[CTRL] Flying Saucers / UFO's
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mason Watch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: Flying Saucers / UFO's Date sent: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:00:45 -0800 (PST) Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you ever dreamed of owning your own flying saucer? Would you like to fly from here to Europe for FREE, in a half hour, WITHOUT TRAFFIC!?? http://www.freedomdomain.com/ufo.htm --- End of forwarded message --- 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] America Led by A Sick Lunatic
-Caveat Lector- http://www.willthomas.net/isbushnuts.htm IS BUSH NUTS? by William Thomas Senior reporter Lifeboat News Feb. 12, 2003 What drives a man to go against the wishes of his countryfolk and the entire world community - including the presidents of Russia, China, France and Germany? How can a professed Christian continue to defy church leaders worldwide - including the Bishops of Britain and the Pope? How does he rationalize breaking the commandments of his God, which clearly prohibit coveting another's property, theft of their oil, and mass murder of defenseless populations? How can he ignore his own generals when they complain, We're advocating a policy that says we will invade another nation that is not currently attacking us or invading any of our allies. [Capitol Hill Blue Jan, 22, 2003] To those who deem it unseemly to count the brick's on one man's load, let us recall that this unelected President is one brick short of killing what the UN fears could be up to a half-million people in Iraq. This massacre could easily see Pakistan's government - and its 30 to 40 nukes - falling to an al Qaeda/Taliban majority. Bush's announced plans to attack North Korea and Iran have already prompted both countries to hit the nuclear gas pedal, virtually assuring a nuclear event. And his $5 trillion blowout has taken the American economy to a $2 trillion deficit in two short years. As ignored global warming triggers Extreme Weather Events, frightened Nobel price-winning economists warn that GW's proposed $600 billion tax cut is fiscal madness - a very serious economic error that will collapse the country in exactly the same way the ex-Soviet Empire went bust buying and deploying so many arms in so many places. Ditto Imperial Rome. Are these the acts of a rational person? Not since Nixon's famous freak-outs in the White House, which saw National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger ordering military commanders to ignore nuclear launch orders from their Commander-In-Chief, is it so urgent that we examine a president's cognitive capacities. [The Trial of Henry Kissinger] It might be useful to scrutinize the following findings. While everyone goes nuts from time to time, the salient question is whether traits described below dominate and drive today's presidential decisions. Is a man called by other government reps, an idiot an imbecile dangerously incompetent and a moron competent, capable and qualified to direct America's unchallenged military might? Read on. If you dare. PATTERN RECOGNITION Is The 'President' Nuts? asks Carol Wolman, M.D. Many people, inside and especially outside this country, believe that the American president is nuts, and is taking the world on a suicidal path. [Counterpunch Oct. 2, 2002] A board-certified psychiatrist in practice for 30 years, Dr. Wolman feels compelled to understand the psychopathology of man under tremendous pressure from both his family/junta, and from the world at large. Dr. Wolman wonders if GW is suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder, as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fourth Edition: There is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others: 1) failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest; 2) deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure; 5) reckless disregard for safety of self or others; 7) lack of remorse by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated or stolen from others. DRY DRUNK GW Bush is highly regarded for kicking the twin demons of cocaine and alcohol addiction. If he is still off both wagons - and there is no proof that isn't - such a triumph, encouraged and aided by his wife, is commendable. When probing the mysteries of GW's brain chemistry, a key point to ponder is that damage done to brain cells from drug abuse is permanent and irreversible. Quaker and university professor Katherine van Wormer co-authored the definitive, 2002, Addiction Treatment. This expert writes that George W. Bush manifests all the classic patterns of what alcoholics in recovery call 'the dry drunk'. His behavior is consistent with being brought on by years of heavy drinking and possible cocaine use.
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Texas on Pace to Set Record in Executions
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, however one feels about Dubya, one has to think: he hasn't been gov. of TX for 2 years, so the record-setting pace can't quite be blamed on him. Note the article doesn't even mention Dubya. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas on Pace to Set Record in Executions March 9, 2003 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LIVINGSTON, Tex., March 8 (AP) - Delma Banks, a convicted killer, could become a historical footnote Wednesday night when he is scheduled to die by injection. Mr. Banks is in line to become the 300th Texas prisoner executed since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. That would be a nice round number, said Michael Dewayne Johnson, who was scheduled to be No. 300 until he and another inmate received temporary reprieves last month. Texas executed 9 men in January and February and is on pace to break its 2000 record of 40 executions. They're killing people every day almost, every week, said Mr. Johnson, who was convicted of the fatal shooting of a gas station attendant in 1995. It's not shocking any more. Most people don't even know unless they're involved. There's just a vague mention of it in the paper. The Texas total is more than one-third of all the executions in the nation since 1976, when the death penalty resumed under a ruling by the United States Supreme Court. The pace in Texas has accelerated in recent years. Almost 13 years passed between Charlie Brooks, execution No. 1, and Harold Lane, No. 100, in 1995. It took more than four years for Texas to get to No. 200, Earl Heiselbetz, in January 2000. Now it will take slightly more than three years to reach the 300th execution. The pace is fueled mostly by changes in appeals procedures since the mid-1990's that have imposed stricter deadlines and allow appeals to be considered simultaneously in state and federal courts. Texas juries continue to show little reluctance to impose the death penalty. Eight men were sent to death row in January and February. A bill pending in the Texas Legislature would let juries impose life without parole. Juries now choose between execution and a life sentence, but someone sentenced to life can be eligible for parole after 40 years. Another bill would put a moratorium on the death penalty and order a study of the whole issue. Gov. Rick Perry opposes the bill. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/national/09TEXA.html?ex=1048211394ei=1en=f361f7beb5f651f5 HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot 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
Re: [CTRL] Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
-Caveat Lector- -Caveat Lector- On 8 Mar 2003 at 18:15, Euphorian wrote: Gee, didn't you ever learn something from looking at a rock or a rainbow or a sunset? Nevah loined nuttin' by bein' in close proximity to a rose bush (no relation to any leaders presumed here) or laying on the grass looking at the sky? Of course - the nature of the human mind predisposes us to independent learning. Not being an animist, I do not accept that either the rainbow or the rose bush were teaching. However, this is attempting to lead us away from your rather disingenuous proposal that the internship program could not teach anything about the American ideal simply because it will be located in Washington DC. If you truly believe that, then you must also believe Harvard's program of Middle Eastern Studies is doomed to failure because Harvard is located in an American setting, or that any European university's program of American Studies will be unable to teach anything of value because of it's location. Of course, I know you really don't believe that. You just couldn't resist jumping at the bait I held out - an organization who has the audacity to mention the hate-America crowd simply couldn't be allowed to remain un-dissed. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://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
Re: [CTRL] George W Bush to Pope -- FU -- Well SAID!!!
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/8/2003 3:28:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And for that matter, more than anyone taking the Oath of Allegiance in your country. So why do you keep taking God's name in vain? Why not remove God from the Oath of Allegiance since nobody knows what God is saying as to how one should live on this planet. Well when I went to school we didn't say under God. We didn't have to. Most of us were aware that when it comes to God, the Moslems' little prayer that says "All things begin and end with God" was right. It is the strange Christians of the far right who seem to have so many doubts they have to repeat God's name at every opportunity especially if they can do it to impress crowds. Somewhere in the Bible it says go into your closet to pray. It's hard to impress people with your religiousity if they can't see and hear you. It makes it even better if you can insist they follow you in whatever prayers you're using that day. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://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] Red Alert for Bill of Rights
-Caveat Lector- http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0311/hentoff.php at HentoffRed Alert for Bill of Rights!Justice Department vs. DemocracyMarch 7th, 2003 7:00 PM The Justice Department . . . seems to be running amok. . . . This agency right now is the biggest threat to personal liberty in the country. Republican conservative Dick Armey, former House majority leader, New Republic, October 21, 2002 This nation . . . has no right to expect that it always will have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. . . . [If] the calamities of war again befall us, the dangers to human liberty are frightful to contemplate. United States Supreme Court, Ex Parte Milligan, 1866, declaring Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and other abuses of the Bill of Rights unconstitutional We may never know the name of the patriot who leaked John Ashcroft's draft of a sequel to the USA Patriot Act to Charles Lewis, head of the Center for Public Integrity. Lewis put the 86 pages on his web site (www.publicintegrity.org) on February 7, and that night Bill Moyers interviewed Lewis on his PBS television program, Now. This broke the story of the most radical government plan in our history to remove from Americans their liberties under the Bill of Rights. As The Washington Post warned in a February 12 editorial, this proposed lawprepared in secret for months while the Justice Department told Congress it had no such legislation in mindgives the Bush administration "more power unilaterally to exempt people from the protections of the justice system and place them in a kind of alternative legal world." For more on the liberties that may be lostthrough secret arrests, stripping Americans of citizenship, dragnet collection of DNAsee last week's column, "Ashcroft Out of Control." On Bill Moyers's program, Charles Lewis said it took "the most incredible kind of courage" for a member of the Justice Department to have leaked this draft. "There's gonna be a witch-hunt," Lewis predicted. "[If found, the leaker] could very likely not only lose their job, but . . . be ruined professionally. [And I] have an incredible respect for anyone who does that." Called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, the legislation was most likely intended to be sprung on Congress and the rest of us once the war on Iraq began. As Charles Levendosky, editorial page editor of the Casper, Wyoming, Star-Tribunea ceaselessly vigilant watcher of the Justice Departmentsaid in his syndicated column: "The DSEA isn't a working paper. It's a complete proposal for legislation. One cannot escape the ramifications. The thoroughness of DSEA is meant to discourage congressional changes, deletions or amendments. . . . It attacks the fundamental framework of our democracy by removing the checks and balances that hold it together and make it work." In addition to the judiciary and Congress, the other check the Framers relied on to stop uncontrolled government power was what used to be called the Fourth Estate. That's why the First Amendment guarantees "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the . . . freedom . . . of the press." But most of the media treated this unprecedented revision of the Constitution as a one- or two-day story, and there was scant mention of it on television. Interestingly, the largest response soon after Bill Moyers's program was from 3581 radio stations. And Moyers's Web site got more than 200,000 hits after the February 7 interview with Charles Lewis. But as happened with The Washington Post's front-page story on the torture of prisoners in CIA interrogation at our military bases overseasand the Los Angeles Times' detailed report on the CIA's targeted killingsthere has been hardly any follow-up in newspapers or on broadcast and cable television. Aldous Huxley once wrote of our "almost infinite appetite for distraction," and that attention deficit has increasingly characterized the effect on the press of the 24-hour news-cycle race. I wonder what the job qualifications are these days for assignment editors. If any member of the press is interested, the American Civil Liberties Union has prepared a 19-page, single-spaced, section-by-section analysis of the myriad constitutional violations in the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003. The ACLU released a similar, invaluable dissection of the first USA Patriot Act, but very little of that appeared in the media. And to this day, not many Americans know what's in that omnivorous lawlet alone how it's being implemented. The new ACLU analysis of USA Patriot Act II was written by legislative counsel Timothy Edgar. In his initial summary, Edgar notes that this bill, if signed into law by the eager president, would, among other consequences, "threaten public health by severely restricting access to crucial information about environmental health risks posed by
[CTRL] Bush's Napoleon Complex
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61350-2003Mar8.html For Bush, War Defines Presidency Response to Iraq Reflects Convictions By Dana Milbank, Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 9, 2003; Page A01 In the coming weeks, all signs indicate, President Bush will launch the first war without direct provocation in the nation's history. The consequences of invading Iraq, supporters and opponents agree, will extend far beyond the Tigris and Euphrates. Repercussions of the war are likely to define not just the Bush presidency, but also the U.S. role in the world and even the course of domestic policy for years to come. It is the largest of gambles -- except that Bush, in rhetoric and in temperament, sees it not as a gamble but as a historical inevitability. As he has upped the ante in Iraq by linking the war to the future of the United Nations, NATO and American leadership in the world, he appears confident and serene in the face of bitter worldwide protest. This is his moment; this is his Omaha Beach, said Craig Stapleton, a close friend who is ambassador to the Czech Republic. He knows exactly what to do. This confidence despite the risks and the overwhelming opposition reveals much about Bush's personality and worldview. Those close to Bush say the Sept. 11 attacks gave him not just new meaning to his presidency but a new purpose to his life. The nation must understand, this is now the focus of my administration, he said two days later. Bush has come to view his leadership of post-9/11 America as a matter of fate, or of God's will. He has said the country is called to defend our nation and to lead the world to peace, and he often says the mission is to extend liberty, God's gift to every human being in the world. With that assumption, it is almost impossible to imagine Bush confining the war on terrorism to al Qaeda. Instead, he quickly embraced the most sweeping foreign policy proposal his most hawkish advisers had developed -- a vision of American supremacy and preemption of emerging threats -- and that policy leads inexorably to Iraq, and beyond. Bush's aides believe the president made up his mind about Iraq in the early days after Sept. 11. He resolved to do everything possible to prevent it from happening again. September 11 gave him a never-again sense, one senior aide said. He never wants to stand again before another pile of rubble. He'll err on the side of being overly vigilant. Bush has said as much himself. The price of doing nothing exceeds the price of taking action, he said in his Thursday news conference. Though Bush asserts with certainty that he is taking the least risky option, there is much at stake. If all goes well, Bush's Iraq war may be compared to President Harry S. Truman's Berlin Airlift, which represented the implementation of a new U.S. foreign policy that ultimately won the Cold War. If it goes badly, it may be remembered in the same way as President Woodrow Wilson's war to end wars, which instead was followed by instability, economic collapse and genocide. Historian Walter Russell Mead, of the Council on Foreign Relations, said Bush and his aides are aware that major issues are at stake and they're playing for very big stakes. At the very least, they're aware that their political lives are at stake. In the worst-case scenario, a protracted, messy war and rebuilding in Iraq lead to mass U.S. and Iraqi civilian casualties, more terrorism at home, an oil crisis, radicalization of the Middle East and the fall of friendly governments, and an isolated and disliked United States whose alliances -- even highly valued free-trade arrangements -- disintegrate. Potentially, it is the deconstruction of alliances as we have known them throughout the postwar period, said Leon Fuerth, who was Vice President Al Gore's national security adviser. Bush has done a best-case analysis of what's going to follow here. But every good thing he projects could be turned on its head, and there's no way of knowing for sure which way the odds run. Even friends caution Bush against naive optimism. This is the first hyperpower war, where the dominant power in the system sees a huge problem that it is determined to resolve even with quite serious opposition of major players, said Eliot Cohen, a theorist at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Publicly, at least, Bush has left no room for such concerns. He and his aides have outlined a quick and successful overthrow of Hussein and rebuilding of a democratic Iraq that spreads peace through the Middle East. Establishing unchallenged world dominance for the United States, it cows the leaders of Iran, North Korea and al Qaeda. In this view, the domestic economy would soar, and help Bush and his party in 2004 to a victory that would realign the country's political allegiances. One reason for Bush's confidence under pressure is the unshakeable belief of his advisers that this scenario is likely.
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: Has anyone seen Cheney?
