[CTRL] Britain seeks UN compromise
-Caveat Lector- Britain seeks UN compromise Reports from the United Nations say Britain is proposing changes to the planned new Security Council resolution it is tabling on Iraq, to allow Saddam Hussein a final opportunity to disarm peacefully. The British initiative is part of the diplomatic manoeuvring ahead of Friday's report from chief weapons inspector Hans Blix on the progress of UN disarmament efforts in Iraq. US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday that Iraq had made no real attempt to disarm, but instead was trying to deceive and divide the international community. Later on Thursday, Arab foreign ministers are due to meet UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, with the Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa also due to attend. The British proposal would lay down a last window of opportunity amounting to a number of days rather than weeks in which Iraq would be expected to co-operate fully with UN weapons inspectors, UN sources told the BBC. The penalty for failure on the part of Baghdad would be military intervention, they say. This is seen as an attempt to find a way of uniting a desperately divided Security Council that has so far shown no inclination to support military action against Iraq, says BBC UN correspondent Greg Barrow. Counting on votes France, Germany and Russia have said they will not allow the UN to pass a new US- sponsored resolution authorising war against Iraq. HOW THEY MIGHT VOTE Several Security Council members want inspectors to be given more time Instead they want the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq to be given more time. A resolution could be blocked in just two ways - either by veto or by ensuring that it fails to get the required nine yes votes of the 15 Security Council members. The US and UK have expressed confidence that enough votes will be secured for the key resolution. A number of Security Council members - including Mexico, Pakistan and Chile - have indicated they would be unwilling to back a resolution calling for an immediate attack on Iraq. On Wednesday, Mr Blix said his teams had been able to interview seven Iraqi scientists in private. He added that, in the past month, Iraq had been co-operating proactively. Also on Wednesday, Turkey's powerful army gave a boost to the US, with public backing for the deployment of US troops ahead of any conflict, despite the lack of authorisation from the country's parliament. In other developments: Two Iraqi UN diplomats are ordered to leave the United States within 72 hours for activities incompatible with their status Japan advises its nationals in Kuwait, the Khafji area of Saudi Arabia and Israel to leave at once Saddam Hussein says the UN order to destroy al-Samoud missiles is a ploy designed to demoralise Iraqis General Tommy Franks, who would command US forces in a war, says they are ready for action Cardinal Pio Laghi delivers a message from the Pope to President Bush Iran says it is ready to help UN agencies and other aid organisations cope with Iraqi refugees expected to flee a US-led war. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/2824379.stm Published: 2003/03/06 04:41:15 BBC MMIII 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 Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout 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:
[CTRL] The Iron Hair Spray Lady Trust
-Caveat Lector- Recently, the IHSL stated that as long as Hussein remains in power in Iraq, he can't be trusted ... A:E:R http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,908426,00.html Britain's dirty secret David Leigh and John Hooper Thursday March 6, 2003 The Guardian A chemical plant which the US says is a key component in Iraq's chemical warfare arsenal was secretly built by Britain in 1985 behind the backs of the Americans, the Guardian can disclose. Documents show British ministers knew at the time that the 14m plant, called Falluja 2, was likely to be used for mustard and nerve gas production. Senior officials recorded in writing that Saddam Hussein was actively gassing his opponents and that there was a strong possibility that the chlorine plant was intended by the Iraqis to make mustard gas. At the time, Saddam was known to be gassing Iranian troops in their thousands in the Iran-Iraq war. But ministers in the then Thatcher government none the less secretly gave financial backing to the British company involved, Uhde Ltd, through insurance guarantees. Paul Channon, then trade minister, concealed the existence of the chlorine plant contract from the US administration, which was pressing for controls on such exports. He also instructed the export credit guarantee department (ECGD) to keep details of the deal secret from the public. The papers show that Mr Channon rejected a strong plea from a Foreign Office minister, Richard Luce, that the deal would ruin Britain's image in the world if news got out: I consider it essential everything possible be done to oppose the proposed sale and to deny the company concerned ECGD cover. The Ministry of Defence also weighed in, warning that it could be used to make chemical weapons. But Mr Channon, in line with Mrs Thatcher's policy of propping up the dictator, said: A ban would do our other trade prospects in Iraq no good. The British taxpayer was even forced to write a compensation cheque for 300,000 to the German-owned company after final checks on the plant, completed in May 1990, were interrupted by the outbreak of the Gulf war. The Falluja 2 chlorine plant, 50 miles outside Baghdad, near the Habbaniya airbase, has been pinpointed by the US as an example of a factory rebuilt by Saddam to regain his chemical warfare capability. Last month it featured in Colin Powell's dossier of reasons why the world should go to war against Iraq, which was presented to the UN security council. Spy satellite pictures of Falluja 2 identifying it as a chemical weapons site were earlier published by the CIA, and a report by Britain's joint intelligence committee, published with Tony Blair's imprimatur last September, also focused on Falluja 2 as a rebuilt plant formerly associated with the chemical warfare programme. UN weapons inspectors toured the Falluja 2 plant last December and Hans Blix, the chief inspector, reported to the security council that the chemical equipment there might have to be destroyed. But until now, the secret of Britain's knowing role in Falluja's construction has remained hidden. Last night, Uhde Ltd's parent company in Dortmund, Germany, issued a statement confirming that their then UK subsidiary had built Falluja 2 for Iraq's chemical weapons procurement agency, the State Enterprise for Pesticide Production. A company spokesman said: This was a normal plant for the production of chlorine and caustic soda. It could not produce other products. The British government's intelligence at the time, as shown in the documents, was that Iraq, which was having increasing difficulty in obtaining precursor chemicals on the legitimate market, intended to use the chlorine as a feedstock to manufacture such chemicals as epichlorohydrin and phosphorous trichloride. These in turn were used to make mustard gas and nerve agents. Paul Channon, since ennobled as Lord Kelvedon, was last night holidaying on the Caribbean island of Mustique. He issued a statement through his secretary, who said: He can't object to the story. So he's got no comment. 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 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
[CTRL] Statement
-Caveat Lector- Statement by France, Russia and Germany on Iraq Published: March 5 2003 17:17 | Last Updated: March 5 2003 17:17 Our common objective remains the full and effective disarmament of Iraq, in compliance with Resolution 1441. We consider that this objective can be achieved by the peaceful means of the inspections. We moreover observe that these inspections are producing increasingly encouraging results: - The destruction of the al-Samoud missiles has started and is making progress, - Iraqis are providing biological and chemical information, - The interviews with Iraqi scientists are continuing. Russia, Germany and France resolutely support Messrs Blix and El-Baradei and consider the meeting of the Council on 7 March to be an important step in the process put in place. We firmly call for the Iraqi authorities to co-operate more actively with the inspectors to fully disarm their country. These inspections cannot continue indefinitely. We consequently ask that the inspections now be speeded up, in keeping with the proposals put forward in the memorandum submitted to the Security Council by our three countries. We must: - Specify and prioritise the remaining issues, programme by programme, - Establish, for each point, detailed timelines. Using this method, the inspectors have to present without any delay their work programme accompanied by regular progress reports to the Security Council. This programme could provide for a meeting clause to enable the Council to evaluate the overall results of this process. In these circumstances, we will not let a proposed resolution pass that would authorise the use of force. Russia and France, as permanent members of the Security Council, will assume all their responsibilities on this point. We are at a turning point. Since our goal is the peaceful and full disarmament of Iraq, we have today the chance to obtain through peaceful means a comprehensive settlement for the Middle-East, starting with a move forward in the peace process, by : - Publishing and implementing the roadmap ; - Putting together a general framework for the Middle-East, based on stability and security, renunciation of force, arms control and trust building measures. Related stories Diplomatic battle intensifies over Iraqi war Mar 05 2003 20:36 Diplomatic endgame Feb 28 2003 15:25 Delegates face hardest vote of careers Feb 25 2003 20:43 Moscow and Berlin fall in line with Chirac Feb 24 2003 20:23 Editorial comment: One more time, Mr Blix Feb 14 2003 20:17 America must not return to cold war attitudes Feb 13 2003 20:35 A way for France to come back into the fold Feb 11 2003 19:39 Straw snubs plan to beef up inspections team Feb 11 2003 14:47 Profit takers move in to send dollar higher Feb 11 2003 12:26 Russia plays its economic card over Iraq Feb 23 2003 20:54 = requires subscription to FT.com Find this article at: http://news.ft.com/s01/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/ FullStoryc=StoryFTcid=1045511350047p=1012571727088 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 Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] Superbug Going National
-Caveat Lector- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-601135,00.html World News March 06, 2003 Superbug's new strain thrives outside hospitals By Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent A NEW strain of the drug- resistant superbug MRSA has escaped from hospitals to infect thousands of healthy adults across the United States, hitting hardest among homosexual men. The bacterium, which normally affects only sick and elderly hospital in- patients, is striking fit Americans with no links to the hospitals in which it thrives, raising fears of an epidemic that could spread to Britain. The germs, which can withstand many common antibiotics, are transmitted by skin contact, with no need for an open wound. Outbreaks have been reported in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Boston and Miami. Most of those affected are homosexual men and prison inmates, but athletes and schoolchildren involved in contact sports have also fallen ill. Precise figures for the number of infections are not available, because MRSA is not a notifiable disease in the United States, but public health officials believe cases already run into the thousands, with several deaths. The disease normally manifests itself as a skin condition, beginning with sores that resemble insect bites, and progressing to cause painful abscesses and boils. In rarer cases, when it reaches the lungs or the bloodstream, it can cause life-threatening pneumonia or septicaemia. MRSA, which stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has for years been a problem in hospitals, where it infects open wounds and bedsores, taking advantage of the weakened immune systems of seriously ill or elderly patients.It is named as a contributory cause of death in 20 per cent of death certificates issued in British hospitals where staphylococcal infection was a factor. The bacteria, however, have never been considered dangerous beyond the wards. The emergence of a strain that is spreading through the wider community, details of which are reported today in New Scientist magazine, has alarmed public health officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Scott Fridkin, a medical epidemiologist at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, said: We are greatly concerned that MRSA has emerged in the community in people with no ties to healthcare. Tyrone Pitt, deputy director of the Laboratory of Healthcare Associated Infections, said that while there was no evidence that the strain had arrived in Britain, it was a genuine threat. It is very difficult to predict its impact. If it manifests itself just as a skin infection, that is not that threatening. If the result is pneumonia in relatively healthy people, thats a completely different scenario, he said. The Atlanta centre has yet to complete testing to confirm the strain that is spreading in the community, but health officials in Los Angeles said all the outbreaks there appeared to have been caused by a strain first isolated in New York in 1997. Most of the US cases so far have occurred in San Francisco and Los Angeles, among homosexual men who have had multiple sexual partners. The disease is not thought to be sexually transmitted, but as it is contagious through skin contact, sexual promiscuity has an indirect effect on risk. Its effects are not confined to HIV-positive men. Several prisons in California have reported MRSA outbreaks among inmates, and there have also been outbreaks in schools, particularly among athletes involved in contact sports. In Pasadena 50 pupils at one school were diagnosed with the condition, mostly members of the schools football team. On the rise MRSA: Methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus First identified: mid-eighties Recorded UK cases 1992: 104 2001: 4,904 Confirmed UK deaths 1993: 13 1998: 114 Resistant to: methicillin, oxacillin, nafcillin, cephalosporins Susceptible to: vancomycin ALSO IN THIS SECTION Israel urged to show restraint after bomb Superbug strain escapes US hospitals You monkey, you minion shut up and sit down Shooting the messenger: lawyer arrested over anti-war T-shirt 'Share out China's new wealth or risk revolution' Sharon's policy is strangling Palestinian life, UN says BREAKING NEWS World from PA 11 dead in Israeli tank attack Iraq showing signs of disarming - Blix US orders Iraqi diplomats to leave Turk military urges US troop rethink FBI warns of new terrorist attacks TOOLS SERVICES Education CD-Roms A-level, GCSE and SATs and Key Stage course handbooks. Revision guidance, mock exams - essential course material for students of all ages . Find a holiday Search our database of flights, city breaks, holidays and late deals, today including 2 nights in Paris from only 105 . Money Shop Search and compare loans, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products and buy online
[CTRL] Biden Bites Bush
