[CTRL] New York Times -- Is the Pope Catholic...Enough? ''Garrulous Karolus, the Koran Kisser.''
-Caveat Lector- -- March 9, 2003 Is the Pope Catholic...Enough? By CHRISTOPHER NOXON he first sign that something unusual was going on up the hill was the appearance of a fleet of brand-new Volkswagen bugs, lined up on a muddy bluff like a row of oversize Easter eggs. It was a local handyman who spotted them while he was out on a walk through this little valley in the mountains northwest of Los Angeles, near Malibu. Neighbors had already been talking about the 16-acre property on the valley's south slope, and soon word spread that a church group called Holy Family had purchased the site with plans to break ground for a 9,300-square-foot Mission-style church complex. Among the neighbors who wondered about the new arrival was my father, a recently retired documentary filmmaker who joined the local homeowners association when he moved to the area two years ago. This latest project, however, wasn't the usual commercial complex or instant enclave of luxury homes that tended to attract the association's attention. It was a church, that much was clear, but it didn't sound at all like your garden-variety community parish. A representative for the property owner explained that the church was Catholic, but it wasn't affiliated with the Roman Catholic archdiocese. While the church building was relatively large, the congregation was quite small, with about 70 members. And though religious practices and rituals would be familiar to Catholics, there was one big difference: Sunday Mass, it was reported, would be conducted entirely in Latin. Lest anyone get the impression that this band of spiritual seekers might disperse if the collection baskets were to run dry, a church representative assured the neighbors that the church was supported by an unnamed individual congregant with ''tremendous financial viability.'' Would that explain the VW bugs? The handyman recalls posing the question at an early community meeting. He was told that the congregant financing the church ''had given them as gifts to his nieces and nephews,'' he says. ''I remember thinking, 'That's some generous uncle.''' The person behind the unusually well-endowed chapel turned out to be the actor Mel Gibson, star of ''Mad Max,'' ''Lethal Weapon'' and ''Braveheart.'' The church is operated by a nonprofit corporation; according to public financial records, Gibson is its director, chief executive officer and sole benefactor, making more than $2.8 million in contributions over the past three years. The fact that Gibson is building a church in the hills near Los Angeles should come as no huge surprise. Gibson's Catholicism has never been a secret, and in fact gives him a sort of reverse-exoticism in a town where other stars dabble in Buddhism, kabala and Scientology. An avowed family man still on his first marriage, with seven children to show for it, Gibson smokes, raises cattle, publicly shuns plastic surgery and seems wholly unmoved by most of the liberal-left causes favored by industry peers. Recently, however, something beyond the impulse to entertain has been showing up in Gibson's work. Last year he played a former minister who rediscovers religion amid an alien invasion in ''Signs'' and a reverent Catholic lieutenant colonel in the war drama ''We Were Soldiers.'' In these films, but especially in a new movie, a monumentally risky project called ''The Passion,'' which he co-wrote and is currently directing in and around Rome, Gibson appears increasingly driven to express a theology only hinted at in his previous work. That theology is a strain of Catholicism rooted in the dictates of a 16th-century papal council and nurtured by a splinter group of conspiracy-minded Catholics, mystics, monarchists and disaffected conservatives -- including a seminary dropout and rabble-rousing theologist who also happens to be Mel Gibson's father. Gibson is the star practitioner of this movement, which is known as Catholic traditionalism. Seeking to maintain the faith as it was understood before the landmark Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965, traditionalists view modern reforms as the work of either foolish liberals or hellbent heretics. They generally operate outside the authority or oversight of the official church, often maintaining their own chapels, schools, seminaries and clerical orders. Central to the movement is the Tridentine Mass, the Latin rite that was codified by the Council of Trent in the 16th century and remained in place until the Second Vatican Council deemed that Mass should be held in the popular language of each country. Latin, however, is just the beginning -- traditionalists refrain from eating meat on Fridays, and traditionalist women wear headdresses in church. The movement seeks to revive an orthodoxy uncorrupted by the theological and social changes of the last 300 years or so. Michael W.
[CTRL] Twins Left Air Force Academy
-Caveat Lector- DefenseWatch The Voice of the Grunt 03-05-2003 From the Editor: Cadet Twins Left Air Force Academy in Disgust http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=DefenseWatch% 2edbcommand=viewoneop=tid=9rnd=130.096435546875 By Ed Offley When news reports appeared two weeks ago that the Air Force has launched an outside investigation of the U.S. Air Force Academy, it came as a small comfort to Washington state residents William and Linda Graney. The issue at hand involves allegations from current and former female cadets that the institution has been unable or unwilling to forcefully investigate alleged sexual assaults against female cadets. Spurred by pressure from senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Air Force has dispatched a special investigative team to Colorado Springs, Colo., to investigate charges by 25 cadets that Academy officials had refused to seriously respond to their reports of alleged attacks, and in some cases had actually retaliated against the victims. Responding to the allegations, Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., told The New York Times last week that he feared the Academy where about 640 of the 4,000 cadets are female tolerated one [behavior] standard for men and another for women. Allard told reporters that he is ready to ask for a full hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee to probe the sexual harassment incidents. The Graneys are not directly involved with the ongoing probe, but they too have struggled to force the Academy to deal with what they describe as a wider issue an atmosphere of failed leadership that they say drove their two sons out of the institution. The problem, as depicted by the Graneys in extensive interviews with DefenseWatch, is far more serious than even a dual standard favoring male cadets over females: It involves a disengaged Air Force commissioned officer cadre allowing the (largely-male) cadet chain of command to ignore longstanding regulations against physical and psychological abuse of cadets, and a propensity to sweep accusations of wrongdoing under the rug. The Graneys say they have come a long way from their excitement and pride in the summer of 2001 as their twin sons, Charlie and David, both arrived at Colorado Springs as Doolie (first-year) cadets in the Class of 2005. Instead of finding a strict and difficult but professional environment dedicated to teaching academic and military leadership skills, the Graneys say, their sons encountered a corrupt and dysfunctional institution where harassment and physical abuse was tolerated by the Academy brass. After Cadet Basic Training in the Summer of 2001, David Graney initially got off to a poor start during the academic year with the upper-class cadets in Cadet Squadron 17, particularly when he expressed dissatisfaction with the four degree system in which upper-class cadets train and discipline the newly-arrived Doolies. In early 2002, Graney found himself braced at attention by a cadet 3rd class (sophomore) who had been drinking. A cadet 1st class (senior) discovered this and turned the 3rd class into the Academys Honor Board for issues related to underage drinking. Graney subsequently testified to the Honor Board that he could smell alcohol on the cadets breath. After this incident, the Graneys said, other upper-class cadets singled out David Graney for extra training and multiple demerits in what his parents say was an obvious attempt to force him to resign. During the Academys annual Recognition training of the 4th class (freshman) cadets on March 17, 2002, and despite explicit regulations that prohibit physical hazing or contact, an upper-class cadet who was training David Graney, separated him from his peers against Academy regulations, and head-butted Graney twice as he performed pushups. The blows temporarily dazed Graney and as the upper-class cadet stood Graney up, he punched Graney in the torso. The blows to Graneys head caused a bloody knot over his temple. David Graney reported the incident to his Academy Officer Commanding (AOC) the next day. The Graneys say that when they heard from their son a day after the assault, they also reported the incident by telephone to Graneys AOC, an Air Force major, who assured them that this behavior was not tolerated at the Academy and that he would investigate. However, a month later in a follow-up conversation with the AOC initiated by Bill and Linda Graney, the parents realized that no investigation had occurred. After months of inquiries through the Academy chain of command, the Graneys learned from the results of three Freedom of Information Act requests they had filed that the AOC in late April one month after the assault occurred had finally ordered a probe, but assigned the investigation to the same upper-class cadets who had been harassing their son. The cadet investigators did secure an admission by the upper-class cadet that he had struck Graney, but they concluded that the
[CTRL] [JBirch] End the Endangered Species Act (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:49:44 -0500 (EST) From: Marv Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JBirch] End the Endangered Species Act Here is an excerpt from an article on the ESA by someone who's seen it in action: --- The ESA is abused each and every day. The wolf is a great example. The wolf has been listed, but how can it be endangered when they are abundant in Alaska and Canada, not to mention other parts of the world? The wolf is no where near extinction in the world. There are plenty of them. Just because one state or one county doesn't have any doesn't make them endangered. It's time to stop this zip coding of animals for listing. You see, that's the stupid joke they are playing with this act. This is the abuse that has been brought to this act, and many others that cause them to be tools to break down our freedoms and livelihoods. They don't do good things, they do harm with this abuse. --- Read it all at http://www.sierratimes.com/03/03/05/sheriff.htm The opinions expressed on this forum are those of the authors of the articles posted. The John Birch Society has no responsibility for anything that is posted on this forum. The OFFICIAL John Birch Society web page is a www.jbs.org Look alike clone pages, run by others, violate JBS policy. Visit The New American at www.thenewamerican.com The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke 1729-1797 Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who still have swords. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
-Caveat Lector- 3/10/2003 8:39:09 PM, klewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. And I respect your opinion. However, I will admit that most of what I am working on is impressions. As I pointed out, I changed my university programs because I wasn't sure I was getting the correct impressions about what I was learning. (Subsequent travels to Europe confirmed my suspicions.) I am well aware of the fact that I am not located in the midst of that about which I am drawing some inferences. Yet, we don't normally draw conclusions about subjects because we have complete and intimate knowledge of the events, personalities, and conditions of a certain body of knowledge or experience. What I am looking at is more along the lines of identifying the same kinds of things over time, a sort of trend analysis sampling sort of thing. Obviously, I've been to LA and have been in the area long enough and enough times to know what contributes to the 91-octane mornings and my impressions of them. Traffic and heat and inversion layers and smog alerts and how it creeps up over the mountains ... that sort of thing. The news tells us about some interns and I'm well aware that this represents a small percentage of the number who are/have been there and further represents a small percentage of what good or bad things get reported. That doesn't -- going back to my original comment -- distract from the fact that DC has quite a criminal problem, aside from the government activities. AnyTown, USA, doesn't work here. Maybe AnyBigCity will. And we have all learned from being in good places as well as bad. But when the location and the faculty is concentrating on one location that is supposed to represent all locations, therein lies my problem. We don't even know what the intern selection criteria is. We (they?) don't know who they are going to see and where they're going to go. Yet, if they are taken from places with the intention of taking them to a place that is the shining city upon the hill and they find that DC is not much different than where they came from, what's the point? Could they not have gained something similarly representative from their own -- representative -- state capital? In either case, they could have a guided (complete with blinders) tour anywhere. But sometimes the blind can even know more than the supposed sighted. Again, I am focussing on impressions (and a little research and some inside knowledge). I don't pretend to know all the ins and out, whos and whats, whys and wherefors, ifs, ands, or buts. But sometimes it makes more sense to not be overwhelmed by too many details in order to see what the overall impression is. I tend to be unlike the Pointilists who made their 'impressions' by memorising and categorising every dot of paint, they who were often too blind to even appreciate the work from a distance when it was completed. So, what they saw, they could not even see. A:E:R A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 'The Pentagon Papers' Movie
-Caveat Lector- SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close My Thoughts on 'The Pentagon Papers' Movie by Daniel Ellsberg Ellsberg.net March 11, 2003 Tonight (Sunday March 9th), the made-for-TV movie The Pentagon Papers, starring James Spader as Daniel Ellsberg and Claire Forlani as Patricia Ellsberg, premieres on the FX cable TV station, 8 PM Eastern/Pacific. The movie is not based on Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, (the script was written before Secrets came out), and oddly, FX never contacted Dan about the film or consulted him in any way. (The only contact, an impersonal one, was to send Ellsberg.Net along with hundreds of other websites a mass email after the film was made, asking that we place their banner ad on the site, in exchange for a link from theirs, which we did). Someone with access to the film, who thought Dan should be able to see the film that portrays him before it airs, leaked Dan an advance copy of the film (FX never gave it to him and was dismayed he had seen it before tonight). One would think, with so little interest in contacting Dan or using him as a source for the movie, that the film would be negative. Surprisingly, it is a respectful (though unnecessarily fictionalized) and sympathetic portrayal, with a timely and important underlying message. Here are some of Dan's thoughts on the film: Every bit of dialogue is completely fictional (with the exception of a dozen lines or so, mainly in my interview with Cronkite), nothing happened very closely to the way it is portrayed, and there are errors in almost every minute of the film. In fact, the script often has me saying things that I not only didn't say, but I never would have said; in many cases they are the opposite of what I believed. The same is true for most of the dialogue associated with other named characters; they obviously weren't consulted any more than I was. You could say that everything is wrong, in some degree: and yet, the overall story is true to the underlying feeling of the events. They have made a good movie, with an important message in favor of whistleblowing that I would endorse; and the timeliness of the message, undoubtedly by accident, is uncanny. The inaccuracies of the script are somewhat frustrating to me but they won't be noticed by many others, and every other aspect of the production is unusually well-done: the casting and acting, direction and editing, the photography. It was fun for Patricia and me to watch it together; we relived the start of our romance. As in the rest of script, the circumstances are all wrong, but James Spader and Claire Forlani show the electricity of our attraction, and Forlani conveys behind her eyes as one reviewer put it Patricia's intelligence as well as her beauty. We found it a gripping film, and I think others will too: one that is true to the spirit and feeling of the events, if not the letter. There's a chance this film could encourage more whistleblowers, which is what makes it so timely right now. It shows that it's possible for someone with the background and values that I shared with many current officials to change perspective and to decide to tell the truth to those outside the Executive branch, and it shows that in unforeseeable ways that can be effective. It shows that the personal costs of doing this can be worthwhile, in terms of the possibility of saving lives. I've been using every opportunity in the last five months to convey a message to current officials who know as I did in 1964-65 that the president, and their bosses, are lying us into a wrongful, reckless, unnecessary war. The message, which I think is implicit in this movie, is that they should consider doing right now, before the bombs are falling, what I wish I had done at a comparable point, in the months before the onset of the Rolling Thunder bombing: going to Congress and the press with documents that undercut official lies. There is still time to avert this war with sufficiently comprehensive truth-telling, though there's only a week or two left before the bombing may begin. That's why I'm particularly happy this film is coming out at this moment. If one individual in Washington gets that message by seeing this movie, and unloads a file- drawer of revelatory current documents to the press and Congress, it could make a great difference. A war's worth of lives is at stake. The Pentagon Papers on FX (If you missed Sunday the 9th, it will be playing five or six more times throughout the month. Check out www.tvguide.com or FX's page for the movie, for listings of future showings this month.) comments on this article? send them to backtalk! [visit backtalk!] Daniel Ellsberg worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision- making in Vietnam, 1945-68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1970, he leaked the study to Congress, and in 1971, to the press. Since the end of the Vietnam War he has been a lecturer, writer and activist on the
[CTRL] The psychology of cowards
