth in an interesting and factual manner. Myths on the other hand, can be innocent or dangerous. They can be outright lies or the perpetuation of distortions handed down through the generations. Many of these were invented by Masonic writers and speakers to enhance the image of Freemasonry. Some of these corruptions have caused the Craft problems with creditable historians because they were outrageously wrong. At least one of these items concerns the Masonic membership of the founders of the United States. It is recirculated constantly in usually reliable Masonic periodicals [Blush, blush. Ed.]. It not only should be, it must be destroyed. In recent years other items have been circulated. These claim the Constitution of the United States comes from Anderson's Masonic Constitutions compiled in 1723. A play called The Truth is based on this. Many of the characters called Masons never received a Masonic degree. It's the stuff on which the critics of Freemasonry feed. What follows is the truth insofar as I have been able to find it. The facts herein come from reliable Masonic researchers, and include two late Fellows of The Philalethes Society, James R. Case and Ronald E. Heaton. They spent a lifetime researching the Masonic connections in the beginnings of the United States. Freemasonry, actually, requires no exaggeration to magnify its greatness. The simple truth is all that is needed to tell its story. This is the reason for this column; to attempt to destroy the myths that have been prevalent, often for centuries, by telling the truth. Here's what actually occurred, Masonically, during the period the spurious item covers. Myth: Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were Freemasons. Fact: Neither Thomas Jefferson nor Patrick Henry was a member of the Craft. An exhaustive search of Masonic records in Virginia, and elsewhere, offers no evidence whatsoever to make them Freemasons. Jefferson participated in the cornerstone laying of his University at Charlottesville, which was done Masonically. He praised Freemasonry but his own words proved he had never been a member of the Craft. Myth: All of George Washington's generals during the War for American Independence were Masons. Fact: Thirty-three of the generals serving under Washington were members of the Craft -- a long way from all. Myth: Washington insisted that the Marquis de Lafayette be made a Mason before he would promote him to general. The same claim has been made about the Baron von Steuben. Fact: Both Lafayette and von Steuben were Freemasons before they arrived to help fight the British. This was true of Lafayette even though he wasn't 21 years of age when he arrived in America. It's highly likely that Washington never did know they were Masons. The stories of both of these men are highly interesting, but space prohibits the telling of them here. Myth: The governors of the thirteen original colonies when Washington was inaugurated President of the United States were Freemasons. Fact: From Lexington until the inauguration thirty different men served as governors. Of these ten were Freemasons. That's one-third! Wouldn't it be wonderful for the country if we could claim the same percentage today? Myth: The Boston Tea Party was organized in St. Andrew's Lodge in Boston and its members participated in tossing the tea into Boston Harbor. Fact: So well has the secrecy surrounding the Boston Tea Party been kept that to this day not a single participant can be truthfully named! It's true that St. Andrew's Lodge didn't meet on the night of the party. This proves nothing. The T that has been claimed is part of the minutes of the Lodge is actually an indistinguishable scroll. By no stretch of the imagination can it be called a T
[CTRL] http://www.angelfire.com/punk2/walktheplank/secretsociety.html
-Caveat Lector- Fez petting zoo The secrets of fraternal organizations are revealed. JUST WHO ARE THE FREEMASONS? Is there really a global conspiracy being headed by a modern-day Illuminati? Just what is that weird one-eyed thing doing on the the back of dollar bills? These are important questions that plague the modern mind, and J. Cruelty is pleased to bring you the latest findings from our research. Secret societies have existed through the ages, in every culture on Earth. The Gnostics, the Roman mystery cults, shamans, and other groups all incorporated a ritualized initiation that binds together an inner circle while keeping out the lowly elements of the profane world. But it was in modern Europe that secret societies developed along the lines of the Masonic Lodge. Once this culture was transplanted to America, secret societies blossomed into a thriving sub-strata of society, for it was in America that more than 50 major societies and secret organizations battled each other for membership and control. With millions of members and hundreds of years of history behind them, secret societies are as American as apple pie. You would think that secret groups that claimed the loyalty of millions of people would be an important subject for any American history class. But societies are ignored...why? Could it be because someone doesn't want you to know the TRUTH? Right wing demagogues are fond of saying that America (they mean the United States) is a Christian nation, and You can't deny the fact that the Founding Fathers were pious Christian men. Evangelicals hold this up as proof that we need to have more prayer in schools. Well, as any good student knows, the Founding Fathers were DEISTS! They thought that God was a giant watchmaker who had set the world ticking and then atood back. He wanted REASON to run the world, that's why he put man in control. Deists believed in SCIENCE. They wanted a rational republican order. And what sort of religion appealed to people like that back in the days of the Divine Right of Kings and Popes? Why, the quasi-religious practices of the Freemasons, of course! yes, George Washington, Ben Franklin and others were part of that hidden cult. But what does it mean to be a Mason? Were Americans conspiring to put on silly uniforms and wage a bourgeois revolution like their counterparts in the Old World? READ ON TO FIND OUT!!! As an added bonus, for those of you of a paranoid/conspiratorial bent, I am highlighting certain areas to show how secret brotherhoods link up and include many famous people who have tried to rule the world!!! Ugly Americans:The Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks The Elks came about because the New York State Legislature passed a law closing saloons on Sundays back in 1866. Hard drinking actors and writers were understandably upset. A group of thespians took it upon themselves to set up a social club that would allow its members to drink booze on Sundays. AND SO THIS GROUP OF ACTORS RENTED OUT A ROOM ON FOURTH STREET (AND LATER BROADWAY) WHERE THEY FELT FREE TO LIVE-IT-UP. The society that sprang up around this was initially called The Jolly Corks, and a cork was used to initiate new members into the group. A Jolly Cork had to carry a cork at all times on his person or else he would be forced to pay for a round of drinks. The idea of getting drunk on a Sunday soon caught on, and the Jolly Corks started to initiate members from outside the theatrical and literary professions. The loyal Corks realized that with this sudden influx of new people, they would need to find a more dignified and respectable sounding name. As the debate over what to call themselves was raging, a group of Corks went to see some animal heads put on display by P.T. Barnum. They rushed back to the Corks Lodge and informed their boozing buddies Hey guys! We've got it! People will look up to us if we call ourselves THE ELKS! An official ELKS pamphlet explains the significance of the name. The animal from which the Order took its name was chosen because of a number of its attributes were deemed typical of those to be cultivated by members of the fraternity. The elk is a distinctly American animal. It habitually lives in herds. The largest of our native quadrupeds, it is yet fleet of foot and graceful in movement. It is quick and keen of perception; and while it is usually gentle and even timorous, it is strong and valiant in defense of its own. -from page 7 of WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN ELK Actually, the largest native quadruped would be a moose or buffalo, but The Moose have a separate fraternity of their own. As for the herd mentality, one of the major distinctions of the Elks is their blind patriotism and unconditional love of the United States. Every meeting in an Elks lodge devotes time to honoring the flag, and Flag Day is an important Elks event. At the same time, it is forbidden to discuss politics at Elks meetings. To create an
[CTRL] Pharmacy Benefit Companies Won't Disclose Fees
-Caveat Lector- Pharmacy Benefit Companies Won't Disclose Fees By MILT FREUDENHEIM The companies that provide discounts on prescription drugs for about 200 million Americans have refused to tell Congressional investigators how much they are paid by drug makers to promote sales of their favorite drugs. The General Accounting Office said the companies, which are called pharmacy benefit managers, obtained reduced prices for eight million members of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. But the keys to profit for two of the largest pharmacy benefit companies, Medco Health Solutions and AdvancePCS, were rebates and fees from the drug makers, the G.A.O. said in a report it planned to release today. A draft copy of the report was obtained yesterday from a Washington trade group that is critical of the pharmacy benefit management companies. Officials of Medco and Advance did not dispute the importance of rebates and fees from manufacturers, but they insisted that the amounts were proprietary information and would not disclose them. The companies said they were pleased that the report found that they were producing savings. We disclose the fact that we are receiving those fees to the federal employees plan, said Leslie Simmons, a spokeswoman for AdvancePCS. Advance does not disclose the amounts, she said. The pharmacy benefit companies are expected to manage drug benefits for 30 million elderly and disabled Americans under most proposals for the Medicare drug benefit that Congress is expected to debate again this year. Proponents of comprehensive changes in Medicare often argue that the federal employees program, the nation's largest employer-sponsored health plan, should be the model for financing more Medicare services through private insurers. In statements in lawsuits and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, officials of Medco, for example, have said they have made deals with manufacturers like Pfizer and Merck, which owns Medco, to push prescriptions of some of their most expensive drugs. Medco has said that even so, such arrangements benefited customers because prices were reduced on a group of drugs, including the manufacturers' favorites. Critics say the system results in higher overall costs. Federal actuaries said this week that prescription drugs were the fastest-growing component of health care spending in 2001, the most recent available year, rising 15.7 percent, to $140.6 billion. Do these rebates have the perverse incentive of actually pushing higher-cost medicine onto the patient? asked Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, who requested the G.A.O. study 18 months ago, when he was chairman of a consumer affairs subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee. A number of states, including New York, all six New England states, Pennsylvania, Hawaii and West Virginia, are trying to find ways around the rebates for state drug programs for Medicaid and state employees. West Virginia, for example, now requires Express Scripts, another large pharmacy benefit manager, to turn over to the state 100 percent of all rebates from drug makers. AdvancePCS is a principal manager for drug purchases in retail stores by federal employees. Medco handles mail-order prescriptions for the program. The G.A.O. looked at costs, prices and rebates at Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, as well as at PacifiCare, a commercial insurer that has its own pharmacy management unit, and the Government Employees Hospital Association. The study included members of the federal employees program in California, the Washington metropolitan area, and North Dakota. Officials of trade groups for pharmacists and chain drug stores, which lose sales to mail-order competitors, criticized the report. If no one can say how many of the rebate dollars the pharmacy benefit managers are keeping, how do you know whether they are effectively reducing overall spending on drugs? said Crystal Wright, a spokeswoman for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. She said the report was a disservice to policymakers who are about to embrace various Medicare prescription drug bills that are all centered around pharmacy benefit managers. John Rector, senior vice president of the National Community Pharmacists Association, which represents independent pharmacies, said the pharmacy benefit managers, or P.B.M.'s, obviously do not want Congress to know the true character of their business. But the G.A.O. should not be their pawn. Ann Smith, a spokeswoman for Medco, praised the report. The crux of the report is that P.B.M.'s do save money on behalf of the health plans, she said. We are very pleased. John D. Jones, a vice president of Prescription Solutions, said that all rebates it received were passed back to our parent company. He said that health plans, large employers and their consultants were big boys, using their buying power to pin down the P.B.M. as to any other fees these companies receive from
[CTRL] (Fwd) Father of American slavery - A Black man!