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonsquarenews.com/getstory.php?id=20004540 Biden: war a no-go Sen. denounces Bush policies by Justin Brenneman Staff Writer Related stories Concern grows for privacy As the nation takes measures to guard against terrorism, the possibility of open government access to the personal files of American college students is prompting some at NYU to question the security of their private information... Despite protests, Bush remains firm on Iraq President Bush acknowledged yesterday the antiwar protests held over the weekend, but reiterated that Saddam Hussein poses a grave threat to Americans and the world, the Associated Press reported... Thousands join in protest Twelve NYU students were arrested Saturday after they joined thousands of activists in Manhattan and millions worldwide to protest the impending war with Iraq... Admins prep for terror attack NYU officials have taken steps to protect students and employees in the event of another terrorist attack in New York City, purchasing plastic sheeting and duct tape to secure buildings... Code orange no cause for student alarm Since the U.S... PHOTO: Ted Danger/WSN Sen. Biden, right, spoke on the pending war in Iraq. A leading Democratic senator blasted the Bush administration yesterday in a speech at NYU, criticizing the presidents foreign and economic policies and warning that Americans are unprepared for the costs of war. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, denounced the apparent willingness of President George W. Bush to go to war with Iraq without U.N. support and said that Bush has failed to properly outline war plans for Americans and allied nations. We are now on the verge of war, a war that is justified but make no mistake about it, one that is elected, Biden said. [Secretary of State] Colin Powell has been working hard at the United Nations to gain broad support ... against Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. That show of unity is the last and best chance to avoid a war. Unfortunately, with the actions of the current administration, we are unlikely to get the show of unanimity I think we could have had. Biden said that the Bush administration, by enacting self-interested policies after the Sept. 11 attacks, squandered an opportunity to unite the world and instead created a culture of fear among Americans. Future budgets should be concerned with military spending and security measures, Biden said. Our new war is not a Cold War but a borderless war, for which we must reorganize ourselves and our resources, Biden said. The fateful question is, How do we reorganize ourselves? It seems to me the first thing we have to realize is that we have in this administration much too narrow a view of what constitutes security. Biden has received increased media attention recently for his committees role in questioning U.N. Ambassador John Negroponte and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage about the extent of the threat posed by Saddam. Biden previously said Bush should focus less on pre-emptive strikes than on using military action to enforce the 1991 treaty ending the Persian Gulf War. This media attention, which was heightened yesterday when Biden appeared on NBCs Today show, has promoted him as a possible candidate for president in 2004. Biden told WSN he was considering a run but said he would not make an announcement until late summer or early fall. Ill make that decision after weve decided what were doing in Iraq, Biden said. Yesterdays speech and a subsequent Q-and-A session took place in the Silver Center for Arts and Science and lasted approximately two hours. Biden said he was cautiously optimistic about successful military action in Iraq and said the consequences of a possible war concern him most. I happen to think the military phase of this likely conflict will move relatively well and that it will be successful and relatively short, Biden said. I also happen to think the aftermath will be an incredible undertaking for which we have not prepared the American people. Americans are trying to adapt to the threat of terrorism while worrying about weapons in Iraq and North Korea, Biden said. Yesterdays soccer moms are todays security moms, Biden said. And [the government must] do what [it] can to not only make them feel less vulnerable but also to be less vulnerable. North Korea has become the worlds plutonium factory because the Bush administration did not support disarmament treaties, Biden said. North Korea may be to blame for the crisis, but two years of American policy incoherence didnt help any, Biden said. Former NYU President John Brademas, a former U.S. Representative who introduced Biden yesterday, said Bidens experience informs his opinions. [Biden is] articulate and knowledgeable on a wide range of the major issues facing the United States, including crime, the environment and foreign security, Brademas
[CTRL] Pro-Lifer Chri$tian$ All $et for Ea$ter
-Caveat Lector- Image http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0310/baard.jpg http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0310/baard2.php Retailers Put All Their Grenades in One Basket Full Metal Bonnet by Erik Baard March 4th, 2003 1:00 PM A lighthearted and fun gift, says one merchant. (photo: Robin Holland) While Pentagon war planners may be gunning for an attack on Iraq by mid March, heavily armed soldiers have already quietly seized a strategic position: your Easter basket. National retailers like Kmart and Walgreens have stocked their shelves with baskets in which the traditional chocolate rabbit centerpiece has been displaced by plastic military action figures and their make-believe lethal paraphernalia. Tri-state Rite Aid, Genovese, and Wal-Mart stores promise their martial Easter baskets will arrive soon. At the Astor Place Kmart, the encampment is on display just inside the main entrance. A camouflaged sandy-haired soldier with an American-flag arm patch stands alert in a teal, pink, and yellow basket beneath a pretty green-and-purple bow. Within a doll-arm's reach are a machine gun, rifle, hand grenade, large knife, pistol, and round of ammunition. In the next basket a buzz-cut blond with a snazzy dress uniform hawks over homeland security, an American eagle shield on his arm, and a machine gun, pistol, Bowie knife, two grenades, truncheon, and handcuffs at the ready. One must hunt a little harder to find the Easter sniper at Walgreens, but what lies in wait among the bunnies and chicks there is perhaps even more surreal. The Super Wrriors (sic) Battle Set and Placekeepers (sic) Military Men Play Set bristle with toy assault rifles and machine guns, tanks, troop transports, bomber planes, commanded by armored men with shaved heads and sunglasses. The assortment also includes a space-age ray gun and other imaginary hardware for orbital combat. Packets of jellybeans are tossed in as if an afterthought, nestled in the cellophane underbrush like anti-personnel mines. Not surprisingly, the merger of religious observance and jingoistic lust sparked the ire of Christian leaders. Bishop George Packard, who oversees spiritual care for Episcopalian members of the armed services, worries about practical issues. He's concerned about creating a backlash against the military, and questions the message sent to Muslims by the melding of a Christian holiday with images of war. The products themselves, Packard says, are really, really bizarre. It's a crass embrace of the far end of a range of options for parents to provide their kids. Easter baskets have been deteriorating for a long time, but they've really gone over the edge. I am so disturbed, I am so confounded by this bad taste. Other Christian groups agree. Dr. Richard Land, president of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention commission on ethics and religious liberty, says, Well, of course, it certainly would be a jarring note for the celebration of Easter. I certainly wouldn't buy one for my children, when my children were small. The religious leaders noted that the eggs, bunnies, and chicks so intimately associated with the holiday are also unrelated to the narrative of Jesus. They are instead the trappings of Ostara (also known as Eostra), a Teutonic goddess of spring, fertility, and the dawn, who also lends her name to estrogen and the East. But guns would seem to be at odds with that convergent pagan and Christian spirit of renewal. The juxtaposition is an affront to some soldiers, too. I call that, myself, a pretty stupid insult and a slap at a religious observance, says Bruce Zielsdorf, who served 23 years in the air force and is now a spokesperson for the army in New York City. First they commercialize one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar, and now this? It sounds like some vendor threw some stuff up on a shelf to see what would sell. I can assure you that we were not consulted on any decision to make any such Easter baskets. Retailers went on the defensive. There was no intention on our part to offer up a violent Easter basket. We're very conscious of what will and what will not offend our customers. It was meant to be a lighthearted and fun gift, says Kmart spokesperson Abigail Jacobs. It's in my opinion a harmless toy included in an Easter basket. The reaction to a Voice query at Walgreens contrasted sharply, with company representatives retreating instead of digging in. Going forward next year, we don't plan to have Easter baskets with toy soldiers or a military theme. The thinking on these Easter baskets was more toy-related and we didn't really think about it otherwise, says Walgreens spokesperson Carol Hively. We apologize to anybody who is offended or felt that this was inappropriate. That's not enough for Bishop Packard. Well, isn't that nice? What about this season? This is when it really counts, he says. Kids are eavesdropping on the talk of war and get enveloped in its trauma. The armored baskets are only the
[CTRL] Germany Sets Priorities
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,908282,00.html Europe's powerhouse in crisis Unemployment up, growth down and a deepening rift with America: the first of a two-part report on a troubled nation Larry Elliott Thursday March 6, 2003 The Guardian Germany is Britain in the 1970s. Germany is about to go the way of Japan. Germany is the sick man of Europe. You pay your money and you take your choice. One thing is for sure. Germany is not what it was, and the Germans know it. It's very difficult to find workers with the traditional German values, says Horst Schmidt, general manger of Gerb, an engineering firm based in Berlin. After the second world war, one of our strengths was that Germans worked very seriously and it was easy to arrange new things. Now it's more important for young people to go to the disco and make plans for the weekend. Little more than a decade after the euphoria that accompanied the demolition of the Berlin Wall, the sense that Europe's largest economy is on the edge of a severe crisis has gripped the country's political class. Unemployment figures today will show the jobless total heading towards 5m, putting pressure on the government of Gerhard Schrder just five months after it won a second term on what the voters now see as a false prospectus. Songs lampooning the chancellor have appeared in the German charts. Workers disgruntled at the increases in taxes have been sending the government the shirts off their backs. More worryingly for Mr Schrder, economic weakness has translated into political weakness. The German chancellor had to suffer the indignity of being labelled old Europe by Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush's defence secretary. For old, read old and weak. The jibe would have been shrugged off at the time of the last Gulf war, when Germany's economy was booming after the end of the cold war. No longer. Some of the gloom has to be put into context. Germany has not had a winter of discontent, nor has the IMF yet arrived to take charge of the economy. As Hans-Olaf Henkel, the former head of Germany's leading employers' group, the BDI, puts it: Germany is not Britain in the 1970s. The quality of the workforce is good, there's plenty of innovation, we still have very strong industry, German companies are still very successful abroad. By the same token, the British visitor to Germany might well wonder what all the fuss is about when concern is voiced about the state of Germany's schools, health service and autobahns. Miracle into decay High levels of investment were possible in the public sector during the miracle economy years of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. But the slowdown in the economy over the past decade has meant that Mr Schrder is facing the sort of choice faced by Westminster governments regularly during the postwar period - cut spending, raise taxes or let borrowing take the strain. Germany's infrastructure is decaying and needs repair. You wouldn't think it was one of the richest countries in the west, says Andreas Botsch, executive secretary of the DGB, Germany's biggest trade union federation. The downward trend in the economy has been clear for some years. After growing by 8% a year on average in the reconstruction decade of the 1950s and 5% a year in the 1960s, Germany has sputtered to a virtual halt since the reunification boom of 1990 and 1991. In only two years since 1992 has the economy grown by more than 2%; in 2001 it expanded by 0.7%, last year by just 0.2%. This year, with consumers reluctant to spend, and exports choked off by the state of the global economy, looks like being another dud. Unemployment shows no sign of levelling off, and weak growth means that Germany is once again likely to breach the 3% limit for budget deficits set by the EU's stability and growth pact. This, for Germany, is perhaps the ultimate humiliation. The stability pact was the price demanded by Germany for monetary union, and was seen as a way of preventing spendthrift countries from circumventing a single interest rate by running big budget deficits. Now, Berlin is being forced to take measures to bring Germany's deficit back below the ceiling. Explanations for Germany's economic woes fall into three categories. The first, favoured by the country's finance minister, Hans Eichel, is that reunification was a costly burden that is draining funds from the public coffers and acting as a brake on growth. The subsidy to what was once East Germany still runs at 75bn a year; everybody agrees that the legacy of reunification is still hobbling the economy. When faced with the argument that Germany needs a Margaret Thatcher figure to promote radical reform, Andreas Botsch says: Britain has never had to swallow an eastern part of the country. This is what distinguishes Germany's problems from other countries'. The second thesis is that the country is in need of structural reform so that it becomes easier for firms to hire and fire, less
[CTRL] A Rose By Any Other name ...
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-pink5mar05,0,6331095.story COMMENTARY Strangeloves in Bloom By James P. Pinkerton James P. Pinkerton, a White House staffer in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, is a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington. March 5, 2003 It's a sign of the hawkish times that supporters of war against Iraq are able to get away with labeling antiwar doves as wimps and fools. Indeed, some pro- warriors go further, smearing antiwar Americans as dupes of the enemy. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) pronounces some antiwar Democrats guilty of appeasement toward Saddam Hussein; the neoconservative Weekly Standard makes the same accusation against the entire State Department as well as selected Republicans. Columnist Mona Charen has gone even further; in a new book titled Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, she attacks, among others, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Madeleine Albright. Charen's title comes from Soviet leader V.I. Lenin's phrase referring to those who unwittingly helped the communist cause. And last week, Council on Foreign Relations fellow Max Boot blasted all antiwar opinion -- not only over the last year but also over the last century -- saying protests slowed or thwarted U.S. victories from the Spanish- American War to Vietnam. Got that? On its face, this argument may seem absurd, but its true absurdity is found in the criticism of peace movements. Opposition to the U.S. occupation of the former Spanish colony of the Philippines allegedly gave false hope to Washington's enemies, encouraging them to keep fighting. But was it really a good idea for the American military to subdue the Philippines? It took 70,000 U.S. soldiers to crush the insurrectos, a four-year operation that cost 4,234 American lives and caused the deaths of 200,000 Filipinos. One might ask, what was the upside for the U.S.? And who were the protesters against this American imperialism? They included Mark Twain, philosopher William James, industrialist Andrew Carnegie and union leader Samuel Gompers. Did these people have American blood on their hands? Were they useful idiots aiding the Filipinos? Or were they simply preferring peace to war? The intellectual mission of the Iraq hawks today is to erase bad memories of past conflicts so as to wipe the slate clean for future conflicts. Liberal views, forged in Vietnam and tempered in Central America and beyond, got the world wrong, Charen laments. War opponents, she alleges, were politically and ideologically misguided, although it is likely that most simply wanted to prevent more Americans from being killed in a futile quagmire. Fortunately for the pro- warriors, after 30 years the memories of the Vietnam debacle and its terrible toll have grown dim. Yet even as the U.S. was losing the hot war in Vietnam, it was winning the Cold War against the Soviet Union. And that's a victory the hawks don't like to talk about anymore. Why not? Because the favored strategy of the ultrahawks -- the forcible rollback of the Soviet Union -- was not adopted. Instead, presidents from Truman to the first Bush followed a tough-minded strategy of armed containment. Acting in conjunction with allies, in accordance with international law, the U.S. waited out the Soviet Union until it collapsed of its own dead weight. Today, the Iraq hawks, in their increasingly Strangelovian fashion, don't want to repeat the Cold War patience. They don't want to let the inspections process chip away at Hussein's arsenal; they don't want the dictator to be lured into exile. They want a hot war, and they want it now. To get it, they are eager to trash the mechanisms of dispute resolution that have been built up over the decades: the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and, more recently, the International Criminal Court. Polls show that most Americans want to work cooperatively through international institutions to disarm Iraq. In other words, they don't want a rush to war. But that's exactly what the hawks do want. And so they must squawk loudly, to drown out not only the idea of democratic protest but also the very idea of peace. If you want other stories on this topic, search the Archives at latimes.com/archives. Click here for article licensing and reprint options Copyright 2003 Los Angeles Times 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
[CTRL] FX Networks
-Caveat Lector- http://www.fxnetwork.com/shows/originals/pentagon/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CRAVEN POLITICAL GAIN