-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- Cheney's hiding in a cave, too--in Penn. December 20, 2001 BY DENNIS B. RODDY WAYNESBORO, Pa.--Three hours after Osama bin Laden turned the Pentagon into a disaster area, five helicopters touched down a few hundred yards from Hal Neill's house at the base of Raven Rock Mountain along the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Within minutes, a convoy of SUVs with black-tinted windows zoomed up Harbaugh Valley Road, turned left, and deposited the weight of the free world inside Site R, the inexplicably named city-in-a-mountain from which the Pentagon has operated and, from all indications Vice President Cheney has directed his office in the days since the Sept. 11 attacks. Site R, with its six-stories of underground offices, a subterranean water reservoir, and banks of mysterious antennas, dishes and massive, steel doors, has been a designated backup command center since it was hewn out of the mountain in 1951. For decades, Site R's presence was a village secret, barely acknowledged to outsiders and attracting little outside interest in turn. ''There are four entrances, but I've only ever been able to find three of them,'' said Neill, as he stood in his back yard, looking over at the guard station next to two oversize metal doors in the hillside. Six military men in sweatsuits jogged their way down the driveway and back up again. ''They weren't doing that before the attacks,'' Neill said. ''Now they're working out.'' The tidy equilibrium of rural life has been upended. ''Day and night, you hear the airplanes,'' said Bonnie Wolfe, whose model railroad shop sits below the flight path of the military jets and helicopters that intermittently pass by, usually unseen, inevitably heard. Scripps Howard News Service ~ --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], EmeraldGreen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is Cheney? Last night I had a dream that we should be looking at actions more than at words about who let 911 happen. Who did let 911 happen? After 911 who disappeared into the undergound FEMA world?. Was it to hide? Suppose you were the one who let 3000 people be murdered. How would it affect you? Would you hide? The only things I keep hearing is they are extending his underground tunnels by his house by his neighbor's c/o of the noise. So what is going on in those FEMA tunnels anyway? Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 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
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Where Uncle Sam Goes If Holocaust Comes To Town
-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- Where Uncle Sam Goes If Holocaust Comes To Town Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 President Bush's Sept.11 hopscotching in Air Force One from Florida to Air Force bases in Louisiana and Nebraska before returning to Washington seemed frenetic but was, in fact, part of a fixed plan to safeguard the chief executive and succeed in a vital mission of the Continuity of Government Program (COG). If the president had been sitting in the Oval Office at the time of the attacks rather than visiting a school in Sarasota, he would still have been whisked aboard Air Force One for an indefinite period of time - a fact apparently not considered by critics of his itinerary that day. According to rigid operating procedures of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the first line of defense for the president is not the fallout shelter beneath the East Wing of the White House, but a flying command post even more sophisticated than Air Force One and judged safer than any point on the ground. A key presidential side trip of Sept. 11 was to Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., home to the National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC), where one of four converted 747-200s (code named Kneecap) sat ready for takeoff with a full battle staff aboard. Known informally as the doomsday planes, the official moniker of the flying NAOCs is Night Watch. With in-flight refueling, each of these planes can remain airborne for as long as three days before needing to return to the deck for a change of oil in the engines. If the terrorist attacks had continued, national command and control would have left the skies and been grounded somewhere in a chain of secret and not-so-secret shelters for the president, other government leaders and critical personnel. The Federal Relocation Arc is a system of perhaps a hundred shelters for the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government agencies that sweeps through North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. For instance, the Pentagon's safe house is located at a site called Raven Rock in Maryland. This sprawling 716-acre installation lies 650 feet below the surface. The staffers (about 350) go to work via portals in the mountainside. Amenities include shopping, a barbershop, medical clinic, dining, fitness facilities and a chapel. Even large defense contractors, such as McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, and ATT, are said to have their own subterranean facilities. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of terror as an ill-defined enemy's new weapon of choice, doomsday planners are reassessing crisis scenarios. Old relocation centers are under review. Some will be closed, with others converted to other uses. As an example, the Federal Reserve Board had its relocation site in Culpeper, Va., until it was mothballed in July 1992. The 43,000- square-foot radiation-proof bunker was reported stocked with enough freeze-dried food to last 30 days. The new relocation site for the board appropriately remains a mystery. As far as anyone will say, Mount Weather, code-named High Point, is still the key facility in the sheltering arc. This is where the president, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court justices may be relocated in the event of a national emergency. High Point is a 61,000-square-foot mountain bunker near Berryville, Va. It has been around since the 1950s and is certainly no longer secret. On Sept. 11, after departing from Louisiana's Barksdale A.F.B, the Secret Service urged that the president be flown immediately - not to Mount Weather - but to Colorado Springs, where the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) underground bunker is located. If Mount Weather, indeed,
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] The Education pf Corporal Gunderson
-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- March 7 - 13, 2003 The Education of Corporal Gunderson I joined the Marines to get a good education, and all I got was a crummy Gulf War by Allen Gunderson Im originally from Las Vegas. I now live in Long Beach. I was honorably discharged from the Marines as a corporal. I was deployed to the Persian Gulf out of Camp Pendleton the week after Thanksgiving in 1990. It took about 40 days to sail there. We stopped off in Hawaii, then sailed over to the Philippines, where we stayed about five days. We were hiking around the base when we walked into a village. It was the first time I was exposed to that kind of poverty. These people were dirt-poor. People were living in cardboard shacks with dirt floors. Kids were dirty and in rags. These three small kidsId say they were five to eight years oldcame right up to me and asked if I had candy or anything they could have. I threw them a cracker and a cookie, and they scrambled after them. I could not believe they were fighting over something I did not even care about, a crappy piece of cracker and a tasteless cookie. I was really overwhelmed to see this right outside a base with billions of dollars worth of ships and equipment. It really got me thinking about what we were doing there. When we left the Philippines for the Gulf, tensions were high. Everyone was kind of counting down to the day wed attack. A lot of us were thinking we might not be coming back. My job was combat engineer. We cleared minefields. On my ship, the USS Tarawa, the rumor when we left was 80 percent of the people on the ship were supposed to die. Me for sure because we were the ones who go in before anyone else; we go in before the war starts. We were the ones whod get picked off by snipers or blown up by mines. I got to the Gulf in the beginning of January. I remember the day the air war started (Jan. 17, 1991). I was standing on the flagship of our fleet. We tried to listen to the BBC to find out what was going on, but they did not let us listen to anything. They kept us in the dark. So I did a lot of reading. Books were passed around. I started reading conspiracy books because thats all there was. I wanted to know about how the world worked. I cant remember the exact book titles, but they were about the government and corporations, like one about how light bulbs are made to wear out by a certain time so people are forced to consume more. We would talk about stuff like that a lot. After that, I didnt trust anything. Two of our ships were hit with water mines. That was discouraging. A bunch of people from those ships were packed onto the Tarawa. We were squeezed in like sardines. Life was not very nice at the time. We were dropping people off in Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia, just for a night, and they let us off to make phone calls at the phone center. That was the base for all the ammo, so Saddam Hussein was throwing Scuds that way. He was not just shooting blindly; he knew our ammo was there, stacked up three or four pallets high. A half-hour after we got back to the ship, a Scud came right for it. There was this drill where theyd lock us Marines into the berthing area while the Navy personnel on deck counted down over the loudspeaker until a bomb hit. So now they were telling us a Scud was definitely coming, that this was not a drill, and they started counting down: 10, nine, eight . . . They got all the way down to three and then there was complete silence for, like, a minute. We were supposed to be dead. Finally, someone on the loudspeaker said the Scud had been shot down. People who had not made it on the ship yetthey had dove into all these bunkers right by the phone centertold us when they got onboard that they saw the explosion
[CTRL] Fwd: [smashthestate] Mind Our Own Business
-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- NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN . Mind Our Own Business Charley Reese Other articles by Charley Reese How would you feel if you woke up one morning and all the TV news outlets were blaring that Russia and China, in a joint declaration, had said that America's weapons of mass destruction were a threat to world peace, and unless they were destroyed, Russia and China would disarm the United States and change its government? I expect it would make your cornflakes taste sour. Now, it's very hard to say anything good about the government of North Korea. If ever a government mimicked the totalitarian nightmare described by George Orwell in his novel 1984, it is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Even its name is Orwellian, since it is neither democratic nor a republic. The people are controlled and indoctrinated every waking hour from the cradle to the grave. Even so, we have no right to tell North Korea that it can't develop nuclear weapons. As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, North Korea has every legal right to withdraw from it. There are provisions in the treaty for just such an event. As a sovereign nation, it has every right to develop any kind of weapons it wants. When the United States, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, India and Israel developed nuclear weapons, they did not ask the world's permission. As sovereign states, they did what they thought they had to do. You know what's wrong with this world? We're trying to run it. Sometimes we act unilaterally, sometimes we use the United Nations as a cover, sometimes we use NATO, but the bottom line is we presume the right simply because we are powerful to intervene and to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. So long as this remains true, there will never be peace in the world, and Americans will continue to lose their liberty as the country metamorphoses into a permanent war state. Don't laugh at the North Koreans. Unless we reverse this trend, future Americans will be goose-stepping down Pennsylvania Avenue and shouting praises for their own Great Leader. Status quo is a myth. Governments are always moving either in the direction of freedom or in the direction of more power and more control. I don't have to tell you that there are no libertarians in the Bush administration. This is not a new position for me. Back in 1991, I opposed all the restrictions imposed on Iraq. It would have been proper to exact a promise from Iraq to respect Kuwait's boundaries and even to pay reasonable reparations for actual damage done. But to tell Iraq what kinds of weapons it could have infringed on Iraqi sovereignty. It is from that infringement of Iraqi sovereignty that all the subsequent conflict and now, it appears, a new war flows. It was not then, and it is not now, any of our business what kinds of weapons Iraq has. We have only one right in regard to other nations: the right to self-defense. Period. There are no more. Thus, our correct position would be to say to other nations: Build whatever weapons you want, but if you use them on us or threaten us with them, you'll wish you hadn't. It's none of our business what kind of government another nation has. The communist government in North Korea doesn't cause us any harm, nor does Saddam's dictatorship. Those are internal problems of the Korean and Iraqi people, respectively. Even humanitarianism is not a legitimate excuse for intervention. Politicians being what they are, even that excuse will always be distorted
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: Has anyone seen Cheney?
-Caveat Lector- Recall that in the early days of the Bush Administration, Cheney had a very high visibility. In fact, it appeared that Cheney was the de-facto President while Bush played a secondary role of attending functions and sort of played around at being President. Recall too that Bush's approval ratings were so low they were nearly off the charts and about half the country said he was not the legitimate President (given that he did not win the election). In those days, Cheney was everywhere and really seemed to be running the show. Meanwhile, Condi Rice was giving Bush public speaking lessons and coaching him on how to answer questions to the media. And then.9-11. Cheney disappeared. Literally disappeared! So many people noticed this and talked about it, that the Bush Team finally trotted out Cheney to appear on a few Sunday TV talk shows to prove he was still alive. Then back into the cave...or wherever they keep him. Cheney is sort of like Pauksetawny Phil, the groundhog they pull out of his hole once a year on groundhog day. Something happened to the balance of power inside the Bush Administration. Before 9-11, Cheney was in the driver's seat. Now they keep him locked in the cellar. 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] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Something Wicked This Way Comes -- For Real
-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- Something Wicked This Way Comes -- For Real or Helter Skelter Run For Shelter by James Whisler http://poweredbychrist.homestead.com/something_wicked.html analyzing Illuminati rituals in public--a voice from the past--who was John Todd/who is John Galt? what to expect in the coming revolution -- planned strikes and ordered chaos-- Wackenhut, Skull and Bonesand parallels from revolution history -- helter skelter the illuminati blood ritualis still coming ---planned prison escapes -- Charlie Manson?-- what's a Christian to do? ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 2/25/2003 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 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 ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Fish drug [was Re: The Bloodline of Jesus
-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- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/8/03 6:15:23 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HOLY GRAIL HOLY BLOOD was written for the BLUE BLOODS. It was never intended for the STINKING PEASANTS. Brian Downing Quig HOLY GRAIL was MEANT for the BLUE BLOODS. It was NEVER intended for the STINKING PEASANTS... that is a pretty good saying right there. perfect. I think it is meant for 'initiates' who will find a deeper meaning than the 'STINKING PEASANTS'. For example, in Webfairy's original post we have the Merovingians said to have a birth mark of a red cross between their shoulder blades. This is, taken literally, ludicrous. However it makes perfect sense as some sort of initiatory tattoo. The 'red cross' is after all the rose-croix emblem of the Rosicrucians. Mary Magdalene goes to Egypt and from Egypt to Marseille; where do the Rosicrucians claim their origin? In Egypt. For her to be 'fertilized by a fish being' doesn't make sense on the surface, but it makes perfect sense if a drug extracted from a fish was used in Egyptian initiation. Was a drug used in that ritual? Evidentally: www.crystalinks.com/initiationegypt2.html Initiation in Ancient Egypt (...) 3rd Deg. Initiation Ceremony, Part II: Akhnaton's Message The torchbearer now approached the initiates indicating them to sit. He took the first in the row to the center of the chamber instructing her to position in front of the sarcophagus. Then an acolyte carrying a lapis lazuli platter with a small alabaster vessel approached her. The vessel had carved a winged Aton Disk wrapping its wings around the body. In it was Ben, the mysterious What Then Is It, a white powder dissolved in water. As a sacred act of communion, he handed her the vessel to drink. After partaken of the Bread of Life, she was asked to lie in the tomb after which the sarcophagus was closed down by the acolytes. Normally the initiate is left in the casket for three days. In his entrancement the initiate feels a death of the flesh and experiences all the impressions felt by the departed ones, a symbolical death as the murder of our God Osiris. He is then resurrected... In this light it is worthwhile to contextualize the 11th chapter of the Book of John: 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. 11:2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. 11:3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he for whom you have affection is sick. 11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it. 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 11:6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed at that time two days in the place where he was. 11:7 Then after this he said to the disciples, Let's go into Judea again. 11:8 The disciples told him, Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again? 11:9 Jesus answered, Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 11:10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him. 11:11He said these things, and after that, he said to them, Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep. (...) This leads to the further question: Is there a fish drug that produces a three day death-like trance? There is some dispute but the answer seems to be yes, tetrodotoxin:
[CTRL] Industrial-scale mortuaries being sought......