-Caveat Lector- http://www.yt.org/article.php?sid=1133 The psychology of cowards Printed on Friday, March 07, 2003 02:42:18 EST ( ) By Bill Douglas YellowTimes.org Guest Columnist (United States) (YellowTimes.org) The most important question one can ask oneself is: 'Is the universe a friendly place?' -- Albert Einstein Albert Einstein recognized that from the answer to the question Is the universe a friendly place? one could extrapolate the direction of every subsequent life decision. One's entire reality would evolve from the answer to that one all-important question. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and others in the present U.S. government administration pulled strings to avoid military service in Vietnam. Why? Apparently not because they didn't oppose the red menace in Vietnam; after all, they supported others fighting that war. Therefore, the unavoidable answer to that question is cowardice. A coward sees the world as a very threatening place. Herein lies the danger to all the people of the world. When coward are in charge, they will direct the institution they lead to use all of its resources to protect themselves from harm. This perceived harm could be economic, political, or military. And they perceive harm coming from every corner, from under every bed, and from anyone and everyone who challenges their fearful view of the world. In a coward's world, you are either with us, or against us. The only way the coward can feel truly and ultimately feel safe is to destroy preemptively all possible challenges to their perceived safety. They don't savor competition and challenge, but rather see it as a direct threat. They have no vision of a win-win scenario because everyone is a potential enemy of their way of life. Therefore, all programs of social uplift must be dismantled because leveling an unfair playing field in the economic realm could pose a threat to their inherited place of economic ascendance. In the cowardly world of George W. Bush, free speech must be controlled. Public television and public radio must be de- funded because if they are not beholden to the corporate entities that share the Bush view of the world, they may allow views of the world that directly threaten Bush's safety and peace of mind. Because in a you're either with us or against us world, any diversity of opinion is inherently against us. Long-time allies who express dissenting opinions are immediately suspect, and implicitly supporting the enemy. On the political/military field, we must crush and/or make subservient every nation on earth. Only a castrated world can pose no threat to the coward. To have influence and control over the world's oil will effectively castrate much of the planet and render it a non-threat. In the coward's mind, the entire world is a very dangerous place. Divergent opinions from other nations are a threat. In fact, diversity itself is a threat. The facade of diversity is acceptable. Black and brown faces may appear in the coward's very white world. However, those black or brown faces must walk lockstep within the mindset of that world; otherwise, they too are against us. This is a Brave New World that humanity is embarking upon. It requires great courage, and an inherent faith in the goodness of humanity and nature. It will require us to let go of control of our lives so that we don't destroy our ecosystem by manic attempts to reign in the forces of nature to serve our will. It will require that we trust other's goodwill to do what is right in the world without us controlling all that they do. To actually foster democracy in other lands will inherently cause us to lose control of the decisions those people make such as electing populists like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to lead them. It will require faith. Faith is the opposite of fear. When one has faith, one does not fear even the Valley of the Shadow of Death. We live in a time when those who have little faith are controlling our nation. They are driving the force and will of our nation in the direction of control and conquest to allay their bottomless fears. What they cannot see is that there is no absolute safety, and, in fact, the pursuit of that absolute safety is a manic course that will only make the world more and more unsafe. America mourned the death of 3,000 innocents on 9-11. That mourning was carefully directed into a manic rage of fear. This manic rage enables good people to justify the slaughter of untold thousands in the name of our safety. The revulsion of a world that will witness this slaughter in Technicolor broadcasts will create a very dangerous mood for America to endure. Of course, the American media will try to protect U.S. citizens from the images of mayhem and horror that several hundred missiles unleashed upon the crowded city of Baghdad will undoubtedly cause. But the U.S. media, try as it might, will not be able to prevent the rest of the world from witnessing this horrific crime against humanity. The world
[CTRL] US firms set to cash in
-Caveat Lector- 10am update http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,911943,00.html US firms set to cash in on reconstruction of Iraq Danny Penman and agencies Tuesday March 11, 2003 The Guardian The American government is on the verge of awarding construction contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild Iraq once Saddam Hussein is deposed. Halliburton, one of the companies in the running for the highly profitable deals, was formerly headed by the US vice-president, Dick Cheney. Halliburton has already been awarded a lucrative contract to resurrect the Iraqi oilfields if there is a war. Other companies have strong ties to the US administration, including the construction giant Bechtel, the Fluor Corporation, and the Louis Berger Group, which is involved in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Only US companies are on the shortlist of five. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) defended the narrow shortlist. A spokeswoman said: Because of the urgent circumstances and the unique nature of this work, USAID will undertake a limited selection process that expedites the review and selection of contractors for these projects. The spokeswoman said that it was a policy of USAID to use US companies for projects funded by the American taxpayer. Non-US companies were free, through their governments, to organise their own business, she said. The winning company would get about $900m (563m) to repair Iraqi health services, ports, airports, schools and other educational institutions. Sources at the companies said the invitation was unusual in that USAID did not ask them to set a price for defined services but rather asked them to say what they could do for $900m. All five bidders have submitted their proposals or are preparing to do so after USAID quietly sent out a detailed request soliciting proposals from the likely bidders. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Iraq reconstruction plan will require contractors to fulfil various tasks, including reopening at least half of the economically important roads and bridges - about 1,500 miles of roadway within 18 months. The contractors will also be asked to repair 15% of high-voltage electricity grid, renovate several thousand schools and deliver 550 emergency generators within two months. Construction industry executives said the handful of firms are competing fiercely in part because they believe it could provide an inside track to postwar business opportunities. The most highly sought-after prizes are oil industry contracts. The US government is believed to be wary of any backlash against an invasion and is preparing plans for a hearts and minds operation that will swing into place as soon as the country is occupied. The government is mindful of the long-term benefits of feeding hungry Iraqis, delivering clean water, and by paying teachers and health workers. It's a sensitive topic because we still haven't gone to war, said one industry executive. But these companies are really in a position to win something out of this geopolitical situation. It remains unclear whether Iraqis, Americans or an international consortium will manage the oil industry during an early post-conflict period. Steven Schooner, a George Washington University law professor, said many billions of dollars are at stake. He estimated that $900m would barely last six months given the scope of the projects the administration has sketched out. The most sophisticated firms that come in first, and establish good will with the locals obviously will reap huge benefits down the road, said Mr Schooner. These are going to become brand names in Iraq. That's huge. Guardian Unlimited Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its
[CTRL] Parking in the Dead Zone
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,911638,00.html Necropolis proves headache for Vatican car park builders Sophie Arie in Rome Tuesday March 11, 2003 The Guardian Tombs from the time of the Roman emperor Nero have been unearthed as the Vatican tried to clear space for a multi-level underground car park. Digging for the 300-space car park began several months ago, but Vatican officials are now rethinking the project after the remains of the nearly 2,000-year-old necropolis were unearthed. Among the graves is the tombstone of Nero's secretary, along with well- preserved urns and amphorae. Officials denied that the plans for the car park would threaten the discovery. Of course, no one will destroy any archaeological finds, said Monsignor Francesco Marchisano, the head of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology. Other Vatican officials, desperate to decongest the Vatican, told the newspaper la Repubblica that ancient ruins were uncovered every time digging began in Italy. In this case they did not seem that important, they said, and should not prevent the car park from being built. These days, even in the Vatican, it's difficult to drive around and find somewhere to park, said Archbishop Gianni Danzi, who is in charge of the Vatican's technical department. The three-level car park is planned near a popular supermarket inside the walls of Vatican City. The Vatican has faced growing parking problems in recent years as its 900 residents compete with outsiders for slots. Visitors tend to leave their cars in the Holy See before walking over the bridge across the Tiber into the restricted centre of Rome. Before the 2000 Jubilee, the Pope blessed a 900-space car-and-coach park on the Janiculum Hill, next to the Vatican. Before it could be completed, the frescoed walls of a second-century villa had had to be removed by the Italian culture ministry. Archaeological experts from the Vatican Museum were called in to advise on the new car park in late February, reportedly when security guards stopped a lorry leaving the building site loaded with amphorae and tombstones from the necropolis, inscribed in Latin. Professor Andrea Carandini, - the archaeologist who led excavations of the walls on the Palatine hill, where legend has it that Romulus founded the city of Rome - said: I don't believe that death should always triumph over life. Sometimes the two can live together, as is the case for the Athens metro. But first, they need to decide if they really need this car park. Guardian Unlimited Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003 Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Ralph of Enron
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7405-2003Mar10.html washingtonpost.com GOP Consultant Named in Enron Ruling By PETE YOST The Associated Press Monday, March 10, 2003; 7:41 PM In a controversy that touched White House political adviser Karl Rove, Enron Corp., signed contracts with GOP consultant Ralph Reed worth more than half a million dollars, the Federal Election Commission revealed in a ruling. Enron paid Reed, the former Christian Coalition leader, about $300,000 before the energy company's collapse. The payments came to light as part of an FEC inquiry into whether Enron's hiring of GOP consultant Reed was a sham designed to disguise an in-kind contribution from Enron to Bush's presidential effort. In dismissing a complaint against Rove and the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign, the FEC disclosed that the Enron-Reed ties involved far more money than has previously been reported. The FEC said that just months before Enron filed for bankruptcy in 2001 it entered into a one-year contract paying Reed $30,000 a month plus expenses. The contract was for ongoing advice and counsel to Enron in pushing deregulation in the energy industry. The FEC ruling says that the agreement apparently was cut short after four months as Enron careened toward bankruptcy. Reed collected about $200,000 from two earlier Enron contracts beginning in 1997 as Bush prepared a bid for president and then ran, the FEC ruling disclosed. The FEC ruling also revealed generous terms of the first contract Reed's firm had with Enron. Under it, the agreement for $114,000 plus expenses was to continue in full, even if Reed's firm finished the work early. Reed spokeswoman Elizabeth Baggett declined comment Monday about the FEC ruling, which was dated Feb. 28. The controversy stems from a New York Times story a year ago which quoted unidentified associates of Rove as saying he had told them he recommended Reed's firm to Enron in 1997 in order to keep Reed's favor for a potential Bush candidacy. Judicial Watch, a conservative group, filed the complaint alleging violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act. The FEC found that Reed's firm performed work for Enron in 1997, collecting thousands of signatures in Pennsylvania where state officials were crafting an electricity deregulation plan. On the other hand, the FEC noted an apparent lack of work for the money in 1998. Nevertheless, the FEC said that on balance the evidence indicates that the retention of Reed's company was bona fide and not designed to hide a contribution to Bush. In responding to the FEC's inquiries, Enron's lawyers stated that the Enron employees who were involved in this process do not recall having any communication with Mr. Rove or any person who represented Mr. Bush in his capacity as a potential presidential candidate, nor do they recall being aware of any communication encouraging them to hire Reed or his firm. The White House confirmed a year ago that Rove recommended Reed to Enron. The New York Times article quoted Rove as saying that he thinks he talked to someone at Enron about Reed but could not remember who or when. The FEC said that given the passage of time, nothing is inherently incredible about the apparent failure of recollection by either Rove or Enron's executives. 2003 The Associated Press Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please
[CTRL] A Far-Right Texan
-Caveat Lector- http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB104725224693862700,00.html A Far-Right Texan Inspires Antiwar Left By SHAILAGH MURRAY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- A far-right Republican congressman from Texas is looking like a voice of reason to the antiwar left. Ron Paul is a political iconoclast who takes his libertarian ideology seriously. He's a cheerful advocate of all sorts of unpopular causes like abolishing the federal minimum wage and returning to the gold standard. That few of his ideas will ever catch on doesn't deter him one bit. Rep. Paul's nickname is Dr. No because he votes against so many things, often alone. Despite his lack of clout in Congress, he ran as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate in 1988, drawing less than one half of 1% of the vote. But on an Iraq war Mr. Paul is finding plenty of allies, especially at the other end of the political spectrum. Unlike his fellow Texas Republican in the White House, the retired obstetrician believes Saddam Hussein poses no direct threat to Americans and wants the U.S. to mind its own business. A fiscal conservative, he also believes the country can't afford the war's potentially staggering cost. Ultimately, our money, weapons, and interventionist policies never buy us friends for long, Mr. Paul wrote in one of his recent columns, which are published on a range of Web sites, including libertarian and Christian. And more often we simply arm our future enemies. Rep. Paul attracts special attention across the Atlantic, far more than in the mainstream U.S. media that largely ignores him. Writings such as his 35 Questions That Won't Be Asked About Iraq have appeared in French, German, Russian, Italian and Swiss publications. The congressman's 3,200- word Statement Opposing the Use of Military Force in Iraq was posted on the progressive New Zealand publication Scoop, two days after its Oct. 8 delivery on the House floor. Mr. Paul has even inspired an antiwar group, the Washington-based National Peace Lobby Project. It was formed Feb. 6 to promote a resolution introduced by Mr. Paul and Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio that would repeal the authorization of military force in Iraq that Congress granted to Mr. Bush last year. Project founder Jenifer Deal is a Washington actress and D.C. Green Party official. What we have here is a nexus of ideological concerns, Ms. Deal says of her alliance with Mr. Paul. It doesn't faze her that she disagrees with the congressman on almost every other subject. If he were a fascist Klansman, I would obviously have misgivings, she says. But I actually think Ron Paul has tremendous moral courage. Mr. Paul's aggressive stand, a stark contrast to most mainstream politicians reluctant to challenge the president, hasn't hurt him with his southeast Texas constituents -- in fact, he is more popular than ever. In November, weeks after joining just five other Republicans voting against giving Mr. Bush authority to go to war, Mr. Paul was re-elected with 68% of the vote. It was his most lopsided victory ever. It's so clear where he is, and that works for him, says Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a liberal Texas Democrat from an adjoining district. Mr. Paul believes that, privately, he has much broader support within his party. If this had been a Clinton war, the majority of Republicans would be with me, he says, noting that most of his colleagues refused to support North Atlantic Treaty Organization airstrikes in Kosovo. Mr. Paul's swath of rural Texas stretches southeast from Austin to the Gulf of Mexico. The region is populated by farmers and small-town folk who voted twice against President Clinton and overwhelmingly backed Mr. Bush. Mr. Doggett describes the mood as rugged individualism and independence of the Texas frontier spirit. Mr. Paul, in an interview, attributes his record re-election margin to the combined forces of independent- minded Ross Perot types and Democrats who are upset that their national party leaders aren't rigorously challenging Mr. Bush on Iraq. Local Republicans, too, have misgivings about their former governor's actions. I think people are a little apprehensive about what's going on, says Mary Wyatt, leader of the Republican Party in Victoria County. President Bush has a tremendous level of support here, but everyone is concerned. THE LONELY CRUSADER Right-wing and antiwar, Ron Paul is in a category all to himself on Capitol Hill. Born: Aug. 20, 1935, in Pittsburgh Occupation: Obstetrician/Gynecologist Ideological Inconsistency: A libertarian who supports a government ban on abortion Political Inspirations: Doctor Zhivago; Austrian economist and free- marketeer Ludwig von Mises Radical Positions: Wants to abolish the IRS and federal drug laws Infamous Quote: I fear, and there's a lot of people in this country who fear, that they may be bombed by the federal government at another Waco. -- (C-Span, February 1997) Source: Congressional
[CTRL] He did it! No, he did it!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.msnbc.com/news/882813.asp?cp1=1 Exclusive: The Blame Game Between Bush and the Brits Fall out over fake letters By Richard Wolffe, Mark Hosenball and Tamara Lipper NEWSWEEK March 17 issue They have been the closest of allies. But under the intense pressure of a diplomatic crisis at the United Nations and an imminent war in Iraq, the friendship between the United States and Britain is beginning to fray. The most recent strain emerged when U.N. nuclear inspectors concluded last week that U.S. and British claims about Iraqs secret nuclear program were based on forged documents. The fake letters supposedly laid out how Iraqi agents had tried to purchase uranium from officials in Niger, central Africa. WHO WAS TO BLAME for undermining the case against Saddam? One Bush administration official told NEWSWEEK that the uranium story was promoted by the British. U.S. intelligence has always been skeptical, said one official, saying there was no corroboration for the British report. However, the British government never named Niger as the potential supplier for Iraqs nuclear program. The Brits carefully said in September that Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. London claimed several sources linking Iraq to a number of African states, but never named Niger. It was the Bush administration that named Niger in mid-December, when it listed dozens of omissions in Iraqs weapons declaration to the United Nations. Meanwhile, British officials have questioned the suggestion by Secretary of State Colin Powell that there are links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. And London has complained that the Bush administration has limited diplomatic maneuvering room with its harsh rhetoric and restrictive U.N. deadlines. Privately, British officials agree with their French counterparts that there has been a rush to war led by the United Statesa rush dictated by the political cycle in Washington and military concerns about the weather, rather than the need to build a broad coalition against Iraq. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair also differ on the whole U.N. process. One senior Bush administration official admitted last week that the latest resolution was designed only to help the British and Spanish leaders at home, where they face huge opposition to war. Another U.S. official said Bush didnt even care about the language of the resolution. But for Blair, the fate of the latest vote will influence whether he wins or loses a parliamentary vote on warand that, in turn, could even determine whether he keeps his job in Downing Street. That pressure helps explain the striking difference between the passionate British pitch at the United Nations last week, and the weary speech from Powell. Bush last week said it was time for all members of the Security Council to show their cards. The danger for Blair is that for him, the vote will soon look like a busted flush. 2003 Newsweek, Inc. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL
[CTRL] Fwd: Why Has It Taken Iraq 12 Years to Disarm?