-Caveat Lector- http://whitehouse.org/news/2003/030303.asp For Immediate Release - Office of the Press Secretary - March 1, 2003 - 10:04 A.M. (EST) Embedded linques in text SECRETARY FLEISCHER DELIVERS FORCEFUL REBUTTAL TO CHARGES OF SENSELESSLY DOOMING INNOCENT AMERICAN GI'S PURELY FOR CRAVEN POLITICAL GAIN Statement by the Press Secretary to the Christian Coalition Mr. Fleischer: Good morning. On behalf of the Bush Administration, I am honored to appear here today at the Christian Coalition of America's Annual Shareholder's Meeting. (Applause.) Yesterday, with inaccurate liberal polls showing President Bush's approval rating at a new low, and less than half of Americans indicating they will support his reelection, the President was both shocked and dismayed to be confronted with the utterly preposterous charge that his plans to senselessly doom American GI's in chemical and biological warfare with Iraq is inspired by wholly craven and purely political motives. Today, I am here to publicly vocalize without smirking the White House's assertion that this is untrue. Last night, the President called an emergency meeting of his top advisers in the Presidential Prayer Squad to discuss the Administration's overarching concern and principal goal for America's future: his reelection in 2004. Working feverishly until dawn with PPS leaders Deacon Fred and Brother Harry Hardwick, the President arrived at a plan of action which will ensure that his political future does not mimic that of his vaguely effeminate father. Let the record state that the Prayer Squad's painstakingly objective analysis involved reviewing opinion polls of NRA members, Heritage Foundation economic forecasts, back episodes of the Greatest American Hero and, most importantly, the Holy Bible. This morning, it falls to me to announce the inescapable conclusion of that Godly session: while the spilling of small oceans of American blood into Iraqi sand will most certainly spur the public to rally around the President, our Christ-appointed leader's domestic policies (or lack thereof) will unfortunately ensure his political demise unless the public can once again be terrified into supporting him, no matter what the cost. Nevertheless, rest assured that these radical fringe charges that our Commander in Chief is knowingly marching a quarter million innocent GI's to the sacrificial altar of political expediency are patently false! True, the President's cries to the public that tax cuts for We the Wildly Affluent People are the key to economic recovery have fallen on mostly deaf ears. For some reason, most of you Joe Sixpacks just won't believe that giving the rich more stock dividends is going to kickstart your Wal- Mart impulse-buying engine. That means we're left with a plan that gives money to the rich while slashing virtually all social programs for the middle class and poor while raising deficits to their highest levels ever. That's an agenda even Herbert Hoover couldn't have dreamed up. In other words, our President's only hope for reelection is a public so terrified of unseen Arabiac bogeymen, they will actively embrace an agenda of militaristically ruthless, quasi-fascistic Christian empire-building. (Applause.) Going forward, it is important that people recognize that the upcoming War on Iraq, replete with inevitable death for untold numbers of Americans and sand negroes alike, was in NO WAY conceived as the key to victory in 2004 that it is. No, this war is a purely high-minded endeavor, which will play out in one of two scenarios: Scenario 1: A Prolonged and Dirty War. This is a likely scenario inasmuch as the Administration has done its best to push Saddam Hussein into a nothing-to-lose corner. The President has said war will not stop until Saddam is removed from power to be tried for war crimes. This means there is no disincentive to Saddam using every chemical and biological agent at his disposal while launching missiles at Israel, Turkey and anyone else hungrily suckling at the U.S. cash teat. This may result in thousands of American casualties, thereby easily prolonging the war until well after the 2004 elections. The public historically supports the Commander-in-Chief in times of war, regardless of whether or not the depression has already begun. Scenario 2: A Quick Victory Followed by Terrorism. Overthrowing Saddam and establishing a U.S. territorial government in Iraq is certain to motivate Osama bin Laden and his cohorts to strike again at American targets with a vengeance that rivals 9/11. The result will be thousands of American casualties and a renewed call for yet another lengthy military engagement wherein the United States bombs back to the stone age any Middle Eastern armpit country in which terrorists are alleged to have once slept. Again, we will still be at war for the 2004 election season. Under either scenario, a second term is ensured. The panel concluded that, because a third term is not allowed by the
[CTRL] Waiting for the Dust
-Caveat Lector- http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/063/oped/A_war_policy_in_collapse% 2B.shtml WHAT A DIFFERENCE a month makes. On Feb. 5, Secretary of State Colin Powell made the Bush administration's case against Iraq with a show of authority that moved many officials and pundits out of ambivalence and into acceptance. The war came to seem inevitable, which then prompted millions of people to express their opposition in streets around the globe. Over subsequent weeks, the debate between hawks and doves took on the strident character of ideologues beating each other with fixed positions. The sputtering rage of war opponents and the grandiose abstractions of war advocates both seemed disconnected from the relentless marshaling of troops. War was coming. Further argument was fruitless. The time seemed to have arrived, finally, for a columnist to change the subject. 15 A A war policy in collapse 3/4/2003 By James Carroll THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING A war policy in collapse By James Carroll, 3/4/2003 WHAT A DIFFERENCE a month makes. On Feb. 5, Secretary of State Colin Powell made the Bush administration's case against Iraq with a show of authority that moved many officials and pundits out of ambivalence and into acceptance. The war came to seem inevitable, which then prompted millions of people to express their opposition in streets around the globe. Over subsequent weeks, the debate between hawks and doves took on the strident character of ideologues beating each other with fixed positions. The sputtering rage of war opponents and the grandiose abstractions of war advocates both seemed disconnected from the relentless marshaling of troops. War was coming. Further argument was fruitless. The time seemed to have arrived, finally, for a columnist to change the subject. And then the events of last week. Within a period of a few days, the war policy of the Bush administration suddenly showed signs of incipient collapse. No one of these developments by itself marks the ultimate reversal of fortune for Bush, but taken together, they indicate that the law of ''unintended consequences,'' which famously unravels the best-laid plans of warriors, may apply this time before the war formally begins. Unraveling is underway. Consider what happened as February rolled into March: Tony Blair forcefully criticized George W. Bush for his obstinacy on global environmental issues, a truly odd piece of timing for such criticism from a key ally yet a clear effort to get some distance from Washington. Why now? The president's father chose to give a speech affirming the importance both of multinational cooperation and of realism in dealing with the likes of Saddam Hussein. To say, as the elder Bush did, that getting rid of Hussein in 1991 was not the most important thing is to raise the question of why it has become the absolute now. For the first time since the crisis began, Iraq actually began to disarm, destroying Al Samoud 2 missiles and apparently preparing to bring weapons inspectors into the secret world of anthrax and nerve agents. The Bush administration could have claimed this as a victory on which to mount further pressure toward disarmament. Instead, the confirmed destruction of Iraqi arms prompted Washington to couple its call for disarmament with the old, diplomatically discredited demand for regime change. Even an Iraq purged of weapons of mass destruction would not be enough to avoid war. Predictably, Iraq then asked, in effect, why Hussein should take steps to disarm if his government is doomed in any case? Bush's inconsistency on this point -- disarmament or regime change? -- undermined the early case for war. That it reappears now, obliterating Powell's argument of a month ago, is fatal to the moral integrity of the prowar position. The Russian foreign minister declared his nation's readiness to use its veto in the Security Council to thwart American hopes for a UN ratification of an invasion. Despite Washington's offer of many billions in aid, the Turkish Parliament refused to approve US requests to mount offensive operations from bases in Turkey -- the single largest blow against US war plans yet. This failure of Bush diplomacy, eliminating a second front, might be paid for in American lives. The capture in Pakistan of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a senior Al Qaeda operative, should have been only good news to the Bush administration, but it highlighted the difference between the pursuit of Sept. 11 culprits and the unrelated war against Iraq. Osama bin Laden, yes. Saddam Hussein, no. Administration officials, contradicting military projections and then refusing in testimony before Congress to estimate costs and postwar troop levels, put on display either the administration's inadequate preparation or its determination, through secrecy, to thwart democratic procedures -- choose one. In other developments, all highlighting Washington's panicky ineptness, the Philippines
[CTRL] Listen Bozo, this is the White House. There are no clowns here
-Caveat Lector- http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_1889.shtml Listen Bozo, this is the White House. There are no clowns here By CHB Staff Mar 6, 2003, 07:43 The White House apparently believes it should not be the subject of satire and is trying to censor a web site that parodies Vice President Dick Cheney's wife. The residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue instructed the White House counsel's office to threaten a satirist and order him to remove pictures of Mrs. Cheney - complete with red clown noses - from his Web site. The New York Civil Liberties Union struck back Wednesday on behalf of John A. Wooden, 31, threatening a lawsuit to protect his First Amendment rights to parody the White House and Bush officials on his site, whitehouse.org. The official White House site is whitehouse.gov. Cheney counsel David S. Addington warned Wooden's Chickenhead Productions Inc. that Lynne V. Cheney's name and pictures - altered to show her with a red clown's nose and a missing tooth - could not be used to make money without her consent, and told Wooden to delete the photos and fictitious biographical statement about her. Instead, Wooden cautioned Web site visitors that the vice president wishes you to be aware ... that some/all of the biographic information contained on this PARODY page about Mrs. Cheney may not actually be true. And, it added, the editors of the Web site were confident that any rumors about Mrs. Cheney formerly being a crystal meth pusher are 100 percent likely to be absolutely untrue. Similarly, any stories about her penchant for licking brandy Alexanders off the hirsute belly of her spouse are all lies, lies, lies! NYCLU lawyer Chris Dunn wrote the office of the vice president that the material was fully protected by the First Amendment. With everything happening in the world, you'd think the office of the vice president would have something more important to do than sending letters to political satirists, Wooden said. A spokeswoman for Cheney's office, Jennifer Millerwise, confirmed the letter from Addington was authentic but said she otherwise had no comment. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Deconstructing America
-Caveat Lector- Deconstructing America ...The U.S. gave away its agricultural knowledge, its education, its technology, its manufacturing jobs and is now giving away its IT jobs. The displaced manufacturing workers did not move to the promised greener pastures. What reason is there to believe that the displaced engineers, Wall Street analysts, accountants, scientists, and other knowledge workers will do any better when their careers are outsourced?... --- - Paul Craig Roberts Palo Alto, CA - Do you remember those Information Technology (IT) jobs that were going to take the place in the new economy of those outsourced manufacturing jobs? Don't bother to retrain. The IT jobs are leaving, too. Knowledge work can be done anywhere there are educated people. These days that's just about everywhere: the Philippines, India, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Costa Rica, and South Africa. Outsourcing of new economy jobs is exploding. A recent article in the Feb. 3 Business Week describes dazzling new technology parks on the outskirts of India's major cities where U.S. companies such as Bank of America, Texas Instruments, pharmaceutical companies, Intel, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Hewlet Packard, American Express, Dell Computer, Eastman Kodak, IBM, GE, Microsoft, Procter Gamble, Fluor Corp, Electronic Data Services, Citibank, Boeing, mortgage lenders, Massachusetts General Hospital, and even architectural firms hire Indians to do knowledge jobs that Americans did three years ago. In Bangalore, Indian radiologists interpret CT scans for Massachusetts General Hospital, and Indian engineers design third-generation mobile-phone chips for Texas Instruments. Other Indians process claims for major U.S. insurance companies and home loans for U.S. mortgage companies. Indian molecular biologists conduct research for pharmaceutical companies. Indians analyze financial data for Wall Street, conduct RD for U.S. high-tech companies, and design software for Microsoft. The competition for U.S. knowledge workers is tough. India has 520,000 IT engineers, and starting salaries are $5,000. Five years from now, Indian service exports will add $57 billion annually to the U.S. and European trade deficits, and 4 million IT jobs will have been moved to India. The same thing is happening in China, a country with which the U.S. is expected to have a $125 billion trade deficit this year due largely to outsourcing. Microsoft alone is spending $1.15 billion for RD and outsourcing in India and China over the next three years. In Microsoft's Beijing research facility, one-third of the Chinese programmers have Ph.D.s from U.S. universities at U.S. taxpayers' expense. Filipinos prepare Procter Gamble's tax returns and crunch numbers for audits conducted by U.S. accounting firms. Architectural work ranging from home design to multibillion-dollar petrochemical plants is outsourced to Hungary, India, and the Philippines. The U.S. gave away its agricultural knowledge, its education, its technology, its manufacturing jobs and is now giving away its IT jobs. The displaced manufacturing workers did not move to the promised greener pastures. What reason is there to believe that the displaced engineers, Wall Street analysts, accountants, scientists, and other knowledge workers will do any better when their careers are outsourced? Business Week asked Harvard University globalist advocate Robert Lawrence what happens if America loses its knowledge jobs on top of its manufacturing jobs. His answer was not reassuring. He has no evidence - just faith - that globalization will make us better off. What is going on when American policymakers and elites gamble with the livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans on faith? Business Week is correct when it says economists haven't begun to fathom the implications for America of globalization. But it is already obvious who the winners and losers are. The winners are the foreigners with IT educations who live in countries where both the standard and cost of living are very low. The losers are IT employees in the U.S. where both the standard and cost of living is very high. Filipino engineers working for American firms at salaries of $3,000 annually, and Chinese and Indians working for $5,000 to $10,000 annually are unbeatable competition. For American university students struggling to prepare for high-tech careers, the good times are over before they begin. While jobs leave America and incomes fall, the eligibility of illegal aliens for U.S. Social Security and Medicaid benefits is a powerful magnet pulling in poor foreigners by the droves. The 1996 Welfare Reform Act did not end benefits for PRUCOL aliens, those who entered illegally and permanently reside under color of law. People collect benefits who have never paid in. And it is American citizens, downsized and outsourced, who are saddled with the burden. As most everyone
[CTRL] From the Shadows Ruling the U.S. - Israeli Empire
