[CTRL] Jackson and the Chicago dance club
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/chic-f25.shtml WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Corruption and greed in the name of “civil rights” Jesse Jackson and the Chicago dance club tragedy By Kate Randall 25 February 2003 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author The deaths of 21 people, mostly young and African-American, who perished in a stampede at a Chicago dance club in the early morning hours of February 17, was a terrible human tragedy. It was also one of those events that shed light on political and social realities normally concealed from the public eye—in this case, the longstanding and thoroughly corrupt relationship between the city’s so-called civil rights leaders, black entrepreneurs and the political establishment. The stampede began when a fight broke out at about 2 a.m. at the E2 night club on the city’s South Side. The club was operating illegally and should never have been doing business that night. Security guards reportedly used pepper spray on the crowd, and the burning mist set off a charge by patrons down the club’s steep, narrow staircase. Witnesses say other security guards blocked the door to the street for several minutes, and dozens of people were trampled underfoot. More than 50 were injured. It was the worst such incident in modern US history. Soon after the tragedy, city attorneys reported that E2’s owners had been issued a court order last July barring the use of the second floor at 2347 S. Michigan Ave., where the dance party was held. But the club’s owner, Dwain J. Kyles, a long-time associate of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, kept the club open while city officials and police looked the other way. Jackson showed up at the dance club within hours of the tragic stampede to extend his sympathies to the victims and their families. His presence at the scene, however, was principally aimed at defending Kyles and the web of enterprises exemplified by his business. Jackson’s son, Democratic Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., also sprang to Kyles’ defense, describing him as “an upstanding example of a young professional person in our community,” adding that “extending blame and pointing fingers is inappropriate and unnecessary before the first funeral has been held.” The city’s black ministers likewise warned against a “rush to judgment.” The Jacksons have good reason to rally around the club’s owner, despite the fact that he was operating the facility illegally. Dwain Kyles is an active supporter of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. His is a prominent member of a section of privileged blacks who have benefited from PUSH’s activities, which center around securing contracts and perks for minority entrepreneurs. Kyles has lobbied for the city and school board to use more minority contractors, and summed up his outlook in an interview in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin in 1993: “I’m committed to the development of the entrepreneurial class in our community.” Kyles is also closely connected to the city’s black political establishment, having contributed to the campaigns of many black politicians in the city—including Jesse Jackson, Jr.—and worked as a lawyer for Harold Washington, Chicago’s only black mayor. In addition, Kyles’ South Side enterprise has connections to the Chicago police. His business partner, Calvin Hollins Jr., is a former sheriff’s deputy captain in the Southwest Side’s 22nd Ward. Hollins was convicted for killing a man outside another nightclub, but won a pardon in 1991. As a convicted felon, he should not have been involved in running E2, and the city now says the club’s liquor license should be revoked for this reason. Kyles’ association with Hollins is indicative of the type of social element involved in the club’s operation. Jesse Jackson’s relationship with Dwain Kyles goes back decades. In the early 1960s when Kyles was a young child, his father, Billy Kyles, headed the Memphis chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and later opened an office of Jackson’s Operation PUSH in the city. The elder Kyle and Jackson were with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Billy Kyles served as a national coordinator on Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns. Jackson’s long association with the Kyles family, however, has not served to advance the social conditions of black working people and youth in the city of Chicago, where PUSH is headquartered. Rather, it has been Kyle and other black entrepreneurs Jackson has helped foster who have been the privileged beneficiaries of Jackson’s drive for minority business ownership. Jackson and other sections of what passes for the official civil rights leadership in America have used affirmative action and racial preference campaigns as a means of benefiting a small minority of blacks, while the overwhelming majority of African-Americans continue to struggle for survival in the f
Re: [CTRL] Explosion Kills Ten American Special Forces Officials In Zarmat
-Caveat Lector- 2/24/2003 7:31:24 PM, William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ain't nation building great? After all, this isn't yet like the Balkans where they've got a ready-made market for 'comfort stations' ... not to make anyone assume that the Islamians are favoured but it IS their homeland and somebody who wasn't there two years ago is THERE now and somehow I think that if the shoes were on the different dogs, the Ameri-Homies would be doing the same kinds of things. A<:>E<:>R http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.S. Judge Rejects Legal Bid to Block Iraq War
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[CTRL] Lindsey in on the 'Big Lie': Two Bldgs That Changed Things
-Caveat Lector- http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2003/02/24/200302241864.htm West: Bush's war plan 'absolute disaster' Posted Monday, February 24, 2003 - 2:09 am By Dan Hoover STAFF WRITER [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail this story discuss this story in our forums Former ambassador to Saudi Arabia John West said this weekend that the Bush administration's plans for a pre- emptive strike against Iraq are "an absolute disaster." West said the administration risks inflaming the Islamic world and would further destabilize the volatile region with its go-it-alone policy without affecting the root problem there. Military analysts said Friday that the opening attacks by U.S. and British forces could begin in mid- March. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said there are now enough troops and equipment in place to launch an invasion. "The evidence does not persuade me" that Iraq and its dictator, Saddam Hussein, are a clear and present danger to the United States," West told The Greenville News. Instead, he would pursue a policy of containment, as is being utilized with another prospective nuclear club member, North Korea. West, 80, of Hilton Head, was South Carolina's governor from 1971 to 1975 and was envoy to Saudi Arabia under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. He has maintained contact with Saudi friends and officials and others in the region since returning to his private law practice. He is a Democrat. He said Bush and his advisers don't fully understand the complexities of the Middle East, although "Carter understood it very well, that you'll never have a stable Middle East peace until you resolve the Palestinian-Israeli problem," the root cause of terrorism today. "If we go into Iraq, particularly without United Nations approval, we're going to create what, in my judgment, will be a chaotic situation. We'll be an occupying power with a tremendous nation-building obligation, and that's where the problem comes," West said. Acknowledging that secret plans and intelligence reports he hasn't seen could put a different light on the postwar situation, West said, "I do know certain demographic situations" that could work against Washington's goals. He cited the 61 percent of Iraqis who are Shiite Muslims and the Shiite mullahs who run Iran. "As one of my Arab friends said, 'You Americans go in, you can take Saddam out with some casualties, but you're going to have to occupy it for a time, maybe a couple of years. Then you'll have to have democratic elections (reflecting) your system. Then the Shiites will take control of the government and certainly have a relationship with their Islamic brothers in Iran.'" All that, West said, will make for a difficult occupation and complicate the restoration of a government in Iraq. Without unified support going in, Washington faces postwar troubles without help from Turkey, which has problems with its Kurdish minority, and from Saudi Arabia, which has a large Palestinian population and strong grass-roots opposition with ties to terrorist groups. "I hope I'm wrong." But Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of the administration's policy on Iraq, said West failed to consider the changes brought about by the Sept. 11 terror attacks. "It has fundamentally changed us as a people," Graham said. "We have now been shown, in the most dramatic way in the history of our nation, that terrorism unchecked is lethal to Americans and a free people." He cited "direct, substantial and unequivocal evidence that (Saddam) is supporting the al-Qaida murderers who plotted the 9/11 attacks and who recently killed an American (diplomat) in Jordan." "The Bush Doctrine, that if you 'harbor, aid or assist a terrorist,' you're just as guilty as they are, is the appropriate doctrine post- 9/11," Graham said, adding that Iraq has aligned itself "with the forces of evil, and this is a battle of the forces of good and evil." "Saddam is an imminent threat because he has the ability to empower terrorists beyond their own capabilities," Graham said. He acknowledged a mixed reaction from the Saudis. "Secretly, they want to get rid of Saddam; at the same time, they have a substantial religious right, the Osama bin Laden crowd," Graham said. Dan Hoover covers politics and can be reached at 298-4883. Tuesday, February 25 news | communities | entertainment | classifieds | real estate | jobs | cars | customer services Copyright 2003 The Greenville News. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. 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 genera
[CTRL] Bush Biggest Threat to World Peace
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/022503D.shtml Bush Faces Increasingly Poor Image Overseas By Glenn Kessler and Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, February 24, 2003; Page A01 The messages from U.S. embassies around the globe have become urgent and disturbing: Many people in the world increasingly think President Bush is a greater threat to world peace than Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. U.S. embassies are the eyes and ears of the U.S. government overseas, and their reports from the field are closely read at the State Department. The antiwar protests by millions of people Feb. 15 in the cities of major U.S. allies underscored a theme that the classified cables by U.S. embassies had been reporting for weeks. "It is rather astonishing," said a senior U.S. official who has access to the reports. "There is an absence of any recognition that Hussein is the problem." One ambassador, who represents the United States in an allied nation, bluntly cabled that in that country, Bush has become the enemy. This shift in public opinion has presented the Bush administration with a much different set of circumstances than U.S. officials anticipated last September, when, in a bid to create a coalition to confront Iraq, Bush took the issue before the United Nations. It has seemed to embolden political leaders in Europe and elsewhere who have long been wary of military action. Although senior White House officials have insisted that U.S. policy toward Iraq will not be affected by public opinion, they acknowledged over the past few days that they need to confront the worldwide mood opposing a move to war. Polls have indicated that Americans are more likely to support an invasion of Iraq if they believe it has international backing. Antiwar protests were held in dozens of American cities at the same time as the protests in other countries. This week, the administration plans to begin a coordinated effort to draw attention to what one official called "the plight of the Iraqi people, with a focus on human rights and freedom and Saddam's brutality." As part of that initiative, the administration has scheduled a briefing today on Bush's plans for humanitarian assistance and reconstruction in Iraq, with participants from the White House and the Pentagon. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell embarked late last week on a series of media appearances in Germany, France, Russia and the Middle East to help explain the administration's urgency in confronting Iraq over its banned weapons programs. "We know that there is great anxiety, that there are many, many people who do not want to see war," Powell told a Russian reporter. Still, White House officials are unapologetic about their overall approach, which is based on forcing an early confrontation with Iraq rather than agreeing to the stated wishes of several European allies to allow U.N. weapons inspections to continue. White House officials even contend that they expected this change in momentum toward those opposing an early move to war. Bush, in his public comments last week, appeared to shrug off the protests. "History has proven that the closer you are to potential hostilities, the more vocal the opposition," White House communications director Dan Bartlett said. "There is always going to be a faction of people that don't agree. But I think anybody who gives a fair look at history on this will see that this president and this administration is acting responsibly and is attempting in every way possible to resolve this issue peacefully." Bush said Tuesday that he had no intention of recalibrating his approach based on last weekend's global protests. "Size of protest, it's like deciding, well, I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group," Bush said. "The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon the security -- in this case, the security of the people." Analysts and U.S. officials suggest a number of reasons the president has become the subject of such vitriol overseas. Some of it stems from personality: Bush's blunt manner and frequent references to religion appear especially grating to European ears, these analysts and officials say. But much of it is rooted in substantive questions about the role of U.S. power in the world and whether Bush is properly using it in his battle with Hussein. "The debate [overseas] has not been about Iraq," a State Department official said. "There is real angst in the world about our power, and what they perceive as the rawness, the arrogance, the unipolarity" of the administration's actions. But, pointing to Bush's seemingly dismissive statements about the protests, the official said the concerns reflected in cables from American "overseas posts" appeared to have little impact on White House decision-making. Indeed, since the demonstrations, Bush has not acknowledged the concerns of the protesters or the fears they expressed, and he has not tried to counter their arguments that U.N. inspections must
[CTRL] 114 countries Urge Iraqi Backdown
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/022503G.shtml 114 countries Urge Iraqi Backdown Sunday Herald Sun | Australia Sunday 23 February 2003 IN a show of support for Iraq coupled with appeals for Saddam Hussein to disarm, foreign ministers for more than half the world have urged Baghdad to comply with UN resolutions while adding their voice to the millions of people who oppose war. A declaration prepared for a Non-Aligned Movement summit also said that if Iraq continued to cooperate with UN inspectors in eliminating weapons of mass destruction, the debilitating sanctions imposed on Baghdad after the 1991 Gulf War should finally be lifted. Although the draft declaration endorsed today by foreign ministers addressed US concerns by stressing that Baghdad must comply with Security Council resolution 1441 - which demands that Iraq disarm - its overall tone left no doubt that the Non-Aligned Movement does not want to see a military attack. Leaders of the movement's 114 mostly developing nations, representing 55 per cent of the world's population and nearly two-thirds of UN members, were expected to endorse the declaration at their summit starting on Monday. US confrontations with Iraq and North Korea - nations allegedly possessing weapons of mass destruction - dominated preparations for the summit. "We reiterate our commitment to the fundamental principles of the non-use of force and respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and security of all member states," the document on Iraq said. There were two days of wrangling over the document's precise wording. The latest version dropped the characterisation by some Arab countries of any conflict as "aggression". "It is a balanced statement because it shows everyone is against unilateral action against Iraq or any other country," said Gholomali Khoshroo, Iran's deputy foreign minister. "At the same time, they have urged Iraq to cooperate with the United Nations." "What we want is full compliance with Resolution 1441," said US envoy Charles Twining, an observer at the conference. "It's really that simple." Iraq is a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, which was set up in 1955 to pave a neutral path between the United States and the Soviet bloc and which regularly opposes military action against any Third World state. The draft declaration paid a nod to massive anti-war protests around the world, and came a day before summit host Malaysia holds a peace rally organisers expect to draw as many as 200,000 people. "We are fully cognisant of the concerns expressed by millions in our countries, as well as in other parts of the world, who reject war and believe, like we do, that war against Iraq would be a destabilising factor for the whole region," it said. Not everyone at the summit faulted what the protesters perceive as US President George W Bush's hawkish stance on Iraq. Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta said Bush's Iraq policy deserves more credit for boosting Baghdad's cooperation with UN demands to disarm. "If President Bush had not threatened to go to war in a credible manner by building forces in the region, would Saddam Hussein have invited the weapons inspectors back?" said Ramos Horta, foreign minister for East Timor, which will formally join the Non-Aligned Movement on Monday. "Did he invite them back because of the charming French attitude or because of the German pacifist attitude, or because he knows that George W Bush means business?" North Korea - another non-aligned state - wanted the final declaration to condemn Washington for causing its crisis over nuclear development, but diplomats from other countries baulked at that request. Meanwhile, North Korea resisted calls by fellow summit participants to return to a key nuclear treaty, prompting some nations to say they feared peace in Asia was in jeopardy. "We are trying to find a middle way where we take note of North Korea's withdrawal and hope they will rejoin the Non-Proliferation Treaty," Malaysian foreign minister Syed Hamid Albar said. "They must accept there is a fear of a nuclear threat and it will jeopardise peace and security." He said Malaysia is drafting wording that "we think reflects the Korean concern and also reflects the concerns of non-aligned countries". The North Korea crisis began in October when US officials said that Pyongyang admitted having a covert nuclear program. Washington and its allies suspended fuel shipment to North Korea as punishment, and Pyongyang retaliated by expelling UN monitors and pulling out of the treaty. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Sub
[CTRL] Bush Cited Report That Doesn't Exist
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/022503C.shtml Editor: Bush Cited Report That Doesn't Exist By James Toedtman NewsDay | Chief Economic Correspondent February 23, 2003 Washington - There was only one problem with President George W. Bush's claim Thursday that the nation's top economists forecast substantial economic growth if Congress passed the president's tax cut: The forecast with that conclusion doesn't exist. Bush and White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer went out of their way Thursday to cite a new survey by "Blue-Chip economists" that the economy would grow 3.3 percent this year if the president's tax cut proposal becomes law. That was news to the editor who assembles the economic forecast. "I don't know what he was citing," said Randell E. Moore, editor of the monthly Blue Chip Economic Forecast, a newsletter that surveys 53 of the nation's top economists each month. "I was a little upset," said Moore, who said he complained to the White House. "It sounded like the Blue Chip Economic Forecast had endorsed the president's plan. That's simply not the case." Deputy White House Press Secretary Claire Buchan insisted Friday that the survey, which mentioned "the likelihood that some version of the Bush administration's latest stimulus package will be enacted," justified the president's claim. Moore said that a survey taken in January before the president announced his plan forecast 3.3 percent annual growth between the last quarter of 2002 and the last quarter of 2003. A survey taken in February reached the same consensus. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 17 British Firms That Armed Saddam With His Weapons
