Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: Has anyone seen Cheney?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/9/2003 12:19:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. He's still driving. It's just that he had to have time to write up Halliburton's proposal for that contract to rebuild Iraq. 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] (Fwd) [unorganizedmilitia] A border story from the lighter side
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Forwarded third- or fourth-hand: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:40:02 EST Subject: Re: [Knights of the Rose] Fwd: Be Prepared! There was a very intresting event that happened 2 weeks ago. The 8th Texas Cavalry, our reenactment group, was practicing for it's upcoming filming for the history documentary on a ranch on the Texas-Mexico border. On the first day we were joined for morning chow by many Mexican Immigrants, whom we welcomed, and we explained what the old uniforms, tents, horses, and cannon were all about, they all got a kick out of it as did the border patrol boys that came along the long road that follows the Rio Grande. Early the next morning we began firing the cannon battery, which could be heard for miles, we saw no more immigrants crossing the border near our camps that day, we massed the troops at sunset after 5 pm chow, we decided to practice our cavalry charge, preceded by artillary support, and followed by the infantry. We followed our imaginary yankees to the muddy Rio Grande, which is actually about a foot deep at this location, when to our surprize we found about 20 armed men around an 18 wheeler that had become stuck in the muddy river, they saw us coming, charging with sabres drawn and bayonets fixed on our real carbine rifles, in our Confederate uniforms, they dropped their weapons in the river and ran, abandoning the truck, we called the Bordor patrol and the 8th Cavalry had it's first victory in the new century. God Bless !! Maj. John Parnell -- Criminals prefer unarmed victims. Politicians prefer unarmed peasants. I am none of the above. http://members.shootersinet.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End of forwarded message --- -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://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] Bush Pushes the Big Lie Toward the Brink
-Caveat Lector- 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 plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse. Bush insiders Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld are all members of something called the Project for a New American Century that has been pushing for a U.S. redesign of the Mideast since 1997. After Sept. 11, they seized on our national tragedy as a way to enlist George W. in support of their grand design. Not only was this reckless scheme never mentioned by Bush during the
[CTRL] The Blunderers Are In Charge
-Caveat Lector- Why France Is America's True Friend By Eric Margolis Contributing Foreign Editor Toronto Star 3-9-3 http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_mar9.html Outrageous dereliction of duty over Korea, obsessive warmongering against Iraq, crude, aggressive behaviour worthy of Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union, threats against the UN, a $400-billion deficit that will infect the world with inflation, and damage to America's reputation - such are Bush's accomplishments to date. Who needs enemies with world-class blunderers like this in charge? MIAMI -- Watching American TV can be a surreal experience. Sandwiched between ads for instant weight loss products, predigested fast food, and incontinence panties, cable TV commentators bay like rabid dogs for war against Iraq, and subject nations daring to oppose President Bush's crusade to venomous abuse or sneering disdain. France, which speaks with the strongest, most logical voice of those opposing war, has become the special target of vituperation and hatred in America's leading neo-conservative media - Fox TV, the Wall Street Journal, New York Post - and the Bush administration's bete noire. Particularly so, now that France, Germany, and Russia vow to veto U.S. attempts to ram a war-enabling resolution through the UN Security Council. France, many Americans claim, should do whatever Washington orders out of gratitude for the U.S. saving it in two world wars. U.S. television features angry veterans standing in American military cemeteries in Normandy, denouncing France for stabbing America in the back - as if invading Iraq to grab its oil and crushing Israel's enemies had anything to do with World War II. Few flag-waving pundits mention America sat out almost 40% of WWII until attacked by Japan. In 1940, the German armed forces were the equivalent of the U.S. armed forces today - a full military generation ahead of other nations. France's entire army was destroyed in battle by the invincible Germans; had the U.S. fought Germany in 1940, it too would have been routed. The Soviet Union, not the U.S., defeated Germany, destroying over 100 Nazi divisions. So enough with all the bombast about Word War II. In the eyes of Europeans and most of the world, George Bush's administration looks dangerously aggressive, dominated as it is by petrohawks and neo-conservative ideologues linked to Israel's far right. These little Mussolinis have no time for diplomacy or multi- nationalism. No wonder a recent Pew Research poll found that formerly favourable ratings of the U.S. have plummeted in 19 of 27 nations surveyed. It seems at times that President Bush is even more eager to bomb Paris than Baghdad. In fact, the administration has been treating France like an enemy, rather than America's oldest ally and intimate friend. Neo-conservatives even accuse France of anti- Semitism, a disgusting slander. Doing the right thing Far from being an enemy, France has been doing what a true good friend should do: telling Washington its policy is wrong and dangerous, unlike the handkissing leaders of Britain, Spain and Italy, who crave Bush's political support, or the East European coalition of the shilling, ex-communist politicians pandering to Washington for cash. Seventy percent of British, and 90% of Italians and Spaniards oppose Bush's crusade. France's President Jacques Chirac speaks for an overwhelming majority of Europeans and, indeed, the world's people, in urging the U.S. to opt for diplomacy and UN inspections over a war that will not be worth the loss of a single American soldier, not to mention tens of thousands of Iraqis and chaos across Mesopotamia. So, too, warns the great and wise Pope John Paul II. The contrast between France's reasoned diplomatic response and Bush's belligerent behaviour could not be more stark. As is the dignified, logical tone set by President Chirac and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin compared to the bullying, low- brow, locker-room talk issuing from the White House that has seriously damaged America's reputation and image around the globe. Last week Turkey's new parliament, chosen in the first truly democratic election in memory, followed Europe, courageously rejecting Washington's bribes and demands that U.S. ground forces be allowed to attack Iraq from Turkish territory. Washington's churlish response - withdrawing its bribes, threatening punishment - contrasted curiously to Bush's claims his goal in Iraq is bringing democracy to the Mideast. Democracy, its seems, is fine so long as it does U.S. bidding. Inconveniently, Turkey's people and democratic government voted a resounding no to war. How long the Turks can resist intense pressure from the U.S. and its friends, Turkey's hard right generals, remains to be seen. Bush's crusade against Iraq will go on with or without Turkey. The
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Bush Sr warning over unilateral action
-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- Isthis the way out for Jr. jim adams March 10, 2003 Bush Sr warning over unilateral actionFrom Roland Watson in Washington THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity. Drawing on his own experiences before and after the 1991 Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr said that the brief flowering of hope for Arab-Israeli relations a decade ago would never have happened if America had ignored the will of the United Nations. He also urged the President to resist his tendency to bear grudges, advising his son to bridge the rift between the United States, France and Germany. Youve got to reach out to the other person. Youve got to convince them that long-term friendship should trump short-term adversity, he said. The former Presidents comments reflect unease among the Bush family and its entourage at the way that George W. Bush is ignoring international opinion and overriding the institutions that his father sought to uphold. Mr Bush Sr is a former US Ambassador to the UN and comes from a family steeped in multi-lateralist traditions. Although not addressed to his son in person, the message, in a speech at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was unmistakeable. Mr Bush Sr even came close to conceding that opponents of his sons case against President Saddam Hussein, who he himself is on record as loathing, have legitimate cause for concern. He said that the key question of how many weapons of mass destruction Iraq held could be debated. The case against Saddam was less clear than in 1991, when Mr Bush Sr led an international coalition to expel invading Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Objectives were a little fuzzier today, he added. After the Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr steered Israel and its Arab neighbours to the Madrid conference, a stepping stone to the historic Israeli-Palestinian Oslo accords, in much the same way that the present President has talked about the removal of Saddam as opening the way to a wider peace in the region. In an ominous warning for his son, Mr Bush Sr said that he would have been able to achieve nothing if he had jeopardised future relations by ignoring the UN. The Madrid conference would never have happened if the international coalition that fought together in Desert Storm had exceeded the UN mandate and gone on its own into Baghdad after Saddam and his forces. Also drawing on the lessons of 1991, he said that it was imperative to mend fences with allies immediately, rather than waiting until after a war. He had been infuriated with the decision of King Hussein of Jordan to side with Saddam rather than the US, but while criticising the Jordanian leader in public and freezing $41 million in US aid, he also passed word to King Hussein that he understood his domestic tensions. Mr Bush Jr, who is said never to forget even relatively minor slights, has alarmed analysts with the way in which he has allowed senior Administration figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, aggressively to criticise France and Germany. There are, however, signs that Mr Bush Srs message may be getting through. Father and son talk regularly and it was, in part, pressure from Mr Bush Srs foreign policy coterie, that helped to persuade the President to go to the UN last September. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT 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
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] This W is dangerous, man! ...makes Oct. 1962 potentially look like a cake walk.
-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- Hey Dick: This W is dangerous, man! I mean, I knew it was bad, but this makes Oct. 1962 potentially look like a cake walk.Look at the strategic interests Russia and China, not to mention France and Germany, have in Iraq and the region. But no one is even talking about those implications. How would W react if Russia staged Backfire bombers to Turkmenistan and upped its strategic forces (ICBM) alert level, while China decided the time was right to ready an amphibious attack force opposite Taiwan? Would that be "showing their cards"? Please pass the article along. Thanks. I'll be in the SF streets on the 15th. K Of God, and Man, in the Oval Office http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19122-2003Feb28?language=printer By Fritz Ritsch Sunday, March 2, 2003; Page B03 The National Council of Churches (NCC), together with a number of peace organizations, recently ran an ad on CNN and Fox in which a bishop of the United Methodist Church, to which President Bush belongs, criticized the Bush administration's relentless war rhetoric. Going to war with Iraq "violates God's law and the teachings of Jesus Christ," said the bishop. It may confound people that some mainline Protestant churches continue to resist the president's call to arms. After all, it is couched in theological language: The term "axis of evil" was coined to give the war on terrorism a religious edge; President Bush speaks of giving the people of Iraq not democracy, but freedom, harkening back to both the biblical Exodus and the Civil War. "Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war," he assured us after Sept. 11, "and we know that God is not neutral between them." If God is not neutral, and the choices are so straightforward -- almost the literal embodiment of a spiritual battle -- it seems perverse for mainline religious leaders to withhold support for war against Iraq. NCC leaders were frustrated that the president had rebuffed their requests to meet with him to discuss their views. The president apparently believes that he can talk about theology from the bully pulpit without talking to theologians. Which begs the question: When did the president become theologian in chief? The president used the words of a hymn, "There's Power in the Blood," to strengthen the religious rhetoric of his State of the Union speech. He spoke of the "power, wonder-working power," of "the goodness and idealism and faith of the American people." The original words of the hymn refer to the "wonder-working power" of "the precious blood of the lamb" -- Jesus Christ. The unspoken but apparently deliberate parallel between Americans and Jesus is disturbing, to say the least . The implication is that Americans are generous -- like Jesus. And that we are innocent victims -- like the lamb of God. In his February speech to religious broadcasters, Bush again expounded upon America's virtues and implied purity, concluding, "We are a compassionate country, and we are generous toward our fellow citizens. And we are a courageous country, ready when necessary to defend the peace." In both speeches, he used American virtues to segue into the reason that we must confront the "evil" before us. The hymn continues, "Would you over evil a victory win?" The road to that victory is paved with American good intentions, the president suggests. These American virtues will almost supernaturally imbue our military ventures with righteousness -- and with victory. Many parishioners at my small, inside-the-Beltway church, by contrast, do not view themselves or the nation in such a saintly light. American righteousness is by no means a sure thing to them. Nor do they view the
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Akha Journal: Fuel Us Please!