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030305/index.php Charley Reese Wednesday, March 5, 2003 EXCERPT: If you watch the silly cable-news shows, you will recognize many of these names as part of the parade of experts in favor of war with Iraq. The American people are being played for suckers. Their sons and daughters will be cannon fodder in a war that might benefit a foreign country but will greatly damage the interests of our own. NOTE: These are the names of those who have betrayed America for their own gain. Name the names in your invocations to Higher Power for adjudication of this treasonous treachery. Call for the binding of the Christian fanaticism that has believed the lies of Bush's moral imperative and religious posturing, believing religiously that this is a righteous war when it has been created and managed out of Zionist empire ambitions and Machiavellian/Hegelian manipulation of the masses through terror and tyranny. Political correctness with these flimflam imposters is morally wrong. The force of anti-love as antichrist that preys on people while praying In the name of the Christ. If you didn't read the recent post on George Bush, Alter Boy you should. These guys running the show are Illuminati Satanists. It's time we pulled the curtain on that show and produced another one. -CR Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli empire. -- Moshe Dayan 1952 The Flimflam Still think you are not being flimflammed by the Bush administration? Take heed of this: Newsweek has reported that Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect and Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, told the United Nations, the CIA and Britain's MI-6 in 1995 that Iraq destroyed all of its chemical and biological stocks, as well as the missiles to deliver them, in 1991. Yet the U.N. arms inspectors, the CIA and MI-6 chose to keep that secret. If it's true -- and there's no reason to believe it isn't -- then it's pretty hard evidence that the Bush administration is lying through its teeth when it keeps insisting that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. It also bolsters the credibility of former chief arms inspector Scott Ritter, who has likewise insisted that Iraq's weapons were destroyed. For that matter, it bolsters the credibility of the Iraqi government, which insists it no longer has any weapons of mass destruction. [This war is psychological at this point; it's all about credibility. -CR] You might recall that Kamel defected to Jordan and about six months later made the mistake of returning to Iraq, where he was killed. This coming war with Iraq gets murkier and murkier. Let's see if we can sort it out. First, we have a chief executive so naive about the world outside of Texas, he probably couldn't find a lot of countries on a map. Second, he has surrounded himself with American Likudniks -- supporters of Israel's right-wing government. Even The Washington Post reported recently what I've been saying for months: that Bush's policy is identical to that of Ariel Sharon's, the Israeli prime minister. I've said that Bush has been acting like Sharon's puppet; The Washington Post story quoted a U.S. official as saying Sharon has played Bush like a violin. The Israelis have long feared Iraq, Iran and North Korea (because they fear it will sell missiles to Iran). What a coincidence that those three countries are Bush's axis of evil. Before Bush's election, Dick Cheney (now vice president), John Bolton (now undersecretary of state for arms control), Douglas Feith (now third-highest-ranking official in the Defense Department), Richard Perle (now chairman of the Defense Policy Board) and James Woolsey (former CIA director) all had one thing in common: They served as advisers to the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. This is according to an article that appeared in the magazine The Nation. Bush recently appointed as director of Middle Eastern affairs for the National Security Council Elliott Abrams, a protégé of Perle and a man convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair. In 1996, according to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Perle, Feith and David Wurmser, now an assistant to Bolton, wrote a policy proposal for Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel's prime minister. Included in their advice were tips on how to manipulate the American government (OK, even the Haaretz reporter says the report comes dangerously close to dual loyalty) and advice to drop the peace plan, drop the idea of land for peace and concentrate on toppling Saddam Hussein and eventually replacing other Middle Eastern governments in order to create a safe environment for
Re: [CTRL] Memo Exposes Bush's New Green Strategy
-Caveat Lector- I was tongue in cheek. ;-) I'm just tired of being told (or inferred) that I'm parasitic to the Earth. I fail to see the inference that overpopulation equates to humans as parasites. Too much of anything is not good. I enjoy beer and female companionship but experience has shown that too much of either causes problems. flw A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 'American Taliban' reportedly beset in High Desert prison
-Caveat Lector- San Bernardino County Sun http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~1223588,00.html Walker Lindh assault claimed 'American Taliban' reportedly beset in High Desert prison By VINCE LOVATO Staff Writer Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - VICTORVILLE - The FBI is investigating a reported attack on American Taliban John Walker Lindh by one or more white supremacists at the Federal Correctional Institution here. I can confirm there was an incident regarding Lindh (on) Monday night,' said FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley. There was a report that Lindh was assaulted by another inmate but I cannot disclose any details beyond that.' At the request of his attorneys, Walker Lindh was placed in the general population in February and was working as an orderly cleaning indoors where guards could keep him under close scrutiny for his safety, said a source who works at the 960-acre prison complex. The source, who asked not to be identified, said Muslim inmates had been protecting Walker Lindh because they viewed him as a hero. But they pulled back their support because they decided he was not a radical dissident, the source said. Since Monday, Walker Lindh has been in special housing, a type of solitary confinement for his protection, the source said. The prison workers see him as young, vulnerable and socially immature, the source said. Walker Lindh was moved to the Victorville prison after pleading guilty to one count of supplying services to the Taliban and carrying a rifle and two grenades while fighting against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance. He was taken into custody after U.S. military forces found him bloodied and dazed during a prison uprising near Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan. As part of his plea bargain, the government dropped all other counts in a lengthy criminal indictment, including one of the most serious charges conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals. Walker Lindh, 21, is expected to serve most of his 20-year term in the Victorville medium-security prison. When crimes are committed in federal prisons the FBI investigates and the Justice Department decides whether to prosecute, Bosley said. The Sun was tipped to the incident by an anonymous male caller who left a voice message at the newspaper office Tuesday morning. The message said, 'Yes, I'd like to inform your newspaper that John Lindh Walker, who is incarcerated in Victorville, was assaulted this night by a white-supremacist organization that is imprisoned there. Thank you.' The caller's identity could not be determined. George Harris, an attorney with the San Francisco firm that represents Walker Lindh, said he was not aware of any incident regarding his client and was concerned for his safety. I don't know anything about an attack,' Harris said. We would be concerned if my client would be in danger.' He said the more information about Walker Lindh that is public, the more danger he's in.' Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Dan Dunne said in Washington, D.C., that to preserve the safety and security of inmates, the bureau does not release information about them. He said the prison bureau only releases information about a crime if the U.S. attorneys decide to prosecute. Walker Lindh remains safely housed at Victorville,' Dunne said. He's being housed there in a unit that is consistent with security needs.' Dunne said he could not comment on the existence of any white- supremacist gang that might be incarcerated in the prison. If there were any concerns about any inmate's security,' they would be addressed immediately, Dunne said. Walker Lindh, his parents and his legal representatives are under a gag order as a condition of his plea bargain and are barred from talking to the media, Dunne said. Inmates, including Walker Lindh, have the right to contact certain people outside the prison, Dunne said. The complex, which is directly south of Southern California Logistics Airport on Air Expressway, includes a minimum-security camp. The two facilities have a combined 1,650 inmates and 362 full-time employees. A high-security penitentiary and a second medium-security prison are under construction on the site. Walker Lindh was moved to Victorville to be closer to his parents, who live in Marin County. His father, Frank Walker Lindh, is an attorney for Pacific Gas Electric. 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
[CTRL] Pope to Bush: Go into Iraq and You Go Without God
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/030703A.shtml Pope to Bush: Go into Iraq and You Go Without God Capitol Hill Blue Wednesday 5 March 2003 Pope John Paul II has a strong message for President George W. Bush: God is not on your side if you invade Iraq. But the President told the pope's envoy the leader of the world's Catholics is wrong. Pleading for peace, an emissary from Pope John Paul II questioned Bush Wednesday on whether he was doing all he could to avert what the envoy called an unjust war with Iraq. Bush said removing Saddam Hussein would make the world more peaceful. The president met with Cardinal Pio Laghi, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States and a Bush family friend, on Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian Lenten season of penance and spiritual renewal leading up to Easter. Bush told the envoy in a 40-minute meeting that if it comes to the use of force, he believes it will make the world better, said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, who attended the private meeting. Removing the threat to the region will lead to a better, more peaceful world in which innocent Iraqis will have a better life. Laghi came bearing the pope's message: A war would be a defeat for humanity and would be neither morally nor legally justified. The Pope also questioned the President's statements invoking God's name as justification for the invasion. God is a neutral observer in the affairs of man, the Pope said. Man cannot march into war and assume God will be at his side. In Rome, the pope called for common efforts to spare humanity another dramatic conflict. The Vatican stands by its view that a pre-emptive strike on Iraq is immoral unless backed by the United Nations, Laghi said. It's illegal, it's unjust, Laghi told reporters after the session with Bush. There are still peaceful avenues within the context of the vast patrimony of international law and institutions which exist for that purpose, Laghi said. There is great unity on this grave matter on the part of the Holy See, the bishops in the United States, and the church throughout the world, he said. Laghi posed a series of questions to Bush that reflected the differences between the White House and the Vatican on Iraq, said a senior administration official. The questions included the importance of an international effort to confront Saddam and what the envoy said was a gulf between the Western and Muslim worlds. Bush disagreed on the last point, saying the U.S. effort to expand education opportunities to children had brought the Muslim and Western nations closer together, the administration official said. Laghi delivered a letter in which the pope urged Bush to listen carefully to the envoy. Neither the letter nor the envoy specifically urged Bush to avoid war, the U.S. official said. Laghi said he left the White House with hope in spite of the fact that the situation is what it is. Bush has rarely met with opponents of his Iraq stand in recent months. He almost always meets with leaders who agree with him, but has spoken by phone with adversaries. Bush, a Methodist, has taken pains throughout his presidency to court Catholic voters, who made up a quarter of the electorate in 2000 and split their votes between Bush and Democrat Al Gore. White House officials pointed out that Bush and the envoy also discussed abortion and cloning, two issues on which the administration and the Vatican generally agree. The polite exchange described by White House aides reflected the careful language of diplomacy used by both sides, even when they disagree. In a May visit to the Vatican, Bush told the pope he was concerned about the Catholic church's standing in America, where the church has been rocked by sex-abuse scandal. (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.) A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] Behind the War on Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.org/ladah03052003.html CounterPunch March 5, 2003 A Cover for Israel's Atrocities? Behind the War on Iraq By MICHAEL S. LADAH While the world has been busy with the specter of a major war in the Middle East, the American public has been getting very little news coverage about the Palestinians and the continuation of the oppressive Israeli measures. As the world comes closer to the war on Iraq which now appears imminent, many of us are more concerned not only about the major loss in civilian lives in Iraq but also about the potential tragedy that is expected to unfold in the West Bank and Gaza. Credible analysis about the true motives behind the war and the real objectives of the Bush Administration has confirmed that Israel has a vested interest in the looming war on Iraq and that Israel is expected to reap major gains from the war. In his article The US Gameplan for Iraq former CIA political analyst for 29 years, Bill Christison, gave a complete analysis of the apparent and hidden objectives from the almost certain war on Iraq. He classified and analyzed all the reasons being discussed by the media and the public, and explained that the true reasons were the oil and the present administration's desire for world domination, including domination of the Middle East by Israel, the US surrogate power. One of the obvious reasons that has not been mentioned by most analysts, however, is the diversion from (or cover up for) what Israel is doing in the West Bank and Gaza, and from what it plans to do. In an article titled As the world focuses on Iraq, the bodies pile up in Gaza (the Independent, February 23, 2003) reporter Justin Huggler asks pointedly from Gaza Is the Israeli military taking advantage of a time when the world is not paying attention to what is going on here, when media coverage is focusing on Iraq, to step up its campaign in the occupied territories? The answer is obviously 'yes' and Huggler explains that the restraints imposed on Israeli repression against the Palestinians have in the past come from world public opinion only. That public opinion is now busy elsewhere. A more important reason for concern is what Israel might be planning for the Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza. Academic observers and analysts of the question on Palestine, both in Israel and in the United States, have warned about a potential major disaster if Israel makes good on threats being vocalized by Israeli extremists regarding further ethnic cleansing; many extremists in the government, and most settlers, have threatened to expel Palestinians from population centers in the West Bank and Gaza across international borders into Jordan and Egypt. These academics and observers have warned that as the world gets more pre- occupied with the war on Iraq, the Israeli military will manufacture excuses to conduct another in a series of ethnic cleansing steps which started in 1948. In her article titled Threats of Forced Mass Expulsion (Le Monde Diplomatique, February 19, 2003), Amira Hass, the only Israeli reporter who lives in a West Bank city (Ramallah), confirms that the idea of transfer of Palestinians forcibly or through enticement is gaining momentum across the political spectrum of Israeli society. Amira Hass asserts Some 73% of those who live in the Jewish settlements, euphemistically known as development towns, believe that Israel should encourage its Arab population to leave. This rises to 76% among Jews from the former Soviet Union and to 87% among religious Jews. In the same article, Amira Hass further confirms that mini transfers have indeed already started: The presence of military pacifists in the occupied territories has not prevented mini-transfers. Faced with non-stop harassment from their 500 Jewish neighbours and a round- the-clock military curfew designed to protect settlers, many Palestinians have moved out of the ancient city of Hebron. In the northern West Bank 180 Palestinian villagers in Yanun were forced to abandon their homes and relocate after increased harassment from the neighbouring Jewish settlement of Itamar. Other expulsions have taken place because of the construction of Israel's infamous wall. Though such mini-transfers have come to the attention of the Israeli public and resulted in demonstrations, the loss of land and homes over the past two years has left the Palestinians feeling dispossessed. Considering this growing acceptance of the transfer idea within Israeli society, and the fact that the world will soon be even more pre-occupied with the war on Iraq and the problems that the war will create, Israel could be expected to uphold its reputation of committing further atrocities and manufacturing excuses to justify them. It should be expected that such atrocities will include the transfer, at least through increased harassment by the settlers and at most by the Israeli authorities with the backing of the occupation forces.
[CTRL] Fwd: FC: BoycottDelta.com launches to protest airline's snooping
-Caveat Lector- --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: FC: BoycottDelta.com launches to protest airline's snooping Date: 3/6/2003 12:58:22 AM --- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 03:31:24 -0600 Subject: Delta Air Lines Boycott Underway From: Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED] In response to Delta Air Line's utter lack of concern with the privacy of their customers demonstrated by their participation in a test of the CAPPS II system, a Delta disinvestment campaign has been launched at: http://www.boycottdelta.com . In the event that the name servers have not yet propagated, the site can be reached at: http://216.240.45.67 The idea of citizens having to undergo a background investigation that includes personal banking information and a credit check simply to travel in his or her own country is invasive and un-American. The CAPPS II system goes far beyond what any thinking citizen of this country should consider reasonable. If enough people refuse to fly Delta, then it is likely that other airlines will refuse to implement this sadly misguided and anti-democratic system. The boycott will remain in full effect until Delta Air Lines publicly withdraws from any involvement with the testing of CAPPS II. Press Contact: Bill Scannell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ - Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ - End of forwarded message 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 Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Glee in Galilee
-Caveat Lector- w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=269137 contrassID=2subContrassID=1sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=Y Some blame Israel for U.S. war in Iraq Since tension between Iraq and the United States has increased and the winds of war have started to blow, the Bush Administration has made every effort to play down Israel's role in the future military conflict. The Americans have promised complete protection and direct information to ensure that Israel will not get involved. They are keeping a low profile in the talks on assistance with Israel and in the transfer of military support toward the war, and are distancing themselves from any appearance of Israeli involvement in the war preparations. There is just one purpose - to remove any suspicion that the decision to go to war with Iraq is a pro- Israeli and, therefore, anti-Arab step. But, as hard as the administration tries, the voices linking Israel to the war are getting louder and louder. It is claimed the desire to help Israel is the major reason for President George Bush sending American soldiers to a superfluous war in the Gulf. And the voices come from all directions - from the left, with their anti-war and anti-Israel slogans, as well as from seasoned conservative politicians who accuse the administration of being led by a handful of pro-Israel Jews. The attacks from the right are nothing new. In 1991, Patrick Buchanan, an arch-conservative, hinted that Jews were behind the will of George Bush Sr.'s administration to go to war. His comments kicked up a storm and he was accused of anti- Semitism. Buchanan has gone right back to his old line. He claims the main proponents now urging the United States to go to war are a small group of senior officials in the administration, notably in the Pentagon. They are, not by chance, he said, Jewsplacing the good of Israel before that of the United States. He defines Bush as Sharon's client. By Nathan Guttman /hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=269137 close window 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 Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Impeaching Bush
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-enrich030603.asp March 6, 2003, 9:00 a.m. Impeaching Bush Congressional Dems ready to avenge. By David Enrich Ever since President Bush's controversial victory in the 2000 election, die-hard Democrats have dreamed of revenge for the Clinton impeachment. Now, as the country braces for war, some liberal Democrats in Congress are preparing to introduce articles of impeachment against Bush and perhaps members of his Cabinet, according to lawmakers and congressional aides. Over the past few weeks, some of the most liberal members of the House have discussed the possibility of impeaching Bush. Talks have intensified this week, lawmakers say, largely because war with Iraq appears imminent. At least one senior House Democrat has produced a draft impeachment resolution. It accuses Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft of more than a dozen high crimes and misdemeanors, including bombing civilians in Afghanistan and constitutional violations in the domestic war on terrorism. The resolution also charges Bush with threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently proclaiming an intention to change its government by force while preparing to assault Iraq in a war of aggression. A congressional aide provided the resolution's text on the condition of anonymity. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said he had no comment on the impeachment resolutions that are being discussed. Rep. Danny K. Davis, a Chicago Democrat who has discussed impeachment with his colleagues in the congressional black and progressive caucuses, said a resolution probably would be introduced in the event of a full-fledged military effort that occurs without new congressional war resolutions. There are some [lawmakers] who obviously are more eager to jump hard, and then there are others who probably aren't even thinking this way at all about impeachment, Davis said. I'd probably be in the middle. Could Bush become the third president ever impeached? Not likely. Even some of the lawmakers and aides involved in the impeachment effort say they don't expect to actually impeach the president. Instead, they say their goal is to express their outrage with the administration's foreign and domestic policies. Lawmakers sometimes introduce resolutions outlining articles of impeachment for purely political reasons, said Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution. This is more than frivolous. It's just political pap, Hess said. Impeachment is not the appropriate vehicle for political argumentation, and that's what this is. Among the most vocal proponents of impeaching Bush are former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Francis A. Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois. They both helped craft an impeachment resolution that was introduced in Congress against the elder President Bush on the eve of the first Gulf War. Clark, the founder of the far-left International Action Center, also once advocated the impeachment of then-President Ronald Reagan. Working independently, Clark and Boyle say they have distributed sample impeachment resolutions to small groups of antiwar Democratic lawmakers and their aides. They say they expect at least one lawmaker to introduce an impeachment resolution in the House. It's under active review by several members of Congress, Boyle said. It's going to take someone with courage, integrity and a safe seat to do this. Few Democrats involved in the impeachment discussions will talk about them publicly. Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles would say only that she and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are considering a lot of different strategies ... by which to create a real voice of opposition to war. The evidence of an imperial presidency almost grows daily, said another Democratic lawmaker, who said he would vote to impeach Bush. But some of the war opposition's usual suspects have rejected entreaties to join the impeachment campaign. I'm not interested. I think it would be destructive for this country. This country needs healing, and that's why I'm running for president, said Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio, the Progressive Caucus chairman. Boyle said Kucinich's refusal to be involved in the impeachment planning was politically motivated. I think Kucinich might have done it if he had not decided to run for president, Boyle said. I guess he concluded that might hurt his run for president. But Kucinich is not the only antiwar Democrat steering clear of impeachment. There have been people asking, and I have so far declined, said Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington, who was widely condemned last year for visiting Iraq. It's really premature until we go to war. Then we'll have to see. - David Enrich, a reporter at States News Service, covers Washington for several newspapers. A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
[CTRL] Bush Sr. Said In 1996
-Caveat Lector- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00029.htm Jason Leopold: When Poppy Bush Said It How It Is Thursday, 6 March 2003, 11:19 am Column: Jason Leopold When Poppy Bush Said It How It Is Bush Sr. Said In 1996 That War With Iraq `Would Turn Entire Arab World Against Us By Jason Leopold Former President George Bush predicted in 1996 that if the United States were to engage in another war with Iraq, one aimed at overthrowing Saddam Hussein, the entire Arab world would turn against us and the U.S. would alienate its allies in the international community. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero, Bush said in an interview with the BBC marking the five-year anniversary of the Gulf War. Moreover, Vice President Dick Cheney said at an energy conference six years ago that hundreds of thousands of United States soldiers and Iraqi civilians would die if a war in Iraq were ever fought on the streets of Baghdad. To have brought the (Gulf) war into the populous Iraqi capital of Baghdad where Hussein is based would have involved a different type of military operation than in the desert, and would have put large numbers of Iraqi civilians and hundreds of thousands of our troops at risk of being killed, he said. Cheney, the former chairman and chief executive of oil conglomerate Halliburton Co. and former defense secretary under the first President Bush, was referring to the 1991 Gulf War when the U.S. liberated Kuwait. Cheney also said in 1997 that if the U.S. were to engage in another war with Iraq and try to remove Saddam Hussein from power the international coalition would come apart, a situation currently in the making as U.S. relations with France, Germany and Russia are becoming increasingly strained because our allies will not back a U.S. led coalition to attack Iraq. Despite the dire warnings Bush Sr. and Cheney made six years ago, the current Bush Administration appears to be on course to launch a full-scale war with Iraq, one that appears to be more about finding Saddam Hussein and assassinating the Iraqi President than destroying any weapons of mass destruction that may or may no be hidden somewhere in the country. Until that goal is achieved, the U.S. and the rest of the world will never be safe or at peace; statements made repeatedly by Republican hawks since the end of the first Gulf War. Unless we can take out Saddam Hussein, we are going to have to live with Saddam Hussein (for a long time), said James Schlesinger, former defense secretary under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, at a conference in 1998. Schlesinger noted however that the countries of the region dont want us to attack Iraq. We keep getting waved off, he said. If the U.S. decides to attack Iraq this time around urban warfare appears to be inevitable, according to news reports that quoted senior defense officials. Cheney said in 1997 that President Bush was not willing to sacrifice U.S. soldiers lives by allowing combat to spread to Baghdad in an effort to locate Saddam Hussein, a situation which the current Bush Administration seems willing to do now. From the standpoint of the president, the question was how many additional (U.S.) lives is Saddam Hussein worth? And his answer was, `Not very many,' Cheney said. Cheney said six years ago that capturing the Iraqi president would be very difficult and would likely involve a large number of civilian casualties. The only way to make certain you could get him was to go occupy all of Iraq and start sorting through Iraqis until you find Saddam Hussein, Cheney said in 1997. If the U.S. does invade Iraq, the Bush Administration said the war wont last more than two months and will not involve a large number of U.S. or civilian casualties. But Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President Bush last year that if the U.S. starts a war in Iraq without the support of a majority of our allies in the international community, which is the case now, it would be much more complicated and bloody than the first Gulf War. ** - Jason Leopold is an investigative journalist based in California, he is currently finishing a book on the California energy crisis. He can be contacted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] This story is available for republication, please contact the author by email. Home Page | Headlines | Previous Story | Next Story Copyright (c) Scoop Media 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
[CTRL] M is for morons
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:57:20 -0800 (PST) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Ess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U-S-A] Re: [beyond_the_outer_limits] Re: (night) kahanist-links / Kohanim links - USAM The M is for morons POC * http://www.geocities.com/partyofcitizens ** On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Bob Ess wrote: Adding NOW to your list of 'Jewish' hate sites was a nice touch of humor, 'John'. Since your Axis of Evil is USAM (I added M for you): Usury - 'Jews' Sodomy - queers Abortion - women, and (I added M for you) Murder - blacks, maybe you ought to add links to: National Council of Churches (condones homosexuality, abortion, etc.) Metropolitan Church (queers' own Protestant denomination) Planned Parenthood (founder Margaret Sanger did advocate involuntary sterilization of the poor giving 'em life sentences on work farms for their 'crime' of poverty) Garden Clubs of America NAACP United Negro College Fund ETC.! Have fun! Bob --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Party [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WE've started our very own hate page to track the REAL haters, namely the Talmud-munching anti-Semites pretending to be jews, which is now at http://christianparty.net/hatemongers.htm If you can think of any organizations that need to be added, please let me know asap. John Knight - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:06 PM Subject: [beyond_the_outer_limits] Re: Fwd: kahanist-links / Kohanim links --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The father and the son both murdered, they were such a threat to the evil ones in Israel? They were assassinated like George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The Kahanes were hatemongerers. They advocated removing all the Palestinians from Palestine. Nice site here with a lot of good materialKahane, sounds like Irish Jew? http://www.geocities.com/itzik18/kahanist-links.html More interesting to me are the Kohanim. #Y66. A Genetic Trace is Found Linking Kohanim Worldwide - A Genetic Trace is Found Linking Kohanim Worldwide. Report by Grant Jeffrey. ... They asked if they were Kohanim, related to the priestly tribe. ... http://www.yfiles.com/aaron.html parish kohanim http://www.parishkohanim.com/ search within this site Donmeh West - Reb Yakov Leib HaKohain's Birkat Kohanim 'Priestly ... - ... to Aaron and Moses. To hear him chanting the ancient Birkat Kohanim click on: | Hear Reb Yakov Leib HaKohain's Birkat Kohanim |. ... http://www.donmeh-west.com/bkohanim.shtml search within this site Mordechai Torczyner's WebShas - Index to the Talmud: Kohanim - ... The Gifts for the Kohanim: Gifts to the Kohen from Offerings Terumah- Tithe Initial Tithe Gifts to the Kohanim [Cherem] Kohanim at ... http://www.aishdas.org/webshas/spec/social/kehunah.htm search within this site Judaism 101 - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - ... Kohen (alt. Cohen) - (pl. Kohanim or Cohanim ... The Kohanim are a subset of the Tribe of Levi. Thus, every Kohen is a Levi, but not every Levi is a Kohen. ... http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/jl.htm search within this site The Jerusalem Post Newspaper : Online News From Israel - News ... - ... Genetic kohanim descent claims disputed By Judy Siegel. (February 28) - A former Israeli researcher living in Australia claims that ... http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/02/28/News/News.22178.html search within this site Dr. Akiva Belk of 7commands.com discusses The Eternal Kohanim / ... - ... The Eternal Kohanim / Priests © By Dr. Akiva G. Belk. ... The Torah is clear on the fact that there are different groups of Kohanim / Priests. ... http://www.7commands.com/judaism_eh_ved_spirituality/the_eternal_koha nim_priest.html search within this site KOHANIM - Search for Kohanim. Chai, My name is Israel Simcha ben Yitzhok h'Kohan and I was born in London on Shabbas H'Godol 5700 which that ... http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~bevnian/ Kohein - Kohein. The kohanim are the descendants of Aaron, chosen by Gd at the time of the incident with the Golden Calf to perform certain sacred work, particularly in ... http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Judaism/kohein.html search within this site Close window to return to main page - Kohein; (KOH-hayn) pl: Kohanim (koh-HAHN-eem) Priest. A descendant of Aaron, charged with performing various rites in the Temple. ... http://www.jewfaq.org/defs/kohein.htm search within this site GENETIC TRACE IS FOUND THAT LINKS KOHANIM WORLD WIDE - GENETIC TRACE IS FOUND THAT LINKS KOHANIM WORLD WIDE. ...
[CTRL] Insider Notes
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Insider% 20Notes%2edbcommand=viewoneop=tid=7rnd=18.524169921875 Deep Throat Returns: Insider Notes from the Pentagon 03-06-2003 Status Report Ive been out of pocket. Heres the news. In the past few days, a series of security alerts popped up on OSD computer screens. One unattended gym bag left in the parking lot, a box of bolts left in the center courtyard by a work crew, and yesterday, a black book bag left at the foot of the Metro escalator. The last one shut down Metro stops to the Pentagon for a few hours. OPSEC is rising on the reservation, maybe alongside employee absent- mindedness. The Army Chief of Staff and the Deputy Secretary of Defense engaged in an amazingly public catfight over the resources and manpower required to occupy Iraq. For all that, neither one of them, or anyone else in the Pentagon or the White House will tell Congress how much this will cost, how long it will take, or who is paying for it. Rumsfeld has started making the same statements in every interview and press event If it comes to war and No decision has been made yet. They say to understand politicians you have to know when they are lying. Its not that hard when you see their lips moving, thats the killer clue. The Kansas City Star says the Pentagon is violating a 1998 congressional mandate that blood be taken from every deploying soldier to serve as a baseline for later analysis of exposure to chemicals. This law was imposed in order to help prevent the fiasco of the Pentagons handling and analysis of Gulf War Syndrome 11 years ago. Instead of collecting blood, the military health policy is to have each soldier complete a one page form where he or she answers true-false questions about his or her general health. Sounds like a plan to cover somebody. Probably not soldiers and veterans, though. Ted Koppel finally ran an indepth piece last night on the Project for a New American Century, their 1997 roadmap for a new Middle East, and the PNAC charter members' new day jobs. Jobs like like Secretary of Defense, his deputy, the Vice President, his special assistant, NSC Middle East Director and the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs. Surprising, I guess, unless youve been reading this column and other quiet reminders of the hijacked ship of state inside the beltway. It isnt about oil, we are told. Not directly, but is it about the dollar, and propping up the ever weaker US economy by ensuring global business stays greenback and not Euro-backed? If Bush team takes us to Baghdad, they will need to do it before the economy tanks, the weather gets hot, and our soldiers families start to ask the hard questions about the difference between patriotism and just following orders. Time is also needed to adapt the spin to whatever the aftermath looks like, and get the re-election campaign going. The Pope says the proposed attack and occupation of Iraq is not a great idea. But why should debatable evidence of terror links, lack of direct Iraqi provocation or threat to the United States, inadequately substantiated accusations of Iraqs vast remaining supplies of potent chemical and biological weapons, and the likelihood of innocent civilians being killed stop us from having a good war? Im not Catholic, but many traditional conservatives and lots of liberals are. The anti-war protests are beginning to ramp up, with all the directional control of a sawed off shotgun. Shoot, fire, aim. Lucky for the Iraqis theyll be liberated by precision guided munitions instead. Send care packages to our troops. Adopt a soldier. Let them know you are thinking of them. Do your job. Maybe, in the morning after, we will all be able to look each other in the eye, acknowledge the honor we see there, and wake up as part of the solution in a Middle East transformed by the steady vision of our political leadership. OK, its a long shot. Heres a more practical alternative. Double wrap those cookies, use popcorn and cotton candy to pack the treats, and send them to the troops early and often. 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