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/022503B.shtml Revealed: 17 British Firms Armed Saddam With His Weapons Investigation: By Neil Mackay Home Affairs Editor Sunday Herald UK Sunday 23 February 2003 SEVENTEEN British companies who supplied Iraq with nuclear, biological, chemical, rocket and conventional weapons technology are to be investigated and could face prosecution following a Sunday Herald investigation. One of the companies is Inter national Military Services, a part of the Ministry of Defence, which sold rocket technology to Iraq. The companies were named by Iraq in a 12,000 page dossier submitted to the UN in December. The Security Council agreed to US requests to censor 8000 pages -- including sections naming western businesses which aided Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme. The five permanent members of the security council -- Britain, France, Russia, America and China -- are named as allowing companies to sell weapons technology to Iraq. The dossier claims 24 US firms sold Iraq weapons. Hewlett-Packard sold nuclear and rocket technology; Dupont sold nuclear technology, and Eastman Kodak sold rocket capabilities. The dossier also says some '50 subsidiaries of foreign enterprises conducted their arms business with Iraq from the US'. It claims the US ministries of defence, energy, trade and agri culture, and the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, supplied Iraq with WMD technology. Germany, currently opposed to war, is shown to be Iraq's biggest arms-trading partner with 80 companies selling weapons technology, including Siemens. It sold medical machines with dual-purpose parts used to detonate nuclear bombs. The German government reportedly 'actively encouraged' weapons co-operation and assistance was allegedly given to Iraq in developing poison gas used against Kurds. In China three companies traded weapons technology; in France eight and in Russia six. Other countries included Japan with five companies; Holland with three; Belgium with seven; Spain with three and Sweden with two, including Saab. The UN claims publicly naming the companies would be counter-productive. Although most of the trade ended in 1991 on the outbreak of the Gulf War, at least two of the five permanent security council members -- Russia and China -- traded arms with Iraq in breach of UN resolutions after 1991. All trade in WMD technology has been outlawed for decades. UNSCOM found documents showing preparations by the Russian firms Livinvest, Mars Rotor and Niikhism to supply parts for military helicopters in 1995. In April 1995, Mars Rotor and Niikhism sold parts used in long-range missiles to a Palestinian who transported them to Baghdad. In 2001 and 2002, the Chinese firm Huawei Technologies sent supplies to Iraqi air defence. Foreign companies supplied Iraq's nuclear weapons programme with detonators, fissionable material and parts for a uranium enrichment plant. Foreign companies also provided Iraq's chemical and biological programmes with basic materials; helped with building labs; assisted the extension of missile ranges; provided technology to fit missiles with nuclear, biological and chemical warheads; and supplied Scud mobile launch-pads. Nearly all the weapons that were supplied have been destroyed, accounted for or immobilised, according to former weapons inspectors. The Foreign Office said: 'The UK will investigate and, if appropriate, prosecute any UK company found to have been in breach of export control legislation.' The Department of Trade and Industry said details on export licences, including information on weapons sold to Iraq, was unavailable. A spokesman for one of the British companies named, Endshire Export Marketing, said it had sold a consignment of magnets to a German middle-man who sold them to Iraq. Responding to claims that magnets could be used in a nuclear programme, the spokesman said: 'I've no idea if this is the case. I couldn't tell one end of a nuclear bomb from the other.' The company was included on a US boycott list in 1991. He said the company considered the deal 'genuine business' at the time but that, with the 'benefit of hindsight', the firm would not have taken part in the deal. A spokesman for the MoD's International Military Services said he could not comment as no staff from 1991 were on the payroll and no documents from then existed. Mick Napier of the Stop The War Coalition said: 'How can we support a government which says it's against mass murder when its record is one of supporting and supplying Iraq? This government depends on public mass amnesia.' Tommy Sheridan, leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, said: 'The evidence of British armament companies, with central government support, arming the Butcher of Baghdad lays to rest the moral garbage spewed from the British government. It exposes the fact that Britain, along with America, France and Russia, armed Saddam to the teeth while he was butchering his o
[CTRL] 'creative destruction' and 'total war'
-Caveat Lector- World dispatch http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,901982,00.ht ml Conflict and catchphrases Brian Whitaker explains what 'creative destruction' and 'total war' mean in the context of current US foreign policy Brian Whitaker Monday February 24, 2003 The Guardian Faced with obstruction from the French and Germans, ransom demands from the Turks, and opposition from millions of demonstrators around the world, the desired invasion of Iraq has fallen behind schedule. But not to worry. The process of selecting the next candidates for regime change is already under way. In a meeting with American congressmen last week, the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, nominated three countries to be tackled after Iraq: Iran, Libya and Syria. Mr Sharon also met John Bolton, the US under secretary of state, who reportedly told him that it will be "necessary" to deal with Syria, Iran and North Korea after an attack on Iraq. That puts Syria and Iran into the lead with two votes each, followed by Libya and North Korea, with only one. The attraction of this approach is easy to see. After Afghanistan and Iraq, conquering Syria and Iran would create an unbroken chain of puppet regimes stretching from the Mediterranean to China. Elsewhere in the Middle East, Palestinian regime change, or rather regime dismantling, has begun. Yasser Arafat is now more or less written off, although there is nobody to replace him, which suits Mr Sharon just fine. The Saudis are also being targeted and, ultimately, Egypt will be, too. While all this may be sold to the public, and to gullible leaders such as Tony Blair, on the basis of specific issues, such as suicide bombings in the case of the Palestinians, the vision driving US policy under the president, George Bush, is far broader. The two key phrases are "creative destruction" and "total war". Writing in National Review Online, Michael Ledeen, one of the US's leading rightwing ideologues, explained: "We should have no misgivings about our ability to destroy tyrannies. It is what we do best. "It comes naturally to us, for we are the one truly revolutionary country in the world, as we have been for more than 200 years. Creative destruction is our middle name. We do it automatically, and that is precisely why the tyrants hate us and are driven to attack us." The concept of total war, which is also espoused by Mr Ledeen, was elaborated upon in the same publication by Adam Mersereau, a former Marine Corps officer. He contrasted total war with "limited" war, in which military force is used to achieve a particular foreign policy objective "without mobilising the entire nation, and while minimising casualties". "By total war," he wrote, "I mean the kind of warfare that not only destroys the enemy's military forces, but also brings the enemy society to an extremely personal point of decision, so that they are willing to accept a reversal of the cultural trends that spawned the war in the first place. "A total war strategy does not have to include the intentional targeting of civilians, but the sparing of civilian lives cannot be its first priority ... The purpose of total war is to permanently force your will onto another people group. "Limited war pits combatants against combatants, while total war pits nation against nation, and even culture against culture." This sort of thing may strike the average non-American as power-crazed and mad (and, before the emails start flooding in from the US, I should add that many Americans find it abhorrent, too). However, the real point is not whether such ideas are mad, it is the amount of influence that they have on policy. Many of the total war and creative destruction crowd get their ideas across to the public through an agency called Benador Associates, which arranges their TV appearances and speaking engagements, and helps to place their articles in newspapers. The agency, which has offices in New York, London and Paris, is run by Eleana Benador, a Peruvian-born linguist. Since I last wrote about Ms Benador (US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy World dispatch, August 19 2002), her business seems to have expanded remarkably. She has added 10 more "experts" to her list of clients and, on February 13, hosted a free lunch for a question and answer session with the Pentagon's leading hardline adviser, Richard Perle. In addition, she has started a mailing service, through which subscribers receive, free of charge, up to six daily articles. Anyone who wishes to monitor the developing thoughts of America's neo-conservatives, and can resist being offended by the content, will find a subscription informative. Ms Benador has been busy networking on the political-social circuit, too. Although details are scarce, the website of Bob Guzzardi, a Pennsylvania property man and Israel enthusiast, shows photographs of a jolly party attended by Ms Benador along with Senator Joseph Lieberman, Representative Jos
[CTRL] New axis of peace
-Caveat Lector- A trigger for war? New axis of peace throws UN into chaos http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,902510,00.html Ewen MacAskill, Gary Younge in New York, Ian Black in Brussels, and John Hooper in Berlin Tuesday February 25, 2003 The Guardian The United Nations was in the throes of the biggest diplomatic confrontation for decades last night after the US and Britain tabled a new resolution paving the way for an assault on Iraq next month. The resolution declares that Iraq has failed to grasp "the final opportunity" to avoid war. But France and Germany, the leading opponents of war, immediately produced a powerful riposte by revealing that they had secured the support of Russia and China for an alternative, peaceful plan that would allow Iraq more time. This formidable opposition alliance throws into doubt whether the resolution will be adopted, and threatens to wreck the US-British timetable for invasion. The Franco-German proposal sets Iraq deadlines for disarmament "programme by programme". Speaking after dining with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Berlin, the French president, Jacques Chirac, said that the majority of the members of the UN security council were in favour of their proposal. In a response to the US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld's dismissal of France and Germany as "old Europe", Mr Schröder said the proposals represented the views of "good old Europe". He said: "An awareness of what war means and what it represents is deeply scored into the collective consciousness of the peoples of Europe. That perhaps allows us to understand better why Germany and France hope for and want a peaceful disarmament of Iraq." President George Bush said the US and British resolution would test the relevance of the UN, but made it clear that if the UN did not support it the US would go ahead anyway. "Is it going to be a body that means what it says?" he said. "We certainly hope it does. But one way or the other, Saddam Hussein, for the sake of peace and the security of the American people, will be disarmed." The stand-off may mean that the US and Britain will go to war without a UN mandate, imposing an enormous political price on Tony Blair. The resolution is co-sponsored by the US, Britain and Spain, and backed by Bulgaria. The other 11 members of the security council are, at present, opposed. In an attempt to win over the waverers, the US and Britain have abandoned hope of a resolution explicitly authorising war and opted for a watered-down version that reiterates much of the last UN resolution on Iraq, 1441. It accuses Iraq of submitting a weapons statement in December that was false, contained omissions and "failed to take the final opportunity afforded in resolution 1441". The plan is to put the resolution to a vote soon after the UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, reports on March 7 on any Iraqi progress towards disarmament. War could begin soon afterwards. The White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said Mr Bush had made it clear that he expected the draft to be considered "in short order". The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said he expected a vote in a "fortnight or so". The junior Foreign Office minister, Mike O'Brien, said Britain would examine the French memorandum, but he was sceptical about its contents. The French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, said a second resolution was premature while the arms inspections were making progress. "There are some countries that think that today it's important to table a second resolution," he said. "We think for our part it isn't necessary or useful, since we are resolutely in a time of inspections. That is why we have said we could not accept this second resolution." The German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, who is due in London today for further discussion, also said the resolution was unnecessary and did not correspond to the consensus reached by EU leaders last week. Arab officials urged the EU meeting to avoid a war, which they said could deepen frustration and militancy in the Middle East. The Arab League's secretary general, Amr Moussa, told reporters: "You can never belittle the consequences of any war, especially in an area like the Middle East, already frustrated with the Israeli occupation and the bias towards Israel. So adding insult to injury is too much for us." Iraq could strengthen the Franco-German alliance by accepting Mr Blix's demand that it should destroy its Samoud 2 missiles. It hinted yesterday that itwould do so. In the coming weeks Britain and the US will try to secure the necessary nine-six UN majority by focusing on Chile, Mexico, Angola, Cameroon and Guinea, helped by economic pressure from Washington. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or pro
[CTRL] Humor maybe: Solana and Iraq
-Caveat Lector- With Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the cross-hairs, a new threat looms on the horizon his replacement. It is time we considered who will fill the vacuum Hussein presently occupies. What kind of man will be right for the new Iraq? Iraq is an impoverished, isolated, and fearful state of oppressed majorities and minorities alike, waiting patiently for the next president whose grasp on his contempt for the world exceeds his grasp of reality. They want a president incapable of differentiating between cultures. They want a man who can appreciate the PR value of holding a rifle. They need a man who doesn't sleep around because he has to. They need Javier Solana. SANCTIONS. The Iraqi people want someone to stop UN sanctions. If their nation wants to annex another, they should have a leader strong enough and smart enough to head off UN efforts to stop them. They need someone furtive and clever enough to change the rules before the rules change them. They need someone who knows how to party in the 48 palaces built in Iraq since the Gulf War palaces which cost poor Saddam over $2 billion. Iraq needs Javier Solana. NUTRITION. The United States has unfairly forced Iraq to trade $7.7 billion in oil for food, medicine, and infrastructure all of which Iraq doesn't really need. Surpluses from the $3.7 billion in food, for instance, must be exported for hard cash, since the daily caloric value of the ration basket has been raised 50% by the UN. In contrast, child mortality in portions of the Iraq outside of UN control have doubled. These kids need guns, not food! Iraq needs a man who understands the expediency of putting a rifle in a kid's hand for political reasons. Iraq needs Javier Solana. APPROPRIATION. Iraq oil exports are at near prewar levels. $200 in Phase 5 of the oil-for-food program has been allocated 60% was spent on medical equipment, and 40% on medicine. Nevertheless, the Iraqi people are still not better off, amidst widespread reports of health problems. Saddam has worked hard to bring in his own $6 billion fortune with oil and smuggling one less mouth to feed. And yet thanks to his enemies, he can't enjoy his success enough to take a stroll in public. The Iraqis need a profiteer who isn't afraid to schmooze with them. Iraq needs Javier Solana. AMUSEMENT PARKS. In 1999, the Iraqi government spent hundreds of millions on an amusement park for government officials. Yet who can Iraqis rely on to maintain this resort for the government's elite when Saddam is gone? Iraq needs Javier Solana. EXECUTIVE DECISIONS. It takes quite a few strokes of the pen to rule Iraq. Over 2,500 prisoners have been executed since 1997. In only two decades, 3,000 Kurdish villages had to be destroyed. Nearly a million Kurdish and Turkomen citizens had to be displaced within Iraq recently, and local officials have to be employed to insure these individuals are refused employment, food, and shelter. The 1988-89 Anfal campaign cost Iraq dearly 5,000 deaths in just one of a number of villages alone chemical weapons on that scale can't be cheap. The Iraqis need a leader who will keep their people mobile across their great nation. They need a leader who is not afraid to handle matters of individual development someone with their own vision of environmental development. Iraq needs Javier Solana. POLICY. It takes a tyrant to rule a nation. EU's unswerving devotion to liberal rather than conservative policy unfairly obscures the proactive career of Javier Solana. Javier Solana has unflinchingly implemented both conservative and liberal policy based on his own objectives while kissing the ass of the broader national political climate as needed. Iraq has spent 20 years under a dictator. Iraq needs a dictator with experience. Iraq needs Javier Solana. LEADERSHIP. Iraq is a complex nation that with a long, proud tradition of dictatorial politics. It needs a leader who both can inspire and propagate his own personal policies with stealth and ruthless efficiency, and without losing that veneer of good humor and affability. Iraq needs Javier Solana. ASSERTIVENESS. Iraq needs a leader who is not afraid to take charge. It needs a leader who can make a drinking buddy out of his boss while plotting his overthrow. Iraq needs a leader who is not afraid of backpedaling a leader who can profess to outlaw weapons one minute and then re-arm the next. Iraq needs Javier Solana. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT. Iraq still has far to go if it is to realize its dream of leading Arabs to victory over western oppression. Iraq needs a strong leader who answers to no one and is smart enough to keep that fact hidden. Iraq needs Javier Solana. POLITICAL ACTION. International organizations don't understand what it takes to govern a place like Iraq. Sometimes sacrifices are necessary to maintain the peace. It needs a "take no prisoners" man of action in transpare
[CTRL] Marbury v. Madison v. Ashcroft
-Caveat Lector- NY TIMES February 24, 2003 Marbury v. Madison v. Ashcroft By ANTHONY LEWIS BOSTON Two hundred years ago today Chief Justice John Marshall delivered the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Marbury v. Madison. As a kindness to Justice Samuel Chase, who was ill, he announced the decision in the Capitol Hill rooming house where most of the justices lived. In that humble setting Marshall and his colleagues established the great principle that judges have the power to declare acts of Congress void because they conflict with the Constitution. After 200 years Americans are so accustomed to judges having the last word that alternatives seem unthinkable. We rely on the courts to enforce what the Constitution promises us. But in one area the courts have disappointed us. In time of war, actual or threatened, they have repeatedly abdicated their function, bowing to claims of national security. A dramatic example in the last century was the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II; bowing to government claims that they were a security threat, the Supreme Court, in the Korematsu case, refused to interfere. We are now headed for a profound test of our commitment to the Constitution in time of war: the war on terrorism, as President Bush has proclaimed it. His administration has taken steps that radically impinge on the right to counsel and other fundamental liberties. Will the courts, in the end the Supreme Court, subject those measures to real constitutional scrutiny, or give way to arguments of war emergency? The war on terrorism is an especially dangerous occasion for judges to close their eyes to violations of our rights. In every other historical case of the courts yielding to wartime claims, the emergency ended before long and the country regretted the abandonment of constitutional values. It is extremely unlikely that the Supreme Court today would follow the Korematsu decision and uphold the internment of hundreds of thousands of Americans of a particular ethnic background. But no one can imagine this war coming to an end any time soon. So every piece of judicial deference to the power of government in war may crimp the rights of citizens forever. Aliens, both visitors and permanent residents, were harshly affected by Bush administration measures after 9/11. Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered more than 1,000 aliens detained, keeping their names and places of detention secret. He also ordered many deportation hearings held in secret. He required visitors from 25 countries, predominantly Muslim, to register with the government. Those who failed to do so within 40 days were subject to arrest, detention and deportation. But the measure that most gravely menaces constitutional rights is the arrest and indefinite detention of Americans without trial and without access to a lawyer. The president has claimed the power to thus seize and hold any American whom he designates an "enemy combatant." And the basis of the designation, administration lawyers argue, is not subject to effective review in any court. Two American citizens are now held in solitary confinement under this asserted presidential power. One, Yasser Hamdi, was found under unexplained circumstances on a battlefield in Afghanistan. The other, Jose Padilla, was arrested on arrival at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago after spending time in Egypt and Pakistan. Both are totally isolated. They are not allowed to speak to a lawyer. They may not see their families. Lawyers appointed to act for Mr. Hamdi and Mr. Padilla challenged their detention. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., made the first appellate ruling - against Mr. Hamdi. It held that the constitutional guarantee of the right to counsel "in all criminal prosecutions" did not apply because Mr. Hamdi was not being prosecuted. That reasoning reduced constitutional law to sleight of hand: The government can impose solitary confinement, perhaps for life, if it simply avoids giving the prisoner a trial. If what was done to Mr. Hamdi did not technically violate the Sixth Amendment, it surely deprived him of liberty without due process of law. James Madison, the principal author of the Bill of Rights, would have been astounded at the notion. So would the average American today if told he could be taken off the street and imprisoned forever without being able to call a lawyer. The Fourth Circuit also agreed with the government that courts must defer to the president in wartime. It held that the president can detain indefinitely anyone he calls an enemy combatant. And it said that judges could not look into the basis of that designation if the president produced any evidence for it, however slight and untested by cross-examination. The last point, making it all but impossible to challenge the president's designation of anyone as an enemy, is crucial. Throughout American history the courts have accorded conclusive w