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Re: [CTRL] Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
-Caveat Lector- 3/9/2003 8:11:36 AM, klewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't gotta be an animist ... remember this nation was founded with Nature's God in mind ... Of course - the nature of the human mind predisposes us to independent learning. Not being an animist, I do not accept that either the rainbow or the rose bush were teaching. The post was actually something I'd been indirectly waiting for (wainting for something but didn't know what) given I've had a protracted case of writer's block; it provided the key to something I've been working on for a few months. American ideals are not found in their best form in one place, even Washington, DC. They are found in all the fifty states where all the Americans live. Again, if DC was ideal, lots more people would not have moved West. However, this is attempting to lead us away from your rather disingenuous proposal that the internship program could not teach anything about the American ideal simply because it will be located in Washington DC. The Hahvahd ME program is not doomed to failure UNLESS it ignores the fact that the focus of its subject is some thousands of miles away. One reason *why* I stopped being a French / European studies major was I lived in CA at the time, with no access to Frnace or to Europe in general. The point is one cannot know what Americans or Middle Easterners are like by seeing a bunch of eye-wash(ers) for whom the American ideal is confined to 535 people plus whoever else makes up the government or by living in New England exclusively. There are 50 other American capitals (at least), each addressing their areas of responsibility populated with people who are better able to teach and inform ANYONE regardless of religion, race, creed, colour, et cetera, about what their part of America is all about. If you truly believe that, then you must also believe Harvard's program of Middle Eastern Studies is doomed to failure because Harvard is located in an American setting, or that any European university's program of American Studies will be unable to teach anything of value because of it's location. Blame America is not what I concentrated on when making my initial reply. Again, it had to do with DC (not) being a centre of core American ideals. But given their statement, We are not looking for commitment to conservatism, he added. DC might be the right place to locate near that other conservative fellow Jerry Fall-Well or even his fellow con Pat Robertson, both of whom seems to blame American for the events that have given rise to a terrorist- inspired police state. And, being conservatives, they are confining their educational process to one very small section of the United States. If they were not so committed, they might venture forth a little more readily. Perhaps a week or two in each representative capital. In the NorthEast, travelling from capital to capital takes minutes if not just a few hours, saving time for the really nice places. In short, I am not really receptive to the idea of internship programs any more since our two most famous interns have been caught up with playing foul or foul play. Of course, I'll be addressing these things shortly in a larger context. It's kinda like you can tell what kind of city LA is when you can wake up in the morning and smell all the unburnt fuel and smog that settles down on the city overnight. And I don't love the smell of 91 octane in the morning. Similarly, I can't imagine that DC is immune from the odeur of its particular kind of criminal pollution either. I don't believe anyone is immune from a contact low and I don't believe contact lows are American ideals. A:E:R Of course, I know you really don't believe that. You just couldn't resist jumping at the bait I held out - an organization who has the audacity to mention the hate-America crowd simply couldn't be allowed to remain un-dissed. -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. = === Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A
[CTRL] priest scandal, ofshe fms,America admits suspects died in interrogations, Iraq
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors New Priest Sex Scandal "In the latest church sex scandal, a Catholic pastor in Florida has just been stripped of his duties after church officials learned that the reverend had placed a personal ad--complete with a naked photo of himself--on a gay web site." http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/revgera1.html The Facade of Scientific Documentation: A Case Study of Richard Ofshe's Analysis of the Paul Ingram Case" by Karen Olio and William Cornell. APA's journal "Psychology, Public Policy, and Law," (1998, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1182-1197) "The case of Paul Ingram, a man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his daughters, has received widespread media attention. Richard Ofshe (1992, 1994) set forth a narrative of the case which included his account of an experiment to test the veracity of Ingram's confessions and concluded that the inadvertent use of hypnosis during Ingram's interrogation resulted in the creation of pseudomemories that convinced Ingram of his guilt. On the basis of an examination of the original source documents, the authors discusses the errors of fact, methodological flaws, and confounding factors in Ofshe's rendering of this case of alleged child abuse. They also cite examples of the extent to which Ofshe's imperfect narrative of this case and pseudoscientific conclusions have been uncritically accepted and repeated in the literature..." For hard copy reprints, send your mailing address to the senior author at [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.aol.com/SMARTNEWS/Sample-Issue-38.htm Harvard Society for Law Public Policy, Inc. Harvard Journal of Law Public Policy - Spring, 1999 - 22 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol'y 523 The Guilty and the "Innocent": an Examination of Alleged Cases of Wrongful Conviction from False Confessions by Paul G. Cassell - "According to the authors(Leo and Ofsche), in twenty-nine of these cases the false confession resulted in the wrongful conviction of an innocent person." "examines nine of these twenty-nine cases in detail. Based on review of original trial court records and other similar sources, the part concludes that each of these nine persons were, in all likelihood, entirely guilty of the crimes charged against them." "Leo and Ofshe rely in large measure on secondary sources for the descriptions of the evidence against the defendants in their collectionFor many cases, court records are available only in the local courthouses where the trial took place, while media accounts are often readily accessible in computerized databases. Relying on secondary sources, however, poses the risk of inaccurate recounting of the evidence. Examining primary sources for the cases in Leo and Ofshe's collection reveals that this is a very real problem." "The problems with the subjective determination of "innocence" in the Leo-Ofshe collection, like similar problems elsewhere, suggests that reliance on second-hand sources combined with understandable enthusiasm for the enterprise of discovering miscarriages may produce more such cases than really exist." "Only a relative handful of Leo and Ofshe's cases would satisfy the criterion of undisputed wrongful conviction." http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=384604 America admits suspects died in interrogations By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 07 March 2003American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives. A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of death of the two men was "homicide", contradicting earlier accounts that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary embolism. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15305 Thirteen Myths About the Case for War in Iraq By Rich Cowan and Paul Rosenberg and Abigail Caplovitz, March 4, 2003 The Internet has certainly played a major role in the current debate over war in Iraq. Recently, a group of online "mythbusters" involved in the 13myths.org project went one step further. 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
[CTRL] Terror at the Crossroad (comes from all directions)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=29622 Rumor Mill News Reading Room Forum F.B.I REPORT:JDL ZIONISTS AMONG TOP USA TERROR GROUPS *PIC* Posted By: ArtBishop Send E-Mail Date: Sunday, 9 March 2003, 9:42 a.m. F.B.I REPORT:ZIONIST GROUP SECOND MOST ACTIVE TERROR GROUP IN USA Four out of five people we asked have no idea who the JDL are, much less know that they are one of the TOP TEN FBI ACTIVE TERRORIST GANGS IN THE USA. Terrorism by Arabs? No, by Jews! This is an excerpt of the book: The Zionist Terror Network ALL YOU THOUGHT CRIMINALS PREPARE TO BE AFRAID THE ZIONIST TERROR NETWORK: Background and Operations of the Jewish Defense League and other Criminal Zionist Groups JDL in America: Urban Terrorists with International Connections This book documents the background and criminal activities of Jewish Zionist terrorist groups, and especially the Jewish Defense League. Particular emphasis is given here to terror--including murder--against thought criminals who question the Holocaust story that six million Jews were systematically killed during the Second World War. Zionist terrorists openly proclaim an arrogant Jewish-supremacist ideology and acknowledge their readiness to use violence against those who disagree with them. With a well-documented record of bigotry and crime, they pose a serious danger to our society, and to men and women everywhere who treasure freedom. Incidents of violence against revisionist thought criminals have included: George Ashley, a high school history teacher and supporter of the IHR, has been the target of several terrorist attacks because of his revisionist views. In April 1982, two bricks were hurled through the front window of his suburban Los Angeles home. One month later, two gasoline fire bombs were thrown against the front of his house, and in December of 1982, JDL criminals ransacked Ashley's home, causing an estimated $26,000 in damage. (note 68) Mordechai Levy later boasted: We warned him [Ashley] that if he continued his activity, he would pay a consequence...We warned that if the school board does not stop Ashley, we would stop him. The FBI extensively investigated whether late rap music stars Tupac Shakur and Eric Eazy-E Wright were the victims of death threats and extortion plots hatched by individuals aligned with the militant Jewish Defense League, The Smoking Gun has learned. Following a 2-1/2 year probe, bureau officials closed the investigation in May 1999, noting that agents were unable to corroborate information provided by two confidential FBI sources. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/tsmainpak.shtml JDL the JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE : The Zionist Terror Network http://www.jdl.org/ In FBI terrorism analyses published since 1981, responsibility for 18 terrorist incidents has been attributed to groups seeking to publicize past and present injustices suffered by the Jewish people. While claims for some of these acts have been made in the names of the Jewish Defenders,' United Jewish Underground, and Jewish Direct Action, 15 of the incidents were attributed to the Jewish Defense League (JDL), by far the most well known of these groups. Also in 1985, the FBI named the Jewish Defense League as the second most active terrorist group in the United States. (Only Puerto Rican terrorists were more active during this period.) The FBI linked the JDL to 37 terrorist attacks carried out from 1977 to 1984. Two years later, the FBI announced that Jewish extremist groups had carried out 24 terrorist acts from 1981 through 1986, 17 of which were the work of the Jewish Defense League. Another US federal government agency, the Department of Energy, similarly characterized the JDL in a report issued in 1986 For more than a decade, the Jewish Defense League (JDL) has been one of the most active terrorist groups in the United States. Although the JDL maintains that it is a political action group concerned with dramatizing the plight of Soviet Jewry and, in more general terms, protecting Jews and Jewish interests worldwide, the FBI has long classified it as a terrorist organization. The underlying purpose of the JDL is to reverse the mythical image of the Jews as victims. This militancy also fuels the anti-Soviet campaign designed to create and foment new sources of tension in Soviet-American relations. The JDL, however, has also attacked Arab, Iranian, Iraqi, Egyptian,Palestinian, Lebanese, French, and German targets in the United States In 1978 [for example], Egyptian diplomats were targeted.Attacks have also been staged by League chapters in France, Britain, Italy and Israel. In more recent years, the official report went on,The JDL has pursued a dual-track strategy of acts of civil disobedience and generally peaceful protest, along with acts of outright terrorism...Bombing is the JDL's favorite tactic, accounting for 78 percent of all JDL incidents. Shootings are next, accounting for 16 percent, followed by arson,
[CTRL] GCHQ arrest
-Caveat Lector- Dirty tricks memo: the fallout http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910648,00.html GCHQ arrest over Observer spying report Martin Bright, home affairs editor Sunday March 9, 2003 The Observer An employee at the top-secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has been arrested following revelations in The Observer last weekend about an American 'dirty tricks' surveillance operation to win votes at the United Nations in favour of a tough new resolution on Iraq. Gloucestershire police confirmed last night that a 28-year-old woman was arrested last week on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act. The woman, from the Cheltenham area, has been released on police bail pending further inquiries. More arrests are expected. A top-secret memo from the National Security Agency, which monitors communications around the world, was passed to this newspaper by British security sources who objected to being asked to aid the American operation. The leak marks a serious breach between the Blair government and elements of the intelligence community opposed to using British security resources to help the US drive towards war. Officials at GCHQ, the electronic surveillance arm of the British intelligence service, were asked by the Americans to provide valuable information from 'product lines', intelligence jargon for phone taps and e- mail interception. The document was circulated among British intelligence services before being leaked. A GCHQ spokesman confirmed last night that the woman was an employee. 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 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] Statists' Dictionary
-Caveat Lector- http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/statist_dictionary.htm The Statists' Dictionary Word Control for Mind Control by Russell Madden Recently, a Canadian school board banned the word gun from any spelling tests in its district. This... odd... decision resulted from the complaints of a single set of parents. These pacifists objected to their seven-year-old daughter being taught this evil word. The voodoo- viewpoint of these people apparently equates a word with the actuality of the thing the word represents. (Compare this to the screwy notion prevalent in sexual-harassment circles that a word is the equivalent of a bullet and can wound and hurt in an identical fashion; that uttering forbidden words is the same as a physical assault.) To these parents, gun is synonymous with death. (I'm unclear how the word death is in- and-of-itself objectionable. Death is sometimes a good thing; depends on what or who is dying and why.) To make matters worse, their delicate flower of a child later returned home with a picture of a gun as an illustration of what the word meant. Horrors! Sadly, the nonsensical reaction of these parents is no different than the response of various U.S. school officials who expel or lock up children for pointing fingers, saying bang, drawing pictures of guns or bombs or knives, or playing with actual, physical toy guns. Eek! Within a week, however, the Canadian school board members experienced a spasm of rationality and reinstated the word gun into the curriculum. They did, however, make provision for the pacifists' daughter to be exempt from any requirement to spell the objectionable word. (This, of course, is a perfectly legitimate concession given the coercive nature of State schooling.) Beyond the conceptual corruption of confusing an abstract mental tool like a word or a concept with the reality of the thing being considered, this small tempest is indicative of a broader problem. Statists, collectivists, and irrationalists have a vested interest in controlling the language. They try their best to promote the collective while disparaging the individual; to undercut individual responsibility while advancing the collective variety; to manipulate the terms of the debate in order to blur rather than to enhance understanding of reality, objectivity, and the truth. Statists excel at focusing on the connotative meaning of concepts (i.e., the subjective emotional associations or reactions people have to various words based on their past experiences) while doing everything they can to obscure the denotative meanings of our concepts (i.e., the objective meaning, i.e., the things/actions/experiences in reality grouped/ classified/categorized/organized by our concepts). Feel, don't think, they implicitly tell us. Emotions are easy, automatic; rational thought is difficult, effortful, a process each individual must start for himself. As a service to the public, I have prepared a short Statists' Dictionary in which I give the Actual, Real Meaning (ARM) of a concept and then the Statist/Collectivist Meaning (SCM) which is either what the enemies of freedom would have us accept in dealing with contentious issues of the day or what the SCM actually means. (A bow of the head and thanks to Ambrose Bierce and his The Devil's Dictionary.) Reality vs. the Statists' Dictionary Affirmative Action: ARM: a racist policy; giving preferences to a minority group, even if the group is a majority (e.g., women); setting up quotas that increase discrimination and injustice by favoring one group over another; placing irrelevant traits like sex or skin color above individual qualities such as intelligence, hard work, and accomplishment. SCM: eliminating discrimination and racism; making everyone equal; leveling the playing field; being color- blind; focusing on the individual and his accomplishments; establishing justice. See Level Playing Field. Bravery: ARM: acting despite one's fears and in the face of risks to life, limb, or property; standing up to authority and against injustice, often alone and against the majority; stating and acting on one's convictions. SCM: acting in accordance with the majority; acquiescing to authority; resisting selfish impulses; not making judgments. Compassion: ARM: helping those unfortunates who deserve your assistance, who have suffered through no fault of their own; giving voluntarily to those in need. SCM: helping anyone who claims he needs assistance regardless of how or why he is in trouble; aiding such people involuntarily via your taxes, especially if you dislike those you are forced to be compassionate for. The opposite of compassion. Competition: ARM: in capitalism, the open and free contest of individuals in providing goods and services to the public; a system in which anyone can offer any good or service at any price and under any conditions mutually satisfactory to the interested parties. Tends to ensure the maximum of goods at the minimum
[CTRL] Douglas Valentine: Clash of the Icons
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[CTRL] [Fwd: Daniel Ellsberg's thoughts on tonight's cable TV movie, ThePentagon Papers, on FX]
-Caveat Lector- As Dan says below, hopefully this movie will inspire someone in the current regime to do us all the favor of a similar act of whistle-blowing. It has the potential of saving many lives if they do. Posted to one of my lists: Hi All, Thought you might want to watch this tonight, if you are somewhere you can. Below are Dan's own comments on the movie, and an independent reviewer. www.ellsberg.net Tonight (Sunday March 9th), the made-for-TV movie The Pentagon Papers, starring James Spader as Daniel Ellsberg and Claire Forlani as Patricia Ellsberg, premieres on the FX cable TV station, 8 PM Eastern/Pacific. The movie is not based on Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, (the script was written before Secrets came out), and oddly, FX never contacted Dan about the film or consulted him in any way. (The only contact, an impersonal one, was to send Ellsberg.Net--along with hundreds of other websites--a mass email after the film was made, asking that we place their banner ad on the site, in exchange for a link from theirs, which we did). Someone with access to the film, who thought Dan should be able to see the film that portrays him before it airs, leaked Dan an advance copy of the film (FX never gave it to him and was dismayed he had seen it before tonight). One would think, with so little interest in contacting Dan or using him as a source for the movie, that the film would be negative. Surprisingly, it is a respectful (though unnecessarily fictionalized) and sympathetic portrayal, with a timely and important underlying message. Here are some of Dan's thoughts on the film: Every bit of dialogue is completely fictional (with the exception of a dozen lines or so, mainly in my interview with Cronkite), nothing happened very closely to the way it is portrayed, and there are errors in almost every minute of the film. In fact, the script often has me saying things that I not only didn't say, but I never would have said; in many cases they are the opposite of what I believed. The same is true for most of the dialogue associated with other named characters; they obviously weren't consulted any more than I was. You could say that everything is wrong, in some degree: and yet, the overall story is true to the underlying feeling of the events. They have made a good movie, with an important message--in favor of whistleblowing-- that I would endorse; and the timeliness of the message, undoubtedly by accident, is uncanny. The inaccuracies of the script are somewhat frustrating to me but they won't be noticed by many others, and every other aspect of the production is unusually well-done: the casting and acting, direction and editing, the photography. It was fun for Patricia and me to watch it together; we relived the start of our romance. As in the rest of script, the circumstances are all wrong, but James Spader and Claire Forlani show the electricity of our attraction, and Forlani conveys behind her eyes--as one reviewer put it--Patricia's intelligence as well as her beauty. We found it a gripping film, and I think others will too: one that is true to the spirit and feeling of the events, if not the letter. There's a chance this film could encourage more whistleblowers, which is what makes it so timely right now. It shows that it's possible for someone with the background and values that I shared with many current officials to change perspective and to decide to tell the truth to those outside the Executive branch, and it shows that in unforeseeable ways that can be effective. It shows that the personal costs of doing this can be worthwhile, in terms of the possibility of saving lives. I've been using every opportunity in the last five months to convey a message to current officials who know--as I did in 1964-65-- that the president, and their bosses, are lying us into a wrongful, reckless, unnecessary war. The message, which I think is implicit in this movie, is that they should consider doing right now, before the bombs are falling, what I wish I had done at a comparable point, in the months before the onset of the Rolling Thunder bombing: going to Congress and the press with documents that undercut official lies. There is still time to avert this war with sufficiently comprehensive truth-telling, though there's only a week or two left before the bombing may begin. That's why I'm particularly happy this film is coming out at this moment. If one individual in Washington gets that message by seeing this movie, and unloads a file-drawer of revelatory current documents to the press and Congress, it could make a great difference. A wars worth of lives is at stake. The Pentagon Papers FX Sunday, March 9, 8:00 PM Eastern/Pacific (If you miss it tonight, it will be playing five or six more times throughout the month. Check out www.tvguide.com or FX's page for the movie, http://www.fxnetwork.com/shows/originals/pentagon/ for listings of future showings this month.)