-Caveat Lector- --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Institute for Public Accuracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Why Has It Taken Iraq 12 Years to Disarm? Date: 3/11/2003 7:32:02 AM Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Interviews Available: Why Has It Taken Iraq 12 Years to Disarm? In his presentation before the Security Council on Friday, Hans Blix claimed: If Iraq had provided the necessary cooperation in 1991, the phase of disarmament -- under resolution 687 -- could have been short and a decade of sanctions could have been avoided. However, an examination of U.S. policy indicates that for the last 12 years the U.S. government has maintained the economic sanctions regardless of Iraqi actions towards the weapons inspectors, creating a disincentive for compliance -- and helping to explain why Iraq has taken so long to comply: April 3, 1991: U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 687, the cease fire resolution. It includes many demands but states that once Iraq complies with the weapons inspection regime, the economic sanctions shall have no further force or effect. May 20, 1991: President George Bush: At this juncture, my view is we don't want to lift these sanctions as long as Saddam Hussein is in power. March 26, 1997: Madeleine Albright, in her first major foreign policy address as Secretary of State: We do not agree with the nations who argue that if Iraq complies with its obligations concerning weapons of mass destruction, sanctions should be lifted. Mid-Dec., 1998: A widely-criticized report is issued by UNSCOM head Richard Butler who, under U.S. pressure, withdraws UNSCOM inspectors, and the U.S. begins the Desert Fox bombing campaign on the eve of President Clinton's scheduled impeachment vote. Jan. 1999: U.S. media report that, contrary to U.S. denials, UNSCOM was used for espionage. Oct. 1, 2002: Just as Iraq is deciding whether or not to let inspectors have total access to presidential palaces, Ari Fleischer talks of the cost of one bullet being less than the cost of invasion. Early March, 2003: As Iraq is destroying Al-Samoud missiles, U.S. escalates its bombing of no-fly zones. March 3, 2003: Richard Boucher, State Department spokesperson, claims: We have made clear all along that the goal was disarmament. March 6, 2003: President George W. Bush: We will be changing the regime of Iraq. BERT SACKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.scn.org/ccpi Sacks has been to Iraq nine times, most recently with Rep. Jim McDermott. RAÑIA MASRI, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.southernstudies.org, http://www.iraqaction.org Director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center, Masri has written extensively on Iraq. SAM HUSSEINI, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.accuracy.org/SH030803.htm, http://www.accuracy.org/iraq Communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy -- and author of the recent article Follow the Policy: Why So Long for Iraq to Comply? -- Husseini said today: Taking a clear-eyed look at U.S. policy not only explains why Iraq has taken this long to comply, it raises extremely troubling questions about the actual -- as opposed to stated -- goals of U.S. foreign policy through three administrations. For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 _ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To be removed from the list, send any message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For all list information and functions, including changing your subscription mode and options, visit the Web page: http://lists.accuracy.org/lists/info/public End of forwarded message Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A
[CTRL] Vipers
-Caveat Lector- http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00071.htm Sludge Report #148 - A Nest Of Vipers, But Whose? Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 1:39 pm Column: C.D. Sludge In This Edition: A Nest Of Vipers On Penn. Ave. (And Across The Pacific In The Lodge Too) - But What Of Our Guardians In The Fourth Estate? WHOSE VIPERS? Did George Bush Junior Work For Langley Like His Dad? What Did The Dim Son Do When He Was AWOL? - Richard Perle Is A Spy - Richard Perle Is A Also War Profiteer - War Is Just A Racket: History Always Repeats NOTE: Authors of this report will be anonymous and wide ranging, and occasionally finely balanced. Indeed you are invited to contribute: The format is as a reporters notebook. It will be published as and when material is available. C.D. Sludge can be contacted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Sludge Report is available as a free email service..Click HERE - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/myscoop/ to subscribe... http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0303/d3673ed54464699dcf9a.jpeg Sludge Report #148 A Nest Of Vipers On Penn. Ave. (And Across The Pacific In The Lodge Too) It is probably a bit unkind to vipers to say so, but here at Scoop we have of late being making much of George W. Bush's administration's use of deceit in the information war. And Sludge has now decided it is probably perfectly reasonable to add Australian PM John Howard to the list of pathological liars who are leading the world to war. The official US and Australian PR strategy for the war is now more than clear. To misquote Robert The Bruce, the motto being followed at propaganda central in both Canberra and Washington these days is: If at first you don't convince, lie, lie again. For fairness's sake Sludge is not including Tony Blair among this nest of vipers at this point, not because he is not lying (he is) but because he has at least done his best to answer as many questions as possible on why the world must now go to war. Blair's recent appearances on ITN and MTV were examples of the most high-church self-flagellating imaginable, worthy indeed of Henry the 2nd mourning his friend Bishop Beckett, and for this he deserves some small credit. At a press conference here in Wellington yesterday Sludge was privileged to view one of the main protagonists of the plot to destroy peace on earth in action in person. Australian PM John Howard's strategy in answering questions on his planned war is exactly the same as that displayed by the, apparently medicated , US President (a.k.a. The Xanax Cowboy) at his press conference last Thursday (Friday NZT). Namely: 1) avoid answering all questions unless they are patently self-serving, instead; 2) waffle on at length mentioning a lot of buzzword phrases; 3) mention terrorism, 911 (and in Howard's case Bali) as frequently as possible; 4) claim that making the decision to go to war is troubling you greatly personally, but that it is the burden of leadership; and, 5) never allow a follow-up question, as someone may take you up on one of the lies in your previous answer. Sludge highly recommends the following articles for further reading by the inimitable Dennis Hans on the subject of the techniques of official deceit. - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00040.htm Dennis Hans: Bush the Fork-Tongued Scaredy Cat - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00011.htm Dennis Hans: The Disinformation Age http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00061.htm Exposing Bush and His Techniques of Deceit Dennis says it far better, and therefore it will suffice here to use just one example from Howard's display of sophistry yesterday. Leaving aside the diversion in the opening sentence alluding to the world being in agreement that this is all about Iraq (the current crisis is not about Iraq disarming, it is about the US, Australia and the UK contemplating tearing up the International Rule of Law), consider the following: I mean, we have a common view, all of us, we want Iraq disarmed, wed love to see it occur peacefully, now that requires in my view a united expression of world opinion through the Security Council and it involves a recognition on the part of the Iraqis that the game is up. Now you won't, in my view, get those two things occurring if you dont have a united expression of opinion in the Security Council. Good point, John. Only thing, isn't the answer also obvious? If you want unanimity in the UN Security Council then why are you holding a gun to its head? Why does the world have to have a vote this week? And why does the world have to agree to the US and UK solution to the crisis, seemingly without argument for the world to become a safer place? Of course noone was able to ask the Australian PM these questions. *** But What Of Our Guardians In The Fourth Estate? What indeed? Fortunately for the incumbent inhabitants of the Lodge, in Canberra, and the White House, in Washington D.C., the Security and Defence reporting community in the
[CTRL] Trouble Ahead For New US Colony
-Caveat Lector- washingtonpost.com For Army, Fears of Postwar Strife Iraq's Historic Factions May Severely Test a U.S. Occupying Force By Vernon Loeb and Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, March 11, 2003; Page A01 The U.S. Army is bracing both for war in Iraq and a postwar occupation that could tie up two to three Army divisions in an open-ended mission that would strain the all-volunteer force and put soldiers in the midst of warring ethnic and religious factions, Army officers and other senior defense officials say. While the officers believe a decade of peacekeeping operations in Haiti, Somalia, the Balkans and now Afghanistan makes the Army uniquely qualified for the job, they fear that bringing democracy and stability to Iraq may be an impossible task. An occupation force of 45,000 to 60,000 Army troops -- the range under consideration by the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- could force an end to peace-time training and rotation cycles in a service already deployed in Germany, Korea, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Sinai. Army officials note that they missed reserve recruiting goals in January and February, as potential reservists faced lengthy overseas deployments instead of the regular commitment of 39 days a year. There is even talk among senior officers that the Marine Corps may be assigned peacekeeping chores in northern Iraq to help share the burden. But the greatest source of concern among senior Army leaders is the uncertainty and complexity of the mission in postwar Iraq, which could require U.S. forces to protect Iraq's borders, referee clashes between ethnic and religious groups, ensure civilian security, provide humanitarian relief, secure possible chemical and biological weapons sites, and govern hundreds of towns and villages. Should U.S. forces succeed in overthrowing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, they will inherit a country divided among armed and organized Kurdish factions in the north, restless majority Shiites in the south and a Sunni population that has been the backbone of Hussein's Baath Party rule. Adding to the complexity will be the interests of at least two bordering powers -- Turkey, which has its own Kurdish minority and opposes any move toward greater Kurdish autonomy, and Iran, which has historic ties to Iraqi Shiites. There's going to be a power vacuum, said one senior defense official sympathetic to the Army. How will that be filled? I'm not an expert in the region, but if you use the Balkans as a model, we may be getting into the middle of a civil war. The Army is wary of being the one left to clean up after the party is over, added retired Lt. Col. Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank. Retired Army Maj. Gen. William L. Nash commanded the first Army peacekeeping operation in the Balkans in 1995. He also occupied the area around the Iraqi town of Safwan on the Kuwaiti border with three battalions for 21/2 months after the 1991 Gulf War. During that mission, his troops dealt with recurring murders, attempted murders, ample opportunity for civil disorder, and refugee flows they never could fully fathom, he said. Nash said he believes 200,000 U.S. and allied forces will be necessary to stabilize Iraq, noting that up to two divisions alone -- 25,000 to 50,000 troops -- could be required just to guard any chemical or biological weapons sites that are discovered until the weapons are disposed of properly. There's apprehension inside the Army as to the extent of the mission and a concern that there hasn't been the recognition by the senior leadership -- I read civilian -- as to the enormity of the challenge, Nash said. The Army's concern bubbled up publicly two weeks ago when Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the Army's chief of staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that several hundred thousand soldiers could be necessary for peacekeeping duties. Two days later, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz -- one of the architects of the president's postwar ambitions in Iraq -- took the unusual step of publicly differing with the Army chief, dismissing his estimate as way off the mark. Shinseki and other defense officials have said they hope allied forces will contribute significantly to the postwar mission, though it is unclear how much other countries will be willing to pitch in. The Bush administration has experienced difficulties recruiting other countries to send forces to the Afghan peacekeeping mission. Ivo H. Daalder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said recent history shows that 60,000 peacekeepers were needed in Bosnia to separate warring ethnic factions, just one facet of the mission that could confront the Army in postwar Iraq. And Bosnia's population is 4 million, 17 percent of Iraq's 23 million. I have no doubt that the Army is perfectly capable of doing an extraordinarily good job on this, Daalder said. This is something we know how to do, as
[CTRL] Fwd: Who's Watching the (Outsourced) Watchers?
-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- VIDIUS: Just another Israeli intelligence-born high-tech "security" company that's now weaselling its way into one US corporate/government computer network after another, under the guise of fighting (of course) "child pornography" and (top selling point!) "terrorism." Ten years from now, we'll all be wondering how Mossad managed to obtain certain top secret classified data from the Pentagon. Not to mention taking advantage of opportunities for identity theft and money laundering ___ Privacy Digest Feb 21, 2001 LA Times - New Technologies Target Swapping of Bootlegged Files "...the new security tools are double-edged swords." "Although Vidius and IpArchive say they are interested only in pirated entertainment and software, in theory the same technologies could be used on any large data file ... "Robert Ellis Smith, editor of Privacy Journal, a monthly newsletter that explores contemporary threats to privacy, said the anti-piracy technologies are just one element in a wave of efforts to track consumers' behavior on the Web. But he gives Vidius and IpArchive credit for being overt and direct when enforcing copyrights by cutting off a download." __ http://www.larta.org/LAVOX/ArticleLinks/10-15_techterrorism.htm The Emerging Front Southern California may emerge as an important center for the unfolding national mission. With this issue of LA VOX, larta begins profiling regional companies involved in various "mission-critical" areas. Between aiding disaster and recovery operations and tracking heavily encrypted and dangerous communication over networks, these two larta poster children are typical of a new breed of company, born in the throes of "defense conversion" and suddenly more relevant to national security again. North Hollywood [and Israel]-based Vidius has kept busy assisting the the RIAA with its efforts to trace swapping of copyrighted songs. Vidius' network security technology tracks the sharing of licensed material over decentralized, peer to peer networks like Gnutella and Fastrack, (unlike Napster which is a centralized, server-based system). Vidius' technology was primarily developed for detecting and penetrating heavily encrypted files that would normally provide a cloak of anonymity to the participants, thus helping the recording industry stay on top of the increasingly dispersed and sophisticated means of file sharing as they unfold. Vidius' interest in law enforcement applications began recently when the company established contact with the FBI earlier this year, proposing the use of their technology to track the distribution and sales of child pornography over networks. During a meeting last May with congressional members in Los Angeles, the company also indicated that these channels were being utilized by terrorist networks and that the technology could serve to track that activity. After September 11, company CEO Derek Broes says, "it just became obvious that it was necessary." "Law enforcement has been using steganography and encryption technology for years," says Broes. (steganography allows for the hiding of data within graphic files.) The new challenge is the widespread use of peer-to-peer networks and the ease with which information gets transferred. Peer-to-peer networks, based as they are on "open source" standards, are ubiquitous and easily assembled. And while mass distribution networks are designed for widespread trading of, say, music files, he adds, " it's not that difficult for someone within the open source community or someone that has an engineering background to develop their own peer to peer network that is only distributed to select people." While each
[CTRL] The Myth of War Prosperity
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2003/tst031003.htm The Myth of War Prosperity Rep. Ron Paul War has many costs, both human and economic, that must be carefully considered now that an invasion of Iraq appears imminent. The greatest cost of war, of course, is the cost in human lives. We all hope and pray that no Americans are killed or injured in Iraq. But the economic costs of war must also be considered. There is a commonly-held myth that war creates prosperity. Many believe that World War II ended the Great Depression. Unemployment went down because hundreds of thousands of men were drafted, and factories at home busied themselves with war production. This provided the illusion of a bustling wartime economy. But in truth the economy shrank and GDP plummeted. The hidden costs were enormous, because so much human energy and human capital was expended fighting the war rather than doing productive, specialized work back home. Bastiats broken window fallacy applies to our current dilemma in the Middle East. The situation in Iraq is the broken pane of glass, and fixing it will appear to benefit the economy in the short run. Certain industries will certainly benefit. But the hidden opportunity costs will again be enormous. The hidden costs will be the loss of economic activity that would have occurred if the money spent waging war had instead been spent at home. Inflation is certain during wartime, as the Treasury prints more money to fund military expenses. Our dollar will become weaker against other currencies because of the uncertainty caused by turmoil in the Middle East. Control of Iraqi oil wells, which is often cited as an economic windfall from the war, is not guaranteed and might not happen quickly. Oil prices almost certainly will skyrocket and will remain inflated after the war, especially given the deteriorating buying power of our own dollars. We should expect the financial markets to react badly to an invasion of Iraq. Although military victory should be swift, prolonged urban fighting in Baghdad or other cities would cause investor confidence to plunge. This lack of confidence in the U.S. economy will make trade more difficult and cause our trade deficit to rise. Furthermore, taxes or deficits necessarily rise when the nations productivity falls because of war. Estimates of war spending range from $100 billion to $200 billion, a figure that does not include tens of billions needed for nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq. As with past wars, a huge surge in spending will happen as tax revenues are falling dramatically. This spending can be sustained only by printing more money, borrowing from foreign nations, or raising taxes- all of which harm the economy. The greatest economic cost of war, however, comes from the expansion in the size and scope of government. Government always grows during wars and other crises. As economist Murray Rothbard noted, government uses crises to Engineer the great leaps forward, in the size of the state. When the crisis ends, government never returns to its former size. As government expands, individual liberty necessarily shrinks. True prosperity cannot exist without individual liberty and its corollaries of limited government, property rights, and free markets. Ultimately, war leaves us with less freedom at home. The sad irony is that while our soldiers have fought for the freedom of Europe, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, and Iraq, the government uses war to steadily diminish freedom here at home. While we fight a war in Iraq, we must also fight to maintain and restore individual liberty in America.
[CTRL] Fwd: [narconews] Saytanides: Legislators from 6 Nations Call for Drug Legalization
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- March 11, 2003 Please Distribute Widely Never before have I met face-to-face with congressmen from other Latin American countries - Senator Carlos Gaviria, Colombia, in Mérida Dear Colleagues, As we complete our Full Coverage of last month's historic Drug Legalization Summit in Mérida, México, we want to provide you with more details about one of the most important meetings to occur there: that of the legislators from different corners of our América. Narco News Authentic Journalism Scholar Adam Saytanides - recent graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Chicago - has already reported to you the role of Mexican Congressman Gregorio Urías in constructing cross-border coordination toward ending drug prohibition, concretely, on the legislative front. Today, Saytanides offers an overview of what each of the legislators - from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Uruguay - had to say in Mérida about the legislative prospects in their own houses and the potential for Panamerican coordination among Senators and Congress members: http://www.narconews.com/ On a personal note, because your J-School president is particularly proud to have rising talents like Saytanides on the intercontinental News Team, I'd also like to bring your attention to the February 28 cover story in the prestigious Chicago Reader: 'In Pakistan, She Would Be Dead': The needs of a little girl with cerebral palsy run up against Ashcroft's stringent new antiterrorism measures. This brilliant 4,000-word work of Authentic Journalism was reported and authored by the very same Adam Saytanides. (On the Chicago Reader website, it is only available by pay-per-view... all the more reason we're thrilled to be able to offer you the gift of Saytanides' reporting gratis at Narco News.) from somewhere in a country called América, Al Giordano Publisher (on Sabbatical?) The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews Suscríbete gratis para alertas de reportajes nuevos en Español: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory
[CTRL] Fwd: [CIA-DRUGS] Zbig c1983 Re: 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- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle, 1983 p530 The Future "the problem is not global domination by the Soviet Union... centralization of national security in the white house...for the mass public it is easier to understand problems if they are reduced to black/white dichotomies...hawks or doves...in one phase, Realpolitik is extolled as the highest virtue; in another the enhancement and application of American power is denigrated as immoral and unwarranted" From: Sean McBride To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:40 PM Subject: Re: [CIA-DRUGS] Re: Bush Sr warning over unilateral action ..Do you really think that Jimmy Carter is in agreement with Perle? B No, but that wouldn't be thesis-antithesis-synthesis, would it? Itisn't a matter of extrapolatingsimple compromise or by averaging, either. 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---
Re: [CTRL] Trouble Ahead For New US Colony
-Caveat Lector- Can you say "Selective Service?" JR - Original Message - From: flw To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:47 AM Subject: [CTRL] Trouble Ahead For New US Colony -Caveat Lector-washingtonpost.comFor Army, Fears of Postwar StrifeIraq's Historic Factions May Severely Test a U.S. Occupying Force 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] Fw: Northern Watch Flies Top Cover for U.S. Envoy in Northern Iraq
-Caveat Lector- They must have been feeding those pilots "stay awake pills" by the gross. - JR - Original Message - From: Press Service To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:30 AM Subject: Northern Watch Flies Top Cover for U.S. Envoy in Northern Iraq By Maj. Bob ThompsonSpecial to the American Forces Press ServiceINCIRLIK AIR BASE, TURKEY, March 11, 2003 -- What started out as arequest for 48 hours of combat air patrols turned into six days ofpractically nonstop flying as Operation Northern Watch kept skiesclear while a U.S. envoy met with Iraqi opposition leaders in northernIraq.Though not designed for around-the-clock operations, OperationNorthern Watch aircraft patrolled Iraqi skies for more than 129 hourswhile flying 290 sorties between Feb. 24 and March 2."This was one of the most challenging missions ever accomplished inthe history of Operation Northern Watch," said Brig. Gen. Robin Scott,co-commanding general of the combined task force based here. "Ourpeople proved once again that we have the best pilots, the bestaircraft and the best maintainers in the world."During the long hours of support to the envoy's meeting on dangerousground, Operation Northern Watch achieved historic "firsts." For thefirst time, coalition aircraft dropped precision-guided bombs Feb. 24in response to threats from Iraqi mobile surface-to-surface missilelaunchers south of Mosul. The operation conducted its first leafletdrop March 1, northeast of Mosul -- the 240,000 flyers warned Iraqigunners not to target or fire upon coalition aircraft."It was truly a team effort," Scott said. "My co-commander, Brig. Gen.(Levent) Turkmen and his staff worked tirelessly, providing thenecessary coordination and approvals from myriad Turkish agencies tokeep the mission on track. The 39th Wing worked with us day and nightto ensure we had all the support we needed to carry out the mission."Though definitely not a first, coalition aircraft also came underIraqi anti-aircraft-artillery fire midway through the missions andresponded Feb. 27 by knocking out military communication sites westand south of Mosul.Since the end of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, coalition forces haveenforced the Northern No-fly Zone despite being fired upon by theIraqis nearly every mission."Our day-to-day Operation Northern Watch mission is difficult anddangerous even under normal circumstances," Scott said. "Last week,despite long hours, marginal weather conditions and nighttimeoperations, our team stayed at the top of their game and made it lookeasy."To keep up with the heavy demand for air refueling, Operation EnduringFreedom tankers and aircrews were quickly drafted to support themissions over northern Iraq."During the six days of the operation, our tanker team offloaded 5.6million pounds during in-flight refueling," Scott said. "Without thesecrucial assets, we would have never maintained our 24/7 operationsover Iraq."During the mission, coalition fighters, tankers, intelligence,surveillance and reconnaissance assets worked as a team to enforce theno-fly zone and provide air cover. Missions required a mix of aircraftand on any given day have included the E-3B Sentry AWACS, EA-6BProwler, EP-3 Aries II, F-15C Eagle, F-16CJ and F-16CG Falcons, UH-60Black Hawk helicopter, MC-130 Combat Talon, KC-135R Stratotanker, C-12Huron, British GR-3 Jaguar, Nimrod and VC-10 Tankers.AWACS crews of the 970th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadronfrom Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., flew 14 sorties and 173 hourswithout a single air or ground abort.Operation Northern Watch personnel received thanks and congratulationsfrom Gen. Charles Wald, deputy commander of U.S. European Command;Gen. Gregory Martin, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; and Brig.Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Special Operations Component, EUCOM,Scott noted.(Maj. Bob Thompson is the director of the Combined Information Bureau,Combined Task Force Operation Northern Watch, at Incirlik Air Base,Turkey.)200303111a.jpg An F-15C Eagle tops off its gas tanks during an aerialrefueling with a KC-135R Stratotanker during Operation Northern Watch.Both aircraft are part of a coalition task force that has enforced theno-fly zone over northern Iraq and monitored Iraqi compliance withU.N. Security Council resolutions for nearly 12 years. (Click photofor screen-resolution image.)___NOTE: This is a plain text version of a web page. If your e-mail programdid not properly format this information, you may view the story athttp://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/n03112003_200303111.htmlAny photos, graphics or other imagery included in the article may alsobe viewed at this web page.Visit the Department of Defense Celebrates Women's History MonthWeb site at http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/womenhistory03/for a comprehensive look at the past and present contributionsof women, especially in the
[CTRL] Fw: FW: Pentagon: Who cares . . . [journalists] have been warned
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- Subject: Pentagon: Who cares . . . [journalists] have been warned At 7:59 PM -1000 3/10/03, viviane wrote: http://www.gulufuture.com/ PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDENT REPORTERS IN IRAQ 10th March, 2003 by Fintan Dunne, Editor The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie. In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: Who cares.. ..They've been warned. According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: entirely hostile to the free spread of information. I am enormously pessimistic of the chance of decent on-the-spot reporting, as the war occurs, she told Irish national broadcaster, Tom McGurk on the RTE1 Radio Sunday Show. Ms. Adie made the startling revelations during a discussion of media freedom issues in the likely upcoming war in Iraq. She also warned that the Pentagon is vetting journalists according to their stance on the war, and intends to take control of US journalists' satellite equipment --in order to control access to the airwaves. Another guest on the show, war author Phillip Knightley, reported that the Pentagon has also threatened they: may find it necessary to bomb areas in which war correspondents are attempting to report from the Iraqi side. Audio of this very frank discussion of the problems facing reporters in Iraq. Guests: Kate Adie, BBC; Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty, a history of war correspondents and propaganda; Chris Hedges, award winning human rights journalist, and former Irish Times Editor Connor Brady on the Sunday Show, RTE Radio1 9th March, 2003. = *** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.*** Come one come all! Families United against War Rally and March, Sunday 2:00 p to 5:00 p, Hermann Hill by Miller Outdoor theater. Child-friendly events and activities!! Sponsored by the HCJNW. - FRIDAY CANDLELIGHT VIGIL TO STOP THE BUSH WAR PLAN! Join us for a weekly protest/vigil at Mecom Fountain, where Montrose Blvd. ends at Hermann Park. We will maintain a presence from 5:00 p to 8:00 p every Friday. Come when you can -- leave when you want. Candles will be available. * Sunday -- Dec. 1 -- 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Special meeting to make plans for nonviolent direct action on national protest day against the war on Iraq, (December 10). HPJC, 1627 W. Alabama. All nonviolent peace activists welcome! Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] New Bin Laden Info ?