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[CTRL] Talking Points
-Caveat Lector- http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/030603Higdon/030603higdon.html Sometimes Talking Points talk back By James Higdon Online Journal Contributing Editor March 6, 2003We will be at war by the middle of this month, if not sooner, and that is the subject of this answer to Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo for February 26, 2003. On that day, Bill O'Reilly attempted to do his best impression of Joseph Goebbels. It is said that during World War II Goebbels frequently commented on taking note of which Germans were not sufficiently patriotic in Hitler's Reich, and he claimed that they would be dealt with firmly after the war. O'Reilly went out of his way to instruct that FOX News would be handling this job for the illegitimate administration in the White House and we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up. The admonition would not be so bad in and of itself, but O'Reilly went out of his way to couple it with a threat. Americans who work toward putting an end to the oil grab once it is underway will be considered enemies of the state by me . . . [L]et's just say you will be spotlighted. And according to Goebbels, the mentor of the FOX News philosophy, [d] uring a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information. This is the philosophy that seems to work for Americans completely devoid of the ability to think for themselves, and FOX has been hugely successful in cornering the market of that particular demographic. We should not overlook that these are the days of compassionate conservatism, and O'Reilly warmly informs us that we don't want to demonize anyone, but once the usurper has made his executive decision (as it has apparently been made for him since the early 1990s) and soldiers lives are on the line, patriotism must be factored in to give the government the benefit of the doubt, at least until the benefit has been proven wrong, as it was in Vietnam. Well, Mr. O'Reilly, the benefit was proven wrong in Vietnam precisely because courageous individuals ignored sanctimonious, money- grubbing, propagandists to protest, organize, and mobilize decent and moral Americans to stop that war. Unfortunately too late to prevent the loss of 50,000 of America's sons, fathers, husbands, and brothers in South East Asia, and 50,000 more to suicide upon the return of troops to the US. Without those patriotic Americans, my fascist friend, Americans might still be dying in a war that was never designed to end. How many American service personnel and Iraqi civilians will have to die before you believe that dissent should once again be permitted in this country? How many more American civilians will die under the ever increasing threat of terrorism before we can discuss diplomatic solutions to those things that incite terrorism? Knowing your history and the history of FOX News, Mr. O'Reilly, I suggest that the answer lies not in the number of dead, but in the amount of time it takes for unelected oil barons to secure Iraqi oil wells, and for a lawfully elected Democratic president to return to the White House and inherit the waste of incompetence, born of the soft bigotry of low expectations that George W. Bush will leave behind. O'Reilly, apparently unable to wait for the victorious smell of napalm in the morning, has spotlighted two Americans for career destruction, Sheryl Crow and Barbara Streisand. Streisand is given fair warning along with any others who share her beliefs. Sheryl Crow, on the other hand, is taken to task for failing to support the inevitable war for oil, but supporting our troops in Bosnia. O'Reilly and his cohorts can readily understand how one can support our troops, but not our president (so long as the president is a lawfully, popularly elected Democrat), but are completely unaware of any conditions that might lead an American to support one war, but not another, nor the possibility of being able to support our young heroes who fight for democracy but not the current oil grab they are being ordered to die for. Such entertainments require too much concurrent thought which might lead FOX away from its logic limited demographic. Regardless, invading Iraq for oil is not quite the same as bombing to remove the military capability of a nation bent on genocide. Says O'Reilly to Crow, Milosevic was a villain who allowed his army to rape and murder civilians. Saddam does the same thing. And Saddam has weapons far worse than anything Milosevic had. And we didn't get a U.N. mandate to bomb Belgrade. All too true. We didn't get a U.N. mandate to bomb Belgrade. We could have gotten one, because it would not have violated the U.N. charter. Hostilities had already broken out in the region prior to our entering the fray. However, the charter of the U.N. demands finding an alternative for war and it will become irrelevant if it backs Bush, because the Bush/ Cheney oil thirst is all there is to make hostilities imminent. I
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http://www.gooff.com/NM/templates/Breaking_News.asp?articleid=230zoneid=2 THOMAS JEFFERSON CALLING: The time for revolution is now By John Kaminski March 6, 2003 THOMAS JEFFERSON CALLING: The time for revolution is now By John Kaminski, [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Watch for John Kaminskis new book, AMERICAS AUTOPSY REPORT, to be published soon by Dandelion Books, for sale at www.GoOFF.com. "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."- two quotes from Thomas Jefferson Have you noticed? America is on the wrong side of every conflict in the world. America encourages slavery and economic exploitation, and opposes individual rights and people's self determination - everywhere in the world. And now, with its new hardcore police-state laws, even in America itself. No more the land of the free and home of the brave. That's long gone. Now it's the land of the financially pulverized and the home of grotesquely overpaid executroids who will say anything for the right price. Lie to anyone, friend or foe. Betray anyone for those thirty pieces of silver. Bribe other countries in order to get them to do things that everybody realizes are wrong. Poison its own soldiers because somebody makes billions getting rid of nuclear waste. Even kill a lot of its own citizens with medicines that are never tested, and protect the vicious felons who distribute these poisons from shattered parents mourning their dead children. Judasland, that's the America we have now. Americans don't tell the truth to anyone, least of all themselves. And I direct this at not just the government, but also at the American people. Y'know, it's easy to say we've been victimized by bad schools and coma-inducing TV, disgustingly manipulative movies, and a climate of elitist intolerance reflected in one-sided media versions of history. It's one thing to be deceived, but it's quite another not to have seen all these crimes that have happened right in front our eyes since the Kennedy assassination. I mean: How stupid are we? How stupid are we to believe that on one day in 2001, we had no air defenses for the entire Northeast region of the country? And that just happened to be the day when "terrorists" decided to fly four big jetliners into national landmarks. As Gerard Holmgren so eloquently said recently, how stupid are we to believe a conspiracy theory as far-fetched as that, one that was engineered by disaffected Arabs in a cave? See http://www.911-strike.com/debunking.htm So, yes, we can keep blaming our bad luck and lack of attention to political reality, but let's not forget to blame ourselves in all this. And blame ourselves right now for not already having stopped an entire Congress intent on covering up the most important event of our lives, and then timidly approving the wars of our new dictator who seeks to keep the population deceived with one murderous escapade after another. How stupid are we to believe all of it? Or any of it? How stupid are we not to know the stock market crashed months ago and is being propped up by the Plunge Protection Team? How stupid are we not to know that nothing the Bush Administration says remotely resembles an honest assessment of conditions in the world. All those satanic shills say is designed to ease their task of stealing money from people everywhere. Recently many high profile Americans have been caught in embarrassing lies. Although the media tries to cover them as best they can, more and more people are noticing that everything the Bush administration says is a spin, and none of it is an honest recounting of actual events. If Powell and Bush are telling lies now about reasons to invade Iraq - and getting caught at those lies regularly - how are we to know that they weren't telling lies about the demolition of the World Trade Center, when it was considered unpatriotic to question the official version of events? If they're lying now, what kind of stupid do you have to be to believe they were telling the truth then? Pretty stupid, is what I'd say. I bet it's just hysterical when Poppy Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld get together and laugh about how efficiently they've ripped off the American people. Cheney can brag that Halliburton, through its Brown Root subsidiary, had made trillions off all these frequent U.S. military deployments in which his company provides the crappy chow and the tossed-up buildings. With plenty more
[CTRL] U.S. Expands Clandestine Surveillance Operations
-Caveat Lector- http://www.latimes.com/la-na-terror5mar05,0,5150443.story U.S. Expands Clandestine Surveillance Operations The number of secret searches approved by Ashcroft since the 9/11 attacks is triple those authorized in the previous 20 years. By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has stepped up use of a secretive process that enables the attorney general to personally authorize electronic surveillance and physical searches of suspected terrorists, spies and other national-security threats without immediate court oversight. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday he has authorized more than 170 such emergency searches since the Sept. 11 attacks -- more than triple the 47 emergency searches that have been authorized by other attorneys general in the last 20 years. A 1978 law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enables the FBI and other investigators to conduct intelligence operations under the supervision of a secret federal tribunal known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Over the years, the number of such FISA applications has grown -- and civil liberties' groups and defense lawyers have complained that the law has become a tool to dilute suspects' constitutional rights. Now, Justice Department officials are pushing the law's limits even further. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, officials have seized on a provision that allows them to launch emergency searches signed only by the attorney general. The department must still persuade the secret court that the search is justified -- but officials have 72 hours from the time the search is launched, and such requests are almost always granted. Ashcroft's tally was more fuel for critics of the law who contend that it already operates in the shadows. "That is a startling increase," said Timothy Edgar, a legislative counsel for the ACLU. Edgar and others are concerned that law-enforcement officials are pursuing run-of-the-mill criminal cases under the guise of national security. The trouble, they say, is that defendants' customary 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable searches don't apply in FISA cases. Others point to the fact that the number of search warrants obtained by federal investigators in intelligence cases in recent years has started to outstrip the number in criminal cases. The process "is getting attenuated from any kind of effective judicial oversight," said Joshua Dratel, a New York lawyer who helped represent the National Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers in a challenge to FISA last year. "The question now becomes, 'How much can a court tolerate before it reins this in?' " Currently, the Justice Department is only required to report publicly how many FISA search applications it pursues annually and how many are approved. Several members of Congress have introduced legislation that would expand the reporting requirements -- to detail the number of searches of U.S. citizens, for instance. "The bare numbers cry out for further scrutiny," said James X. Dempsey, executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington civil-liberties group. Separately, Ashcroft announced the unsealing of charges in Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court against two Yemeni citizens, Mohammed Al Hasan Al-Moayad and Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed. Ashcroft said the men stand accused of conspiring to provide material support to the Al Qaeda and Hamas terrorist groups through a worldwide fund-raising operation that netted Osama bin Laden $20 million. According to Ashcroft, a portion of the funds came from the Al Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, a onetime gathering place for Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, known as the blind sheik, and other men, all of whom were convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The men were arrested Jan. 10 in Frankfurt, Germany; the U.S. is seeking their extradition. A Justice Department spokesman said announcement of the arrests was delayed for "operational reasons." In a related development, U.S. counter-terrorism officials confirmed Tuesday that the second man arrested Saturday in a predawn raid in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, is Mustafa Ahmed Al-Hawsawi, one of Al Qaeda's top paymasters. Hawsawi was captured with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, an Al Qaeda leader believed to be plotting additional attacks on the United States and elsewhere. The Justice Department has accused Hawsawi of funding the Sept. 11 attacks by wiring more than $100,000 to the hijackers for their living expenses, flight lessons and airline tickets after they arrived in the United States. Just before they embarked on their deadly journeys, several of the hijackers wired the money they had not spent back to Hawsawi in the United Arab Emirates. Federal law enforcement officials described the arrest as "extremely significant." "This is a huge catch," one official said Tuesday. "Not as huge as Mohammed, obviously, but one of the more significant arrests
[CTRL] The Noriega Gambit
-Caveat Lector- The Noriega Gambit by RB Ham March 6, 2003 Former CIA supported Mujahadeen money man gets "Noriega-ed" just as EVERYTHING is going wrong for Der Fuhrer George W Bush. His plans for his Slaughter in Iraq is on ice, domestically the economy is tanking and his poll numbers are plummeting. Voila! HEY! We bagged ourselves the #3 man in Al Qaeda! Or did they? Democratic Underground's own Paul Thompson has the real story. I highly recommend you peruse this article with great care. "Is there more to the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed than meets the eye?" - Paul Thompson Back to the Noriega Gambit. Y'all remember when Bush 41 decided that Noriega was way too unstable to be allowed to be left in control of Panama as a Puppet Dictator. Noriega had been one of the CIA's boys who helped facilitate the cocaine trade which the CIA made a fortune on to help out the Contras and so they could send arms to Iran in exchange for hostages. Noriega, it was decided, knew too much and had to be taken out. So the Bush 41 boys embarked on a campign of demonization to justify an invasion. . Plus, the bonus was to completely destroy the Panama Army and put US military men in charge of what was left. Hey Carter! I got your Panama Canal independence right here! So Noriega runs to a church for sanctuary, grabs a loudspeaker and starts telling the assembled press and special forces surrounding the church ALL about his illegal dealings with the Reagan-Bush Junta and their CIA"s "hands on" approach to the drug trade. That's when Bush ordered music to be played at DECIBELS VERY LOUD - aimed at shutting him up. When they eventually got him they pumped Noriega full of drugs and spirited him away to a solitary cell in Florida where they used advanced "drug therapies" on him to keep him shut up long enough for the syphilis to destroy his mind. The parallels with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed are very similar. Former bad ass "Golden Triangle" executive who helped mediate between the CIA and Islamic revolutionaries throughout the world as they created a global protectionist racket. It worked like a charm. Old Mohammed thought he was safe as safe can be - surely his good buddies in the ISI and the CIA would have his back? NOT! Mohammed knew too much, knows where the bodies are buried, knows the WHOLE story behind 9-11, not just the crapola that the Carefully Nurtured News spews at the sheeple 24/7... He had to be dealt with. He was "Noriega-ed". If he isn't already dead and he can still threaten to expose the shadow government's hand in the world wide terrorist extortion scheme, rest assured that you'll never see him again. Not lucid that is. Any info he could have told his interrogator/torturers is already well known to those in the shadow government who are intricately involved in the whole scam. But now you'll hear about how WONDERFUL the CIA and the FBI have been. How GREAT your President truly is! Look! Dubya hasn't forgotten about the War On Terror - so stop saying that! Reports say he was elated with this latest success in the War For Never-ending Approval Ratings. Yes indeedy! When will these dumb ass CIA assets learn? One day you're no longer worth the trouble. Secure in your palatial estate with your millions of ill gotten booty, your guard drops because you actually believe that there's no way they'd cross you. You actually think you have some kind of leverage! Ha! One day it is far more convenient for your masters to stab your hairy-ass in the back and use you as a poster child to foster among the American sheeple the grand illusion of their President Bush being just so goddamned tough and on the ball! Hee hee hee hee! Buck up, dude! You're not alone. There was that Abu Zabadudah (sp?) and that Ramsi El-Shenobi dude (sp?) - both whom were also declared as MASTERMINDS behind 9-11...wow, so many masterminds! Yeah right. They were so smart they didn't see the double cross coming at all. What? They don't read their history? Morons. Somewhere deep in a Jordanian dungeon their wringing the last false confessions from these set up wise guys that fit the official storyline, then there will come the military tribunal and summary execution. Y'all come back now, y'heah? It was the now famous picture of the sad sack Mohammed with his bloodshot eyes and his disoriented demeanor that reminded me of the famous photo of Noriega being dragged off to his own hell of a cell. Drugged, out of it, with that "I've been screwed" bewilderment writ plain across his visage. And, YES I've heard the porn star Ron Jeremy/Shaikh Mohammed separated at birth jokes. And after hearing of that old randy Arab's private life one might have to wonder whether it's true or not. I wonder if Jeremy ever got sloppy with one of his porno skanks on a helicopter? No...I don't need to know. The sad thing is that a vast majority of the brain washed North American public will buy this lie with enthusiasm and joy. And the media is doing their