[CTRL] 'Barney' Blair Chasing his Tail
-Caveat Lector- Comment http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,910448,00.html Prime Minister, go to bed now It is dangerous that Tony Blair is making the most momentous decisions of his premiership on too little sleep Andrew Rawnsley Sunday March 9, 2003 The Observer While trying to win support for war against Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair has been endeavouring to secure peace in Northern Ireland. A participant at last week's negotiations in Belfast, a witness who is usually admiring of the Prime Minister, was shocked by the drained, red-eyed Blair he saw. 'The first morning [of the talks] was a shambles. He just wasn't up to speed. Jonathan Powell [Blair's chief of staff] had his head down, frantically writing notes. Blair is completely worn out.' One visitor to the Prime Minister's office reports seeing bottles of pills and an inhaler on the desk, medical crutches to keep the man on his feet. It's said that Tony Blair has been looking so strung out because he has got a nasty dose of the flu. I suspect that the reverse is the case. He can't shake off the flu because he is so utterly exhausted. When you contemplate the pressures of his fatiguing existence, the surprise is not that the Prime Minister is looking so ropey. The surprise is that he has not cracked up altogether. For weeks - no, make that months - he has been on a murderous schedule of hideous complexity. Throughout the negotiations in Belfast he was also conducting phone talks with other world leaders about Iraq. When you are juggling this many balls, as his wife would say, some of them will get dropped. Especially if the juggler is knackered. As a Minister who knows him well says: 'Tony needs his sleep.' And he is not getting enough of it. The Iraqi crisis is demanding enough of his time and nervous energy. The drain on his reserves is made that much more severe because Mr Blair insists on embroiling himself on so many other fronts. Take one typical day since Christmas: the day after the Labour backbench revolt against him. It began with an early breakfast with local council leaders. Then he attended the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury. After an awful journey to Madrid, it was past midnight when they reached the dessert course of a working dinner with the Spanish Prime Minister. The ludicrous overload on Tony Blair is partly a problem of his own making, a product of the self-consciously 'presidential' style of his premiership. Why couldn't those negotiations in Belfast be left to the able Paul Murphy? Because the protagonists have come to believe that all the serious business is done by the Prime Minister. Why couldn't John Prescott take responsibility for munching croissants with the local councillors? Because no one thinks they are really getting the Government's attention unless they are treated to an audience with the Prime Minister. When he has such a groaning plate of other responsibilities, why will Mr Blair spend tomorrow morning presiding over a health summit at Number 10? Why can't that be left to Alan Milburn? I don't doubt the importance of some of the issues to be discussed, among them coronary heart disease. But if he carries on like this, the Prime Minister will give himself an early coronary. The reason why Mr Blair feels he must host the health summit is because he fears that his absence from the domestic scene will be interpreted by people as meaning that he has lost sight of public services. If he isn't seen to be active on the home front, then the voters will conclude that the whole Government has lost interest. Why is the Prime Minister 'obsessing', to use the description of one Number 10 official, over asylum-seekers? Why can't he leave that to David Blunkett? Because Mr Blair has come to believe that nothing gets done in his government unless he gives it his personal attention. This highly interventionist style of running government is commonly described as 'presidential', but in a sense it is quite the opposite. Real presidents have elaborate support systems which mean they can focus only on the essential or float above their governments. The United States won the Cold War while Ronald Reagan was taking a nap. Look at George W. Bush. He does only the minium necessary travel outside his own country. He is content to delegate most domestic issues to either his White House staff or his Cabinet. The American president seems to be getting loads of kip. George Bush looks as though he sleeps like a baby. You can be reassured or alarmed by that as you will. Mr Blair's method of personal government is being tested as never before, possibly even to destruction, by this Iraq crisis. If he has never before looked so politically exposed, one reason is that the burden of arguing the case with the public has overwhelmingly fallen upon him. Because the Prime Minister has been projected as so large and omnipotent, those senior Ministers who might help him are inevitably made to look small and marginal.
[CTRL] 'Barney' Blair Find Quicksand
-Caveat Lector- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml? xml=/news/2003/03/09/nirq09.xml/ Blair faces wave of resignations as ministerial aides issue ultimatum By Colin Brown, Francis Elliott and Julian Coman in New York (Filed: 09/03/2003) Tony Blair will face a wave of government resignations if he commits British troops to a war on Iraq without securing a second United Nations mandate for military action. Five members of the Government, including three aides to Cabinet ministers, have told The Telegraph that they will quit if the Prime Minister opts for war on Saddam Hussein without the support of the Security Council. Britain has already committed itself to military action by March 17 should Saddam fail to disarm and is attempting to secure UN backing for this deadline. However, the aides, all parliamentary private secretaries (PPSs), on the Government's payroll vote, say that they will resign if the Security Council does not back the British position. The five MPs include Anne Campbell, the PPS to Patricia Hewitt, the Trade Secretary; Andy Reed, aide to Margaret Beckett, the Environment Secretary; and Michael Jabez Foster, who works with Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General. A fourth PPS to a Cabinet minister who is also threatening to quit did not wish to be named. Mr Reed said: If we don't have a second resolution then I would resign. I have already made that clear to the whips. Mr Foster said: There is a point where you have to decide whether this is right or wrong. This is about upholding the authority of the UN. Ms Campbell said: I have taken the view that I would find it very difficult to support the Government unless there is a proper UN resolution. If it came to war without that I would have to quit. The fact that members of the Government are prepared to threaten Mr Blair publicly will fuel concerns that senior figures, possibly Cabinet ministers, may also resign in protest. Speculation continues to surround the position of Robin Cook, the Leader of the Commons, who is considered the most likely of any Cabinet member to quit over the issue. The resignation threats follow the unprecedented Commons revolt, in which 121 Labour MPs voted against the Government two weeks ago. If followed through, they would be the most serious blow to Mr Blair's authority since he was elected and could split the Government from top to bottom. They highlight the risk that the Prime Minister is taking in backing President George W. Bush in waging war on Iraq regardless of the outcome of this week's crucial UN Security Council vote in New York. London and Washington have refused to rule out the possibility that war could be launched this week - possibly as early as Wednesday - if they fail to win support for a second resolution. One British minister said: There is a chance of that. We are going nowhere in New York. In a last-ditch attempt to avoid war, Britain and America will this week offer Saddam a final chance to flee Iraq. The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: The resolution has been put down but the option is there for Saddam to go into exile. It would mean we would have what we want. Diplomats at the UN confirmed that the US and Britain were seeking to link the resolution setting Saddam the March 17 deadline with a declaration - possibly by the Arab League - calling on the Iraqi leader to avert war by going into exile. Saudi Arabia has led efforts by Arab countries to persuade Saddam and his entourage to accept asylum and exemption from charges of war crimes. Saddam, however, has until now rejected the offers, saying that he would die in Iraq. A senior Security Council diplomat said: The idea of a calendar date, rather than just a period of time like seven days, was to raise the pressure to the highest degree on Saddam and concentrate the minds of others who may want to make a final attempt to persuade him into exile. Mr Blair is at Chequers this weekend contacting other leaders in an effort to pull the six wavering Security Council states - Cameroon, Guinea, Angola, Pakistan, Chile and Mexico - behind the resolution by stressing that the crisis could still be resolved peacefully should Saddam decide to surrender his weapons of mass destruction. The revised resolution, tabled by Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, after a report by Hans Blix, the UN chief weapons inspector, proposes that if Iraq fails to demonstrate full, unconditional, immediate and active co- operation by March 17 it should be deemed to have failed to take the final opportunity afforded it by the earlier key resolution 1441 and face military action. Mr Straw said: We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution. Downing Street also indicated that a UN vote could be delayed until later this week, to enable more time to win over the wavering states, in spite of earlier signals by the US administration that it could
[CTRL] Calling All Johnny O'Walker-FitzLindhs ?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel071.html Ireland peace coming apart March 7, 2003 BY ANDREW GREELEY Advertisement Is anything working in the world? The Palestinian- Israeli peace process, so close to success just two years ago, is a disaster. NATO is split wide open by the French and the Germans. The Korean peace is in perhaps more danger than it has been since the end of the Korean War. Osama bin Laden is still on the loose, still preaching hate. The United States seems certain to plunge into a dangerous and perhaps unnecessary war. Greek and Turkish Cypriots seem unwilling to settle their difference even, with European Union membership in jeopardy. The Turks, of all people, turn down a $20 billion bribe from the United States. Many of these crises have been generated by the inept foreign policy of a president who thinks he is Clint Eastwood. Does peace flourish anywhere? In Ireland, maybe? No. Quite the contrary. The Good Friday Agreement seems to be unraveling. The basic issue is that the IRA gave up on violence in exchange for power-sharing in Northern Ireland. There has been no IRA violence since then. However, many Unionists in the North (mostly Protestant) are unhappy that the agreement has given ''too much'' to Catholics--that is to say, more than the nothing they had before the agreement. David Trimble, head of the Ulster Unionist Party (and Nobel Peace Prize winner), is unable or afraid to stand by the agreement while facing the chance of either losing the leadership of his own party or losing control of the Unionists to the Rev. Ian Paisley, the militantly Catholic-hating leader. What kind of a man is Trimble? During his recent tour in the United States, he said several times (once at a meeting of the editorial board of the Chicago Sun-Times) that Ireland was a pathetic little country bound together only by Catholicism and hatred of England. Doubtless this is how he really sees the Irish Republic and Catholics in the North. Perhaps it is not his fault that he is an arrogant bigot and doesn't notice the art, the poetry, the music, the economic prosperity. However, he is not the kind of man with whom the Irish and English governments and the Catholic leadership in the North can easily cope. How can you cope with an arrogant bigot whose cultural heritage does not extend beyond the big drums of the Orange Order parades? Trimble's strategy to keep his own people in line is to make impossible demands on Sinn Fein (the IRA political ally) and then walk out of the government, bringing down the whole structure of the agreement. Indeed, the Northern Ireland Assembly has become a revolving door out of which Trimble walks whenever he can't get his way. His most recent demands are that the IRA ''stand down'' completely and that the whole agreement be renegotiated. Sinn Fein replies that it will stand down when the whole agreement is enforced-- legal and police reforms, pullback of British troops, and a promise from the Unionists that they'll shut the revolving door. Trimble will not even discuss matters until the IRA stands down. Hence, there is an impasse. The only violence in the North is that of Protestant paramilitary against Catholics, which Trimble ignores or blames on the IRA. Trimble ignores the long-term truth that Protestant young people are leaving. Catholics could become the majority in a near election. The process is back in the lap of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. If negotiations collapse because of Unionist intransigence (always blamed on the IRA), Trimble will have the ideal solution for his Unionist supporters: no violence and no power- sharing either. What does Blair do then? Trimble, in one of his rare unguarded moments a couple of years ago, warned of an imposed solution that would be far more ''green'' than the present one. The prime minister will be faced once again with the problem that has plagued his peacemaking ventures in Northern Ireland for eight years. How do you win over the Unionist population, whose arrogant sense of superiority over the Catholics is symbolized by his comment to the Sun- Times? Find a Business By Type: By Name: City, Zip, Area Code State Find a nearby business with smartpages.com News | Sports | Business | Entertainment | Lifestyles | Classifieds Visit our online partners: Daily Southtown Pioneer Press Suburban Chicago Newspapers Post-Tribune Star Newspapers Jerusalem Post Daily Telegraph Copyright 2003, Digital Chicago Inc. 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
[CTRL] Terrorising Deficits
-Caveat Lector- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/politics/08BUDG.html?ex=1047704400 en=0fedea1601dcbd87ei=5062partner=GOOGLE March 8, 2003 Troop Movement Could Cost $25 Billion, Congressional Office Finds By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM WASHINGTON, March 7 The Congressional Budget Office estimated today that simply sending troops and equipment to the Persian Gulf to fight Iraq and returning them home would cost nearly $25 billion and that the total cost of a potential war would doubtless be much higher depending on how long hostilities lasted and how much was spent on reconstruction and other assistance. The Bush administration has repeatedly refused to predict what a war might cost. At his news conference on Thursday night, President Bush said that the money would be requested from Congress at the appropriate time and that the price of doing nothing would be far greater than the price of going to war. Last week, a senior Defense Department official suggested that a war might cost $60 billion or more. The budget office, the nonpartisan staff of economists and other specialists who advise Congress on fiscal and economic matters, said even rough projections of the total cost of war were impossible because multiple unknowns exist about how a conflict with Iraq might actually unfold and because long-term expenditures depend on highly uncertain decisions about future policies. But the budget staff said it was possible to calculate some of what it called incremental costs, the costs that might be incurred beyond the amounts budgeted for routine operations. The staff calculated that the initial cost of deploying troops and equipment in the region of the war would be about $14 billion, that the cost of the first month of combat would be $10 billion and that the cost would then fall slightly to about $8 billion a month. After the war, the budget office figured it would cost about $9 billion to return the troops and equipment to home bases. American occupation of Iraq, the staff said, could vary from $1 billion to $4 billion a month. The budget office said it was not willing to speculate how much might be spent for humanitarian aid to Iraq, aid to allies in the region or construction of military bases in an occupied Iraq. Nor, the office said, could calculations be made of future troop levels and other military needs that might arise from a war. The estimates of the cost of a possible war were in the budget office's analysis of the budget for the next fiscal year that President Bush sent to Congress last month. The new analysis found that the anticipated deficit had grown by about $50 billion since January, primarily because of deteriorating economic conditions and a big spending bill passed by Congress and signed by the president last month. The deficit analysis does not include war costs. Over the next five years, the deficit projections of the budget office are similar to those made by the president's budget office. For the 2003 fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, the Congressional staff projected a slightly lower deficit than the administration did, $287 billion compared with the administration's projection of $304 billion. For the 2004 fiscal year, the Congressional forecast was slightly higher than the administration's, $338 billion compared with $307 billion. Over five years, the budget office calculated, the Bush tax-cut and spending proposals would worsen the deficit by a total of about $800 billion. The cumulative deficits over five years would be $362 billion if no changes were made in the law and $1.2 trillion if the Bush proposals are enacted, the analysis showed. This calculation does not take into account how the Bush proposals would affect the economy. The administration maintains that the tax cuts would make the overall economy and therefore the budget picture much stronger. The administration made no effort to calculate deficits beyond the five- year period, while the budget office extended its projections for 10 years. The Congressional staff acknowledged that such long-range predictions were unreliable. But when it tallied the numbers for 10 years, it found that the administration's tax and spending proposals would worsen the budget situation by a total of $2.7 trillion. Again, no assumptions were made about how the Bush proposals would affect the economy. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company | Privacy Policy Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is