-Caveat Lector- I'm not normally one for seeing anagrams, but I couldn't help noticing that SPIN BOLDAK (see news source item below) rearranges to produce OS BIN LAD PK - was that perhaps the real news item being conveyed here ?... T. March 11, 2003: SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition forces have captured two people suspected of links with al Qaeda and the Taliban on Afghanistan's southern border with Pakistan, an Afghan official said on Tuesday. http://reuters.us.ed10.net/t/W56M/2YCU/LE/K281 A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The POPE to BAGHDAD as a human shield???
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Peace Activist Implores Pope to be 'Ultimate Human Shield' 'Only person' who can stop Iraq war Helen Caldicott sets up campaign A HREF=http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0306- 01.htmhttp://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0306-01.htm/A EMAIL: Pope John Paul II: A HREF=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]/A PHONE: the Vatican directly, (from USA) dial 011-39-06-69-82- FAX: ([from USA] 011-39-06698-85378 --from other countries drop the 011 prefix MAIL: His Holiness John Paul II Apostolic Palace 00120 Vatican City State Europe (DO NOT put Italy anywhere on the envelope, as this will send your mail into the Italian mail system which is independend of the Vatican system. ) Published on Thursday, March 6, 2003 by the A HREF=http://www.thestar.com/;Toronto Star/A Peace Activist Implores Pope to be 'Ultimate Human Shield' 'Only person' who can stop Iraq war Helen Caldicott sets up campaign by Leslie Scrivener Dr. Helen Caldicott, one of the world's most determined peace activists, is imploring Pope John Paul II to go to Baghdad as he is the only person on earth who can stop this war in Iraq. (see below) Caldicott has organized a letter writing and e-mail petition, urging people around the world to write to the 82-year-old Pope asking him to travel to Baghdad and stay there until peace has been achieved.Your physical presence in Baghdad will prevent the impending slaughter of hundreds of thousands of human beings, her letter says.The Australian-born Caldicott, who has written extensively on the nuclear threat, is a former Harvard professor, founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and subject of the award winning film If You Love This Planet. In her letter, circulated on the Internet, she urges ordinary people to make their opposition to war known and send a mountain of letters, e-mails, faxes and phone calls to the Vatican to persuade the Pope of the need for his immediate, unprecedented action.The Pope's presence in Iraq will act as the ultimate human shield, she writes. Though the Bush administration has shown no reservations about slaughtering up to 500,000 innocents in Iraq, there is one person whose life they absolutely will not risk. That person is Pope John Paul II.The Pope's travel schedule is usually set months, sometimes years in advance. He had hoped to travel to Iraq in 1999 and 2000, though trips were cancelled.During Ash Wednesday services yesterday in Rome, the Pope called on Catholics to pray and fast for peace during Lent, the 40-day season of penitence leading to Easter. And the Pope's emissary, Cardinal Pio Laghi, met with U.S. President George Bush in Washington yesterday. A White House spokesperson said Bush rejects the argument there's no moral justification for a war.Canadian church leaders marked Ash Wednesday by releasing a letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, asking him to redouble Canada's efforts to prevent a war in Iraq and announcing a March 22 ecumenical peace vigil at St. Michael's Cathedral.The 18 leaders, including Archbishop Michael Peers, Primate of the Anglican Church, and Bishop Jacques Berthelet, President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, stress their firm belief that war on Iraq, even with explicit Security Council authorization, would be the worst option. Copyright 1996-2003. Toronto Star Newspapers Limited###Urgent Appeal From Helen CaldicottDear FriendsI write this appeal for your help as a pediatrician, a mother, and a grandmother -- and I am writing about the lives of tens of thousands of children.Although the current administration has demonstrated it has no reservations about slaughtering up to 500,000 innocents in Iraq, there is one person whose life they absolutely will not risk. That person is Pope John Paul II.While the Pope has already formally denounced the proposed war, calling it a defeat for humanity, as well as sent his top spokesperson to meet with Saddam Hussein, he now must take a historically unprecedented action of his own and travel to Baghdad. The Pope's physical presence in Iraq will act as the ultimate human shield, during which time leaders of the word nation can commit themselves to identifying and implementing a peaceful solution to this war that the world's majority clearly does not support.To persuade the Holy Father to take this unusual but potent action, he must hear from you and millions of others around the world who have already been inspired to stand up and speak out for peace. A mountain of surface mail, email, faxes, and phone calls are our devices to inspire him. Please understand that your taking just a few minutes right now to communicate with him may ultimately spare the lives of thousands of innocent people who at this moment live in complete terror from the threat of an imminent U.S.-lead military strike on their homeland.So here is what you can do to be a part of this powerful final action to Stop the march to war in Iraq.
[CTRL] IRAQ OBTAINS FAST RUBBER BOATS FOR SUICIDE OPERATIONS
-Caveat Lector- http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/march/03_11_1.html IRAQ OBTAINS FAST RUBBER BOATS FOR SUICIDE OPERATIONS LONDON [MENL] -- Iraq has procured inflatable motorized boats from the former Yugoslavia for suicide missions against U.S. and allied forces in the Persian Gulf. Western intelligence sources identified the vessels as Zodiac-class boats procured from companies in the Balkans. The sources said the boats were purchased by Syria and smuggled into Iraq for use by a new suicide unit formed by the regime of President Saddam Hussein. 'The procurement of the boat marks a strategy by Saddam to use suicide operations as a major tool against U.S. troops, a senior intelligence source said. The Republican Guard has been ordered to stress the formation of a range of suicide units, including those of ground forces. Iraq, the sources said, seek to obtain at least 100 such boats for suicide and sabotage operations against U.S. warships. It is unclear how many boats have already arrived in Iraq. NOTE: The above is not the full item. This service contains only a small portion of the information produced daily by Middle East Newsline. For a subscription to the full service, please contact Middle East Newsline at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further details. 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) [piml] WND POLL: Threat assessment
-Caveat Lector- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/polls/former_poll.asp?POLL_ID=776 --- Forwarded message follows --- Which person, group or country poses most imminent danger to the U.S.? GO FOR IT! YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT THE RESULTS. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ Arminus --- End of forwarded message --- A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Cornell Peace Protest
-Caveat Lector- http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6555 Cornell Peace Protester: Bomb Israel! By Joseph J. Sabia FrontPageMagazine.com | March 11, 2003 Cornell Universitys Anti-War Coalitioncomprised of students, employees, campus religious leaders, and professorsurged students to Skip Class for Peace last week as part of their ongoing effort to protest U.S. military action in Iraq. (Presumably, earlier proposals for Make the Deans List for Peace and Work Overtime for Peace were nixed.) In lieu of attending classes, the wild mob of Stalinists gathered at the entrance to the main administration building and blamed the United States and Israel for world terrorism. The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition directed the rally, which was implemented locally by Amy Levine, a graduate student in anthropology, Tom Armalchi, an undergraduate student in industrial and labor relations and Alex Bomstein, an undergraduate student active in the local Green Party. These students are leaders of Cornell Students for Peaceful Justice (CSPJ). Although Cornell does not have an ANSWER chapter or a Young Communists chapter, CSPJ has strong ties to pro-Communist organizations. Their website prominently features writings from ZMag, a Noam Chomsky-style publication that accused President Bush of planning a genocidal rampage in Afghanistan and has frequently published work sympathetic to Palestinian terrorists. CSPJ also has ties to the United for Peace organization headed by longtime Communist Leslie Cagan, who views Castro's dictatorship as the societal ideal. Student Leftists, who pride themselves on being the voices of tolerance and peace, used their anti-war rally to engage in an orgy of hatred, vitriol, and profanity. Predictably, not a single speaker at the event spoke in opposition to Saddam Husseins human rights record, the Iraqi governments history of aggression, or Husseins weapons of mass destruction program. All of the hatred was directed toward America and Israel. One peace-loving protester, a prominent member of the Cornell Native American Studies field, waved a placard that compared Israel to Iraq. Here is a picture of that sign: http://www.frontpagemag.com/media/Homepage/bomb_israel.jpg Gotta see the image to understand the text Many Cornell students, especially those active in campus Jewish organizations, were outraged at the sign and crowded around the protester, demanding that he explain himself. When confronted, he defended himself, saying, Im not anti-Israel. I am anti-U.S. Later, he acquiesced to demands from protester organizers and took the magnanimous step of altering the punctuation of the signchanging the exclamation point after the word Israel to a question mark. Other students took to the streets with pro-drug slogans from the 1960s. One such sign offered the compelling anti-war argument, Drop Acid, Not Bombs. A recurring theme of the anti-war rally was an alleged parallel between U.S. military action in Iraq and al Qaedas attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A large contingent at front of the rally held a long banner reading Preemptive Strike is Terrorism. Another student held a sign that had the phrase War on Terror rewritten to read War is Terror. The Leftists deep personal hatred for the Commander in Chief was evident in the many comparisons of President Bush to Adolf Hitler. It was crystallized in especially vulgar terms in a poster reading F*** Bush! Another student proclaimed that the president, rather than Saddam Hussein, was the threat to world peace and waved a sign that read Disarm Bush. No anti-war rally would be complete without anti-globalization conspiracy theorists. These are the folks who espouse the Marxist line that Jewish- dominated corporate interests are conspiring with the military industrial complex to wage war for the purposes of obtaining foreign oil and enslaving racial minorities. Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations student Tom Armalchi wore an American flag cape in which the traditional 50 stars were replaced by 50 corporate symbols, including Bell, McDonalds, IBM, and NBC). Others held signs which read Its the Oil, Stupid! and How Many Lives Per Gallon? One environmentalist scrawled a piece of cardboard that read, Go Solar, Not Ballistic! Some conservatives on hand tried, perhaps foolishly, to engage some of these protesters. One well-informed right-winger explained that if the goal of the U.S. government were to obtain cheap oil from Iraq, we could do so immediately and with far less international rancor by telling Hussein, You give us oil at price X and we wont invade your country and overthrow you. In response to this argument, a leading Leftist protester yelled, F*** Bush! and announced, I cant reason with someone like you because for you, reason is treason. (Whenever liberals devolve into Jesse Jackson-style rhyming, you know youve won the debate.) There is some good news to come out of the venomous
[CTRL] Bad Case of Gas
-Caveat Lector- http://www.stratiawire.com/article.asp?id=976 Tuesday, March 11, 2003 YOU MEAN SADDAM DIDN'T GAS HIS OWN PEOPLE? MARCH 11. Very little attention has been paid to Stephen Pelletieres op ed piece in the New York Times (Jan. 31, A War Crime or an Act of War). Pelletiere was the CIAs senior political analyst on Iraq during the 1980s war between Iraq and Iran, and later served as a professor at the US Army War College (1988-2000). His op ed piece attacks the theory that Saddam gassed the Kurds. You know, Saddam gassed his own people. That oft-repeated charge that makes up a significant part of the administrations argument for war now. Pelletiere had access to a lot of the classified data that was generated around the Kurd matter. He was in charge of the 1991 Army probe that investigated the question: How would Saddam fight a war against the US? The major gassing incident occurred in March 1988 at a town called Halabja. But the truth is, Pelletiere writes, all we know for certain is that Kurds were bombarded with poison gas that day. This occurred near the end of the Iraq-Iran war. Pelletiere writes, immediately after the battle [at Halabja] the United States Defense Information Agency investigated and produced a classified report, which it circulated within the intelligence community on a need- to- know basis. That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, not Iraqi gas. Obviously, this report has been intentionally ignored by several presidents and their major mouthpieces. Pelletiere goes on to write that both the Iraqis and the Iranian troops used gas at Halabja. The condition of the dead Kurds bodies, however, indicated that they had been killed with a blood agent---that is, a cyanide- based gas--- which Iran was known to have. The Iraqis, who are thought to have used mustard gas in the battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the time. If Bush were simply saying that Saddam deserves to die because he used mustard gas, then Bush might want to mention, as well, that the US employed tons and tons of Agent Orange (a chemical, the last time I looked) in Vietnam. Then Pelletiere raises and answers a very interesting question. Why was the battle of Halabja fought? Iraq has the most extensive river system in the Middle EastIraq had built an impressive system of dams and river control projects, the largest being the Darbandikhan dam in the Kurdish area. And it was this dam the Iranians were seeking to take control of when they seized Halbja. Pelletiere points out that a water pipeline through Iraq could bring the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates south to the parched Gulf states, and by extension, Israel. To date that pipeline has not been built. But after Gulf War 2? Would Israel become one of the prime beneficiaries in the aftermath? Remember, the charge that has been leveled at Saddam is, he gassed his own civilians. Pelletiere is offering evidence collected by US intelligence and military analysts that refutes that charge. Bush, Powell, Blair, and the rest of the crew are brushing all this off without a glance. JON RAPPOPORT www.stratiawire.com Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A
[CTRL] It's Official: French = Freedom
-Caveat Lector- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category= 1153slug=Freedom%20Friesfrom=homeAP SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Last updated 10:57 a.m. PT French Fries Get New Name in Congress By JIM ABRAMS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON -- Show the flag and pass the ketchup was the order of the day in House cafeterias Tuesday. Lawmakers struck a lunchtime blow against the French and put freedom fries on the menu. And for breakfast they'll now have freedom toast. The name changes follow similar actions by restaurants around the country protesting French opposition to the administration's Iraq war plans. Update. Now Serving in All House Office Buildings, 'Freedom Fries,' read a sign that Republican Reps. Bob Ney of Ohio and Walter Jones of North Carolina placed at the register in the Longworth Office Building food court. Jones said he was inspired by Cubbie's restaurant in Beaufort, N.C., in his district, one of the first to put freedom fries on the menu instead of french fries. This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure of many on Capitol Hill with the actions of our so-called ally, France, said Ney, chairman of the House Administration Committee. Ney, whose panel oversees House operations, ordered the menu changes. The French Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment, except to say that french fries actually come from Belgium. Ney said he was of French descent and once the French government comes around we can get back to talking about french fries. On a more serious note, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey has proposed a ban on Pentagon participation in this year's Paris Air Show and restrictions on French participation in any postwar construction projects in Iraq. But House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said at a news conference that applying legislative sanctions to France was not necessary. I don't think we have to retaliate against France. They've isolated themselves pretty well, he said. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] Rumsfeld Glad Hands Saddam! (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:43:02 -0800 (PST) From: Party of Citizens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX] Rumsfeld Glad Hands Saddam! That was quite a report from Neil Macdonald to Peter Mansbridge tonight. First the film clip showing Rumsfeld shaking the glad hand with Saddam Hussein. But of course that was in the days when Rumsfeld was a private businessman promoting U-S-A industry, including chemical and biological exports, to Iraq. I wonder if Spain and Bulgaria have read the full-length issue of the Christian Science Monitor Special Report from 1988 titled Poison on the Wind: The New Threat of Chemical and Biological Weapons. The entire 56 page issue was on this subject. Why was Rumsfeld in Iraq and glad handing Saddam Hussein? Well, the answer is given on page 6: The companies the Monitor found to be Iraq's suppliers were a mixed group. Some were small specialty suppliers. Others were trading companies, with few fixed assets, that have since gone out of business. At least one was a subsidiary of a major US corporation. If Saddam Hussein is a war criminal for using chemical weapons against his Iranian and Kurdish Secessionist enemies, then Rumsfeld is his accomplice, some (with obviously twisted logic) might say. The attitude of the US toward chemical weapons is summed up on page 4: People say that coughing your lungs out in three minutes because of nerve agent is an immoral way of dying, while bleeding to death in 12 because your leg has been shot off is somehow better. Those arguments leave me cold, says Col. Robert Orton, head of the (US) Army's chemical weapons modernization program. So Rumsfeld was actually serving as an angel of mercy, saving all those Kurdish secessionists and Iranians from having their legs shot off in a prolonged war and substituting a short and nasty chemical war. Indeed, wasn't that the rationale used for the US dropping atomic bombs on Japan? Perhaps then when it comes to war crime trials for Rumsfeld et al, the UN War Crimes Court of the future should be lenient. Ian Macdonald jumped to conclusions when he said, after the Rumsfeld-Saddam clip that the US was actually helping them (the supposed war criminals). Appearances can be deceiving. When the US had its leading nuclear-weapon equipped war ships in Vancouver and Halifax harbours in 1995 while Quebec was casting its lawful secessionist vote, that was just a warning of what a bloody conventional civil war could unleash (the same logic used against Japan). BTW we had the USS Constellation in Vancouver Harbour. But the point is that when Rumsfeld supplies weapons of mass destruction for war, even if he supplies them to Saddam Hussein, he is the good-doer and Saddam is the bad-doer for using them. How could Ian Macdonald not understand the obvious reasonableness of this? POC Freeserve AnyTime - Only 6.99 a month for your first 3 months! That's half the usual price of just 13.99 per month. Join now at http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/clk;4858830;7443368;w?http://www.freeserve.com/time/anytime/ -- If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/LOGES-DE-CORBEAUX To leave the Group, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Fw: DoD, USAID Teams Readying to Rebuild Iraq, Provide Assistance