[CTRL] When Poppy Bush Said It How It Is
-Caveat Lector- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00029.htm When Poppy Bush Said It How It Is Bush Sr. Said In 1996 That War With Iraq `Would Turn Entire Arab World Against Us By Jason Leopold Former President George Bush predicted in 1996 that if the United States were to engage in another war with Iraq, one aimed at overthrowing Saddam Hussein, the entire Arab world would turn against us and the U.S. would alienate its allies in the international community. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero," Bush said in an interview with the BBC marking the five-year anniversary of the Gulf War. Moreover, Vice President Dick Cheney said at an energy conference six years ago that hundreds of thousands of United States soldiers and Iraqi civilians would die if a war in Iraq were ever fought on the streets of Baghdad. To have brought the (Gulf) war into the populous Iraqi capital of Baghdad where Hussein is based would have involved a different type of military operation than in the desert, and would have put large numbers of Iraqi civilians and hundreds of thousands of our troops at risk of being killed, he said. Cheney, the former chairman and chief executive of oil conglomerate Halliburton Co. and former defense secretary under the first President Bush, was referring to the 1991 Gulf War when the U.S. liberated Kuwait. Cheney also said in 1997 that if the U.S. were to engage in another war with Iraq and try to remove Saddam Hussein from power the international coalition would come apart, a situation currently in the making as U.S. relations with France, Germany and Russia are becoming increasingly strained because our allies will not back a U.S. led coalition to attack Iraq. Despite the dire warnings Bush Sr. and Cheney made six years ago, the current Bush Administration appears to be on course to launch a full-scale war with Iraq, one that appears to be more about finding Saddam Hussein and assassinating the Iraqi President than destroying any weapons of mass destruction that may or may no be hidden somewhere in the country. Until that goal is achieved, the U.S. and the rest of the world will never be safe or at peace; statements made repeatedly by Republican hawks since the end of the first Gulf War. Unless we can take out Saddam Hussein, we are going to have to live with Saddam Hussein (for a long time), said James Schlesinger, former defense secretary under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, at a conference in 1998. Schlesinger noted however that the countries of the region dont want us to attack Iraq. We keep getting waved off, he said. If the U.S. decides to attack Iraq this time around urban warfare appears to be inevitable, according to news reports that quoted senior defense officials. Cheney said in 1997 that President Bush was not willing to sacrifice U.S. soldiers lives by allowing combat to spread to Baghdad in an effort to locate Saddam Hussein, a situation which the current Bush Administration seems willing to do now. From the standpoint of the president, the question was how many additional (U.S.) lives is Saddam Hussein worth? And his answer was, `Not very many,' Cheney said. Cheney said six years ago that capturing the Iraqi president would be very difficult and would likely involve a large number of civilian casualties. The only way to make certain you could get him was to go occupy all of Iraq and start sorting through Iraqis until you find Saddam Hussein, Cheney said in 1997. If the U.S. does invade Iraq, the Bush Administration said the war wont last more than two months and will not involve a large number of U.S. or civilian casualties. But Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President Bush last year that if the U.S. starts a war in Iraq without the support of a majority of our allies in the international community, which is the case now, it would be much more complicated and bloody than the first Gulf War. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A
[CTRL] ThePowerHour Talk Radio Show w/Joyce Riley Dave VonKleist
-Caveat Lector- http://www.thepowerhour.com/index.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Scientist Reveals: NASA VIDEO OF FOAM HITTING COLUMBIA HOAXED!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/Final_Evidence.html (View all exhibits mentioned below here ) SCIENTIST REVEALS: NASA VIDEO OF FOAM HITTING COLUMBIA LEFT WING WAS HOAXED... THE FINAL EVIDENCE: How NASA's video of falling foam damaging Columbia's left wing is purposely hoaxing the media, the public and Congress Scientific Proof of a Massive Government Cover-up I need to say right up front, I do not think NASA is lying or hoaxing data or evidence on purpose. They can do no other, since it seems they were ordered to lie. I am a 15 year veteran as a NASA investigator/analyst mostly on Space Shuttle problems and failures. I do not believe that NASA has a lack of concern about the safety and the lives of the astronauts. In my years working with astronauts and NASA personnel, I was proud of my service to increase the safety of the astronauts and ensure the completion of the NASA Space Shuttle missions. On February 1, 2003, just over an hour after the Columbia disaster, when Tom Ridge, Homeland Security Director, made the finding that the Columbia incident was NOT terrorism, then NASA must not nor cannot, present any evidence nor make any statement that might lead the public to think about a terrorist attack on the Shuttle. That is also exactly what happened when TWA Flight 800 was shot down and the FBI controlled all the evidence and badgered the witnesses. More recently, just after 9-11, the American Airlines Flight 587 Airbus crashed in a strange flat spin in Queens NY, killing all on board. Within hours, the FBI "found no evidence of terrorism" and had ordered the NTSB investigators to make no statement nor show any evidence that might show a terror attack. But they could not detract from or erase the live coverage videos of the crash which I watched, which proved that the NTSB was providing false information. I had, days later, conclusively proven and reported that Flight 587 was either sabotage or terrorism, but the NTSB could only claim some internal structural damage and sent the tail assembly to Arizona for engineering analysis. That was 18 months ago and still no analysis report from Arizona or the NTSB. That disaster was buried and "outta sight outta mind." Flight 587 was the largest loss of life and worst air disaster in US history, since the Airbus was so big. But actually there was no investigation. Now the very same thing is occurring with the Columbia investigation. We are told that maybe we will never know what really happened to Spaceship Columbia. All of the Space Shuttle debris pieces and all data tapes and evidence of Columbia are under "impoundment" and now controlled by FEMA, under Tom Ridge. Some people did look askance at that, but only wondered: how come the investigation is not under NASA or NTSB? Don't look to NASA for any data, answers or evidence, because they have none, no more than you or I. FEMA has it. The mere fact that the Columbia evidence is under the jurisdiction of FEMA in the Department of Homeland Security is the clearest and most obvious admission that the Columbia disaster was a terrorist attack. How much more clear and obvious can it get? Maybe Tom Ridge does not want anybody to know that he was asleep at the terror switch. During the Feb 12, 2003 testimony of NASA Director Sean O'Keefe, many congressmen complained that Adm. Gehman's Columbia investigation committee is not independent of NASA. They want an independent committee. It makes no difference which committee or who does the investigation, the results will always be the same. Any committee making a finding of the cause of the disaster must come to the same conclusion, since all would be based on the same doctored evidence and data which is released by FEMA to NASA. So I must attempt to discredit and disprove the "presented NASA evidence" based on engineering or scientific logic grounds, since I cannot use the real evidence -- because there is none available to anybody. I must rely on my own notes and records, my notes of the live first-day media coverage and the first press conference by NASA Shuttle Program Manager, Ron Dittemore, before the coverup began on the very next day, Feb 2, 2003. Based on my experience as a decade and half-long failure investigator/analyst/designer for NASA, mostly on Space Shuttle failures, I don't think NASA does not care about safety of the astronauts nor has poor management. NASA is being forced in this case to stand with their pants down and take the blame for the Columbia disaster. The Homeland Security Department, and Tom Ridge are standing directly between you and the evidence which would explain the loss of seven astronauts and the trashing of a billion dollar Space Shuttle. How long will you allow this atrocity against humanity and America to go un-investigated? I for one, take my stand. Even if it means standing alone. A lot of people were worried that The Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Department might take away our
[CTRL] Ashcroft MUST Go!
-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 Germanythe 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 violenteven through the actions of agent provocateurscould 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
[CTRL] The Illuminati Conquest of Outer Space.
-Caveat Lector- The Eagle has Landed! -Magic, Alchemy, and The Illuminati Conquest of Outer Space. http://www.texemarrs.com/eagle_has_landed.htm Columbia: Tower of Babylon? http://www.texemarrs.com/columbia_flying_tower.htm -iNFoWaRZ Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. -Obadiah 4 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Priest told boy his father died, 500,000 Iraqi dead, blacklisting
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors Priest told N.H. boy his father died for reporting alleged abuse By Larry Laughlin Concord, N.H. (AP) - "A Roman Catholic priest told a boy his father had died because the father had reported the priest's alleged sexual abuse of the boy to the Manchester Diocese, according to a report released by state investigators Monday. The alleged victim, who was not identified, wrote to the Rev. Raymond Laferierre in 1995, accusing him of having molested him "on many occasions" while Laferierre was assigned to St. Patrick's parish in Milford." http://www4.fosters.com/News2003/March2003/Mar_04/News/reg_pr_0304c.asp http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SLI303A.html "Shock and Awe" Russian Expert Predicts 500,000 Iraqi Dead in War Designed To Test Weapons Rossiyskaya Gazeta in Russian, 22 Feb 2003. Interview with military analyst Vladimir Slipchenko by Aleksandr Khokhlov; Vladimir Slipchenko, is military analyst, doctor of military sciences, professor, and major general of reserves, is a major Russian specialist on future wars. His predictions of the course of US military operations in Iraq (1991, 1996, and 1998), Yugoslavia (1999), and Afghanistan (2001) coincided almost 100% with what subsequently happened in reality. Today the military analyst predicts the course and outcome of the next US war against Iraq, which the American military themselves have already dubbed Operation "Shock And Awe." http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030303-104017-6292r Hollywood unions raise 'blacklist' specter By Pat Nason UPI Hollywood Reporter From the Life Mind Desk Published 3/3/2003 10:44 PM LOS ANGELES, March 3 (UPI) -- Two leading Hollywood unions issued statements in Los Angeles Monday deploring suggestions that celebrities be punished for speaking up about war. In separate statements, the Screen Actors Guild and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees raised the specter of the Hollywood blacklist -- the name associated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation of communism in the movie industry in the 1950s. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Morgan, Citigroup offshore deals propped up Enron, report says
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Offshore activities gave 'lifeblood' to Enron FT.com (Financial Times) Thursday March 6, 2:50 pm ET http://biz.yahoo.com/ft/030306/1045511393086_1.html By Andrew Hill in New York Offshore commodities transactions involving the US banks JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup provided lifeblood to Enron as the energy trader tried to maintain its credit rating in the late 1990s.The deals were the most effective of the accounting techniques Enron used to improve its cash position according to the latest report from a court-appointed investigator into the bankrupt company's off-balance-sheet transactions. The report, which runs to more than 2,000 pages, was published on Wednesday night, and estimates that some $5 billion could be recovered by Enron creditors from the special-purpose entities that it set up, some officers of the company, and legal advisers. Neal Batson, the lawyer who was appointed examiner by the bankruptcy court last year, singles out the prepays -- commodities transactions conducted via offshore vehicles -- as the most important way Enron disguised its weak cashflow and poor quality of earnings. Perhaps more than any of the six techniques, prepays were the quarter-to-quarter cash flow lifeblood of Enron, Mr. Batson wrote in the introduction to the report, which includes a nearly 200-page analysis of the transactions. Both JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup have already come under heavy fire for their involvement in the deals. A group of insurers settled a court case with JP Morgan in January over about $1 billion that the bank claimed it was owed in the form of bonds used to guarantee the offshore commodities deals. The bank expected to collect about $600 million from the insurers, which had accused it of providing disguised loans to help Enron cover up holes in its balance sheet. Mr. Batson's report says that the deals -- carried out through offshore vehicles called Mahonia, in JP Morgan's case, and Yosemite, in Citigroup's -- accounted for virtually all of Enron's net cash flow from operating activities in 1999 and 32 percent of its net operating cash flow in 2000. Yet, of the $5 billion outstanding from the prepay transactions on June 30, 2001, Enron reflected only $148.2 million as debt on its balance sheet. The accounting method significantly understated Enron's true debt obligations and favourably affected Enron's key financial ratios, helping the group to maintain its credit rating. Both JP Morgan and Citigroup have pointed out that they were not responsible for the way in which Enron accounted for the deals. Citigroup said in a statement on Thursday that the report shows the scope and size of the fraud perpetrated by Enron, and condemns the techniques repeatedly approved by Arthur Andersen [then Enron's auditor] and Enron's other advisers. Both banks have since adopted more prudent approaches to structure finance, to improve transparency. Mr. Batson's report makes no judgement on the culpability of any third-party advisers to Enron, although later reports may focus on whether creditors can recover money from the institutions that helped set up the offshore vehicles. -END- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the
[CTRL] FOIA articles and information
-Caveat Lector- Two pages with information about the Freedom of Information Act are at : http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia.html and http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/index.html Please use caution at this and any resource we list. http://members.aol.com/smartnews/cr01.htm http://members.aol.com/smartnews/Sample-Issue-32.htm Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2003, Issue No. 8 1/21/03 "Gov't Rebuffed on FOIA Fee Claims - In a victory for the embattled Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal court last week blocked a Bush Administration attempt to narrow the class of FOIA requesters who are eligible to have the costs of processing their requests waived." http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2003/01/012103.html New FOIA Decisions, July-September 2002 - The following Freedom of Information Act decisions were received by the Office of Information and Privacy during the months of July through September 2002 - "Kelly v. CIA, No. 00-2498 (D.D.C. Aug. 8, 2002) (Exemption 1 [E.O. 12,958]: CIA properly refused to confirm or deny the existence of any records reflecting a covert relationship between the CIA and UCLA because disclosure of whether such records (and activity) exist in relation to any particular academic institution would reveal intelligence sources and methods and would damage national security..." http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foiapost/2002foiapost24.htm Editorials - On the Public's Right to Know - The day Ashcroft censored Freedom of Information "Yet without fanfare, the attorney general simply quashed the FOIArather than asking federal officials to pay special attention when the public's right to know might collide with the government's need to safeguard our security, Ashcroft instead asked them to consider whether "institutional, commercial and personal privacy interests could be implicated by disclosure of the information." Even more disturbing, he wrote: "When you carefully consider FOIA requests and decide to withhold records, in whole or in part, you can be assured that the Department of Justice will defend your decisions unless they lack a sound legal basis or present an unwarranted risk of adverse impact on the ability of other agencies to protect other important records." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/06/ED125108.DTL Ashcroft Urges Caution With Records - By Gina Holland, Associated Press Writer 10/16/01 Washington (AP) - Obtaining government records may be more difficult under a Bush administration policy change made a month after the terrorist attacks. Attorney General John Ashcroft directed agency leaders to be cautious in releasing records to journalists and others. He said agencies must "carefully consider" things like threats to national security and the effectiveness of law enforcement. Ashcroft also said that agencies that legitimately turn down requests made under the Freedom of Information Act will have the backing of the Justice Department. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011016/pl/attacks_ashcroft_foia_2.html A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] LOOK! THE LIVERY STABLE IS ON FIRE!