[CTRL] Shannon Shuns War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1987.htm Irelands Ant-war Movement Prevent Refueling Stops For US Troops United Press International From the International Desk Published 3/7/2003 12:46 PM Insider notes from United Press International for March 7 ... The anti-war movement in Europe is starting to have real impact beyond politics. Ireland's Shannon International Airport has been virtually closed to flights and refueling stops of U.S. troops and supplies by a relentless campaign of protest. Three of the four U.S. airlines hired by the Pentagon for the transports have now said they will no longer use Shannon. Over the last three weeks, demonstrators have gotten inside the perimeter and into the hangars three times, smashing aircraft with hammers, dousing their lamps and windscreens with paint. Last week, over 1,000 anti-war protesters, citing Ireland's traditional neutrality and the failure of a United Nations mandate, tried a mass trespass onto the airport, to be held back by police backed up by Irish troops. The aircraft are now using Frankfurt airport instead, and the now well-connected European movement is planning more direct action there. Belgian police last week rounded up 150 activists who were trying to stop military convoys from U.S. bases in Germany to the port of Antwerp. 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] Logical Fallacy Guide
-Caveat Lector- Table of Contents http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/toc.htm Welcome How To Use This Guide Go to the site and use hot linques for each major subject / title Table of Contents Fallacies of Distraction False Dilemma: two choices are given when in fact there are three options From Ignorance: because something is not known to be true, it is assumed to be false Slippery Slope: a series of increasingly unacceptable consequences is drawn Complex Question: two unrelated points are conjoined as a single proposition Appeals to Motives in Place of Support Appeal to Force: the reader is persuaded to agree by force Appeal to Pity: the reader is persuaded to agree by sympathy Consequences: the reader is warned of unacceptable consequences Prejudicial Language: value or moral goodness is attached to believing the author Popularity: a proposition is argued to be true because it is widely held to be true Changing the Subject Attacking the Person: the person's character is attacked the person's circumstances are noted the person does not practise what is preached Appeal to Authority: the authority is not an expert in the field experts in the field disagree the authority was joking, drunk, or in some other way not being serious Anonymous Authority: the authority in question is not named Style Over Substance: the manner in which an argument (or arguer) is presented is felt to affect the truth of the conclusion Inductive Fallacies Hasty Generalization: the sample is too small to support an inductive generalization about a population Unrepresentative Sample: the sample is unrepresentative of the sample as a whole False Analogy: the two objects or events being compared are relevantly dissimilar Slothful Induction: the conclusion of a strong inductive argument is denied despite the evidence to the contrary Fallacy of Exclusion: evidence which would change the outcome of an inductive argument is excluded from consideration Fallacies Involving Statistical Syllogisms Accident: a generalization is applied when circumstances suggest that there should be an exception Converse Accident : an exception is applied in circumstances where a generalization should apply Causal Fallacies Post Hoc: because one thing follows another, it is held to cause the other Joint effect: one thing is held to cause another when in fact they are both the joint effects of an underlying cause Insignificant: one thing is held to cause another, and it does, but it is insignificant compared to other causes of the effect Wrong Direction: the direction between cause and effect is reversed Complex Cause: the cause identified is only a part of the entire cause of the effect Missing the Point Begging the Question: the truth of the conclusion is assumed by the premises Irrelevant Conclusion: an argument in defense of one conclusion instead proves a different conclusion Straw Man: the author attacks an argument different from (and weaker than) the opposition's best argument Fallacies of Ambiguity Equivocation: the same term is used with two different meanings Amphiboly: the structure of a sentence allows two different interpretations Accent: the emphasis on a word or phrase suggests a meaning contrary to what the sentence actually says Category Errors Composition: because the attributes of the parts of a whole have a certain property, it is argued that the whole has that property Division: because the whole has a certain property, it is argued that the parts have that property Non Sequitur Affirming the Consequent: any argument of the form: If A then B, B, therefore A Denying the Antecedent: any argument of the form: If A then B, Not A, thus Not B Inconsistency: asserting that contrary or contradictory statements are both true Syllogistic Errors Fallacy of Four Terms: a syllogism has four terms Undistributed Middle: two separate categories are said to be connected because they share a common property Illicit Major: the predicate of the conclusion talks about all of something, but the premises only mention some cases of the term in the predicate Illicit Minor: the subject of the conclusion talks about all of something, but the premises only mention some cases of the term in the subject Fallacy of Exclusive Premises: a syllogism has two negative premises Fallacy of Drawing an Affirmative Conclusion From a Negative Premise: as the name implies Existential Fallacy: a particular conclusion is drawn from universal premises Fallacies of Explanation Subverted Support (The phenomenon being explained doesn't exist) Non-support (Evidence for the phenomenon being explained is biased) Untestability (The theory which explains cannot be tested) Limited Scope (The theory which explains can only explain one thing) Limited Depth (The theory which explains does not appeal to underlying causes) Fallacies of Definition Too Broad (The definition includes items which should not be included) Too Narrow (The definition does not include all
[CTRL] Newswatch Magazine Editorial 3/7/03
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/weekly_editor/index.htm March 7, 2003 Dear Newswatch Magazine Listeners/Readers: If we did not have some degree of understanding of secret societies, we would think that the world operated at random. But that is not the case! Every political event is Planned in advance. Of course, not all events turn out exactly like the Planners had hoped, but they never quit. They simply try another approach until they accomplish their desired end result. Most Americans just dont comprehend what the Patriot Act has set the stage for in relation to their Constitutional Rights that our forefathers fought and died to pass down to us as our heritage. Congressman Ron Paul of Texas said they were asked to vote on the Act without reading it - they did, except the few that understand the assault upon our Constitution. The Dallas Morning News is normally a liberal newspaper; but on February 24, 2003 it spilled the beans that there is a Patriot Act II waiting in the wings to be implemented AFTER the next CRISIS. The headline on the EDITORIAL page says - Big Brother Act, Patriot Act II has very disturbing aspects. In this editorial the writer admitted the first Patriot Act was hastily passed by Congress. The daily newspapers are filled with WHY President Bush wants war. Every time Iraq agrees to a new set of demands, Bush comes up with something else to guarantee the war will move forward. The major TV Networks are no different. One propaganda story after another. For instance, the March 4, 2003 edition of The Dallas Morning News carried this headline: Bush puts no stock in Iraqi efforts. The accompanying article on the front page read: War could spill over to other lands. These headlines are fanning the flames of the opposition. They arent going to lay down when their backs are to the wall. They already have Cells of terrorists in America. They were brought to America by former President Bush in the early 90s after Desert Storm. Who do we think took down the Federal Building in Oklahoma City? McVeigh was a fall-guy - called a lily-white that could not be traced to Iraqi terrorist cells. But he was and the Federal Government covered it up. Another March 4, 2003 headline read: Bush should have prepared for this bet. This discusses his whole presidency riding on a war that will bring terrorism to American cities. On the same page 11A was this headline: President offers Iraqis control of their own fate. Now he says war can be avoided by the Iraqi people causing Saddam Hussein to step down and form a new government without him. Then comes the real reason for the war! On page 5A, the newspaper carried this article: Ridge: More attacks possible. As war with Iraq looms, U.S. shows it takes terror threats seriously. The Federal Government has established Homeland Security supposedly to protect America and its people. If and when terror attacks do come, Martial Law will be called. This will affect EVERY American - not just the Islamic terrorists! Two countries created a Homeland Security in the Twentieth-Century. They were the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In the Soviet Union Martial Law was used to disarm its citizens and then imprison any one who spoke a word of dissent. Martial Law was used to disarm the citizens of Nazi Germany - then the holocaust that followed! But why is President Bush pushing so hard to get his war with Iraq? He is a member of the ultra-secret society of The Order of Skull Bones. It was brought to America in 1833 from Germany. The Order of the Illuminati had been discovered and had to go underground. Its founder, Adam Weishaupt, told his followers to change its name if discovered, but continue the work toward World Government under the new name. The Thule Society came from the changed name. Adolph Hitler was a member. Out of the Thule Society came The Order of Skull Bones with its American headquarters at Yale University. 15 students a year are tapped to become members in their senior year at college. President George W. Bush was initiated into The Order in 1968. The Plan for world conquest was laid down by the Illuminati on August 15, 1871 and has not changed. They needed a nation from which they could foment revolutionary wars - Russia. They needed two world wars and a third if necessary. Weve seen two world wars that resulted in their desired gain toward world domination. They must now foment the third world war beginning with the Middle East. After World War II, the first Mandate of the new United Nations was to establish Israel right in the heart of the Arab world from which World War III would begin. Once this war spreads or spills into other countries, Russia and China [Communist countries] will intervene just as the Illuminati Planned in 1871. Atheism and Christianity as well as Islam destroyed. Lucifer brought forth!!! In much love, David J. Smith A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion
[CTRL] Only a Bully Seeks War as an Option - HIGHLY Recommended Reading!
-Caveat Lector- Dear Fellow Americans and World Citizens: Only a Bully Seeks War as an Option I write you with great anguish as a veteran who has experienced war from the cockpit of a helicopter ambulance. While cherishing my rights to speak openly in a world where citizens of many other countries cannot, I feel burdened with a sense of responsibility to express those rights by inviting serious introspection of our place in unfolding world events. There is a difference between exercising vigilance in the face of a potential aggressor and being a bully. Over the centuries, we have learned that great nations come into being when the power for governing those nations is put into the hands of the people. We have further discovered that democratic principles can unite the community of nations in the cause of peace. There is no place for bullies, on a community, national or international level, in a world that recognizes and cherishes human rights. We all know bullies when we see them. Such self-interested individuals and nations accumulate their power and then force others around them into submission to their interests. They survive until bigger bullies come along and subject them to the same treatment. Bullies make life miserable for the rest of us because they control us while sapping our power and resources for their own interests. It anguishes me to ask the question: Has the Unites States become a bully? The United States defines itself as the only world superpower on the basis of its nuclear capability. Bullies define their rights based solely upon their power. Are we doing the same? Are we relating to the rest of the world on the basis of imagined rights gained through our technological accomplishments and power? After contributing significantly, and at great loss, to helping rid the world of bullies over the last century, are we overreacting to the world situation in the present? We cite our accomplishments how we helped the conquered bully-nations rise to their feet in great humanitarian nation-building efforts. And we cite our mistakes how we failed to acknowledge ominous threats until it was too late. We lament our lack of involvement in the League of Nations and the great losses that began with Pearl Harbor. Never again! we said, and perhaps our obsession with that blinded us to an even more serious mistake of oversight, especially after the events of September 11, 2001. In the cold war, we confronted communism only to discover through the process of further losses through war and conflict that communism was not the threat we feared. There are those who declare that communism was defeated by the cold war effort. This perception insults the wisdom of the leadership and the people of those nations who discovered the truth for themselves that communism does not work. We Americans (the term United States citizens use exclusively for ourselves on this continent) take great pride in our power-and- wisdom-of-the-people perception of our rise to greatness. Yet we seem to fail to recognize that we come from the same stock as the people of the rest of the world people who have the same inherent rights, worth and potential as Americans. As we stand on the brink of another century of war, are we truly honoring our ancestors in the way we are playing our role on the world stage? We do not occupy our present position in the world community of nations because we are better we are here because we got here first. We must not fail to recognize the worth and integrity of individuals the world over. We will never be worth our claim to greatness until we recognize and practice the principles that honor human rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness everywhere. This cannot be accomplished by relating to the rest of the world as a bully relates to those imagined as being weaker. Failing to recognize the rights of one nation or people and ignoring their suffering, while pursuing our own self-interests, is more than egregious hypocrisy it is participation in a bullying process. By punishing the people of a nation for the despotic, bullying behavior of its leader, the United States is nothing more than a bully itself. A million Iraqi children reportedly have died as a result of American sanctions on Iraq. How are we honoring the rights and potential of a people by our present policies? How long will we underestimate the inherent goodness in most human beings and their capacity to rise to true greatness if they are accorded the rights and resources for doing so? Upon what basis does the United States see itself as a leader on the world stage? If we think our king-of-the-hill status in the nuclear power club gives us the right to dictate which nation has the right to its own nuclear power, we are being the bully. Ultimately, it must be asked: Does any nation or people truly have the right to the power to bring such destruction to another people? Anybody who thinks
[CTRL] The 39th US President Jimmy Carter: Just War -- or a Just War?