-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- Dear Friends: The killings go on, the list builds, and I am beginning to track down the cases. But my fuel costs are going way up, five to ten times the amount of road work so I need that those WHO UNDERSTAND what this is about and why I am doing it, send an email and pledge a donation for fuel and repairs, as this is a huge area to run over once again rapidly and track down the killings as they happen. As you know I have already filed a report to the UN in my name regarding last years extra judicial killing of Akhas, now we have many more. Matthew McDanielMatthew McDanielThe Akha Heritage FoundationMaesai, Chiangrai, 57130 ThailandDonations by check or money order may be sent to:The Akha Heritage FoundationPO BOX 6073Salem OR 97304 USA Inquire to donate while in ThailandDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT 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: [consortium] Fw: A washingtonpost.com article about Amy Goodman
-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- - Original Message - From: John Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 9:39 PM Subject: A washingtonpost.com article about Amy Goodman Washington has now been notified! Are we ready? To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2307-2003Mar9.html Peace Correspondent By Michael Powell NEW YORK And now for the news: President Bush last night claimed a war in Iraq would set the stage for peace in the Middle East, but he did not set any deadline or detail any specific steps. . . . The Financial Times describes the Bush administration's financial analysis as 'a piece of fiction.' . . . In Australia, 43 legal experts warn that an attack on Iraq is a violation of international law. . . . And the United States asks aid groups in Baghdad for civilian satellite coordinates in Iraq -- pregnant pause here -- Is it to bomb them or save them? This is 'Democracy Now!' says the anchor. The war and peace report. Cue the lilting Bob Marley reggae guitar licks. This is not the news as Brit Hume construes it or Dan Rather intones it. In a Showdown: Iraq, Blix-is-nixed, pack-my-trench-coat-honey testosterone media age, Amy Goodman and her radio show, Democracy Now!, beam in as if from some alternative left galaxy. Broadcasting on the Pacifica Radio network from a book-strewn loft in an old firehouse a half-dozen blocks from Ground Zero, Goodman is a daily polestar for those who crave the antiwar perspective that mainstream networks and newspapers often consign to the margins. War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters, Goodman says after the show. Why not invite on some voices that are not Pentagon-approved? Her 9 a.m. magazine show mixes investigative scoops (a recent report detailed how the Bush administration quashed an FBI investigation into Saudi Arabian funding of terrorist organizations), reports from foreign correspondents, and very few generals. She and her co-host, New York Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez, speak, unabashedly, to those who oppose a war with Iraq, a roomier club than one might imagine from watching cable television news channels. A recent Washington Post-ABC poll found that six in 10 Americans harbor doubts about using force in Iraq, while 40 percent are opposed to any invasion. The audience for Democracy Now! is small but growing, and the show is influential among antiwar activists. More than 120 stations carry it, including WPFW-FM (89.3) in Washington and some public radio affiliates. And in the last two years, it's begun broadcasting on Web TV (via www.democracynow.org) and public access television channels around the world . And starting today the formerly 60-minute show expands by an hour to accommodate more reporting on the war. Its politics can veer toward communion for the progressive choir. But in this age of corporate media conglomeration, when National Public Radio sounds as safe as a glass of warm milk, Democracy Now! retains a jagged and intriguing edge. Goodman is the show's center, a slight 45-year-old in a pullover vest, jeans and sneakers. Her unruly brown hair is streaked with gray. She can break out a playful smile, and punctuate an interview by opening a hatch in her office floor and sliding down a fire pole to the floor below. More often, though, her intensity burns through. In two decades of reporting for Pacifica, she's been beaten bloody by Indonesian soldiers as she charted East Timor's battle for independence. And she's wandered the
[CTRL] Why France is America's True Friend
-Caveat Lector- Seems to be the case in my mind http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_mar9.html Why France is America's true friend By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor MIAMI -- Watching American TV can be a surreal experience. Sandwiched between ads for instant weight loss products, predigested fast food, and incontinence panties, cable TV commentators bay like rabid dogs for war against Iraq, and subject nations daring to oppose President Bush's crusade to venomous abuse or sneering disdain. France, which speaks with the strongest, most logical voice of those opposing war, has become the special target of vituperation and hatred in America's leading neo-conservative media - Fox TV, the Wall Street Journal, New York Post - and the Bush administration's bete noire. Particularly so, now that France, Germany, and Russia vow to veto U.S. attempts to ram a war-enabling resolution through the UN Security Council. France, many Americans claim, should do whatever Washington orders out of gratitude for the U.S. "saving" it in two world wars. U.S. television features angry veterans standing in American military cemeteries in Normandy, denouncing France for "stabbing America in the back" - as if invading Iraq to grab its oil and crushing Israel's enemies had anything to do with World War II. Few flag-waving pundits mention America sat out almost 40% of WWII until attacked by Japan. In 1940, the German armed forces were the equivalent of the U.S. armed forces today - a full military generation ahead of other nations. France's entire army was destroyed in battle by the invincible Germans; had the U.S. fought Germany in 1940, it too would have been routed. The Soviet Union, not the U.S., defeated Germany, destroying over 100 Nazi divisions. So enough with all the bombast about Word War II. In the eyes of Europeans and most of the world, George Bush's administration looks dangerously aggressive, dominated as it is by petrohawks and neo-conservative ideologues linked to Israel's far right. These little Mussolinis have no time for diplomacy or multi-nationalism. No wonder a recent Pew Research poll found that formerly favourable ratings of the U.S. have plummeted in 19 of 27 nations surveyed. It seems at times that President Bush is even more eager to bomb Paris than Baghdad. In fact, the administration has been treating France like an enemy, rather than America's oldest ally and intimate friend. Neo-conservatives even accuse France of anti-Semitism, a disgusting slander. Doing the right thing Far from being an enemy, France has been doing what a true good friend should do: telling Washington its policy is wrong and dangerous, unlike the handkissing leaders of Britain, Spain and Italy, who crave Bush's political support, or the East European coalition of the shilling, ex-communist politicians pandering to Washington for cash. Seventy percent of British, and 90% of Italians and Spaniards oppose Bush's crusade. France's President Jacques Chirac speaks for an overwhelming majority of Europeans and, indeed, the world's people, in urging the U.S. to opt for diplomacy and UN inspections over a war that will not be worth the loss of a single American soldier, not to mention tens of thousands of Iraqis and chaos across Mesopotamia. So, too, warns the great and wise Pope John Paul II. The contrast between France's reasoned diplomatic response and Bush's belligerent behaviour could not be more stark. As is the dignified, logical tone set by President Chirac and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin compared to the bullying, low-brow, locker-room talk issuing from the White House that has seriously damaged America's reputation and image around the globe. Last week Turkey's new parliament, chosen in the first truly democratic election in memory, followed Europe, courageously rejecting Washington's bribes and demands that U.S. ground forces be allowed to attack Iraq from Turkish territory. Washington's churlish response - withdrawing its bribes, threatening punishment - contrasted curiously to Bush's claims his goal in Iraq is bringing democracy to the Mideast. Democracy, its seems, is fine so long as it does U.S. bidding. Inconveniently, Turkey's people and democratic government voted a resounding no to war. How long the Turks can resist intense pressure from the U.S. and its friends, Turkey's hard right generals, remains to be seen. Bush's crusade against Iraq will go on with or without Turkey. The war will be akin to throwing a grenade into a huge hornet's nest. France, which lives next to the Arab world and has 5 million Muslim citizens, warns an invasion and occupation of Iraq will roil the entire region, spark more terrorism, and hit Europe with a dangerous backblast. But Bush couldn't care less, as he would say. While Bush prepares war against demolished Iraq, he is ducking the surging nuclear confrontation with North Korea, which, unlike Iraq, truly threatens North America. Outrageous dereliction of
[CTRL] THE VERY STRANGE BUSH PRESS CONFERENCE
-Caveat Lector- http://www.stratiawire.com/article.asp?id=971 Monday, March 10, 2003 THE VERY STRANGE BUSH PRESS CONFERENCE MARCH 10. Looking pale, nervous, and withdrawn, President Bush stepped to the podium Thursday night. In the first few seconds, he tipped his hand as to the paucity of substance in his remarks. He announced that the recent capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was a major event, because Khalid was, in fact, the mastermind behind 9/11. And yet, this supposed intelligence coup dropped like a lead balloon. Why? Why didnt Bush give the full aggressive trumpets-in-the-air treatment to the arrest? And why hadnt Ashcroft and Rumsfeld and others in the Bush circle already played up the FINAL AND LONG-AWAITED CAPTURE OF THE 9/11 MASTERMIND? Was it because, as I wrote several days ago, Khalid was reported killed last year? The Asia Times thought so. Was this nothing more than another lie, like the fine piece of work the Brits had put together on Iraq---the study that turned out to be largely plagiarized from a graduate students old paper? You would think that the administration would have pumped up Khalids arrest as the most important moment thus far in the war against terrorism. THEY FINALLY GOT THE MAN WHO PLANNED 9/11. But no such thing happened. My impression was that Bush knew he was skating on very thin ice when he announced the Khalid capture. The sub-text was, I dont even want to be saying this in public, so Im going to get it over with as quickly as possible and move on to more familiar territory---Iraq. Quite possibly Bush was also frightened because, well, if the highest operative in the planning of 9/11 had just been arrested, then what significance does the upcoming war against Iraq really have? Something very weird was going on just under the surface of Bushs remarks on Thursday---the pundits who came on afterwards to put their two cents in called his tone somber---as if this explained Bushs withdrawn demeanor. Of course, going a bit deeper, anyone who cares to think about 9/11 knows that this event was never treated as a straightforward crime investigation, as it should have been. The investigation was politicized from the first second, and thence all the PR flowed forward from there. I have yet to hear, for example, how the supposed 19 hijackers were IDed so quickly by the FBI. This is still a complete mystery. Former counsel to the House Committee on Assassinations, Robert K Tanenbaum---a famous lawyer who has never lost a felony case---once remarked that the JFK murder was full of holes and had never been treated as a crime investigation. The charges against Oswald were a mess---a real prosecutor would have had a hell of a time proving his case in a courtroom. But when crime investigations are handled by announcements from the White House, when references are made to shadowy intelligence reports from the CIA, the true state of affairs is buried. Which is one reason why the war on terror wants secret tribunals and arrests of suspects without charges, without defense lawyers, without bail, without judicial scrutiny, without limits on detainment. On Thursday night, Bush was supposed to be the mouthpiece for this secret process, and he was as weak as a churchmouse when he glossed over the Khalid arrest. I believe Bush was briefed before he went to the podium: This arrest isnt rock solid, Mr. President. Just announce it and get it out of the way and move on. The press wont catch on. And they didnt. Even though the obvious question was, Mr. President, if we have finally nabbed the number one planner of 9/11, why arent we seeing fireworks and streamers and balloons? Why arent we getting repetitive announcements of great praise for the FBI and the CIA? JON RAPPOPORT www.stratiawire.com 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:
[CTRL] Yahoo! Search Results for Barbara Bodine
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[CTRL] Camelot in the Shrubs
-Caveat Lector- Camelot and the Bushies: Some Disturbing Parallels http://www.independent.org/tii/news/030307Higgs.html By Robert Higgs* In the mythology that many Americans still cherish, the Kennedy administration was manned by suave, smart, and sophisticated people, from the cleverly articulate and frightfully handsome young president himself, to the razor-sharp advisers such as Harvards McGeorge Bundy and MITs Walt Whitman Rostow, to the steel-trap-rational cabinet officers such as Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, in whose hands electronic computers and systems analysis promised to provide answers to even the most complicated socio-economic and military questions. Not only were these men the best and the brightest, but many of them were young and dashing, too, relishing the company of Green Berets and others engaged in derring-do. No one, to my knowledge, has perceived any substantial similarity between the lords of Camelot and the not-so-suave characters now ruling Washington. With his inability to utter even the simplest English sentence comfortably and correctly, George W. Bush will never be mistaken for JFK redux. Nor do Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld call to mind qualities of analytical geniuspolitical shrewdness and Machiavellian cunning, perhaps, but hardly a trace of the cold, calculating, systems-analysis sort of intelligence for which McNamaras whiz kids were renowned. Whereas Jack Kennedy rested his faith on two millennia of Catholic doctrine and ceremony, George Bush is a relative religious primitive, a Methodist and, he claims, born again. Yet, notwithstanding all the apparent dissimilarities between these two ruling gangs, they display some disturbing similarities as well. These parallels hit me hard recently as I was reading Derek Leebaerts new history of the Cold War, The Fifty-Year Wound (Boston: Little, Brown, 2002). Leebaert brings into sharp relief some hallmarks of the Kennedy administration that have tended to be suppressed or given a falsely positive gloss by the many who have adulated the martyred president and his brief regime. The Kennedy people reeked of recklessness, not just in their personal lives, where it could be kept out of sight or excused, but in their policy making. The youthful and vigorous men who came to power in January [1961], writes Leebaert, saw few limits and acted accordingly (p. 256). Thus, they plowed ahead with the foolhardy, ill-prepared, and ultimately disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. They senselessly pushed the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe in their management of the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedys and his brother Robertsobsession with killing Fidel Castro, an objective that went unrealized despite countless comic-opera CIA plots to do the dirty work, so twisted their judgment that it gave rise to more than a few policy pretzels. Reckless in his dealings with the Cubans and the Soviets, Kennedy was no more level-headed in dealing with the situation in Southeast Asia. Above all, however, the mock-virile president resolved that he must demonstrate toughness. He kept increasing the number of U.S. troops in South Vietnamfrom 692 when he took office to nearly 17,000 at the time of his death. By that time, too, more ominously, some one million U.S. troops had been stationed at more than two hundred foreign bases scattered around the globe. The quintessential Cold Warrior and a frightening risk taker (p. 260), Kennedy suffered no shortage of adrenaline, violence, or noble intentions (p. 258). Not surprisingly, therefore, he failed to keep the military on a short civilian leash at a time when nut-case generals cut from the molds of Curtis LeMay, Thomas Power, and Lyman Lemnitzer were running the show. The Pentagon was taking dangerous operational shortcuts, Leebaert writes, such as putting thousands of [nuclear] weapons on hair-trigger alert, and men outside the legal chain of presidential succession would have been able to decide to launch them (p. 317). It is worthwhile to recall that the classic Cold War film, Dr. Strangelove, depicts conditions as they existed during the Kennedy administration (though in the film President Merkin Muffley, oddly enough, bears a close resemblance to Adlai Stevenson). The Kennedy administrations leaders displayed, in Leebaerts phrase, an astonishing militancy (p. 256). Yet, despite their high-toned educations and their polished social graces, they generally had only the foggiest idea what they were doingthey epitomized what the sociologist C. Wright Mills called crackpot realists. Hence, misjudgment became inescapable as emergency moved further into a dramatizable, institutionally underwritten way of life (p. 257). From the bloody fiasco of the Bay of Pigs at the outset, to the near- doomsday disaster of the missile crisis, to the heedless plunge into the quicksand of Vietnam, these best and brightest people whom the opportunities offered by the modern state tempt into an eternal trifling with
[CTRL] Fwd: [consortium] Maltese Double Cross