[CTRL] HAARP AND SPACESHIP COLUMBIA
-Caveat Lector- http://www.brojon.org/ HAARP AND SPACESHIP COLUMBIA -- THAT COLD SATURDAY MORNING What happened to the Columbia Space Shuttle and why NASA is mis-leading the public with easily hoaxed information. A Scientific Explanation The partly-university and partly-military HAARP facility has very lax security, as shown by the pictures and text on their own website. It is only just a very large shortwave radio transmitter in Gakona, Alaska used for university research, isn't it? That's what they say. For several years, beginning about 1998, HAARP is normally turned on during the summer months, starting several hours before midnight. They are doing atmospheric auroral zone research for several hours each night when the sky is very dark, during that part of the month when the bright moon is below the horizon. That is the "University Research" mode. The shortwave transmitter pulses may have both long and short pulses with about equal-length spaces in between, and the pulse lengths may vary, depending on the academic research experiment, from 3 to 30 seconds. During the "Navy Deep-Sea Communication" operational mode, the shortwave radio pulses are all, with military precision, exactly 6.25 seconds long with either exactly 15 or 30 second spaces between pulses. Those long and short binary spaces in between the pulses are actually the coded message. Something like the dits and dahs of very slow Morse code. In this mode, the power is usually at maximum. Unlike the research mode, which mostly runs at night, the US Navy communication mode can be at any time of the day or night, any month of the year. The transmissions may run continuously for about 10 to 30 hours, or from one to several days. These communication pulses interact with the earth's magnetic field near the northern auroral zone. These very slow interactions, taking hours to send a short message, can be sensed by special magnetometer receivers in the US nuclear submarines miles deep below the ocean surface. This HAARP communication mode can operate far deeper into the ocean than any other nation can penetrate, so only US submarines are capable of long-term full-stealth mode, out of reach far below all other nation's submarines. All the while, still staying in communication with US Navy command headquarters. Following the 9-11 World Trade Center attack, and just minutes after the President declared the highest Defense Condition Four (DefCon4), HAARP began transmitting at highest power for 18 hours in "deep-sea communication" mode. This is the only way to communicate the DefCon4 condition and updated battle commands to the US nuclear submarines on station miles deep in the ocean. The "Air Force Missile Defense Shield" mode is usually heard as 4 or 5 second pulses about 20 seconds apart. The pulses also are modulated with circular polarization, changing in tone slightly faster or slower than the 1 Hz base frequency. This results in hearing sounds, which I call repeated "zooo-eep" sounds going upward or "zaah-oownd" sounds going downward. This causes very fast relativistic electrons or ions to be sprayed into outer space arcing from north to south magnetic pole, from the ionosphere, either upward to the magnetosphere, or downward from the magnetosphere to the ionosphere. These particles, moving at nearly the speed of light, stay only in the vacuum of space and are stopped whenever they hit the atmosphere. The focused fast moving particles can penetrate and damage the electronics of an incoming nuclear missile warhead and cause the missile to spin out of control and burn up as it re-enters the earth's atmosphere. The damage effect is similar to the strong radiation from a nearby nuclear explosion. Thus the "missile shield" mode can quickly destroy incoming missiles almost anywhere in the world even before they re-enter the atmosphere. The graduate student technical research reports on the HAARP website for the summer study programs of 1999 and 2000 reveal they have succeeded in producing particle flow along "certain magnetic field lines." This is a secretive or obtuse way of saying that they have finally implemented a "focused missile defense shield" mode. The staffers at HAARP are several full time professional radio electronics operators and a number of part-time professors and graduate research students. They all have access to the facility which is the key to the back door of the small cafeteria/control room building. The HAARP facility does not even have a fence around it. CAUTION: What follows contains speculative material. One of the HAARP graduate students, Mustava Grufti, gets up in the middle of the night, and goes to work all by himself at 4:00 AM on a very cold Saturday Alaska winter morning. They usually don't work on the weekends, especially not in the frigid mid-winter. He turns on the cold diesel generators which produce the electrical power for the large radio system and starts up the transmitters. He plugs in
[CTRL] Indict the Council on Foreign Relations
-Caveat Lector- http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=705 Indict the Council on Foreign Relations By Mike Schelstrate February 23, 2003 As many of us are undoubtedly aware, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is in control of the shadow government that is actually running our country. Their membership includes many of the elite of American government, financial, and educational institutions. The CFR’s complete control over the domestic and foreign policy of America being unquestionable, this organization needs to be confronted with the spectacular list of failures of their policy since they took over our government. With power comes responsibility. There is sufficient evidence today to proceed with impeachment procedures against this illegal ruling body. This organization should be disbanded, and all of its members charged with treason! Maybe we should propose that the members be brought up before one of their “achievements”, the new International Criminal Court. The CFR was founded in 1921 as the demise of Woodrow Wilson’s brainchild, the League of Nations, became apparent with the failure of Congress to ratify the treaty. The Rockefeller dynasty and Colonel Mandel House, the power behind Wilson, were the driving force behind the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations. One needs only to study Colonel House’s novel “Phillip Dru, Administrator” to obtain a preview of the foundation this organization was built on, and the plan for the complete takeover of America by a socialist dictatorship. David Rockefeller continues to be involved with the direction of the organization today. Their mandate is to exert control over elected officials and official policy to further their ambitions of global economic and military domination... It now appears that they are very close to realizing this lofty goal. American intervention into the Second World War was crafted by this organization with the express purpose of creating their new International organizations; the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank. Through these agencies, the CFR exerts their power and labor to fulfill their nefarious Global conquest. One of the goals stated on their website is to “Identify and nurture the next generation of foreign policy leaders”. This goal can be interpreted to mean that the CFR searches out the best and brightest, indoctrinates them in the proscribed doctrine, and then supports their selection to important positions in government, media and educational institutions. By this method, the CFR is guaranteed the loyalty of future leaders to perform their required duties to further the private aims of the CFR. Recently, I read the novel “Three Wise Men”. I must tell you that these three men did not appear to be very wise to me. In fact, their entire careers were complete disasters for our country. They stumbled through one bad decision after another beginning with the end of World War II, and continuing through the Vietnam conflict. At least this is what appears to have happened. The alternate view that they were actually working towards the goal of the destruction of America is a distinct possibility. Of course, all three were members in good standing of the CFR. After absorbing this narrative and many others, I have grown increasingly concerned about the viability of our past and current government representatives. It appears that small, select groups of individuals from the “Eastern Establishment”, most graduates of Ivy League institutions and select private societies including Skull and Bones of Yale University, have held the reins of our government for the entire last century! It is not important which political party is in office, a quick perusal of administration staffs produce a proliferation of CFR members in the highest positions in both Democratic and Republican parties. Every president in recent history has been a member in good standing. America deserves better leadership than this. Our government has been purchased by the International Bankers of Wall Street, and the CFR is their chosen method of executing their commands. When I hear that the panderer and king of corruption Bill Clinton is addressing the Council on some new Globalist scheme, as he has quite frequently recently, this is more proof that we should not depend on this group of people to run our affairs! For many years, the CFR had operated incognito, avoiding contact with the press, and attempted to suppress knowledge of their activities. Over the last century, loyal members of Congress have attempted many times to rid our government of this evil. Every attempt has failed. Now, they are so secure in their position, that influential leaders proudly proclaim their membership without fear of reprisal. I discovered recently that one of the first copies of their periodical, Foreign Affairs, signed by Vladimir Lenin, is on proud display in their hallway. Why would the infamous Soviet leader
[CTRL] Explosion Kills Ten American Special Forces Officials In Zarmat
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sabawoon.com/news.asp?view=print Explosion Kills Ten American Special Forces Officials In Zarmat Reported by: Translated By Jihad Unspun 2/24/2003 (Daily Ausaf) :: Editors Note: Daily Islam also confirmed this report, with slightly lower casualty numbers. >From news across the border, a severe explosion took place in Afghan province Zarmat when American Special Forces’ officials were leaving the area in a double cabin vehicle. The intensity of the explosion could be heard from several kilometers away. The vehicle was completely destroyed and all ten people on board were killed on the spot. The body parts of the soldiers were seen far away from the scene of the explosion. Almost all the dead bodies were beyond recognition. Soon after, rescue units converged on the area with both ground vehicles and helicopters, sealing off the area and transported the bodies to an undisclosed location via helicopter. The American investigators on the scene were to determine if the explosion was the result of a pre installed time bomb or a land mine. Meanwhile, in other news, in suburbs of Kantar, an unknown assailant attacked an American Patrol in a surprise ambush. Americans soldiers managed to escape by jumping from the vehicles. According to details, the exchange of fire continued for more than an hour. Later on the Americans called for aerial support and the assailant fled the scene. In other news, two big caches of weapons were found from Garbaz’s tribal area in Khost. According to locals, these caches were from the Taliban regime and a large number of weapons were stored by making a bunker. Coalition troops later on transported these weapons to Bagh-e-Sar airport. Afghan troops also took part along with coalition troops while helicopters hoovered overhead One American soldier was severely injured due to a land mine explosion. He has been shifted to Khost for medical treatment where his condition is said to be critical. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Protesters march on Bones tomb
-Caveat Lector- http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=21939 Anti-war protesters gather in the rain Saturday outside the Skull and Bones tomb on High Street. The protest march, sponsored by the city's Green Party, culminated at the tomb because of President Bush's membership in the society. (PHILIP RUCKER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER) Protesters march on Bones tomb Published Monday, February 24, 2003 Protesters march on Bones tomb BY PHILIP RUCKER Staff Reporter Anti-war protesters gather in the rain Saturday outside the Skull and Bones tomb on High Street. The protest march, sponsored by the city's Green Party, culminated at the tomb because of President Bush's membership in the society. (PHILIP RUCKER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER) With chants of "No more skulls, no more bones, bring our soldiers home," some 500 protesters called for peace Saturday on the steps of the secret society tomb that they called the "secret campaign headquarters" of the Bush administration. In a march from downtown New Haven to the Skull and Bones tomb on High Street, the protesters stopped traffic through the Yale campus. Before the march through the rain, which was sponsored by the New Haven Green Party, protesters packed the United Church on the Green for a peace rally with speeches from several community leaders. Minister Kevin Mohammed, a representative of the Nation of Islam, said the war had nothing to do with the American people, but has everything to do with a few individuals with special interests. He even called on Bush to send his daughters to war. "We have coke addicts and crack addicts, and America has become an oil addict," Mohammed said to a rousing applause. "If they want a regime change in Iraq, we definitely need a regime change in America." Noted historian and peace advocate Howard Zinn wrote the opening statement for the rally. "The talk [in the news] is about strategy and tactics," Zinn's statement said. "What is missing is what an American war in Iraq will do to hundreds of thousands of ordinary human beings." Calling for Americans to wake up and say "enough is enough," Imam Zaid Shakir, a professor at Southern Connecticut State University, said in his speech that it was time to crash the party. He described the American revolution against "King George of Britain" and the current revolution in Britain against "King George of America," referring to what he said was Bush's lack of international political support. "How history has come full circle," Shakir said. Ward 2 Alderwoman Joyce Chen '01 said Bush ignores the American people. "Where is democracy in America?" Chen said in her speech. "War is not inevitable, and it is us who will prevent it from happening." Announcing the formation of a new group, Connecticut Labor Against the War, spokesman Nick Allen said the group's members will keep fighting until the drive to war is gone. Allen said the "blood that will spill in the streets of Baghdad" will be that of working-class people. Kelly Anthony, a professor at Wesleyan University, was a member of an academic delegation that recently visited Iraq, and said a war is not the solution. "I can tell you, the Iraqi people do not want this war," Anthony said. "They want democracy. Most of them do not want Saddam Hussein in power, but they do not want the United States in power either." People came from around the state to join the Green Party in protesting the war. Wearing a helmet with pro-labor and anti-war stickers, Hal Ljongquist, of Wolcott, said he hopes Bush will come to his senses and not take America to war. "I'm here to depress sentiment for and to increase resistance to the War in Iraq and to restore social programs that have been taken away," Ljongquist said. Some protesters brought their children along. Seven year old Noah Segal-Gould of Hamden, who attended the rally with his mother, said he opposes what he calls the "War for Oil" and called Bush "a lunatic." "If I say 'Peace for children,' do you think the President will hear me?" Segal-Gould asked. The protesters proceeded from the church to "storm" Skull and Bones, which the protesters called the "New Haven home" of Bush. The society's membership includes Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush '48. Copyright © 1995-2003 Yale Daily News Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always,
[CTRL] Yale succession more than coincidence
The Yale Herald February 21, 2003 | Opinion Yale succession more than coincidence BY STEVE SEWALL In 1949, Yale Daily News Editor William F. Buckley, Jr., DC '50, and my father, Yale English professor Richard B. Sewall, had a memorable exchange at Freshman Commons. They were there to help freshmen of the class of '53 make the most of their years at Yale. But they disagreed passionately about the purpose of education. Is it active (Buckley) or contemplative (Sewall)? GETTY IMAGES William F. Buckley believed in active education and leadership. Buckley, the big man on campus, urged the freshmen to join, heel, compete and succeed. Yale, he said, is your chance to build the networks that will sustain you throughout life. Sewall, a teacher and scholar, urged the freshmen to read, write, discuss and understand. Yale, he said, is your chance to reflect on life itself. Years later, '53 alumnus Jim Thomson summed up the student response: "We all knew Sewall was right, but we wanted to be like Buckley." Since 1988, three Yale graduates have led the United States. This Yale succession is historic. Never before have three (or even two) successive U.S. presidents studied at the same university. During its tercentenary year, mother Yale codified this lineage by gathering its presidential progeny, separately, back to Yale. At graduation, President George W. Bush, DC '68, jokingly likened himself to the Prodigal Son. Today, Yale uses its presidential lineage as a beacon to attract students, raise money and extend its global presence. But no one studies it. By falling silent on something historic happening in its own backyard, Yale's community of scholars risks losing its perspective on history. Equally at risk is America's political press, given its stunning silence on one university's four-term (and counting) lock on the White House. So what's being overlooked? Under scrutiny, the Yale succession is a key to recent history and a gateway to leadership issues of concern to Yale as a "laboratory for future leaders," in President Richard Levin's phrase. All three Yale presidents owe their White House tenures to the Big Money that has tightened its grip on local, state, and national government since the advent of televised attack ads in the 1960's. In addition, Big Money's grip on education and media has helped the Yale presidents advance America's post-Cold War bid for military and economic empire without ever consulting or informing voters. Finally, it was on the Yale presidents' watch that Big Money corrupted and inflated corporate and political America until the bubble burst, plunging the world into a recession that economists say could last for years. No economy, national or global, can stand forever on a corrupt political base. Healthy societies, like healthy families, require trust. The seismic convergence of ethics and economics that toppled Japanese and American markets in 1991 and 2000, respectively, now rattles the entire world. Corruption and terror, widely seen as two unethical sides of the same coin of oil and empire, depress financial markets around the globe. In America, the Dow Jones average reflects a general loss of faith in institutions fueled by Machiavellian venality in politics and by Enronitis in business. The restoration of integrity—a sea change in America's civic and commercial life—is the task of a generation. It entails creating a new "balance of public and private interests in the global economy," writes Jeffrey Garten of Yale's School of Management. If not apparent now, the need for change will become clear as investor mistrust causes market rally after market rally to fizzle. Does the United States, in its commitment to freedom and democratic values, have the will to effect change? And does Yale, as a laboratory for future leaders, have the will to lead the way in imagining and implementing change? The unwillingness of Japan's elite universities to produce a generation of tough-minded reformers helps explain why that former economic superpower, now in its thirteenth year of recession, could be stagnate for years to come. Will America be next? Significantly, the Ivy League aura that shields the Yale succession from scrutiny is fading. In Secrets of the Tomb, a recent history of Skull and Bones, Yale grad Alexandra Robbins, SY '98, shows how four generations of Bonesmen created the Bush dynasty that comprises two thirds of Yale's presidential troika. Looking ahead to 2004, Robbins describes a possible Bush/Kerry contest as "the first Bones versus Bones presidential race." In this pairing, Yale comes off more as a club for oligarchs than a laboratory for leaders. Three more Yale-trained presidential hopefuls bolster this impression: Vermont Governor Howard Dean, PC '71, and Senators Joe Lieberman, MC '64, LAW '67, and Hillary Clinton, LAW '67. In 1949, Yale, in its wisdom, sent Bonesman Buckley and "barbarian" Sewall to Freshman Commons to encourage the class of '53 to