-Caveat Lector- Will Halliburton get to use forced labor (conquered military) as reconstruction laborers? - Original Message - From: Press Service To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:08 PM Subject: DoD, USAID Teams Readying to Rebuild Iraq, Provide Assistance By Kathleen T. RhemAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, March 11, 2003 -- "Free Iraqis" who have lived in theUnited States and other democratic countries will provide valuableliaison between local Iraqi government officials and U.S. officialsoverseeing the country after any potential conflict.Officials from the Defense Department and the U.S. Agency forInternational Development are working to have teams ready to move intoIraq in the event of military conflict to begin coordinationimmediately for humanitarian aid and reconstruction.A senior defense official was quick to point out to reporters todaythat the president hasn't made a decision to force Iraqi disarmamentwith military might. But if he does, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeldhas said the United States is committed to making life immediatelybetter for the Iraqi people.In January, President Bush authorized the immediate stand-up of theOffice of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. A senior officialfamiliar with that office and its efforts also was on hand to answerreporters' questions in the Pentagon today.That official explained the agency is looking to hire more than 100"free Iraqis" on 90- to 180-day contracts to assist the civilministries and to act as representatives in each of the 17 provincesand Baghdad to coordinate with the local officials and help recommendreconstruction or humanitarian projects."We think that's a good recipe," the official said, "to have peoplethat were born and raised in those provinces but now have lived in ademocracy. And now they can explain things to the people there who havebeen oppressed for 30 years."He said he hopes to hire Iraqis who have specific expertise in certainareas. For example, he is looking for volunteers who have experience inpublic health administration and who can assist officials in the Iraqihealth ministry.The official said the goal of the Office of Reconstruction andHumanitarian Assistance is to pass the country's governance to theIraqi people as soon as possible, "but with a government that expressesthe free will of the people of Iraq."In the immediate aftermath of any conflict, a civil administrator, whois a senior Defense Department civilian official, would coordinateefforts in Iraq and report directly to the chief of U.S. CentralCommand, Army Gen. Tommy Franks. This administrator would oversee threeseparate teams coordinating reconstruction, civil administration andhumanitarian assistance.A cornerstone of the plan would be to keep Iraqi officials in theircurrent positions within the civil ministries, police and militaryforces, and courts, and to continue paying them. The Defense Departmentbriefer explained officials are working to determine a fair pay scale,keeping in mind that as much as 60 percent of all Iraqis now getgovernment food aid.He said there are many possible sources of funding for payrolls. Hespecifically mentioned frozen Iraqi assets as a potential solution.Regular Iraqi army soldiers would provide the manpower for many civilreconstruction projects, the official explained. Military forces aresuited to completing engineering projects like road construction andremoving rubble, and to demining and disposing of unexploded ordnance."Using the army allows us not to demobilize it immediately and put alot of unemployed people on the street," the official explained."They're working to rebuild their country. It's re-establishing some ofthe prestige that the regular army has lost over the years, and itallows us to get a lot of good things done for the country."The official estimated the Defense Department could get the mechanismsfor Iraqi self-governance into place within several months. He'soptimistic, he said, these efforts will get Iraq back on its feet morequickly than similar efforts in Afghanistan. He noted Iraq's populationis more sophisticated and its infrastructure more developed thanAfghanistan's."Even though it's been an oppressed country, (Iraq) has the structureand the mechanisms in there to run that country and run it fairlyefficiently," the official said. "At one time, it was probably one ofthe most efficient countries in that part of the world, and a lot ofthat talent's still there."___NOTE: This is a plain text version of a web page. If your e-mail programdid not properly format this information, you may view the story athttp://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/n03112003_200303115.htmlAny photos, graphics or other imagery included in the article may alsobe viewed at this web page.Visit the Department of Defense Celebrates Women's History MonthWeb site at
[CTRL] MRC Web News - Our Latest Analysis (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all. visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:21:05 -0700 From: Media Research Center IS Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Web News - Our Latest Analysis [mrcgoldlogo.gif] Media Research Center America's Media Watchdog Bringing Political Balance and Responsibility to the Media MRC Web News: Our Latest Analysis March 11, 2003 Daily updates on MRC's latest analysis Todays CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030311.asp 1. CBS Admits Support Up for Iraq Action, UN Not Trusted, But... CBSs Bill Plante on Monday night acknowledged how a new CBS News poll found support for taking military action soon has risen by nine points since last week and Dan Rather followed up by pointing out how the poll found 58 percent now say the UN is doing a poor job of handling Iraq. But, while Plante emphasized how a majority still favors giving UN inspectors more time, he skipped over how the poll determined that 55 percent would approve of military action against Iraq even if the UN did not support it and, once again, CBS refused to tell viewers that military action against Iraq is favored by 66 to 30 percent. 2. Klein Complains Bush is Causing France to be Humiliated Time columnist Joe Klein fumed on Mondays Today that President Bush is forcing a vote at the UN which will either result in...France being humiliated or the United States being humiliated. Klein also claimed that Bush doesn't seem to have much of a style of diplomacy and was too much of a cowboy during his press conference. 3. Coalition of the Coerced Tax Cuts Contradict War on Terror The coalition behind Bushs Iraq policy is only a coalition of the coerced, Times John Dickerson asserted on Sundays Chris Matthews Show while CBSs Bob Schieffer blamed Bushs opposition to Kyoto for losing the Germans before he admonished that you cant tell people one day that we gotta defeat terrorism and that it poses this grave threat to us but then the next day tell us, 'well we can do it with business as usual and cut taxes.' 4. Lange Resents Equating of Being Anti-War and Anti-American Jessica Lange who, upset by President Bush's Iraq policy, charged during a press conference at a film festival in Spain last September that it is an embarrassing time to be an American it's humiliating, complained on Monday's Late Show that the thing I resent most is...some kind of equation between being anti-war and anti-American. 5. Vaughn Grammer Show Not All Actors Enjoy Bashing America Not all Hollywood celebrities are as embarrassed about U.S. policy toward Iraq as Lange. Asked outside of the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday night about the war, Kelsey Grammer professed support for it and Vince Vaughn, who is scheduled to be the guest host of the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday night (tonight), had a regular comeback when he was in England, USA Today disclosed, for those who denounced America: I'd ask folks to think about the Marshall Plan a bit and get back to me. See todays entire CyberAlert at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030311.asp Media Research Center DisHonors Awards Advertisement On Sale Now! Tickets are now on sale for the MRC's DisHonor Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2002. The 3rd Annual DisHonor Awards will take place the evening of Thursday, March 27 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. For all the details: http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/03/info.asp Advertisement TELL A FRIEND TODAY If you enjoy our daily Web news update, pass it on to your friends. Let them know they can sign up at http://www.mrc.org/cybersub.asp#webnews Bozell's News Column Ted Koppel, Crank Caller As war against Saddam creeps ever closer, anti-war partisans are feeling powerless and underappreciated. To them, the media seem dominated by a White House war machine that is intimidating sheepish reporters. Helen Thomas, who doesn't ask questions so much as accuse the administration of heinous motives and declare that President Bush is the worst leader in our history, is their kind of reporter. Some in the press are hearing these
[CTRL] {attack} Congressman Ron Paul for President 2004 (fwd)
-Caveat Lector-
I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to
the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with
liberty and justice for all.
visit my web site at
http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904
for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto:
http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:33:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Buyea [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: {attack} Congressman Ron Paul for President 2004
IF YOU'RE RECEIVING TOO MUCH MAIL,
Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
YOU CAN ALSO READ IT ON THE WEB.
This message and all others are archived at
http://www.topica.com/lists/USAttacked/read
Rich Martin
Moderator
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
Read how Congressman Ron Paul wants to reduce the size of the US Federal
government and get back to running it as the Constitution describes.
Congressman Ron Paul for President 2004
Address:http://www.paul2004.com/index.html
For political commentary columns, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rich Martin (817) 297-7735
Wondering what you missed?
Check out the archives at:
Check out the Slick Archive
http://slickplus.spunge.org/list/
==^
This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84BnG.bdrvYx.d2JhY29u
Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE!
http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html
==^
A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A
DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
==
CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
Archives Available at:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html
A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/A
http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL
Re: [CTRL] It's Official: French = Freedom
-Caveat Lector- Yanks dump Dom Perrion in the gutter but drink Smirnoff and Heineken when all three countries took a very similar stance. Go figure... - Original Message - From: Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:37 PM Subject: [CTRL] It's Official: French = Freedom -Caveat Lector- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category= 1153slug=Freedom%20Friesfrom=homeAP SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Last updated 10:57 a.m. PT French Fries Get New Name in Congress By JIM ABRAMS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON -- Show the flag and pass the ketchup was the order of the day in House cafeterias Tuesday. Lawmakers struck a lunchtime blow against the French and put freedom fries on the menu. And for breakfast they'll now have freedom toast. The name changes follow similar actions by restaurants around the country protesting French opposition to the administration's Iraq war plans. Update. Now Serving in All House Office Buildings, 'Freedom Fries,' read a sign that Republican Reps. Bob Ney of Ohio and Walter Jones of North Carolina placed at the register in the Longworth Office Building food court. Jones said he was inspired by Cubbie's restaurant in Beaufort, N.C., in his district, one of the first to put freedom fries on the menu instead of french fries. This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure of many on Capitol Hill with the actions of our so-called ally, France, said Ney, chairman of the House Administration Committee. Ney, whose panel oversees House operations, ordered the menu changes. The French Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment, except to say that french fries actually come from Belgium. Ney said he was of French descent and once the French government comes around we can get back to talking about french fries. On a more serious note, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey has proposed a ban on Pentagon participation in this year's Paris Air Show and restrictions on French participation in any postwar construction projects in Iraq. But House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said at a news conference that applying legislative sanctions to France was not necessary. I don't think we have to retaliate against France. They've isolated themselves pretty well, he said. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om 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
[CTRL] What Secretary Powell Did Not Say
-Caveat Lector- http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2003/2003_10-19/2003-10/this_wk.html >From Volume 2, Issue Number 10 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published Mar. 10, 2003 This Week You Need To Know What Secretary Powell Did Not Say by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. March 8, 2003 Monday, March 10th begins a week whose importance could possibly, even probably, prove more or less as significant, in its own way, as the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. This memorandum serves to summarize the following crucial issues of the present crisis. The Root of the Crisis 1. The first factor, the root of this crisis, is a Classical quality of existential crisis within the institutions of the U.S. government. The pivotal issue of the crisis is, as France's representative said, implicitly: The issue of war or peace as such, is not Saddam Hussein or Iraq, but, primarily, two distinct but converging features of the current U.S. Bush Administration. The first cause of that aspect of the crisis, is the influence of the imperialist followers of the late fascist ideologue, Professor Leo Strauss, in creating the core of those war-mongers known variously as the "Chickenhawks" or "neo-cons." The second, converging cause of that critical factor, is the convergence among the pro-imperialist "neo-cons" inside the Bush Administration, with the thoughtless and stubborn, "barnyard-style unilateralism" expressed by President George W. Bush himself. The added feature of the crisis, on the U.S. side, is that Cheney's and Wolfowitz's lunatic tribe of neo-con "Chickenhawk" fanatics, is reenforced, on the side of the Democratic Party, by those organized-crime-linked, pro-imperialist hard-core DLC Democrats who are typified by the circle of cronies of right-wing ideologue and war-monger Senator Joseph Lieberman. What this bipartisan combination of imperialists and Bush's unilateralism has done, is to exploit the frightening effects of Sept. 11, 2001 to unleash a policy which currently sets the United States against, in fact, the most vital interests of every other sovereign nation-state of the planet. Summarily, if the U.S.A. is allowed to use the UNO-outlawed threat of unilateral force, even the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, to blackmail the UNO Security Council into tolerating a war upon Iraq, that precedent either soon establishes a U.S. world-empire modelled upon the ancient Roman Empire, or forces the nations of the world to undermine the power of the U.S.A. to conduct such policies, or sends the world to spend a few generations in Hell as punishment for failing to prevent the proposed war. In effect, as I, my wife, and others associated with me have warned on earlier occasions, the current Iraq policy of the Bush Administration is a caricature of the same hubristic folly which led ancient Athens into the tragic Peloponnesian War. Unfortunately, "Education President" Bush, is not notably strong on the subject of history. For the U.S. to declare itself on the brink of launching unilateral, imperial warfare, when there is no objective need to go to war, especially when we have all the power and support we would require did a need exist, is not only a great folly, as the case of the Peloponnesian War attests. To launch such a war under such unlawful pretexts, including the pretext of the fraudulent reports transmitted from Israeli and other origins, through British channels, into an address of Secretary of State Colin Powell and the UNO Security Council, is also a crime against humanity, under the implications of those precedents accumulated since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. These are precedents freshly acknowledged, in 1945-46, as the lessons adduced from the combined experience of two preceding World Wars. In fact, the unilateral Anglo-American warfare threatened by the bipolar froth from certain official and mass-media Washington and London sources, is not a war prompted by any action by Iraq itself. It is the use of wildly exaggerated allegations of external threats from Iraq as a pretext for launching what has been called by some relevant circles "A Clash of Civilizations" war, a war against not only the Arab world as a whole, not only the Islamic populations as a whole, but also China, and targets beyond. This threatens the outbreak, even during the month of March, of the third geopolitical world war launched by imperial maritime (and aerial) power against continental Eurasia as a whole. That, in summary, supports the case which France has presented against the arguments presented by the U.S. and British spokesmen. In effect, the current U.S. Administration has declared an imperial war policy against the world. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, have been mis-used as a cover for reviving this imperial "preventive" nuclear war policy, first pushed during the mid-1940s by the evil Bertrand Russell and his pack of utopians, and which was already pushed during the 1991-1996 interval by then Defense
[CTRL] Inconsistency Has Already Made the UN Irrelevant
-Caveat Lector- http://www.mediamonitors.net/index.html Inconsistency Has Already Made the UN Irrelevant by Sherri Muzher To be relevant or not to be relevant, that is the burning question for the United Nations. In his January 28 State of the Union address, President Bush said, "The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others." Only three days later, President Bush told Britains Prime Minister Tony Blair, "1441 gives us the authority to move without any second resolution." So, if the majority at the UN Security Council doesnt agree to force Iraq into complying with UN Resolution 1441, the UN may become irrelevant. On the other hand, if war occurs, then the United Nations will be relevant because it will demonstrate that UN resolutions have teeth. Such is the quagmire that the Bush Administration has put forth before the world. Well, guess what? The UN has been irrelevant for decades now because of its own inconsistent record. As an American Republican of Palestinian descent, the recent speeches about the necessity of Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions have been less than amusing. Nobody doubts that Saddam Hussein is a tyrannical dictator, but to obsessively focus on Hussein while rolling out the unending red carpet for Israels Ariel Sharon is hypocrisy at its best. Please note that Sharon may still be brought before the Belgian courts when he leaves office - for his part in the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982. The crux of the Middle East conflict is about Israels failure to comply with UN Resolutions, most notably 242, which demands Israels withdrawal from territories it seized in the 1967 Six Day War. While the neo-conservative hawks in Washington like to marginalize UN resolutions regarding Israel, they might want to consider the fact that I! srael was largely created as fulfillment of UN Resolution 181. For whatever reason, the United Nations truly believed they could solve the tragic persecution of Jews in Europe by creating the State of Israel in Palestine. Setting aside the resulting dispossession of Palestines original inhabitants, little has been done to force Israel into withdrawing to the 1967 borders. Instead, we keep hearing about former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Baraks so-called generous offer at Camp David in 2000. The problem is Baraks "generosity" never meant fulfillment of the UN Resolutions, which have been on the table for nearly 36 years. At least 80% of illegal Israeli settlements were to remain, and sovereignty over Jerusalem would have consisted of eight Arab neighborhoods. So why accept the disregarding of UN Resolutions in that case? And why wouldnt Saddam Hussein be encouraged to turn his no! se up on UN resolutions, when Israel has been doing it with impunity? President Bush has made much ado about the 17 UN resolutions that Iraq refuses to comply with. Yet, nothing is said of the 60 plus UN resolutions that Israel is violating -- many of which are listed in former US Congressman Paul Findleys book, "Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About the US-Israeli Relationship." Interestingly, the most recent UN Resolution 1402 came as late as March, 2002. It calls for the immediate "withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian cities, including Ramallah." While the foreign policy pundits debate among themselves as to why there is such an Arab rage at our government, it would be worthwhile to recall the 1996 Sixty Minutes interview with then-Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Leslie Stahl: We have heard that a half million children have died (as a result of sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it." UN resolutions can be that important. Yet, Ariel Sharon openly thanked the American government for scuttling a proposed UN investigation into the tragic events of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002. Sharon, in fact, declared his heart-felt appreciation only moments before a meeting at the White House. Indeed, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is where President Bush should be flexing his muscles of leadership. The scores of people killed in recent weeks alone prove just how pivotal it is that we resolve this crisis. Add to all of this, the Sharon government is now seeking at least $14 billion in aid from the US, despite our own economic problems. Ultimately, there can be few doubts that all roads of the Middle East conflict run through Jerusalem, not Baghdad. Unless we push for Israeli compliance, the UN is in danger of forever being irrelevant. 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
[CTRL] Whose War?