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- The 12 White politicians calling for a [U.S.] Congressional apology for slavery seem to have zero knowledge about the origins of the Peculiar Institution[of slavery]. It is a documented fact that the first blacks, only 20 in all, came as indentured servants to work for English colonists at Jamestown. [Indentured servants worked for 5 to 7 years, and then were given their freedom.] Among them was one who became known as Anthony Johnson. After working off his indenture, he was not only a free man, but a landowner with a prosperous plantation. Although Johnson's gentrification in itself was an historical step forward in black history, he became even more famous as the first black man in the colonies to effect a landmark decision in a court of law. Johnson, who was not a member of the Bar [membership in the Law Guild], established in a Virginia court in 1654 a radical new concept in the laws relating to master and slave --lifetime indenture. The claimant was John Casor, a black servant indentured to Johnson. Johnson successfully asserted that he had a claim to the service of Casor for the remainder of Casor's life, and Johnson became America's first slave holder and the Father of American Slavery. [Most people are deceived into believing White men started it.] Indenture flourished among blacks as well as whites. The 1830 national census counted 3,775 black slave owners who between them owned 12,760 slaves. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was as devastating to these black slave owners as it was to white Southerners, 1% of whom owned slaves (See American Heritage, Feb-Mar. 1997) --- End of forwarded message --- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus Best wishes Political correctness is the last refuge of the incompetent. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Cradle Land - 1
-Caveat Lector- One word: dinosaurs on 01/10/03 5:00 AM, Willie Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We find history continually verifying the statements of Scripture, and no monument ever dug up, no manuscript that has ever been discovered, has been other than an evidence of Bible truth. -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Plug pulled on Sharon TV address
Title: Plug pulled on Sharon TV address -Caveat Lector- Plug pulled on Sharon TV address JERUSALEM (CNN) --A televised news conference called by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to refute corruption allegations was pulled off the air on Thursday. The Israeli Central Elections Committee ordered all media to stop the broadcast for breaking election laws when Sharon began attacking the Labor party opposition. I came here this evening to respond to despicable slander against me, and against the Likud party with only one purpose -- to bring down the government, said Sharon. Two of Sharon's sons -- Omri and Gilad -- are accused of involvement in a loan scandal and members of the Likud party he leads are accused of buying votes. The former general launched into an attack on Labor and its leader, Amram Mitzna. But the head of the Israeli Central Elections Committee, Judge Michael Cheshin, ordered all Israeli media to halt the broadcast, saying Sharon's attacks on the Labor Party and Mitzna amounted to campaigning, which under election rules is restricted to party political broadcasts whose duration is closely monitored. According to Giora Pordes, spokesman for the Knesset, Israel's parliament, a live broadcast by an Israeli prime minister had never before been ordered off the air. In recent days, the Likud party has been rocked by allegations that Omri and Gilad were involved in a loan scandal and that Likud politicians had engaged in vote-buying to win their spots on the party's candidate list. Sharon remains the most popular politician in Israel. However, the slide in his Likud party's popularity means he will have a much more difficult time forming a coalition government and ruling if, as expected, he remains prime minister. The latest polls show that Sharon and Likud, which had been expected to win as many as 41 seats in the Knesset, would now be lucky to win 27 when Israelis vote January 28. The Wednesday night poll -- which showed the Likud's decline -- also showed the Labor Party gaining two more seats, putting it at 24, and gave the next two largest parties, Shinui and Shas, 17 and 13 seats respectively. Israeli law limits the amount of television time each party can have for campaigning. Labor officials said they were considering asking the Central Elections Commission to cut back the time Sharon and the Likud party would be allowed to have between now and election day. The contributions were given to Sharon during his 1999 Likud party leadership campaign against his chief rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, who now holds the post of foreign minister. The state comptroller ruled that Sharon broke no law, but he ordered Sharon to return the money. Israeli newspapers carried stories this week saying prosecutors were seeking information from the South African Justice Ministry on the loan made to the Sharon family. Israeli law prohibits the use of foreign money to fund Israeli political campaigns. The letter requesting information also hinted that Sharon's sons may have misled Israel's comptroller in explaining how their father was going to pay back the $1.5 million in illegal contributions. The businessman who loaned Sharon's sons the money, Cyril Kern, told reporters he is a longtime friend of Sharon. He called allegations of financial impropriety character assassination and misinformation. Kern, 72, said he is a British citizen who lives and works in South Africa and was in the army with Sharon in 1948. He said Sharon is his son's godfather. He said the loan was for Sharon's farm and that it had been repaid. Omri Sharon has been his father's go-between in the past with the Palestinian leadership. He is expected to win a seat in the Knesset on the Likud ticket. Sharon's other son, Gilad, is a farmer and businessman who has not been actively involved in politics. Sharon has asked Israeli Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein to launch an investigation. However, Rubinstein said he would not be able to complete his investigation before Israeli voters go to the polls. The loan scandal follows Sharon's firing of his deputy infrastructure minister after she refused to answer police questions about a vote-buying scandal. The Likud party selects its parliamentary candidates through a vote of almost 3,000 members of its Central Committee. Police are looking into allegations that a number of Likud candidates paid for posh hotel rooms and even made cash payments to committee members in order to win spots on the Likud candidate list. In Israel, each party chooses a slate of candidates. Seats in parliament are handed out on a proportional basis after the votes are cast, starting at the top of each party's candidate list and moving down until all the allotted seats are filled. The higher a candidate is on a party's list, the better the chance of being seated in the Knesset. Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/09/israel.election/index.html -- -- -- -- -- - --
[CTRL] The Rockefeller File
-Caveat Lector- Guessing the magnitude of the Rockefeller financial empire has been a favorite indoor sport since the turn of the century. In a front-page story on September 29, 1916, the New York Times reported that family patriarch John D. Rockefeller's oil holdings alone were worth $500 million, and that he was America's first billionaire. Eight hours after the story appeared his oil shares had increased in value by a tidy $8 million. Not a bad return for a single day's labor, even for a Rockefeller. See: http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1623mode=threadorder=0thold=0 or, if the links does not come through as a whole, see: http://makeashorterlink.com/?D17451A03 ~~Mapping the Mindhttp://makeashorterlink.com/?D59522703Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
[CTRL] The Rockefeller File
-Caveat Lector- Guessing the magnitude of the Rockefeller financial empire has been a favorite indoor sport since the turn of the century. In a front-page story on September 29, 1916, the New York Times reported that family patriarch John D. Rockefeller's oil holdings alone were worth $500 million, and that he was America's first billionaire. Eight hours after the story appeared his oil shares had increased in value by a tidy $8 million. Not a bad return for a single day's labor, even for a Rockefeller. See: http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1623mode=threadorder=0thold=0 or, if the links does not come through as a whole, see: http://makeashorterlink.com/?D17451A03 ~~Mapping the Mindhttp://makeashorterlink.com/?D59522703Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
[CTRL] Fwd: The Drama of American Banking
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1137 The Drama of American Banking by Joseph R. Stromberg [Posted January 10, 2003] [Review of A http://www.mises.org/store/product1.asp??SID=2Product_ID=117 History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray N. Rothbard (Mises Institute 2002)] http://www.mises.org/store/product1.asp??SID=2Product_ID=117 The exciting book under review is a collection of Murray Rothbard's essays on money and banking put together some five to six years after his unexpectedly early death and including some material previously unpublished. In Rothbard's hands these subjects take on new interest and importance. One reason is the author's straightforward narrative style. Rothbard meant to be understood and he did not mean to be trapped in irrelevant verbiage. Few economists-indeed, few academics-aim to write this way. In addition, Rothbard makes it clear that money and banking are deeply entangled with politics and that most of us, quite unaware of it, are the serfs of well-placed interests, who acquired their present lordship over our economic lives one step at a time, that is to say, historically. Rothbard, as economist and historian, believed that the steps can be traced and reconstructed in a way that amounts to explanation and understanding. In the introduction to this collection, economist Joseph T. Salerno expounds upon Ludwig von Mises's ideas on the relationship between theory and history, and observes that Rothbard was the first to consistently apply it [Mises's approach] to economic history (p. 11). The essential point is that an historian must derive from a multitude of historical givens some sense of past actors' purposes, using common-sense or ideal-typical generalizations stemming from social experience-a method which Mises called thymology. Where needed, the historian also makes use of theory, including economics, without claiming to have found directional laws of history as such. Rothbard also brought to his task his view of politics-that is, his critical insights into the nature of the state. States constitute the organization of the political means to wealth and they thrive by coercively extracting wealth from the actual producers. Further, various groups within society seek incomes above what they might have in the market by allying themselves with state power. Rothbard took this cynical outlook on states from the political writings of Franz Oppenheimer, Albert Jay Nock, and Frank Chodorov (whom he knew personally), and developed it in such essays as War, Peace, and the State (1963) and Anatomy http://www.mises.org/easaran/chap3.asp of the State (1965). To succeed in their antisocial work, states and their allies need to persuade the broad masses that everything is on the up and up. Thus it pays such people to engage in ideological obfuscation. Let me give one example. Professor Joseph Dorfman of Columbia University, the historian of American economic thought who supervised Rothbard's dissertation on the Panic of 1819, discovered something interesting about early 19th-century advocates of soft money. Very often such a soft-money partisan signed his articles Old Farmer or the like. Further research revealed that he was not a farmer, but a major land speculator, merchant, or manufacturer. This put paid to theories that Jacksonian agrarians favored inflation because they were poor debtors. The debtors were typically a faction of wealthy enterprisers out for a quick fix. Colonists, Founders, Factions, and Printers Rather than go into great detail, I shall just sketch out the main
[CTRL] Bad Medicine
-Caveat Lector- JANUARY 10 - 16, 2003 http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/08/news-ireland.php The Bad Doctor Bill Frists long record of corporate vices by Doug Ireland While TV gushed last week over the Republicans new Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, intervening in a traffic accident, portraying the former heart surgeon as a Good Samaritan, in truth the GOP has simply replaced a racist with a corporate crook. Frist was born rich, and got richer thanks to massive criminal fraud by the family business. The basis of the Frist family fortune is HCA Inc. (Hospital Corporation of America), the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country, which was founded by Frists father and brother. And, just as Karl Rove was engineering the scuttling of Trent Lott and the elevation of Frist, the Bush Justice Department suddenly ended a near- decadelong federal investigation into how HCA for years had defrauded Medicaid, Medicare and Tricare (the federal program that covers the military and their families), giving the greedy health-care behemoths executives a sweetheart settlement that kept them out of the can. The governments case was that HCA kept two sets of books and fraudulently overbilled the government. The deal meant that HCA agreed to pay the government $631 million for its lucrative scams which, on top of previous fines, brought the total government penalties against the health-care conglomerate to a whopping $1.7 billion, the largest fraud settlement in history, breaking the old record set by Drexel Burnham. The deal also meant that HCA can continue to participate in Medicare. And, as part of the Bushies deal shutting down what Deputy Assistant FBI Director Thomas Kubic called one of the FBIs highest-priority white-collar crime investigations, no criminal charges were brought against the top HCA execs who presided over the illegal bilking of federal programs designed to aid the poor and that includes Senator Frists brother, Thomas, HCAs former CEO (and current director), whos been described by Forbes magazine as one of the richest men in America, with a personal fortune estimated at close to $2 billion. What did HCA do? It inflated its expenses and billed the government for the overrun; it billed the government for services ineligible for reimbursement (like advertising and marketing costs). HCA violated both law and medical ethics when, as Forbes put it, the company increased Medicare billings by exaggerating the seriousness of the illnesses they were treating. It also granted doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. In addition, it gave doctors loans that were never expected to be paid back, free rent, free office furniture and free drugs from hospital pharmacies. This is the ethical climate that reigned in the Frist familys money machine. In an unguarded moment, Senator Frist told the Boston Globe that conversations with his doctor father about the family calling were like benign versions of the Godfather and Michael Corleone. Apparently the senator considers defrauding the government benign. So too does the Bush White House, which dictated the Justice Department deal with HCA that let the crooks escape jail just as Frist was being anointed the Senates majority leader. A pure coincidence in timing, of course. The senator has always claimed no current connection to HCA because the $26 million he and his wife hold in the companys stock is in a so-called blind trust. But it was the familys dirty money that bought Frist a place in the Senate. In 1994, Frist whod never bothered to vote before first running for the Senate that year spent some $3.4 million of his personal fortune to buy the seat from Tennessee (HCAs headquarters) that he now occupies. Moreover, In the Senate, Frist has used his influence to further HCAs cause by stopping a strong patients bill of rights, gridlocking a mandatory Medicare prescription-drug benefit, and promoting caps on damages for victims who sue negligent hospitals like HCAs, points out Jamie Court, executive director of the Santa Monicabased Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, who adds, The Senate should not replace a racist with a principal backer of one of the largest corporate swindles ever perpetrated against the American public. If Frist was a patriot first, he would have sold his HCA stock long ago. But Frists pandering to the lobbyists of the voracious health-care industry knows no bounds. Frist isnt the senator from Tennessee hes the senator from the state of Health Care Industry Influence hes gotten more than $2 million from the health-care sector, giving him the dubious distinction of raising more cash from health-care interests than 98 percent of his colleagues, says Nick Nyhart, executive director of Public Campaign. Consider the special servicing he gave to pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. In another example of his patriotism, Frist engineered
[CTRL] Stella Awards
-Caveat Lector- The Stella Awards (alternately, Darwin Awards) http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=545mode=orde r=0thold=0 by Albert Burns January 9, 2003 It's time once again to consider the candidates for the annual Stella Awards. The Stella's are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonalds. That case inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United States... The following are this year's candidates: 1. Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son. 2. A 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hub caps. 3. Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re- enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr.Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. 4. Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun. 5. A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. 6. Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses. 7. This year's favorite could easily be Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip home, having driven onto the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the R.V. left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the owner's manual that he couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons buying their recreation vehicles. A:E:R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout
[CTRL] Israel's Aural Harrassment Of Lebanon
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:Pn3i92EGWcwC:www.geocities.com/aamirror/sonic.htm+Lebanon+topsoilhl=enie=UTF-8 Min Lebnan: Happy Holidays, Sonic Boom Style By Hady Amr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] LEBANON (AAM) -- Thursday, December 9. I leapt out of bed as a BOOM shook Beirut. It wasn't an earthquake. I knew that. A year ago April when an earthquake rattled Lebanon I had a tough time getting out of bed, I was too tired. But this was different, more menacing, and from above. It was just before 9am Wednesday, December 9. I rushed to the balcony to survey the neighborhood. Many like me were scanning the horizon for signs of an air raid. A few others ducked inside buildings for cover. Israeli Jets, we could hear them. I checked the calendar. It was two weeks before Christmas, a week before Hanukkah and 10 days before Ramadan. "Good" I thought, "wars in this part of the world can sometimes start on a holiday, at least it's not a holiday today." It couldn't have been more than a few hours after U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala had left Lebanon having just paid the longest US Cabinet-level visit to Lebanon (four days) since 1975. It was a "feel good" visit. Ms. Shalala, the highest-ranking Lebanese-American to serve in office (and who taught English in Lebanon in the 1960s) visited schools in poor rural areas, paid a visit to Lebanon's new president, and debated students at the American University of Beirut. She talked about a new era of "peace and prosperity" for Lebanon. Since yesterday morning, Israel has been dropping virtual "sound bombs" over Beirut about three times a day. That's more often than I get square meals most of the time. In reality, they've just been swooping their warplanes down over Beirut and other cities breaking the sound barrier and in the process breaking windows, and sending young kids scurrying in a strange attempt to terrorize the population, or convince them of something. But of what I'm not sure. Yesterday a friend's blonde-haired, blue-eyed 9 year-old daughter, who looked a lot like the girl I had a crush on back in elementary school in Morristown, New Jersey, explained to us how the teachers had instructed them to move away from the windows during sonic blasts. Bouncy and smiling with her new red backpack, she proudly said that she "didn't cry like some of the others." After she dashed inside for lunch, I remembered the hope I had had that a "new generation" of kids might grow up here not knowing war. And today, a new friend who's recently returned from Stanford to practice as a clinical psychologist complained to me that because of the booms she's been unnerved these past few days and hasn't been able to sleep. I imagine she's holding up, but I wonder how her counseling patients are doing. I'm really not sure what purpose Netanyahu, the democratically elected leader of Lebanon's southern "neighbor," thinks these brazen acts serve, other than to remind the Lebanese that Israel has enough weapons of mass destruction to wipe Lebanon of the face of the earth for good and the ability to deliver them. Or does he want Lebanese to know that he could turn back the clock to the War era when they flew raids over Lebanon regularly? Thank you very much. As if the Lebanese had forgotten. As far as I know, Lebanon hardly has an air force. More likely, the sonic booms we've been served fore breakfast, lunch and dinner although at odd hours are Bibi’s creation to get himself out of the political corner he's painted himself into between his own right wing and President Clinton. Though, the more than $3 billion in assistance about $600 per Israeli the US gives Israel each year isn't really in question. To top it off, Netanyahu is under pressure from mainstream Israelis, including many in the security establishment, to end Israel's occupation of Southern Lebanon which has killed at least 20 Israeli soldiers and 33 Lebanese this year. But raiding Lebanon and trying to strike fear in the hearts of the Lebanese out of electoral desperation sure didn't help Peres in the polls, and I don't think it'll work for Netanyahu either. Israel's erratic actions in Lebanon are a sign that an Israeli leader is in deep electoral trouble. Two and half years ago, Israeli "dove" Shimon Peres was up against an electoral wall with Netanyahu gaining ground in the polls. Peres ordered a "mini"-invasion of Lebanon during which Israel killed over 100 Lebanese civilians when it bombed a United Nations safe haven, an act which they are being sued for in the International Criminal Courts based on new video-taped evidence that Israel was aiming directly for the safe haven. A few days later, along with many other Arab-Americans, I was in the Old Executive Office Building, discussing the situation with the acting Secretary of State. Little consolation. Peres meanwhile narrowly lost the election in a vote one of my Princeton political science professors described to me over Thanksgiving
[CTRL] A Legacy of Camp Mengele Medicine
-Caveat Lector- w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=250068contrassID=2; subContrassID=1sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=Y Export of human stem cells from Israel to Germany sparks ethical storm Two Israeli institutions, Haifa's Technion Israel Institute of Technology and Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, began exporting stem cells culled from human embryos to Germany this month, arousing a storm of controversy within both countries' scientific and medical communities. Because stem cells have enormous medical potential, many scientists, doctors and ethicists favor the move, saying the research project for which the cells will be used has the potential not only to advance scientific knowledge, but also to develop new medical treatments that could save many lives. But many jurists and sociologists say that the exports, though completely legal, are very problematic. In Israel, they argue, the exports were decided upon without any public discussion or even any discussion by national committees on medical ethics; while in Germany, the move has elicited considerable public criticism, including from that country's National Ethics Council. Like many other countries, Germany forbids stem cells to be culled from human embryos for research purposes within its own borders. A year ago, however, the Bundestag passed a law permitting human stem cells to be imported in exceptional cases. At the time, the German press pointed out the ethical double standard of this law and the absurdity of permitting an act that is forbidden on German embryos to be carried out on embryos that come from other population groups, notes Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, a lecturer in sociology at Tel Aviv University who is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the application of genetic knowledge in Israel and Germany. The stem cells are being culled by Professor Yosef Itzkowitz- Eldor, the head of Rambam's gynecology department, using the Technion's facilities. The Technion, says Itzkowitz-Eldor, is not being paid; this is a joint scientific venture in which the Technion will receive part ownership of any fruits resulting from the research. The German researcher who is receiving the cells, Dr. Oliver Brustle of Bonn University, is trying to determine how a stem cell can be convinced to develop into an adult nerve cell. Brustle, who has been studying nerve cells and stem cells in rats for many years, hopes that it will eventually be possible to use transplants of nerve cells grown from stem cells to cure diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Brustle has wanted to move on to studying human stem cells for some time, but until last year, German law made this impossible. When the new law permitting imports of stem cells was passed last January, he immediately applied for an import license from an interdisciplinary ethics council. According to the law, this council may grant such licenses only for research of outstanding scientific quality that can not be performed either on animal cells or on adult stem cells (which are found in bone marrow). Last month, Brustle became the first German to receive a permit from the council - a decision that aroused much opposition in Germany. Professor Jens Reich of the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin says the German reluctance to permit research on embryonic stem cells has two main sources. The first is the memory of the Nazis' experiments on human beings. The second is Immanuel Kant's philosophy of ends and means, which has gained wide currency in Germany. This philosophy holds that man is an end in himself and must, therefore, not be used as a tool for achieving aims that do not directly benefit him. Thus, human experimentation is justified only if the subject would benefit personally from the research. Professor Asa Kasher of Tel Aviv University's philosophy department, an expert in bio- ethics, responds that an embryo is not a person, so the Kantian prohibition does not apply. The embryos from which the stem cells are produced are five days old, he says. They look like a microscopic ball of cells and have not yet developed the special characteristics that we perceive as `human.' Furthermore, he argues, the Germans' position deprives many sick people of the possible medical benefits of stem cell research. Perhaps we, the Jews of Israel, are the only ones who can tell them that on this matter, they are exaggerating, he concludes. But Professor Amos Shapira of Tel Aviv University's law faculty, also an expert in medical ethics, disagrees. The German law, he says, is a problematic ethical compromise, along the lines of `we won't do the dirty work, but we will do research if [the dirty work] is done by someone else.' Dr. Carmel Shalev, head of the Gartner Institute's ethics and patients' rights department, adds that whether or not stem cells should be exported, the decision should be made at the national level rather
Re: [CTRL] Israelis To Confine Arabs to Ghetto
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/9/2003 12:05:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because it kills people indiscriminately. Too bad it doesn't fit your stereotype eh? What's wrong with that? The Israeli kill Palestinians indiscriminately. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Israelis To Confine Arabs to Ghetto
Title: Re: [CTRL] Israelis To Confine Arabs to Ghetto -Caveat Lector- Pru while I think the Israelis are way overboard, and too far into this right hawkish bad dream right now they at least attempt have targeted attacks When you blow yourself up in a bus station that is indiscriminate killing. on 01/10/03 1:45 PM, Prudy L at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/9/2003 12:05:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because it kills people indiscriminately. Too bad it doesn't fit your stereotype eh? What's wrong with that? The Israeli kill Palestinians indiscriminately. Prudy A HREF="" DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="" of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="" To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Free your mind and your ass will follow. St George NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The latest on 9-11
-Caveat Lector- Meet Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the United States, who was holding a 'conference' in Omaha Nebraska on September 11, 2001. This man is part of Mitre Corp. and Mitre is heavily into UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles). In fact, this little get-together was being held at the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offut AFB. A number (it hasn't been reported exactly how many but it was called 'a small group of business leaders') of CEO's from New York, including at least one from the WTC, were there. http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1594mode=threadorder=0thold=0 Also see (due to the technical information in some of this, each post can be seen as a primer for the next as new terms are gradually introduced - I recommend reading them in order for this reason): 'Mitre Corp. and Total Information Awareness' http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1619mode=threadorder=0thold=0 'Total Mitre Corp. Awareness' http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/23439 'Was September 11, 2001 a hack?' http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1621mode=threadorder=0thold=0 '9-11: Bringing it all together' http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1622mode=threadorder=0thold=0 Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
[CTRL] The Weather
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"Typically contrails can only form at temperatures below negative-76 degrees Fahrenheit and at humidity levels of 70 percent or more at high altitudes, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist Thomas Schlattes. Even in most ideal conditions, a jet contrail lasts no more than 30 minutes."
From 'Stormy Weather - The Government's Top-Secret Efforts To Control Mother Nature' http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1617mode=threadorder=0thold=0
They want/ed to patent life forms they didn't create andcontrol the food chain through the Terminator Seed (Monsanto) - why WOULDN'T they sell nice weather. We ARE talking about megalomaniacs after all. As I hope the following indicates, I HAVE looked into this. First, my own thoughts onand an explanation of weather modification:
I travelled, by backpack, some 12,500 miles this last year and it took me through Colorado (home of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency), New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. What I consistently found was that a vast majority of the spraying going on was in areas where weather builds exponentially: the west coast and the eastern slope of the Rockies for example. This does not fit the biological agents theory but such weather modification could be used to mask other operations.
Chaos science says there is symetry across scale, another way of saying, as above so below. Scientists have found this to be true in the way that 'an' electron orbits a nucleus, like a planet orbiting the sun. Chaos science also recognizes certain tenets that have long been the domain of eastern 'mysticism,' like the idea that events and actions have effects on the space/time continuum that grow - that is the EFFECTS grow. It is like a ripple in a pond where in a few minutes, the outermost ring will be enormously larger than at first. Also, if you stack 2X4's (for those of you that work with wood) so that the second from the bottom board is merely a millimeter off center, it wouldn't seem like it would mean much but if you stack thirty this way your stack will fall. This is because small differences mean more over space AND time.
This is the essence of weather modification. Getting in place where weather systems grow exponentially, one can have a greater effect on the weather system as it travels further east, away from the Rockies for instance. It takes less energy, therefore less money to affect the weather this way.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970: "Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised
Technology of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."
http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1566
The following snip is taken from http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1018
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Where Climate Modification Meets Sept. 11 "A United States Air Force document from 1996 projected one future scenario where 'the American World View became more Global following a major terrorist attack on the US early in the twenty-first century' . Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the key to world power is in Central Asia with its vast oil deposits, but short of a galvanizing attack by foreigners or terrorists on the scale of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. public lacked the imperial will to seize world dominance." Dr. Arnold A. Barnes, Jr. described a key element of Full Spectrum Dominance as "Weather Modification. see http://www.columbusalive.com/2002/20020516/051602/05160205.html
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In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars") Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/10788
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As I write this I have just come into Boulder's Public Library, out from under "chemtrails" galore. I have never seen this many trails in the sky. I also don't see nearly as much of this experimentation in other places as I do when in Boulder, home to the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Many disaster relief agencies, conveniently, situate in Boulder. I once saw photos someone had taken of the skies over the University of Colorado (in Boulder): they showed, apparently recordable by film but relatively invisible to naked eye, lasers - bright red beams across the sky. This person took his own pictures and, in my opinion, had not the technical capabilities to fake them. He often spoke of his readings that he engaged in, trying to decipher his results and he often spoke of mirrors -
Re: [CTRL] CANABALISM: Pygmies Being Killed and Eaten in Congo
-Caveat Lector- the only conspiracy i can see about this article is that it may be intended to give us the idea that africans are bad you put david icke to shame ~~[9-11: Bringing it all together] - The NRO, September 11, UAV's, Echelon, ARPANET, the NSA, the Israeli Space Agency, NIMA, Booz-Allen Hamilton, NASA, Ron Sega, Vince Foster, Global Hawk, TIA, Mitre Corp., Star Wars (SDI), Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia (and his satellite investments), and the NMCI. Were the WTC attacks a hack?http://makeashorterlink.com/?D55732703Do you Yahoo!? A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
[CTRL] Bush's Epitaph?