[CTRL] Columbia Disaster-Detailed Analysis Of Electri
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[CTRL] Bush Magic Turns Medicines Into Munitions
-Caveat Lector- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1635.htm Bush Magic Turns Medicines Into Munitions Rumsfeld told Congress he has asked COW head George W. Bush to sign a special waiver allowing American forces to use biochemical weapons against Iraqi troops and civilians in the upcoming stampede into Iraq, UPI reports. What's more, the COW chemicals would be launched unilaterally, as part of the standard Rules of Engagement--and not merely in retaliation for an attack with similar weapons by Saddam. by CHRIS FLOYD Six million marched for peace last week, but the Bush Regime and the Blair Regency were unmoved by this outburst from the ignorant rabble. Instead, the righteous leaders of the "Coalition of the Willing" (or COW) declared that no power on earth will halt their holy quest to rid the world of Saddam Hussein and his chemical weapons. Strange, then, to see one of COW's biggest bovines--Pentagon warlord Donald "Squinty" Rumsfeld--informing the dazed and docile rubberstamps of Congress of his intention to assault Iraq with, er, chemical weapons. Rumsfeld told Congress he has asked COW head George W. Bush to sign a special waiver allowing American forces to use biochemical weapons against Iraqi troops and civilians in the upcoming stampede into Iraq, UPI reports. What's more, the COW chemicals would be launched unilaterally, as part of the standard Rules of Engagement--and not merely in retaliation for an attack with similar weapons by Saddam. In his extraordinary testimony--entirely ignored by the mainstream American media, natch--Rumsfeld openly complained about the onerous restrictions imposed on American forces by the stupid old Chemical Weapons Convention that the U.S. signed--indeed, initiated--many years ago. Rumsfeld told the Congressfolk of his deep "regret" that the U.S. had "tangled ourselves up so badly" with all that sissy-mary malarkey in the first place. But now, thank God, a real brush-clearin', pretzel-chompin' he-man is sitting on top of the COW, so Squinty is sure to get that waiver. What Squinty wants to do is unleash a barrage of so-called "non-lethal" biochemical weapons against any godless Ayrab stupid enough to resist the incoming herd. This array of incapacitators--or to use the Pentagon's quaint term, "calmatives"--will include fighting pharmaceuticals developed by the world's leading drug companies. True, the weaponization of medicine is something of a departure from the Hippocratic Oath--but what's health and healing when your COW is calling you to war? Anyway, isn't the Hippocratic Oath--like the CWC, the ABM Treaty, the UN Charter, the Bill of Rights, indeed, the very notion of law itself--outmoded in the new Bush imperium? Rumsfeld hopes to emulate the glorious success of Russian security forces, who used "non-lethal calmatives" to liberate the Nord-Ost hostages from their captors--and from the bonds of earthly existence as well. But there's one slight hitch: the Russians' employment of "calmatives"--however blundering and murderous--was legal under international law, which permits the use of "crowd-control devices" in domestic, law enforcement situations. But the use of any chemical weapon against people in wartime--no matter how supposedly non-lethal it might be--is expressly forbidden by a number of international treaties, all signed by the United States. Not only that: the very production of such combat weapons is prohibited--which is supposedly why COW is on its high horse about Iraq. Squinty knows this, of course; that's why he and COW head Bush have quietly shifted funding authority for "calmative" research from Pentagon coffers to John Ashcroft's Justice Department--it gives "domestic" cover to the military program. Meanwhile, Squinty proudly notes that production of "delivery systems" for the weaponized drugs is rolling right along: the COW invaders will be able to use both an unmanned "loitering vehicle"--which hovers in the air and sprays brain-deadening and gut-wrenching juice over all and sundry--and a good-old fashioned mortar shell loaded with chemical cocktails. Rumsfeld painted the deployment of field chemical weapons as a "humanitarian gesture," but here too there's a slight hitch. "There is no way known to medical science that can put large numbers of people to sleep without killing a sizable percentage of them," as Harvard biology professor and biochemical weapons expert Matt Meselson told The Nation. This is particularly disturbing in the light of Pentagon documents obtained by The Sunshine Project, a Texas-based group devoted to biochemical warfare issues, detailing the actual plans for the weapons. The papers, produced by the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, stress a concern for "target discrimination." Like so many Pentagon terms, this phrase actually means the opposite: the weapons do not discriminate among targets--civilian from soldier, for example--they simply knock out (or kill) everyone within range, allowing
[CTRL] WAR PARTY STUMBLES - Their propaganda campaign is pathetic
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html February 24, 2003 WAR PARTY STUMBLES Their propaganda campaign is pathetic While war may be inevitable – at least, that's what we're supposed to believe – the War Party's propaganda campaign is stupefyingly unconvincing. What was billed as a "Support the Troops" rally at the Alamo was held the other day, where "about 1,000" participants waved signs proclaiming "God Supports President Bush." This echoes the President's own remarks, made the same day, in which he declared it was the will of "the Almighty" to "liberate the oppressed people of Iraq." Having abandoned the Constitution, and the foreign policy advice of the Founding Fathers, the President and his supporters have reverted back to an earlier doctrine: the divine right of kings. Meanwhile, Indianpolis, Indiana, where a similar group rallied in support of mass murder in Iraq, was the scene of a breathtakingly ugly – and telling – incident, when one chickenhawk confronted counter-demonstrators from Veterans for Peace: "Things got contentious at the end of the less-than-hourlong demonstration when some at the rally confronted a group calling itself Vietnam Veterans for Peace. 'Go home and eat your wine and cheese, you sissies,' William G. Rice, 40, yelled at the group of about 20 people as they walked away. 'Cowards.' Rice, a laborer, said that although he had no military experience, he thought he understood the political situation better than the veterans. 'I seem to have a better understanding of the price of freedom than they do,' he said." Such is the moral blindness inspired by our righteous President – and his neoconservative amen corner, who lecture us on the glories of bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to the Middle East – that the men who fought in the muck and mire of Southeast Asia are now "sissies," while this good-for-nothing "laborer" who never fought a day in his life has "a better understanding of freedom than they do." General Anthony Zinni, retired Marine commander Joseph P. Hoar, and the most decorated soldier of the Vietnam war era, Colonel David Hackworth – these are all "cowards," because they challenge the rush to war, while the manly Rice and his fellow chickenhawks are not only morally superior, but gifted with a special insight that entitles them to lead. "First of all, you know, size of protests – it's like deciding, 'Well, I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group,'" said the Boy Emperor, when asked about the effect of the recent anti-war rallies on U.S. policy. "The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon, in this case, the security of the people," he said, looking sternly presidential. Balderdash. This administration doesn't make a move without consulting focus groups. Karl Rove watches the polls, well, like a hawk, and the news is not good for the War Party, even in pro-military, staunchly conservative Alabama. Suddenly, the warmongers themselves are under attack from a growing anti-war movement – that's us, folks! – and an Associated Press report on the poll numbers attributes the shift in opinion to domestic anti-war sentiment as well as last week's dust-up with Turkey over the terms of their joining the coalition of the bribed: "These events took a toll on domestic support for military action, according to polls taken last week by the Gallup Organization and the Pew Research Center. Both found that while majorities say they support the basic proposition of disarming Hussein by force, that support is strongly conditional on obtaining UN approval for any war." With a large majority of the American people leery of war without UN approval, or some kind of international backing, Karl Rove must be having conniptions. This is the reason for the full-scale diplomatic offensive of the past few weeks, meant to bludgeon the French, the Germans, the Russians and the Chinese into line – not because the administration cares one whit about international public opinion, but to buttress Bush's own position at home. Pollsters attribute American ambivalence over this war to fears of the aftermath, in which the U.S. will be left alone to bear the postwar burden of policing and reconstruction. And in deep South states like Alabama, for instance, there is the knowledge that a great deal of the burden will fall directly on their shoulders, as the Mobile Register reports: "Just as in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, however, it's likely that Alabama people will shoulder a disproportionate role in any new conflict. Although the ranks of the Alabama National Guard have shrunk in the last decade, its 15,000 members still make it among the largest state reserve forces in the country. Already, about 4,100 of those troops are on active duty, serving primarily in Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf and stateside on homeland defense duties. In comparison with other states, 'we would be right at the top' in the percentage of mobilized personnel, said Norm Arnold,
[CTRL] President Bush Must Fire Ashcroft
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3008ashcr_patriot2.html This article appears in the February 28, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. President Bush Must Fire Ashcroft by Edward Spannaus For the sake of the nation, and for the survival of his own Presidency, President Bush should dismiss Attorney General John Ashcroft at once. Under the guise of the "war on terrorism," Ashcroft has led a drive to systematically tear up the U.S. Constitution, in a manner that would have been unthinkable only a year or two ago. Moreover, by diverting massive law-enforcement resources into alleged counter-terrorism measures, Ashcroft is seriously undermining the nation's first line of defense against actual terrorism: effective local law enforcement. And now, after more than a year of unprecedented dragnets of Arabs and Muslims, combined with secret detentions, trials and expulsions, Ashcroft's Justice Department has secretly drafted a sequel to the post-9/11 "USA Patriot Act" which would give the Federal government draconian new fascist police-state powers. LaRouche's Warning About Ashcroft While some may be surprised by how far Ashcroft has gone in such a short time to eliminate long-standing Constitutional protections, others, who remember Lyndon LaRouche's warnings in early 2001, are stunned by the accuracy of what LaRouche had forecast. In testimony opposing Ashcroft's confirmation as Attorney General, submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, LaRouche warned that, under crisis conditions, Ashcroft would be used to force through dictatorial measures comparable to the 1933 Nazi emergency laws in Germany—the Notverordnungen (see EIR, Jan. 19, 2001). LaRouche foresaw that it was not simply Ashcroft's role in the Justice Department that would be at issue, but his role as a leading member of the crisis-management team in the Administration as a whole. (We have seen this broader role, for example, in the interplay between Ashcroft's Justice Department and Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon: in the use of military detentions to remove defendants from the civilian justice system, in the proposals for military tribunals, and the creation of a "Northern Command" which has ominous implications for the traditional dividing line between the military and domestic law enforcement.) 'Patriot II' The draft new anti-terrorism bill is truly breathtaking in its sweeping elimination of Constitutional and due-process protections afforded to American citizens and to lawful immigrants. It would permit the Justice Department to investigate, detain, and punish suspected terrorists in secret, without court supervision. It would allow for investigations and extraditions at the request of foreign governments, and would bar a U.S. court from considering the nature of the requesting country's judicial system, or whether the requesting government is persecuting a person for his political opinions. And don't think that the bill's provisions would only apply to alleged terrorists. Its definitions are so sweeping, that political protests which turn violent—even through the actions of agent provocateurs—could be labelled as "terrorist" actions. Likewise, innocent contributions to a non-profit organization could be defined as "material support" for terrorism. The Center for Public Integrity in Washington obtained a leaked copy of the draft legislation, which was written in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy and entitled the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003." In recent months, senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had asked the Justice Department if it were drafting a "Patriot II" bill, and the Justice Department lied, denying that any such legislation was being planned. A number of observers believe that Ashcroft's intention was to wait for the launching of war with Iraq, or a major terrorist incident, to unveil it. This would be similar to the manner in which the first Patriot Act came about: after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Justice Department hastily dusted off many police-state proposals which its officials and their think-tank counterparts had been advocating for years, but had been unable to get through Congress. Surveillance and Investigation The "Patriot II" bill would make it much easier for the government to carry out electronic surveillance and secret "terrorist" investigations. It loosens the present requirements for "national security wiretaps" under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in a number of ways: * Under current law, the "wartime exception" to FISA allows the Attorney General to authorize wiretaps or break-ins without court authorization for a 15-day period following a Declaration of War by the Congress. This is changed, so that the same 15-day exception can be used after a Congressional authorization of the use of force, or a Presidential declaration of emergency caused by an attack on the United States. (Both of those conditions were met in the d
[CTRL] FOOLS BLINDLY FOLLOW THE IMPAIRED
-Caveat Lector- http://www.etherzone.com/2003/sart022403.shtml SOMETIMES FRIENDS KNOW BEST FOOLS BLINDLY FOLLOW THE IMPAIRED By: SARTRE How pompous those people are, who do they think they are, and why are they supporting a thug? Arrogance from a friend is very disappointing, they act like the Bonaparte family is running the country! Just who is this imperial dictator that’s sending that "Grand Army" to the far corners of the empire? Who wants that "Continental" economic system that places sanctions on countries that oppose us! Just what kind of a world is it - run by an emperor - what a betrayal to the "Revolution". One would think this guy is a madman, a pyramid worshipper, wants to rule the world and ram his law down all our throats! Have all those peasants lost sight of why they got rid of the King? Now they willingly let this fellow place a crown on his own head while the mob cheers! What’s next, a swift crash of monarchical punishment coming straight down on your head? It’s hard to believe what is taking place. Just what will happen to all our foreign colonies? Can you believe it, some are even talking about breaking away! The way this is going, we might see domestic terror reign again, this time from the hands of a fraternal despot . . . Are you outraged that a "freedom loving" country would allow such a dictator to command the artillery? No wonder most of the world fears this man and his blood line. You would think he forgot the teaching of education and has reverted to the conduct of a ‘outlaw cowboy’ enforcing his brand of law and order, through the barrel of his gun. Acting like Judge Roy Bean, this law west of the pecos is now being extended to the sands of the gulf. By now you should know we are not speaking about Napoleon, nor is that country France. George W Bush has renounced the office, President of the REPUBLIC, and has taken up the task of emperor for the New World Order. And you wonder why the French have spoken so loud and clear, that they will not blindly send, their Foreign Legions into the desert? They remember the lessons of fighting the nomads with mercenary troops. Beau Gest meets "March or Die" by way of Casablanca doesn’t make intelligent U.S. foreign policy. Establishing permanent headquarters at Fort Saganne following a reincarnated "manifest destiny" fantasy is really a mirage. So why dump on the French when they are trying to save America from another Viet Nam? The Dien Bien Phu that faces America will not be a defeat like that of the Cherusi barbarians in the Teutoburger forest, but it will be a debacle for the NWO colonization empire. And misguided Americans blame the French for being disloyal when they are actually taking the bold lead to tell the ‘New Rome’ that foreign conquest by an imperial power is wrong, doomed to fail and will unleash the hordes seeking revenge? Today’s "Old Guard" is not the Imperial Guard of Napoleon or the a fateful army in service to King George Bush. Our "Old Guard" is the guardian of the 1776 Revolution. The American Conservative has it right: "While the War Party spits out tired insults about Gallic weakness, Paris seems to us a wise ally, trying to prevent an old friend from acting against her deep interests. Rather link the drunk who was denied the car keys, we suspect that America will one day be grateful if Paris succeeds in pushing us back from a looming, self-inflicted catastrophe". It is sad and tragic that the NeoCons have aligned their loyalty to the interests of a suspect foreign and bogus ally, Israel; while abandoning our own nation and trashing our true friend France. When anti-war dissension is portrayed as the sole province of the kooky left, the lies of the NeoCon perverters of our country are exposed for their duplicity. Hear what those, normally labeled as progressive, some who oppose NWO globalization are saying: Anti-American no, anti-Bush yes! "War begins with Dubya", "Bush-Sharon assassins", "Bush, l'empire du pire", "Stop la Busherie" (a play on the word "butchery" in French), "Cowboy go back to your ranch"... Very many demonstrators were calling for "justice for Palestine" and for an "alternative globalisation". France now actually finds itself in a position of moral leadership -- a position that has been stunningly vacant for many years. They are correct in their view of the problem. We authentic conservatives need not accept their solutions or defer to a corrupt UN, but we welcome their opposition to the War Party. When ‘so called’ conservatives and former friends, like NewsMax promote (and want your donations) a S u p p o r t A m e r i c a ! - "Boycott Cowardly France Campaign", they betray our own Revolution and side with that Skull and Bones idol worshipper. France has and still is a genuine friend, and is appealing to our own conscience to rethink this avoidable long march down the road of tyranny. If you dislike the argument of the Left or the "Old Cause" , consider the Libertarian po
[CTRL] US Cracks Down on Illegal Drug Paraphernalia Sales