-Caveat Lector- Whose War? The War Party may have gotten its war. But it has also gotten something it did not bargain for. Its membership lists and associations have been exposed and its motives challenged. by Patrick J. Buchanan A neoconservative clique seeks to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in Americas interest. The War Party may have gotten its war. But it has also gotten something it did not bargain for. Its membership lists and associations have been exposed and its motives challenged. In a rare moment in U.S. journalism, Tim Russert put this question directly to Richard Perle: Can you assure American viewers ... that were in this situation against Saddam Hussein and his removal for American security interests? And what would be the link in terms of Israel? Suddenly, the Israeli connection is on the table, and the War Party is not amused. Finding themselves in an unanticipated firefight, our neoconservative friends are doing what comes naturally, seeking student deferments from political combat by claiming the status of a persecuted minority group. People who claim to be writing the foreign policy of the world superpower, one would think, would be a little more manly in the schoolyard of politics. Not so. Former Wall Street Journal editor Max Boot kicked off the campaign. When these Buchananites toss around neoconservativeand cite names like Wolfowitz and Cohenit sometimes sounds as if what they really mean is Jewish conservative. Yet Boot readily concedes that a passionate attachment to Israel is a key tenet of neoconservatism. He also claims that the National Security Strategy of President Bush sounds as if it could have come straight out from the pages of Commentary magazine, the neocon bible. (For the uninitiated, Commentary, the bible in which Boot seeks divine guidance, is the monthly of the American Jewish Committee.) David Brooks of the Weekly Standard wails that attacks based on the Israel tie have put him through personal hell: Now I get a steady stream of anti-Semitic screeds in my e-mail, my voicemail and in my mailbox. ... Anti-Semitism is alive and thriving. Its just that its epicenter is no longer on the Buchananite Right, but on the peace-movement left. Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan endures his own purgatory abroad: In London ... one finds Britains finest minds propounding, in sophisticated language and melodious Oxbridge accents, the conspiracy theories of Pat Buchanan concerning the neoconservative (read: Jewish) hijacking of American foreign policy. Lawrence Kaplan of the New Republic charges that our little magazine has been transformed into a forum for those who contend that President Bush has become a client of ... Ariel Sharon and the neoconservative war party. Referencing Charles Lindbergh, he accuses Paul Schroeder, Chris Matthews, Robert Novak, Georgie Anne Geyer, Jason Vest of the Nation, and Gary Hart of implying that members of the Bush team have been doing Israels bidding and, by extension, exhibiting dual loyalties. Kaplan thunders: The real problem with such claims is not just that they are untrue. The problem is that they are toxic. Invoking the specter of dual loyalty to mute criticism and debate amounts to more than the everyday pollution of public discourse. It is the nullification of public discourse, for how can one refute accusations grounded in ethnicity? The charges are, ipso facto, impossible to disprove. And so they are meant to be. What is going on here? Slates Mickey Kaus nails it in the headline of his retort: Lawrence Kaplan Plays the Anti-Semitic Card. What Kaplan, Brooks, Boot, and Kagan are doing is what the Rev. Jesse Jackson does when caught with some mammoth contribution from a Fortune 500 company he has lately accused of discriminating. He plays the race card. So, too, the neoconservatives are trying to fend off critics by assassinating their character and impugning their motives. Indeed, it is the charge of anti-Semitism itself that is toxic. For this venerable slander is designed to nullify public discourse by smearing and intimidating foes and censoring and blacklisting them and any who would publish them. Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon. And this time the boys have cried wolf once too often. It is not working. As Kaus notes, Kaplans own New Republic carries Harvard professor Stanley Hoffman. In writing of the four power centers in this capital that are clamoring for war, Hoffman himself describes the fourth thus: And, finally, there is a loose collection of friends of Israel, who believe in the identity of interests between the Jewish state and the United States. These analysts look on foreign policy through the lens of one dominant concern: Is it good or bad for Israel? Since that nations founding in 1948, these thinkers have never been in very
[CTRL] The Myth of Prosperity PERIOD.
-Caveat Lector- The biggest conspiracy of them all A must read. the only book I've ever read that made me mad. http://www.mindmined.com/public_library/nonfiction/david_f_feudalism_aka_capitalism.html American Capitalism aka Fuedalismby David F.EXCERPT: "...the average reader paid more tax last year than ATT, Du Pont, Boeing, Merrill Lynch, Dow Chemical,and Walt Disney paid collectively from 1982 through 1985!! Do yourself a favor and reread the above paragraph. (ref: Some big companies did a strange thing in '87: They paid taxes" BusinessWeek (Dec 26 1988): p40) 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] Shriners pulled wool over eyes, Argentina Haven for Nazis, UN American spying
-Caveat Lector- this may be heavy for survivors from L Moss Sharman Shriners 'pulled wool over eyes'Expected $130,000 profit from circus not going to kids' hospital after all By Jeremy Loome, Edmonton Sun "A leading local Shriner conceded yesterday that statements by club members may have misled the public into believing circus profits would go to sick kids. "We get members out talking and they bring things up and sometimes they're not totally true statements, because those particular people don't know," said Doug Grant, the past potentate of Edmonton's Shrine Temple. "They get all excited about things and they don't pay a lot of attention. They expect the executive to do all those things so sometimes their concepts (of how things work) are not quite totally true." Ticket buyers should know that none of the expected $130,000-plus profit from the Edmonton Shrine Circus performances will go towards Shriners Hospitals, he said. But a portion of the profits will go to other youth programs." http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews Argentina, a Haven for Nazis, Balks at Opening Its Files By Larry Rohter Buenos Aires, 3/7/03 Under fire because of a new book that documents for the first time how Juan Perón clandestinely maneuvered to bring Nazi and other war criminals to Argentina after World War II, the Peronist government here is resisting calls to release long-secret official records about the collaborationThe book that ignited the controversy, published in the United States as "The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón's Argentina" (Granta Books: 2002), has become a best seller here. Its author, Uki Goñi, is an Argentine journalist who had to do much of his research in European archives after encountering closed doors here." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/international/americas/09ARGE.html http://observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,910567,00.html UN launches inquiry into American spying Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont Sunday March 9, 2003 The United Nations has begun a top-level investigation into the bugging of its delegations by the United States, first revealed in The Observer last week. Sources in the office of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan confirmed last night that the spying operation had already been discussed at the UN's counter-terrorism committee and will be further investigated. The news comes as British police confirmed the arrest of a 28-year-old woman working at the top secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act. Last week The Observer published details of a memo sent by Frank Koza, Defence Chief of Staff (Regional Targets) at the US National Security Agency, which monitors international communications. The memo ordered an intelligence 'surge' directed against Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea with 'extra focus on Pakistan UN matters'. The 'dirty tricks' operation was designed to win votes in favour of intervention in Iraq. 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] Mysterious Webs In Texas Sky
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: norgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:03:56 - Subject:[CIA-DRUGS] Mysterious Webs In Texas Sky Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spiders caused mysterious webs By Michael A. Smith The Daily News Published March 11, 2003 Webs visible in the sky in Galveston and parts of Brazoria counties for at least five hours Dec. 20 probably were produced by nothing creepier than a whole bunch of spiders. The Daily News hired SN Labs of Santa Ana, Calif., which specializes is identifying small material samples, to analyze a wad of the floating web. The laboratory subjected the fibrous sample, which was about equal to what could be pulled from the tip of cotton swab, to examination under a microscope and to a process called Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. That process entails exposing an unidentified substance to infrared light and determining the wavelengths at which the substance absorbs the light. The resulting spectrum shows the material to be protein, wrote Neil Springarn, the lab's director. Based on this chemical analysis and microscopic examination, the material is most likely spider web. On Dec. 20, the skies were literally filled with floating, shimmering strands and fuzzy, luminescent wads. People in La Marque, near San Luis Pass and in Pearland reported seeing the webs constantly between about noon and 5 p.m. Poles, trees and shrubs were left wrapped with the sticky stuff. An article published in the Dec. 21 edition of the Daily News was widely circulated on the World Wide Web and drew dozens of comments from readers around the world. Some said they thought the webs were fallout from a chemical plant leak, others were certain they were radar chaff used by military aircraft to avoid detection and enemy fire. A few said the phenomenon clearly was a migration of hatchling spiders. Most, though, said they thought the webs were connected to a conspiracy theory having to do with chemtrails. Adherents to theory say they believe the government is mixing unknown chemicals in jet fuel and spraying them, via jet engine exhaust, on unsuspecting people below. http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=8484 --- End of forwarded message --- If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on 12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their website http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Surreptitious Bids For Post-War Iraq
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: norgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:01:25 - Subject:[CIA-DRUGS] Surreptitious Bids For Post-War Iraq Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Building block The surreptitious way the process for inviting engineering companies to submit bids for the rebuilding of Iraq was handled could lead to more trouble for the Bush administration, writes Mark Tran Tuesday March 11, 2003 On the face of it, the Bush administration should get a pat on the back for inviting engineering companies to submit bids for reconstruction work in Iraq. The move shows foresight as the US contemplates the enormous task of rebuilding Iraq after a likely war and 10 years of crippling sanctions that have undone years of economic progress. But whatever kudos the White House may get for its foresight risks being undone by the surreptitious way the bid process was handled. Only five US companies have been invited to bid for contracts worth at least $900m (£563m) and the names on the list are bound to give conspiracy theorists a field day. The select group of companies includes Kellogg Brown Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, an oil services company, where the vice- president, Dick Cheney, held the position of chief executive from 1995 to 2000. Kellogg Brown Root has already won a government contract to oversee firefighting operations at Iraqi oilfields after any US-led invasion, while the other companies also have strong ties to the US administration, including the construction giant Bechtel, the Fluor Corporation, and the Louis Berger group, already involved in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. The winning company would get contracts to repair Iraqi health services, ports, airports, schools and other educational institutions. The Bush administration is only too aware of the need to be seen feeding hungry Iraqis, delivering clean water, and paying teachers and health workers to dispel accusations of imperial ambitions. To speed up the project, the US agency for international development (USAID) invoked special authority to solicit bids from just a few companies. The move bypassed the usual rules that would have permitted a wider array of companies to seek the contract, first reported by Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal. A USAID official defended the restricted nature of the contract on the grounds of urgency and because of the unique nature of the work. But that cut little ice with British unions, who criticised the move as typical of the US's master and servant attitude towards its only key ally on the eve of war. Why should Britain have to share the blood in a war but British companies not be allowed to share in the economic upturn afterwards, said Richard O'Brien, a spokesman for Amicus, Britain's largest manufacturing union. An unseemly row over the spoils even before war has been fought is the last thing the Bush administration needs as it desperately seeks votes for a second resolution in the UN security council. But the US has only itself to blame for the clumsy way it has handled this particular aspect of reconstruction. The brouhaha over these initial contracts is just a foretaste of what is to come. The cost of reconstruction is bound to be a bone of contention in congress as the US faces record budget deficits and struggles to invigorate economy. So far the White House has been coy about putting a price tag for war and reconstruction so as not to alarm the American public on the vast amount of work and expense that will be needed. President Bush has only said that his administration would ask congress at the appropriate time for a supplemental spending bill outside the regular budget to pay for the war - estimated by analysts to cost anything between $50bn and $200bn. There has been talk about using revenue from Iraqi oil sales to pay for reconstruction and to pay back nations for the costs of fighting Iraq. But in reality, Iraqi oil is being used to meet the basic needs of Iraqis at subsistence level, so there will be little scope for using Iraqi oil to pay for reconstruction. Very probably, the scale of reconstruction will be so large that US companies will not be able to hog all the work, even if they wanted to. http://www.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,12498,912044,00.html --- 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.
[CTRL] Blair's Protection of Elite Paedophile Rings Spells the End For His Career
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: erici44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:58:11 - Subject:[CIA-DRUGS] Blair's Protection of Elite Paedophile Rings Spells the End For His Career Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read, this is genuine even if the title is wishful thinking, and is the subject of major legal battles here in Scotland (to have the d=ocuments released). It also involves FBI paedophile investigations . It is true that many major UK politicians are preposterously incompetent and stupid. Jack Straw, the foreign secretary's brother is a convicted sex offender and he is the slimiest creature. http://www.propagandamatrix.com/blair_protection.html Exclusive to Propaganda Matrix.com by Mike James in Frankfurt: March 11 2003 NATO boss and Blair government insider Lord Robertson has threatened to sue Scotland's leading independent newspaper over internet allegations that he not only used his influence as a Freemason to procure a gun licence for child killer Thomas Hamilton, but was also a member of a clandestine paedophile ring reportedly set up by Hamilton for the British elite. On 13 March 1996, Hamilton, armed with four hand-guns, opened fire on a junior school class, killing 16 children and one teacher before turning the gun on himself, shattering forever the idyllic 13th century Scottish town of Dunblane. The controversy is certain to topple the Blair government, which has already issued a D-Notice to gag the press from revealing the names of known paedophiles within the British executive, including at least two senior ministers; and the case highlights the government's antipathy toward the Sunday Herald and its brand of independent journalism that has, among other things, exposed the role played by the domestic security agency, MI5, in helping the IRA to carry out terrorist atrocities. As reported by this journalist last month at Propaganda Matrix and Counter Punch, and by the Sunday Herald's Home Affairs Editor, Neil Mackay, the British intelligence services are actively engaged in preventing any further child sex revelations that could incite further hostility to an already unpopular Prime Minister and destroy the morale of troops set to invade Iraq. An intelligence officer told Mackay that a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur. Some commentators, mindful that one of Tony Blair's closest confidante's is a practising paedophile, are even suggesting that this particular scandal, and not Blair's repeated lies and fabricated reports in regard to Iraq, may well prove the downfall of a government mired in sleaze and corruption. The Sunday Times is reported to have obtained an FBI list of Labour MPs who have used credit cards to pay for internet child pornography, and Blair has responded by imposing a massive news blackout, failing however to stop the arrest of one of his most important aides, Phillip Lyon. The latest allegations came to light following a campaign to lift the secrecy on the Dunblane massacre. Large sections of the police report were banned from the public domain under a 100-year secrecy order. Lord Cullen, an establishment insider, also omitted and censored references to the documents in his final report. Parents and teachers were advised to concentrate their efforts on a campaign to outlaw handguns instead of focusing on how the mentally unstable Freemason, already known by the police to be a paedophile, had obtained a firearms licence for six handguns. Hamilton allegedly enjoyed good relations with both local Labour luminary George Robertson and Michael Forsyth, the then Scottish Secretary of State and MP for Stirling. Forsyth congratulated and encouraged Hamilton for running a boy's club. Hamilton was also found to have exchanged letters with the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth. The rumours and allegations concerning Lord Robertson's ties to Hamilton, and the possibility that the American intelligence services may be blackmailing Tony Blair into continued support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, have been given fire by internet investigator and intelligence expert Michael Keaney: An additional, and potentially explosive, aspect of US leverage over Blair is the FBI's investigation of users of child porn websites which has already claimed a number of high profile scalps. [] The biggest two fish that come to mind are indeed high profile: firstly there is George Robertson, who today has announced that he will step down as NATO Secretary General after four years and two months in the job. Were he to be fingered the fall out would be spectacular but short-lived -- he's been a long time out of the cabinet and is sufficiently distant from Tony to be regarded as not requiring the
[CTRL] ALERT: Bush's Domination via Permanent Crisis Endless War
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: ALERT: Bush's Domination via Permanent Crisis Endless War Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:22:56 -0700 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EXCERPTS: 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 (Enron, California energy swindle, etc.) which occurred after he took office and that situation has been all but forgotten 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. Let me repeat that I am not speaking of Jews here but of right wing Zionists, or those who subscribe to an extreme version of a nationalist ideology that is currently in power in another country, a country that has a crucial stake in how the American Government acts in its region. These are very dangerous times, not only for Iraq, but for Americans and for Israel. A war predicated on the reasons enumerated is the creation of a fascist-like administration. It is uncivilized to go to war, especially for these reasons. Many Israelis are opposed to this war. The whole world is proportionally against this war. Bush isn't listening. BUSH'S CRUSADE FOR DOMINATION by Hank Roth, http://pnews.org/ ...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 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 availability 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. [NOTE: Some argue that the main objective WAS to get rid of the Taliban who had eliminated the largest source of heroin production in the world that CIA uses to fund a trillion/dollar per year black-ops budget. Reports are now that production is almost back to normal. But don't expect confirmation of this in the CIA/elite controlled media. -CR] Not to forget
[CTRL] President has lost control -- March 6, 2003
-Caveat Lector- http://www.senderberl.com/china/lostcontrol.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Memorial Event a Set-Up?
-Caveat Lector- http://www.antiwar.com/orig/sapienza2.html Phony 'Antiwar Protesters' Trash 9/11 Memorial by Jeremy Sapienza March 11, 2003 From the Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Whittier Daily News: LA HABRA -- Antiwar protesters burned and ripped up flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a Sept. 11 memorial that residents erected on a fence along Whittier Boulevard days after the terrorist attacks in 2001 and have maintained ever since. The first question that enters my mind is, what good is done for the antiwar movement when vandals trash a memorial to thousands of slaughtered civilians? The answer is none, and that's why it seems like less an antiwar protest and more the act of saboteurs. This incident can be seized upon as a defining characteristic of the antiwar movement (a bunch of anti-American vandals) by the War Party and pulled out whenever a point needs to be made about our convictions. This whole thing smacks of COINTELPRO-type tactics. It seems to me that someone really wanted to smear the antiwar movement...how do we know that this wasn't a horde of pro-war thugs with Peace buttons on their shirts and some time to kill? Another curious side of this already-odd story, is the fact that this was done in plain view of La Habra police officers. And they weren't stopped or warned they were protected. La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said the vandals were exercising the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the flags were. The problem is that destroying private property isn't free speech, and the memorial's builders and caretakers had the permission of the site's owner. No comment as of right now from the La Habra Police Dept., but I am waiting for a callback. So cops hurl obscenities and throw us in jail if we open our mouths or slip off the sidewalk in a herded protest, but if you actually destroy someone's property, they stand by and call it free speech! Is this what we have police for? To beat the peaceful and protect the violent!? We condemn this action no matter who is responsible, but the bottom line is, we have no evidence that these are actually antiwar protesters. It simply doesn't make sense. As peace activists try to gain recognition from mainstream America as something other than just a bunch of anti-American patchouli-drenched semi- communist granola-crunchers, an incident like this has the potential to throw a giant wrench into the gears of the Antiwar Machine. comments on this article? send them to backtalk! [visit backtalk!] Jeremy Sapienza is Assistant Webmaster/Editor for Antiwar.com, Editor-in- Chief for the anarchist webzine Anti-state.com.. He lives in Miami Beach. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Backtracks on British (hasty retreat?)
-Caveat Lector- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12774-2003Mar11.html washingtonpost.com Rumsfeld Backtracks on British War Role in Iraq Reuters Tuesday, March 11, 2003; 9:47 PM By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday left open the possibility the United States might invade Iraq without the help of British forces, then quickly backtracked to quell the firestorm his remarks touched off. Pressed by reporters at a news briefing on whether Washington might go ahead without British military help because of rising political pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair, Rumsfeld said it would be a decision for President Bush to make. I think until we know what the (U.N.) resolution is, we won't know the answer as to what their role will be, Rumsfeld said. And to the extent they are able to participate -- in the event that the president decides to use force -- that would obviously be welcomed. To the extent they're not, there are work-arounds and they would not be involved, at least in that phase... That is an issue that the president will be addressing in the days ahead, one would assume, he said in comments that one U.S. defense official said later caused a firestorm of reaction from British officials. And, four hours later, Rumsfeld issued a terse two-paragraph written statement expressing confidence that the forces of America's most prominent ally would be side-by- side with U.S. troops should an attack take place. In the event that a decision to use force is made, we have every reason to believe there will be a significant military contribution from the United Kingdom, he said. 'NO DOUBT OF FULL SUPPORT' I have no doubt of the full support of the United Kingdom for the international community's efforts to disarm Iraq. In my press briefing today, I was simply pointing out that obtaining a second United Nations Security Council Resolution is important to the United Kingdom and that we are working to achieve it. In London, a spokeswoman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office shrugged off the original remarks and said there had been several phone calls with Rumsfeld's staff, but could not say when. Nothing has changed. We are working to get a second resolution. We are not yet at the stage of military action. Throughout there has been complete cooperation between the UK and the U.S. on military planning, she told Reuters. The United States and Britain have more than 250,000 troops gathered in the Gulf region around Iraq, but British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under mounting anti-war pressure at home. A U.S decision to go it alone would be slap in the face for the beleaguered Blair who has gone out on a limb and sparked a revolt in his own Labour Party to support Bush in his hawkish stance on Iraq. Rumsfeld was asked at the Pentagon briefing by reporters whether the United States, with about 225,000 of its troops already in the Gulf region and thousands more on the way, might go ahead without Britain or whether Britain might scale back its participation. This is a matter that most of the senior officials in the government discuss with the UK on a daily or every other day basis, said the secretary, adding that he had spoken with British Defense Minister Geoff Hoon by telephone about an hour ago. WILLINGNESS TO COMPROMISE? Britain has recently appeared to show more willingness at the United Nations to compromise on a controversial new resolution which might authorize war against Baghdad. Rumsfeld seemed to suggest that it stemmed from political pressure. Their situation is distinctive to their country and they have a government that deals with a parliament in their way, distinctive way, he told reporters. And what will ultimately be decided is unclear as to their role, that is to say their role in the event a decision is made to use force. There is the second issue of their role in a post- Saddam Hussein reconstruction process, or stabilization process, which would be a different matter. Britain has committed about 42,000 military personnel, including ground troops, to the potential war effort but only about 25,000 are in the Gulf region so far, 2003 Reuters Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe
Re: [CTRL] How to Talk Texan
-Caveat Lector- The only problem is Stevie Ray Vaughn is dead. ## - Original Message - From: Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] How to Talk Texan -Caveat Lector- At first I wasn't sure what this had to do with anything ... then I read the subject line. Ha! Good one ;) However, there are a few good Texans, including Rep. Ron Paul, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Willie Nelson. - jt - Original Message - From: Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Print this article | Close this window Something to drool over March 5 2003 Fashion-conscious teens who get their lips or tongues pierced may end up drooling like a St Bernard or speaking like a drunk, dental hygienists warned today. The Dental Hygienists Association of Australia said piercings could cause prolonged drooling, slurred speech, difficulty chewing and swallowing, damaged teeth, reduced taste sensation and permanent nerve damage. Many people were also unaware that smoking, drinking and oral sex should be avoided for up to six weeks after an oral piercing because of an increased risk of tissue damage and bacterial infections. Biting fingernails, putting your pencil in your mouth, kissing anyone, sticking your tongue in anyone's mouth, or anywhere else for that matter - oral sex is definitely out, spokeswoman Mary Beare told AAP. Meanwhile, the tongue could swell after piercing, causing the rings or barbells to become embedded in it and requiring surgery to remove the piercings. Damage to the oral nerves could also result in slurred speech or paralysis. The cool factor of a tongue or lip piercing is quickly lost when you're drooling like a St Bernard and sound like you've had 12 beers before you've opened your first, Ms Beare said. She said people who were considering getting an oral piercing should consult a professional first and go to a piercing salon that complied with infection control standards. But Scott Hemsworth, manager of a popular inner Sydney piercing studio, said Ms Beare was overstating the risks of oral piercing. If that was the case we'd be out of business, he said. He said his studio pierced about 10 tongues, two lips and ten labrets (the skin just beneath the lower lip) a week. Mr Hemsworth said oral piercings had become less popular over the past six months. So pierced teenagers could face a prospect even worse than the health risks outlined by Ms Beare - they may find they have become last season's fashion victim. AAP This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/05/1046826429118.html Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy
[CTRL] Pentagon war hawks conflict
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org http://wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/perl-m12_prn.shtml WSWS : News Analysis : North America In response to expos on Pentagon war hawks conflict of interest Richard Perle brands journalist Seymour Hersh a terrorist By Bill Vann 12 March 2003 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author A noted journalists unearthing of evidence of profiteering by a leading architect of the Bush administrations war on Iraq has evoked an extraordinary response. Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagons Defense Policy Board, answered the exposure of his use of public office for private gain by denouncing veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh as a terrorist. Hershs article, appearing in this weeks New Yorker magazine, alleges that Perle used his position on the Defense Policy Board and his influence on the Bush administrations war plans to seek millions of dollars in investments from Saudi businessmen for a venture capital firm where he is a managing partner. The firm, Trireme Partners, L.P., specializes in homeland security and defense. The New Yorker story centers on a January meeting in France between Perle and two prominent Saudi businessmen. One of them was Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer with intimate ties both to the royal family in Riyadh and the CIA in Washington. He gained international notoriety in the 1980s for his role in the Iran-Contra conspiracy, and later was implicated in the spectacular collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Khashoggi described himself to Hersh as a go-between, who agreed to arrange the meeting after being solicited by a letter from one of Perles associates in Trireme Partners, L.P. The letter boasted that three of Triremes managers advise the US Secretary of Defense by serving on the US Defense Policy Board and one of Triremes principals, Richard Perle, is chairman of that board. The other two board members referred to were former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Gerald Hillman, a close business associate whom Perle had brought onto the Pentagon panel despite his lack of significant government or military experience. While Perle has publicly denounced the Saudi regime as bearing a major responsibility for terrorism, the aim of the meeting in France, according to the Hersh article, was to secure homeland security contracts with the Saudi ruling family. The other Saudi participant in the meeting was wealthy industrialist Saleh Al-Zuhair, who said he came with the aim of presenting Perle with a proposal for avoiding war with Iraq. Afterwards, Perles associate Hillman sent Al-Zuhair a 12-point memorandum asserting that if Saddam Hussein admitted to possessing weapons of mass destruction and agreed to resign and leave Iraq with his sons and some of his ministers, the US would not have to go to war against Iraq. Hillmans letter was leaked to the Saudi and Lebanese press, where it was portrayed as a plan, backed by Perle, being negotiated with the Saudi government. Asked by Hersh about the meeting, Saudi Arabias ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar Sultan, dismissed the claim about peace feelers, saying it was a cover for a shakedown operation aimed at the Saudi regime. There is a split personality to Perle, he said. Here he is, on the one hand, trying to make a hundred-million-dollar deal, and, on the other hand, there were elements of the appearance of blackmailIf we get in business, hell back off on Saudi Arabiaas I have been informed by participants in the meeting. This is not the first time that Perle has been accused of a conflict of interest. He is one of a number of leading figures in and around the Bush administration who are closely identified with Israel, and specifically with the right-wing Likud Party of Ariel Sharon. They include the second- and third-ranking officials in the Pentagons civilian leadershipDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. In 1983, when he was an assistant secretary of defense, Perle came under scrutiny in relation to charges that he recommended that the Army buy weapons from an Israeli company whose owners had paid him a $50,000 fee just two years earlier. He has also been accused of funneling classified information to the Israeli embassy in the early 1970s, when he was an aide to Senator Henry Jackson (Democrat of Washington) Going back to the mid-1990s, the Defense Policy Board chairman has been among the most vociferous proponents of a war to topple Saddam Hussein. He was among those claiming long after administration officials knew that the story was fabricatedthat the alleged leader of the September 11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta, met an Iraqi official in Prague. Perles contemptible accusation against Hersh came in a television interview with CNNs Wolf Blitzer broadcast March 9. Blitzer read from the concluding paragraph of Hershs New Yorker article: There is no
[CTRL] Ghost Riders
-Caveat Lector- www.thornwalker.com/ditch/gr.htm Back to editor's note. Guest article Ghost riders in the sky The alternative scenario Release 1.2 By A.K. DEWDNEY The morning of September 11 dawned bright and clear over Boston's Logan Airport as crews arrived for the first flights of the day. The departure lounge for American Airlines Flight 11 was already filling with passengers when John Ogonowski, the pilot, and Thomas McGuinness, the first officer, arrived to board their Boeing 767 and begin the pre-flight check. As they walked through the lounge, Ogonowski casually scanned the waiting passengers, a longtime habit. Nothing out of the ordinary. In the cockpit, he and McGuinness worked through the long checklist and, when they came to engine start-up, the two giant General Electric turbofan engines roared into life. The weather reports were good all the way to Los Angeles. It would be a routine flight. At 7:45 the flight crew closed the cabin doors and the 767 began to taxi out to the runway. Clearance came minutes later, and at 7:59 the engines opened to full throttle and the 767 became airborne. It climbed into clear blue skies, leveled at 25,000 feet, and headed west toward Los Angeles. Ogonowski called up the coordinates for Los Angeles on the flight control computer, then engaged the autopilot. A flight attendant brought coffee to the cockpit and stayed to chat briefly, before resuming her duties. The flight continued normally until 8:27, nearly half an hour into the trip. At that point Ogonowski's chest felt tight and he experienced difficulty breathing. Was it a heart attack? He glanced nervously at McGuinness, thinking that if the symptoms got worse, he should warn the co-pilot that he was having a medical problem. But McGuinness's face was white and he appeared to be gasping for air. Then he vomited. We have a situation, declared Ogonowski, trying desperately to think. There were screams coming from the passenger compartment behind the closed cockpit doors. His mind seemed to be clouding over and breathing was now impossible. He managed to say, Call the flight attendants, before passing out. McGuinness's head was already lolling to one side. Back in the passenger area, the last flight attendant to lose consciousness sank slowly to her knees before passing out in the aisle. The aircraft smelled of vomit and feces. Except for one or two passengers lying in the aisles, most remained in their seats. They appeared to have all fallen asleep, but they were dead. Everybody in the aircraft was dead. Back in the cockpit, pilot and copilot sat dead in their seats, eyes staring blackly at the deep blue sky above the cockpit windows. The aircraft continued to fly normally when suddenly the numbers on the inertial navigation system display changed. Instead of the coordinates for Los Angeles airspace, new numbers jumped into place. The aircraft banked steeply to the left and began a slow descent, adding another 100 mph to the airspeed. In the distance, the New York skyline was growing steadily larger through the cockpit windows. The aircraft was still descending and seemed to be heading for lower Manhattan. By the time the 767 crossed the East River, it was all too clear where the aircraft was headed. The World Trade Center Towers loomed steadily larger, dead ahead through the cockpit windows. At 8:45, the Boeing 767 slammed into the North Tower. A huge ball of flame, burning jet fuel, blossomed from the southeast side of the North Tower. The passengers and crew of Flight 11, having been gassed, were now cremated, along with hundreds of office workers in the North Tower. At 9:03, 18 minutes later, even as thousands of New Yorkers gaped upward in astonishment and dismay at the burning North Tower, another Boeing 767, approaching from the southwest, crashed into the South Tower. United Airlines Flight 175 had also departed from Boston Logan that morning at 8:15. At 9:45 another passenger liner crashed into one corner of the Pentagon building. At 10:00 am, a fourth aircraft crashed in a field near Pittsburgh, apparently unable to complete its mission. Within minutes of the first crash, major networks carried the developing story. Four apparent suicide attacks involving large passenger aircraft had just struck two of America's most important landmarks. Asked for their impressions, people on the street described it as unreal. The scale was unprecedented. The drama swept away the debris of ordinary life, shocking Americans into numbness, then anger. In the days that followed, the story of four cells of Arab terrorists emerged with unprecedented speed. The names of the hijackers were revealed, along with their affiliation or links to al Qaida and the dreaded Osama bin Laden. Soon President Bush would declare his war on terrorism. Soon American forces would be heading for Afghanistan. Soon Israel would be re-invading the West Bank and Gaza. The September attacks acquired, almost from the
Re: [CTRL] It's Official: French = Freedom
-Caveat Lector- WASHINGTON -- Show the flag and pass the ketchup was the order of theday in House cafeterias Tuesday. Lawmakers struck a lunchtime blowagainst the French and put "freedom fries" on the menu.And for breakfast they'll now have "freedom toast."Deja vu all over again...First we have Homeland Security and the so-called "Patriot Acts" recreating the Alien and Sedition Acts of WWI, along with the corresponding trashing of citizens' civil rights...And now we see a repeat of the WWI silliness of demonstrating one's patriotism by renaming items which have perfectly good names to begin with; in WWI it was anything that was Germanic that underwent the Orwellian treatment, whereby hamburger was renamed "Liberty Sausage", sauerkraut was renamed "Liberty Cabbage", and dachshunds were renamed "Liberty Pups"...One can only surmise that the new " 'Freedom' for 'French' " trend will grow, and we will now see "Freedom Poodles" shown at dog shows, one will find "Freedom-style" green beans in the frozen food section of their neighborhood supermarket, nail technicians will perform "Freedom" manicures, and patriotic lovers will partake of "Freedom Kissing", aka "Freedom-ing" (and utilize "Freedom" ticklers, if matters progress further)...And I suppose the Statue of Liberty will have to be completely draped from view -- after all, she IS French...June. IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - 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 Click Here
[CTRL] To the Hills and to the Country is Where Some People Head
-Caveat Lector- http://www.allhatnocattle.net/3-10-03-charlie-daniels.htm The Devil went down to Texas (Sung to the Tune of The Devil Went Down to Georgia) The Devil went down to Texas A favorite place for him It has a douche like Charlie D., and the big old death pena'ty... Its governor is squatting In Wash. DC they say, While his has-been friend old Charlie D. Has plenty of stuff to say Well you see old Charlie never served In the service that he loves But he wants your kid to get Saddam And doesn't like no doves When the killin' starts, old Charlie D. Will be sittin' by the tube Stuffin' his face and cheerin' on Those dying for this rube He'll write another letter Callin' Sean Penn a traitor But him and Shrub will never 'splain why Saddam couldn't wait til later... (Chorus) Fire on the mountain run boy run Charlie don't care if they kill your son Stuffin' his fat face, wavin' the flag Another chickenhawk in a big ole chair... -JFW Thanks to JFW Costa Mesa, CA Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Follow Bush into the Crusade
-Caveat Lector- The Antichrist? (see attached image) Steve 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 attachment: bushchristhorns18k.jpg
[CTRL] Cannons don't get no looser
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2838593.stm US ready to fight 'without UK' US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has sparked diplomatic confusion by suggesting America has alternative plans if the UK decides not to go to war with Iraq. The remarks - later retracted - caused shock and surprise in Downing Street, which chose to focus on continuing efforts to secure a new United Nations resolution. But rebel Labour backbenchers have seized on the remarks and are expected to urge Tony Blair at Commons question time on Wednesday to withdraw British military involvement. The diplomatic flurry came as the prime minister said he was willing to work night and day to secure enough common ground among UN security council members for agreement on a new resolution. They (the US) can do it without us and give Tony Blair the chance to get out of the hole if he wishes Graham Allen MP Labour rebel Mr Rumsfeld told reporters the UK's role was unclear because of Tony Blair's difficulties in convincing a rebellious Parliament of the need for military action. Asked if he meant the US would go to war without its closest ally, he added: That is an issue that the president will be addressing in the days ahead, one would assume. A Downing Street spokeswoman insisted: This has not changed anything. We are still working to get a second resolution. We are not at this stage (war) yet. But there has been complete cooperation throughout between the United Kingdom and United States on the military planning. Weapons tests Within the hour, Mr Rumsfeld tried to clarify his comments with a statement saying he had no doubt in a significant military contribution from the United Kingdom. I don't think it is possible to exaggerate the degree of concern about the illegality of what is proposed Tam Dalyell But Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell told BBC's Newsnight that Mr Rumsfeld's comments appeared to devalue Britain's military contribution and hence its political influence. Labour MP Graham Allen said: The cat is out of the bag. They can do it without us and give Tony Blair the chance to get out of the hole if he wishes. The prime minister's frantic international negotiations continue on Wednesday at dinner with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at Downing Street. After talks with the Portuguese and Romanian prime ministers on Tuesday, Mr Blair warned that Saddam Hussein will be let off the hook if France or Russia uses a veto over a further UN resolution. UK diplomats at the UN have proposed a series of tests they say Baghdad should fulfil within a set time to prove that it is ready to hand over its weapons. Mr Blair knows the risks he is taking Nick Assinder BBC News Online political correspondent The proposals are part of an attempt to win wider support for a new UN resolution that gives the Iraqi leader a deadline to disarm before war. Mr Blair hopes the plan will break the UN deadlock and ease mounting political pressure at home following an attack on his strategy by Clare Short, the international development secretary. But on Tuesday, six undecided UN members - Cameroon, Angola, Chile, Guinea, Mexico and Pakistan - suggested a 45-day deadline for Iraq to disarm. This will be seen as a non-starter by America, which has rejected calls to extend the deadline beyond 17 March, insisting that a UN vote on war against Iraq will happen this week. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence has denied claims by the Public Accounts Committee that it has not learned enough from mistakes made during a large desert exercise in Oman two years ago. More than 20,000 troops were put through their paces amid criticism about the equipment used. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2838593.stm Published: 2003/03/12 06:36:52 BBC MMIII Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list.
[CTRL] It's that old voodoo economics ...
-Caveat Lector- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2747153.stm Tuesday, 11 February, 2003, 12:49 GMT Economists attack Bush's 'madness' Joseph Stiglitz: Bush package simply won't work More than 400 economists, led by 10 Nobel prize winners, have criticised President George W Bush's economic policy in the US press. In a full-page advertisement in the New York Times newspaper, the economists said that proposed tax cuts would not help the economy in the short term. When you are designing a tax programme, you look for the biggest bang for the buck Joseph Stiglitz They also said the planned cuts would benefit rich people the most. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz told the BBC's World Business Report that Mr Bush's plans were fiscal madness, fiscal irresponsibility. President George W Bush could spend less than a sixth of what he is planning to on stimulating the economy, Mr Stiglitz said. When you are designing a tax programme, you look for the biggest bang for the buck, he said. So rather than spending $600bn on the tax proposal that Bush has, the kind of proposals I'm talking about would cost under $100bn and deliver enormous amounts, directly and in the short run, without delivering huge long-run deficits. Trouble Mr Stiglitz is a well-known thorn in the side of more conservative economists. Formerly a senior figure in both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, he stepped down in order to criticise both agencies, and the US too, for their policies towards the developing world. He is also a staunch critic of the current White House - and a signatory of Tuesday's advert in the New York Times. The campaign is backed by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington DC think tank. Retrograde step Mr Stiglitz was at pains to stress that far from improving the situation, the package Mr Bush is pushing would make things worse by stocking up massive deficits for the future. The tax cuts would mostly benefit taxpayers who are already wealthy, and are therefore the most unlikely immediately to spend their windfall - which, he said, is what the economy needs. More than half Mr Bush's planned spending is devoted to removing tax on share dividends, but most taxpayers are already exempt through holdings in pension funds and similar vehicles, he said. You should get money out to people who will spend it and spend it quickly, he said. So that means getting money to the unemployed, who have had their consumption cut back, so that would make a big difference. A proper stimulus package would also give money to the individual states, almost all of whom are experiencing a revenue crunch as the tax take falls and so - under balanced budget rules - must slash spending. WATCH/LISTEN ON THIS STORY Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz There's a growing consensus in America today that Bush's economic programme is just misguided See also: 07 Feb 03 | Business Nobel winners attack Bush economics 04 Feb 03 | Americas Bush plans huge military spend 18 Feb 03 | Business US economy hits the brakes 07 Jan 03 | Business Bush unveils tax-cutting package 14 Aug 02 | Hardtalk IMF critic hits out 11 Oct 01 | Business Nobel prize winner criticises Bush 10 Oct 01 | Business IMF critic wins Nobel economics prize Internet links: Economic Policy Institute The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Business stories now: Hacker breaches credit card security Job losses escalate at Reuters New SEC chief pledges tough line Oil prices push higher Rwanda denies DRC plundering Overseas sales drive Wal- Mart Congo's finance minister resigns Blair keeps euro options open Links to more Business stories are at the foot of the page. E-mail this story to a friend Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot
[CTRL] Human Shields to Surround US Military Bases Around the World
-Caveat Lector- Does that sound like a viable alternative? Keep the military personal from manning their stations. Could also be used against key commercial military contractors. Just an idea. Might get me put on another list. Sigh... Steve 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/Cheney Foreign Policy Controllers Website
-Caveat Lector- Bush / Cheney Foreign Policy Controllers Website They've been planning this war for a long time. Project for a New American Century http://www.newamericancentury.org/ The people behind your war. To be paid for by several American generations to come. Until the United States is eventually dissolved due to financial problem much like the late Soviet Union. Steve 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] Smartest Man in the World
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23588 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY The Smartest Man in the World Raid Qusti, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Published on 12 March 2003 Ladies and Gentlemen: Please put your hands together for the smartest man in the world, Mr. George W. Bush! Mr. Bush, before I go on any further, I want to apologize for making fun of you over the past two years. For laughing at how the world media has mocked your intelligence. For laughing at all the jokes I read about you on the Internet. And for the remarks I heard over the years from the international media about how unfit you are to be president of a superpower. I had no idea, sir, that you were to prove me and the entire global community wrong. Many scientists who were failures or dropouts at the beginning of their lives turned out to be geniuses later in their lives. Though many of us know that there is no link whatsoever between the United States need to flush out Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and the military buildup of nearly 300,000 troops in the Gulf for war against Iraq, you managed to pull it off brilliantly. You are the only person in the world who managed successfully to shift the attention of six billion people on this planet from your war against terror to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the destruction, as you put it, of his weapons of mass destruction. Not only has the world community completely forgotten about Afghanistan, but even world news agencies hardly print a single story from that part of the world any more. We only see a sub-headline every couple of months when a US soldier has died there, or when the warlords and gangsters that now control the streets decide to take matters in their hands and settle old scores. And of course, when the poor new Afghan President Karzai, whom you left helpless after toppling the Taleban regime, gives a press conference stating that he needs your aid and support as you had promised him to rebuild Afghanistan. And even though Bin Laden has yet to be found after more than a year, and Al-Qaeda judging by recent bombings in other parts of the world is still operational, you managed to convince the American people and the entire world of the necessity to leave your unfinished business in Afghanistan (mainly the rebuilding of the country you had promised the leadership and the Afghan people) to wage war against an old foe. I want to salute you for managing to come up with a new reason every time you want to justify the war against Iraq. First you told your people and the world that it was because Saddam tried to kill your daddy when he visited Kuwait. Then you said Iraq was part of an axis of evil. After that you said it was because he was a dictator who used biological and chemical weapons against his own people. A few months later it was because Saddam Hussein had links with Al-Qaeda. And lately, its because he has weapons of mass destruction. As for your latest press conference in which you said that you want to topple the Iraqi regime so that the Iraqis can have a democracy and that they would get the oil to build their nation after the dictator leaves, it was superb. Nobody but you could have possibly pulled off such a beautiful stunt. Yes, it might have been an old stunt used in Afghanistan, but nevertheless, it was brilliant. Yes, Mr. Bush. I can see it now. The heavy bombing of Iraqs strategic military locations by US planes. The swift action of ground troops afterward. The surrender of the Iraqi Army. Saddam Hussein overthrown. The Iraqi people using their oil wealth to build their nation and prosper. A democratic regime installed that rules the land. It sounds so good. No risks. No casualties. Once and for all you would have settled your score with the person who almost got daddy killed. You also would end the danger of Iraq sending chemical and biological missiles that the UN inspectors somehow failed to find to the United States. You would please your boys and Congress back home and would gain more support for your war against terror. And most of all, you would prove to the world that the United States the sole superpower and protector of human rights did humanity yet another favor by scrapping a dictatorship. And again, you would have proven to those Americans who feel doubtful about your policies in the Middle East that Israel is still your only democratic buddy down there a country that has not abided by a single UN resolution in 50 years. Mr. Bush, we want to thank you for all your efforts. Not only have you proven to be the smartest man alive, but your intelligence and wisdom have overwhelmed us all. You can return to your recliner now and pat your black dog while the hawks in Washington play the dice. Copyright 2003 ArabNews All Rights Reserved. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section
[CTRL] The Gertrude Bell Project
-Caveat Lector- http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/home/index.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Hussein's Muse: The Woman Who's Sending Americans to War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,912266,00.html Yet she could also attend a display of the force being deployed by the RAF on the Kurds around Sulaimaniya: It was even more remarkable than the one we saw last year at the Air Force show because it was much more real. They had made an imaginary village about a quarter of a mile from where we sat on the Diala dyke and the two first bombs dropped from 3,000ft, went straight into the middle of it and set it alight. It was wonderful and horrible. Then they dropped bombs all round it, as if to catch the fugitives and finally fire bombs which even in the brightest sunlight made flares of bright flame in the desert. They burn through metal and water won't extinguish them. At the end the armoured cars went out to round up the fugitives with machine guns. Miss Bell's lines in the sand She was an archaeologist, a linguist and the greatest woman mountaineer of her age. And in Baghdad in 1921 she drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. James Buchan on the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell James Buchan Wednesday March 12, 2003 The Guardian In British diplomatic group photographs of the early 20th-century Middle East, amid the plumes and uniforms and the calm paraphernalia of an empire going to hell in a bucket, there is often a solitary female. The woman is slim, with a head of luxuriant hair, and neatly dressed in billowing muslins or in the pencil silhouette and cloche hats of jazz-age Baghdad. The woman is Gertrude Bell, who is as responsible as anybody for the rickety national state first known as Mesopotamia, and now as Iraq. As a powerful official of the British administration in Baghdad after the first world war, Bell ensured that an Arab state was founded from the three Ottoman provinces of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra, but one which was too weak to be independent of Britain. I had a well-spent morning at the office making out the southern desert frontier of the Iraq, she wrote to her father on December 4 1921. One of Oxford University's most brilliant students, the greatest woman mountaineer of her age, an archaeologist and linguist, passionate, unhappy and rich, Bell saw in Arab male society, and what US President Woodrow Wilson called the whole disgusting scramble for the Middle East after the first world war, opportunities that were unthinkable at home. John Buchan, in his novel Greenmantle (1916), and TE Lawrence in his guerrilla exploits in Arabia the following year, made popular a myth that an Englishman could become an Arab - only more so. To her generation in Britain, Bell went one better. She seemed to move as an equal among the sheikhs without compromising her British femininity. Her letters to her father and stepmother, one of the great correspondences of the past century, pass easily from orders for cotton gowns at Harvey and Nichols [sic] to the new-fangled British air warfare being tried out on recalcitrant Iraqi Arabs and Kurds. The historical waters have closed over TE Lawrence. Even back in the 70s, I could find nobody with any recollection of him at the scenes of his exploits in western Arabia. But Miss Bell is still a name in Baghdad. Even in conversations with the vicious and cornered cadres of Saddam Hussein's regime, her name will come up to evoke, for a moment, an innocent Baghdad of picnics in the palm gardens and bathing parties in the Tigris. Yet Bell and her superior as British high commissioner, Sir Percy Cox, laid down policies of state in Iraq that were taken up by Saddam's Arab Ba'ath socialist party. Those policies were to retain, if necessary by violence, the Kurdish mountains as a buffer against Turkey and Russia; to promote Sunni Muslims and other minorities over the Shia majority; to repress the Shia clergy in Najaf, Kerbela and Kazimain, or expel them to Iran; to buy off the big landowners and tribal elders; to stage disreputable plebiscites; and to deploy air power as a form of political control. Iraq can only be ruled by force, a senior Ba'ath official told me in 1999. Mesopotamia is not a civilised state, Bell wrote to her father on December 18 1920. The Ba'ath is facing extinction. Any US civil and military administration in its place will have the precedent of Bell's 1920 white paper (typically, the first ever written by a woman), Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia. Sixteen volumes of diaries and about 1,600 letters to her parents, transcribed and posted on the web by the University of Newcastle library (www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk) are a must-read at the Pentagon, less for their portrait of an oriental culture in its last phase as for their perilous mingling of political insight and blind elation. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born on July 14 1868 in Washington, Co Durham. Her family were ironmasters on a grand scale, with progressive attitudes. In 1886, Bell went up to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she was the first woman to win a first-class degree
[CTRL] How France Helped
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23615 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY How France Helped United States Syed Salamah Ali Mahdi, Special to Arab News Published on 12 March 2003 It is so unbecoming of a country which proclaims itself as the unchallenged leader of contemporary civilized nations and so unthankful of a nation that punctiliously celebrates Thanksgiving every year to forget the critical role that France played in the making of the United States of America. For those Americans who are unaware of their history but have seen the painting of Lord Cornwallis surrendering to Gen. George Washington somewhere, sometime or viewed Mel Gibsons box office hit Patriot, both the painted masterpiece and the climax of the film resurrect the defeat and surrender of the British at the fateful Battle of Yorktown which led to the making of the United States of America. As it happens, in the months preceding this battle the British under Lord Cornwallis and Gen. Howe with their death squads had almost vanquished Gen. Washington and his motley crowd of patriots and subdued the two Carolinas and Virginia. Having done that, Lord Cornwallis, camped in the peninsula of Yorktown, and Gen. Howe in New York prepared for the final showdown with Gen. Washington, who was waiting on the banks of Hudson River. Gen. Rochambeau, who was with Gen. Washington, offered to march down to Virginia with his 10,000 French regulars to fight Lord Cornwallis, which they did on foot; a long and hazardous trip, to say the least. Rochambeau also sent an urgent request to the 33-vessel-strong French Fleet in the West Indies under the command of Admiral de Grasse to join the forthcoming battle in Virginia, which he did. Soon the French were blockading the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, preventing the British Fleet sent by Gen. Howe from joining this battle. Once he saw that defeat was inevitable, Lord Cornwallis sent one of his generals to the French General, Rochambeau, proposing surrender. Not to Gen. Washington, but to the French, because it was the French who had defeated the British. As expected, Rochambeau declined the offer and asked the British to surrender to Gen. Washington. After much negotiation Lord Cornwallis agreed and sent his sword to Washington and surrendered to the Americans. The Americans had finally won their Independence, but with military assistance from France, without which there would not have been a United States of America. The French did not exact any price from America for this assistance, they did it all on the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. Two centuries later America would repay this historical debt by liberating France from Nazi Germany. In between, there was the French gift to the United States of America of the majestic Statue of Liberty. Fifty-seven years later Americans are demanding their pound of flesh from the French with the incumbent George Bushs You are either with us or against us. Other princes of darkness and there are many in America are crediting the President of France with dozens of qualities and the French with more character traits, all negative. Outside the United States there is a universal cry of vive la France! Stand up for the universal principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. These shall prevail, sooner than later. Copyright 2003 ArabNews All Rights Reserved. Forwarded for your information. The text and intent of the article have to stand on their own merits. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many genera- tions. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it. The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutra A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Judges for War Crimes Court Sworn In
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Judges for War Crimes Court Sworn In March 11, 2003 By REUTERS Filed at 1:18 p.m. ET THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The world's first permanent war crimes court swore in its first 18 judges Tuesday to try the 21st century's worst crimes in a move hailed as the biggest legal milestone since Hitler's henchmen were tried at Nuremberg. Amid pomp and ceremony, the judges at the International Criminal Court, or ICC, 11 men and seven women, were sworn in to try people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. But even as the judges -- from Samoa and Latvia, from South Africa, Brazil, Britain and France -- took their oaths, there were concerns the court would struggle to flex its muscle in the face of opposition from the United States, China and Russia. ``By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these eleven men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective consciences,'' U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said. Some 89 countries have thrown their weight behind the court to try alleged perpetrators who committed crimes after it came into being in July 2002. But lack of support from the United States and Russia -- two powers behind the Nuremberg Trials -- has been a setback. Support for the ICC -- a descendant of Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials after World War II -- was given added impetus by ad hoc U.N. war crimes tribunals set up to try crimes in the Balkans in the 1990s and the 1994 Rwandan genocide. ``The court which we have created, and in which we install judges today, responds to one of the darkest parts of our human experience, and yet this is also a ceremony of hope,'' said Jordan's Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, head of the assembly of states who backed the Rome Statute in 1998 to set up the ICC. WORLD JUDICIAL CAPITAL The ICC takes its seat in The Hague -- dubbed the world's legal capital -- alongside the U.N. war crimes tribunal trying ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and the U.N.'s World Court, which only rules on disputes between states. The United States, Russia and China -- three of the five permanent members of the 15-seat U.N. Security Council -- have shunned the court with Washington leading a dogged campaign to ensure it does not try to prosecute U.S. citizens. Fearing U.S. troops could face politically motivated prosecutions, Washington strongly opposes the ICC and declined an invitation to join Annan for the ceremony. The United States, which has withdrawn its signature from the 1998 treaty that set up the ICC, has been busy persuading other countries to seal bilateral agreements exempting all U.S. citizens from the court's authority. The court's supporters said the dispute would not remove the symbolism of the inauguration hosted by Dutch head of state Queen Beatrix. The European Union, a staunch advocate for the court, also welcomed its becoming a reality. ``The court sends a powerful message to any potential perpetrator of such crimes: impunity has ended,'' said EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten. Anyone -- from a head of state to an ordinary citizen -- will be liable to ICC prosecution for human rights violations, including systematic murder, torture, rape and sexual slavery. But it is still some way off being ready for its first case. The court officially opened in The Hague last year after 60 states backed it, but with just a skeleton administrative staff. Benjamin Ferencz, 82, a former U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg at the ceremony, lamented Washington's stance. ``The current leadership in the United States seems to have forgotten the lessons we tried to teach the rest of the world,'' he said. The ICC's first judges were elected in New York earlier this year. A prosecutor is expected to be appointed in April. The court has already received more than 200 complaints alleging war crimes, though it will say nothing about the nature of them. The new tribunal has jurisdiction only when countries are unwilling or unable to prosecute individuals for atrocities. Cases can be referred by states that have ratified the treaty, the U.N. Security Council or the tribunal's prosecutor after approval from three judges. Unlike the U.N. war crimes tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda -- based in The Hague and Arusha in Tanzania -- the ICC is not a U.N. body. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-dutch-warcrimes.html?ex=1048426057ei=1en=dd23523c8a0c5eb7 HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2002 The