-Caveat Lector- Years ago I saw a western movie on TV. The bad guys had a plan to rob the bank of a frontier town. They set fire to the livery stable and while everyone in town rushed to fight the fire (or just see the fire)the outlaws robbed the bank. I believe we are seeing this very same sort of plan unfolding right now on a world scale. What if the prelude and buildup for U.S. war with Iraq...and the war itself when it comes...what if these things are the burning livery stable? The whole world's attention is focused (diverted) on the coming war. So what is the bank robbery? Nothing less than the death of national sovereignty. Bush and company rail against Saddam for defying the United Nations. We hear the endless tirades about how Iraq is refusing to obey UN orders to disarm. About one half of Iraq's airspace is declared as no fly zonesin which Iraq can't fly aircraft over it's own soil. And if Iraq even attempts to shoot at the coalition fighter planes in its skies, Bush and Blair howl about a material breach of the UN Resolutions. France, Germany, and Russia declare that the U.S. must have UN approval to start the war. Bush seems to resist this.but he has Colin Powell run over to the UN to ask for permission for the war. All of this is laying the foundation... establishing the legitimacy of international authority superceding and replacing national sovereignty. This is the bank robbery. And the bad guys are getting away with it while the whole world is watching the fire. Yes this war is about oil. Yes it's about Pax Americana (at least for a while). And yes it may be about other things. But most of all, the purpose of this war is to set the stage for a world government. Take your eyes off the fire and you will see it. Nakano __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] George W Bush is a very bad Hitler wanta-be that never was
-Caveat Lector- Did you ever see such a terrible performance? Same old rehash over and over. Gonna be an interesting fortnoght. Om K Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 2">
[CTRL] Re: [CTRL] George W Bush is a very bad Hitler wan ta-be that never was
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/6/2003 8:01:07 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Caveat Lector- Did you ever see such a terrible performance? Same old rehash over and over. Gonna be an interesting fortnoght. WHERE WAS HELEN THOMAS A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] MRC Web News - Our Latest Analysis (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:52:29 -0700 From: Media Research Center IS Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Web News - Our Latest Analysis [mrcgoldlogo.gif] Media Research Center America's Media Watchdog Bringing Political Balance and Responsibility to the Media MRC Web News: Our Latest Analysis March 6, 2003 Daily updates on MRC's latest analysis Todays CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030306.asp 1. ABC Suggests White House Trying to Suppress Pope's Envoy ABC's Terry Moran complained Wednesday night that the Pope's envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was prevented...from speaking at the White House after he met with President Bush to urge that Bush do all he can to prevent war, but FNC's Jim Angle managed to find Laghi saying something which ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC all skipped over: Angle pointed out that Laghi made clear that the Vatican doesnt have much faith in Saddam Hussein. 2. Jennings Stresses How Anti-War Marchers Back Homeland Security Peter Jennings went out of his way on Wednesday night to make anti-war demonstrators appear more well-rounded and reasonable. Highlighting some protests on college campuses, Jennings stressed on World News Tonight that while the students oppose war, they made a point of saying they support homeland security but believe the government should be focusing on jobs, security and health care, as well. 3. Ex-CBS Reporter Vieira Wants Anti-War Marches Every Day Former CBS News correspondent Meredith Vieira proclaimed on Wednesday's ABC daytime show, The View, that anti-war protests should be consistent and repeated every day, I believe. 4. ABC and CBS Treat Pro-Saddam March in Baghdad as Newsworthy ABC and CBS on Wednesday morning treated an officially organized march in Baghdad by police officers and firefighters as a newsworthy show of support for Saddam Hussein and a display of how Iraqis will fight to the death any American invaders. ABC's Dan Harris insisted men wearing masks was a sign that they're willing to die for President Saddam Hussein. CBS's Lara Logan contended that the parade was part of an effort by the Iraqi regime to reassure a public apprehensive about an invasion. 5. Helen Thomas: Why Does Bush Want to Bomb Iraqi People? The day before a presidential press conference, Hearst's Helen Thomas demanded of White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: Since we have no direct access to the President, would you state for the record, for the historical record, why he wants to bomb Iraqi people? When Fleischer suggested Bush wants to eliminate the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Thomas fired back: There is no imminent threat! 6. Jennings Notes Anniversary of Stalin's Death Leave it to Peter Jennings to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Josef Stalin as he highlighted how more than 3,000 people met today at the Soviet dictators grave adjacent to Red Square. Many of them said Russia could use a leader like Stalin again. But at least Jennings described Stalin as one of the world's most brutal dictators and pointed out that he murdered millions of his own people. 7. Rooney: Bush Team Hopes Some Journalists Will Get Killed Andy Rooney doesn't think much of embedding journalists with military units since it will give the military control over them and, he suggested, I think maybe they're trying to stick it to the correspondents, they hope some of them will get killed. Though he agrees with the French on Iraq, he told FNC's Greta Van Susteren on Tuesday night that the French have not earned the right to be objectors to our position. 8. ABC's Diane Sawyer Worries About Massive Tax Cuts In interviews on all three broadcast network morning shows on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary John Snow was pressed, given the growing federal deficit, about abandoning any further tax cuts. But while ABC's Diane Sawyer, CBS's Hannah Storm and NBC's Ann Curry all pushed Snow from the left on tax cuts, all failed to hit him from the right by asking about plans by both parties for a huge spending increase to create yet another entitlement program -- prescription coverage in Medicare. Sawyer put an emphasis on the word massive as she punctuated the word and said it louder when referring to these are MASSIVE tax cuts. See todays entire CyberAlert at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030306.asp
Re: [CTRL] LOOK! THE LIVERY STABLE IS ON FIRE!
-Caveat Lector- From: Nakano Nakamura [EMAIL PROTECTED] About one half of Iraq's airspace is declared as no fly zonesin which Iraq can't fly aircraft over it's own soil. And if Iraq even attempts to shoot at the coalition fighter planes in its skies, Bush and Blair howl about a material breach of the UN Resolutions. That's about the size of it. Even though the no fly zones are not a UN resolution at all. I think they think we're that stupid to buy it. The following link to this image sums up my feelings on the subject perfectly. http://control-alt-delete.ca/lawnwater.gif A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] THE SECRET PHILOSOPHY OF WAR IN IRAQ
-Caveat Lector- http://64.176.94.191/article1852.htm THE SECRET PHILOSOPHY OF WAR IN IRAQ Note This is a MUST read article The USA has no intention of leaving. After the Iraqi occupation, permanent military bases will be established there. They will be the outposts of the "democratisation" of the Middle East, starting with Syria and Iran and then sweeping the entire Arab and Islamic world. MOSCOW, March 4, 2003. /RIA Novosti political commentator Vladimir Simonov/. - The official reasons why the USA should go to war in Iraq have always featured a certain omission. The uncoordinated accusations by no means explain the severity of the sentence. Let's say that Baghdad destroys five Al-Samud-2 rockets on average a day. From the point of view of the UN inspectors working in the country, this zeal is gratifying, but Washington calls it the "latest trap." Why? Iraq's links with al-Qaeda remain unproven. Nevertheless, the USA continues to claim that the Iraqi regime, which cannot lift a finger without the UN inspectors or US spy planes knowing about it, presents a lethal terrorist threat, justifying war, the loss of tens of thousands of lives, environmental disaster, a wave of terrorism and chaos in the Arab world. Who in their right mind would believe this? And who would also believe that sensible people in the US administration believe it? The justification for the war against Iraq clearly lacks some kind of a secret, main argument. Serious analysts see this argument in the form of Iraqi oil, defending Israeli interests, the opportunity to test new weapons on the battlefield or America's desire to rejuvenate its flagging economy through military orders. These are not empty words. However, to concentrate on just these details would be myopic. We would not see the most important aspect, because the main point is so massive that is well beyond the bounds of traditional thinking as practised by the international community. The heart of the matter is the following. If the war against Iraq is launched, then this will mean that the United States will turn into the centre of a global empire, where Washington will decide the fates of governments, divide up the riches of foreign economies and impose democracy in its own, American sense of the word. This is by no means improvisation, as some observers might think. The war will be the embodiment of a concept of US world domination worked out over ten years by the very same ambitious and energetic people who now occupy key posts in George Bush's administration. It is necessary to backtrack to 1997 to understand everything properly. A group of neo-conservatives then founded the New American century project dedicated to philosophical thinking about the USA's future role in global politics. In September 2000, when George Bush was running for presidency, the New American Century prepared a report called Rebuilding America's Defenses. The document's main idea, to quote the authors, was to "exercise American leadership around the globe." In post Soviet Union era, the sole superpower of the United States sought to take on the role of a new empire stretching from the Khan Horde to Rome. Pax Americana would really mean Power Americana, or a world subjugated to American might. The Rebuilding America's Defenses report became a kind of geopolitical Bible for George Bush. His administration has done much of what it proposed. For example, the brains behind the report suggested tearing up the 1972 ABM Treaty and throwing it into the rubbish bin, while taking up plans to deploy an anti-missile shield in space. This has been done. The report recommended that military spending be increased from 3% of GDP to 3.8% to facilitate the creation of an infrastructure for the American order. In 2003, the Bush administration has demanded that Congress confirm an allotment of 379 billion dollars to the military's budget. This is the same 3.8% of GDP right down to the dollar. The administration's punctuality in following the recommendations of the New American century is not surprising if we recall the top posts the project's ideologues are now occupying. Paul Wolfowitz is now Deputy Defense Secretary. John Bolton is Undersecretary of State. Stephen A. Cambone is the Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation, while Eliot Cohen and Devon Cross sit on the Council of Defense Policy under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. Lewis Libby heads Vice-President Dick Cheney's administration. Accordingly, the entire host of the presidential entourage has come from the same corridor of the extremely conservative highly interventionist (in its philosophy) New American Century that envisages the advent of an epoch of America's unanswerable will in international affairs. If we understand this, then the enigma will cease to exist. For example, why is the American administration so thoroughly discussing its plans for a military attack against Iraq, but, apparently, is completely
[CTRL] Don't know if this has been sent here yet ...
-Caveat Lector- If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines Thom Hartmann Maybe Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel honestly won two US Senate elections. Maybe it's true that the citizens of Georgia simply decided that incumbent Democratic Senator Max Cleland, a wildly popular war veteran who lost three limbs in Vietnam, was, as his successful Republican challenger suggested in his campaign ads, too unpatriotic to remain in the Senate. Maybe George W. Bush, Alabama's new Republican governor Bob Riley, and a small but congressionally decisive handful of other long-shot Republican candidates really did win those states where conventional wisdom and straw polls showed them losing in the last few election cycles. Perhaps, after a half-century of fine-tuning exit polling to such a science that it's now sometimes used to verify how clean elections are in Third World countries, it really did suddenly become inaccurate in the United States in the past six years and just won't work here anymore. Perhaps it's just a coincidence that the sudden rise of inaccurate exit polls happened around the same time corporate-programmed, computer-controlled, modem-capable voting machines began recording and tabulating ballots. But if any of this is true, there's not much of a paper trail from the voters' hand to prove it. You'd think in an open democracy that the government - answerable to all its citizens rather than a handful of corporate officers and stockholders - would program, repair, and control the voting machines. You'd think the computers that handle our cherished ballots would be open and their software and programming available for public scrutiny. You'd think there would be a paper trail of the vote, which could be followed and audited if a there was evidence of voting fraud or if exit polls disagreed with computerized vote counts. You'd be wrong. The respected Washington, DC publication The Hill (www.thehill.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx) has confirmed that former conservative radio talk-show host and now Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel was the head of, and continues to own part interest in, the company that owns the company that installed, programmed, and largely ran the voting machines that were used by most of the citizens of Nebraska. Back when Hagel first ran there for the U.S. Senate in 1996, his company's computer-controlled voting machines showed he'd won stunning upsets in both the primaries and the general election. The Washington Post (1/13/1997) said Hagel's Senate victory against an incumbent Democratic governor was the major Republican upset in the November election. According to Bev Harris of www.blackboxvoting.com, Hagel won virtually every demographic group, including many largely Black communities that had never before voted Republican. Hagel was the first Republican in 24 years to win a Senate seat in Nebraska. Six years later Hagel ran again, this time against Democrat Charlie Matulka in 2002, and won in a landslide. As his hagel.senate.gov website says, Hagel was re-elected to his second term in the United States Senate on November 5, 2002 with 83% of the vote. That represents the biggest political victory in the history of Nebraska. What Hagel's website fails to disclose is that about 80 percent of those votes were counted by computer-controlled voting machines put in place by the company affiliated with Hagel. Built by that company. Programmed by that company. This is a big story, bigger than Watergate ever was, said Hagel's Democratic opponent in the 2002 Senate race, Charlie Matulka (www.lancastercountydemocrats.org/matulka.htm). They say Hagel shocked the world, but he didn't shock me. Is Matulka the sore loser the Hagel campaign paints him as, or is he democracy's proverbial canary in the mineshaft? In Georgia, Democratic incumbent and war-hero Max Cleland was defeated by Saxby Chambliss, who'd avoided service in Vietnam with a medical deferment but ran his campaign on the theme that he was more patriotic than Cleland. While many in Georgia expected a big win by Cleland, the computerized voting machines said that Chambliss had won. The BBC summed up Georgia voters' reaction in a 6 November 2002 headline: GEORGIA UPSET STUNS DEMOCRATS. The BBC echoed the confusion of many Georgia voters when they wrote, Mr. Cleland - an army veteran who lost three limbs in a grenade explosion during the Vietnam War - had long been considered 'untouchable' on questions of defense and national security. Between them, Hagel and Chambliss' victories sealed Republican control of the Senate. Odds are both won fair and square, the American way, using huge piles of corporate money to carpet-bomb voters with television advertising. But either the appearance or the possibility of impropriety in an election casts a shadow over American democracy. The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by
[CTRL] Rowley blows 2nd whistle - LOUDER
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: cosmicdot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 20:40:58 - Subject:[CIA-DRUGS] Rowley blows 2nd whistle - LOUDER Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rowley letter to FBI director Published March 6, 2003 LETR06 Minneapolis, MN 55401 February 26, 2003 FBI Director Robert Mueller FBI Headquarters Washington D.C. Dear Director Mueller: In June, 2002, on the eve of my testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, you told me that you appreciate constructive criticism and that FBI agents should feel free to voice serious concerns they may have about senior-level FBI actions. Since then I have availed myself twice of your stated openness. At this critical point in our country's history I have decided to try once again, on an issue of even more consequence for the internal security posture of our country. That posture has been weakened by the diversion of attention from al-Qaeda to our government's plan to invade Iraq, a step that will, in all likelihood, bring an exponential increase in the terrorist threat to the U.S., both at home and abroad. In your recent testimony to the Senate, you noted that the al-Qaeda network will remain for the foreseeable future the most immediate and serious threat facing this country, adding that the prevention of another terrorist attack remains the FBI's top priority. You then noted that a U.S.-Iraq war could prompt Baghdad to more directly engage al-Qaeda and perhaps provide it with weapons of mass destruction. But you did not connect these very important dots. Your recent briefings of field management staff have thrown light on the immense pressures you face as you try to keep the FBI intact and functioning amid persistent calls for drastic restructuring. You have made it clear that the FBI is perilously close to being divided up and is depending almost solely upon the good graces of Attorney General Ashcroft and President Bush for its continued existence. Clearly, this tense environment poses a special challenge to those like you who are responsible for providing unbiased, objective intelligence and national security advice to the country's leaders. But I would implore you to step out of this pressure-cooker for a few minutes and consider the following: ~ If, as you have said, the prevention of another terrorist attack remains the FBI's top priority, why is it that we have not attempted to interview Zacarias Moussaoui, the only suspect in U.S. custody charged with having a direct hand in the horror of 9-11? snip Similarly, there is the question as to why little or no apparent effort has been made to interview convicted terrorist Richard Reid, who obviously depended upon other al-Qaeda operatives in fashioning his shoe explosive. http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3738192.html 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 --- End of forwarded message --- 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 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