-Caveat Lector- US Cracks Down on Illegal Drug Paraphernalia Sales By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General John Ashcroft on Monday announced 55 people have been charged with trafficking in illegal drug paraphernalia as part of a nationwide crackdown. Ashcroft said selling drug paraphernalia is a billion-dollar industry and sales have skyrocketed through purchases over the Internet. Of 17 indictments returned in the investigation, ten are against national distributors of drug paraphernalia and seven involve businesses located in Western Pennsylvania, he told a Justice Department news conference. Ashcroft said drug paraphernalia sales had soared with the advent of the Internet, which allows easy access to anyone with a computer. "In homes across America we know that children and young adults are the fastest-growing population of Internet users," he said. "The illegal drug paraphernalia industry has invaded the homes of families across the country without the knowledge of those families." The defendants have been charged with conspiracy to sell and offering to sell various types of drug paraphernalia. The equipment includes miniature scales, substances for diluting raw narcotics, bongs, marijuana pipes, roach clips and cocaine freebase kits. Ashcroft said the defendants are alleged to have knowingly and intentionally sold the items for use with illegal narcotics. Many of the items were disguised as common objects like lipsticks or hi-lighter pens, used by students to elude detection as drug paraphernalia. The defendants face a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Officials said two investigations had put 11 illicit dotcom companies out of business. John Brown, acting chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said, "There are 11 dotcoms that are dot-gone." He said sellers of drug paraphernalia were just as responsible as others for the illegal drug trade. "They are as much a part of drug trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide," Brown said. Ashcroft said a number of Web sites involving the drug paraphernalia have been changed so people who attempt to access them will instead get the Web page of the DEA and will learn that the site has been restrained under court order. He said the government would seek a court order to do the same thing for an additional 15 or 20 Web sites over the next 30 days. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [consortium] Greg Palast's magical mystery tour
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- THIS CORRECTS AN EARLIER VERSION THAT HAD AN INCORRECT DATE FOR THE 3/3 NYC APPEARANCE Beginning this Sunday, I'll be talking about my latest investigations and the new edition of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy-out this week in the USA. We'll be raising funds for co-sponsors of the tour-Pacifica Radio Network stations, Free Speech Radio (with Amy Goodman's Democracy Now), IndyMedia and many others who struggle financially to keep the truth alive. Here are the appearances scheduled so far. Check my website calendar (click on "Appearances" up top) for details on these upcoming events in cities near you. Venues and times for some appearances are yet to be announced. Check the site frequently for updates. Sunday, Feb 23 - Los Angeles - for KPFK - 7 pm - Beverly Garland Hotel Monday, Feb 24 - Houston - for KPFT - 6pm - Arab-American Cultural Center Tuesday: Best Democracy Money Can Buy released in the US by Plume Penguin. Wednesday, Feb 26 - Berkeley - for KPFA - 7 pm - First Congregational Church Thursday Feb 27 - San Francisco - for Independent Media Center - 2 pm - New College Theatre Thursday, Feb 27 - Menlo Park, CA - 6 pm - Kepler's bookstore Friday, Feb 28 - Sebastopol, CA - 5 pm - for Project Censored - Sebastopol Veterans Memorial Building Auditorium Monday, March 3 - 7:30 pm - New York City - 6 pm - Barnes & Noble at 85th & Broadway Tuesday, March 4 - 9 am - Democracy Now! (live national radio appearance) Wednesday, March 5 - Washington, DC - 6:30 pm - Olsson's Books Thursday, March 6 - Baltimore - for IndyMedia - Stony Run Friends' Meeting House Friday, March 7 - Boston - for IndyMedia - Brookline Booksmith Saturday, March 8 - 12 noon - WBZE Boston (live radio appearance) Tuesday, March 11 - Milwaukee - 6:30 pm - Harry Schwartz Books Thursday, March 13 - St. Paul, MN - 7 pm - Resource Center of the Americas Saturday, March 15 - Chicago - for In These Times - Northwestern University Auditorium Monday, March 17 - St. Louis - 6:30 pm - Left Bank Books Tuesday, March 18 - Cleveland (TBA) Thursday, March 20 - Madison, CT - 6:30 pm - RJ Julia Books Friday, March 21 - New York City - for Free Speech Radio - Community Church at 35th Street Between Park and Lexington Tuesday, March 25 - Austin - 6:30 pm - Bookpeople Thursday, March 27 - Tampa/Miami, FL Friday, March 28 - Tampa/Miami, FL Saturday, March 29 - Taos, NM - for SOMOS (Society Of the Muse Of the Southwes
[CTRL] sex slavery, ritual crime, protecting children, Bush gives reactors to N. Korea
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors two from L Moss Sharman Global summit aims to alleviate the plight of girls sold as sex slaves Carolyn Lochhead 2/23/03 "Slaves are traded every day, by the hundreds of thousands every year, in the United States and around the world. The trade goes largely unnoticed, perhaps because the slaves are women. Girls, actually -- as young as 6 or 7 -- who have been captured or sold or lured under false pretenses into prostitution, an estimated $7 billion annual business, involving an estimated 4 million women, including 75,000 in the United States." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/23/MN92308.DTL f Minnesotan gets three years in voodoo killing AP 2/23/03 Superior, WI - "A Minnesota man has been sentenced to three years in prison under a plea agreement for acting as an accomplice in the 1997 voodoo ritual killing of his uncle, a Minneapolis pharmacist and self-proclaimed voodoo high priest." http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3669742.html see SMART #49 for more info on this case New book provides expanded study on child sexual abuse Ann Arbor, Mich.-Greater emphasis on the danger of false allegations of child sexual abuse is misdirected: The attention should be placed on the danger of being sexually abused and not disclosing the abuse, a University of Michigan professor says. "Children have lost their voice," said Kathleen Coulborn Faller, a professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Family Assessment Clinic. "Although publicity about priest cases helps some, it has not turned the tide in favor of children." Children who report sexual abuse must continue to meet a high threshold by providing a detailed account to authorities in order to be believed, she said. Only about 10 percent of the cases ever reach the criminal courts and about half are lost at trial, she said. Faller provides comprehensive coverage of child sexual abuse in her new book, "Understanding and Assessing Child Sexual Maltreatment." Sage Publications, Inc. http://www.umich.edu/news/Releases/2003/Jan03/r013003a.html http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings-three/north-korea-bomb-making.htm Bush Gives N. Korea Two Reactors Capable Of Bomb-Making Comments Bush Gives N. Korea Two Reactors Capable Of Bomb-Making By Matt Bivens Moscow Times 9-19-2 In his famous "axis of evil" speech, President George W. Bush said "North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens." Fair enough. So why is the United States hand-delivering to Great Leader Kim Jong Il a pair of nuclear power reactors capable of producing enough weapons-grade plutonium each year to make dozens of nuclear bombs? In the early 1990s, North Korea was running domestically built reactors that were churning out bomb-grade plutonium. It was the heart of a covert weapons program that has, according to U.S. intelligence, already yielded "one or two" nuclear bombs. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] D/L Alex Jones - Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove. (mpg)
-Caveat Lector- An Interesting excerpt from the movie (23 minutes - 69.3mb) that shows the world's elite engaging in occult rituals in Bohemian Grove. http://control-alt-delete.ca/Alex_Jones-Dark_Secrets_Inside_Bohemian_Grove.mpg So if you want to see it, get it while you can. I will be removing it from my webspace in a a couple days to replace it with 911 - The Road To Tyranny. (complete...a helluva lot better quality that Alex Jones offers on infowars.com) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Removal of whistleblower protection in TWA 800 shootdown
-Caveat Lector- Executive Order 13039 of March 14, 1997 removed whisleblower protection from U.S. Navy personnel in the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG). This group was involved in the missile exercise that resulted in the shoot down of TWA 800. The EO is in a pdf file that can't be copied, but can be printed from the URL below. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1997_register&docid=fr14mr97-134.pdf Following is the provision in the U.S. Code cited in the EO as President Clinton's authority to remove the protection from the NSWDG. Title 5 USC Section 71 (b) (1) The President may issue an order excluding any agency or subdivision thereof from coverage under this chapter if the President determines that - (A) the agency or subdivision has as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work, and (B) the provisions of this chapter cannot be applied to that agency or subdivision in a manner consistent with national security requirements and considerations. (2) The President may issue an order suspending any provision of this chapter with respect to any agency, installation, or activity located outside the 50 States and the District of Columbia, if the President determines that the suspension is necessary in the interest of national security Additionally, on January 7, 2002 President George W. Bush signed EO 13252 removing whitleblower protection from the following agencies. United States Attorneys' Offices Criminal Division INTERPOL - U.S. National Central Bureau National Drug Intelligence Center Office of Intelligence and Review The EO can be found at the URL below. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&docid=fr11ja02-128.pdf www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Hussein Doesn't Use Focus Polls Either
-Caveat Lector- So what do we expect from Oedipus Moron? When 80% of the world is just a "focus group" we know how much respect he has for global democracy. POC On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Euphorian wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > February 23, 2003 > > To Bush, the Crowd Was a Blur > > By TODD S. PURDUM > > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/weekinreview/23PURD.html?ex= > 1047017042&ei=1&en=3e8d573c5380529b > > > ASHINGTON Most politicians around the world were impressed by the > scale and intensity of last weekend's global protests against a probable war > with Iraq. > > Not President Bush. > > "Size of protest it's like deciding, well, I'm going to decide policy based > upon a focus group," Mr. Bush said. > > Not quite. > > A focus group is a handful of people, carefully culled to reflect diverse > viewpoints, chosen to help politicians or companies figure out how to sell > a policy or a product. > > Led by a facilitator, they are poked and prodded in a private room, asked > about their likes and dislikes and encouraged to speak while strategists > eavesdrop behind a one-way mirror. > > And while Mr. Bush may not like to acknowledge it, his administration does > use focus groups, most recently to help determine how best to couch its > public messages about domestic security. > > The technique was developed to test the effects of Army training and > propaganda films in World War II, and politicians and Hollywood studios > have since perfected it into a minor art. > > "I hate to see them maligned," Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster and > focus-group maestro, said. "They're tools. They're no replacement for > leadership. But they have their place. The interesting thing is that a public > demonstration is actually not a representative sample, because the > protesters share the same beliefs on the issue. In many ways, focus groups > are more representative of public opinion." > > Focus groups are used to measure the whys behind the public's view of a > given issue, while polls typically reflect the whats and how-muches. A > moderator can test how audiences respond to even the smallest changes > in wording or emphasis. > > What President Bush doubtless meant was that confronting Iraq is > necessary, whether or not that makes him popular in Paris or Peoria. But > he, too, is well aware of public opinion. > > "They do as much polling as the Clinton administration," said Alan K. > Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming. "I used to think they > didn't, but they do." > > Mr. Luntz said what he saw of the protests "shook me up." > > "The fact that these were the biggest demonstrations in three decades > does say something about underlying public opinion around the world," he > said. "You can't ignore it. You don't have to accept it. You don't have to > follow it. But you can't ignore it." > > > Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company | Privacy Policy > Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article > have to stand on their own merits. > > 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 genera- > tions. 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 Sut > > http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > == > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic > screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are > sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- > directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with > major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. > That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and > always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no > credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. > > Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. > > Archives Available at: > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl > ==
[CTRL] Antiwar Merchandise Banned by Worlpay
-Caveat Lector- http://www.SmokeBush.co.uk T-shirts Banned UK based Internet merchant facility Worldpay, confirmed today that they would not get involved in the sale of uber-cool antiwar tshirts, even though a significant percentage from every sale is going to Gulf War Veterans and their families. Worldpay's customer acceptance department sent the following email to my good friend who is responsible for the campaign. > After looking at the link you have provided, we have taken a look > at the wording of the T-shirts. > > We reserve the right to decline any applications/products and feel > this is not an area that WorldPay wishes to get involved in. > >Therefore, you will not be able to add the T-Shirts onto your existing site. > >Regards, > >Tracy Williams >Customer Acceptance The T-shirts may still be ordered via paypal but we expect it's only a matter of time before paypal executives hear about the controlversial design. For more details go to http://www.smokebush.co.uk Paul http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
-Caveat Lector- SECRETS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Virtual March on Washington
-Caveat Lector- http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/ Virtual March on Washington Headquarters Welcome. MoveOn.org is hosting the online headquarters for the Virtual March on Washington on February 26th, sponsored by the Win Without War Coalition. Please join us NOW for the march. On February 26th, every Senate office will receive a call every minute from a constituent, as they receive a simultaneous flood of faxes and e-mail. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the country will send the collective message: Don't Attack Iraq. Every Senate switchboard will be lit up throughout the day with our message -- a powerful reminder of the breadth and depth of opposition to a war in Iraq. And on that day, "antiwar rooms" in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles will highlight the day's progress for the national media, while local media can visit the "antiwar room" online to monitor this constituent march throughout the day. We need your help NOW to make the Virtual March a reality. You can (1) prepare a free fax for transmission on the day of the march, and (2) register to make phone calls to Congress on the day of the march below. We're lining people up for every minute of the day in every state. Faxes are very easy and phone calls are the most effective. Do both or do whatever you can. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] US banks balk at damning evidence
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- Bravo Eliot Spitzer. Let the good times roll! Can't wait to see all those good files that the Street are so nervous about... bet there's going to be some red, red faces ducking into waiting limo's on the day the release of files occurs. Bravo Eliot Spitzer. - Original Message - From: Lic. Jim adams To: CIA-DRUGS Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:11 AM Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] US banks balk at damning evidence US banks balk at damning evidenceBy Simon English in New York (Filed: 24/02/2003) Wall Street banks are embroiled in a behind-the-scenes row with Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General, over his plans to make public his damning evidence that they routinely misled investors. In the open: Eliot Spitzer plans to publish all subpoenaed documents The banks and state regulators are in talks to agree the final terms of the historic $1.4 billion (£880m) settlement announced last year after one of the most wounding periods of scandal in Wall Street history. Banks are upset at Mr Spitzer's intention to make all the internal documents he subpoenaed publicly available. They argue this will encourage a mass of class-action lawsuits that will take years to resolve and cost billions of dollars. Privately some accuse him of undermining the entire legal process that banks enter into when they share internal emails, papers and phone transcripts with regulators. Wall Street agreed to pay a record fine and fund independent share research after allegations that the share tips they foisted on the investing public were little more than sales documents for their own clients. Citigroup is paying $400m, Merrill Lynch $200m, Credit Suisse First Boston $200m, Morgan Stanley $125m and Goldman Sachs $110m. A legal adviser at one of the top banks said: "The Securities & Exchange Commission has been bringing enforcement action for 67 years - it has never taken files and made them public." He believes Mr Spitzer is subverting both the attorney/client privilege that banks agree to waive when they release details of interviews with staff and rules passed by Congress aimed at cutting frivolous lawsuits. Mr Spitzer's office declined to comment on the row, though a spokesman said the evidence being released would "further embarrass many brokerage firms that swore they were not engaging in such behaviour". The crux of Mr Spitzer's case against Wall Street was that supposedly independent analysts gave optimistic reports on flaky companies in order to keep fees rolling in for investment banking work. Damaging internal emails already released show high-profile finance experts admitting that the shares they were promoting were "dogs" and "pigs". The banks always insisted these emails were taken out of context and worry that the wider conversation which would exonerate them will not be included in the documents made public. Many more class-action lawsuits are likely if Mr Spitzer goes ahead with his plan to release evidence of malfeasance, which is likely to include details of how analysts' bonuses were calculated. The banks are also contesting the wording of the final set
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] PLANS TO INVADE AMERICA
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- Details of the Plan To Invade America: TROOPS INVOLVED: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IMMEDIATE AIM: OUST THE OIL-ARMS-MONEY CARTEL FROM CONTROL OF AMERICA AND IMPRISON THE GANG LEADERS AND ASSOCIATES SOMEWHERE NASTY. IN THE SECOND WEEK: A) ORGANISE ELECTIONS IN WHICH ANYONE CAN STAND - AND THE NWO WON'T BE ABLE TO BLOW UP PLANES OF PROSPECTIVE ELECTED BECAUSE THE PEOPLE STANDING ARE US - THE 'COMMON' PEOPLE - AND WE DON'T OWN BLINKIN PRIVATE PLANES! NUREMBERG TRIALS - PART II: Find those responsible for: 1] THE 50 YEARS (FIFTY BLINKIN LONG YEARS!!) COVER-UP OF FREE ENERGY, ET & UFOS. 2] THE WORLDWIDE SPRAYING OF TOXIC, POISONOUS CHEMTRAILS - AND MAKE EACH PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR POISONING THE WORLD IN THIS ATROCIOUS MANNER DRINK 10 GALLONS OF THE NASTY STUFF. 3] DITTO FOR THOSE WHO CREATED AIDS. 4] BRING KENNEDY'S AND MLK'S KILLERS TO JUSTICE (SHOOT THEM). 5) FIND THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR WACO, TWA 800, 9-11, OKC BOMBING, KENNEDY'S SON, ETC. ETC. - TAKE THEM OUT INTO THE ATLANTIC AND DROP THEM FROM 50,000 FEET AFTER FILLING THEM WITH 50 GALLONS OF CHEMTRAIL POISON AND AIDS VIRUS. 6) ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. --- OPERATION REDEMPTION http://www.world-action.co.uk/redemption.html WORLD-ACTION IMPORTANT INFORMATION http://www.world-action.co.uk/important.html TOXIC CHEMTRAILS CAUGHT ON RADAR http://www.world-action.co.uk/radar.html OPERATION 'TELL ANOTHER' IN 2003 http://www.world-action.co.uk/operation2003.html "SHOCKED & HORRIFIED" http://www.world-action.co.uk/horrified.html BLOODY AWFUL POISONOUS CHEMTRAILS http://www.world-action.co.uk/chemtrails.html WORLD-ACTION http://www.world-action.co.uk PLEASE FORWARD - and: AMERICANS - GET READY TO ATTACK AMERICA. WE'LL DEAL WITH PRESIDENT BLAIR IN THE UK. Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- End Message ---
[CTRL] Fwd: [NA] Oh yeah, Computerized Votefraud . . .