-Caveat Lector- January 10, 2003 Behind the Power Curve: Bush's Epitaph? Lost in the Folds of Iraq and North Korea By BILL CHRISTISONformer CIA political analyst A few decades ago, a cliché invaded Washington's bureaucracies. It was a cliché that many of us self-decreed sophisticates in the U.S. foreign-policy establishment came to use, and then shamelessly overuse, to belittle anyone (sometimes a superior, more often a competitor in another agency) who happened to disagree with the one's own views. Low-voiced comments about this or that #$* SOB being "way behind the power curve" filtered into government conference rooms, dining rooms, and even hallways. Until it succumbed to parody from the crescendo of overuse, this was truly a multi-purpose cliché. It sounded so good that some of us would, pompously and with just the right profession of cynicism and self-deprecation, apply it in a less insulting way to ourselves. As in, "We can't afford to fall behind the power curve on this one [i.e., any issue that seemed important at the moment], so here's what I think we ought to do." The "power curve" itself normally went undefined, but the very word "power" elicited, as was intended, knowing nods and narrowed eyes suggesting that most users or hearers of the cliché, at least those who valued their positions in the bureaucracy, wished to be seen as hard pragmatists with a lesser interest in "unrealistic" ethics, morals, or principles. Not surprisingly, the dominance of this cliché coincided with the early 1970s, the last years of the Nixon administration. Today there are grounds for hope that the Bush administration itself is already falling irretrievably behind the power curve of its own amoral and unprincipled pragmatism. The immediate reason for such hope arises from the embarrassment and bumbling inside the administration over the inconsistencies between U.S. policies toward Iraq on the one hand and toward North Korea on the other. We need to look at recent history to see why recent events concerning North Korea, assuming they are ultimately resolved without an East Asian nuclear holocaust, should be seen as a positive development by those of us who want peace and justice in the Middle East as well as in East Asia in the next few decades, rather than more wars initiated by the United States. Early in 2001, far-right, hawkish, and violence-prone governments took power at roughly the same time in both the U.S. and Israel. The leaders of the two new governments had already developed a very good personal and political chemistry with each other. The events of September 11 further strengthened the ties between them as they became ever-firmer allies in the War on Terrorism and quickly agreed on each other's highly selective definitions of who were terrorists and evil-doers (and who were not). A few months later, Bush lumped Iraq, Iran, and North Korea into an Axis of Evil in his January 2002 state-of-the-union address to Congress. Then, egged on by Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and a small but very influential group of pro-Likud neo-cons scattered through the administration, as well as by U.S. Christian fundamentalist leaders who solidly support both Bush's and the Sharon government's present policies, the president spent much of the year 2002 ratcheting up the pressures for war against Iraq. Actually, the neo-con officials in the U.S. and Likud leaders in Israel have been pressing for the ouster of the present Iraqi government for the past decade. On the issue of Iraq, disagreement within the administration, largely from Secretary of State Powell and a few former officials like Brent Scowcroft, has slowed the Bush drive toward war since the early fall of 2002. But so far at least, Powell has been willing to confront Bush only on the issue of unilateralism. Right now, the odds on what will happen over the next month or two run something like this. First, there is a tiny chance that in response to a low-key Arab campaign, Saddam Hussein will take up a proposal that he resign and accept sanctuary in some Arab land. The U.S. conceivably could then decide it was impossible to go to war. Not a good bet. Second, a larger but still pretty minuscule chance exists that a successful coup attempt against Saddam will take place and bring about regime change, thus putting off at least temporarily Washington's need for war. Third, a considerably greater but still less than fifty-fifty chance exists that the current inspection scenario will play out to an impasse in which so many of the nations now on the U.N. Security Council will refuse to support the U.S., and Colin Powell will oppose Bush so strongly, that Bush himself will back off and at least postpone a war for some months or an entire year. Fourth and most likely (here the odds are definitely greater then fifty-fifty), the Bush administration will start a war against Iraq in the
[CTRL] Custodians of abuse, 15 Men Reach Settlement on Abuse
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors Custodians of abuse - Across the nation, family court is the last place a mother concerned about child sexual abuse by the child's father wants to find Herself by Kristen Lombardi "Much Has changed since a 1989 study showed that Masscachusetts family courts were skewed against mothers in disputed custody cases. But more reform is needed. Changes in Massachusetts family courts since 1989 A 1989 Massachusetts study commissioned by the state Supreme Judicial Court showed that mothers engaged in custody disputes with their ex-husbands or boyfriends can fall victim to gender bias. Family courts held mothers to higher standards than fathers. Judges and other courtroom personnel, for example, scrutinized mothers' habits, work schedules, and relationships, as if looking for any reason to prove them unfit." http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/02643516.htm 15 Men Reach Settlement on Abuse Claims AOL 1/10/03 Boston (AP) - "Fifteen men who said they were abused by clergy who taught at two Jesuit-run high schools in New England have settled their claims, their laywer said. Attorney Roderick MacLeish did not disclose the dollar amounts of the settlements but called them ``fair and equitable.'' The Boston Globe reported Friday that the settlements totaled $5.8 million and ranged from $75,000 to more than $1 million. Eleven of the men claimed they were abused while they were students at Boston College High School in the 1970s and early 1980s. Ten men named the Rev. James F. Talbot, a hockey and soccer coach, and the other cited the Rev. Francis J. McManus." A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Israelis To Confine Arabs to Ghetto
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/10/2003 1:51:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pru â while I think the Israelis are way overboard, and too far into this right hawkish bad dream right now they at least attempt have targeted attacks When you blow yourself up in a bus station â that is indiscriminate killing. Amazing, and if you send a rocket into a neighborhood, it only takes out specific individuals. Fantastic. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] CANNIBALISM: Pygmies Being Killed and Eaten in Congo
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/9/2003 11:57:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The UN had sent six officials to investigate the accusation as well as other human rights abuses, he said. And they had better be careful. Remember the incident in which the fourteen Italians were found butchered and for sale in some local meat markets (also in the Congo I believe). That was a few years back and not widely broadcast, but it really happened. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] JBS/TNA on TV this weekend (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:40:00 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JBS Alert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: JBS/TNA on TV this weekend William Norman Grigg on Fox News Network Will Grigg, Senior Editor of The New American magazine, is scheduled for a live appearance in the first half of the Fox News program From the Heartland on Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on the issue of immigration. This is a great opportunity to introduce others to The John Birch Society. Read The New American's past coverage of immigration at: http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/immigration/ John McManus on C-SPAN2 C-SPAN2 is re-broadcasting John McManus' talk on the William F. Buckley, Jr. book. It is scheduled to be broadcast this Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon Eastern Time. Be sure to tune in tomorrow and forward this information on to others! --- You are receiving this email alert because you have subscribed to The John Birch Society's Email Alert Network as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not reply to this e-mail. To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change your e-mail address, please visit: http://www.jbs.org/contact/alert.htm To contact the staff, visit: http://www.jbs.org/contact/ The John Birch Society http://www.jbs.org A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Re: [CTRL] Silence about Israels nuclear weapons
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/9/2003 8:35:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: International politics has a number of contradictions. At present, we see the United States leading the world against Iran, Iraq and North Korea because they allegedly possess weapons of mass destruction. We see the United States at the same time approving the idea of Israel building a new nuclear reactor. The new reactor will chemically process uranium and will obviously increase the size of the Israeli arsenal. There have been rumors that it is political suicide in America to touch Social Security. It is also political suicide to find any fault with Israel no matter what Israel is doing. If Israel has nuclear weapons that's just wonderful. We probably paid for them anyway. And they know where all of ours are located too. Mr. Deutch did them that little favor. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Bush's Armageddon Obsession, Revisited
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/9/2003 8:34:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George W. Bush is certainly the plaything of such forces as the geopolitics of oil but it seems that he is susceptible to other even darker archetypal concerns. Let me be blunt. The man is delusional and the shape of his delusion is specifically apocalyptic in belief and intent. That Bush would attack so many vital systems on so many fronts from foreign policy to the environment may seem confusing from the point of view of realpolitik but becomes transparent in terms of the apocalyptic worldview to which he subscribes. All systems are supposed to go down so the Messiah can come and Bush, seemingly, has taken on the role of the one who brings this to pass. Well--and he likes that kind of thing. Remember the lady who called C-SPAN and said he enjoyed executing the death penalty. If he liked that, imagine the fun of killing masses of people. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Will this cop see Elvis in Nashville next?
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37943-2003Jan10.html Man Wants Punishment for Dog Shooting The Tennessee Highway Patrol also concluded its troopers had probable cause to conduct the stop, though officials were still trying to determine how the Smoaks were suspected in a robbery that never happened. By John Gerome Associated Press Writer Friday, January 10, 2003; 11:22 AM NASHVILLE, Tenn. A traffic stop following erroneous reports of a robbery ended in heartbreak when the family dog bounded out of the car, his tail wagging, and was shot to death by police. Now, the dog's owner wants the police officers punished, and the officer who pulled the trigger says he's been getting death threats. I don't ever want to see this happen to anybody else. That's why we can't let this go away, said James Smoak, who owned the 1½-year-old pit bull-boxer mix named Patton. Cookeville Police Officer Eric Hall, who shot the dog, said Thursday that people are misjudging him. It's been very difficult, but a lot of people who've made comments don't know me, Hall said on WTVF-TV in Nashville. It's kind of taken a life of its own where people are judging without knowing all the facts. Smoak, a seafood salesman from Saluda, N.C., said he has contacted attorneys about the New Year's Day shooting and plans legal action. He describes the family's ordeal as a nightmare we can't wake up from, and says he will never forget having to load the dead dog into the car for the ride home. The incident began when Tennessee state troopers and Cookeville police stopped the Smoaks' green station wagon as they were returning from a vacation in Nashville. Another motorist had reported seeing money flying from the vehicle as it sped down Interstate 40, and authorities feared there had been a robbery. They later discovered that the money about $445 was fluttering from Smoak's wallet, which he had mistakenly left on the car roof after pumping gas. The patrol car videotape of the stop, released Wednesday by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, shows troopers ordering James and Pamela Smoak and their teenage son, Brandon, out of the car, and the three emerging with their hands up, getting on their knees and being handcuffed. Then Patton bounds out, his tail wagging, and races toward Hall. The video shows Hall stepping back, then firing his shotgun. Hall said he thought the dog was a pit bull and that he was about to attack him. I noticed that it trained in right on me; the dog's coming right at me, he said. I yelled at the dog as I was backing up. I screamed at it; it kept advancing and barking in an aggressive manner. It's unfortunate what happened after that. Hall, who said he has received death threats, was assigned to administrative duties pending an independent review. An internal police investigation found he didn't use excessive force. The Tennessee Highway Patrol also concluded its troopers had probable cause to conduct the stop, though officials were still trying to determine how the Smoaks were suspected in a robbery that never happened. Officers recovered most of the lost money, Smoak said, and officials later apologized, but he said the apologies rang hollow. At the scene they told us they made a mistake and that we were free to go, Smoak said. No one was moved to say they were sorry. The dog was wagging his tail, he said. It was completely trained. Hall said he felt terrible when he learned that the Smoaks were innocent but maintains he reacted appropriately. With the knowledge I had at that time, I was so limited that I felt I did what I had to do, Hall said. If you could have felt what I felt after the whole incident was over, he said, I thought, 'Oh, my goodness, how unfortunate for that family.' © 2003 The Associated Press A:E:R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A
Re: [CTRL] William Grigg cancelled