-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- I think most of you will agree that past 'terrorist' events like OKC and Lockerbiw provide a useful research template for understanding 9-11 etc. This is a book review article that I hope you find useful. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/media/lockrbie.htm Taking the Blame by Paul Foot ?ondon Review of Books, January 6, 1994 Taking the Blame A review of: Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie?nside the DIA by Donald Goddard with Lester Coleman. Bloomsbury, 325 pp., 99, 27 September 1993, 0 7475 1562 X The Media and Disasters: Pan-Am 103 by Joan Deppa with Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke. Fulton, 346 pp., 99, 28 October 1993, 1 85346 225X The American investigative columnist Jack Anderson has had some scoops in his time but none more significant than his revelation - in January 1990?hat in mid-March 1989, three months after Lockerbie, George Bush rang Margaret Thatcher to warn her to 'cool it' on the subject. On what seems to have been the very same day, perhaps a few hours earlier, Thatcher's Secretary of State for Transport, Paul Channon, was the guest of five prominent political correspondents at a lunch at the Garrick Club. It was agreed that anything said at the lunch was 'on strict lobby terms'?hat is, for the journalists only, not their readers. Channon then announced that the Dumfries and Galloway Police?he smallest police force in Britain- had concluded a brilliant criminal investigation into the Lockerbie crash. They had found who was responsible and arrests were expected before long. The Minister could not conceal his delight at the speed and efficiency of the PC McPlods from Dumfries, and was unstinting in his praise of the European intelligence. So sensational was the revelation that at least one of the five journalists broke ranks; and the news that the Lockerbie villains would soon be behind bars in Scotland was divulged to the public. Channon, still playing the lobby game, promptly denied that he was the source of the story. Denounced by the Daily Mirror's front page as a 'liar', he did not sue or complain. A few months later he was quietly sacked. Thatcher, of course, could not blame her loyal minister for his indiscretion, which coincided so unluckily with her instructions from the White House. Channon had been right, however, about the confidence of the Dumfries and Galloway Police. They did reckon they knew who had done the bombing. Indeed, they had discovered almost at once that a terrorist bombing of an American airliner, probably owned by PanAm, had been widely signaled and even expected by the authorities in different European countries. The point was, as German police and intelligence rather shamefacedly admitted, that a gang of suspected terrorists had been rumbled in Germany in the months before the bombing. They were members of a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, led by Ahmed Jibril. The aim of the gang was to bomb an American airliner in revenge for the shooting down by an American warship of an Iranian civil airliner in the Gulf earlier in the year. On 26 October 1988, less than two months before the bombing, two of the suspects?afez Dalkomini and Marwan Abdel Khreesat?ere arrested in their car outside a flat at Neuss near Frankfurt. In the car was a bomb, moulded into the workings of a black Toshiba cassette recorder. In the ensuing weeks other raids were carried out on alleged terrorist hideaways in Germany, and 16 suspects arrested. One of them was Mohammad Abu Talb, another member of the PFLP, who was almost instantly
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-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:51:27 -0700 From: Media Research Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Untitled ***Media Research Center CyberAlert*** 11:50am EST, Monday March 10, 2003 (Vol. Eight; No. 45) The 1,452nd CyberAlert. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996 Jennings Argues to Powell that Inspections are Working NBC's Typical Iraqi: America is a Terrorist Country GMA Duo Marvel: Iraqis Love Hussein Who Earned 100% Vote Iraq Distracting from War on Terror? No Says 9-11 Victim Totenberg Calls Iraq Buying U.S. Uniforms Disinformation CBS Skips Over Poll Showing Backing of Military Action on Iraq Jane Hall Scolds MRC for Demonizing Those Against War Hume: Thomas is Nutty Aunt in the Attic of the Press Corps NBC's Matt Lauer Says Now is Time to Raise Taxes Distributed to more than 11,900 recipients by the Media Research Center, bringing political balance to the news media since 1987. The MRC is the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias. Visit the MRC on the Web: http://www.mediaresearch.org. CyberAlerts from this year are at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/welcome.asp For 2002: http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/archive02.asp Subscribe/unsubscribe information, as well as a link to the MRC donations page, are at the end of this message. When posted, this CyberAlert will be readable at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030310.asp 1) ABC's Peter Jennings pounded away at Secretary of State Colin Powell from the left in an interview aired on Friday's World News Tonight, pressing him repeatedly about giving the inspectors more time. Jennings declared: So many people don't understand why you shouldn't let the inspections continue if they are accomplishing anything. Jennings also argued: Most people think they're doing a reasonably effective job at the moment. 2) From behind enemy lines in Baghdad, as if Iraqi public opinion is informed or is accurately expressed to a camera, on Friday's NBC Nightly News Ron Allen relayed how many Iraqis believe whatever they do, the United States will find a reason for war. At a Baghdad cafe Allen highlighted a man who charged: America is a terrorist country. 3) ABC's Diane Sawyer and Dan Harris marveled Friday morning over the love Iraqis have for Saddam Hussein. Sawyer brought up how Hussein says the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years as President. From Baghdad, Dan Harris relayed Hussein's claim that he is restoring Iraq to its greatness, its historical greatness. He points out frequently that he was elected with a hundred percent margin recently. 4) Not the answer she wanted. On Friday's Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer asked the mother of a 9-11 victim if she worries that war with Iraq will distract from a concerted, concentrated approach to the war on terror with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda?, the woman replied: I think that President Bush's focus on Iraq is consistent with his focus on the war on terror. 5) NPR's Nina Totenberg dismissed as our own disinformation, it just doesn't seem to be worth the time and effort, the story that the Saddam Hussein regime is obtaining U.S. military uniforms so his operatives can wear them while committing atrocities against Iraqi civilians. Totenberg insisted on Inside Washington over the weekend that it's much more likely Iraq just wants to confuse us than they would kill their own people. 6) CBS's Bill Plante maintained on Thursday night that the nation remains almost equally divided on whether the administration has made the case for war and a solid majority of Americans...still thinks the President should get UN approval before taking military action. But that very same CBS News poll discovered respondents favored taking military action to remove Saddam Hussein by 69 to 26 percent. Plus, it found significant reductions from the previous week in the percentage of people who think the U.S. should wait for UN approval or take allies' views into account, and hikes in the percentage who want the U.S. to take action without UN approval or do whatever it thinks is right. 7) Former Los Angeles Times Washington reporter Jane Hall, who insisted on Saturday's Fox Newswatch that the media are in no way liberal, chided the Media Research Center for fueling a very unfortunate climate that has built up in which people have been
[CTRL] The presidential press conference
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org http://wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/bush-m08_prn.shtml WSWS : News Analysis : Middle East : Iraq The presidential press conference By David North 8 March 2003 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author According to an old adage, even lies should make some sense. This is a rule that the president of the United Statesfor reasons that are principally political but also partly neurologicalis unable to observe. The political aims of the Bush administration require such a blatant and continuous falsification of reality that all connection is lost between what the president says and what masses of people generally perceive. The lies of the administration necessarily assume, therefore, a grotesque in your face character. Matters are not helped by the fact that the president lacks the mental capacity, let alone the intellectual discipline, to construct a logical argument. Yet, no matter how absurd and illogical his statements, the people are expected to accept, without thought or reflection, whatever the president says. That is, they are expected to behave like the personnel of the mass media. In the hours leading up to the presidents press conference of Thursday night, the media predicted that Bush would use the occasion to explain to the American people why the invasion of Iraq is necessary and unavoidable. What he actually provided was a monotonous litany of obvious lies and non sequiturs. Speaking before a small and vetted audience of media hacks, who understood that they were not to question, even indirectly, the legitimacy of the administrations drive to war, Bush intoned the standard mindless slogans, revolving endlessly around the same apocalyptic theme: the imminent threat posed by the devil incarnate, Saddam Hussein, and his Weapons of Mass Destruction. The United States, the president said, is confronting the threat posed to our nation and to peace by Saddam Hussein and his weapons of terror. The noted American historian Richard Hofstadter several decades ago wrote an interesting study of the role of paranoia in American politics. Were he still alive, he might have updated his book with an entire chapter on the current presidents fixation with Saddam Hussein. As one listened to Bush dwell obsessively on the Baghdad bad man, it was difficult to avoid the impression that within the precincts of Dubyas oddly immature imagination, the Iraqi president has assumed the form of the bogeyman. Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction are a direct threat to this country I will not leave the American people at the mercy of the Iraqi dictator and his weapons Saddam Hussein is a threat to our nation It used to be that we could think that you could contain a person like Saddam Hussein, that oceans would protect us from his type of terror I believe Saddam Hussein is a threat to the American people Hes a murderer Hes a master of deception the American people know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction Whenever Bush attempted to wander beyond these programmed phrases, he ran into trouble. He made statements that were blatantly false, and were clearly and directly contradicted a little more than 12 hours later by the leaders of the United Nations inspections program, Dr. Hans Blix and Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei. Bush declared in his opening statement: Iraqi operatives continue to hide biological and chemical agents to avoid detection by inspectors. In some cases, these materials have been moved to different locations every 12 to 24 hours or placed in vehicles that are in residential neighborhoods. This claim, which simply repeats allegations made by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his disastrous presentation to the United Nations last month, was again refuted by Blix in his Friday report to the Security Council. As I noted on 14 February, Blix stated, intelligence authorities have claimed that weapons of mass destruction are moved around Iraq by trucks and, in particular, that there are mobile production units for biological weapons. The Iraqi side states that such activities do not exist. Several inspections have taken place at declared and undeclared sites in relation to mobile production facilities. Food and mobile workshops have been seen, as well as large containers with seed processing equipment. No evidence of proscribed activities has so far been found (emphasis added). Bush also declared, We know from multiple intelligence sources that Iraqi weapons scientists continue to be threatened with harm should they cooperate with UN inspectors. This claim was also challenged by Blix the following morning. In the last month, he stated, Iraq has provided us with the names of many persons who may be relevant sources of information, in particular, persons who took part in various phases of the unilateral destruction of biological and chemical weapons and proscribed missiles in 1991. While
[CTRL] Austerity: Add layers of bureaucracy
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org http://wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/isra-m10_prn.shtml WSWS : News Analysis : Middle East Israel: Netanyahu to impose austerity policies By David Cohen 10 March 2003 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author The newly appointed Israeli finance minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is going to deal with the most serious slump in the countrys economy ever by imposing draconian cuts and other austerity measures. Netanyahu is Prime Minister Ariel Sharons main rival in the Likud party and was Israels prime minister during the years 1996-1999. He joined Sharons government as its foreign minister after Labours Shimon Peres left the office following the breakdown of the Likud-Labour coalition. He has now been appointed by Sharon to carry through the most unpopular programme of economic measures in Israels troubled history. The daily financial newspaper Globes reported, Netanyahu plans to submit a new economic plan as part of a package deal. The plan will centre on a massive sale of government companies through the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and capital market... The plan calls for the privatisation of all government infrastructure companies to the public through the TASE within three years, by 2005. Globes added, The plan also includes a comprehensive pension and capital market reform. Netanyahu wants to see institutional investorsinsurance companies and pension funds become more active in the capital market and buy the shares of the government companies floated on the market. It concluded, Other companies that will be offered for sale on the TASE are, Israel Aircraft Industry, Israel Electric Corporation (IEC), and Mekorot National Water Company, the last probably in 2004. IEC will probably be floated in the second half of 2003, after the company carries out structural changes. Netanyahu leads the most right-wing nationalist camp in Likud and has previously criticised Sharon for not carrying through economic restructuring with sufficient vigour. He intends to remedy this situation through collaboration with the Zionist labour federation, Histadrut, in order to stifle resistance in the working class. Netanyahu said he aims to create a cross-class- collaboration economic policy involving the government, Histadrut and the Coordinating Bureau of Economic Organisations, which represents private-sector employers. Haaretz daily newspaper reports that Netanyahu has already introduced one innovation, a minister without portfolio, Meir Sheetrit, in the finance ministry. Netanyahu said the extra minister is essential because of the sheer scope of the tasks the ministry is coping with. Sheetrit was appointed deputy speaker of the Knesset in 1996, chairman of the Likud coalition in July 1997, and served as finance minister from February to June 1999. Whilst championing vaguely populist measures, such as an amended public housing law that enables tenants of public housing to purchase their apartments at reduced prices, he is a firm supporter of Netanyahus hardline free market economic policies. After his nomination Netanyahu and Sheetrit held their first meeting with the treasurys senior staff, at which each department head presented the issues to be worked on. Netanyahu also met with Histadrut Chairman Amir Peretz and the head of the Coordinating Bureau of Economic Organisations, Oded Tyrah. He is expected to hold additional meetings with both men in the coming days. Peretz, a demagogue and self-promoter, was responsible for the famous compromise with Israels Hapoalim Bank when the Histadrut convinced the banks owner, the millionaire Sheri Arison, to reduce the number of fired workers from 900 to 798. Peretz told Netanyahu that the Histadrut will oppose any layoffs in the near future and proposed that the economys problems be solved by levying a NIS 10 billion ($US2.06 billion) compulsory loan on taxpayers and using the money to create jobsthus making working people pay for the financial crisis by another route. The previous government did nothing to spur growth; it merely cut the budget and kept the deficit under control, charged Peretz. The government deficit for February reached NIS 2.8 billion, NIS 300 million higher than predicted. Januarys deficit stood at NIS 2.66 billion, according to data released by the Finance Ministry. At the same time, the governments February revenue from taxes decreased by nine percent to NIS 11.5 billion, compared to the same month last year. Copyright 1998-2003 World Socialist Web Site All rights reserved 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
[CTRL] The inevitability of War in Iraq
-Caveat Lector- 10 Mar 03 War in Iraq - logical, perhaps inevitable, but senseless and ultimately pointless. President George W. Bush says regime change in Iraq is necessary for the war on terrorism - and that is probably true. In the first days after 9/11 he gave some clues. He said something about going after those who finance, train and/or harbor terrorists. At the top of this list would be Saudi Arabia, but for good reason he did not name names. Then there was the statement either you are with us or you are against us. That sounds stupid unless you suspect it may be directed at the Saudi ruling royal family, which knows where the terrorist funding is coming from - their country. So why not attack Saudi Arabia and not Iraq? Because we need their oil to maintain our economy and military might - unless and until we have a source of oil to replace it should they retaliate by cutting off our supply. That is where Iraq comes in - the USA needs that oil to flow west BEFORE it can go after the terrorists and their funding in Saudi Arabia. Secondarily, that oil must flow west in order to prevent it from flowing east - into China, primarily, and probably Russia as well. Add the fact that France is Iraq's biggest economic partner, and the upcoming UN vote is pretty easy to figure out. Colin Powell now says he thinks he has a majority of the 15 security council members on his side. Unfortunately, of the five permanent members with veto power, the USA and UK will vote for him but France, China and Russia will say nyet. So if the resolution passes, France will probably exercise its veto power, which means Russia and China won't have to use theirs. Whereupon Bush will proceed with regime change nonetheless for the above reasons, coalition or no coalition, not because he must, but because he can. Although this scenario makes some sense, one possible alternative might be to cut US defense spending by a third and use the $135 billion per year to develop alternative energy sources. However, since death, destruction and mayhem produce much higher corporate profits than peace and prosperity, this probably will occur only when no other alternative is possible. And since that day must come, energy independence is the only goal ultimately worth debating. Which may cause one to conclude: oil dependence and oil profits make cents, not sense. The only thing more certain than war in Iraq is one day all the oil will be gone, and war cannot change that. 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] Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation
-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- Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation By Mary Louise February 3, 2003 The CIA's secret activities, covert missions, and connections of control are all done under the pretense and protection of national security with no accountability whatsoever, at least in their minds. Considering the public is held accountable for everything we think, say, and do there is something seriously wrong with this picture. The CIA is the President's secret army, who have been and continue to be conveniently above the law with unlimited power and authority, to conduct a reign of terror around the globe. The old boy network of socializing, talking shop, and tapping each other for favors outside the halls of government made it inevitable that the CIA and Corporate America would become allies, thus the systematic infiltration and takeover of the media. Under the guise of 'American' objectives and lack of congressional oversight, the CIA accomplish their exploits by using every trick in the book (and they know quite a few) that they actually teach in the notorious School of the Americas, nicknamed the School of Dictators and School of Assassins by critics. The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that 6 million people had died by 1987 as a result of CIA covert operations, called an American Holocaust by former State Department official William Blum. In 1948, the CIA recreated its covert action wing called the Office of Policy Coordination with Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner as its first director. Another early elitist who served as Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961 was Allen Dulles, a senior partner at the Wall Street firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented the Rockefeller empire and other trusts, corporations, and cartels. Starting in the early days of the Cold War (late 40's), the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide. Media assets will eventually include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go- betweens. The CIA had infiltrated the nation's businesses, media, and universities with tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's. CIA Director Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale with figures like George Herbert Walker Bush from the Skull and Crossbones Society. Many Americans still insist or persist in believing that we have a free press, while getting most of their news from state-controlled television, under the misconception that reporters are meant to serve the public. Reporters are paid employees and serve the media owners, who usually cower when challenged by advertisers or major government figures. Robert Parry reported the first breaking stories about Iran-Contra for Associated Press that were largely ignored by the press and congress, then moving to Newsweek he witnessed a retraction of a true story for political reasons. In 'Fooling America: A Talk by
[CTRL] Top Ten #102
-Caveat Lector- http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/03/102.html The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (No. 102) March 10, 2003 The We Want A Letter From Dick Cheney Too Edition Attention Dick Cheney's lawyers: This week the Top Ten Conservative Idiots features some first-rate lowbrow humor at the expense of your boss and his wife, and we're really hoping to receive one of those cool letters like you sent to that other website. (Send us an email if you need our mailing address.) To everyone out there who isn't a lawyer for Dick Cheney, we've got even more conservative idiot fun... George W. Bush (2) held a press conference but didn't actually answer any questions. MSNBC (4) is packing its TV schedule with right- wing extremists. Regent University (5) is building a bridge to the fourteenth century. And Colin Powell (10) took a break from warmongering for a little anti-gay fearmongering. Enjoy, and don't forget the key! Dick Cheney Looks like Vice President Crashcart can't take a joke. After discovering a parody about his wife Lynne at whitehouse.org, Dick had his lawyers fire off a letter to the site's owner, John Wooden, to inform him that Lynne V. Cheney's name and pictures - altered to show her with a red clown's nose and a missing tooth - could not be used to make money without her consent, according to the Associated Press. Yes, it seems that John Ashcroft's shredding of the Constitution has gone to Dick's head. Fortunately the New York Civil Liberties Union sprang into action and insisted that despite Big Time's delusions, the First Amendment does still exist and therefore he should probably just leave the whole thing alone. Kinda makes you wonder whether Dick's got anything better to do in his spare time - although to be fair he was probably just looking for that porn site whitehouse.COM and got confused. Note to Dick's lawyers: we would like to make clear that Democratic Underground is in no way suggesting that the vice president of the United States is viciously spanking the monkey in his undisclosed location. And if he is, then it's between him and Jesus. Clarification to the note: we of course mean that the MORAL DILEMMA of vicious monkey spanking is between him and Jesus, not the ACTUAL ACT of vicious monkey spanking - if there is indeed any vicious monkey spanking going on at all. And we're not saying there is. George W. Bush Anyone tuning into Our Great Leader's press conference last Thursday night may be forgiven for thinking that they were watching a rerun. Bush offered no new insights into or evidence for war with Iraq, instead he simply kept repeating Saddam is evil. Iraq must disarm. Smoke them out. like some kind of bizarre slightly-worn mechanical parrot. Uh, yeah George, we got that. How about answering questions like this one from Bloomberg News reporter Dick Keil: If all of these nations, all of them our normal allies, have access to the same intelligence information, why is it that they are reluctant to think that the threat is real...? George's answer, naturally, was to explain how Saddam is evil, that Iraq must disarm, and that we would indeed smoke them out. Since decorum states that it is not proper for reporters to stand up at prime time presidential press conferences and scream Oh my God! Just answer the frickin' questions already! Do you HAVE a brain? Dubya was once again given a free pass. Not that it couldn't have been made more difficult for him - but White House communications director Dan Bartlett explained to the Washington Post the next day how Bush's political propaganda works: In this case, we know what the questions are going to be, and those are the ones we want to answer. So basically the whole thing was a completely pointless charade. Hey - a bit like Bush's presidency! Crossgates Mall Surely everyone's heard about this story by now - a 61-year-old man named Stephen Downs was arrested at Crossgates Mall in Guilderland NY last week for wearing a T-shirt which read Give peace a chance. Downs was approached by security guards and asked to remove the shirt or leave the mall. He refused, and was arrested for trespassing. Days later, 100 anti-war protesters marched through the mall in support of Downs, and now the mall would like to drop the charges. But the question is, why on earth would they have such a policy in the first place? Tim Kelley, director of operations for the company which owns the mall, said in a statement that Downs' behavior and clothing was disruptive to other shoppers, according to the Associated Press. Mr. Kelley has clearly been worked up into an anti-peace frenzy by the Limbaughs, Hannitys and O'Reillys, because how anyone could suggest that Mr. Downs' T-shirt could be disruptive to other shoppers is entirely beyond us. So congratulations right-wing hate-radio dudes - you've successfully managed to vilify the concept of peace itself. Hope you're proud of yourselves. MSNBC Speaking of right-wing hate-radio dudes, what the hell is MSNBC
[CTRL] Special Relationship
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23505 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY The Curse of the Special Relationship Neil Berry, Special to Arab News Published on 10 March 2003 LONDON, 10 March 2003 The notion that Britain enjoys a special relationship with the United States has long been a preoccupation of the British political class. One of the relationships greatest champions was Margaret Thatcher, Britains prime minister from 1979 until 1990. Besotted by the American way of life, this pugnaciously anti-European British leader did her utmost to turn Britain into a mini-United States, a country with a dynamic American- style enterprise culture. And in the name of the special relationship, she was proud to offer the then American President Ronald Reagan whatever British assistance he required. When, in the mid-1980s, Reagan resolved to bomb Libya, she had no hesitation in allowing US bombers to fly from Britain. In Mrs. Thatchers eyes, Britain and America were the twin pillars of Western civilization, nations with identical interests and ideals. It seemed barely conceivable that Britain would ever again have a leader quite so fixated on the special relationship as Mrs. Thatcher. But Tony Blair has achieved the apparently impossible: Endlessly advertising his allegiance to Washington, forever insisting on how much the Anglo- American relationship has benefited mankind, Blair makes his predecessors pro- Americanism seem comparatively sober stuff. Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, he has wasted no opportunity to proclaim himself Americas firmest friend. Not long ago (and to general amazement), he declared that Britain must be prepared to pay a blood sacrifice as a token of its loyalty to the US. And since George W. Bush threatened to attack Iraq, Blair has promoted the American case for war with at least as much zeal as Bush himself. Evidently thinking of herself as Winston Churchill and of Ronald Reagan as US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher often seemed to be re-enacting World War II: Just as they had joined forces to overcome Adolf Hitler, so (in her own mind at least) she and Reagan were bent on vanquishing what the latter dubbed the empire of evil, the Soviet Union not to mention such demonic new enemies of freedom as Col. Qaddafi. More than twenty years younger than Mrs. Thatcher, Tony Blair is likewise obsessed with World War II. He is given to reminding his fellow Britons how the United States came to Britains aid when Hitlers Lutwaffe bombed British cities during the Blitz of 1940 though in point of historical fact the United States had still to abandon its neutrality at that point. In an extraordinary gesture of Anglo-American solidarity, this most obliging of prime ministers has even lent George Bush a bust of Churchill to place on his presidential desk. Pondering his endless eagerness to please the present American administration, the British writer Geoffrey Wheatcroft waspishly suggested that Tony Blairs watchword is not my country right or wrong but your country right or wrong. It seems increasingly clear that the British political class never really came to terms with Britains diminished role on the world stage. Arguably, the British cult of the special relationship (a relationship which means little, if anything at all, to the majority of Americans) has been rooted in national self-delusion, in the wishful sense that by identifying its destiny with that of the United States, Britain could sustain its former posture as a major force in world affairs. If Britain has not infrequently appeared a reluctant member of the European Union, it is surely because integration with the rest of Europe is felt by many Britons to amount to the shaming admission that their country no longer has a grand imperial role to play. Forty years ago, the American statesman Dean Acheson remarked that Britain had lost an empire without finding a compensatory new role. Loath to acknowledge the truth of this, many among the British political elite were incensed by Achesons comment. In reality, however, Britain was already in the throes of embracing a fresh raison dtre as the closest, least critical, most trustworthy of all the United States allies. Now, in Tony Blair, this long-standing British subservience to the US has found its definitive personification. During the present crisis, the official line has been that Blair regards himself as a bridge between Europe and America, a restraining cisatlantic influence on Washingtons impetuosity. Yet this is hardly how the rest of the world views him. Indeed, the more he has maintained that he is acting out of profound personal conviction, the more Blair has consolidated his worldwide reputation as Washingtons favorite yes-man. At home, Blairs problem is that his fervor in the US cause is straining the allegiance of many Labour MPs to breaking point. Nor is this just Blairs problem, though. For bereft of major allies as
[CTRL] Liberating the Mideast: Why Do We Never Learn?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23504 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY Liberating the Mideast: Why Do We Never Learn? Robert Fisk, The Independent Published on 10 March 2003 On March 8, 1917, Lt. Gen. Stanley Maude issued a Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad. Maudes Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigres had invaded and occupied Iraq after storming up the country from Basra to free its people from their dictators. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators, the British announced. People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions. This policy is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies for there can be neither peace nor prosperity where there is enmity or misgovernment. Gen. Maude, of course, was the Gen. Tommy Franks of his day, and his proclamation so rich in irony now that President George Bush is uttering equally mendacious sentiments was intended to persuade Iraqis that they should accept foreign occupation while Britain secured the countrys oil. Gen. Maudes chief political officer, Sir Percy Cox, called on Iraqs Arab leaders, who were not identified, to participate in the government in collaboration with the British authorities and spoke of liberation, freedom, past glories, future greatness and here the ironies come in spades it expressed the hope that the people of Iraq would find unity. The British commander cabled to London that local conditions do not permit of employing in responsible positions any but British officers competent... to deal with people of the country. Before any truly Arab facade (sic) can be applied to edifice, it seems essential that foundation of law and order should be well and truly laid. As David Fromkin noted in his magisterial A Peace to End all Peace essential reading for Americas future army of occupation the antipathy of the Sunni minority and the Shiite majority of Iraq, the rivalries of tribes and clans made it difficult to achieve a single unified government that was at the same time representative, effective and widely supported. Whitehall failed, as Fromkin caustically notes, to think through in practical detail how to fulfill the promises gratuitously made to a section of the local inhabitants. There was even a problem with the Kurds, since the British could not make up their mind as to whether they should be absorbed into the new state of Iraq or allowed to form an independent Kurdistan. The French were originally to have been awarded Mosul in northern Iraq but gave up their claim in return for again, ironies a major share in the new Turkish Petroleum Company, confiscated by the British and recreated as the Iraq Petroleum Company. How many times has the West marched into the Middle East in so brazen a fashion? Gen. Sir Edward Allenby liberated Palestine only a few months after Gen. Maude liberated Iraq. The French turned up to liberate Lebanon and Syria a couple of years later, slaughtering the Syrian forces loyal to King Faisal who dared to suggest that French occupation was not the future they wanted. What is it, I sometimes wonder, about our constant failure to learn the lessons of history, to repeat almost word for word in the case of Gen. Maudes proclamation the same gratuitous promises and lies? A copy of Gen. Maudes original proclamation went under the hammer at a British auction at Swindon last week, but Ill wager more than the 1,400 pounds sterling it made that Americas forthcoming proclamation to the liberated people of Iraq reads almost exactly the same. Take a look at Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations on which Bush claims to be such an expert that allowed the British and French to divide those territories they had just liberated from Ottoman dictators. To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the states which formerly governed them, and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves... there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization... the best method is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who, by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position, can best undertake this responsibility... What is it about liberation in the Middle East? What is this sacred trust a ghost of the same trusteeship the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, now promotes for Iraqs oil that the West constantly wishes to visit upon the Middle East? Why do we so frequently want to govern these peoples, these tribes with flags as Sir Steven Runciman, that great historian of the 11th- and 12th-century Crusades, once called them? Indeed, Pope Urbans
[CTRL] Urgent Diplomacy Fails to Gain U.S. 9 Votes in the U.N.