-Caveat Lector- Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States: http://truthout.org/docs_03/031003A.shtml Just War -- or a Just War? By Jimmy Carter New York Times| Op-Ed Sunday 09 March 2003 ATLANTA -- Profound changes have been taking place in American foreign policy, reversing consistent bipartisan commitments that for more than two centuries have earned our nation greatness. These commitments have been predicated on basic religious principles, respect for international law, and alliances that resulted in wise decisions and mutual restraint. Our apparent determination to launch a war against Iraq, without international support, is a violation of these premises. As a Christian and as a president who was severely provoked by international crises, I became thoroughly familiar with the principles of a just war, and it is clear that a substantially unilateral attack on Iraq does not meet these standards. This is an almost universal conviction of religious leaders, with the most notable exception of a few spokesmen of the Southern Baptist Convention who are greatly influenced by their commitment to Israel based on eschatological, or final days, theology. For a war to be just, it must meet several clearly defined criteria. The war can be waged only as a last resort, with all nonviolent options exhausted. In the case of Iraq, it is obvious that clear alternatives to war exist. These options -- previously proposed by our own leaders and approved by the United Nations -- were outlined again by the Security Council on Friday. But now, with our own national security not directly threatened and despite the overwhelming opposition of most people and governments in the world, the United States seems determined to carry out military and diplomatic action that is almost unprecedented in the history of civilized nations. The first stage of our widely publicized war plan is to launch 3,000 bombs and missiles on a relatively defenseless Iraqi population within the first few hours of an invasion, with the purpose of so damaging and demoralizing the people that they will change their obnoxious leader, who will most likely be hidden and safe during the bombardment. The war's weapons must discriminate between combatants and noncombatants. Extensive aerial bombardment, even with precise accuracy, inevitably results in collateral damage. Gen. Tommy R. Franks, commander of American forces in the Persian Gulf, has expressed concern about many of the military targets being near hospitals, schools, mosques and private homes. Its violence must be proportional to the injury we have suffered. Despite Saddam Hussein's other serious crimes, American efforts to tie Iraq to the 9/11 terrorist attacks have been unconvincing. The attackers must have legitimate authority sanctioned by the society they profess to represent. The unanimous vote of approval in the Security Council to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction can still be honored, but our announced goals are now to achieve regime change and to establish a Pax Americana in the region, perhaps occupying the ethnically divided country for as long as a decade. For these objectives, we do not have international authority. Other members of the Security Council have so far resisted the enormous economic and political influence that is being exerted from Washington, and we are faced with the possibility of either a failure to get the necessary votes or else a veto from Russia, France and China. Although Turkey may still be enticed into helping us by enormous financial rewards and partial future control of the Kurds and oil in northern Iraq, its democratic Parliament has at least added its voice to the worldwide expressions of concern. The peace it establishes must be a clear improvement over what exists. Although there are visions of peace and democracy in Iraq, it is quite possible that the aftermath of a military invasion will destabilize the region and prompt terrorists to further jeopardize our security at home. Also, by defying overwhelming world opposition, the United States will undermine the United Nations as a viable institution for world peace. What about America's world standing if we don't go to war after such a great deployment of military forces in the region? The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory. American stature will surely decline further if we launch a war in clear defiance of the United Nations. But to use the presence and threat of our military power to force Iraq's compliance with all United Nations resolutions -- with war as a final option -- will enhance our status as a champion of peace and justice. Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, is chairman of the Carter
[CTRL] Bush about to do to Iraq what Saddam did to Kuwait
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/030803B.shtml Editor's Note: Bush gave only the eighth formal news conference since taking office in 2001 on Thursday night. There was speculation beforehand that this might be the moment when a declaration of war against Iraq would be made. Some even thought Bush would be announcing the capture of Osama bin Laden. Neither came to pass. Instead, Bush ran through a familiar litany of accusations and threats directed at Saddam Hussein. There were two factors to note. The first was that Bush all but promised that America would go to war without a UN resolution approving such action. The second pertained to the nature of the press conference itself. The reporters clearly asked scripted questions. Bush himself referenced a list at his podium before calling on reporters, making it clear that he knew the order of the questions to come, the name of the questioners, and the questions themselves. April, did you have a question or did I call on you cold? said Bush to a reporter after referencing his notes. At the end of the day, this press conference was designed to do one thing - to get rhetorically out in front of Hans Blix before he reports to the UN on Friday. Twice now the administration has waited for Blix to report, expecting from him a basis for war, and twice they have been burned. On Thursday, Bush attempted to set the terms of debate for this next report. - wrp Bush Commits to Second Resolution Vote Mark Oliver Guardian UK Friday 7 March 2003 The US president, George Bush, said today that he would insist on a vote on a new resolution authorising war on Iraq, saying it was time for UN security council members to show their cards. Speaking at a televised White House news conference, Mr Bush committed to the vote for the first time, saying the US would seek it regardless of the prospects for success - which is in doubt because of opposition from council members Russia, France and China. The US, Britain and Spain last month tabled a second resolution, which would effectively authorise war, which followed previous UN resolution 1441 which ordered Iraq to disarm. However, there had been doubt about the US pushing the new resolution to a vote amid fears it may not get passed or be vetoed by France, Russia or China. However today Mr Bush said: No matter what the whip count is [the tally of expected votes], we're calling for the vote ... we want to see people stand up and say what their opinion is about Saddam Hussein and the utility of the United Nations security council. It's time for people to show their cards, to let the world know where they stand when it comes to Saddam. However, he indicated the US would go it alone regardless. When it comes to security, we certainly don't need anybody's permission, Mr Bush said. He said President Saddam was engaged in a willful charade to deceive UN weapons inspectors and that the United States and its allies were involved in the last phase of diplomacy. He said: If he does not disarm, we will disarm him. Mr Bush said President Saddam had made a big show of destroying a few missiles, referring to Iraq's Samoud missiles, which the regime has destroyed around 10 of in recent days after the UN said they exceeded a banned range. But Mr Bush added our intelligence indicates he has ordered the production of the very same missiles. He accused Iraq of hiding materials for weapons of mass destruction. These are not the actions of a regime that is disarming. These are the actions of a regime engaged in a willful charade. These are the actions of a regime that systematically and deliberately is defying the world, he said. Mr Bush denied he was worried about failing to get UN support for military action and indicated the US would act without it. (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
[CTRL] Richard Perle Calls Seymour Hersh A Terrorist
http://64.176.94.191/article1994.htm Richard Perle Calls Investigative Reporter, Seymour Hersh a Terrorist CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER Showdown: Iraq Aired March 9, 2003 - 12:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Full text here Excerpt From Transcript: BLITZER:Let me read a quote from the New Yorker article, the March 17th issue, just out now. "There is no question that Perle believes that removing Saddam from power is the right thing to do. At the same time, he has set up a company that may gain from a war." PERLE: I don't believe that a company would gain from a war. On the contrary, I believe that the successful removal of Saddam Hussein, and I've said this over and over again, will diminish the threat of terrorism. And what he's talking about is investments in homeland defense, which I think are vital and are necessary. Look, Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist, frankly. BLITZER: Well, on the basis of -- why do you say that? A terrorist? PERLE: Because he's widely irresponsible. If you read the article, it's first of all, impossible to find any consistent theme in it. But the suggestion that my views are somehow related for the potential for investments in homeland defense is complete nonsense. BLITZER: But I don't understand. Why do you accuse him of being a terrorist? PERLE: Because he sets out to do damage and he will do it by whatever innuendo, whatever distortion he can -- look, he hasn't written a serious piece since Maylie (ph). [Tom's comments: I wonder when these guys will come out of the closet wearing their nice new "brown shirts" ?Heil, Israel! - Heil, Sharon! ]
[CTRL] Patriot Act II's Attack on Citizenship
-Caveat Lector- http://www.counterpunch.org/mariner03082003.html March 8, 2003 Patriot Act II's Attack on Citizenship Denationalization as Punishment By JOANNE MARINER A basic principle of American democracy is that members of government serve at the behest of the citizenry, and not vice-versa. The people, being sovereign, can use their votes to "throw the bastards out," even though the government has no reciprocal power to jettison disfavored citizens. Our leadership may distrust or despise certain people, but it cannot strip them of their citizenship involuntarily. Murderers, child molesters, and tax evaders are subject to criminal punishment, not denationalization. Yet with the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, informally known as Patriot II, this basic rule is under attack. The draft legislation, a proposed sequel to the 2001 USA Patriot Act drafted by the Justice Department, was recently made public after being leaked to the Center for Public Integrity. As commentators David Cole, Nat Hentoff, and Anita Ramasastry have suggested, the bill would go well beyond its predecessor in threatening essential civil liberties. Among Patriot II's most worrying provisions are those affecting citizenship. Section 501 of the bill, deceptively titled "Expatriation of Terrorists," would allow the presumptive denationalization of American citizens who support the activities of organizations that the executive branch has deemed "terrorist." While it is already illegal to provide material support to such groups, even for their lawful activities, such support is grounds only for criminal prosecution, not for the loss of citizenship. By permitting denationalization as a punishment for illegal conduct, the Patriot II bill attempts to push the legal rules backward to a time that Ashcroft and his ilk no doubt remember fondly: the McCarthy era. Citizenship as a "Constitutional Birthright" The Supreme Court's current jurisprudence gives Americans robust protections again involuntary loss of citizenship. But it was not always so. The current rule that citizenship can only be relinquished voluntarily -- was established in a landmark 1967 case. Just a decade earlier, the government's power to strip citizens of their citizenship seemed quite secure. In 1940 and again in 1954, the government had passed statutes containing several grounds for loss of citizenship. A person could be denationalized for, among other things, advocating the overthrow of the government by force or violence. In Perez v. Brownell, a 1958 case, the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to a provision of the 1940 law that denationalized American citizens for voting in foreign elections. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who wrote the majority opinion, ruled that Congress's power to conduct foreign affairs included an implied power of denationalization. Frankfurter summarily dismissed the notion that the Bill of Rights, in particular the Fourteenth Amendment, set any limits on this power. "[T]here is nothing in the terms, the context, the history or the manifest purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment," he stated in a footnote, "to warrant drawing from it a restriction upon the power otherwise possessed by Congress to withdraw citizenship." In a famous dissent, Chief Justice Earl Warren directly challenged this view. Under his reading of the Fourteenth Amendment, citizenship is "the constitutional birthright of every person born in this country." Although citizenship could be voluntarily relinquished, in his opinion, it could not be taken away. Warren's conception of citizenship was grounded in a strong view of popular sovereignty. As he explained: "This Government was born of its citizens, it maintains itself in a continuing relationship with them, and, in my judgment, it is without power to sever the relationship that gives rise to its existence." It was in Afroyim v. Rusk, a 1967 case, that the Supreme Court adopted Warren's view, explicitly overruling its previous holding in Perez. In Afroyim, the Court affirmed that the Fourteenth Amendment establishes "a citizenship which a citizen keeps unless he voluntarily relinquishes it. Once acquired, this Fourteenth Amendment citizenship was not to be shifted, canceled, or diluted at the will of the Federal Government, the States, or any other governmental unit." Voluntary Expatriation or Involuntary Denationalization? In the wake of Afroyim, Congress passed a number of amendments to the denationalization statute, including in 1976, 1978, and 1986, that codified Chief Justice Warren's view by tighting the legal rules on the loss of citizenship. If passed, Patriot II would be Congress's first step back from this trend, and toward a more expansive view of the government's power to denationalize its citizens. Patriot II attempts to loosen both the substantive and procedural protections on the right to citizenship. Under Patriot II, as described in the Justice Department's official summary of the bill,
[CTRL] America's Messianic War Cult
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America's Messianic War Cult
We have met the hegemony, and he is usby Matthew Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HIJACKING NATIONAL SECURITY: THE WAR PARTY
Who's flying the plane? --- The probable terrifying final thoughts of many September 11, 2001 victims.
Today, many are asking the same thing about the Bush Administration's subsequent foreign policy. Despite failing to secure Osama bin-Laden's fate, the Administration now careens in search of ever-expanding Executive Branch-initiated war against an "axis of evil." First stop, Iraq.
Of course, there may be a case for war against Iraq. The benefit potential for Iraq alone of ending the rule of Saddam Hussein is obvious. But for those steering the policy, Iraq is only the beginning. And the actual Iraq-specific case for war appears to be of secondary importance to them at best.
Now, who's flying that plane?
President Bush remains the ultimate party responsible, but it is no secret that a factional War Party has won the ears, hearts, and minds of the President, Vice-President, National Security Adviser and Secretary of Defense. As Scott Ritter, the Republican ex-Marine who hounded Saddam's secret weapons group for several years, has warned:
"The national security of the United States of America has been hijacked by a handful of neo-conservatives who are using their position of authority to pursue their own ideologically-driven political ambitions."
Ritter's warning may be understated. The neoconservatives, or "neocons," are some of the most dangerous menaces to America's destiny to come along. Moreover, they are a grave danger to the peace, progress, and security of much of humanity. And their true agenda has features of something that few, if any, have called by a designation that is as alarming as it is accurate: a cult.
Neoconservatism is not merely an ideology, but a cult of war and domination that makes conventional and even ideological "hawks" and "interventionists" look like doves and isolationists. Many of their fellow conservatives fear their aims. For if successful, the neocons' efforts will provoke far more terrorism, leave enormous numbers of Americans and foreigners dying uselessly in endless far-flung wars, trip-up the world's already struggling economy, and midwife a Constitution-shelving national security state.
Outlines of this are seen in a open-ended conflict, military activism which has eschewed Congressional debate and oversight, spikes in oil prices, domestic spying proposals, secret tribunals, citizen detentions without trial, and surging ethnic and religious hatred.
So, what is it that makes these neocons tick? What lies at their core?
There's a single, easy-to-find, and utterly frightening answer to that.
THE BIZARRE CORE OF NEOCONSERVATISM
The single thread can be found, explicit and implicit, in neocon writings and sentiments. These are worth a read, if only to see that the fate of the world may be in the hands of people who are not only dangerous, but actually use the word "hegemon" in conversation.
In an essay in Foreign Affairs in 1996 ("Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy" July-August 1996), neocon gurus William Kristol and Robert Kagan described their desired goal.
They are seekers of a "global hegemon [ruler]." (Elsewhere neocon writer Charles Krauthammer has called for embracing a "unipolar world".) This world-encompassing hegemon would possess a moral "exceptionalism", i.e. distinct essential moral superiority. It would establish "moral clarity and purpose". It would go forth (hegemonically, we must presume) and find "monsters to destroy". Once empowered, this world-ruler would exercise "benevolent ...hegemony." Nevertheless those otherwise good people who don't actively aid the world-saving hegemon's monster-slaying are guilty of "cowardice and dishonor".
Hang on, it gets weirder.
"The end of history" is how neocon author Francis Fukuyama in his book of the same title has called the period after the collapse of the hegemon's main enemy. William Kristol's father Irving has revealed in his autobiography ("Memoirs of a Trotskyist") that the neocons in their original incarnation saw themselves as the "`happy few' who had been chosen by History to guide our fellow creatures toward a secular redemption."
To find the common thread, we need only connect the dots:
A "benevolent global hegemon" of essentially superior moral character? Who destroys monsters to create a "unipolar world," and imposes "moral clarity" and "purpose"? Who ushers in "the end of history"? Whose acolytes are a vanguard in the militant salvific redemption of the world? What to call such a being?
One word comes to mind . . . a Messiah. And a pretty darn utopian and apocalyptic one at that. That is no exaggerated extrapolation of their vision. And so it is no exaggeration to employ the term "cult." (Recently, writer Thomas Bray in the online Wall Street Journal referred to the
[CTRL] What Secretary Powell Did Not Say
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2003/030308_powell_not_say.html What Secretary Powell Did Not Say by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. On March 8, 2003, the statement was issued by the Presidential candidate's political committee, LaRouche in 2004, for international circulation and distribution as a mass leaflet in the United States. Monday, March 10 begins a week whose importance could possibly, even probably, prove more or less as significant, in its own way, as the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. This memorandum serves to summarize the following crucial issues of the present crisis. The Root of the Crisis 1. The first factor, the root of this crisis, is a Classical quality of existential crisis within the institutions of the U.S. government. The pivotal issue of the crisis is, as France's representative said, implicitly: The issue of war or peace as such, is not Saddam Hussein or Iraq; but, primarily, two distinct but converging features of the current U.S. Bush Administration. The first cause of that aspect of the crisis, is the influence of the imperialist followers of the late fascist ideologue, Professor Leo Strauss, in creating the core of those war-mongers known variously as the "Chicken-hawks" or "neo-cons." The second, converging cause of that critical factor, is the convergence among the pro-imperialist "neo-cons" inside the Bush Administration, with the thoughtless and stubborn, "barnyard-style unilateralism" expressed by President George W. Bush himself. The added feature of the crisis, on the U.S. side, is that Cheney's and Wolfowitz's lunatic tribe of neo-con "Chicken-hawk" fanatics, is reenforced, on the side of the Democratic Party, by those organized-crime-linked, pro-imperialist hard-core DLC Democrats who are typified by the circle of cronies of right-wing ideologue and war-monger Senator Joseph Lieberman. What this bipartisan combination of imperialists and Bush's unilateralism has done, is to exploit the frightening effects of Sept. 11, 2001 to unleash a policy which currently sets the United States against, in fact, the most vital interests of every other sovereign nation-state of the planet. Summarily: If the U.S.A. is allowed to use the UNO-outlawed threat of unilateral forceeven the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear statesto blackmail the UNO Security Council into tolerating a war upon Iraq, that precedent either soon establishes a U.S. world-empire modelled upon the ancient Roman Empire; or forces the nations of the world to undermine the power of the U.S.A. to conduct such policies; or sends the world to spend a few generations in Hell as punishment for failing to prevent the proposed war. In effect, as I, my wife, and others associated with me have warned on earlier occasions, the current Iraq policy of the Bush Administration is a caricature of the same hubristic folly which led ancient Athens into the tragic Peloponnesian War. Unfortunately, "Education President" Bush is not notably strong on the subject of history. For the United States to declare itself on the brink of launching unilateral, imperial warfare, when there is no objective need to go to warespecially when we have all the power and support we would require did a need existis not only a great folly, as the case of the Peloponnesian War attests. To launch such a war under such unlawful pretexts, including the pretext of the fraudulent reports transmitted from Israeli and other origins, through British channels, into an address of Secretary of State Colin Powell and the UNO Security Council, is also a crime against humanity, under the implications of those precedents accumulated since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. These are precedents freshly acknowledged, in 1945-1946, as the lessons adduced from the combined experience of two preceding World Wars. In fact, the unilateral Anglo-American warfare threatened by the bipolar froth from certain official and mass-media Washington and London sources, is not a war prompted by any action by Iraq itself. It is the use of wildly exaggerated allegations of external threats from Iraq as a pretext for launching what has been called by some relevant circles a "Clash of Civilizations" war: a war against not only the Arab world as a whole; not only the Islamic populations as a whole; but also China, and targets beyond. This threatens the outbreak, even during the month of March, of the third geopolitical world war launched by imperial maritime (and aerial) power against continental Eurasia as a whole. That, in summary, supports the case which France has presented against the arguments presented by the U.S. and British spokesmen. In effect, the current U.S. Administration has declared an imperial war policy against the world. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, have been misused as a cover for reviving this imperial "preventive" nuclear war policy, first pushed during the mid-1940s by the evil Bertrand Russell and his pack of utopians, and which was already
[CTRL] Letter from Halabja, Iraq -- March 9, 2003
-Caveat Lector- Dear all, My favorite part of all of Iraqi Kurdistan is the Halabja valley, a lush, lively patchwork of farmlands, streams and villages at the foot of the massive Zagros Mountains. It's a place of so much beauty and so much misery, where the sounds of roosters crowing compete with bursts of gunfire and mortar rounds, where funeral processions are all too common and the ruins of past wars scar the landscape. It was here that Iranian and Iraqi forces fought some of their fiercest battles during the bloody 1980s war that left an estimated one million dead on both sides. It was here that Saddam Hussein sprayed chemical weapons on his own citizens, not just on Halabja but numerous other locales, the bombed out shells of which I've seen with my own eyes. It was on the muddy roads here in 1991 that Kurdish refugees stumbled and coughed and died as they fled Saddam's wrath. And it was here that I got my first taste of war reporting last December, coming upon the scene of an ongoing battle between government forces and Islamist radicals. It's been by covering this ongoing dirty war - replete with bombings, massacres and shootouts -- that I realized that I could be a war reporter, and began sketching out plans to cover the coming United States war to crush Saddam's government. I've come to the Halabja valley well over a dozen times. Each time I've managed to learn something new and profound. The villagers are quintessential little people, literal peasants constantly caught in the crossfire of crises not of their making and beyond their control. Soldiers on all sides speak of revenge and loyalty. Guns and troops pour in and out of the valley daily, competing with ancient tractors and exhaust-spewing hand-me-down buses from Eastern Europe for space on the narrow roads. Last December I visited the village of Khailyhameh right after it was freed from the control of Islamic radicals. I had always thought that being in the middle of such a war would harden people to violence. But I remember vividly the look of terror that came upon on the face of a shivering old man I was interviewing every time the sound of mortar fire erupted in the valley. Meanwhile, my photographer and I were sipping Iranian-made colas. Ha, I remember thinking to myself. War doesn't make you more tough. It makes you more fragile. I have spoken to government officials and soldiers about the war between the militia of the ruling Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Ansar al Islam. They go on and on about how rotten Ansar is and how it's linked to al Qaida and Saddam and the goddamn devil himself. But the Patriotic Union invited the predecessor of Ansar to hole up in the mountains here in the first place! They wanted to spite their then blood-rivals, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, who had just kicked the Islamists out of their territory. Their strategy sure backfired, and now the government here touts its secularism and opposition to Islamic fundamentalism. It made me realize that even at the level of crackpot warlords, just how opportunistic and slippery politicians are. I have even spoken to Ansar radicals, the heavily bearded Islamic fundamentalist warriors who may or may not be harboring al Qaida terrorists. They once let us enter one of the villages they control right after that speech Colin Powell gave to the United Nations Security Council in which he showed a satellite picture of a poison factory. After a long morning of negotiations and lunch at a neighboring Islamic group's hangout, they allowed me and a bunch of other journalists past their checkpoints and into their territory. They said they wanted to show the international media that there was no poison plant in the place identified in the picture. On the way there, we drove past ruins of villages destroyed in the region's multiple wars. Saddam sprayed chemical weapons in the area controlled by Ansar, as well, but it didn't get much ink. On this day there were more graveyards than people along the mountain road leading up and up and up toward Ansar's mountain stronghold. It's a shame, for the area is striking in its beauty, with waterfalls and grassy sky-high valleys. Before the Iran-Iraq war, it was a major tourist destination. When we finally reached the satellite photo, the Ansar folks let us roam around and look for chemical weapons. The place was a horrifying dump. The residents were dirt poor. The Ansar soldiers looked mean and dirty and somewhat confused. There were too many journalists, and they began prancing around, opening doors and drawers and taking too many pictures and film. It was a circus. It was surreal. But then things got really weird. The Ansar folks showed us the real purpose behind the compound that Powell had labeled a poison factory: it was a video production studio! These guys, back-to-the-land freaks who were planning out their Islamic revolution way high in the mountains without electricity or running water or telephones, had set up
[CTRL] [BCPOLITICS] UN Protecting Iraq from US (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:18:00 -0800 (PST) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BCPOLITICS] UN Protecting Iraq from US On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Stephen H. Kawamoto wrote: March 10, 2003 The Free Congress Commentary We Do Not Need The United Nations Now Or In The Future! By Paul M. Weyrich Unless things change significantly in the next week, President George W. Bush does not appear to have the votes in the United Nations Security Council to pass even a compromise resolution giving implicit support for war. Last night CTV News reported that Saddam Hussein has said he has complied with the UN on disarmament and wants the 12 year trade embargo lifted. Well, three months of UN inspections have turned up no deviation from compliance which would cause much concern, so what are we to conclude? He almost certainly has complied enough that by saturating Iraq with UN, there is no threat to anyone from any existing deviations from the rules (eg missiles with a little extra range etc.). The irony is that Iraq then becomes, in effect, a UN PROTECTORATE. The psychological effect on the international image of the US could be devastating. The US may never regain the respect of the global population. Oh yes, governments will comply under duress and feign friendship but the people of the world will know the US as what it is...The Evil Empire. That may be the only way Iraq can be PROTECTED FROM US AGGRESSION. Expectedly the US will soon issue an ULTIMATUM, eg 72 hours and we attack. When that happens the only way for Iraq to ward off attack will be to put itself at the mercy of the UN in one form or another...to in effect become a UN PROTECTORATE. POC According to http://www.gov.bc.ca some 3/4 of British Columbians were Internet users by 2001. In 5 years or so, the new EDD, Electronic Direct Democracy will be fully developed and the CITIZENS' PARLIAMENT will hold the reins of power daily over the Victoria Parliament. The 1996 Recall and Initiative Act enables CITIZENS to recall even the Premier. 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 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] Netanyahu nephew faces jail as army refusenik
-Caveat Lector- The Guardian Netanyahu nephew faces jail as army refusenik Jonathan Ben Artzi is a patriot, but this week he appears before a court martial because he won't do his military service. Conal Urquhart reports from Jerusalem on the high-profile symbol of a swelling protest. Sunday March 9, 2003 The Observer His grandparents fought to establish the state of his Israel and his father and uncles fought to defend it from aggression. One of his uncles is among Israel' s foremost hawks, the former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Yet on Tuesday, Jonathan Ben Artzi faces three years imprisonment for refusing to serve in the Israeli army. Ben Artzi, 20, had already served 214 days in military jail and is being detained on a military base until his trial. He is one of a group of men whose refusal to serve in the army is dividing Israeli society and has forced the military hierarchy to take a strong stand. He is one of nine men facing courts martial for refusing to do their military service and has been designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. Hundreds of men who have done their service are also refusing to do compulsory reserve duty in protest at the role of the Israeli Defence Force in the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli men do three years of compulsory military service from the age of 18 and then at least a month a year of reserve duty until the age of 40. Women are are also obliged to do military service but are not required to serve in combat units. Netanyahu, who has just become Finance Minister, tried to dissuade his nephew from refusing to enlist last year. Jonathan' s father, Matania, whose sister is married to Netanyahu, said the two families respect their political differences. Refusal to serve in the army is a growing problem in Israel. Few confront the system as directly as Ben Artzi. The majority avoid the draft by claiming psychiatric problems. Others exempted from service include students of the Torah, Israeli Arabs and those with a criminal record. In total around 45 per cent of Israeli men avoid the draft. On Tuesday, Ben Artzi will be tried before a court martial for refusing to enlist. Today, his lawyers will argue in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem that the court martial has no jurisdiction over Ben Artzi because he remains a civilian having refused to enlist. It is the latest bizarre paradox Ben Artzi has encountered in his battle with the military authorities. When he sought to be excused service as a pacifist last year, he was brought before the Conscience Committee of the army to be assessed. It studied Ben Artzi's record of refusal to engage in military areas of his school curriculum and came to two conclusions. First, his record of opposition to the army showed he had the character of a warrior and was clearly not a pacifist. Second, the best place for someone like him who refused to submit to authority and discipline was the army. When Ben Artzi received his call-up, he went to the induction centre and refused to serve. He was summarily sentenced to 28 days imprisonment. This began a process that was repeated seven times. He would be released from military prison and go to the induction centre where he was again sentenced to imprisonment for his refusal to serve. His mother Ofra, a university teacher, said: ' We never suspected that the consequences would be that harsh. We know that so many people are exempted so we didn' t think the army would make an exception of Jonathan. 'At times it has felt quite Kafka-esque, standing in front of this illogical bureaucracy.' Ben Artzi is the first member of his family not to do military service. His paternal grandfather fought the British and Palestinians in the terrorist group, Irgun, and his maternal grandfather was injured in the 1948 war of independence. His mother and father met during military service and his uncle was killed in 1967 while serving as a paratrooper. His elder sister and brother completed their service in the air force and navy 'without enthusiasm' according to their parents. However, it was clear from an early age that Jonathan was determined not to serve. His father said: 'Israelis talk about their military service from the moment they can speak. As early as that he decided it was not for him. He was a natural pacifist.' Jonathan says his pacifism dates from a visit to Verdun, the site of a key battle between the French and German armies in the First World War. He saw graves stretching as far as the eye could see and the massive ossuary where the unidentified bones of 150,000 soldiers are held. Matania Ben Artzi, a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said he would have received more support from friends if his son had been accused of drug-dealing or another crime. 'They would have said, It can happen to the best of families.' But refusing to serve in the army is taboo in Israeli society. 'We have had three generations being asked to fight. I fought
[CTRL] MWO On Dennis Miller, Michael Weiner
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Robert Sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 19:42:06 - Subject:Konformist: MWO On Dennis Miller, Michael Weiner Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Mediawhoresonline.com Congratulations, MWO Whore of the Week: Comedian Turned Polysyllabic Yahoo Dennis Miller! Dear MWO, I would like to nominate comedian turned polysyllabic yahoo Dennis Miller as Media Whore of the Week and an early dark horse for Media Whore of 2003. Fresh from using the f word on Donahue, Dennis Miller appeared last night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he was introduced ironically as a Hollywood liberal and proceeded to spout xenophobic, sitcommy jokes like a more jaded version of Jonah Goldberg. Miller warmed up with a few sallies against the Germans and Russians for opposing war with Iraq, which he said we needed to wage to set down a marker in the Mideast and show the rest of the world what we're made of. He then launched into a tirade about the French that would have been considered hate speech had it been directed at any people. He began by calling them pricks, cracked a joke about how we had to chisel the armpit hair off of the Statue of Liberty (France's gift to America), whooped with laughter along with Leno as a postcard was flashed on the screen showing George Bush branding a W on Chirac's ass, and reached the vulgar nadir when he sneered at the French: I would call them scumbags but that would do a disservice to bags filled with scum. Vile as all this was, French-bashing has become so commonplace that in itself it doesn't qualify a motormouth as a Media Whore. No, that titled was earned when Miller addressed President Bush directly through the camera and said, If you're watching, I think you're doing a helluva job. I'm proud you're my president. ...I think there are a lot more people out here on your side than you may think. The cynical interpretation of Miller's low slide to the right is that, having lost his talkshow on HBO and his spot on ABC's Monday Night Football, he's angling for a gig on MSNBC or Fox News, which would gladly welcome a lapsed liberal lashing out against former showbiz colleagues and allies. I.e., it's a career move masquerading as a political conversion. But sincere or no, Dennis Miller, I believe, has earned his kneepads and lobster bib as Media Whore. Cheers, James Wolcott There is no arguing with such unassailable logic and unimpeachable evidence. So without further ado, Dennis Has-Been Miller is hereby anointed MWO Whore of the Week. Robalini's Note: Has-Been? More like never was. You know, I used to laugh when media hype would declare Dennis Miller a rebel or that he was the next Lenny Bruce. Lenny Bruce wouldn't co-star in a film with Corey Feldman, and if he did do that, he wouldn't get second billing. His commentary has long been reactionary, so none of this should be surprising. He is the exact opposite of Lenny Bruce: Bruce made comedy to challenge how people think, but Miller just rants to make Yuppies fill comfortably self-satisfied in their shallow smarminess. * COMIC TURN Dennis Miller scales the Rushmore of wrong-headedness BY BARRY CRIMMINS February 27, 2003 http://www.bostonphoenix.com I have received several e-mails about Dennis Miller spewing hatred on The Tonight Show a few days ago. From what I'm told, he expressed great contempt for the French and total disdain for the well-being of innocents in Iraq. I believe the letters because I have seen him express similar Jurassic views on other programs. We thought he had bottomed out when he became the sportscasting equivalent of William Shatner/lounge singer, but it now appears he won't be happy until he gets a show on the Fox News Channel. I used to write for Miller in 1992, when he had a syndicated talk show. During the program's one season, Miller went from endorsing Jerry Brown to becoming a big Ross Perot supporter. A political impulse-buyer, his ideological cannon was never lashed very securely to the deck. Over the years, the cannon somehow became lodged on the starboard side of the vessel. Each time Miller receives a paycheck, he seems to take it to a bank further to the right of the last one. And now, more than a decade since I wrote my last joke for the man, I can only watch in stupefaction as this once hip and inside comic completes his transformation into a lout whose act sounds as if it were ghostwritten by George Jessel. Actually, that's not fair ... to George Jessel. Dennis Miller was always decent to me. He gave me a chance, and I appreciated it, but he has become so obstinately wrong of late that I am left with no choice but to comment. His attempt to style himself as a