-Caveat Lector- Sorry Bill, The appearance has been cancelled Senior editor Will Grigg's scheduled appearance on Fox News this Saturdayhas been canceled by Fox News. We apologize for any inconvenience.You are receiving this email alert because you have subscribed to The New American Alert Network as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: William Bacon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 6:29 PM Subject: [CTRL] JBS/TNA on TV this weekend (fwd) -Caveat Lector-"I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and tothe REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,withliberty and justice for all."visit my web site athttp://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto:http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html-- Forwarded message --Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:40:00 -0800From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: JBS Alert List [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: JBS/TNA on TV this weekendWilliam Norman Grigg on Fox News NetworkWill Grigg, Senior Editor of The New American magazine, is scheduled for alive appearance in the first half of the Fox News program "From theHeartland" on Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on theissue of immigration. This is a great opportunity to introduce others toThe John Birch Society.Read The New American's past coverage of immigration at:http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/immigration/ A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] WAR PARTY IN FULL RETREAT!! How Sweet It Is!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html January 10, 2003 WAR PARTY IN RETREAT How sweet it is! It may be in somewhat poor taste to say "I told you so," but I can't resist. My prognosis that the Iraq war, far from being "inevitable," as we've been endlessly told, has been postponed if not put on the back burner indefinitely has been all but verified by recent events. In a column posted on New Year's Day, I wrote: "As John McLaughlin and Eleanor Clift concurred on The McLaughlin Group this week, Colin Powell deserves the title 'Person of the Year' for having slowed the rush to war against Iraq. Clift pointed out that the President has gone with Powell, rather than the neocons, at every important turn in the road that may not lead to war after all. The War Party thought they had won the fight, and that they had a deal with the Bushies: but the UN inspections process, which could last out the new year, short-circuited the drive to war in the Middle East." While it may be a bit early to claim that my prediction has come true, the evidence that the rush to war has slowed to a veritable crawl is rapidly proliferating to a state of near certainty. It looks like the Brits are "going wobbly," as Maggie Thatcher would no doubt put it, with Tony Blair's Labor Party in a uproar over the prospect of war and Cabinet ministers at each other's throats over the issue. The Telegraph reports: "Britain is pressing for war against Iraq to be delayed for several months, possibly until the autumn, to give weapons inspectors more time to provide clear evidence of new violations by Saddam Hussein." When Jack Straw, Britain's foreign secretary, let the cat out of the bag by telling the BBC that the odds are running 60-40 against war, Geoff Hoon, their version of Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Perle combined, went ballistic, publicly rebuking Straw. Blair went nuclear, opining that Straw's remarks were "extremely stupid," but the Telegraph notes that Blair's support for the War Party is not quite so unconditional as previously supposed, citing a "senior Whitehall source" as saying: "The Prime Minister has made it clear that, unless there is a smoking gun, the inspectors have to be given time to keep searching." This is a standard considerably higher than that enunciated by Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, who avers that it is up to Iraq to prove it doesn't have "weapons of mass destruction." As Blix stated in his prepared remarks to the UN: "Iraq cannot just maintain that it must be deemed to be without proscribed items as long as there is no evidence to the contrary. If evidence is not presented ... there is no way the inspectors can close the file by simply invoking a precept that Iraq cannot prove a negative." Blix, however, doesn't have any backbenchers to deal with: there is even talk that a few junior ministers would resign if Bush's poodle followed his master into the Iraqi morass without a UN mandate â and a "smoking gun" that could be waved at home front opponents of the war. The UN inspectors have so far visited 300 Iraqi sites, including 47 facilities that have not been inspected before, so far without uncovering even a trace of the alleged hidden arsenal. Unless something major is discovered in the eighteen or so days left before Blix is scheduled to come back to the UN, an Anglo-American assault on Iraq will have to be postponed â perhaps indefinitely. On the international front, at least, the War Party seems to be unraveling, and it isn't just the Brits. The Turks, too, are getting cold feet, demanding as the price of their cooperation more "aid" and publicly wavering over the prospect of letting American ground troops on their soil. Reeling from an economic crisis, and with a new Islamic party at the helm, Turkey is essential to the US military strategy of a short and decisive strike, but Turkish public opinion is overwhelmingly opposed: eighty-eight percent say no to war. The Turkish government has delayed the decision until January 27, when Blix and his team are expected to deliver a more comprehensive report to the UN Security Council. At which time another looming crisis may enter the Council's purview almost simultaneouslyâ¦. Back in October, I wrote that "we may have been saved from the prospect of war in the Middle East â only to be faced with an even greater crisis on the other side of the Asian landmass," warning that North Korea was about to blow. Kim Jong Il "has pulled the rug out from under the War Party," I wrote, "even as the U.S. gets ready to move on Iraq." Noting that the President had recently received Ariel Sharon at the White House and promised that the Israelis would get two weeks notice before we attack Iraq, I predicted that Sharon would have a long wait: "If I were Sharon, I wouldn't hold my breath." Hey, come to think of it, the Israeli Prime Minister does look a little blue these daysâ¦. Once the Colin Powell faction won out and the U.S.
[CTRL] Chalmers Johnson on Iraqi Wars
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/orig/johnson1.html Iraqi Wars by Chalmers Johnson January 10, 2003 The following is adapted from part of a chapter of Chalmers Johnson's new book about American militarism, The Sorrows of Empire: How the Americans Lost Their Country (forthcoming in late 2003 from Metropolitan Books). "'From a marketing point of view,' said Andrew H. Card, Jr., the White House chief of staff on the rollout this week of the campaign for a war with Iraq, 'you don't introduce new products in August.'" New York Times, September 7, 2002 "After all, this is the guy [Saddam Hussein] who tried to kill my dad." President George W. Bush, at Houston, September 26, 2002 In the hours immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked for plans to be drawn up for an American assault on Iraq. The following day, in a cabinet meeting at the White House, Rumsfeld again insisted that Iraq should be "a principal target of the first round in the war against terrorism."(1) The president allegedly replied that "public opinion has to be prepared before a move against Iraq is possible," and instead chose Afghanistan as a much softer target. These statements and their timing, are noteworthy because the United States had not even determined that the suicide bombers came from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and it has never published any evidence that al-Qaeda had any connection with Iraq. In fact, the 2001 edition of the U.S. Department of State's annual report on Patterns of Global Terrorism does not list any acts of global terrorism linked to the government of Iraq. It was not until September 22, 2001 that Secretary of State Colin Powell promised to release to the press proof that al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden were guilty of planning and executing the attacks on New York and Washington, and that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told CNN, "Clearly, we do have evidence, historical and otherwise, about the relationship of the al-Qaeda network to what happened on September 11." But such evidence has never been forthcoming. Until passenger manifests revealed that the airliner hijackers were mostly from Saudi Arabia, I myself thought that the attacks could be blowback from American policies in any number of places. Rumsfeld's early targeting of Iraq therefore suggests that the Bush administration has had a hidden agenda. Ever since the first American war against Iraq, the "Gulf War" of 1991, the people in the White House and the Pentagon who planned and executed it have wanted to go back and finish what they started. They said so in reports written for then Secretary of Defense Cheney in the last years of the George H.W. Bush administration; and during the period when they were out of power, from 1992 to 2000, they drafted plans describing what they would do if the Republicans should retake the White House. In the spring of 1997, a number of them organized themselves as the "Project for the New American Century" (PNAC) and began to lobby for a regime change in Iraq. In a letter to President Clinton dated January 26, 1998, they called for "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power," and in a letter dated May 29, 1998, to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, they complained that Clinton had not listened to them, reiterating their recommendation that Saddam Hussein be overthrown. They added, "We should establish and maintain a strong U.S. military presence in the region, and be prepared to use that force to protect our vital interests in the [Persian] Gulf-and, if necessary, to help remove Saddam from power." The letters were signed by Donald Rumsfeld; William Kristol, editor of the right-wing Weekly Standard magazine and chairman of PNAC; Elliott Abrams, the convicted Iran-Contra conspirator whom Bush appointed director of Middle Eastern policy on the National Security Council in 2002; Paul Wolfowitz, now Rumsfeld's deputy at the Pentagon; John Bolton, now undersecretary of state for arms control and international security; Richard Perle, now chairman of the Defense Science Board; William J. Bennett, President Reagan's education secretary; Richard Armitage, now Colin Powell's deputy at the State Department; Zalmay Khalilzad, former UNOCAL consultant and Bush's ambassador to Afghanistan; and several other prominent American militarists. In addition to the letter-signatories, Dick Cheney; I. Lewis Libby, now Cheney's chief of staff; Stephen Cambone, a Pentagon bureaucrat in both Bush administrations; and many others founded PNAC. They have made their ideas readily available in a September 2000 report entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century" and in a book edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol, Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy. (2) After George W. Bush became president,
[CTRL] Postconstitutional America
-Caveat Lector- http://www.fff.org/comment/com0301a.asp Postconstitutional America by Sheldon Richman, January 5, 2003 Itâs a truism today that in this time of âwar,â we must shift the balance between liberty and security, sacrificing some freedom in order to protect our society from assault. Leave aside that this ignores Benjamin Franklinâs famous statement about freedom and security. Funny how we blithely forget those oft-quoted adages when they become inconvenient. It is more important than ever that we get our pronouns right. Advocates of deficit spending used to parry the concerns of balanced-budget champions by saying that âwe owe it to ourselves.â This was obviously untrue. I certainly did not borrow from myself. Nor, I suspect, did you. On the contrary, agents of government borrowed for their own benefit and the benefit of special interests, then later taxed the American people to repay the governmentâs creditors. There was no âwe-nessâ about it, but a whole lot of âthey-ness.â The first-person plural fooled everyone and allowed them to get away with our money. There is something analogous in the current discussion of the balance between liberty and security, which has been moved manifestly toward the side falsely labeled âsecurityâ with the USA PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Department, and the Pentagonâs ominously named Information Awareness Office, run by that very model of a modern admiral, John Poindexter. âWeâ wonât be giving up liberty for security. Rather, a small subset of âweâ â namely, âtheyâ â will take our liberty without our informed consent, albeit with the promise that weâll be safer in the process. The age-old question, of course, is: who will protect us from our protectors? Before someone objects that âtheyâ were elected by us, let me point out that our ârepresentativesâ were under such pressure to pass the PATRIOT Act and the homeland-security legislation that they were not even given time to read the voluminous bills, which werenât even printed until the 11th hour. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has condemned this high-handed tactic. Thus it was only lately revealed that the homeland-security bill, which was said to be merely an efficient reorganization of government agencies, actually expands the power of the federal government to intrude on our privacy. That intrusion will come largely at the hands of the said Admiral Poindexter. He has made the modest proposal that his office be given access to records of our electronic activities so that his agents can compile a huge database and look for patterns suggesting terrorist intent. The official seal of his Information Awareness Office (IAO) is nothing less than the eye in the pyramid (see the back of a one-dollar bill) peering out over the globe. The Poindexter program sports the Orwellian name âTotal Information Awareness System.â Its motto is âKnowledge Is Powerâ â a benign slogan, until you remind yourself that Poindexterâs agency wants to acquire knowledge about, and thus power over, us. As the IAO website states, âThe key to fighting terrorism is information. Elements of the solution include gathering a much broader array of data than we do currentlyâ (Its web page on Total Information Awareness is full of bureaucratese that masks the concrete acts the agency will commit against us all. It also contains an inscrutable Rube Goldberg-type diagram that has to be seen to be believed: www.darpa.mil/iao/TIASystems.htm.) As news of the Bush administrationâs ambitious data-gathering agency spilled out, official spokesmen have tried to reassure us with words like âsafeguards,â âoversight,â âjudiciousness,â and so on. Thatâs what they always say. Then years later we learn that these trusty bureaucrats werenât so judicious after all; that in fact they were spying on and harassing law-abiding people. This is about the time that we should remind ourselves that, as Thomas Jefferson said in 1798, after passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, âFree government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.â Unfortunately, the Constitution has proven to be a weak restraint. Government today defines its own powers. The message of the Homeland Security Department and Information Awareness Office cannot be disguised: We are living in postconstitutional America. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That
[CTRL] WHITE HOUSE DODGES ANTHRAX QUESTIONS
-Caveat Lector- http://www.judicialwatch.org/2953.shtml Jan 10, 2003 Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 WHITE HOUSE DODGES ANTHRAX QUESTIONS Bush Administration Stonewalls On Production of Documents Concerning Decision to Put Staff on Cipro Beginning September 11, 2001 Brentwood Postal Workers Denied Treatment While White House Protected Itself (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, said today that the Bush administration has failed to provide a complete and accurate response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request concerning the decision to place White House staff on a regimen of the powerful antibiotic, Cipro, the same day as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. By contrast, U.S. Postal Service workers from Washington, DCâs Brentwood Postal Facility â Judicial Watch clients â were denied antibiotic treatment, even after it became apparent that the Brentwood facility had been contaminated. Judicial Watch represents the Brentwood Postal workers in various legal proceedings against government officials who put their lives in jeopardy. So far, 8 postal workers have died and hundreds remain harmed by the lethal exposure. Despite multiple press reports confirming that White House staff began use of Cipro on September 11, 2001, the incomplete and evasive FOIA response from The White House consisted of a paltry, four e-mail messages and an âadministrative alertâ concerning testing procedures in reaction to the anthrax deaths of two postal workers, all of which were dated October 23 and October 24, 2001. Judicial Watch has appealed the FOIA response and will take strong legal action to uncover the truth despite the obstructionist tactics of the administration. âThe Bush administration has an established reputation for secrecy and obfuscation when it comes to answering straight-forward questions that are clearly in the interest of the American people. Unfortunately, the Bush administration is incredibly even less transparent and accountable than the criminal enterprise the Clintons ran out of The White House during their regime. Thereâs a disturbing trend of denying the American public access to information that keeps politicians accountable. We will not stand for it,â stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush or BushLite
-Caveat Lector- Bush Or Bush Lite? http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7060 George v. Joe -- More Of An Echo Than An Alternative Robert Borosage is Co-Director of the Campaign For America's Future, and he has written on political, economic, and national security issues for publications including The New York Times and The Nation. Al Gores withdrawal from the 2004 presidential race instantly established Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman as a front-runner for the Democratic Party nomination. Lieberman gained national name recognition as Gores running mate in 2000. He is likely to win the critical fundraising money primary by attracting the largesse of the corporate wing of the party and the Jewish community. His combination of schmaltz and sanctimony played well on the 2000 campaign trail. He showed that he could turn his piety into an electoral asset and use his affability to win favor among the same reporters who were so put off by Al Gore. Lieberman would rather waltz than fight. So, what's not to like about Joe? Well, once you get beyond his style and his Big Money prowess, he looks nearly identical to George W. Bush on most key issues: Iraq, trade, missile defense, homeland security, corporate tax favors and faith-based gestures. Hes positioned himself to run to the right of Bush on war and the military and to his left on the environment and abortion. Whether this poll-driven Republican-lite posture can work politically remains to be seen. Whats clear, however, is that at a time when the nation desperately needs a fundamental debate about core issues -- how to meet real security threats, how to get the economy working for working people, how to defend America without trampling the very liberties that define America -- Lieberman would rather waltz than fight. On national security, Bush has put forth a radical doctrine of pre-emption and unilateralist arrogance that undermines this nations security. The nation would be well served by a Democratic candidate who would lay out a real security policy that challenges Bushs effort to turn America into a global warden. But Liebermans central critique of the administration is that it hasnt been militarist enough. He has urged taking out Saddam Hussein alone, without U.N. sanction. He criticized the presidents faith-based missile defense deployment only for not wasting even more billions on deploying a system that doesnt work. Striving to look tough on terror, Lieberman championed the homeland security bill that even his acolytes at the Democratic Leadership Committee dismiss as a phony debate over the makeup of a department that won't solve the problem anyway. Similarly, Bushs economic policy -- tax cuts for the wealthy, favors for the Fortune 500 crowd, cutbacks in domestic public investment and corporate- centered trade accords -- is undermining Americas economic prospects. His initiatives are simply out of step with what the country needs as it struggles with global stagnation, growing inequality, an unprecendented corporate crime wave, an unsustainable trade deficit and massive foreign debt. Lieberman wont pose a fundamental challenge here, either. As leader of the pro- business DLC, he has championed capital gains tax cuts, corporate trade and domestic austerity. As chair of the committee investigating Enron and the corporate scandals, he won notoriety mostly for defending off- the books stock options while warning Democrats not to engage in economic class conflict. In the mid-'90s, Lieberman helped fend off Clinton regulators who wanted companies to account for stock options that gave executives enormous incentives to cook the books, boost short-term stock prices and plunder their own companies. Yet when it became apparent that many were doing just that, Lieberman continued to argue that stock option plans were a way of sharing corporate growth with workers. He did a slight retraction when admitted that it was disappointing to learn that the vast bulk were lavished on the top floor, not on the shop floor. His long-standing staunch defense of privilege may have cemented his fund- raising appeal with the $1000-a-plate dinner crowd but it did nothing to help the country deal with the corporate crime wave. At a time when the middle class is under ever greater pressure, Lieberman has been a sunshine soldier on issues vital to working families. With schools overcrowded, vital public services like sewers, water systems and highways aging and in disrepair, health care costs soaring, and basic public health capacities ailing, Bushs cuts in vital public investments must be opposed. But Lieberman is a Coolidge Democrat who champions domestic austerity. He would roll back Bushs tax cuts not to invest in vital needs, but to return the budget to surplus. This leaves Bush arguing for tax cuts and growth and Lieberman arguing for austerity. Thats both bad policy and bad politics. At a time when the middle class is under ever
[CTRL] The New Resistance
-Caveat Lector- Establishing the New Resistance to regain America http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Conover010903/conover010903.html By Bev Conover Online Journal Editor Publisher January 9, 2003With the reign of terror George W. Bush has unleashed on the US, the war he is chomping at the bit to wage against Iraq and his ongoing destruction of the US economy, this is no time for deluding ourselves that the Democrats will prove to be our saviors. Only we still have it within our power to save ourselves from the corporations and their illegitimate regime in the White House, but time is running out. Our only hope is to become the New Resistance, toss away the conventional wisdom, turn a deaf ear to the propaganda that emanates from the corporate media and think outside the box. And by the New Resistance, I am not necessarily referring to organizing large, formal groups. Such groups tend to devolve into ego trips, power plays and turf wars. Let the New Resistance be a guerilla movement of individuals and small groups friends, family, neighborsall with the same goal of regaining the country and rebuilding it into the nation Madison, Jefferson and others envisioned: A nation in which the people have all the rights and government, business and all other entities have only privileges bestowed by the people. A nation in which government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. A nation in which that government acts as a check on factions, not a handmaiden to any faction. A nation in which all people are equal before the law and all are treated with dignity, respect and fairness. A nation in which the rights of the minority are truly protected against the tyranny of the majority. A nation in which corporations have no personhood and are limited in both the period of their existence and the scope of their business. A nation that respects the sovereignty of other nations and treats their peoples with dignity, respect and fairness. A nation that is a steward of the planet and all that is on it, not a destroyer. A nation that brings out the best in its people by putting a premium on intellectual honesty and creativity, not on conformity and corruption. A tall order, you say? Not really when you think of the alternative. Have we learned nothing from the thousands of years of recorded history? Do we want to continue to be serfs for the rich and greedy corporate lords or cannon fodder in the endless wars they perpetrate because they think they have some divine right to rule the world? We can and must fight backindividually, in small groups and en mass when situations warrant. But we must be inclusive, welcoming into the fold everyone who is aware of what is going on: Republicans, Democrats, Greens, independents, conservatives, liberals, progressives, whatever people do or don't call themselves. We may not agree on every point, but that is of little importance when the freedom of us all and even our very lives are at stake. We must also reach out to people abroad who also are aware of what the New World Order means to everyone on the planet and who oppose imperialism and imperialistic wars. What can one person do? Those of us on the Internet have access to information that the corporate media, especially television and radio, are not reporting. Individuals should not only support the efforts of online publications and webcasters, but can carry that news to friends, families and neighbors who aren't online. Light the way for your fellow Americans, many of whom believe they are alone in their thoughts and feelings. Collectively, we can starve the corporations by buying only necessities. Money is the only thing corporations understand, so hit them in their pocketbooks. We are people, dammit, not just consumers. And as a people we began starving them this past holiday season. So let's keep it up. By buying their gadgets, widgets and gas-guzzling SUVs, there is no guarantee you're going to keep your jobs. So the quicker we end the madness, the less pain there will be. Dare to think the unthinkable about what our government and its corporate patrons have done and are doing to us. Don't be put off by those who scoff at the existence of conspiracies and cavalierly proclaim, Our government wouldn't do that to the people. Consider who is keeping the scoffers in the comfort they have grown accustomed to. Hammer on your worthless, bought, compromised, idiotic politicians who can't see beyond the next election and refuse to acknowledge that our votes are being stolen, so their success or loss depends on the corporations who control the voting systems. Get through their thick heads that we have had it with the banana republic crap and it's no longer here we are and there is the government, and may the twain never meet. We are the government and they are our servants, not the other way around. Resist them in every way possible. Lie if you have to when they seek information that is none of their
Re: [CTRL] MRC Alert: Bush's Tax Plan 'Gives the Most to the Rich'
-Caveat Lector- MJ 'Need' -- real or imaginary -- has NOTHING to do with equity. Thew The sad thing is that you don't see that as the problem. MJ That a WORD means what it states and not something else? Regard$, --MJ To COMPEL a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. --Thomas Jefferson A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] (Fwd) Kennewick Man May Finally Be Studied
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Judge rejects delay on Kennewick Man study The Associated Press 1/8/03 11:07 PM PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- U.S. Magistrate John Jelderks denied a request by four Northwest Indian tribes to delay scientific study on the Kennewick Man until the case is heard by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jelderks last summer overturned a ruling by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, who said the 9,300-year-old remains should be turned over to the tribes for burial without a scientific study. The judge reiterated Wednesday that the eight anthropologists who sued the federal government six years ago could proceed with the study. The ancient skeleton could offer rare clues to how the first people arrived in America. In rejecting the delay, Jelderks wrote that the study would not substantially altar the remains, which would be available for burial if the tribes succeed on appeal. On the other hand, granting a stay would inevitably result in some significant injury to the plaintiff scientists, who have already waited many years for the opportunity to study the remains, Jelderks wrote. The Nez Perce, Umatilla, Colville and Yakama tribes and the U.S. Justice Department asked for the delay as they appeal Jelderks' decision. In their motion, tribal attorneys said invasive studies, which include physical handling and manipulation of the remains, may result in the destruction of the remains, in both the physical and spiritual senses. The scientists have submitted a study plan to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is in charge of the remains. It lists several tests, including examining the skeleton for evidence of injuries, disease and other conditions. The remains are stored at the Burke Museum in Seattle. --- End of forwarded message --- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] S. Africa state-run news station replacing CNN with Al Jazeera.
-Caveat Lector- January 09, 2003 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0109/p01s04-woaf.html For news, S. Africa may shun the West The country's state-run news station considers replacing CNN with the Arabic Al Jazeera. By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - When South Africa's state-run news station ends its programming day, it switches over to CNN to offer something for the country's insomniacs. If the Atlanta-based service has kept its small audience entertained between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., it has done so with little excitement. But last week, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) said it was considering replacing CNN with Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news service. The possibility of America's most renowned news network being elbowed aside by a Persian Gulf channel, considered by critics to be an international platform for Osama bin Laden, has excited more than just the late-night couch potatoes. We know enough about what the West thinks. What we need is to learn more about the Arab message, says Muhammad Fadaie, a Cape Town Muslim walking out of afternoon prayers in a mosque. We are not Al Qaeda here, but we are our own country and need to do some rethinking about what we stand for and who we stand with. At the moment, SABC insists it is only considering various options. But experts say the willingness to entertain such a debate is a measure of the growing sway of South African Muslims - a small but increasingly vocal community and a prominent political force in the eight years since apartheid ended. From an African point of view, CNN gives news from the Western point of view, and there is a strong feeling that today's new South Africa should not be submerged in this, says Raymond Louw, a member of the governing council of the Media Institute of Southern Africa. There is a major change in orientation going on, he says. There was always a view that whites see things differently and that whites were always imposing their perspective on South Africa. But since 1994, when the Africans took power, there has been a desire, and increasingly a move, to change this. The South African Muslim community is predominantly Asian, having arrived in two waves - in the mid-1600s as slaves of the Dutch from Java and Malaysia, and later, in the 1860s, from India as workers for the British colonialists. But in recent years, Islam has also begun gaining a foothold in black African communities. No exact statistics illustrate this phenomenon, but it is one in evidence throughout the continent, where Muslim schools, religious community centers, welfare organizations, and publications are all growing significantly. South Africa has an estimated 600,000 Muslims, making up roughly 2 percent of the population. Many members of the community are found in prominent positions, in particular in the civil service and the media. But the interest and sympathy often expressed for the Arab world among South Africans, whether Muslim or not, has political, as well as religious roots, explains Mr. Louw. Historically close relations between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the Palestinians, he says, are perhaps most significant in this regard. There is a heightened awareness of the Palestinian issue. During the ANC's liberation struggle [against the white apartheid regime], these two communities were very close. And many Arab countries helped the ANC. All this weighs in now with the search for a clear identity in [US President] Bush's 'with us' or 'against us' world, says Louw. The ANC maintains it has nothing to do with the SABC's editorial decisions, but has nonetheless welcomed the debate. ANC spokesman Smuts Ngonyama said it reflected mature thinking on the part of the broadcasting agency. This planned action should be seen as a need for diversity of news, he said. We need to expose South Africans to events happening in other parts of world. Ihron Rensburg, a spokesman for SABC, says the issue has become too politicized, and points out other bidders for the late night spot: such as the BBC; the Australian and Canadian broadcasters, ABC and CBC; the German network, ZDF; and ANI of India. The ideal scenario - proving a collection of news feeds for viewers - would be too costly, Mr. Rensburg says. We owe it to the public of South Africa to provide the widest range of views and opinions as events unfold, said Rensburg, who then added, We should not leave the impression that Al Jazeera is a bunch of isolated crazies. The debate comes at a touchy time - with recent claims that South Africa could be providing a haven for Al Qaeda. Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported mounting evidence of Al Qaeda's presence in South Africa, and quoted Gideon Jones, the FBI-trained former head of the Criminal Intelligence Unit of the South African Police Force, as saying South Africa is a perfect place to cool off, regroup, and plan your finances. The
Re: [CTRL] MRC Alert: Bush's Tax Plan 'Gives the Most to the Rich'
-Caveat Lector- We were not discussing the WORD equitable, until I had to explain to you carefully that the word was not synonymous with Equal. (that's why we have 2 different words.) We were discussing behaviors of the state - and its responsibility. It is not JUST or FAIR (equitable) that a greater burden is placed on those who can least shoulder it, while those who can best do so, use their resources to ensure they do not have to, while the same resources could be used more EQUITABLY, especially in the name of some fictional SAMENESS (equality), that is really just a cover for lack of compassion for the other, or the society they are riding atop. Compassion for others is one of the few legitimate uses of government I can imagine. We can do better that coldhearted slavery to the bottom line - as a nation, as individuals, and as humanity. Equal is not equitable. on 01/10/03 8:27 PM, M.A. Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MJ 'Need' -- real or imaginary -- has NOTHING to do with equity. Thew The sad thing is that you don't see that as the problem. MJ That a WORD means what it states and not something else? -- -- -- -- -- - -- - -- -- - - - - -- --- -- - - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. Abraham Lincoln NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Making it up as they go along
-Caveat Lector- Article7 January 2003 War games by Brendan O'Neill There was a flurry of speeches and statements from Bush and Blair officials over the weekend - but what exactly is happening in and around the Gulf? That all depends on which newspaper you read. If you take the UK Telegraph, then 'allied commanders are drawing up plans to fight a war against Iraq entirely at night, allowing an invasion during the heat of summer' (1). Apparently, with their 'advanced battlefield night-vision', a relatively small number of US troops could beat Saddam's troops under cover of darkness. 'A summer invasion gives Bush the option of delaying an attack until all the military and political factors are in his favour', says the Telegraph (2). But if you prefer the Washington Post, then America is 'assembling a force of 100,000 to invade Iraq' in the traditional way - ie, with loads of soldiers and during daylight. 'The US military is assembling a ground force for a possible invasion of Iraq that could exceed 100,000 troops', says the Post (3). And forget waiting for the 'heat of summer' - according to the Post, there could be an invasion as early as February. If you read the Sydney Morning Herald, then the war has already started. 'Undercover war begins as US forces enter Iraq', says the Herald, reporting that 100 US special forces are inside Iraq 'marking minefields and helping their pilots target air- defence systems' (4). Add to this the fact that US and UK warplanes bombed Southern Iraq again on 4 January 2003 and, according to one commentator, '[I]t is clear that war is not only inevitable - it's happening already'. But according to British and US officials, war with Iraq is not a certainty. 'War is not inevitable', says UK foreign secretary Jack Straw (5). According to one British minister, living up to the New Labour government's image for policy-by- numbers, the Iraq crisis has gone from a '60:40 likelihood of conflict to a 60:40 likelihood of peace' (6). For Paul Wolfowitz, America's hawkish deputy of defence, 'Until we've exhausted every peaceful means, one cannot say the use of force is inevitable' (7). This morning's BBC Online News reports that UK prime minister Tony Blair is planning to talk up his special relationship with America. In a speech to British ambassadors in London later today, says the BBC, Blair will insist that 'it is massively in our national interest to remain the closest ally of the United States' (8). 'The price of influence is that you do not leave the US to face the most difficult issues alone', Blair will say (9). But according to the Telegraph, it's one thing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Americans in high-falutin' speeches but another to do so on the ground. A retired British officer claims that 'British troops should not be sent to fight in Iraq unless a system is in place to prevent accidental attacks by American aircraft' (10). 'Politicians should consider very carefully the risk that they could be imposing on our troops', he says - the risk of American bombs, that is, not Iraqi attacks. So America is either sending a relatively small number of troops with infrared goggles to defeat Saddam at night, or it's planning a full-on 100,000-strong invasion. Officials claim that war isn't inevitable, while others reckon it's already underway. And while British politicians talk up their united stance with the US, their troops on the ground fear America's misguided missiles. What's going on - and what's not going on? The confused and uncertain coverage of the Gulf reflects the confusion and uncertainty at the heart of American and British policy on Iraq. It is the incoherence of Bush and Blair's plans for Iraq that creates the space for so much out-loud speculation about their intentions. The lack of direction among British and American officials creates a kind of canvas on to which we can all project our own interpretation of events, and our preferred course of action over Saddam. Bush and Blair continue to up the rhetoric against Iraq, while failing to outline anything like a long-term policy or strategy. This combination - a lack of vision with endless rhetoric - has the effect of raising people's expectations of action over Iraq. And now many seem to be filling in the gaps with their own speculation. Both the American and British governments are keen to keep Iraq alive as an international issue, constantly issuing statements and edicts about Saddam's threat to world peace and the West's responsibility to sort him out. But they lack the nerve to do very much about it, to act decisively against the alleged threat that they have made central to their foreign policies. The end result is increased war talk against Iraq combined with caution over launching a war. Consider Blair's speech to British ambassadors today. He outlines his support for American intervention in Iraq and elsewhere, but with nothing approaching political passion. The
[CTRL] (Fwd) Media Missing New Evidence About Genoa Violence
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:59:23 -0800 Subject:Media Missing New Evidence About Genoa Violence To: FAIR-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: FAIR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] FAIR-L Fairness Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism MEDIA ADVISORY: Media Missing New Evidence About Genoa Violence January 10, 2003 Police in Genoa, Italy have admitted to fabricating evidence against globalization activists in an attempt to justify police brutality during protests at the July 2001 G8 Summit. In searches of the Nexis database, FAIR has been unable to find a single mention of this development in any major U.S. newspapers or magazines, national television news shows or wire service stories. According to reports from the BBC and the German wire service Deutsche Presse-Agentur (1/7/03, 1/8/03), a senior Genoa police officer, Pietro Troiani, has admitted that police planted two Molotov cocktails in a school that was serving as a dormitory for activists from the Genoa Social Forum. The bombs were apparently planted in order to justify the police force's brutal July 22 raid on the school. According to the BBC, the bombs had in fact been found elsewhere in the city, and Troijani now says planting them at the school was a silly thing to do. The BBC and DPA also report that another senior officer has admitted to faking the stabbing of a police officer in order to frame protesters. These revelations have emerged over the course of a parliamentary inquiry into police conduct that was initiated by the Italian government under pressure from domestic and international outrage over the blood-soaked G8 summit in Genoa (London Guardian, 7/31/01). Three police chiefs have been transferred and at least 77 officers have been investigated on brutality charges. An embarrassing inquiry More than 100,000 people participated in the 2001 Genoa protests, most of them peacefully. Italian authorities, however, prepared for the protests by ordering 200 body bags and designating a room at the Genoa hospital as a temporary morgue (BBC, 6/21/01). Twenty thousand police and troops were on hand, armed with tear gas, water cannon and military hardware as authorities enclosed part of the city in a so-called ring of steel, with many railways and roads closed and air traffic shut down. The U.S. press routinely gloss over this militaristic response, instead invoking the demonstrations as proof of the threat posed by globalization activists. Even the killing of Carlo Giuliani-- a protester who was shot in the head, run over and killed by police after he threw a fire extinguisher at a police vehicle-- is recounted by U.S. media as a timely lesson for activists that, as Time magazine put it, You reap what you sow (7/30/01). As FAIR documented at the time (FAIR Action Alert, 7/26/01), most U.S. media responded to the violence with sensationalistic reports on the drama in the streets of this gritty port city (ABC World News Tonight, 7/20/01), but showed little curiosity about fundamental questions, such as why Italian forces were armed with live ammunition. (As for the substantive political concerns motivating the protests, they were all but ignored). The July 22 police raid which has become a focus of Italy's parliamentary inquiry was carried out on the headquarters of the Genoa Social Forum-- the umbrella group coordinating the protests-- and the neighboring Independent Media Center (IMC). It received largely indifferent coverage in the U.S., but reports in independent and non-U.S. media indicated that some 200 police officers brutally beat sleeping activists in an attack that led to more than a dozen of the arrestees being carried out on stretchers, some unconscious (Guardian, 7/24/01). Of the 93 people arrested at the school, 72 suffered injuries. All were eventually released without charge (DPA, 1/8/03). The coverage of this attack on the nightly newscasts of the U.S.'s three major broadcast networks was instructive. At first, ABC World News Tonight did not report the raid at all. CBS Evening News (7/22/01) mentioned it in passing, with the reporter noting almost approvingly that the tactics were heavy-handed, but the streets were quiet today. Commendably, NBC Nightly News (7/22/01) devoted more significant attention to the attack and reported organizers' claim that all the arrestees had been non-violent and were the latest victims of police brutality. A couple of weeks later, it emerged that some of the victims were American. The three nightly newscasts then showed somewhat more attention to the issue of police brutality, running reports that included footage of the blood splashed on the floors and walls of the school (ABC, 8/8/01; CBS and NBC
[CTRL] ABCNEWS.com: US Faces Worst 2-Week Cold Snap in 7 Years-Forecast
-Caveat Lector- You have received this ABCNEWS.com mail from: Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought you might find this story interesting. US Faces Worst 2-Week Cold Snap in 7 Years-Forecast http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030110_568.html A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Thaw in Greenland
-Caveat Lector- Thaw in Greenland threatens new ice age http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,872609,00.html This week's big chill could prove a taster of winters to come Paul Brown, environment correspondent Saturday January 11, 2003 The Guardian The snowfalls of the past week may be just a taster of what is to come, if the latest predictions from scientists are correct. The amount of ice melting from the surface of the Greenland ice sheet broke all known records last year, threatening a rapid rise in sea levels and a return of very cold winters to Britain because of a slowing down in the Gulf Stream. Already the Gulf Stream, which bathes the west coast of Britain in warm water from the Gulf of Mexico and keeps the country much milder than normal for such northern latitudes, is slowing down. Even greater melting of the Greenland ice could shut off the currents altogether, allowing depressions to dump snow rather than instead of rain in Britain and leading to a much colder continental climate, as has been experienced in the past week. As happens on the eastern seaboard of Canada, which on the same latitude, the sea could freeze and snow lie for weeks or months instead of a day of two. Last year large areas of the Greenland ice shelf, previously too high and too cold to melt, began pouring billions of gallons of fresh water into the northern Atlantic. Melted water trapped between the ice and the rock beneath is causing an acceleration of glaciers breaking off in huge chunks and increasing the number of icebergs. According to scientists at the University of Colorado a very dramatic melting trend has been in progress since 1979. Extreme melt years were 1991, 1995 and 2002. The Greenland ice sheet's maximum melt area increased on average by 16% from 1979 to 2002. This year's maximum melt extent of 264,400 square miles exceeds by 2.6 times the melt area measured in 1992. In particular, the northern and north-eastern part of the ice sheet experienced melting reaching up to an elevation of 2,000 metres (6,560ft). This is the first time this area of the giant island, closest to the north pole, has suffered this kind of melting. The Colorado-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences also found that temperatures during the summer of 2002 were unusually warm over much of the Arctic ocean. Since the season also was characterised by very stormy conditions, we believe these two factors contributed to extensive melt and break-up of the icepack, said research associate Mark Serreze, the lead author of the study, which was presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Sea ice in the Arctic last year was at the lowest since satellite measurements began. Mr Serreze said accelerated melting of sea ice, along with runoff from the Greenland ice sheet, was bad news for British weather moderated by the Gulf Stream. The warm water from the tropics now travels north past British shores and warms the western coastlines of Europe as far north as Norway before sinking to the bottom of the ocean and returning south. This deep water convection in the north Atlantic has already been noted to be slowing down by British scientists, and US scientists say the trend could profoundly impact global ocean circulation and climate. In other studies, changes in the north Atlantic circulation have been implicated in starting and stopping northern hemisphere ice ages, Mr Serreze said. Climatologist Konrad Steffen, a professor of geography at Colorado, said a change in the Greenland climate towards warmer conditions would lead to an increase in the rate of sea level rise, mainly due to the dynamic response of the large ice sheet rather than just the surface melting. For every degree increase in the mean annual temperature near Greenland, the rate of sea level rise increases by about 10%, Professor Steffen said. Oceans are now rising by a little more than half an inch every 10 years. Both sea ice and glacier ice cool the earth, reflecting back into space about 80% of springtime sunshine and 40% -50% during the summer melt. But winter sea ice cover slows heat loss from the relatively warm ocean to the cold atmosphere. Without large sea ice masses at the poles to moderate the energy balance, warming escalates. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 A:E:R Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article has to stand on its own merits. Therefore, unless I am a first-hand witness to any event described, I cannot attest to its validity. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down
[CTRL] For your attention
-Caveat Lector- Euphorian spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it. To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk Terrorism suspect 'framed by in-laws' France releases baggage handler arrested at airport Jon Henley in Paris Friday January 10 2003 The Guardian The Algerian-born baggage handler arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport near the end of last month with guns and explosives in his car was framed by his in-laws in a family row, the Paris public prosecutor said yesterday. The retired soldier who told the police he had seen Abderazak Besseghir handling a gun in one of the airport's car parks admitted in custody having taken part in a plot with Mr Besseghir's in-laws to set him up, Yves Bot said. Mr Besseghir was released yesterday afternoon. The prosecutor's office sent an assistant public prosecutor to the prison where he was being held to explain the situation to him. Mr Besseghir, 27, was arrested on December 28 after the police found an automatic pistol, a machine gun, five cakes of plastic explosive, two detonators and a slow-burning fuse hidden in the spare wheel in the boot of his car. But he puzzled the investigators from the start. He had no police record and no known links to radical Islamists. He said that he had never seen the weapons before and that he was being framed by the family of his late wife, who died in a fire at their home in Bondy, outside Paris, last summer. After her death Mr Besseghir was questioned by the police about the blaze, but was released without charge. His wife's family subsequently claimed that just before her death she had threatened to leave him because he had become an Muslim fundamentalist. The airport and anti-terrorist police spent two weeks trying to unravel a non-existent terrorist plot at the airport, which is one of Europe's busiest, handling 1,200 flights and 130,000 passengers a day. In 2001 it was the point of departure for the shoe-bomber Richard Reid, who tried to blow up a Paris to Miami flight in mid-air using explosives concealed in his trainers. Mr Besseghir was placed under formal investigation - one step short of being charged - for criminal association in relations with a terrorist enterprise and multiple violation of legislation on firearms, munitions and explosives. But the police soon admitted their doubts about the case against him, saying that neither he nor any of his family fitted the profile of an Islamist extremist. Nor did the fingerprints found on the weapons match his. Sources close to the inquiry said yesterday that after being questioned for a second time, Marcel Le Hir, the ex-legionnaire whose tip-off originally led to Mr Besseghir's arrest, admitted placing the weapons in his car with an associate who is also in custody. Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bitter Pills
-Caveat Lector- Bitter Pills Are Your Headaches Triggered by Your Medicine? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_reboundheadaches030110.html Jan. 10 Americans spend some $3 billion a year on over-the-counter headache remedies. But many experts believe some headaches so-called rebound headaches are actually caused by the very same medicines people are taking to stop them. Dr. Fred Sheftell, one of the world's most-respected headache doctors, is upset that the labels on over-the- counter headache remedies offer absolutely no warning about rebound. There's nothing that I know of where any of these products say anything about the genesis of rebound headaches and chronic daily headache. I'd like to see that. A Vicious Cycle Here's how experts think rebound starts. Normally, when you take a pain reliever for an occasional headache, the medicine turns off pain receptors in the brain. But in a person prone to headaches especially migraine headaches pain relievers taken more than two to three days a week on a regular basis can make the pain receptors more sensitive than usual. Consequently, as soon as the medicine wears off, these hyper-sensitive receptors turn on to produce a new headache. That leads the headache sufferer to take more medicine, which, in turn, leads to more headaches a truly vicious cycle. Before long, most rebound patients are taking headache medicine every single day. This vicious cycle nearly killed Eric Peterson, a 26-year-old veterinary student. But what will shock you is how little medicine it took to get him in trouble. Peterson's problems started in high school with migraine headaches that hit him a couple of times a week. I think I started with an ibuprofen type. I wasn't finding a tremendous amount of relief with that. And tried Excedrin found that controlled things nicely for me, Peterson said. Daily Habit Can Trigger Serious Health Problems Initially, Peterson was able to manage his headaches by taking two Excedrin just two to three times a week. But that was enough to lead to rebound headaches. Soon, Eric was taking the pain relievers every day, which was very bad for both his head ... and his stomach. Peterson's health problems became painfully clear last summer at a Chicago Cubs game. We were walking up the stands to find our seats and I became very dizzy and light-headed and nearly passed out, he said. Years of taking Excedrin had eaten away at Peterson's stomach lining. He was sitting in the stands slowly bleeding to death. Just four hours later Eric wound up in a hospital emergency room. Doctors were able to save his life, but they told him he could no longer take over-the-counter pain killers. This was frightening news for Peterson, who had become so reliant on the pain relievers, he was more concerned about he was going to manage his headaches than he was about the damage to his stomach. I didn't know how I was going to cope from day to day without having to be able to take that medication, he said. Stop the Medicine, Stop the Pain? Duane Soderquist, 25 years ago, was in a situation very similar to Peterson's. Soderquist said, I think I had seven free headache days in 10 years. It was Soderquist's case that caught the attention of Dr. Joel Saper, a neurologist and founder of the Michigan Head-Pain Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor. A pioneer in the treatment of rebound headaches, Saper said it was Soderquist who first opened his eyes to the fact that over-the-counter medications could imprison a brain in rebound headaches. Soderquist had seen 20 doctors for his excruciating daily headaches. At that time, no one realized that his headaches were a result of the hyper-sensitive pain receptors in his brain turned on by the handfuls of over-the-counter medication he was taking every single day. Soderquist said he was taking about 50 tablets a day. Saper hospitalized Soderquist, taking him off the medication. I thought I was gonna die for three days, Soderquist said. But then an amazing thing happened. Once the medication had cleared from Soderquist's system, his headaches stopped for the first time in 10 years. Saper said, That's when I learned the power and the potency of the rebound effect. And the need to take people off those medicines. Today, Soderquist is virtually headache-free and enormously grateful to Dr. Saper. The day I left and went home after not having a headache there at the hospital, the last day it was just like somebody took a house off my back, Soderquist said. Nearly 90 percent of the patients at Dr. Saper's headache clinic are diagnosed with rebound headaches. And each one takes the same first step: Stop the medicine. Eric Peterson was actually able to detox at home. But he admits it was brutal. For probably about three days I just had intolerable headaches. It was probably the most miserable three days of my life, he said. But the payoff was worth it Eric is finally free from daily
Re: [CTRL] MRC Alert: Bush's Tax Plan 'Gives the Most to the Rich'
-Caveat Lector- MJ 'Need' -- real or imaginary -- has NOTHING to do with equity. Thew The sad thing is that you don't see that as the problem. MJ That a WORD means what it states and not something else? Thew We were not discussing the WORD equitable, until I had to explain to you carefully that the word was not synonymous with Equal. (that's why we have 2 different words.) MJ I made no claim that equitable was synonymous with equal. Thew We were discussing behaviors of the state - and its responsibility. MJ A LEGITIMATE State is a collective application of the individual's right to his own life. Any other 'State' merely provides advantage to some at the expense of others. I am not certain what 'responsibilities' you imagine apply, but Thew It is not JUST or FAIR (equitable) that a greater burden is placed on those who can least shoulder it, while those who can best do so, use their resources to ensure they do not have to, while the same resources could be used more EQUITABLY, especially in the name of some fictional SAMENESS (equality), that is really just a cover for lack of compassion for the other, or the society they are riding atop. MJ Nonsense. I have no problem with YOU voluntarily providing YOUR resources to those YOU deem in need. I do, however, have a problem with YOU *FORCING* me to provide MY resources to those YOU deem in need. Of course you need your bifurcation in order to hide your lust for enslavement and theft. What is not JUST or FAIR (equitable) is that a greater burden is placed on some, while others are exempted. ALL individuals should be treated EQUAL(ly) by Government. This is the ONLY method that is EQUITABLE. After all one is supposed to have EQUALITY under the law. Thew Compassion for others is one of the few legitimate uses of government I can imagine. MJ Stealing from some citizens is not compassion. Thew We can do better that coldhearted slavery to the bottom line - as a nation, as individuals, and as humanity. MJ Continuing with your bifurcation ... Thew Equal is not equitable. eq·ui·ta·ble Marked by or having equity; just and impartial. e·qual Having the same quantity, measure, or value as another. MJ If Joe and Steve pay $1 in taxes, their burden is EQUAL. The Government REQUIRING Joe and Steve pay $1 in taxes is EQUITABLE. If Joe pays $1 and Steve pays $2, their burden is UNequal. The Government REQUIRING Joe to pay $1 and Steve pay $2 in taxes is INequitable. Regard$, --MJ When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down. When a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. -- Milton Friedman A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- You have been sent this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a courtesy of the Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28625-2003Jan8.html The View From Symantec's Security Central By Leslie Walker An ordinary office building on Route 1 in Alexandria offers a rare window into the Internet hacker wars and a few clues to why Uncle Sam wants more monitoring capabilities in cyberspace. Inside a cavernous room on the first floor there, security analysts for Symantec sit in long, curved rows 24 hours a day, working on computers and facing a wall of theater-size screens. Information displayed on the screens helps them keep tabs on whether any attacks are underway at any of the company's more than 600 corporate clients. Every five minutes or so, a giant, illuminated globe appears on the central screen and starts to rotate, displaying the locations worldwide where hackers are launching the most attacks. Symantec uses special technology to monitor a huge chunk of the public Internet along with the internal nooks and crannies of its clients' private networks, looking for telltale signs of computer break-ins. Its software constantly compares current hacker activity with a database of prior attacks, then displays in red the names of countries where an unusual amount of malicious Internet activity is originating that day. The rotating globe also displays the number of attempted break-ins against Symantec clients over the past 24 hours in the 10 most active countries. On a recent Friday, the globe showed more than 16,000 attempted break-ins originating from the United States, which often ranks as the world's top launching pad for computer hackers. Brazil ranked No. 4 with 722 attacks. South Korea, Japan, Germany and Taiwan also frequently appear on Symantec's top 10 list for malicious computer activity. Big numbers are par for the course at the Alexandria center, where analysts detect more than 15,000 discrete security events against Symantec's clients every day. About 4,000 are deemed real hacker attacks after further analysis, company officials said. You can tell from these statistics that it's the Wild West out there on the Internet, said Grant Geyer, who supervises the 12,000-square-foot facility. Companies need to do whatever they can to protect themselves. The four-year-old operation, which includes special monitoring and data mining technology, was created by a local start-up called Riptech. Last year, California-based Symantec paid about $350 million to buy Riptech and three other electronic-security firms (Recourse Technologies, SecurityFocus and Mountain Wave) that had developed proprietary anti-hacker technology. Symantec merged Riptech's operations with its own and now has four similar centers -- in Britain, Japan, Germany and San Antonio. Symantec is known as the maker of the Norton anti-virus software that runs on many home computers. But like competitor Network Associates, it has been diversifying its security arsenal in an attempt to be at the forefront of an emerging industry -- managing cybersecurity on behalf of companies and governments. Mid-size companies typically pay Symantec $1,000 to $2,000 a month to monitor their networks. The firm has big clients, too -- including 55 of the Fortune 500 companies -- and does work for several federal agencies. The managed-security industry is complex and growing fast, especially as companies awake to the difficulties of interpreting the deluge of data on their computer networks. Not only is it hard to make sense of who's doing what on a firm's network, Web sites and wireless devices, but almost no company can see what is happening on other computer networks. One advantage managed-security firms have is a global view that lets them detect patterns. The Alexandria facility is a private, miniature version of the kind of public Internet-monitoring capability the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure. The administration is readying for release in a few weeks a final draft of its national strategy for bolstering cybersecurity. Hacking -- unauthorized break-ins on private computers and networks -- is increasing dramatically as more computers connect to the Internet. So, too, is the distribution of computer viruses and worms that travel the globe via images, documents and plain-text e-mail messages. Riptech, one of the few companies that monitored global hacking, detected a rise in malicious computer traffic during the first half of last year amounting to an annual rate of 65 percent. One reason for the jump was the explosive growth in the distribution of point-and-click hacking tools online. At the same time, more critical commercial and government operations are moving online, presenting a greater