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[CTRL] Bush Sr warning over unilateral action
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: united stands america [EMAIL PROTECTED], CIA-DRUGS [EMAIL PROTECTED], africadaily3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lic. Jim adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:35:24 -0800 (PST) Subject:[CIA-DRUGS] Bush Sr warning over unilateral action Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this the way out for Jr. jim adams March 10, 2003 Bush Sr warning over unilateral action From Roland Watson in Washington THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity. Drawing on his own experiences before and after the 1991 Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr said that the brief flowering of hope for Arab-Israeli relations a decade ago would never have happened if America had ignored the will of the United Nations. He also urged the President to resist his tendency to bear grudges, advising his son to bridge the rift between the United States, France and Germany. Youve got to reach out to the other person. Youve got to convince them that long-term friendship should trump short-term adversity, he said. The former Presidents comments reflect unease among the Bush family and its entourage at the way that George W. Bush is ignoring international opinion and overriding the institutions that his father sought to uphold. Mr Bush Sr is a former US Ambassador to the UN and comes from a family steeped in multi-lateralist traditions. Although not addressed to his son in person, the message, in a speech at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was unmistakeable. Mr Bush Sr even came close to conceding that opponents of his sons case against President Saddam Hussein, who he himself is on record as loathing, have legitimate cause for concern. He said that the key question of how many weapons of mass destruction Iraq held could be debated. The case against Saddam was less clear than in 1991, when Mr Bush Sr led an international coalition to expel invading Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Objectives were a little fuzzier today, he added. After the Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr steered Israel and its Arab neighbours to the Madrid conference, a stepping stone to the historic Israeli-Palestinian Oslo accords, in much the same way that the present President has talked about the removal of Saddam as opening the way to a wider peace in the region. In an ominous warning for his son, Mr Bush Sr said that he would have been able to achieve nothing if he had jeopardised future relations by ignoring the UN. The Madrid conference would never have happened if the international coalition that fought together in Desert Storm had exceeded the UN mandate and gone on its own into Baghdad after Saddam and his forces. Also drawing on the lessons of 1991, he said that it was imperative to mend fences with allies immediately, rather than waiting until after a war. He had been infuriated with the decision of King Hussein of Jordan to side with Saddam rather than the US, but while criticising the Jordanian leader in public and freezing $41 million in US aid, he also passed word to King Hussein that he understood his domestic tensions. Mr Bush Jr, who is said never to forget even relatively minor slights, has alarmed analysts with the way in which he has allowed senior Administration figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, aggressively to criticise France and Germany. There are, however, signs that Mr Bush Srs message may be getting through. Father and son talk regularly and it was, in part, pressure from Mr Bush Srs foreign policy coterie, that helped to persuade the President to go to the UN last September. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more --- End of forwarded message --- If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always,
[CTRL] How the U.S. Kills It's Own Soldiers
-Caveat Lector- From: John Draper To: Dr Clark-egroup Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 Subject: [DrClark] fw: THE WAR AGAINST OURSELVES NOTE: This is one of the most shocking subjects the controlled media won't touch, how 30% of the 1st Gulf War vets are dead or dying from depleted uranium from OUR shells, and in one State where studies were made, almost a third of babies being born to Gulf War vets have serious disfiguring mutations and health problems. This stuff makes Agent Orange seem rather benign in comparison. The only way it makes any sense, like the chemtrails across America, is to weaken us, our resistance to invasion here in the U.S., as is planned by the Sino-Soviet alliance, following the Iraq attack and retaliation with nukes and biologicals across America. God forbid that this prophetic 3rd Great Peril vision of George Washington comes to pass (at www.heartcom.org/3rdperil.htm ) but you can't say we haven't been warned! -CR from: http://www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm THE WAR AGAINST OURSELVES An Interview with Major Doug Rokke Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, traveling the country to speak out. The following interview was conducted by the director of the Traprock Peace Center, Sunny Miller, supplemented with questions from YES! editors. (EXCERPT FROM DR. ROKKE'S INTERVIEW: We also bombarded Vieques, Puerto Rico, with DU in preparation for the war in Kosovo. That's affecting American citizens on American territory. When I tried to activate our team from the Department of Defense responsible for radiological safety and DU cleanup in Vieques, I was told no. When I tried to activate medical care, I was told no.) QUESTION : Any viewer who saw the war on television had the impression this was an easy war, fought from a distance and soldiers coming back relatively unharmed. Is this an accurate picture? ROKKE : At the completion of the Gulf War, when we came back to the United States in the fall of 1991, we had a total casualty count of 760: 294 dead, a little over 400 wounded or ill. But the casualty rate now for Gulf War veterans is approximately 30 percent. Of those stationed in the theater, including after the conflict, 221,000 have been awarded disability, according to a Veterans Affairs (VA) report issued September 10, 2002. Many of the US casualties died as a direct result of uranium munitions friendly fire. US forces killed and wounded US forces. We recommended care for anybody downwind of any uranium dust, anybody working in and around uranium contamination, and anyone within a vehicle, structure, or building that's struck with uranium munitions. That's thousands upon thousands of individuals, but not only US troops. You should provide medical care not only for the enemy soldiers but for the Iraqi women and children affected, and clean up all of the contamination in Iraq. And it's not just children in Iraq. It's children born to soldiers after they came back home. The military admitted that they were finding uranium excreted in the semen of the soldiers. If you've got uranium in the semen, the genetics are messed up. So when the children were conceived -- the alpha particles cause such tremendous cell damage and genetics damage that everything goes bad. Studies have found that male soldiers who served in the Gulf War were almost twice as likely to have a child with a birth defect and female soldiers almost three times as likely. Q: You have been a military man for over 35 years. You served in Vietnam as a bombardier and you are still in the US Army Reserves. Now you're going around the country speaking about the dangers of depleted uranium (DU). What made you decide you had to speak publicly about DU? ROKKE: Everybody on my team was getting sick. My best friend John Sitton was dying. The military refused him medical care, and he died. John set up the medical evacuation communication system for the entire theater. Then he got contaminated doing the work. John and Rolla Dolph and I were best friends in the civilian world, the military world, forever. Rolla got sick. I personally got the order that sent him to war. We were both activated together. I was given the assignment to teach nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare and make sure soldiers came back alive and safe. I take it seriously. I was sent to the Gulf with this instruction: Bring 'em back alive. Clear as could be. But when I got all the training together, all the environmental cleanup procedures together, all the medical directives, nothing happened. More than 100 American soldiers were exposed to DU in friendly fire accidents, plus untold numbers of soldiers who climbed on and entered tanks that had been hit with DU, taking photos
[CTRL] Abuse scandal rocks Germany, Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors from L Moss Sharman Abuse scandal rocks Germany Authorities are shocked at the death of a five-year-old boy at the hands of a paedophile ring in a seedy pub Hannah Cleaver in Berlin 3/9/03 "Police say the ring was run by a woman, Christa Weyand, named in Germany only as 50-year-old Christa W, who served for three years as a voluntary lay magistrate in the local youth court. Twelve men and women have now been arrested and are in custody, though not yet charged, while police try to piece together the pattern of abuse, which mainly took place in the back of a seedy pub across the road from the youth court - 100 yards from the dead boy's home. The big question facing the authorities in Saarbrücken is how Christa W came to work in the justice system even though she was running a pub known to be a hang-out for prostitutes and drug dealers."http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,910519,00.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59403-2003Mar7.html March 08, 2003 Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake; U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to have been fabricated, the United Nations' chief nuclear inspector said yesterday in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions. Documents that purportedly showed Iraqi officials shopping for uranium in Africa two years ago were deemed "not authentic" after careful scrutiny by U.N. and independent experts, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the U.N. Security Council. ElBaradei also rejected a key Bush administration claim -- made twice by the president in major speeches and repeated by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday -- that Iraq had tried to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes to use in centrifuges for uranium enrichment. Also, ElBaradei reported finding no evidence of banned weapons or nuclear material in an extensive sweep of Iraq using advanced radiation detectors. 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] FIRE ROBERT MUELLER!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.etherzone.com/2003/lang031003.shtml FIRE ROBERT MUELLER! AMERICA DOESN'T NEED A SECRET POLICE By: Ted Lang The FBI is now an out-of-control federal police agency resembling a standing army. Federal appropriations are limited to two years by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution thereby ensuring a standing army would be short-lived. The Founders fears have now been borne out. The prohibition against the military as a law enforcement agency was reiterated in the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. The Navy was not so limited for two reasons: first, our Nation endured the incursions of the greatest navy in the world, the British Navy, during the American Revolution; and second, John Adams considered our Navy only as a defensive "wall of wood." The Founders felt that only land-based forces could threaten the populace. Organizational jealousies and politics involving the New York and Washington Federal Reserve Banks precluded a timely response to the cash needs of the banking industry in 1929. This immediately preceded the Stock Market Crash leading to the Great Depression. And then there was Prohibition, another bumbling debacle by American government in its efforts to legislate morality. These massive failings by American Big Brother in its youth ushered in organized crime to fill the huge demand for alcoholic beverages by law-abiding citizens. And banks were having a grand time foreclosing on mortgages due to the financial failures of our economy exacerbated by the Fed in 1929. Machine-guns, bootleggers, bank robbers, public enemies, and "doity rats" were everywhere. And many of these felons became folk heroes, especially the bank robbers. Enter the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Big Bro's suit-and-tie standing army. Under the corrupt Clinton administration, "the Bureau" was politicized even more and became a central government secret police and enforcement agency similar to Nazi Germany's Gestapo and the Soviet Union's KGB. Allegiance to "party government" is primary to the advancement and enrichment of its senior bureaucrats. So it comes as no surprise that in spite of the investigative work of Phoenix agent Ken Williams, and in spite of two separate attempts by Special Agent Coleen Rowley to secure approval from FBI headquarters to obtain a FISA search warrant for Zacarias Moussaoui's computer, competent government rank and file employees were ignored. The problem wasn't merely a failure to consolidate information. It was the glaring incompetence and unimaginative stupidity of FBI supervisors in not supporting the investigative professionalism of their field operatives. When Rowley's Minneapolis Office tried to circumvent the headquarters' roadblock by going to the CIA, more heat came down upon her and her fellow agents. Director Robert S. Mueller III, admitted that he had made comments contradicting information concerning the investigations of flight schools and bin Laden operatives, offering that he was still new to the job when he made them. This is precisely why Rowley took him to task - why didn't he answer honestly at the time instead of telling the press what he preferred them to believe? Moussaoui's computer would have detailed the plans of Sept. 11th. The FBI covered up TWA Flight 800, offering the ridiculous notion that an electrical short in a fuel tank caused the explosion and crash. The FBI spiked this to shield Bill Clinton from being criticized as soft on terror after the first WTC bombing in order to protect his 1996 re-election bid. More than 800 witnesses saw the missile - the only question that remains is whether it was an accidentally launched missile from our own Navy, or a terrorist act carried out the day after such a calamity was predicted in an Arab newspaper. Mueller, Bush's replacement for the corrupt Louis Freeh, right from the beginning upon assuming his management of the Bureau one week before 9-11, ordered agents to remain quiet about screw-ups. He is now continuing his directives against dedicated government employees and agents who want to be honest and forthright in order to improve the agency's responsiveness and effectiveness. It would seem that such goals should be at the forefront of Mueller's personal performance standards. On Thursday, March 6th on The O'Reilly Factor on FOXNews cable, Bill O'Reilly interviewed former federal prosecutor Mark Flessner and former House of Representatives' Chief Investigative Counsel, David Schippers, who headed the House inquiry leading to Bill Clinton's impeachment. Schippers is now representing FBI Special Agent Robert Wright. O'Reilly documented that FBI Agent Spike Bowman received a commendation from Mueller, but Agent Coleen Rowley did not. Bowman was the headquarters supervisory liaison to the field office where Rowley tried her best to protect the American people. Mueller is not only displeased with her, but also with Special Agent Wright, who is trying to blow the whistle on yet two
[CTRL] RECKLESS WARMONGERS - PLAYING WITH FIRE, FORGING DOCUMENTS AT THE UN
-Caveat Lector- http://www.etherzone.com/2003/raim031003.shtml RECKLESS WARMONGERS PLAYING WITH FIRE, FORGING DOCUMENTS AT THE UN By: Justin Raimondo In their relentless drive to begin the American conquest of the Middle East, the War Party has lost all sense of proportion. This administration and its supporters have completely abandoned whatever sense of prudence they may have once possessed and pulled out all the stops in their campaign to justify their reckless course. Their unforgivable irresponsibility is underscored when one considers their non-response to the horrific threats now emanating from the Bizarro-World regime of North Korea. Faced with starvation, backed up against the wall by a combination of its own insane policies and those of its enemies in Washington, Pyongyang is embarked on a road that can only end in conflagration a war that could go down in history as the worst, the bloodiest ever. And yet George W. Bush's spokesman, the other day, dismissed the gathering Eastasian storm as "a regional problem." Yes, "a regional problem" if the nuclear obliteration of an entire region can be so characterized. Not that Washington is unaware of, or indifferent to, the escalating crisis: the other day, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded what non-interventionists have been saying since the end of the cold war that U.S. troops should withdraw from the Korean peninsula. Was this because he has suddenly been converted to a less aggressive, more rational foreign policy? Unfortunately not, and the response of our South Korean allies is a clue as to why. The New York Times reports: "Officials here said today that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had ignored them in suggesting realignment of American forces in Korea and demanded that they stay where they are at least until resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue." So what's up with that? Haven't the South Koreans and their newly-elected President, Roh Moo Hyun, been complaining about the presence of U.S. troops, who act more like an army of occupation than a force that is supposed to be protecting the peninsula from a North Korean invasion? Didn't the Democratic Millenium Party come to power on the strength of a nationalist resentment against the all-pervasive presence of the Americans, who blocked the "sunshine policy" of Roh's predecessor and rattled the North by including them in the "axis of evil"? Shouldn't they be dancing in the streets? In a word: no, and here's why: "We agree it's a critical issue,' said Song Young Gil, a National Assembly member from Mr. Roh's Millennium Democratic Party. 'After the nuclear crisis is solved, at that time we will consult on this problem.' Mr. Song shared a view, increasingly heard here, that any American proposal to move troops from near the line with North Korea may mean that the United States intends to attack North Korean nuclear facilities against the wishes of the South Korean government. The logic behind this thinking is that the United States would want its troops out of harm's way in case North Korean ground forces retaliated by striking across the demilitarized zone." "American troops are something like hostages to attack by North Korea,' said Mr. Song. 'Maybe this kind of action means some kind of signal for a pre-emptive strike against North Korea.'" Last week, George W. Bush wouldn't rule out force as an option in dealing with North Korea. A few days later, his Secretary of Defense suggests its time to get U.S. troops out of the line of fire on the peninsula, and, perhaps, out of Korea entirely. In the context of the developing game of nuclear chicken that is taking place on the Korean peninsula, U.S. withdrawal does not mean a policy of non-intervention: the North Koreans rightly read it as a prelude to a period of heightened hostilities, and quite possibly a preemptive strike. From the perspective of the North Korean military, which has been in a state of high alert since the beginning of the crisis, it looks like the U.S. is clearing the decks for an all-out attack. For Rumsfeld to make such a statement goes way beyond his ordinary blustering style: it dramatizes why our war-maddened "leaders" cannot be entrusted with power. That he said it without even bothering to inform the South Koreans who would be instantly vaporized in a military confrontation between Washington and Pyongyang shows that it was meant as a provocation, pure and simple, and a highly dangerous one at that. Yes, U.S. troops should leave Korea they should have done that many years ago. But this administration has now ratcheted up the crisis atmosphere on the peninsula to such a fever pitch that any precipitous American action must be preceded by direct talks with Pyongyang and a mutual pledge of nonaggression. The Bush administration has stubbornly refused to take this obvious tack, because it misreads Pyongyang, misunderstands what is happening in Korea, North and South, and is misleading
[CTRL] UK nuclear evidence a fake
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,910113,00.html UK nuclear evidence a fake British intelligence claims that Saddam Hussein has been trying to import uranium for a nuclear bomb are unfounded, according to UN nuclear inspectors Ian Traynor Saturday March 8, 2003 The Guardian British intelligence claims that Saddam Hussein has been trying to import uranium for a nuclear bomb are unfounded and based on deliberately fabricated evidence, according to an investigation by the UN nuclear inspectors in Iraq. The chief nuclear inspector for Iraq, Mohammed El Baradei, yesterday flatly contradicted Downing Street's and British intelligence's claims of attempted uranium smuggling by Iraq and said that the documents used to substantitate the British claim were "not authentic". In a 55-page report last September detailing British intelligence evidence of Baghdad's ongoing attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, the government said that since 1998 "Iraq has sought the supply of significant supplies of uranium from Africa". British officials named the state of Niger as the source of the uranium and passed their evidence to the UN nuclear watchdog, the international atomic energy agency, in Vienna. "Close scrutiny and cross-checking of the documents, the letterheads on them, the signatures on them, led us to conclude with quite absolute certainty that the documents were false," an IAEA official said. "They were fabricated," said another IAEA official. The fabrication was transparently obvious and quickly established, the sources added, suggesting that British intelligence was either easily hoodwinked or a knowing party to the deceit. There was no suggestion that the British were involved in falsifying the evidence which is believed to have been manufactured in Africa, probably in Niger, and then passed to western intelligence agencies. 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] Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?
-Caveat Lector- LUNCH WITH THE CHAIRMAN by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi? Issue of 2003-03-17 Posted 2003-03-10 At the peak of his deal-making activities, in the nineteen-seventies, the Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi brokered billions of dollars in arms and aircraft sales for the Saudi royal family, earning hundreds of millions in commissions and fees. Though never convicted of wrongdoing, he was repeatedly involved in disputes with federal prosecutors and with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in recent years he has been in litigation in Thailand and Los Angeles, among other places, concerning allegations of stock manipulation and fraud. During the Reagan Administration, Khashoggi was one of the middlemen between Oliver North, in the White House, and the mullahs in Iran in what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Khashoggi subsequently claimed that he lost ten million dollars that he had put up to obtain embargoed weapons for Iran which were to be bartered (with Presidential approval) for American hostages. The scandals of those times seemed to feed off each other: a congressional investigation revealed that Khashoggi had borrowed much of the money for the weapons from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.), whose collapse, in 1991, defrauded thousands of depositors and led to years of inquiry and litigation. Khashoggi is still brokering. In January of this year, he arranged a private lunch, in France, to bring together Harb Saleh al-Zuhair, a Saudi industrialist whose family fortune includes extensive holdings in construction, electronics, and engineering companies throughout the Middle East, and Richard N. Perle, the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, who is one of the most outspoken and influential American advocates of war with Iraq. The Defense Policy Board is a Defense Department advisory group composed primarily of highly respected former government officials, retired military officers, and academics. Its members, who serve without pay, include former national-security advisers, Secretaries of Defense, and heads of the C.I.A. The board meets several times a year at the Pentagon to review and assess the countrys strategic defense policies. Perle is also a managing partner in a venture-capital company called Trireme Partners L.P., which was registered in November, 2001, in Delaware. Triremes main business, according to a two-page letter that one of its representatives sent to Khashoggi last November, is to invest in companies dealing in technology, goods, and services that are of value to homeland security and defense. The letter argued that the fear of terrorism would increase the demand for such products in Europe and in countries like Saudi Arabia and Singapore. The letter mentioned the firms government connections prominently: Three of Triremes Management Group members currently advise the U.S. Secretary of Defense by serving on the U.S. Defense Policy Board, and one of Triremes principals, Richard Perle, is chairman of that Board. The two other policy-board members associated with Trireme are Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State (who is, in fact, only a member of Triremes advisory group and is not involved in its management), and Gerald Hillman, an investor and a close business associate of Perles who handles matters in Triremes New York office. The letter said that forty-five million dollars had already been raised, including twenty million dollars from Boeing; the purpose, clearly, was to attract more investors, such as Khashoggi and Zuhair. Perle served as a foreign-policy adviser in George W. Bushs Presidential campaignhe had been an Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reaganbut he chose not to take a senior position in the Administration. In mid-2001, however, he accepted an offer from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to chair the Defense Policy Board, a then obscure group that had been created by the Defense Department in 1985. Its members (there are around thirty of them) may be outside the government, but they have access to classified information and to senior policymakers, and give advice not only on strategic policy but also on such matters as weapons procurement. Most of the boards proceedings are confidential. As chairman of the board, Perle is considered to be a special government employee and therefore subject to a federal Code of Conduct. Those rules bar a special employee from participating in an official capacity in any matter in which he has a financial interest. One of the general rules is that you dont take advantage of your federal position to help yourself financially in any way, a former government attorney who helped formulate the Code of Conduct told me. The point, the attorney added, is to protect government processes from actual or apparent conflicts. Advisory groups like the Defense Policy Board enable knowledgeable people outside government to bring
[CTRL] Richard Perle is a traitor. There's no other way to put it.
-Caveat Lector- http://www.gooff.com/NM/templates/Breaking_News.asp?articleid=305zoneid=2 Expatriate Richard Perle By Kurt Nimmo March 10, 2003 "Richard Perle is a traitor. There's no other way to put it." Seymour Hersh is a rarity in America these days -- an investigative journalist. "Hersh is not a nice man in the Washington sense," writes Eric Alterman of Salon, "he does not know how to make small talk, flatter his bosses, spin his defeats and conceal his fierce competitiveness. He is simply the best investigative reporter alive and expects his work to speak for itself." Because Hersh does what he does so well, the chicken hawk Richard Perle called him a terrorist on CNN the other day. That's right. Perle equated Hersh with Osama bin Laden and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. "Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist," Perle told Wolf Blitzer. Perle slandered Hersh because the award winning journalist wrote in the March 17th issue of the New Yorker: "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." I have not read the New Yorker article, so I can't comment on it. I don't know if Perle set up a company situated to profit from his boss' plan to mass murder possibly a half million Iraqis or not. But if Hersh said it, there must be something to it. Hersh is known for his meticulous research. He conducts interviews, double checks facts. Seymour Hersh does not make things up. Due to his professionalism Hersh has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. On the other hand, Perle and the neocons are liars. One big lie is that Mohammed Atta met with Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an official at Baghdad's embassy in Prague. US intelligence agencies went over records of Atta,s travels and concluded that during the period in question he was in Virginia Beach, not in Prague. Perle knew this was a fabrication. He attempted to pass it off on the American people as truth. There are many other lies, as well, but I will not bother you with enumeration. That's how the neocons make their case before the American people -- through deceit, half-truth, fabrications, and outright lies. It should be considered treason. It should be a crime. Maybe one day Richard Perle will be prosecuted for his crimes. For now he is allowed to bend the ear of George W. Bush and prod the half-wit dictator into destroying America. When Perle was working for Senator Scoop Jackson, he was investigated by the Justice Department and found to have violated US policies relating to unlawful transmission of sensitive classified US information to Israel. "An FBI summary of a 1970 wiretap recorded Perle discussing classified information with someone at the Israeli embassy," writes Paul Findley (They Dare To Speak Out, Chicago, Ill, Lawrence Hill Books 1989)."He came under fire in 1983 when newspapers reported he received substantial payments to represent the interests of an Israeli weapons company. Perle denied conflict of interest, insisting that, although he received payment for these services after he had assumed his position in the Defense Department, he was between government jobs when he worked for the Israeli firm." In other words, Richard Perle is an Israeli spy. Perle should be expatriated immediately -- or made to share a cell with Jonathan Pollard, the spy who spent 18 months collecting and selling classified American intelligence to Israel from his position in U.S. Naval Intelligence. So pleased were the Israelis with the information passed on to them, two of the four government officials who had dealt with Pollard were promoted (Col. Aviem Sella, Pollard,s primary contact, was given full control of a major Israeli Air Force base). So arrogant are the Israelis that Sharon asked Bush to pardon and release Pollard. If these are our friends, who needs enemies? Okay, I'm going to use a word that will upset some of you -- Zionist. These days if you use the word Zionist you're going to be immediately accused of anti-Semitism. I receive hate email for using this word on occasion. You'd think I'm making excuses for the Holocaust (which is another subject that can get you in hot water, especially in France where you can go to prison for questioning the official verson of historical events). I'm not slandering Jews, I'm simply reporting the facts. Here's an indisputable fact: Richard Perle is a Zionist. Now what exactly does this mean? It means Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and others in the Bush administration -- are Israeli nationalists. "Wolfowitz and fellow Jewish neo-cons Richard Perle and Douglas Feith have emerged as the Pentagon's Paladins," writes Ann Pettifer, "their aim being to subdue the Islamic world through decisive,
[CTRL] Anti-War is Anti-American?
-Caveat Lector- Anti-War is Anti-American? by Jeff Adams I was getting ready for work the other day and, like most mornings, I had Fox and Friends on. Not so much because I love these guys, but I can at least pick up on a few news items without gross liberal bias, and occasionally there is some humor on the show. Mind you, at times the overt neo-con mantra spewed forth gets to me, but it is mostly tolerable, as I don't find the Fox and Friends gang to be the brightest bulbs on the scoreboard and don't take them too seriously. However, this particular day my wife had to suffer through me barking at the TV set like our catahoula hound dog looking out the back door barking at a squirrel on our fence. I really went off. I had to tell the lady on TV she was full of it, and how I thought she was making herself look like an idiot on national television. Mona Charin was on the show promoting her book Useful Idiots: How Liberals got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First. I don't care if this lady goes on TV and hawks her book. Her efforts to sell her work are commendable. What got to me was that the host, Steve Doocy, was trying to tie Charin's book to everyone who is against the war with Iraq, as if everyone that opposes this coming war is a socialist. And Mona was joining in. The discussion started off with the idea that liberals had been dupes for the communists during the Cold War. No argument there. However, when they tried to compare liberals, who for over 50 years have advocated socialist ideas, with everyone who doesn't agree with war on Iraq, that's when my hot button got pushed. I oppose invading Iraq not because I'm a peacenik, but because I see nothing about this military venture that will seriously make America more secure. Who in their right mind goes off to a foreign land to fight an 'enemy' that poses no serious threat to our security or sovereignty while leaving the back door [our borders] wide open? Most of the anti-war liberal types never said a word when it was their boy, Bill Clinton, bombing away in Kosovo. I opposed that military intervention too, on the grounds it had nothing to do with the Constitutional instructions for the federal government to provide for the common defense of the U.S. [I also oppose the continued occupation of Kosovo by the U.S.] Most liberals believe in a fool's paradise, which they think will be brought about by following the communist manifesto. Me, I just wish our federal government would mind its own business and our borders, and quit trying to remake the world against its will. However, in their conversation, Doocy and Charin acted as if only closet communists opposed the U.S. invading Iraq, and the only reason anyone would oppose invading Iraq is because they are 'anti-American.' I keep hearing this from neo-cons. If you don't fall into line with their views, you're 'anti-American.' Quite frankly, neo-cons who don't have any serious intellectual grounds upon which to base their position usually put forth the argument that someone is 'anti-American' if that person doesn't agree with their position. It's like when someone questions Al Sharpton about his fraudulent activities concerning the Tawana Brawley fiasco, he just declares that person a racist, and that is suppose to shut them up. Mind you, Sharpton never really comments directly on what he did, or how wrong he was, or seriously defends his actions. The fact you asked a question he's uncomfortable with is enough, in his mind, for you to be a racist, and his actions don't matter compared to that. So it is with Mona Charin and the neo-cons of Fox and Friends. Based on their view of things, if someone has serious doubts about the validity of attacking Iraq, they surely must be 'anti-American.' I will acknowledge the fact that Mona Charin attempted to justify her position, but she did a terrible job of it. Ms. Charin claimed that attacking Iraq was important so America could stay strong and secure. She then went into how we won the Cold War without firing a shot. What's wrong with this picture? If we could win the Cold War against the Soviet Union 'without firing a shot,' why can't we do the same with tiny old Iraq? But this shows the blind, illogical workings of a neo-con mind. If Ms. Charin gets a chance to read this, let me point out how hot the Cold War really was. Ever hear of the Korean War? How about Vietnam? Plenty of shots were fired, by proxy, during the Cold War in Africa and South America. Does this lady not realize that every time the Arabs attacked Israel it was a 'live fire' drill for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. so they could see how their weapons performed? So which is it, we don't need to fire any shots to win, or we need to invade to ensure our security? Personally, Iraq is a non-starter because Saddam is at most a threat to his neighbors. So let the neighbors handle it. In case no one has noticed, none of the
[CTRL] An Open Letter to WorldNetDaily
-Caveat Lector- An Open Letter to WorldNetDaily by Jimmy Cantrell http://www.patriotist.com/cantrell.htm Controlling the access of ideas is essential if you desire to prevent the rise of opposition. If people remain ignorant, they will accept quietly almost anything heaped on them, but if they know, they will begin asking questions and perhaps making demands. That is the reason that Leftists finding their Long March Through the Academic Institutions successful immediately slammed shut the doors in the faces of non-Leftists so that no one could enter to refute them. They now have full say, unquestioned say, because they make certain that no one who disagrees fundamentally [as opposed to someone who agrees with basic Leftism but disagrees over matters of strategy or emphasis] is allowed to secure a position from which to oppose them. They then, if forced to acknowledge the existence of ideas contrary to received Leftist wisdom, assert that there is no need to address concerns of someone like me, because if I were intellectually competent I would hold a university teaching position or w rite for some well-respected publication: as all really smart people who are not evil - the Leftist is certain - think in sympathy with, if not necessarily exactly like, the Modern Language Association and the Rainbow Coalition and the African National Congress, the fact that I do not so think proves that I am either unintelligent or evil. Because I am Southern, it proves to the preponderance of Left-thinkers [who are never guilty of prejudiced thinking, unless such is warranted] that I am probably both. To the deconstructive postmodernist and other Leftists, only a mindlessly violent racist, sexist, homophobe would reject such beautiful logic, and, obviously, no decent person will bother understanding the views of white men deemed untouchable by enlightened Leftists, particularly those who meet at least one Affirmative Action quota and/or deny Christ in the name of the Talmud. Neoconservatives reveal their Leftist foundation in many ways, and refusing, even as they present themselves as paragons of Free Speech, to allow any real debate once they come to control an institution, is a key one. Neocons [who are American Anglophilic Imperial Conservatives,] the pure WASP George Will-types as much as the Jewish newcomers still reeking of Marxism and passion to utterly secularize any Christian culture, hate and/or fear the South and Southern culture as much as do Leftists. In fact, it seems rather obvious to me that Neocons are on average far more willing to engage in non-rancorous debate and compromise with Leftists than with Southern Paleoconservatives; we they either dismiss as being too anachronistic, too atavistic to consider seriously or assert are fit, in this age of Enlightened Tolerance of Diversity, only for the genocidal ministrations of archetypal Yankee WASP Imperial Conservative General W. T. [the only good Indian is a dead Indian] Sherman. It should be obvious why Leftists hate and fear the South: as the South is, and has been since at least the Revolutionary War era, the most politically and culturally conservative part of these United States, any movement to reject Leftism will be centered in the South and tied inextricably to Southern values. If the Left can kill Southern culture and Southern identity, it can rid itself of the greatest threat to its goals. Without Southerners who are culturally Southern, American non-Leftism can never amount to much more than mild pleas for Leftists to slow down a little as they careen toward the multicultural socialist Paradise of Millennial Peace that they have faith will replace Western Christian Civilization. The difficulty for most people [including conservative Southerners] is to understand why Neocons often hate Southern culture and identity and invariably dismiss the former as at best backwardly in need of being forced to 'modernize' and the latter as ranging from primitively quaint to treasonous. The key is to focus on Neocons not as largely Jewish, which they are at least in contemporary leadership and emphasis, but as Yankee Imperial Conservatives. Neocons, like their arch-hero Abe Lincoln, believe in an American Empire with an imperial presidency and 'provinces' that serve the favored regions of the Empire. Just as the British Empire could not operate effectively around the globe, conquering and administering multitudes, if Ireland were recognized as having the right to secede or if a Scottish Parliament held States' Rights and could check the Westminster Parliament, an American Empire cannot tolerate States' Rights or any 'regional' cultural identity that could lead to ca lls f or independence from an imperial government that runs roughshod over that region's traditional cultural values. Neocons love the fact that Southerners are naturally opposed to Leftist economic claims. They also love the 'patriotism'
Re: [CTRL] An Open Letter to PropagandaNetDaily
-Caveat Lector- PropagandaNetDaily don't you mean? I'm not quite sure of the defining moment when I ceased to be a sheep and became an independent thinker, but as the veil was lifted over my eyes I began to get my news from alternative sources such as the WND you mention. Being of a primarily conservative mind, I found it quite easy to demonize liberals and read heaps upon heaps of self deluding left/right TRASH! (it all seemed legit at the time) Then as time progressed I found a wealth of information on other websites that contradicted my holy grail of all conservativeness.. aka WorldNetDaily I then learned a false left/right paradigm is in place to conquer and divide us. I soon realized that WND isn't nearly the Free Press for a Free People it claims to be. It's like reading salon.com then flipping channels to another infomercial. Two groups selling the same sh|t with a different brand name. Joseph Farah is a SHILL and nothing more. I once respected this man but I can no longer make than claim. Any praise I ever made of him turned to self disgust for opening my mouth ages ago. Nothing would please me more than to read some coked-up psycho gave him an immediate dispatch. That also goes for a lot of politicians too. (99%) Gee... could wishing he got his up comings get me kicked off this list? Like I said earlier I don't give a damn! - Original Message - From: iNFoWaRZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 5:00 PM Subject: [CTRL] An Open Letter to WorldNetDaily -Caveat Lector- An Open Letter to WorldNetDaily by Jimmy Cantrell http://www.patriotist.com/cantrell.htm Controlling the access of ideas is essential if you desire to prevent the rise of opposition. If people remain ignorant, they will accept quietly almost anything heaped on them, but if they know, they will begin asking questions and perhaps making demands. That is the reason that Leftists finding their Long March Through the Academic Institutions successful immediately slammed shut the doors in the faces of non-Leftists so that no one could enter to refute them. They now have full say, unquestioned say, because they make certain that no one who disagrees fundamentally [as opposed to someone who agrees with basic Leftism but disagrees over matters of strategy or emphasis] is allowed to secure a position from which to oppose them. They then, if forced to acknowledge the existence of ideas contrary to received Leftist wisdom, assert that there is no need to address concerns of someone like me, because if I were intellectually competent I would hold a university teaching position or w rite for some well-respected publication: as all really smart people who are not evil - the Leftist is certain - think in sympathy with, if not necessarily exactly like, the Modern Language Association and the Rainbow Coalition and the African National Congress, the fact that I do not so think proves that I am either unintelligent or evil. Because I am Southern, it proves to the preponderance of Left-thinkers [who are never guilty of prejudiced thinking, unless such is warranted] that I am probably both. To the deconstructive postmodernist and other Leftists, only a mindlessly violent racist, sexist, homophobe would reject such beautiful logic, and, obviously, no decent person will bother understanding the views of white men deemed untouchable by enlightened Leftists, particularly those who meet at least one Affirmative Action quota and/or deny Christ in the name of the Talmud. Neoconservatives reveal their Leftist foundation in many ways, and refusing, even as they present themselves as paragons of Free Speech, to allow any real debate once they come to control an institution, is a key one. Neocons [who are American Anglophilic Imperial Conservatives,] the pure WASP George Will-types as much as the Jewish newcomers still reeking of Marxism and passion to utterly secularize any Christian culture, hate and/or fear the South and Southern culture as much as do Leftists. In fact, it seems rather obvious to me that Neocons are on average far more willing to engage in non-rancorous debate and compromise with Leftists than with Southern Paleoconservatives; we they either dismiss as being too anachronistic, too atavistic to consider seriously or assert are fit, in this age of Enlightened Tolerance of Diversity, only for the genocidal ministrations of archetypal Yankee WASP Imperial Conservative General W. T. [the only good Indian is a dead Indian] Sherman. It should be obvious why Leftists hate and fear the South: as the South is, and has been since at least the Revolutionary War era, the most politically and culturally conservative part of these United States, any movement to reject Leftism will be centered in the South and tied inextricably to Southern values. If the Left can kill Southern culture and Southern identity, it can rid itself of the greatest threat to its goals. Without Southerners
Re: [CTRL] Anti-War is Anti-American?
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/10/2003 6:52:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most of the anti-war liberal types never said a word when it was their boy, Bill Clinton, bombing away in Kosovo. I Let's discuss the Kosovo business. When the Serbs started their war, they made a move and waited to see what George Bush the First would say about it. The silence out of Washington was deafening. Had he said one word, the hell in Yugoslavia would have never happened. He didn't, and the entire world seemed to decide that whatever the Serbs did to the Bosnians (Moslem or Croatian) was fine, since the Serbs had all the weapons and the Bosnians had nothing. Bush continued to be silent, while the lovers were shot by a Serb sniper even though they had gotten permission to cross into Serb territory and the zoo animals starved to death because the Serb snipers picked off the keepers trying to feed them. It got so bad that I couldn't stand to watch television news, and half the guys in the State Department left their jobs, because they couldn't stand to see what was going on either. Every time the Bosnians asked for help, it was denied, and weapons were also denied, because it was determined that if they had a way to fight back, things might escalate. The Serbs were having a lovely time. It was only when Iran began to arm the Bosnians that anyone in the American government finally did anything, and then when Clinton started to move to stop the mess, his military-industrial complex and the CIA gave him the advice that they needed to use up all that nasty old DU ammo. So when the U.S. finally made a move, it was a nasty one. It would have been a lot better if we had given the Bosnians weapons and let them fight it out with the Serbs. Still I guess our military chiefs wanted to see just what the result of using all that DU would be. They're going to have a really fun time testing all their new stuff on the Iraqi and on our guys as well. Bush is always willing to make sacrifices. I guess it's the mark of the "compassionate conservative." On well--ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS.. 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 inline: Notebook.jpg
Re: [CTRL] Anti-War is Anti-American?
-Caveat Lector- I always appreciate your perspective. thanks Mary - Original Message - From: Prudy L To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Anti-War is Anti-American? -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/10/2003 6:52:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most of the anti-war liberal types never said a word when it was their boy, Bill Clinton, bombing away in Kosovo. ILet's discuss the Kosovo business. When the Serbs started their war, they made a move and waited to see what George Bush the First would say about it. The silence out of Washington was deafening. Had he said one word, the hell in Yugoslavia would have never happened. He didn't, and the entire world seemed to decide that whatever the Serbs did to the Bosnians (Moslem or Croatian) was fine, since the Serbs had all the weapons and the Bosnians had nothing. Bush continued to be silent, while the lovers were shot by a Serb sniper even though they had gotten permission to cross into Serb territory and the zoo animals starved to death because the Serb snipers picked off the keepers trying to feed them. It got so bad that I couldn't stand to watch television news, and half the guys in the State Department left their jobs, because they couldn't stand to see what was going on either. Every time the Bosnians asked for help, it was denied, and weapons were also denied, because it was determined that if they had a way to fight back, things might escalate. The Serbs were having a lovely time. It was only when Iran began to arm the Bosnians that anyone in the American government finally did anything, and then when Clinton started to move to stop the mess, his military-industrial complex and the CIA gave him the advice that they needed to use up all that nasty old DU ammo. So when the U.S. finally made a move, it was a nasty one. It would have been a lot better if we had given the Bosnians weapons and let them fight it out with the Serbs. Still I guess our military chiefs wanted to see just what the result of using all that DU would be. They're going to have a really fun time testing all their new stuff on the Iraqi and on our guys as well. Bush is always willing to make sacrifices. I guess it's the mark of the "compassionate conservative." On well--ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS.. 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 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 image/jpeg
Re: [CTRL] Bush Sr warning over unilateral action
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/10/2003 4:32:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity. Heck, he couldn't get him to stop drinking, and Dubya likes killing people a lot more than booze. 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] Mind Our Own Business
-Caveat Lector- http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030310/index.php Mind Our Own Business 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 by propaganda, as it was in the Balkans. No matter what somebody else is doing to somebody else, it is none of our business, and we have no right to interfere. Our government exists to serve our people and our land and no other. If you want peace, if you want freedom, then you're going to have to force the American government to mind its own business. Otherwise, our future will not be a happy one, because, as my pappy used to say, the problem with being a tough guy is that, sooner or later, you run into somebody who's tougher than you are. It should be noted that there are still nuclear and other weapons installations in Russia that no American is allowed to see, agreements to the contrary notwithstanding. 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.
[CTRL] More Defense Department privatization
-Caveat Lector- CONTRACTS from the United States Department of DefenseNo. 105-03FOR RELEASE AT(703)697-5131(media)5 p.m. ETMarch 10, 2003(703)428-0711(public/industry)CONTRACTS ARMY Texas Gas Service Co., Austin, Texas, was awarded a $9,479,280firm-fixed-price type of contract for assuming ownership,operation and maintenance of the natural gas distribution systemfor the U.S. Army. The performance completion date is March2013. Contract funds will expire at the end of the currentfiscal year. This was a sole-source solicitation. Thecontracting activity is the Defense Energy Support Center, FortBelvoir, Va. (SP0600-03-C-8252). http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2002/12/23/daily16.html?t=printable Austin Business Journal - December 24, 2002http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2002/12/23/daily16.html December 24, 2002 Want a Reprint? Printable Version Email Story ONEOK names head of Austin-based gas unit An executive at ONEOK Inc. [NYSE: OKE] will become president of the Austin-based natural gas assets that the energy company is buying from Southern Union Co., ONEOK announced Monday. Once ONEOK's $420 million purchase of Southern Union Gas Co. is completed, Roger Mitchell will become president of what will be known as Texas Gas Service Co. Mitchell has been vice president for the eastern region of ONEOK's Oklahoma gas distribution subsidiary, Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. Texas Gas Service will maintain headquarters in Austin, and Mitchell will be based here, ONEOK spokeswoman Andrea Chancellor says. The ONEOK-Southern Union Gas deal is expected to take effect Jan. 1. The new Texas Gas Service serves about 535,000 customers and employs about 730 people throughout Texas, including about 220 in Austin. "The same employees that were at the company prior to the change in name and ownership will be the same employees there tomorrow, providing gas service and responding to customer needs," Chancellor says. "Actually, the transition will fairly seamless and invisible to customers." The deal includes Southern Union Gas, 125 miles of natural gas transmission lines, SUPro Energy Co., Mercado Gas Services Inc. and Southern Union's natural gas distribution investments in Mexico. With its move into Texas, Tulsa, Okla.-based ONEOK will serve a total of 1.96 million customers, a company news release states. According to the latest survey published by Pipeline Gas Journal, that will make ONEOK the country's fifth-largest gas distribution company, based on the number of customers. Mitchell, 51, joined ONEOK in 1978 and has held numerous executive positions, including manager of corporate responsibility, manager of corporate communications and advertising, Oklahoma Natural Gas' area manager in Ponca City and Oklahoma Natural Gas' district manager of customer service in Oklahoma City. David Stevens had been president of Southern Union Gas since 1998. He now is president and CEO of Energy Worx Inc., a pipeline management subsidiary of Southern Union. On Monday, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based Southern Union [NYSE: SUG] announced it would use proceeds from the sale of its Austin-based natural gas division to help the parent company finance its $1.8 billion purchase of a gas pipeline company. © 2002 American City Business Journals Inc.Web reprint information All contents of this site © American City Business Journals Inc. All rights reserved. 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 attachment: flag.gifattachment: reprint.gifattachment: print.gifattachment: email.gifattachment: arrow_bc.gif
Re: [CTRL] Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
-Caveat Lector- On 9 Mar 2003 at 12:43, Euphorian wrote: -Caveat Lector- 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. Happy to have been of service. IMO, your stated objections to this program are based on unimportant externalities: where the course is being held; what that the particular city smells like; the fact that it's called an internship. You didn't actually say Some interns have been abused. These kids will be interns, therefore they will be abused, but you were flirting with it, and it could be inferred that's what your train of thought was. They're no more likely to be abused because they're in DC than they would be in their home towns - anyone who reads the news knows there are abusers of authority in every setting. Learning can take place in any location. The curriculum materials and faculty are far more important than what city. Anyway, who knows what the program might evolve into. Maybe they will at some point incorporate your perambulatory vision into the program. -- 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
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Mr Bush goes for the kill
-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- Mr Bush goes for the kill Online commentary: There is a moral case for taking out Saddam. But what about everybody else? Terry Jones Sunday March 9, 2003 Mr. Bush is right, Saddam Hussein is a nasty man and nobody I know has the least objection to Mr. Bush killing him. It's just the way he proposes doing it that worries me. Dropping 3000 bombs in 48 hours on Baghdad is going to kill a lot of other people who, as far as I am aware, are not nasty at all. That's the bit of the 'moral' argument I don't follow. It's a bit like the police saying they know a murderer comes from the south of England so they are going to execute everybody in Epsom. Then again why does Mr. Bush need to drop 3000 bombs on Saddam Hussein? I would have thought one would have been enough to take him out, if he knows where Saddam is. And if he doesn't know where he is, what on earth is the moral justification for dropping any bombs at all? Doesn't Mr. Bush realise they are dangerous things and tend to kill people when they land? Or does Mr Bush simply enjoy the idea of taking out a lot of Iraqis? I appreciate Mr. Bush's argument that because Saddam Hussein has refused to take any notice of the UN, Mr. Bush should teach him a lesson by dropping a lot of bombs on him. But now he's telling us that if the UN won't give him permission to do it, he's jolly well going to drop a lot of bombs on Saddam anyway. In which case won't Mr. Bush be guilty of the same thing he's accusing Saddam Hussein of? Apparently not because, according to the President's advisers, if the United Nations won't give him permission to drop a lot of bombs on Saddam Hussein, it will have ceased to be a Responsible World Organization and therefore he doesn't need to take any notice of it. But doesn't the same thing go for Saddam Hussein? If the United Nations ceases to be a Responsible World Organization how can the fact that Saddam Hussein has refused to take any notice of it be something so evil that it justifies dropping bombs on the poor people living under his heel? And that's another thing - everyone seems to be very certain that dropping a lot of bombs on Baghdad will get rid of Saddam Hussein. But will it? - any more than devastating Afghanistan (and killing maybe 20,000 people) got rid of Al-Qaeda? A recent UN report reckons that if and when the US starts bombing as many as 100,000 Iraqis will die. I can't really believe that the President of the United States gets his rocks off by having people killed. That's more like Saddam Hussein. And yet it worries me that Mr. Bush says that one of the reasons he wants to kill a lot of Iraqis is because Saddam Hussein has also been killing them. Is there some sort of rivalry here? Back in 1988 Saddam killed several thousand at once, in the town of Halabjah. Since then he's been carrying on the good work, but on a piecemeal basis. In fact, for all I know, since his 1988 spree, he may not have killed any more of his own citizens than George W. Bush did as Governor of Texas. When Mr. Bush became Governor in 1995, the average number of executions per year was 7.6. Mr. Bush succeeded in quadrupling this to a magnificent 31.6 per year. He must have had the terrible chore of personally signing over 150 death warrants while he was Governor. I suppose the advantage of killing Iraqis is that you don't have to sign a piece of paper for every one of them. Just one quick scribble and - bingo! You can kill a hundred thousand and no questions asked! What's more, nobody is going to quibble about some of them being mentally retarded or juveniles, which is what happened to George W. Bush when he was Governor of Texas. I'm not saying that George W.
[CTRL] Fwd: Catherine Austin Fitts attending UnansweredQuestions.org of GNN's Aftermath New York, March 13, 3:30PM
-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- UnansweredQuestions.org presents a screening and open discussion of breakthrough documentary Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11 -- a production of the Sundance award-winning Guerilla News Network-- [GNN logo here] featuring: George Soros, billionaire philanthropist; Mary Schiavo, 9/11 victim family lawyer and former FAA Inspector General; Michael Rupport, former LAPD investigator; Nafeez M. Ahmed, author of The War on Freedom;David McMichael, former CIA analyst; Peter Dale Scott, Professor Emeritus UC Berkeley; Michel Chossudovsky, editor of Global Outlook,John Judge, Coalition on Political Assasinations (COPA); Alex Jones, TV radio personality; and Riva Enteen of the National Lawyers Guild. Special Guests Catherine Austin Fitts, co-founder of UnansweredQuestions.org John Judge, co-founder of Coalition on Political Assasinations David McMichael, former CIA analyst John Jay College of Criminal Justice Thursday, March 13 3:30PM - 5:30PM 445 West 59th Street Room 2504N -- Citizen initiatives for government oversight and independent inquiry will be discussed-- Donation: Welcomed and encouraged. (suggested $10) Presented by: Kyle F. Hence UnansweredQuestion.org co-founder and Aftermath Associate Producer. To RSVP or for more info please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or call 401-935-7715 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 Aftermath NYC Flyer (win).doc Description: MS-Word document Flyer for NYC Aftermath showing.doc Description: MS-Word document ---End Message---
Re: [CTRL] An Open Letter to PropagandaNetDaily
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/10/03 4:50:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joseph Farah is a SHILL and nothing more. I once respected this man but I can no longer make than claim. Any praise I ever made of him turned to self disgust for opening my mouth ages ago. Absolutely,I have met the man and been to his "compound" in southern Oregon. Glad to see the understandings arising. Om K A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-Drugs_TheDarkSide] Abuse scandal rocks Germany
-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- GUEST HOUSE OF THE GOLDEN SHOT!? any germans out there who can tell me what the hell that is supposed to mean!? vigilius haufniensis http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,910519,00.html Abuse scandal rocks Germany Authorities are shocked at the death of a five-year-old boy at the hands of a paedophile ring in a seedy pub Hannah Cleaver in BerlinSunday March 9, 2003The Observer German police are hoping the ground will thaw enough this week for them to start digging in a quarry in their hunt for the body of a five-year-old boy whose death at the hands of a paedophile ring has sent shockwaves through the country. The death of the boy, known just as Pascal, is the only one attributed to the ring but he was not alone in being abused by the group. A friend of his who is now eight is also said to have been a victim, as well as a girl of a similar age and an unknown number of others. Police say the ring was run by a woman, Christa Weyand, named in Germany only as 50-year-old Christa W, who served for three years as a voluntary lay magistrate in the local youth court. Twelve men and women have now been arrested and are in custody, though not yet charged, while police try to piece together the pattern of abuse, which mainly took place in the back of a seedy pub across the road from the youth court - 100 yards from the dead boy's home. The big question facing the authorities in Saarbrücken is how Christa W came to work in the justice system even though she was running a pub known to be a hang-out for prostitutes and drug dealers. She has also been accused of renting rooms at inflated prices to vulnerable people on housing benefit. Her pub, the Pilsstube, was so notorious it was known locally as 'guest house of the golden shot'. In 1995 she fostered a baby boy and obtained trusteeship over his mentally disabled mother 'at the mother's request'. Despite repeated reports of neglect and abuse of the boy, who is said to have been undernourished and beaten by various friends of the two women, he remained in her 'care' for nearly six years, including most of the time between 1997 and 2001 when she worked in the youth court. Now the authorities are talking of the 'criminal energy' with which they were fooled by Christa W, who described herself as a housewife when applying for her court position. Dr Kurt Wahrheit, head of the town's youth department, said the files relating to Christa W's approval as lay magistrate no longer existed. The boy was only removed from Christa W and placed in a different foster home when, in January 2001, Christa W's brother complained to the authorities that the boy was being neglected and beaten. Reports that the child was subjected to sustained sexual abuse by Christa W, his mother and the male partners of both women, only emerged at the end of 2002, giving police a vital clue to finding his missing friend Pascal, who had disappeared without trace at the end of September 2001. It now appears that he was in the back room of Christa W's pub being sexually abused by locals who paid Christa W for time with him. Police say that some of the men and women they have been questioning told of hitting Pascal to keep him quiet. But it seems he was hit so hard and so many times that eventually he stopped moving and the adults panicked and put the boy's body in a car, drove it across the border to France and buried it in a quarry. The authorities say he was killed on the same day he went missing. The Burbach area of Saarbrücken, where the crimes are alleged to have taken place, is a run-down, sordid area, awash with the detritus of poverty. One seasoned German reporter said: 'I'm shocked at
[CTRL] Survivorship and S.M.A.R.T. Ritual Abuse Conference near Boston in May
-Caveat Lector- with corrected dates Press Release Survivorship and S.M.A.R.T. are co-sponsoring the first East Coast Conference on Ritualistic Abuse on Saturday May 24, 2003, for survivors, their allies, activists, and professionals. It will be held at the Cambridge Friend's Meeting House from 9:30 to 5:00. Cost is $50.00 ($30.00 for limited income attendees) if pre-registered. Add $10.00 if not pre-registered or pre-paid .CEU registration is $15.00 Speakers and topics are: Fran Demiany, Ph.D. -- "Building Internal Communication and Cooperation" Neil Brick of S.M.A.R.T. -- "How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda." Jeannie Riseman, MSW of Survivorship -- "Building Community" There will also be small discussion groups, question and answer periods, and a safe room staffed by the Cambridge Women's Center. Survivorship has been approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences as a provider of Continuing Education Credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists. The provider number is 2690. The May 24, 2003 East Coast Conference on Ritualistic Abuse meets the Qualifications for four hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Attendees will acquire knowledge of the following techniques 1. Establishing and strengthening internal communications in persons with dissociative conditions. 2. Reducing internal conflict and encouraging internal co-operation in persons with dissociative conditions. 3. Recognizing and working with cues and programming used in mind control and propaganda. 4. Overcoming obstacles to communication between survivors of ritualistic abuse. 5. Encouraging networking and social action by survivors of ritualistic abuse. Space is limited. You may pre-register at http://www.survivorship.org/html/preregister.html or by writing [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Onward, Christian Soldiers
-Caveat Lector- ( And I thought Jesus said Blessed are the peacemakers, or something like that. Are you meek or a Cristian soldier, or just a taxpayer supporting the illegal upcoming war on Iraq? Is Bush a compassionate conservative, or just another bully who used to love to blow up frogs with firecrackers? He has some new weapons of mass destruction to use against a leader built up by his father, who now profits from the defense buildup via Carlyle Group and Cheney's Halliburtin. Now study the lyrics carefully because they are the beliefs of your leaders. How convenient. How profitable! Onward, Christian Soldiers Onward, Christian Soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus, Going on before! Christ the royal Master, Leads against the foe; Forward into battle, See His banners go! Onward, Christian Soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus, Going on before! Like a might army Moves the Church of God! Brothers, we are treading Where the saints have trod! We are not divided, All one body we, One in hope and doctrine, One in charity! Onward, Christian Soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus, Going on before! Onward. then, ye people! Join our happy throng! Blend with ours your voices, In the triumph song! Glory laud and honour, Unto Christ the King, This through countless ages, Men and Angels sing. Onward, Christian Soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus, Going on before! Amen Music by Arthur S. Sullivan and lyrics by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1871 If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Bush's Crusade for Domination
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Elam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:05:37 -0500 (EST) Subject:!b_a_Act: [P] Bush's Crusade for Domination Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No war in Iraq - http://pnews.org/) = Subscribe or Unsubscribe to PNEWS (progressive news and views) forums (on internet since 1982): ---http://pnews.org/signup.shtml = BUSH'S CRUSADE FOR DOMINATION ...General Zinni, a leading U.S.military figure and diplomat, has said that he doesn't know on which planet the hawks in Washington are living. And many others, including ex-President Carter, General Schwartzkopf and even officials in the intelligence (sic) community, have expressed similar sentiments. [Bertell Olman, Why War With Iraq? Why Now? - February 23, 2003, ZNet] Olman says leaders of our Government are not that stupid or crazy, and war is too important a matter to go forward without good reasons. They have their reasons. Indeed they do and it is their holy crusade for oil and to absolutely control a region of the world where resources are just too important to leave to local rulers who don't always do what they're told to do. Olman says, The Bush oiligarchy wants direct control over a country whose proven oil reserves are second only to those of Saudi Arabia. American oil giants own none of this oil now. How much do you think they will own one year after the war? Direct U.S. control over Iraqi oil will not only put the profits of selling the oil and servicing the oil fields into American hands, but will also also put the U.S. Government in a position to effect the price of oil by determining how much of it is put onto the market at any one time and to secure the dollar's position as the currency of choice in the purchase of oil by other countries (since 2000, Iraq has tried to undermine the hegemony of the dollar in world trade - with all its implications for U.S. financial domination - by selling its oil for Euros). And, as the availablility of this non-renewable source of energy begins to decline (it has been estimated that the world has about fifty years worth of oil left), the U.S. will be in a position to decide, almost unilaterally, which countries will grow and develop and which will not. Olman says controlling Iraq would also secure the water supplies - not often mentioned - with which Iraq is blessed and all surrounding countries are to some degree dependent. He also states that conquering Iraq would establish American military and political power - if not direct colonial control - of a major Arab country in the heart of the middle-east for an indefinite period to help ensure the existence of friendly governments and market economies throughout the region. AND, of course it is very important that the war also provides a rationale to expand the military budget and with it the profits of the arms industry, which includes the oil industry. And since the objective of capturing Osama bin Laden by fighting the war in Afghanistan was never achieved this victory would make Americans forget that we lost the war in Afghanistan, whose main objective was not to remove the Taliban but to destroy Al Queda and capture Ossama Bin Laden. Not to forget the diversion effect - to upstage the media attention given to the failure of the Government's economic policies. UNEMPLOYMENT IS UP about 35% and the STOCK MARKET is DOWN about 35% since George W Bush became president.. Bush and Cheney have not yet been implicated in the many financial scandals which occured after he took office and that situation has been all but forgetten given the almost daily speeches by George Bush about the evil Saddam Hussein and the need to make war against Iraq. As noted by Olman, this establishes an atmosphere of permanent crisis with its side-bars of fear and patriotism that will help the GOP to push through the rest of its ultra-conservative political agenda and win the next presidential election. There will be assumed undeniable advantages to Israel when the U.S. wins this war against Iraq although sometimes the obvious turns out to be wrong and this could backfire. My feeling about this is it will hurt Israel by the radicalization of even heretofore moderate Muslims who will consider this a U.S./Zionist plan to kill Muslims. To quote Olman: It is no surprise then that among our Government's top foreign policy advisors some of the biggest hawks are right wing Zionists like - Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Defense Secretary, who earlier in life wanted to immigrate to Israel and who wrote his first official paper calling for an invasion of Iraq back in 1992), Douglas Feith (Under Secretary for Policy in the Dept. of Defense), Elliot Abrams (National