[CTRL] More Evidence of U.S. Govt 9/11 Complicity
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: INSIGHT: More Evidence of U.S. Govt 9/11 Complicity Date sent: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 21:58:36 -0700 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More Evidence of U.S. Govt 9/11 Complicity From: http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/media_release_030304.html 9/11: The Enlightenment Can Science overcome Myth? 4th March 2003 Professor A.K. Dewdney, author of 'Ghost Riders in the Sky', has released the results of an experiment testing the feasibility of claims that cellphone calls were made from 'hijacked' airplanes on September 11th 2001. The cellphone calls from hijacked planes were a crucial element of the 'official version' of the horrific events of '9/11', as they directly corroborated the notion that all four planes were hijacked by Arab terrorists. Dewdney's experiment suggests that it is highly unlikely the cellphone calls took place as reported... Dewdney's 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' hypothesis has been available on the web since early 2002. Now in its fourth version, it can be viewed HERE. Dewdney is a Canadian Mathematician and Computer Scientist who holds the position of Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Ontario and has some 100 academic papers to his name. He proposes that the four 'hijacked' airplanes on 9/11 were taken over by remote control after all crew and passengers were disabled (probably killed by a poisonous gas such as sarin). Professor Dewdney further suggests that the 'Arab hijackers', whose identity has been shrouded in mystery since it was discovered that several alleged hijackers are in fact alive and well, were patsies. A crucial objection to Dewdney's hypothesis has been the cellphone calls reportedly made from the 'hijacked' planes. These cellphone calls appear to substantiate the official version of events. If they took place as reported, Dewdney's hypothesis is clearly incorrect. In version four of 'Ghost Riders', Dewdney went to great lengths to analyze the numerous reports of cellphone calls, and showed how they could have been faked and/or fabricated. Now he's gone one better. On Tuesday 25th February 2003, Dewdney chartered a light plane and flew up into the airspace above London Ontario - an area extensively serviced with cellphone stations. His goal was to test the essential feasibility of the claim that cellphone calls could have been made from planes at high altitude. Dewdney's report on this private experiment, entitled 'Project Achilles', is HERE His report concludes: To the extent that the cellphones used in this experiment represent types in general use, it may be concluded that from this particular type of aircraft, cellphones become useless very quickly with increasing altitude. In particular, two of the cellphone types, the Mike and the Nokia, became useless above 2000 feet. Of the remaining two, the Audiovox worked intermittently up to 6000 feet but failed thereafter, while the BM analog cellphone worked once just over 7000 feet but failed consistently thereafter. We therefore conclude that ordinary cellphones, digital or analog, will fail to get through at or above 8000 feet abga. The light plane used by Dewdney for the experiment could be expected to yield much better results for cellphone use than large commercial airliners of the type 'hijacked' on 9/11, because the carbon fiber skin of the test plane is 'radio transparent' and offers little attenuation of the signal - unlike the aluminum surface of a Boeing 757 or 767. If cellphones fail at a given altitude in the test plane, one may be confident they won't work at equivalent altitude in an airliner with a metal surface. Dewdney's experiment suggests that if cellphone calls from 'hijacked' airplanes on 9/11 happened at all, they must all have occurred at very low altitude. This is inconsistent with the 'official version' of events. The implications that 9/11 was a spectacular hoax are, of course, staggering. Many journalists and commentators may be reticent to dissect the official version of events, because to do so opens a veritable Pandora's Box. If 9/11 was not carried out by Arab terrorists, the perpetrators clearly must have influence within the highest levels of the US Administration. Key elements of the mass media must also have been complicit in perpetrating the fraud. Whoever was ultimately responsible for these crimes against humanity apparently intended, inter alia, to portray terrorism as a quintessentially Muslim phenomenon and trigger long- term western hostility towards the Arab and Moslem world. With war looming in the middle east, justified largely on the basis of the events of '9/11', the immediate contemporary relevance of this possibility is self-evident. Giving credence to this view is not, perhaps, conducive to a successful career in
[CTRL] Bush Pushes the Big Lie Toward the Brink
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: A1 TO READ: Bush Pushes the Big Lie Toward the Brink Date sent: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 22:02:43 -0700 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer4mar04,1,6834172.column Bush Pushes the Big Lie Toward the Brink We have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic manipulation of the American people, since the war in Vietnam, - John Brady Kiesling By Robert Scheer Even some in government can no longer be silent in the face of falsehood. So the truth is out: George W. Bush lied when he claimed to be worried about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Otherwise, Iraq's stepped-up cooperation with the U.N. on disarmament would be stunningly good news, obviating the need to rush to war. Instead, the U.N. weapons inspectors' verification of Iraq's destruction of missiles, private meetings with Iraqi weapons scientists, visits to locations where biological and chemical weapons were destroyed in 1991 and a series of unfettered flights by U2 spy plans have been met with a shrug and sneer in Washington. The White House line is that even if the Iraqis destroy all their slingshots, Goliath is still bringing his tanks and instituting regime change. The arrogance is breathtaking. We have demanded that a country disarm -- and even as it is doing so, we say it doesn't matter: it's too late; we're coming in. Put down your guns and await the slaughter. Abraham Lincoln once observed that even a free people can be fooled for a time -- and this, mind you, was long before Fox News existed -- and in his chaotic two-year presidency, Bush has pushed the Big Lie approach so far that we are seeing dramatic signs of its cracking: an international backlash, a domestic peace movement and whistle-blowing from inside our own intelligence and diplomatic corps. We have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic manipulation of the American people, since the war in Vietnam, wrote John Brady Kiesling, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service in his letter of resignation last week to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Kiesling, who was political counselor in U.S. embassies throughout the Mideast, added that until this administration, it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president, I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer. And this brave man is not the only one who has caught on. The entire world is astonished that our president is lying not about a personal indiscretion but about the most sacred duty of the leader of the most powerful nation in human history not to recklessly endanger the lives of his own or the world's people. Yet lie he has. The first lie, claimed outright, was that Iraq aided and abetted the Sept. 11 terrorists. There is no evidence at all for this claim. It is also interesting to note that not a single leading Al Qaeda operative has turned out to be Iraqi. The latest to be nabbed, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was living in Pakistan, was raised in Kuwait and studied engineering -- and presumably the physics of explosives -- at a college in North Carolina. The second lie was that Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction represent an imminent threat to U.S. security. Despite the most hugely expensive but secret high-tech spy operation in human history -- estimated by most at well over $100 billion a year -- and a vast network of defectors and spies, we have not been able to find their supposed weapons. The third and most dangerous lie is that our mission now is to bring lasting peace to the Mideast by a devastating invasion of Iraq, which will end, as the president outlined last week, in U.S. dominance over the structure of government and politics throughout the region. After abandoning promising efforts by the previous administration to create peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the Bush team now claims that changing Muslim governments around the world will end the downward spiral of violence there. Which leads us to another lie: that this is all good for our ally, Israel -- the claim of the cabal of neoconservative ideologues running our Mideast policy. In fact, however, Israel will be placed in a terribly dangerous position, serving as a fig leaf for U.S. ambitions, further ensuring that it remain forever an isolated military garrison. This construction of a new world order comes from a naive and untraveled president, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Fwd:SNIPER ILLUMINATI MIND CONTROL TRIGGER
-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- SNIPER ILLUMINATI MIND CONTROL TRIGGER DUCK IN A NOOSE www.cuttingedge.org Title: WE HAVE CAUGHT THE SNIPER LIKE A DUCK IN A NOOSE -- ILLUMINATI MIND CONTROL TRIGGER Resources to aid your Understanding Subtitle: This code demonstrates beyond all doubt that this sniper attack was orchestrated by the Illuminati, according to standard, well-known Manchurian Candidate -- MK Ultra -- techniques. The Illuminati wanted all those in the know to realize this was an Illuminati campaign, not the work of Muslim Terrorists. The Illuminati has deliberately shown its hand. Are you listening? The New World Order is coming! Are you ready? Once you understand what this New World Order really is, and how it is being gradually implemented, you will be able to see it progressing in your daily news!! Learn how to protect yourself, your loved ones! Stand by for insights so startling you will never look at the news the same way again. YOU ARE NOW ON THE CUTTING EDGE NEWS BRIEF: Sniper's Message Cites Cherokee Tale: Sniper's Last Message Refers to Cherokee Indian Story About Rabbit Duped by Duck, by The Associated Press, ABC News.com, October 24, 2002. W A S H I N G T O N, Oct. 24 - The last cryptic message from Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose to the Washington-area sniper referred to a Cherokee Indian story about an arrogant rabbit that was duped by the duck he tried to catch. 'You have indicated that you want us to do and say certain things. You've asked us to say, 'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.' We understand that hearing us say this is important to you, Moose said late Wednesday at a televised news briefing, called so authorities could release information on two people sought for questioning in the 13 sniper shootings. We have stated all along that this operation had all the fingerprints of the Illuminati: from the beginning of the sniper spree on Kali's birthday to the Broken Cross being formed on the ground by the first six shots, to the #13 Death Tarot Card, to the Pentagram formed on the ground by the total number of shots, all conclusively pointed to the Masters of the Illuminati as the force and the brilliance behind this sniper spree. However, nothing -- and I repeat nothing -- demonstrates the Illuminati hand behind this shooting spree than the halting, clumsy manner in which Police Chief Moose delivered the final Mind Control message to the shooter that the time had arrived to give himself up. Surely the Illuminati could have found someone to deliver this message via the Media that would understand he was passing the message and give it in a smooth manner that would not seem obvious. When Chief Moose said, You have indicated that you want us to do and say certain things. You've asked us to say ... We understand that hearing us say this is important to you ..., he had given the inside truth away to anyone who understands the Illuminati and their Mind Control. Let us explain. To create a trained assassin, the altars [Mind Control slaves, commonly called 'Deltas'] were desensitized towards pain and death by being shown gory films ... Hypnosis was also used. The potential victims were devalued ... Satanic rituals were also involved in the creation of the Deltas. Deltas will be trained in hand to hand combat, and know the very vulnerable places to instantly kill people ... Training included a great deal of expert weapon's training. When the programmer wants to use these Delta alters, he will call them up from their 'genii bottle' or wherever the signal is hidden deep within the mind. The Delta will be commanded to 'melt'. When they have melted into the nothing state, then the programmer gives an exact script of everything the
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] November 22, 1963
-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- On November 22, 1963 John F Kennedy was assasinated in an open vehicle. This year 2003 will be the 40th Anniversary of this terrible tragedy that rocked America. All the shit started then and its been going downhill every since-- you know why? Because they got away with it. Well maybe its about time the culprits were exposed. Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 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 ---End Message---
[CTRL] On spies and leaks and cabbages and kings.
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: undisclosed-recipients:; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:50:16 EST Subject:!b_a_Act: FYI: On spies and leaks and cabbages and kings. Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The time has come, the Walrus (Bush) said, To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings. --The Walrus (Bush) and the Carpenter( Blair) by Lewis Carroll http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910657,00.html Observer. 9 March 2003. UN launches inquiry into American spying. NEW YORK -- The United Nations has begun a top-level investigation into the bugging of its delegations by the United States, first revealed in The Observer last week. Sources in the office of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan confirmed last night that the spying operation had already been discussed at the UN's counter-terrorism committee and will be further investigated. The news comes as British police confirmed the arrest of a 28-year-old woman working at the top secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act. Last week The Observer published details of a memo sent by Frank Koza, Defence Chief of Staff (Regional Targets) at the US National Security Agency, which monitors international communications. The memo ordered an intelligence 'surge' directed against Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea with 'extra focus on Pakistan UN matters.' The 'dirty tricks' operation was designed to win votes in favour of intervention in Iraq. The Observer reported that the memo was sent to a friendly foreign intelligence agency asking for help in the operation. It has been known for some time that elements within the British security services were unhappy with the Government's use of intelligence information. The leak was described as 'more timely and potentially more important than the Pentagon Papers' by Daniel Ellsberg, the most celebrated whistleblower in recent American history. The revelations of the spying operation have caused deep embarrassment to the Bush administration at a key point in the sensitive diplomatic negotiations to gain support for a second UN resolution authorising intervention in Iraq. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were both challenged about the operation last week, but said they could not comment on security matters. The operation is thought to have been authorised by US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, but American intelligence experts told The Observer that a decision of this kind would also have involved Donald Rumsfeld, CIA director George Tenet and NSA chief General Michael Hayden. President Bush himself would have been informed at one of the daily intelligence briefings held every morning at the White House. Attention has now turned to the foreign intelligence agency responsible for the leak. It is now believed the memo was sent out via Echelon, an international surveillance network set up by the NSA with the cooperation of GCHQ in Britain and similar organisations in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Wayne Madsen, of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre and himself a former NSA intelligence officer, said the leak demonstrated that there was deep unhappiness in the intelligence world over attempts to link Iraq to the terrorist network al-Qaeda. 'My feeling is that this was an authorised leak. I've been hearing for months of people in the US and British intelligence community who are deeply concerned about their governments cooking intelligence to link Iraq to al-Qaeda.' The Observer story caused a political furore in Chile, where President Ricardo Lagos demanded an immediate explanation of the spying operation. The Chilean public is extremely sensitive to reports of US 'dirty tricks' after decades of American secret service involvement in the country's internal affairs. In 1973 the CIA supported a coup that toppled the democratically-elected socialist government of Salvador Allende and installed the dictator General Augusto Pinochet. === Dirty tricks memo: the fallout GCHQ arrest over Observer spying report Martin Bright, home affairs editor Sunday March 9, 2003 The Observer An employee at the top-secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has been arrested following revelations in The Observer last weekend about an American 'dirty tricks' surveillance operation to win votes at the United Nations in favour of a tough new resolution on Iraq. Gloucestershire police confirmed last night that a 28-year-old woman was arrested last week on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets