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- For New Readers: Please read messages after this ewire. These short messages include how to subscribe and unsubscribe. Also, it appears Topica has begun requiring all lists to allow them to place their ads at the top of our email messages. At Network America we have tried to exclude all ads except in relation to politics. Any messages appearing are solely the responsibility of Topica. === Did you know there is a natural alternative to Prozac and Zoloft with GUARANTEED RESULTS? http://click.topica.com/caaaPAtbz8SjbbAqVDCa/UtopiaSilver ">http://click.topica.com/caaaPAtbz8SjbbAqVDCa/UtopiaSilver === February 24, 2003 NA (Network America) e-wire Oh yeah, Computerized Votefraud . . . As to my promise of shorter e-wires, heres a sample of one: As veteran readers know, I spent the entire first year (2000) of this e-wire trying to make the dangers of computerized votefraud a household word. But since 9-1101 -- I have grievously neglected that subject. Part of the reason is that it hasnt been a Presidential election year. And part of the reason is that Ive already said everything that needs to be said in the overall. (Many key articles can be found at www.realnews247.com and then scroll down to the link: Votescam: Computerized Votefraud vs. Honest Elections. But a VERY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT is about to happen. A new investigator, Bev Harris, is about to come out with a new book: Black Box Voting. The subtitle is: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century. This is an excellent title, and she is going to expose who owns the five or six major companies counting our votes by computer program, -- and how UNVERIFIABLE and open to rigging their touch screen voting systems are, as well as their other systems. Go to www.blackboxvoting.com for more information on this soon to be published book. Bev Harris is now carrying the torch for exposing this monstrous fraud on the American people. IF hear me now IF elections are not made OPEN, HONEST, and VERIFIABLE then American patriots will be left with no alternative than to overthrow the usurpers county by county with force of arms if necessary and enforce an open, honest, and verifiable count. See the article: Battle of Athens: Fight for America at the realnews247.com sight in the votescam section for the sound historical precedent for such patriotic action. Also, the Kraft Home Theater movie, An American Story deals with this incident in fictionalized form. To get this movie for excellent home viewing, call 1-800-Hallmark or go to www.hallmark.com ) The easier course will be to win over the local Sheriffs and the Police chiefs to get serious about doing their job in this area, -- who ideally would show up with citizens and enforce their right to double check the computer count BEFORE the ballots leave the neighborhood precinct. Such use of arms to reclaim our true constitutional freedoms, -- if it would come to that would NOT be overthrowing the government it would simply be stopping usurpers who have seized power by unverifiable and therefore worthless -- computer counts. Honest citizens would thereby stop these vote crooks from stealing the country and stealing our childrens destiny. Here is what intrepid internet correspondent Andrew Fuetterer had to say on the subject: The continuation of unverifiable, easily rigged computerized elections -- is planting the seeds for the necessity of citizens of the USA to take other routes [to] regain control of our national destiny by restoring honest, verifiable elections, -- as is our right, enunciated in the founding documents of the United States of America, un
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Zionised America Destroyed Iranian Democracy back in 1953 .... now Iraq
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- Australia baulks at US plans for a postwar Iraq By Marian Wilkinson in Washington and Tom Allard February 25 2003 Australia has expressed concern to the United States about plans to rule Iraq for up to two years following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Canberra voiced its fears after Australian observers attended a secret two-day meeting in Washington on how Iraq was to be run after a war. The meeting, held by the Pentagon's postwar Iraq planning office, was described as a rehearsal for administering Iraq by US officials and their coalition supporters for up to two years until a new Iraqi Government could be put in place. Australia and Britain want greater United Nations involvement in postwar Iraq, more opportunities for Iraqi opposition figures to participate and a swifter move to democratic elections. "We've made it clear to the United States that we think it's very important that the United Nations has a key role in Iraq," Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, said yesterday. "I don't think it's necessarily going to be quite as simple as a US-led military administration." The role for the US to maintain security in Iraq was "short-term", he added. Government sources fear the US plans could provoke further hostility towards the West in Muslim countries and undermine assurances that the US and its allies are liberators, not conquerors. The Pentagon hopes that the Australian Government will make a greater contribution to postwar Iraq than the small humanitarian effort so far discussed. However, the Prime Minister, John Howard, is resisting efforts to draw Australia into it. There are signs that the Bush Administration is deeply divided over what role the UN should play after the war. Some Pentagon officials want the US to be free from UN restraint. Others, including some senators, believe that a UN presence will make a postwar administration more politically palatable in the region and cheaper. The postwar plans were discussed last week with Iraq opposition leaders, who are being asked to sit on a "consultative council" advising US administrators. However, the opposition has been angered by US insistence that it will be in charge of the civilian government and overseeing reconstruction and humanitarian aid. A Pentagon lawyer, Michael Mobbs, was named as the new civil administrator for Iraq. He would answer to the US military governor, General Tommy Franks, one report said. AFTER SADDAM US military governor: General Tommy Franks, who now leads the forces aligned against Iraq. Civilian administrator: Michael Mobbs, a lawyer who argued that a US citizen captured in Afghanistan should be denied rights in the US court system. Consultative council to advise US administrators, a move that has angered Iraqi exiles. -- -- Mr Mobbs's appointment will also be viewed as controversial. He came to prominence in Washington for his legal arguments to a US court that an American citizen captured in Afghanistan should be deemed an "enemy combatant" and denied any legal rights in the US. Opposition leaders are meeting in northern Iraq this week and intend to debate the plans with US officials. Time magazine reported yesterday that US construction companies were being briefed by the Bush Administration on $US900 million ($1.5 billion) worth of contracts to rebuild the country. The contracts would go "exclusively to US companies and to subcontractors from nations officially designated as friendly", the report said. This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/24/1046063966089.html For more http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeam
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] [Fwd: what is Hollinger International all about?]
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- It used to be the case (and may still be) that the non-board advisers and members of international advisory panel were far more high profile than the board itself. I am re-posting my 20th January 2003 post providing some details of these guys: *** Anyone wishing to take a serious look at Conrad Black need only look at his Hollinger Corp and those he has sitting on his Board of Directors, International Advisory Board and Directors of subsidiary companies. The papers I have naming these are now a few years out of date (1993) but included such notables as: Baroness Thatchler (Honorary Senior International Advisor), Lord Carrington (Senior Intl Advisor), Henry Kissinger (likewise), Giovanni Agnelli (member Intl Advisory Board), Zbigniew Brzezinski (same), William Buckley Jr (same), Sir James Goldsmith (same), Lord Hanson (same), Chaim Herzog (same), Richard Perle (same), Lord Rothschild (same), Paul Volcker (same), Rupert Hambro (director of subsidiary), Henry Kiswick (same), Lord King (same), Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (same), Lord Swaythling (same). This is a listing straight out of the Bilderberg Conferences and Trilat memberships. Dear old Peter Carrington, as a young Guards officer during WWII, appears to have made a bit of a whoopsy-daisy during a significant battle following the Allied invasion on D-day, by not prosecuting an attack - using his tank troop - on a certain bridge that was defended by one solitary Nazi tank. That odd lack of action arguably resulted in the failure of Montgomery's bold plan to capture the bridges in Holland and enter Germany via the backdoor -- a plan so audacious that it was believed it would end the war by Christmas 1944. And just where did this mighty sit-down-and-do-nothing attitude occur? Well, let's see... could it possibly be at a place called "Oosterbeck" - famous, if for nothing else, for being the lexact geographical ocation of the now infamous Hotel de Bilderberg, which hosted the first ever meeting of the Bilderberg Group in 1954. It would be even more curious if Lord Carrington ever attended a Bilderberg Conference. Which, of course, he did. I wonder how he relayed the abject inactivity of his Guards tank troop as it drew to a complete, grinding halt on the far side of the Nijmegen bridge, just captured at an atrocious cost by the courage of the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne. One also wonders if it was during these monumentous events, that Peter Carrington first met Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands - formerly a German prince who, prior to his marriage in 1937 (as I recall) was employed by NW7, the foreign intelligence division of the Nazi's most beloved I G Farben? Perhaps cynicism is ruling my black heart and these two only met when Carrington attended the Bilderberg Conference of which Prince Bernhard was the Chairman (that is until he got caught soliciting bribes in the Lockheed scandal). However, the thing about the failure of the attack on the bridge at Arnhem, was that it left intact Bormann's capital flight programme, Aktion Fuueland (Operation Fireland), which was set in motion a month earlier during the then secret meeting at the Hotel Maison Rouge in Strasbourg on 10th August 1944. Bormann needed a year to get all the Nazi assets and plunder safely stashed away before the war ended (which by then was inevitable, by the way). Had the war finished by Christmas 1944 - as predicted in the event of the success of Operation Market Garden - then all that luvely jubely such as cash, gold, artworks and industrial patents, diamonds, morphine, more cash, platinum, gold coins, lots more cash, pre-war securities (mostly American issued), more cash... would've quite possibly fallen into the "official" hands of the Allied powers. And that
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] RUMSFELD DIRECTED AIRLIFT OF AL QAEDA AND TALIBAN LEADERSHIP
-Caveat Lector- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om --- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- RUMSFELD DIRECTED AIRLIFT OF AL QAEDA AND TALIBAN LEADERSHIP RUMSFELD DIRECTED AIRLIFT OF AL QAEDA AND TALIBAN LEADERSHIP TO PAKISTAN. HERSH STILL DOES NOT REALLY GET IT THOUGH. HE IS APPARENTLY CONFOUNDED AND CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY RUMMY WOULD SAVE THE AL QAEDA LEADERS. STILL THINKS WE ARE FIGHTING A WAR ON TERROR. BUT THEY HAVE BEEN IN THE SERVICE OF THE GLOBALIST MAFIOSI FROM DAY ONE. Transcript: Jane Wallace Interviews Seymour Hersh There was about a three or four nights in which I can tell you maybe six, eight, 10, maybe 12 more-- or more heavily weighted-- Pakistani military planes flew out with an estimated-- no less than 2,500 maybe 3,000, maybe mmore. I've heard as many as four or 5,000. They were not only-- Al Qaeda but they were also-- you see the Pakistani ISI was-- the military advised us to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. There were dozens of senior Pakistani military officers including two generals who flew out. And I also learned after I wrote this story that maybe even some of Bin Laden's immediate family were flown out on the those evacuations. We allowed them to evacuate. We had an evacuation. I am here to tell you it was authorized Donald Rumsfeld who we'll talk about what he said later it had to be authorized at the White House. But certainly at the Secretary of Defense level. http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_hersh.html SEE ALSO: THE GETAWAY by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Questions surround a secret Pakistani airlift. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020128fa_FACT The `airlift of evil' Why did we let Pakistan pull `volunteers' out of Kunduz? http://propagandamatrix.com/the_airlift_of_evil.html Washington Behind Indo-Pakistan Conflict: How American Special Forces organised the evacuation of Al Qaeda and Pakistan ISI Forces to Kashmir. http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HER206A.html US helped Taliban to safety, magazine claims http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,636763,00.html US 'let Taleban men escape' http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/airlifts.htm Transcript: Jane Wallace Interviews Seymour Hersh JANE WALLACE: Thank you for joining us. SY HERSH: Glad to be here. JANE WALLACE: It might be safely said that the one country for whom the war on terror has been a bombless bonanza is Pakistan. In a matter of two weeks they went from being an international pariah, to being our new best friend. The aid started flowing. It is flowing in the billions. Are they worthy of our friendship and our aid, the Pakistanis? SY HERSH: In a perfect world, sure, it would be great if Musharraf, the head of the country can hold it together and they can become secular. And we can avoid having an Islamic republic with a lot of nuclear weapons. But it's di
[CTRL] www.truthaboutwar.org
-Caveat Lector- A History of Lies http://www.truthaboutwar.org/home.shtml We want to trust our President. And many of us were impressed by Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council. But anyone can convince us of anything, if they don't share all the evidence. You won't hear all the evidence about the Iraq conflict from our politicians, or from most of the "ambulance chasing" media. But you can find it in history books, in investigative journalism, and even in government reports that rarely see the light of day. We have distilled much of this information for you here. Historians now know that many of our past conflicts were based on lies. Sadly, the full list of these lies would fill many pages covering conflicts over several decades, and spanning every part of the globe. Some of these past lies are exposed here, but please realize that we usually don't learn the whole truth about our wars until many years later, when the damage is already done. Could this be happening now? Our answer is yes. But this time we don't have to wait for the future history of Gulf War II to be written to know that its justifications are based on a thin tissue of political lies. We can know this now because history is repeating itself. Many of the leaders who gave us Gulf War I now want to start Gulf War II. So we can judge their credibility now by examining what they did then. The past actions of the Bush Presidents, and their family retainers like Cheney, Powell, and others, expose the lies they are telling today. continued below… Make a difference: help broadcast our radio ads! But the best political lies are usually wrapped in layers of truth, the better to deceive, and so it is in this case. It's true that Hussein is a brutal dictator, but that isn't why Bush wants to remove him. The whole truth is that our politicians have encouraged Hussein's brutality, thus showing that they have no quarrel with his behavior in principle. Read the evidence for this claim by clicking here. It's true that Hussein has violated UN resolutions, but that isn't why Bush wants to remove him. The whole truth is that our own politicians have no real respect for international law, and have encouraged Hussein to violate these laws in the past. Read the evidence for this claim by clicking here. It's probably true that Hussein has some UN prohibited weapons, but that isn't why Bush wants to remove him. The whole truth is that our politicians have aided Hussein in acquiring these weapons, and encouraged him in their use. Read the evidence for this claim by clicking here. It's true that Hussein has invaded his neighbors, but that isn't why Bush wants to remove him. The whole truth is that our politicians encouraged Hussein's first invasion, and were complicit in his second. See Claim #4, Claim #5, and The truth about Hussein's brutality. But not all government lies are wrapped in layers of partial truth—some are simply lies, unvarnished by any cover of truth. We're told that a war on Iraq is the next logical step in the war on terrorism, but it isn't true. Regime change was our government's policy long before 9-11. Our politicians have exploited the 9-11 murders as a justification for their pre- existing desire, without regard to the true needs of the war on terror. See Claim #7. We're told that our past foreign interventions were no part of the cause of the 9-11 murders, or of terrorism in general, but it isn't true. Even the Pentagon's own experts think there's a link between terrorism and our foreign policy. Read the evidence for this claim by clicking here. We're told that war on Iraq is the only way to protect America, but it isn't true. In reality, invading Iraq will increase the risk we face. And there's a time-tested alternative to pre- emptive war that will make us safer. Read the evidence for this claim by clicking here. Finally, in addition to giving you the evidence against the war on Iraq, this site also gives you tools to share the truth with your fellow citizens. As you read this website you'll be struck by how little of this information has been covered by the electronic media, despite its obsessive 24/7 coverage. So what can we do to get the facts out? Our approach is to broadcast radio ads telling part of the story, and that will bring people to this site to learn more. We need your financial help to broadcast these ads to as many people as possible. This is very urgent. The war could start at any minute. To contribute to our radio ad campaign, click here. Second, you can use our online form to email your friends about this site. Third, you can follow our progress by subscribing to our free email newsletter, TruthWatch. To subscribe, click here. Thank you for visiting and supporting TruthAboutWar.org. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is d
[CTRL] French Post Cards
-Caveat Lector- Those Shameful Frenchmen http://harrybrowne.org/articles/FrenchAndAmericans.htm by Harry Browne February 22, 2003 WorldNetDaily recently published a number of outraged letters, blaming the French for every imaginable moral crime — because the French won’t join George Bush’s crusade against Iraq. This controversy has provided a wonderful opportunity for people to demonstrate their moral superiority. Oh those degenerate Frenchmen! Dilettantes, cowards, opportunists, moral pygmies. We Americans, we’re the brave ones, the defenders of truth, justice, and the underdog. Look at the way we liberated Afghanistan. And now we want to do the same for Iraq, but the craven, cowardly French are standing in our way. And they have the gall to act as though they’re the moral ones! That’s the thanks we get for saving France from the Nazis. Those ingrates turn their backs on us — after all we’ve done for them. Don’t they realize that what we (meaning a previous generation) did in World War II makes them indebted to us forever — obligating every French President to do whatever any American President commands, no matter how violent, aggressive, or irrational? This is similar to the mother who has a perpetual trump card: "I went through labor for you, and this is the way you repay me. You owe me." Presumably, for the rest of your natural life. The poor French. They don’t realize that their debt will never be "Paid in full." Don’t Forget the Collaborators And we’re not supposed to forget how many of those cowards collaborated with the Nazis. Of course, Americans are morally superior to the French in that regard — mainly because Americans have never been in the same position. It’s easy for people in the safety of their American armchairs to decide how courageous other people should be — that they should stand up to tyranny, endure torture, sacrifice themselves. It’s easy when you never have to face the same choices. Of course, many Frenchmen did stand up to the Nazis. Over 100,000 of them died before the U.S. ever got into the war. And speaking of forgetting things, why have the tales of the heroic French resistance gone down the memory hole? Self-Interest Many of the letter-writers know why the French won’t join the American crusade. It’s because they’re playing financial Footsie with the Iraqis. They’re shamefully selfish — unlike Americans, who only want to bring peace to the world through war. Once again, maybe some memories need to be jogged. It was Donald Rumsfeld, after all, who shook hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983. http://www.ithaca.edu/politics/gagnon/talks/us-iraq.htm It was Americans who sold deadly chemicals to Iraq during the 1980s. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/31/world/main534798.shtml It was the Reagan administration that provided military intelligence to Iraq in its war with Iran. http://www.msnbc.com/news/795649.asp?cp1=1 And it was American ambassador April Glaspie who in 1990 gave Hussein the green light to settle his oil disputes with Kuwait by force if necessary. http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html One disgruntled Frenchman, writing to WorldNetDaily, complained that French politicians have always been chummy with terrorist nations — such as Syria. He neglected to mention, however, that Gulf War members of the coalition that attacked Iraq in 1991 (including the U.S.) gave Syria billions of dollars — just to get Syria’s name on the coalition letterhead. Of course, the Syrians didn’t actually fight against Iraq. They were too busy attacking Lebanon to be able to help. But they did give moral support. Who’s out of Step? And rather than call the French out of step today, perhaps we should notice that people all over the world are siding with the French, not the Americans. Understand that I said siding with the French, not with Iraq. It was the French presentation at the UN that was greeted with applause — while Colin Powell’s accusations provoked stony silence. Why There’s a Difference of Opinion Perhaps the WorldNetDaily letter-writers should understand why the Europeans aren’t as all-fired eager to go to war as so many Americans are. And the reason has nothing to do with cowardice. To most Americans, war is impersonal. War is dropping a few harmless bombs on foreign countries, the regrettable-but-heroic deaths of a handful of American soldiers, collateral damage, mopping up, peacekeeping, General Schwarzkopf on TV explaining smart bombs. But to Europeans, war is personal. Their parents and grandparents — and even some of those living today — have experienced war first-hand. They’ve seen the destruction of their own homes, the loss of the property they worked a lifetime to accumulate, the murder of relatives and close friends, whole cities flattened, dead bodies decomposing in pools of blood, the brutality of conquering soldiers, damage that’s far from collateral, and outcomes far different from what was promised. To them, war is real — not
[CTRL] LAST WILL& TESTAMENT
-Caveat Lector- [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=29009 Rumor Mill News Reading Room Forum ADOLF HITLER'S LAST WILL& TESTAMENT 1945 (REVISED 2003) Posted By: ArtBishop Date: Sunday, 23 February 2003, 1:28 a.m. ADOLF HITLER'S LAST WILL & TESTAMENT 1945 (REVISED 2003) Israel ignores the United Nations and has weapons of mass destruction.So why all the fuss about Iraq? READ THIS ECONOMIST ARTICLE : OUR PATHETC DOUBLE STANDARD THAT HAS INFURIATED THE REST of THE FREE WORLD http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1378577 "As the world debates the merits of another American-led war against Mr Hussein, the idea has returned in a new form. Israel has violated countless UN resolutions and amassed weapons of mass destruction, say those who oppose this war. Why then is Iraq singled out for yet more punishment while the Israelis get off scot-free? This question is no longer being asked by Arabs alone. “No war against Iraq, Free Palestine” has become the slogan of anti-war demonstrators in Europe and America. The two conflicts have become entwined in the public mind in a way that the West's politicians can NOT ignore." Israel is acting arrogantly and irresponsibly and speaking like a superpower because it has WMD's in their arsenals and know that "THEY" control America. The A- Team of Zionists Wolfowitz Perle Libby Abrams Fliesher Eagleburger Feith Luttwak Kissinger Zakheim Satloff Grossman Haass Zoellick Schlessinger Sembler Chertoff Bolten Goldsmith Goldman Gildenhorn Gerstein Weinberger Bodman Cohen Davis Bloomfield Lefkowitz Frum Melman Blakeman Eagleburger Allgright Greenspan Liberman.The B- Team and C- Team of senators congressmen governors generals mayors judges is endless. Most Successful Cabal in History http://www.aljazeerah.info/ Bushes Rogues Gallery "Perhaps the most telling decision in the gang was the selection of Paul Wolfowitz over Richard Haass. "It [was] a fight for the soul of George W. Bush on foreign policy in general but also Middle East policy specifically," commented AEI's Middle East analyst, David Wurmser. Haass is a Middle East specialist who served under President Bush as senior director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council and currently directs foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institute. He comes from the branch of the Republican Party most closely identified with President Bush and James Baker, a wing which opted against continued pursuit of Saddam Hussein's forces in 1991 and which also clashed with the pro-Israel lobby over loan guarantees in 1992. This side of the party, more closely tied to big business, and oil companies in particular, has tended to prefer multilateralism and diplomatic engagement over simple military confrontation. On Iraq, for example, Haass has argued against arming the Iraqi National Congress for fear that it would trigger "a region-wide war with Syria, Iran and Turkey." He has also advocated for a "more nuanced policy with Iran" and taking a firmer stand with Israel. Wolfowitz, on the other hand, is a preeminent hard-liner from the Reaganite side of the party which advocates an aggressive US policy of rolling back perceived threats. He is dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and former undersecretary of defense. "Wolfowitz is one of the best representatives of the classical neo-conservative Reagan Republicans. He believes very strongly that power can be used very effectively to create more power," Wurmser told The Forward of New York. For years Wolfowitz has been pushing hard to arm the Iraqi National Congress, complaining to the House International Relations Committee in February 1997: "For all the talk about supporting the opposition, the United States has yet to deliver a single rifle." More recently, Wolfowitz has advocated the use of US ground troops to carve out pieces of Iraqi territory, telling The New Republic in December: "It will take American forces to create a protected area in which opposition forces can organize and to which units from Saddam's army can defect." Gen. Anthony Zinni, commander of American forces in the Persian Gulf, called such plans "a Bay of Goats" scenario." http://www.merip.org/mer/mer216/216_urbina.html "Buttressing Wolfowitz on the far right is Richard Perle, another Vulcan cold warrior and a former assistant Secretary of Defense. Within the Reagan administration, Perle earned the nickname "The Prince of Darkness" for being so hard-line. He is credited with bringing to the Pentagon a number of staunchly pro-Israel activists who dramatically increased weapons sales to Israel. In 1996, Perle gained the distinction of simultaneously advising both the Dole campaign in the United States and the Netanyahu campaign in Israel. He was the principal author of "A Clean Break," a widely circulated policy paper published by the Institute for Advanced
[CTRL] War "Prosperity"
-Caveat Lector- The Myth of War Prosperity by Robert Higgs February 6, 2003 Letters to the Editor The Wall Street Journal To the editor: Bob Davis and Gref Jaffe?s article (Feb. 4) on the likely economic consequences of a U.S. war against Iraq errs by giving past wars credit for creating positive economic effects. This hoary fallacy, it seems, just can?t be killed. The strongest case for it has long been World War II, which Davis and Jaffe claim ?clearly was a boon for the U.S. economy.? But a boon in what sense? Unemployment fell during the war entirely because of the buildup of the armed forces. In 1940, some 4.62 million persons were actually unemployed (the official count of 7.45 million included 2.83 million employed on various government work projects). During the war, the government, by conscription for the most part, drew some 16 million persons into the armed forces at some time; the active-duty force in mid- 1945 numbered in excess of 12 million. Voila, civilian unemployment nearly disappeared. But herding the equivalent of 22 percent of the prewar labor force into the armed forces (to eliminate 9.5 percent unemployment) scarcely produced what we are properly entitled to call prosperity. Yes, officially measured GDP soared during the war. Examination of that increased output shows, however, that it consisted entirely of military goods and services. Real civilian consumption and private investment both fell after 1941, and they did not recover fully until 1946. The privately owned capital stock actually shrank during the war. Some prosperity. (My article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Economic History, March 1992, presents many of the relevant details.) It is high time that we come to appreciate the distinction between the government spending, especially the war spending, that bulks up official GDP figures and the kinds of production that create genuine economic prosperity. As Ludwig von Mises wrote in the aftermath of World War I, ?war prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.? Robert Higgs [send him mail] is senior fellow in political economy at the Independent Institute, editor of The Independent Review, and author of Crisis and Leviathan and the editor of Arms, Politics, and the Economy. Robert Higgs Archives Find this article at: http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs16.html SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. 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 genera- tions. 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 Sut http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] U.S. to Abandon Seoul
-Caveat Lector- U.S. to Abandon Seoul, South Korea: TOTAL U.S. NEWS BLACKOUT http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=704 by Todd Brendan Fahey February 24, 2003 The U.S. "mainstream media" continues its blackout on disturbing military and diplomatic moves on the Korean peninsula. Recently, EtherZone.com via this writer brought to U.S. attention the Pentagon's discussion of troop withdrawals and/or repositioning in South Korea. The news initially broke via South Korea's MBC news network, prompting heated denials from Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld and spokespersons at the Pentagon. Articles running in South Korean newspapers and Web sites were reversed, obviously at the behest of the Pentagon, and it appeared for a few days that MBC broadcasting had egg on its face. Now, of course, given the spate of Pentagon statements, we know that MBC reports were correct; that Secretary Rumsfeld lied; and that the Pentagon is, indeed, withdrawing U.S. forces from the capital region of Seoul, to be followed by a "reduction" in U.S. ground troops, generally... The reasons given by Rumsfeld and General Leon J. LaPorte, who heads the U.S. Forces in Korea (USFK) are, that housing troops in a dense capitol city--and especially in light of the recent so-called "wave of anti- Americanism in South Korea"--is too cumbersome a task; that U.S. troops stationed in Seoul affect the daily lives of too many South Korean citizens, and are, generally, too exposed. On these counts, and as a resident of South Korea since 1999--having seen the behavior of G.I.s in Seoul's many nightclub strips, "boys being boys," and all-- the Pentagon is probably correct in repositioning our forces to a less populous area. But there is more to the decision than has been stated by the Pentagon: As we speak, the Pentagon, the U.S. Joint Chiefs and General LaPorte of the USFK are planning to alter the structure of command under which U.S. and ROK (South Korean) forces serve. The current structure--which has been in place since the 1954 armistice that marked the informal end of the Korean war--is such that the President of South Korea and his Ministry of Defense have a vital say in the command/control of the joint-troops (roughly 2/5ths, in Board of Directors' terms), but as a matter of reality and policy, it is the governing General of the USFK, by way of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, by way of the U.S. Commander in Chief, which has ultimate control of U.S. and ROK troops. To summarize: Currently, the U.S. President has ultimate command over U.S. troops and, for that matter, South Korean troops, where concerns the safety and security of the South Korean portion of the Korean peninsula. But being drafted now is a fundamental alteration in said structure, and which would give the President of South Korea ultimate control over the USFK forces--both the U.S. forces and the ROK's own forces. Sources in the U.S. Intelligence community, meanwhile, point out that 90% of the SIGINT (signals Intelligence) received by South Korea on the secretive goings-on of Kim Jong-Il and the DPRK (North Korea) come from the United States--either by way of satellites, U2 aircraft, or electronics aboard U.S. naval vessels patroling the waters surrounding the Korean peninsula. It has also been estimated by U.S. military and Intelligence officials that the ROK (South Korea) would need 3 years and over $18 billion to reach any semblance of America's SIGINT-gathering capacity toward a hostile Pyongyang. North Korea is secretive enough as it is. For the U.S. to "reshape the USFK" and cease its Intel. functions in the region, placing the onus upon an unready and unequipped South Korea would be a willful act of homicide on the part of the Pentagon. Questions of "should our forces be in South Korea at all" aside: Should U.S. forces remain in South Korea, command and control of said forces must remain in the hands of the Pentagon. To blindfold the average U.S. infantryman for lack of information as to North Korea's movements is unthinkable and unconscionable. In light of the impending pullout of U.S. troops from the capitol region of Seoul, and in light of this incredible Pentagon proposal to hand over to pro-Pyongyang South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun the command/control reins of the USFK (combined U.S.-South Korean military forces), one wonders if the long-rumored "Seoul-grab" by North Korea isn't about to take place. The men and women of the USFK, serving to protect a free South Korea from communist aggression not 30 kilometers from its capitol city, deserve transparent and honest answers from the Pentagon. Immediately. *** Fahey, a strategic writer stationed in South Korea, has served as aide to Central Intelligence Agency agent Theodore L. "Ted" Humes, Division of Slavic Languages, and to the late-Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) chief Lt. General Daniel O. Graham; to former Arizona Governor Evan Mecham (R- AZ), former Congressman John Conlan (
[CTRL] Idiots Special
-Caveat Lector- The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 100) February 24, 2003 The Top 100 Conservative Idiots Special http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/03/100.html Well we finally made it - welcome to the 100th Top Ten Conservative Idiots! This week we've decided to do a look back at the Top 100 Conservative Idiots since the site began two years ago. They're ranked in order by number of appearance (although for entries with the same number of appearances there is no particular order). We've highlighted some of the entries, and we've also added some fun Top Ten facts for your entertainment. Some of the external links have unfortunately died (sorry, not our fault) but that shouldn't make much difference. There is no key this week, just read and enjoy. And feel free to take a look back through the archive to find out why some of these folks made it onto the list so many times! 1. George W. Bush ...appearances on list: 105 There's never a dull moment when Dubya's around. In 100 editions of the Top Ten Conservative Idiots, Our Great Leader has managed a staggering 105 appearances. Impressive! >From Idiots 71: No doubt by now you have heard George W. Bush's "trifecta" joke. He's been going around telling people that he promised during the campaign that he would balance the federal budget, unless there was a war, recession, or national emergency. Then the punch line: "Lucky me, I hit the trifecta." (I guess the joke is funny if you're entertained by the idea of Muslim extremists crashing planes into the World Trade Center.) Anyway, some reporters got smart and asked when Bush actually made this promise on the campaign. The answer: never. But someone else did: Al Gore. "Barring an economic reversal, a national emergency, or a foreign crisis, we should balance the budget this year, next year, and every year," Gore said on various occasions. Kinda makes you wonder what the world would be like if we actually had a real president. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Dick Cheney ...appearances on list: 29 Trent Lott ...appearances on list: 27 John Ashcroft ...appearances on list: 22 Jeb Bush ...appearances on list: 20 Ari Fleischer ...appearances on list: 18 Katherine Harris ...appearances on list: 17 Katherine Harris doesn't actually wear makeup. Her bizarre appearance is the result of a one-in-a-million kitchen accident. 8. 9. 10. 11. The Bush Administration ...appearances on list: 17 Tom DeLay ...appearances on list: 15 Rush Limbaugh ...appearances on list: 14 Ann Coulter ...appearances on list: 12 12. Bill O'Reilly ...appearances on list: 10 Bill O'Reilly. Who could forget the Fox News "independent thinker's" interview with Jeremy Glick, the son of a World Trade Center victim, which ended with O'Reilly yelling at Glick to "shut up, just shut up?" Not us! >From Idiots 47: Bill O'Reilly likes to tell his viewers that his television program is a "no-spin zone." It seems that he could also be calling it a "frequent-lapses- into-outright-lying zone." Last week, CNN's Bill Press exposed this egotistical blowhard for the lying fraud that he is. Press writes that after he appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," O'Reilly was trumpeting what a fair guy he was because he let Bill Press, a liberal, on his show, but "you wouldn't see me on CNN." It seems that O'Lie- ly would have us believe that liberal CNN is afraid to have him as a guest. If only it were true. Says Press: "Last Spring, during a debate on the Don Imus show, my co-host Tucker Carlson invited O'Reilly to be a guest on CNN's 'The Spin Room.' He agreed. Then he ducked multiple requests and never showed." Caution: You are about to enter a no-spine zone. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Bill Simon ...appearances on list: 8 Enron ...appearances on list: 8 House Republicans ...appearances on list: 8 Pat Robertson ...appearances on list: 8 Bob Barr ...appearances on list: 7 Bob Barr has a 250-foot-tall nude statue of Ronald Reagan in his back yard. The statue portrays Reagan as a young man enthusiastically milking a goat. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Dick Armey ...appearances on list: 7 Fox News ...appearances on list: 7 Michael Bloomberg ...appearances on list: 7 Rudy Giuliani ...appearances on list: 7 The White House ...appearances on list: 7 Christie Todd Whitman ...appearances on list: 6 24. CNN ...appearances on list: 6 Why go to Fox News when you can get all the conservative hypocrisy and Bush brown- nosing you need from CNN? Scrambling for viewers, the once- proud network has finally opted for the billy-bob contingent. >From Idiots 50: A comedy blunder of epic proportions gets CNN on the list this week. After stealing Paula Zahn away from Fox News, one would assume that CNN would go to great lengths to play up the journalistic skills and professionalism of their new employee. After all, Paula Zahn is a respected newswoman with years of experience. Which is why CNN were forced to yank a promo for Zahn's morning show which went as follows: "Where can you find a morn
[CTRL] The "Don't Know" Crowd
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030224/index.php The "Don't Know" Crowd by Charley Reese The Bush administration adamantly insists that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, but despite 12 years of inspections, bombings and spying, it doesn't have a clue as to where they are. It frequently warns us of terror attacks, but always says it doesn't know where, when or how. Nor have there been any terror attacks in the United States in the past 18 months. Is it any wonder that millions of people around the world and in the United States don't support President George Bush's personal crusade to topple Saddam Hussein? Keep in mind that after the Sept. 11 attack, which Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with, virtually the entire world united in sympathy with us. Never has one president destroyed so much support by so many people in so short a time. The fact is, the people in the Bush administration who want to go to war with Iraq wanted to go to war with Iraq before Sept. 11. As a matter of fact, they wanted to go to war with Iraq before George Bush was even elected president. That's a matter of record. This war against Iraq has nothing to do with disarming Iraq and nothing to do with terrorism. It has to do with the United States creating a situation in which it and Israel will dominate the Middle East and its oil resources. The thing to remember about these alleged weapons of mass destruction is that nobody in the Bush administration or with the United Nations has ever laid eyes on them. What exists is a discrepancy between two numbers in reports — both supplied by the Iraqi government. One report stated that so many chemical bombs were used; another report had a different number. And the Iraqis are certainly right in that nobody can prove a negative; you can't produce for inspection what you don't have. I personally don't know if these weapons exist in Iraq or not. I do know they exist in many other countries. I do know that in the Gulf War, Iraq did not use any chemical or biological weapons, even when it was being routed from Kuwait and "bombed back into the preindustrial age," to use an American phrase. I do know that in the 12 years since, Iraq has not used any chemical or biological weapons, even though it has been subjected to the harshest economic sanctions in modern history and to practically regular bombing. I do know that in the past 12 years, Iraq has not threatened, much less attacked, any of its neighbors, while during that the same period of time we have attacked Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yugoslavia. I do know that every one of the "neighbors" George Bush claims Iraq is a threat to has said repeatedly that it does not feel threatened by Iraq. I do know that the only leader threatening the world with nuclear weapons and pre-emptive attack is George W. Bush. It gives me no pleasure to point that out. But it is not the role of an American citizen to be a sheep. It has become apparent that those of us who supported Bush made a mistake. I'm beginning to believe that a philanderer and a liar is less dangerous than an upright but ignorant man who thinks God has appointed him to rule the world. The best way to support our troops is to try to prevent the Bush administration from sacrificing their lives for the hidden agenda of the crazy neoconservatives in his administration. Young Americans should not die because a bunch of chicken hawks have a cockamamie idea that they can bring liberal democracy to the Middle East by making war. That's like trying to sell pork barbecue in Mecca. What the president is intent on doing is committing a crime against humanity. If he goes through with it, he'll have to change his ritualistic "God bless America" to "God forgive us." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] McAliskey Barred
-Caveat Lector- February 22, 2003 http://www.counterpunch.org/flanders0003.html Security Threat? Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Barred Entry to the United States By LAURA FLANDERS Irish activist and former Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was detained by immigration officials in Chicago, February 21, and denied entry into the United States allegedly on "national security" grounds. According to her daughter, Deidre, two INS officers threatened to arrest, jail, and even shoot the legendary civil rights campaigner when she arrived at Chicago's O'Hare airport. McAliskey (56) was then photographed, finger- printed and returned to Ireland against her will on the grounds that the State Department had declared that she "poses a serious threat to the security of the United States." "Mommy was this close to being locked up," said Deidre, Saturday in New York. The two were traveling together from Ireland to the US to attend a christening, According to daughter Deirdre (27) the McAliskeys cleared US immigration in Ireland prior to boarding, and received routine permission to travel, but upon their arrival they were stopped at baggage claim. Detained by two INS officers, they were told that the order to bar Bernadette McAliskey came from US officials in Dublin. During the dispute that followed, Deirdre says one INS officer used "very thinly veiled threats" against her mother, including, "if you interrupt me one more time I'm going to slam the cuffs on you and haul your ass to jail." One officer, says Deirdre, "pulled his chair right up to mommy and I heard him say 'Don't make my boss angry. I saw him fire a shot at a guy last week and he has the authority to shoot.'" Denied access to a lawyer, Bernadette was sent back to Ireland. "She's not in the best of health and the 13 hours of travel put her at further risk," Deirdre says. A tireless advocate for the Irish nationalist cause, at the age of 21, McAliskey was the youngest person ever to be elected to the British parliament. A witness to the deaths of 13 civilians shot dead by British paratroopers during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1972, McAliskey narrowly avoided death a second time when she and her husband were shot in their home by a loyalist death-squad in 1981. Deirdre, who was present, was five years old at the time. Famously articulate, McAliskey has been frequent visitor to the US for the past thirty years, although this was her first visit in over eighteen months. She has been awarded the symbolic "keys" to several US cities, including New York and San Francisco. On her first trip, in 1971, the young McAliskey made civil rights history when she refused to be met by Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daly on account of his treatment of opponents of the Vietnam War. On Monday, Deirdre intends to consult with a lawyer in New York. She has several questions, among them: Is there or is there not a State Department Review in her mothers's file? If there was nothing there on Friday morning, when she was cleared for travel by US authorities in Dublin, why did INS authorities in Chicago exclude her later that same afternoon? Does the US government consider Bernadette Devlin McAliskey a security risk? "I can't imagine what threat they could think she poses to US security," says Deirdre, "Unless the threat is knowing too much and saying it too well." When the McAliskeys were detained in O'Hare airport, Deirdre says that the INS were also questioning four young men "with Arabic sounding names." She believes that the four were later taken to jail. The McAliskeys, who have a long history fighting government repression on both sides of the Atlantic, are concerned about the denial of all visitors' rights. Perhaps, says Deirdre, they are a position to raise a ruckus that other people can't. "However INS is required to deal with things, and whatever their protocol may be, it is not part of their legal procedures that you should be threatened with jail and threatened with being shot," says Deirdre. At this point, she is urging visitors to the US to think twice, "if the state this jumpy, I'd not advise anyone to come here unless absolutely necessary," she says. Bernadette McAliskey is now in the process of filing a formal complaint with the US consulate in Dublin. Laura Flanders can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. 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 genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in any
[CTRL] Allies hushed
-Caveat Lector- Mon 24 Feb 2003 http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=230772003 Allies hushed up weapons' destruction TIM CORNWELL DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR THE highest-ranking defector ever to turn informant on Saddam Hussein’s government told United Nations weapons inspectors in 1995 that Iraq had destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks after the Gulf war. But UN inspectors hushed up that part of Hussein Kamel’s story - which he also told to debriefers from British and United States intelligence - because they wanted to keep the pressure on Iraq to tell more. The revelation, reported in the US magazine Newsweek, raises new questions over claims by the US and Britain that Iraq has failed to account for vast stores of chemical and biological weapons. Of the thousands of chemical bombs and thousands of litres of deadly anthrax said to have gone mysteriously missing inside Iraq, most date back to before 1991. Iraq has long claimed to have destroyed the weapons "unilaterally", but a regime hardly famous for its honesty and openness is accused of failing to provide hard evidence. However "the defector’s tale raises questions about whether the WMD [weapons of mass destruction] stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist" Newsweek reported. Kamel, Saddam’s son-in-law, defected to Jordan with his wife and family in 1995. His sensational departure, in a convoy of black Mercedes, was received as evidence that Saddam’s regime was soon to fall. He was shot to death after he returned to Iraq six months later in the hope of leniency from Saddam, along with his brother, also married to one of Saddam’s daughters. If nothing else, the report sheds new light on one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the regime and its leader. Kamel’s value as an informant, however, was huge; for ten years he had run Iraq’s nuclear, chemical, biological and missile weapons programmes, as well as Iraqi efforts to keep the weapons secret. Kamel talked to both the then UN chief inspector, Rolf Ekeus, and agents from the CIA and MI6 in Jordan. Among other revelations, he provided the first report that Iraq was developing mobile biological weapons factories - a subject on which Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, dwelt long and hard in his recent damning presentation to the UN Security Council. But Kamel’s story that Iraq had indeed - as it has long claimed - destroyed chemical and biological stocks back in 1991 was never reported. While UN inspection teams have been trying to investigate what weapons Iraq may have built since the Gulf war, the mystery of what happened to older munitions remains vital. Iraq’s chief liaison officer to the UN inspection teams, General Hossam Amin, said yesterday that Iraq had begun to dig trenches in the areas it claims the weapons were destroyed. A UN team was due in Baghdad on 2 March to examine the sites and carry out soil tests, he said. Gen Amin also said Iraq had made no decision on a UN order that it destroy its Al Samoud 2 missile programme. But "we are serious about solving this", he said. In his 27 January report to the UN Security Council, Hans Blix, the chief UN arms inspector, bolstered the case for war when he accused Iraq of co-operating on process, but not substance. Early in his report, Mr Blix noted that "one of three important questions before us today is how much might remain undeclared and intact from before 1991; and, possibly, thereafter". The second question, he said, was what if anything was illegally produced or procured after 1998, when inspectors left the country, and the third was how the production of weapons of mass destruction could be prevented in the future. Mr Blix singled out the issue of 6,500 chemical bombs that were unaccounted for, containing in total up to 1,000 tonnes of chemical agents. The missing bombs date back to before 1991, with Iraq claiming they were used in the Iran-Iraq war, which ended in 1988. Mr Blix also raised questions over about 8,500 litres of anthrax, which Iraq "states it unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991. Iraq has provided little evidence for this production and no convincing evidence for its destruction," he said. Iraq also has claimed that a small quantity of the deadly poison VX, which it produced, was unilaterally destroyed in the summer of 1991. When Mr Blix returned to the UN with his much more favourable report on 14 February, he noted that Iraq had provided a list of 83 people involved in the unilateral destruction of chemicals, which "appears useful". Newsweek said it had obtained the notes of Kamel’s debriefing by the UN team, and that he told the same story to MI6 and the CIA. But his revelations were hushed up for two reasons, the magazine said. Saddam did not know how much Kamel had revealed, and inspectors hoped to call his bluff; in addition, there was no corroborating evidence that the weapons were destroyed. Kamel did not give Iraq a clean bill of health. He
[CTRL] Hussein Doesn't Use Focus Polls Either
-Caveat Lector- February 23, 2003 To Bush, the Crowd Was a Blur By TODD S. PURDUM http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/weekinreview/23PURD.html?ex= 1047017042&ei=1&en=3e8d573c5380529b ASHINGTON — Most politicians around the world were impressed by the scale and intensity of last weekend's global protests against a probable war with Iraq. Not President Bush. "Size of protest — it's like deciding, well, I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group," Mr. Bush said. Not quite. A focus group is a handful of people, carefully culled to reflect diverse viewpoints, chosen to help politicians or companies figure out how to sell a policy or a product. Led by a facilitator, they are poked and prodded in a private room, asked about their likes and dislikes and encouraged to speak while strategists eavesdrop behind a one-way mirror. And while Mr. Bush may not like to acknowledge it, his administration does use focus groups, most recently to help determine how best to couch its public messages about domestic security. The technique was developed to test the effects of Army training and propaganda films in World War II, and politicians and Hollywood studios have since perfected it into a minor art. "I hate to see them maligned," Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster and focus-group maestro, said. "They're tools. They're no replacement for leadership. But they have their place. The interesting thing is that a public demonstration is actually not a representative sample, because the protesters share the same beliefs on the issue. In many ways, focus groups are more representative of public opinion." Focus groups are used to measure the whys behind the public's view of a given issue, while polls typically reflect the whats and how-muches. A moderator can test how audiences respond to even the smallest changes in wording or emphasis. What President Bush doubtless meant was that confronting Iraq is necessary, whether or not that makes him popular in Paris or Peoria. But he, too, is well aware of public opinion. "They do as much polling as the Clinton administration," said Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming. "I used to think they didn't, but they do." Mr. Luntz said what he saw of the protests "shook me up." "The fact that these were the biggest demonstrations in three decades does say something about underlying public opinion around the world," he said. "You can't ignore it. You don't have to accept it. You don't have to follow it. But you can't ignore it." Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company | Privacy Policy Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. 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 genera- tions. 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 Sut http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] $8.2 Mill for Rehab
-Caveat Lector- Jeb Bush And The Amazing $8.2 million Web Site: http://64.176.94.191/article1592.htm Or How To Ensure Your Daughter Gets A Job When She Leaves Rehab! State weaves tangled Web over FCAT site contract Palm Beach Post Editorial Thursday, February 20, 2003 It went from the Department of Education to the University of West Florida to Infinity SoftwareDevelopment Inc., but it was not a double-play combination. The state auditor general scores it as errors with $8.2 million in tax money. The auditor's report and Education Commissioner James Horne's response reveal the kind of business Gov. Bush has made state government. As the auditors tried to follow the money, they found that the university, in Pensacola, "was awarded the project approximately two weeks before it submitted its proposal and approximately three months before it submitted its application packet." The cart was moving long before the horse was hitched up. What happened is this: In 1999, Infinity called on the education department, pitching a Web site to help parents and students cope with the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Three months later, the department gave the university $8.2 million to get it done, and West Florida paid Infinity $7.5 million to do it. The only paperwork the auditor found was in the packet the university provided after the deal was done. "DOE also advised us that, to the best of its knowledge, 'no documentation exists,' " the auditor noted. The money, the auditor also found, came from an appropriation for contracts, but DOE handled it as a grant. The state didn't seek other bids. It's not as though Infinity bought special equipment for the job; 80 percent of the grant money is for salaries. Tallahassee-based Infinity is holding open a job for Gov. Bush's daughter, Noelle, when she becomes available. What does Mr. Horne say? He says he does "not concur" that a no-bid contract is a grant, but he has "initiated implementation" of the auditor's recommendations. Two weeks after he wrote that, he gave a $50,000 no- bid contract to develop the department's "communications strategy." It went to Todd Harris, who was communications director for Gov. Bush's reelection campaign. "I just need some help, and I thought Todd was uniquely qualified," Mr. Horne told The St. Petersburg Times. Similarly, Katie Muniz is uniquely qualified to be the St. Joe Co.'s public affairs manager since she left the governor's press office. St. Joe, the state's largest landholder, wants help to develop new communities and is a major donor to the state Republican Party. It's no surprise that, the auditor says, "payments were made to Infinity without appropriate review of Infinity's work and related billings having been performed." Taxpayers can see what they got for $8.2 million at www.fcatexplorer.com. Upkeep will cost taxpayers $1.5 million a year into Infinity. Copyright © 2003, The Palm Beach Post Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. 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 genera- tions. 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 Sut http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl =
[CTRL] French veto
-Caveat Lector- French veto at UN will not stop US war on Iraq, Perle warns Sunday, 23-Feb-2003 4:00AM http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bv/Qiraq-us-perle.R8i7_DFN.html Story from AFP Copyright 2003 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) DUBAI, Feb 23 (AFP) - The United States will attack Iraq even if France uses its veto to block a new resolution in the UN Security Council, top Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said in an interview published Sunday. The Bush administration hawk also indicated that after overthrowing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Washington might set its sights on Syria's Bashar al-Assad. If Paris vetoed a resolution backing war, "We will go (to war) without an international resolution," the Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat quoted him as saying in an interview. "No American president can allow a French head of state to set American policy," said Perle, a long-time supporter of a US-led invasion to oust the Baghdad regime. The US occupation of Iraq under General Tommy Franks would be only "for an interim period ... not for a period of 10 years as some say", Perle said. The administration hawk also offered support for Ahmad Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress opposition umbrella group, as a successor to President Saddam Hussein. "The State Department is not very keen on Chalabi because he's an independent," Perle noted. "The experience in Iraq will be a prelude to reforms in the region," Perle warned. "I hope Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will consider reforms, otherwise" he may say to himself, "'I could be the second target.'" fb/tm/bp/mb Iraq-US-Perle Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. 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 genera- tions. 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 Sut http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Italian anti-war blockade
-Caveat Lector- ABC Online Military convoys face Italian anti-war blockade. 24/2/2003. ABC News Online [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s790894.htm] Monday, February 24, 2003. Posted: 01:11:55 (AEDT) Military convoys face Italian anti-war blockade Anti-war protesters are vowing to block all movement of US arms by rail between American bases in Italy, dubbing the convoys "trains of death". Demonstrators have squatted on railway tracks and organisers are planning a full-scale assault on similar convoys this week. Italy's Defence Ministry has given the US clearance to use military bases and ports in line with NATO commitments. Local polls show 70 per cent of Italians oppose war even if sanctioned by the United Nations. The Italian labour union representing almost 90 per cent of dock workers says it will boycott the loading and unloading of all shipments of US arms in and out of Italian ports. © ABC 2003 | privacy Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. 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 genera- tions. 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 Sut http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] What is the equivalent offer from the other side?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/21/2003 10:26:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does an international community vilify a nation that offers its own blood to its enemies, while its own soldiers lie dying, and that, when faced with race hatred that brands their blood unfit, diverts military flights to bring blood more suitable to the taste of those who would destroy them?" One must have total admiration for such a community (although I would like to know how the Palestinians came to know it was "Jewish" blood). I'm glad to see that the Israeli have come such a long way in their care for their Palestinan brothers. Especially since that bit about it being okay to break the Sabbath to care for Jewish individuals in emergency situations, but that all others would have to wait until after the Sabbath. Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Arrest of Sami al-Arian is Only the Beginning
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 2/23/2003 5:57:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During the election Dubya pandered to Muslim voters. You see, the 50,000 or so registered Muslim voters in Florida are mostly Democrats. So when Gore picked Joe Lieberman as his running mate the Bushites decided to take cynical advantage of Arab dislike of the Zionist Lieberman. Little did these Arabs know what would happen to them later. But then it's a fair bet to say the Japanese-Americans who voted for FDR had no idea what'd happen to them, either. Odd, I had understood that most Muslim voters were Republicans. I know that the Armenians are, and a lot of Orientals. I'm a Democrat, and I have a lot of distrust for Lieberman and would never vote for him. Still since most Jews are Democrats, and since that covers the so-called "LIBERAL" media. I guess he'll just breeze into the presidency. The bedfellows in this current political morass are really weird, aren't they? Prudy www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Aerial photographs show number of protesters below estimates
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/02/21/state0339EST0013.DTL Aerial photographs show number of protesters below estimates Friday, February 21, 2003 (02-21) 00:39 PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An aerial survey of Sunday's anti-war protest in San Francisco showed the number of attendees was around 65,000 people -- not the 150,000 to 200,000 estimated by organizers and police. The survey, commissioned by the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com, used a series of high-resolution aerial photos. They showed that during the protest's peak, at about 1:45 p.m. Sunday, there were approximately 65,000 people in attendance. Although the number cannot account for protesters who left before that time or those who showed up later, experts say such a survey is more accurate than visual scan methods used by police and organizers. "After hearing concerns from our readers about our accuracy in reporting crowd size in demonstrations, we were determined to come up with a better method to calculate the number of people who turn out for such events," said Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein. When told of The Chronicle's numbers, police and organizers stood by their estimates. "Come on, that's ridiculous," said Bill Hackwell, spokesman for International ANSWER, one of the groups that organized Sunday's protest. Greg Suhr, the San Francisco deputy police chief who calculated the police figure, agreed. "I can tell you for a fact that's an enormously low number," he said, adding that the stands alone in San Francisco's Pacific Bell Park hold 40,000 people. "The crowd at Pac Bell would pale in comparison to the crowd on Sunday," Suhr said. Police estimates were based on the 43,000 people that Civic Center Plaza is estimated to hold and previous estimates of crowd sizes on Market Street. The roadway and sidewalk had about 100,000 people on them, Suhr said. A media scholar said such doubts are to be expected. "The number of people (in a crowd) is a mythical number, and now you're going to turn it into a fact, and that won't be welcomed," said Alex S. Jones, director of Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "There's an old saying in journalism: People only see what they believe. This is an emotional issue, not a factual issue, as far as most people are concerned." To get the 65,000 estimate, the photographs taken from 2,000 feet were overlaid with a grid. Each grid was evaluated and assigned a density of people from 10 to 100 percent full. Most were judged at 25 percent to 50 percent full. This was the first time Air Flight Service, which has 20 years experience in taking photographs for topographical maps for government agencies and private companies, has used its equipment for crowd estimation. Peace rally organizers based their number on comparisons to a Jan. 18 rally that they said drew 150,000 to 200,000. Sunday's protest was similar is size, Hackwell said. Police originally estimated there were 50,000 people at that Jan. 18 march, but revised that figure later based on how many people could fit into Civic Center Plaza, the crowd that spilled out onto the side streets and the movement of the crowd up Market Street, police spokesman Neville Gittens said. In other cities around the world on Saturday crowd estimates were based on the average number of people in one area expanded to cover the whole route. In London, police used helicopters to estimate crowds -- 750,000 marchers in the streets and more than 1 million at Hyde Park. Italy's national police force -- the Carabinieri -- estimated 700,000 people protested, based on the capacity of the piazzas where the demonstrations happened and counting four people per square meter during the march, according to an e-mail from a police spokesman. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl =
