[CTRL] Counting Iraqs dead civilians
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- Counting Iraqs dead civilians By Jackson Thoreau Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her. Especially not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining 2,000-lb. bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact, on Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullahs eight-year-old son. Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bushs and Cheneys Blood for Oil, Inc. war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could care less. Welcome to the New World Order. U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts, especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bushs claim to the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian casualties, unless they are so large that even our corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them. But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years old. He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book. Hes number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs continues to rise. Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept much. I have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once again about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar stage Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the Hollywood crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed. Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures the way the Bush administration wants them painted. I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from Londons Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in the Wilderness Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like the United Kingdoms Independent Media Centre. And Im here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC and others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians many of them children, as almost half of Baghdads population is under age 14 - have been killed by the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many more will probably soon die in hospitals. At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you do this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace Team. Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers. Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student at a high school for girls, is among those with deep wounds who must suffer in anguish without basic medicines that could at least give her some temporary relief from the pain. Cheneys oil company, Dallas-based Halliburton, could make millions supplying Iraq with oil equipment after the 1991 Gulf War. But relief workers could not ship basic medicines to Iraq because that violated the economic sanctions imposed by the UN on Husseins regime. To repeat: Cheneys company can make millions in oil deals, but Iraqi kids like Nada cannot get basic medicines. Want to talk precision bombing? Talk to Nahla Harbi, a passenger driving away from Baghdad with her two-year-old when a military school for boys was struck, causing her car to roll. She escaped with fractures in both legs. Her toddler suffered head injuries. Talk to the families of the five Syrians who died when a U.S. missile struck a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border. Ten other passengers, most of whom were laborers working in Iraqi oil fields, were injured. One of the more ludicrous aspects of this war is how U.S. officials are crying foul when Iraq pulls a few tricks like pretend surrenders and putting POWs on television. Iraq is violating the Geneva Convention, U.S. officials say. These are the same officials who ignore international laws such as the UN charter that states one country cannot invade another without provocation or the blessing of the UN Security Council. These are the same officials who ignore international treaties like those governing nuclear weapons and global warming. So its unfair for Iraq to put prisoners on television or use civilians as soldiers or women and kids as shields? Tell me, whats fair about one side spending $400 billion annually on nuclear weapons, high-tech weapons, etc. and the other spending some $1.4 billion on scud missiles and other low-tech weapons after years of economic sanctions
[CTRL] Iraqi resistance
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org http://wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/iraq-m25.shtml WSWS : News Analysis : Middle East : Iraq Iraqi resistance shatters US propaganda of liberation war By Patrick Martin 25 March 2003 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author The battles which erupted Sunday and Monday in southern and central Iraq have exploded Bush administration claims that the invasion of Iraq would lead to a speedy collapse of the Iraqi government. Instead of US and British troops being hailed as liberators, they have encountered fierce resistance in towns such as Umm Qasr, Nasiriya and Karbala. The first encounter between US forces and the Republican Guard, the best-trained and best- equipped Iraqi military units, took place Monday morning near the city of Karbala in central Iraq, about 60 miles south of Baghdad. The 32 Apache helicopters of the 11th Attack Helicopter Regiment, US Army V Corps, attacked an armored brigade of 90 tanks. The helicopters received what CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul called a heavy, heavy barrage of anti-aircraft fire, which shot down two of the helicopters and forced the others to withdraw. Penhaul described the pilots as somewhat dazed, somewhat stunned by the level of Iraqi resistance. One pilot called the attack zone a hornets nest in which Iraqi fire came from all sides. The attack force was compelled to abandon its mission and every single helicopter received some damage, mainly from small arms fire, with as many as 15 or 20 bullet holes in each machine. Iraqi state television later broadcast film of one of the helicopters on the ground, with armed Iraqi soldiers dancing around it in jubilation. Sunday saw the bloodiest battle of the five-day war, with hundreds of Iraqi soldiers and militiamen attacking Marines in Nasiriya, a city 230 miles southeast of Baghdad and 100 miles from the Iraq-Kuwait border. As many as two dozen US soldiers were killed and over 50 wounded, the largest US combat losses in a single day since the Vietnam War. Press reports cited claims by US soldiers that some civilians had taken up arms to join in the fighting, ambushing the Marines as they sought to enter the city. US and British forces faced a counterattack by Iraqi soldiers in Umm Qasr, the southernmost town in Iraq and its only Persian Gulf port. The port itself was seized in the first two days fighting, but Iraqi forces hid in the town and reemerged Sunday. Despite huge superiority in firepowerthe US and British forces have unrestricted control of the air, as well as artillery, tanks and naval gunfirethey were unable to dislodge Iraqi soldiers armed only with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. The first days of the war have also seen a series of misfires and malfunctions in the high- tech US arsenal. US bombs and missiles have landed on the territory of Iran and Turkey, destroyed at least one British warplane, and came close to hitting an American naval vessel in the Persian Gulf. While there is no question that the US military has a huge technological advantage over the Iraqi forces, these incidents undermine the claims of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the unprecedented precision of American bomb and missile attacks. The aerial bombardment of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities continues unabated since it began Friday night. Iraqi officials have provided few details of the resulting casualties, releasing figures for the death toll which appear to be deliberately minimized, perhaps to avoid panicking the population. The sheer tonnage of bombs being dropped is staggeringroughly the equivalent of a Hiroshima atomic bomb in the first four days. There is a growing danger that having failed to subdue Iraq with the first wave of attacks, the Bush administration will escalate to saturation bombing, with the potential of leveling Iraqi cities and killing tens if not hundreds of thousands. The dispatch of B-52 bombers from their bases in Great Britainthe deadliest weapon of the Vietnam Warsuggests that attacks of even greater brutality will soon be under way. The first week of the war has refuted many of the complacent predictions of the Bush administration and its US media apologists. There has been no collapse of the Iraqi regime. There has been no mass surrender of Iraqi troops, even among the regular army soldiers who were thought to be less reliable than the Republican Guard troops. There have been no scenes of mass rejoicing at the prospect of US-British military rule replacing the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. There have been no reports of chemical and biological weapons, either used in battle or discovered by US and British troops. There have been no Scud missiles fired, either at the invading forces or at Israel. And there has been no systematic attempt to sabotage or destroy the oilfields, either in southern or northern Iraq. The heroism and determination of the outgunned Iraqi soldiers has
[CTRL] Streicher's Legators
-Caveat Lector- World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org http://wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/stre-m25.shtml WSWS : News Analysis : Middle East : Iraq Media lies and war crimes: the instructive case of Julius Streicher By Bill Vann 25 March 2003 Back to screen version| Send this link by email | Email the author Eleven leading members of Hitlers Third Reich were sentenced to death for their role in instigating a world war that claimed the lives of tens of millions of people as a result of military slaughter and death camps. The lead defendant, Hermann Goring, cheated the hangmans noose by taking a cyanide capsule that he had concealed under a dental crown. He and nine others condemned to hang had been convicted of the Nuremberg indictments principal charge: conspiracy to wage a war of aggression. The other charges, which encompassed the mass murder of Jews, gypsies, communists and socialists, and other civilians in Germany and its occupied territories, flowed from the first. There was one man sent to the scaffold, however, who was acquitted on this first and paramount charge. His name was Julius Streicher, a Nazi party member since 1921. The judges at the Nuremberg tribunal found: There is no evidence that he was ever within Hitlers inner circle of advisers, nor during his career was he closely connected with the formulation of policies that led to war... Rather, Streicher was convicted for promoting aggressive war and atrocities against the Jews in his newspapersthe vile anti-Semitic weekly Der Strmer, and later a daily, Frnkische Tageszeitung. The court found that this propaganda for war and genocide made the newspaper publisher more culpable than many of those defendants who were more directly involved in the workings of the Nazi regime. The historic crimes of that regime, the tribunal found, could never have been carried out without the preparatory work he and others like him did in warping the public consciousness of the German people with a relentless barrage of anti- Semitic and militarist propaganda. As the prosecution stated at Nuremberg: Without him the Kaltenbrunners, the Himmlers, the General Stroops would have had nobody to carry out their orders. All over the world, experts in international law have come forward to accuse the Bush administration of the same principal crime for which the Nuremberg defendants were sentenced to death 57 years ago. And not a few have raised the prospect of a new war crimes indictment resulting from Washingtons unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq. Political leaders in due course could be taken to a national court for an act of aggression, said Louise Doswald-Beck, secretary-general of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, which has condemned the invasion of Iraq as a gross violation of international law. What of those who play an analogous role to that of Julius Streicher today? The American media has worked as an essential instrument of the Bush administration in deceiving and terrorizing the American people in preparation for war. In many casesFox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial pages and countless barking commentators on both network and cable talk showsthey have approached the degraded level of Der Strmer in promoting an invasion of Iraq and justifying mass murder. The media as a whole, with very few exceptions, has obediently turned itself into an extension of the Pentagons propaganda machine, serving as a conduit for psychological warfare against both Iraqis and Americans. The scoundrels who control what passes for news in the US have parroted all of the administrations lying justifications for war, celebrated its onset, and censored the images of carnage and suffering that are being seen throughout the rest of the world. They share a major portion of guilt for this illegal act. How and when those who are responsible for this war of aggression will be made to pay for their crimes remains to be seen. But there can be no doubt there are many candidates to fill the place in the dock that was occupied by Streicher at Nuremberg. Copyright 1998-2003 World Socialist Web Site 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
[CTRL] Sparks
-Caveat Lector- http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/03/25/003.html Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2003. Page 1 Sparks Fly Over U.S. Claims of Sales to Iraq By Simon Saradzhyan Staff Writer Washington and Moscow traded barbs over Iraq on Monday, with U.S. President George W. Bush complaining that Russian companies were selling defense equipment to Baghdad and President Vladimir Putin warning that steps must be taken to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq. In a telephone call initiated by Washington, Bush told Putin he was concerned that a Russian company was helping Iraq jam navigation signals used by U.S. warplanes and cruise missiles, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. Fleischer said at an earlier briefing that the United States has credible evidence that Russian companies have provided assistance and prohibited hardware to the Iraqi regime, including night vision goggles, GPS jammers and anti-tank guided missiles. These actions are disturbing, and we have made our concerns clear to the Russian government. We've asked the Russian government that any such ongoing assistance cease immediately, he said. Putin used the phone call to warn Bush about a looming humanitarian catastrophe brought about by war. Putin confirmed Russia's stated position on an Iraq settlement and stressed the need to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in the region, the Kremlin press service said in a statement. The Kremlin gave no indication of how Putin responded to Bush's complaint, but a number of government and defense industry officials indignantly denied that Russian companies have supplied defense equipment to the Iraqi regime in violation of UN sanctions. Russia rigorously observes all its international obligations and has not supplied Iraq with any equipment, including military, in breach of the sanctions regime, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said, responding to a Sunday report in The Washington Post. The newspaper quoted Bush administration sources as saying that the Instrument Design Bureau of Tula, or KBP, and Aviakonversia in Moscow have supplied Iraq with anti-tank missiles and jamming equipment, respectively. The report said Aviakonversia staff were in Iraq training specialists how to operate the 3-kilogram devices. While dismissing the report, Ivanov said that if violations of the sanctions regime are found, the guilty parties will be punished in accordance with Russian law. Ivanov's denial was echoed by Putin aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky and the government's deputy chief of staff, Alexei Volin. Iraq's ambassador to Russia, Abbas Kunfuth, dismissed the Washington Post report as propaganda. Aviakonversia and KBP officials also denied selling any equipment. KBP's foreign trade chief, Leonid Roshal, told Itar-Tass that no Kornet anti- tank missiles had been sold to Iraq. The company's first deputy director, Alexei Butenko, said nothing ever had been sent to Iraq. The United States slapped sanctions on KBP in 1999 after it sent Kornets to Syria. Aviakonversia director general Oleg Antonov described the report as another CIA provocation. Antonov, speaking in a telephone interview, said his company has not supplied Iraq with any jammers or sent any personnel to train Iraqi troops. He said Russian law enforcers checked and cleared his company after the U.S. State Department summoned Russia's ambassador to the United States, Yury Ushakov, in September to protest the alleged sales. Antonov noted, however, that Aviakonversia's jamming devices cannot be regulated under Russian law because they are assembled outside Russia. He confirmed his company has an office in Moscow but would not elaborate on where the devices are assembled. Aviakonversia has had to deal with accusations of dealing with Iraq before. Kuwait's Al-Qabas newspaper reported in 2000 that Iraq had used two Aviakonversia jamming devices to force U.S. fighters to abort a patrol of a no-fly zone. Russian officials and Antonov denied the report. The Defense Ministry and Rosoboronexport, the state-owned company that accounts for most of Russia's arms exports, also rejected the Washington Post report. The White House's claims are far from a sign that a major crisis is brewing in U.S.-Russian ties, said Ivan Safranchuk, a researcher at the Moscow office of the Center of Defense Information. There is a cloud, but it is not raining, he said. Safranchuk noted that Kremlin officials have been careful not to antagonize the Bush administration in their criticism of the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq. Putin, who condemned the war as a big political mistake last week, made what might have been a conciliatory gesture Monday and urged Iraq to obey international conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war. We are aware of the conditions in which POWs ... are being held by the U.S. side, Putin told Cabinet members. I hope that the Iraqi side will also meet all the requirements of international law on keeping POWs. Putin spoke after hearing a report by
[CTRL] 'Tough Fight'
-Caveat Lector- http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030324-101930-3031r A 'Tough Fight' Indeed By Martin Sieff UPI Senior News Analyst From the International Desk Published 3/24/2003 10:56 AM View printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, March 24 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush acknowledged reality on a day when the drive to Baghdad suddenly no longer looked like a walk in the desert park. It is evident that it's going to take awhile to achieve our objective, the president said on his return to the White House Sunday from a weekend at Camp David. And then he added that he could assure the American people that this is just the beginning of a tough fight. Yes indeed. Yet the war on Iraq was not sold to the American people as a tough fight. It was sold to them as a combination of a walk in the park, an essential operation to destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and, most of all, as a crusade to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of President Saddam Hussein. The curious thing is, almost none of them appear to be want to be saved. For the past year and a half, the civilian war hawks running the Department of Defense have repeatedly and, according to Pentagon sources, even contemptuously overridden the concerns of regular senior Army and Marine officers about the difficulty of conquering Iraq by relying upon the flood of intelligence provided to them by Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress. For Chalabi and the INC had assured them that Iraq was straining at the seams and ready to bust apart acclaiming U.S. forces as liberators as soon as they walked in. As UPI has repeatedly reported and noted, so highly did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz think of this intelligence that they repeatedly injected it into the proceedings of Principals' and Deputies' Committees meetings that coordinated the highest policymaking of the United States government without filtering it past the CIA, the State Department or any other organ of government first. Yet now the drive into Iraq is well underway, what are U.S. policymakers -- and their brave, embattled troops in the field finding? First, the Shiite Muslim majority of Iraqis have not risen up in the south to rally around their American liberators. They have not risen up at all. And they are not raising a finger to oppose Saddam or help the United States. Instead, as we noted on Saturday, Mohammed Baqir Hakim, head of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the main Shiite opposition movement in Iraq issued a statement quite specifically telling the Shiites not to aid the United States in any way. And his admonition, broadcast on the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television network, is being heeded. In the north, the situation is equally unexpectedly dire and disappointing for the DoD civilian war planners and their loud cheering section among neo-conservative intellectuals. First Turkey, favored above all Middle East nations by the DoD planners, refused to let the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division even to deploy in its territory, let alone launch an invasion through Northern Iraq from there. Instead, the Turks have been moving across the border and look set to try and seize the oil-rich, Kurdish-majority areas around Kirkuk and Mosul for themselves. Nor are the Kurds of northern Iraq rising up to take advantage of the U.S. invasion to eagerly throw Saddam out as war planners and their media Greek chorus had also repeatedly predicted and expected. Instead, they are turning to fight the Turks, their historic enemies with far greater enthusiasm and ferocity than anything they have shown towards Saddam and the Iraqi army. Where does that leave the already embattled U.S. forces as they drive towards Baghdad? It leaves them on their own. There have been no TV reports this time showing huge crowds cheering their liberation as happened in the capitals of Eastern Europe following the collapse of communism, or in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan after the Taliban were routed there in 2001, or, for that matter in Kuwait City after U.S. forces liberated it in 1991 after the first Gulf War. Instead, Iraqi forces are faking surrenders and then turning their weapons on U.S. troops. They are abandoning their uniforms and striking from behind. They are melting away in the face of heavily armed U.S. armored columns but ambushing supply convoys as soon as they take wrong turns in unfamiliar territory. On Sunday alone, U.S. casualties were reported to be at least 20 missing or dead. If no more than that die per day in the next week or two and then Baghdad falls, the war will still be one of the cheapest in casualties the United States has ever fought. But if the war should drag on at that level even after all of Iraq should be occupied, within a mere 100 days, 2,000 Americans would have died -- the greatest U.S. death toll in war in more than 30 years since Vietnam. In fact, it could yet turn out to be far, far worse. As UPI
[CTRL] Amerikanische Gemeinde Stadts Polizei
-Caveat Lector- http://www.msnbc.com/news/889923.asp?0si=cp1=1 U.S. steps up secret surveillance FBI, Justice Dept. increase use of wiretaps, records searches By Dan Eggen and Robert O'Harrow Jr. THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON, March 24 Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice Department and FBI have dramatically increased the use of two little- known powers that allow authorities to tap telephones, seize bank and telephone records and obtain other information in counterterrorism investigations with no immediate court oversight, according to officials and newly disclosed documents. THE FBI, for example, has issued scores of national security letters that require businesses to turn over electronic records about finances, telephone calls, e-mail and other personal information, according to officials and documents. The letters, a type of administrative subpoena, may be issued independently by FBI field offices and are not subject to judicial review unless a case comes to court, officials said. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft has also personally signed more than 170 emergency foreign intelligence warrants, three times the number authorized in the preceding 23 years, according to recent congressional testimony. Federal law allows the attorney general to issue unilaterally these classified warrants for wiretaps and physical searches of suspected terrorists and other national security threats under certain circumstances. They can be enforced for 72 hours before they are subject to review and approval by the ultra-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Government officials describe both measures as crucial tools in the war on terrorism that allow authorities to act rapidly in the pursuit of potential threats without the delays that can result from seeking a judges signature. Authorities also stress that the tactics are perfectly legal. SOME GROUPS TROUBLED BY TACTICS But some civil liberties and privacy advocates say they are troubled by the increasing use of the tactics, primarily because there is little or no oversight by courts or other outside parties. In both cases, the target of the investigation never has to be informed that the government has obtained his personal records or put him under surveillance. When this kind of Homeland security - special section National security power is used in the regular criminal justice system, there are some built- in checks and balances, said David Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which is suing the Justice Department for information about its secretive anti-terrorism strategies. The intelligence context provides no such protection. Thats the main problem with these kinds of secretive procedures. The use of national security letters has been accelerated in part because Congress made it easier to use and apply them. The USA Patriot Act, a package of sweeping anti-terrorism legislation passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, loosened the standard for targeting individuals by national security letters and allowed FBI field offices, rather than a senior official at headquarters, to issue them, officials said. The records that can be obtained through the letters include telephone logs, e-mail logs, certain financial and bank records and credit reports, a Justice official said. The Patriot Act also significantly increased the amount of intelligence information that can be shared with criminal prosecutors and federal grand juries, giving authorities new powers in the war on terrorism. National security letters can be used as part of criminal investigations and preliminary inquiries involving terrorism and espionage, according to officials and internal FBI guidelines on the letters. FIVE PAGES OF LOGS According to documents given to EPIC and the American Civil Liberties Union as part of their lawsuit, the FBI has issued enough national security letters since October 2001 to fill more than five pages of logs. There is no way to determine exactly how many times the documents have been employed because the logs were almost entirely blacked out, according to a copy provided to The Washington Post by the ACLU. The Justice Department and FBI refuse to provide summary data about how often the letters are used. Several lawmakers have proposed legislation that would require the department to provide that kind of data. In our view, the public is entitled to these statistics, said Jameel Jaffer, staff attorney for the ACLUs national legal department. We have no idea how those are being used. FBI spokesman John Iannarelli said its safe to say that anybody who is going to conduct a terrorism investigation is probably going to use them at some point. ... Its a way to expedite information, and theres nothing that needs expediting more than a terrorism investigation. But a November 2001 memorandum prepared by FBI attorneys
[CTRL] The battle for Baghdad
-Caveat Lector- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-622955,00.html March 25, 2003 The battle for Baghdad begins By David Charter in Qatar, Roland Watson in Washington and Philip Webster THE crucial push for Baghdad began last night as allied warplanes bombarded the Republican Guard to clear the way for troops to zero in on President Saddam Hussein. The American vanguard was within 20 miles of 30,000 Republican Guards defending a city blanketed in black smoke from pyres of burning oil. Thousands more allied troops were rushing north to form a front line for the battle that will decide the war. Yesterday the Republican Guards Medina Division was pummelled continuously by bombers working on information from SAS, SBS and Delta forces close to Iraqi positions. American generals said that the air raids, involving B52s, Apache helicopter gunships, Harriers and A10 tankbusters, had significantly degraded the division, but one helicopter was lost. Iraq claimed to have shot it down and state television broadcast pictures of the helicopter in a field and the two men said to be its crew. They appeared confused but unharmed. The softening up of the Republican Guard is expected to continue for days, but air operations could be disrupted by violent sandstorms, which halted American infantry divisions near Karbala yesterday. Military planners have been told that the shamal desert winds are likely to whip up further sandstorms. Tony Blair told MPs yesterday that the forces gathering at Karbala were preparing for the crucial moment when they would confront the Medina Division. Brushing aside concerns that supply lines were becoming dangerously stretched, he said: The vital goal is to reach Baghdad as swiftly as possible, thus bringing the end of the regime closer. It may, however, be necessary for more troops to be sent to the Gulf if the forces there become bogged down in urban warfare, and the possibility of sending reinforcements will almost certainly be considered when Mr Blair and President Bush meet in Washington on Thursday for a summit arranged to discuss the administration of a post-Saddam Iraq. The Iraqi leadership remained insistent yesterday that there would be no such thing. Saddam appeared on television promising victory and Tariq Aziz, the Deputy Prime Minister, countered Washingtons claims that the dictators grip on power was slipping by saying that Saddam was in full control of the army and the country. If America and Britain want to change that, their forces will first have to overcome the three Republican Guard divisions that are dug-in 30 miles to the east, south and west of the centre of Baghdad. They are those closest to Saddam and they will resist strongly, Mr Blair said. A British military source said: These people have got to capitulate or be destroyed. This is the real start of the push for Baghdad. The coalition strategy is to establish a front line stretching eastwards from Karbala across the two main highways into the capital. The line will remain fixed as waves of air and ground-launched missiles pound the Republican Guard while the heavy artillery and tanks of V Corps rumble up for an eventual land assault. By the time that is launched the coalition aims to have 60,000 combat troops, 400 Abrams M1 tanks and 100 Apache attack helicopters massed on the front. The Republican Guard divisions have 500 tanks. To help the push northwards, American forces pounded the strategic town of al-Nasariyah with heavy artillery yesterday and moved a light armoured battalion through the town and across the Euphrates, opening a second route to Baghdad. US engineers were also working to finish a new desert airstrip near Najaf in central Iraq, which would allow unmanned Predator drones to patrol the skies over Baghdad and gather vital information about Iraqi forces. The thrust towards Baghdad came despite continued Iraqi resistance in the south, sparking warnings that coalition supply lines were becoming vulnerable to attack from marauding bands of Fedayin militia.There was fierce fighting around Basra, where the allies secured an airport and an important bridge. Coalition forces are, however, banned from storming residential areas. Elsewhere in the south, groups of militia used civilian pick-up trucks to launch mortars and rocket-propelled grenades attacks on supply convoys. US Marines, chastened by the ambushes and trickery that led to the deaths and capture of American forces near al-Nasariyah on Sunday, were forcing men from vehicles, questioning them and slashing their tyres so that they could not harass convoys. 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.
[CTRL] Mood Swings
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/032603D.shtml Mood Changes as America Finds War is Not a Video Game By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Independent Monday 25 March 2003 All of a sudden, brutal reality is kicking in. Before the Iraq invasion started, many Americans imagined the campaign in terms of Hollywood movies or the video-game abstraction of the television coverage of the first Gulf War that virtual reality in which we drop bombs and only the enemy dies, and off-camera at that. But after the setbacks, guerrilla-style ambushes, downed helicopters and disturbing images of US soldiers dying or being taken prisoner over the past two days, the mood has changed abruptly, My God, this is getting much messier than I thought, was the reaction of one young Californian nursery school teacher yesterday. Her colleagues all concurred. Across Los Angeles, the mood was overwhelmingly one of consternation and just a little dread. I have a sick feeling about where this is all heading. They made us believe this would be a cakewalk, and now look what is happening, another woman, a writer married to an entertainment lawyer, said. This can only make the world hate us Americans more. In what is perhaps a sign of the times, she did not want to be identified by name. It is hard to know exactly how representative such views are, especially since southern California has been a bastion of anti-war sentiment. At least some people who believe in the war were quoted yesterday saying that casualties and setbacks were to be expected as part of the mission. But it is also true that the Bush administration massively raised expectations regarding the speed and ease of the military operation to topple Saddam Hussein. Before the war started last week, the President himself talked in his televised statements, in his 6 March news conference and in his weekly radio addresses as though the fighting was already over and the reconstruction of Iraq had begun. Earlier this month, with war already looking inevitable and dominating the news, 43 per cent of respondents in a New York Times/CBS poll said they expected a quick and successful campaign. By the end of last week, with the first bombs raining down on Baghdad and ground forces racing to secure the oilfields in the south, that number had risen to 63 per cent. More than half said they thought the war would end in a matter of weeks. Now, however, the trend has been reversed. In another poll published in yesterday's Washington Post, 54 per cent now believe the United States will sustain significant casualties in Iraq, up from 37 per cent in a similar poll taken on the first day of the war last Thursday. One respondent in the new Washington Post/ABC poll, Daphne Nugent, 40, from New York, commented: I didn't expect there to be this much trouble. And I'm a little upset by what I'm hearing in terms of the casualties and the prisoners of war. I thought it would end pretty easily and quickly, the war part of it anyway, not the occupation part. Other New Yorkers, including those who survived the destruction of the World Trade Centre, have also described their mixed feelings at seeing similar scenes of buildings under aerial bombardment in Baghdad. Financial markets are also reacting. After eight straight days of gains, the Dow Jones index plunged 300 points by lunchtime yesterday, although it later recovered slightly. Crude oil prices are also rising in response to the prospect of a longer war. Several things make this war very different from other recent US military campaigns. It is much less dependent on air power alone, which has made the fighting and the dying much more immediate. And it is much more overtly about taking territory. This is no quick in and out, as were the Nato campaigns in Bosnia in 1995 and Kosovo in 1999. As several soldiers at the front have come to appreciate, this is very different from 1991, when the US-led coalition concentrated on kicking Iraqi forces out of a country, Kuwait, that had invited it in to do so. People thought the Iraqis would be waving little American flags like it was occupied France in World War Two, Vincent Cannistraro, a retired CIA counter-terrorism expert, commented. This is not an occupied country. It is Iraq and it is run by Iraqis, and for better or worse they are not welcoming Americans as liberators. Both pro-war and anti-war voices agree, in fact, that this is likely to turn into the most in- your-face conflict that American troops and, just as significantly, American public opinion have faced since Vietnam. This kind of thing has not been seen on US television screens for more than 30 years, Sandy Cate, an anthropology professor from San Francisco, said. You've got one, perhaps two, generations who have grown up with no idea of what war is really like, other than the cartoon violence they see at the movies. Well, now they are learning. Part of the change in attitude is due to the media. Unlike the first Gulf War,
[CTRL] Baghdad Gets Scarier
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/032603G.shtml Baghdad Gets Scarier Nate Thayer Slate.com Sunday 23 March 2003 BAGHDAD, Sunday eveningToday, for the first time, the bombs fell and the missiles struck in daylight. The assault lasted all day. And it came not only from long-range missiles but from coalition planes that are flying over our heads and dropping their payloads in the neighborhood of the Palestine Hotel, where most of the foreign journalists remaining in Baghdad are staying. Today is also the first time that I am truly frightened. It is not the American bombs I am primarily afraid of. What frightens me and Marythe name I'll give a photographer with whom I've become inseparableis the mood of the people. The city is thick with anger and defiance, and we are Americans. Every day since Mary and I arrived by road from Jordan, we have been threatened with expulsion. This morning, once again, we were ordered out. You have two choicesyou can be a human shield or you can leave the country, said my government minder. He offered this without his usual smarmy smile. But what about my visa? I asked. Your visa is now to heaven, he said, forcing a laugh. I talked my way out of it once again. My minder said we could obtain visa extensions provided we take HIV tests. I brought my own syringes, and I swabbed Mary's arm and extracted a vial of blood in my room. She did the same for me. We then went to the so- called HIV center together, with bombs dropping around us, to submit our blood to the Iraqi government. Of course, they insisted on taking their own samples. Cruise missiles launched 900 miles away exploded around us, incinerating government buildings as we partook in this ridiculous charade. This absurdity over, we returned to the Palestine, where we are as prepared as we can be for whatever may come next. We have 300 bottles of the water and have filled the bathtubs in each of several rooms for reserve. We've stockpiled enough food for weeks. Should the power fail, we have a generator and jerry cans filled with petrol purchased on the black market. If a bomb blows out our window, the duct tape we've covered it with should protect us from flying glass. All of our electronicscomputers, cameras, communications devicesare wrapped in aluminum foil against so-called e-bombs that will destroy all the data of electronic devices. At 4 p.m. Baghdad time, an American fighter jet dropped its payload so close that the concussion sucked the air out of our lungs. Mary and I got in our car and drove toward the site of the explosion. As we crossed one of the four Tigris bridges, there was an enormous traffic jam. Hundreds of armed men and civilians were looking down to the river below. Scores of cars had stopped in the middle of the bridge. We grabbed our gear and got out. The rumor was that an allied plane had been shot down. Word spread through the crowd that two pilots had parachuted from the downed plane and were floating down the river. One had supposedly already been captured. Whether there were any pilots in the river, I don't know. Small boats with heavily armed soldiers searched among the reeds. From the banks, people took pot shots at objects in the river. Under the impression that the airman had been captured, thousands of cheering Iraqis chanted and clapped, shooting AK-47s in the air for joy. People in both uniform and civilian clothes eyed us with hostility during this celebration. Where are you from? demanded an armed Iraqi, looking at me. Germany, interjected my government guide, abruptly grabbing me by the arm and yanking me away. Do not tell them you are American, he whispered as he rushed me to the car. We must leave. It is very dangerous here. Then we were on the western side of the Tigris, where the coalition bombardment has struck hardest. The sounds of imams on speakers reverberated through the streets calls for the people to kill all the Americans. We raced through Baghdad's most dangerous area, passing Saddam's palaces, now piles of burnt rubble. The Foreign Ministry was a concrete shell with no windows and only sullen soldiers at the entrance. Apartment buildings recently filled with civilians were charred, burnt, collapsed, and empty. Hundreds of apartments and no peoplewhere did they all go? Western medical sources have reported some 300 civilian injuries in Baghdad but very few killed. The Iraqi military had now closed all the Tigris River bridges. Mary and I were stuck. We had to drive north for an hour as bombs continued dropping around us. This is the road to Babylon, said our government minder. It felt like Babylon. We then took another road the road to Kuwait, our guide said. We had to drive north of the city, then east, and then south to enter Baghdad on the east bank of the Tigris and return to our hotel. Explosions are rocking my computer as I write. For the first time, small- arms fire can be heard throughout the city. Anti-aircraft emplacements are set up
[CTRL] Disgracing America
-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsinsider.org/commentary/bush_you_are_disgracing_americ a.html the News Insider commentary read more commentary articles contact Bernard Weiner Bush, You Are Disgracing America: Resign or Be Impeached By Bernard Weiner 25 March 2003 Dear George W. Bush: Congratulations! With your decision to bomb and invade Iraq, you have made yourself both an enemy of the state and an international war criminal. Everyone has been telling you not to do it, that attacking Iraq -absent an overt provocation, and without domestic and international consensus behind you- is neither in America's best interests, nor in the best interests of world order and the global economy. That everyone includes your father, the former President, along with his security advisors; your top military brass; your longtime allies; the Security Council of the United Nations; the world's major religious leaders; millions of ordinary citizens marching for peace across the world; leaders of Arab and other Muslim countries; an increasing number of conservative and moderate Republicans; etc. etc. The fact that even with your threat-and-bribe machine working overtime, you couldn't even round up a majority on the Security Council to give some cover to your desire to shock-and-awe your way into war should have told you something. Clearly, people are afraid of America's military power, but you wield absolutely no moral authority -zilch, nada, none. Few wish to follow you into the maw of immorality; few wish to wind up with you in the war-crimes dock at The Hague. After the terrorist attack on 9/11, America owned the sympathy of the world; now the US is a pariah nation, a rogue state. At the time of the terrorist attack of 9/11, America was solvent; now the American economy is in tatters (and still you want to cut taxes again, plunging the country into further debt). In September of 2001, America was a country devoted to the Constitutional protections of due process of law; now, using national security as a cover, the US is lurching into a neo-fascist, Big Brother police state. In short, Mr. Bush, you and your policies are destined to bring ruin not only to yourself but to our beloved country as well, and to much of the world. It is time for you to resign the office into which you've been placed -I was about to say resign for the good of the country, but clearly that concept has little meaning for you. If you choose not to resign, rest assured that you will be impeached. All your policies seem designed with other agendas in mind: For the good of your financial backers and corporate supporters; for the good of your ideological friends; for the good of your re-election campaign. Even if we were to believe your professed motivations -that, in the end, we will come to see that your policies were initiated for the good of the country- the way you're going about it demonstrates appalling ignorance, gross incompetence, and an insulting manipulation of the American people. You seem consumed by self-righteousness -believing that you, and you alone, are the servant of God in this desperate march to violence (leading to the obvious question: How are you different from Osama bin Laden and other such fundamentalist terrorists?)- and by your stubborn adherence to a worldview presented to you by right-wing extremists. For more than 10 years, these Project for the New American Century thinkers -whom you have appointed to positions of great power in your Administration, who now are your Administration- have been urging American leaders to grab-and-take in the world, since the US is the lone world Superpower. Somehow, they think only of how easy it will be to conquer militarily, and thus to control the world's natural resources and to keep any other competitor-states from arising. But these rightwing ideologues have no sense of what is moral, or even what the consequences of their theories will be, once put into action. Once before, in Vietnam, an arrogant United States thought itself unbeatable in a war with a smaller, weaker nation. It possessed all the napalm, all the high-tech bombs, all the B-52s. But it lacked some essentials: a sense of what was right, a deep understanding of the culture it was attacking, a supportive citizenry at home. The US was humiliated and forced to withdraw, and, to this day, its brave soldiers never knew why they were supposed to be there. The US may well win the Iraqi battle you're unleashing. But, once again, America will lose the war. The world will unite in its hatred and disdain for your policies. The already shaky US and global economies could well dive into a deep Depression. Terrorism will flower. Friendly governments will be overthrown. Domestic dissent will be tenacious. The United Nations may well falter as an institution. In short, there is little good that will come of this, even if you are gone and Saddam Hussein and his tyrannical, dangerous reign are ended and his weapons
[CTRL] One rule
-Caveat Lector- Comment http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921192,00.html One rule for them Five PoWs are mistreated in Iraq and the US cries foul. What about Guantanamo Bay? George Monbiot Tuesday March 25, 2003 The Guardian Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty which impedes its attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured soldiers were paraded in front of the Iraqi television cameras on Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, immediately complained that it is against the Geneva convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in a manner that is humiliating for them. He is, of course, quite right. Article 13 of the third convention, concerning the treatment of prisoners, insists that they must at all times be protected... against insults and public curiosity. This may number among the less heinous of the possible infringements of the laws of war, but the conventions, ratified by Iraq in 1956, are non- negotiable. If you break them, you should expect to be prosecuted for war crimes. This being so, Rumsfeld had better watch his back. For this enthusiastic convert to the cause of legal warfare is, as head of the defence department, responsible for a series of crimes sufficient, were he ever to be tried, to put him away for the rest of his natural life. His prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, where 641 men (nine of whom are British citizens) are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles of the third convention. The US government broke the first of these (article 13) as soon as the prisoners arrived, by displaying them, just as the Iraqis have done, on television. In this case, however, they were not encouraged to address the cameras. They were kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, wearing blacked-out goggles and earphones. In breach of article 18, they had been stripped of their own clothes and deprived of their possessions. They were then interned in a penitentiary (against article 22), where they were denied proper mess facilities (26), canteens (28), religious premises (34), opportunities for physical exercise (38), access to the text of the convention (41), freedom to write to their families (70 and 71) and parcels of food and books (72). They were not released and repatriated without delay after the cessation of active hostilities (118), because, the US authorities say, their interrogation might, one day, reveal interesting information about al-Qaida. Article 17 rules that captives are obliged to give only their name, rank, number and date of birth. No coercion may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. In the hope of breaking them, however, the authorities have confined them to solitary cells and subjected them to what is now known as torture lite: sleep deprivation and constant exposure to bright light. Unsurprisingly, several of the prisoners have sought to kill themselves, by smashing their heads against the walls or trying to slash their wrists with plastic cutlery. The US government claims that these men are not subject to the Geneva conventions, as they are not prisoners of war, but unlawful combatants. The same claim could be made, with rather more justice, by the Iraqis holding the US soldiers who illegally invaded their country. But this redefinition is itself a breach of article 4 of the third convention, under which people detained as suspected members of a militia (the Taliban) or a volunteer corps (al-Qaida) must be regarded as prisoners of war. Even if there is doubt about how such people should be classified, article 5 insists that they shall enjoy the protection of the present convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal. But when, earlier this month, lawyers representing 16 of them demanded a court hearing, the US court of appeals ruled that as Guantanamo Bay is not sovereign US territory, the men have no constitutional rights. Many of these prisoners appear to have been working in Afghanistan as teachers, engineers or aid workers. If the US government either tried or released them, its embarrassing lack of evidence would be brought to light. You would hesitate to describe these prisoners as lucky, unless you knew what had happened to some of the other men captured by the Americans and their allies in Afghanistan. On November 21 2001, around 8,000 Taliban soldiers and Pashtun civilians surrendered at Konduz to the Northern Alliance commander, General Abdul Rashid Dostum. Many of them have never been seen again. As Jamie Doran's film Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death records, some hundreds, possibly thousands, of them were loaded into container lorries at Qala-i-Zeini, near the town of Mazar-i-Sharif, on November 26 and 27. The doors were sealed and the lorries were left
[CTRL] Golden Company
-Caveat Lector- Print this article | Close this window Deadly militia poses unexpected threat March 25 2003 The Fedayeen have emerged as a new and unexpected threat to United States forces. The Fedayeen is a militia commanded by Saddam Hussein's son Uday. Its members are recruited from Iraq's intelligence agencies and its Republican Guard. There are an estimated 60,000 members and as many as 1000 in southern Iraq opposing US forces. The Fedayeen is one of several security agencies and intelligence services in Iraq. Its function is to ensure the survival of Saddam's government against internal and external threats. US officials are well aware of the Fedayeen and thought members of it might be confronted in Baghdad or in some southern cities. But they did not expect them to be so aggressive. The Fedayeen is equipped with four-wheel-drive vehicles, trucks, machine- guns, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. Members of the militia do not wear uniforms but are dressed in civilian clothes, US officials said. They may not be the only irregular forces operating in the south. Some of the other fighters who have ambushed US troops may include hard-core Baath Party officials and members of Iraq's intelligence organisation. Saddam has set up multiple security organisations to ensure that his survival does not depend on a single agency and to establish a system in which the organisations watch each other. The most dedicated Fedayeen members are organised in the Golden Company, described as a group of militants prepared to fight to the death. The New York Times This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/24/1048354548045.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 Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] National Review Isnt Right
-Caveat Lector- National Review Isnt Right http://www.lewrockwell.com/dmccarthy/dmccarthy47.html by Daniel McCarthy A few weeks ago on this very site Jeffrey Tucker wrote what a lot of us have long known to be true but didnt want to admit: that conservatisms problems predate the rise of neoconservatism by about two decades, or maybe even more after all, before there was Bill Buckley and National Review there was Germanys Bismarck and Britains hapless Tories. They were conservatives too, and thats what they called themselves, unlike Americas traditional anti-statists who generally refused the label. The late Frank Chodorov was known to threaten anyone who called him a conservative with a punch in the nose. One must not speak ill of the dead, but it is worth saying that not everyone who calls himself a conservative is one, and not everyone who doesnt isnt. This isnt unreasonable: most so- called liberals arent liberal, and nowadays there are libertarians who dont give a damn about liberty. Once any political designation has become popular among anti-statists its only a matter of time before the other side tries to steal it, and usually succeeds. If it were just the name it wouldnt matter, but along with the word itself come institutions, misguided individuals, and even whole movements. Once upon a time The Nation magazine really was liberal, in the classical sense, under editors like E.L. Godkin and Oswald Garrison Villard. But the socialists who co-opted the liberal name and implausibly claimed the liberal tradition for their own also took over The Nation. Thats the way it works. Thats the way it worked with conservatism too, albeit with a twist. National Review, unlike The Nation, was never co- opted. Instead it had been designed from day one as a vehicle though which to redefine the American Right, and to this day that continues to be its mission. Thats why at the same time that a shooting war got under way in Iraq, National Review launched an assault of a different kind closer to home, against the wars critics on the Right. For months and even years, National Review had ignored the anti-war Right, but with LewRockwell.coms readership surpassing that of National Review Online and dwarfing that of the print edition of National Review and with a battalion of other unapproved conservatives rising up, from the American Conservative to VDARE Bill Buckleys magazine could no longer afford to remain silent. The gang at National Review had to act, or else National Review would not be the flagship of the American Right for very much longer. From the very beginning National Review was an imposture and even back then a lot of conservative knew it, as some of the Goldwaterites and pre- Goldwaterites can attest but as long as the magazine was the only game in town and by far the best known conservative outlet it could get away with the fraud. But the Internet made that impossible; now anyone who looks for it can find real conservatism on the web, and given the choice between the real thing and what National Review is selling... well, the numbers speak for themselves. LewRockwell.com is conservative and National Review isnt because if conservatism is to mean anything other than mindless defense of the status quo, it has to mean something like this: ...a conservative is a realist, who believes that there is a structure of reality independent of his own will and desire. He believes that there is a creation which was here before him, which exists now not by just his sufferance, and which will be here after hes gone. This structure consists not merely of the great physical world but also of many laws, principles, and regulations which control human behavior. Though this reality is independent of the individual, it is not hostile to him. It is in fact amenable by him in many ways, but it cannot be changed radically and arbitrarily. This is the cardinal point. The conservative holds that man in this world cannot make his will his law without any regard to limits and to the fixed nature of things. The words (and the italics) belong to Richard M. Weaver, and are taken from his essay Conservatism and Libertarianism: The Common Ground, as reproduced in In Defense of Tradition: the Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M. Weaver, 19291963. Lest there be any doubt, Weaver specifies in the same essay what some of those laws, principles and regulations which control human behavior are: There is a concept expressed by some economists today in the word praxeology. Praxeology, briefly defined, is the science of how things work because of their essential natures. You wont find any mention of praxeology at National Review Online, but you most certainly will at LewRockwell.com. Praxeological laws are only one kind of law, however, and only one facet of reality. Unfortunately National Review Online is no better at discussing any other kind of natural law in a systematic fashion. If Weavers definition of conservatism is
[CTRL] Michael Moore: Im an American ...
-Caveat Lector- Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=133_0_7_0_C By Joel Bleifuss | Mar 24, 03 print | email | comment Michael Moore: Im an American, and you dont leave your citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak Theatre. ... I dont stop being who I am when I come to this ceremony, and Im extremely grateful for this response. On Day 5 of the war, it was supremely ironic that network television viewers had to tune into the 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony to hear voices that questioned the wisdom of the Bush Administration. Rumblings of protest began on Saturday. At the Independent Spirit Awards (the award ceremony for independent films) in Santa Monica, California, Maggie Gyllenhaal, the starred in Secretary, said the country was in the middle of a war about oil and imperialism and I hope for peace as soon as we can possibly find it. That same afternoon at the Miramax party,.it was reported that crooner Michael Feinstein couldnt rouse the guest to sing God Bless America no matter how hard he tried. Then there was ABCs presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday night. It started off on a good note with Steve Martin, saying, I am really glad they cut back on the red carpet, thatll send them a message. Minutes later he followed up with with, A movie star is many things: they can be tall, short, thin or skinny. They can be Democrats ... or skinny. The political statements ranged from the subdued to angry. Susan Sarandon, wearing the Dove of Peace pins designed by Henry Dunay for Global vision for Peace, flashed a peace sign. Chris Cooper, winner of the best supporting actor for his role in Adaptation, quietly said, In light of all the troubles in this world, I wish us peace. Gael Garcia Bernal, the hunky star of Y Tu Mama Tambien, introducing the nominated best song from Frida, said to loud applause: The necessity for peace in the world is not a dream, it is a reality. And we are not alone. If Frida was alive, she would be on our side, against war. Pedro Almodovar, accepting the Oscar for best original screenplay for Talk to Her, read a statement: I also want to dedicate this award to all the people who are raising their voices in favor of peace, respect of human rights, democracy and international legality, all of which are essential qualities [for life.] And the audience cheered as Adrien Brody, who won best actor for The Pianist, admonished the orchestra to stop so he could say, Whether you believe in Allah or God, may he watch over you, and pray for a peaceful and swift resolution to this war. And then there was Michael Moore. He received a standing ovation when Bowling for Columbine was announced the winner of best documentary. The Chicago Tribunes Mark Caro reported that the pressroom also erupted in applause when it was announced that Moore had won. Taking the stage, flanked by documentary filmmakers, Moore said: Ive invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us. They are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it is the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. And any time that you have the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. John Horn of the L.A. Times reported that as Moores speech reached its crescendo Oscar producer Gil Cates and director Louis Horvitz, who were in the production truck, decided to cut him off. Music! Music! Horvitz yelled. The orchestra quickly drowned out the rest of Moores speech. And his microphone receded into the floor. It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it. The teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo, quipped Steve Martin. Most of the Hollywood audience smiled and applauded, but stagehands, who were close to the microphones, booed loudly, making it appear to a television listener that Moores criticism of President Bush was not well received. Back stage, Moore kept up his criticism. These remarks were well reported by the Tribunes Mark Caro and the Chicago Sun-Times Bill Zwecker, but most of the national media ignored them. Reporter: Why did you do what you did? Moore: Im an American Reporter: Thats it? Moore: Well thats a lot. Im an American, and you dont leave your citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak Theatre. ... I dont stop being who I am when I come to this ceremony, and Im extremely grateful for this response. Moore wanted it made clear that despite the loud boos from the stagehands, the Hollywood audience was behind him: Dont report that there was a split decision in the hall because five people booed, he said. I did not hear that. I saw the entire place stand up and applaud,
[CTRL] Republican Guard
-Caveat Lector- Analysis http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,921369,00.html The Republican Guard: outgunned and outnumbered, but they never surrender As US and British troops meet with fierce resistance, an expert on the Iraqi army profiles Saddam Hussein's elite security forces and warns they have the potential to be formidable opponents Amatzia Baram Tuesday March 25, 2003 The Guardian The Republican Guard consists of three armoured, one mechanised and two infantry divisions, with between 65,000 and 70,000 soldiers. Almost all of Iraq's top-of-the-line Soviet made and also Iraqi-assembled T-72 main battle tanks, some 600-700 of them, are to be found in the guard divisions. The regular army has to settle for the relatively antiquated T-55 and T-62 tanks. The guard remains a viable force although it has been eroded since the Gulf war. In recent years Saddam Hussein has begun to turn it into his private army. Since the late 1980s the guard has been the regime's means of dealing with two problems presented by the regular army and especially its officer corps: the army's diminishing capability and fighting spirit, and its doubtful support for the regime. There have been sporadic reports of dissent within the guard, but in essence it remains loyal to the regime and leader. The guard has invariably proved more able at fighting than regular army units, and unlike many army units, has never surrendered or fled from the battlefield in the face of a superior enemy. Many officers in the guard hail from Tikrit, from President Saddam's clan, Albu Nasir, and from other friendly tribes, mostly Sunni muslim. Since 1988 the guard, under the direct command of the presidential palace rather than the general staff, has been granted special perks, transforming its officers into a relatively privileged class. As of late 2002, its commander was an experienced field commander, Lieutenant General Sayf al-Din Fulayyih al-Rawi, a Sunni muslim whose family hails from Rawa, west of the capital. Its secretary general was Major General Kamal Mustafa abd Allah Sultan, President Saddam's paternal relative, and, according to one source, also his son-in-law. He is a far less experienced field officer, as his main expertise is internal security (he is former commander of the Special Republican Guard), but his loyalty to President Saddam is solid. Armoured units of the guard, notably the Hammurabi and Madina divisions, will begin the defensive battle outside Baghdad, possibly from Karbala, the Shia holy city south of the capital. Their job will be to defend essential crossing points and slowdown the American forces. The more loyal units will eventually be ordered to withdraw into the city, and fight while using civilians as shields. How will they fight? The guard's armoured divisions' fighting against the American forces in 1991 may serve as an illustration. They were usually well placed and dug in but they were badly outgunned. The American M-1s could penetrate the Soviet-made T-72s' armour from over two miles; the T- 72s could penetrate the frontal armour of the M-1 only at a very close range. With far-superior night vision equipment, the US tanks could destroy an Iraqi tank at night from a distance of a mile. The tanks thus became death traps for the Iraqi crews. On the other hand, the guard demonstrated impressive tenacity and no unit withdrew without authorisation, in contrast to the regular army units, many of whose tank crews deserted. The tactical shortfalls of the guard officers are substantial, but tenacity can go some way to make up for lack of professionalism, especially when Iraqi soldiers are shootiusing civilians as a shield. This is already constraining British and US forces in Nassiriya, Umm Qasr and Basra. Special Republican Guard The SRG is divided into four brigades and 14 battalions, and numbers around 20,000-25,000. It is a commando force armed mostly with light and medium weapons but it also has two tank battalions (70-90 T-72 tanks), three artillery batteries and three air defence batteries. Its main task is to maintain calm in the capital and put down any revolt or coup attempt. It also has security duties in four presidential palaces in Tikrit. It is equipped with a large number of anti-tank weapons. The SRG command falls under the office of the special security organization, President Saddam's personal protection unit. Most officers and soldiers in the SRG hail from President Saddam's clan and from his hometown of Tikrit, as well as some neighbouring and friendly clans and towns, like Dur and Beiji. Most officers know President Saddam personally; in their bar racks, posted by their beds, they have photographs of themselves and their families standing proudly beside the president. So far there have been no reports of coup attempts hatched within the SRG, a distinction that sets it apart from the regular army, air force and guard. In battle, even when the advantage of the American forces
[CTRL] Y'all come to Texas, now...
-Caveat Lector- http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24220 Arab News SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY Arabs Dont Take Kindly to Those Who Hurt Their Pride Saeed Haider, Arab News Staff Published on 25 March 2003 DAMMAM, 25 March 2003 It is proving to be a war of miscalculations for the United States and Britain. The increasing lines on the faces of President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair clearly show a mounting uneasiness within themselves. Their post-invasion statements, such as it will be a long and hard war, are contradicting previous assertions that Iraq will fall to the so-called allied forces within days. It is now openly admitted in the corridors of Pentagon that the attack was not slated for Thursday, May 20. After the first round of bombing and missile attacks on Baghdad, the Pentagon said that it was not the beginning of A-Day and that the attack was launched after receiving intelligence information that the regime leadership was in a meeting in a place in Baghdad. The first attack was aimed at decapitating the regime leadership. But just three hours after the first barrage, America and Britain saw the results of their miscalculations when Saddam Hussein popped up on TV screens addressing his nation and the world affirming that he was very much alive. The rest of the argument put by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his British counterpart Geoff Hoon, that he was injured and carried away in an ambulance, was nothing but beating around the bush! Certainly Saddams appearance on TV was the first taste of humiliation for the invading forces of Bush and Blair. It was this humiliation which prompted the Pentagon to go ahead with their Shock and Awe attack, and once again their calculations failed. Al- Jazeera channel, as well as SKY TV, showed Iraqis unfazed by the raining down of cruise missiles and Tomahawks and the bombardment by B-52 and Stealth bombers. It is now crystal clear that when President Bush planned his attack on Iraq, he counted much on gaining support from within Iraq especially in the south where Shiites had rebelled in 1991 war. This theory was evident in initial Pentagon predictions that they will secure Basra within 24 hours. SKY TV and CNN reported capture of Umm Qasr and Safwan, and even showed footage of Iraqis welcoming American forces. President Bush was so confident of capturing Umm Qasr that he even said on TV that humanitarian aid will reach Umm Qasr Port within 36 hours. Generals are now saying it is not safe for ships to berth at Umm Qasr. Millions of pamphlets were air- dropped in southern Iraq, especially in Basra, with a hope the disgruntled population of southern Iraq, mainly Shiites, will lend a complete support to American forces. SKY TV showed a Safwan resident, Khalifa, who bluntly told Americans: We dont trust you. Where is the aid? You promised us help 12 years ago, and it has not yet arrived. It was a very clear indication of anger among the Iraqis against America and the United Kingdom. What shocked invading forces most was the scene in Basra, where Iraqi Shiite women were putting Iraqi national flag in bombed buildings and chanting slogans in praise of Saddam Hussein. What Bush and Blair failed to realize is that their actions has consolidated Saddams position both at home and abroad. Whatever political opposition Saddam had evaporated when the invasion commenced. Bush failed to understand Arab pride. It was not question of Saddam Hussein and his dictatorial regime, but the pride and honor of Arabs which was being defaced and defied by America and its partner. No Arab could ever tolerate foreign forces on their land. Bush Senior did realize this psychology and, as a result, refused to enter Baghdad in 1991. The then Defense Secretary and current US vice President Dick Cheney supported going all the way to Baghdad; but the then president vetoed the idea. Bush has to accept the simple reality that Arabs resent the presence of Americans troops on their land. 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
[CTRL] Dr RummyStein's StrangeLove of Experiment Monstrosities ?
-Caveat Lector- Posted on Mon, Mar. 24, 2003 http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/5472430.htm Rumsfeld's strategy under fire as war risks become increasingly apparent By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - Five days into the war, the optimistic assumptions of the Pentagon's civilian war planners have yet to be realized, the risks of the campaign are becoming increasingly apparent and some current and retired military officials are warning that there may be a mismatch between Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's strategy and the force he's sent to carry it out. The outcome of the war isn't in doubt: Iraq's forces are no match for America and its allies. But, so far, defeating them is proving to be harder, and it could prove to be longer and costlier in American and Iraqi lives than the architects of the American war plan expected. And if weather, Iraqi resistance, chemical weapons or anything else turned things suddenly and unexpectedly sour, the backup force, the Army's 4th Infantry Division, is still in Texas with its equipment sailing around the Arabian peninsula. Despite the aerial pounding they've taken, it's not clear that Saddam Hussein, his lieutenants or their praetorian guard are either shocked or awed. Instead of capitulating, some regular Iraqi army units are harassing American supply lines. Contrary to American hopes - and some officials' expectations - no top commander of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard has capitulated. Even some ordinary Iraqis are greeting advancing American and British forces as invaders, not as liberators. This is the ground war that was not going to happen in (Rumsfeld's) plan, said a Pentagon official. Because the Pentagon didn't commit overwhelming force, now we have three divisions strung out over 300-plus miles and the follow-on division, our reserve, is probably three weeks away from landing. Asked Monday about concerns that the coalition force isn't big enough, Defense Department spokesperson Victoria Clarke replied: ... most people with real information are saying we have the right mix of forces. We also have a plan that allows it to adapt and to scale up and down as needed. Knowledgeable defense and administration officials say Rumsfeld and his civilian aides at first wanted to commit no more than 60,000 American troops to the war on the assumption that the Iraqis would capitulate in two days. Intelligence officials say Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz and other Pentagon civilians ignored much of the advice of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency in favor of reports from the Iraqi opposition and from Israeli sources that predicted an immediate uprising against Saddam once the Americans attacked. The officials said Rumsfeld also made his disdain for the Army's heavy divisions very clear when he argued about the war plan with Army Gen. Tommy Franks, the allied commander. Franks wanted more and more heavily armed forces, said one senior administration official; Rumsfeld kept pressing for smaller, lighter and more agile ones, with much bigger roles for air power and special forces. Our force package is very light, said a retired senior general. If things don't happen exactly as you assumed, you get into a tangle, a mismatch of your strategy and your force. Things like the pockets (of Iraqi resistance) in Basra, Umm Qasr and Nasariyah need to be dealt with forcefully, but we don't have the forces to do it. The Secretary of Defense cut off the flow of Army units, saying this thing would be over in two days, said a retired senior general who has followed the evolution of the war plan. He shut down movement of the 1st Cavalry Division and the1st Armored Division. Now we don't even have a nominal ground force. He added ruefully: As in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, we are using concepts and methods that are entirely unproved. If your strategy and assumptions are flawed, there is nothing in the well to draw from. In addition, said senior administration officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, Rumsfeld and his civilian aides rewrote parts of the military services' plans for shipping U.S. forces to the Persian Gulf, which they said resulted in a number of mistakes and delays, and also changed plans for calling up some reserve and National Guard units. There was nothing too small for them to meddle with, said one senior official. It's caused no end of problems, but I think we've managed to overcome them all. Robin Dorff, the director of national security strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., said three things have gone wrong in the campaign: _A mismatch between expectations and reality. _The threat posed by irregular troops, especially the 60,000 strong Saddam Fedayeen, who are harassing the 300-mile-long supply lines crucial to fueling and resupplying the armor units barreling toward Baghdad. _The Turks threatening to move more troops into northern Iraq,
[CTRL] British troops withdraw
-Caveat Lector- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-622543,00.html March 24, 2003 British troops withdraw from Basra By afp and Martin Bentham in BASRA Fierce resistance has forced British troops to withdraw from Basra to regroup, British military officials said this afternoon, as the Red Cross warned of a potential humanitarian crisis in the city. Elements of Britain's Seventh Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats, withdrew from the southern Iraqi city - the nation's second largest. They had come under attack, as they blocked the main routes into the city from the north and south, from mortar fire and from guerrillas disguised in civilian clothes. Military officials also said that irregular forces pretended to surrender and used women and children as decoys. British commanders said this evening that they were considering calling in Royal Marine Commandos and the 16th Air Assault Brigade, the parachute regiment. Both forces specialise in urban warfare and peacekeeping and are considered far better suited to street combat than the Challenger 2 tanks and Warrior armoured personnel carriers of the Desert Rats. It looks like being a lot tougher than we thought. We are now looking at using the Queens and the paras. Basra is a divisional operation now, not just 7th Armoured Brigade, said one officer. Some of the strongest resistance today came from the Fedayin militia and security services armed with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. Members of the Fedayin, a militia controlled by Saddam's son Uday, have taken to disguising themselves in civilian clothes, mixing with families and then emerging from crowds to fire on the coalition forces, military officials said. They said they were also concerned that the Iraqis might use a captured British vehicle as a car bomb. The Desert Rats had at one point surrounded the city and Tony Blair told the House of Commons today that Basra had been made secure. But military officials later admitted that they had vastly underestimated the strength of Iraqi resistance and the loyalty of Basra's population to Saddam. We're currently taking stock of the situation. We were expecting a lot of hands up from Iraqi soldiers and for the humanitarian operation in Basra to begin fairly quickly behind us, with aid organisations providing food and water to the locals, Captain Patrick Trueman said. But it hasn't quite worked out that way. There are significant elements in Basra who are hugely loyal to the regime. Their loyalty is rewarded with a better standard of living than most, so they don't want to give it up easily. British artillery shells were later fired into the city, where 1,000 Iraqi fighters are believed to be sheltering, some using civilian buildings as bases. Serious pockets of resistance were also uncovered in al Zubayr, a town about 15 miles west of Basra. Meanwhile the International Committee of the Red Cross said that Basra's population of around 2 million was facing a potential humanitarian crisis. The main water treatment plant on the northern edge of Basra, scene of fierce fighting, has been out of action since Friday due to a power cut. If we do not manage to re-establish the water system in Basra very rapidly to a sufficient level, we will have a major humanitarian crisis, Balthasar Staehelin, ICRC Director General of the Middle East and North Africa told a news conference. Although other plants were able to supply 40 per cent of usual needs, the quality of the water was poor, the ICRC said. Daytime temperatures in Basra can reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General called for urgent measures to help restore water and electricity. A city of that size cannot afford to go without electricity or water for long. Apart from the water aspect, you can imagine what it does for sanitation, he said. Al-Jazeera television reported bombing in Basra today, showing columns of smoke rising from the city. 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] Am I getting this right?
-Caveat Lector- All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war. The paramount principle is that the UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to subvert its word to guarantee that it is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too important not to take up arms to defend. Am I getting this right? Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor-bound to do that too, because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped by a little thing like democracy as they define it. Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does. And we are twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us oust a regime that twists the arms of the opposition. We cannot leave in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no choice but to ignore them. - PETER FREUNDLICH 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] Words; wHollyweird Terror targets
-Caveat Lector- http://www.allhatnocattle.net/3-19-03-liberty-shield.htm Not only did the French give us the Statue of Liberty but they gave us the word liberty by introducing it to the English language before the English did. Main Entry: liberty Pronunciation: 'li-br-tE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -ties Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French libert, from Latin libertat-, libertas, from liber free -- more at LIBERAL Date: 14th century SOURCE: MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY ONLINE Interesting that the word liberal is derived from the word liberty. Geez, ever notice how the right wing has tried to change the definition of liberal?sarcasm No wonder they are so confused. The Golden Gate bridge is depicted in a scene from the new sci-fi film 'The Core'. The scenario depicted in the film mirrors a scientist's new theory about the Earth's core. Geophysicist Dr. J. Marvin Herndon published his theory that the Earth's nuclear furnace could die in as little as 100 years or as long as one billion years, and if it did it's possible that the planet's magnetic field would collapse in. Paramount Pictures/Handout http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030305/i/1046826609.42279 15868.jpg No doubt about it, Mother Nature is a terrorist. Rumor has it that George Bush is adding her to his axis of evil list. 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] Yellow Times Acoount Suspended
-Caveat Lector- Anyone have info on this? I tried to access this morning and the message said the Account for domain yellowtimes.org has been suspended. http://www.yellowtimes.org/ BillK 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
Re: [CTRL] GOOD NEWS - FW: It is unravelling!
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/25/2003 1:24:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here, in CH, heard from Ex and someone else that it is all over TV and the media now, the entire Bush family business interests in this war, everything behind-the-scenes is coming out and being openly discussed in Swiss, Austrian and German media now. You don't have to go that far. Just take a look at the March 2003 issue of The Jim Hightower Lowdown. There is a column "Dirty Dealings in Data" that gives a tip of the hat to ChoicePoint, Inc (the firm used by Katherine Harris to negate 57,000 folks from the Florida voter rolls) and another called Sybase that is selling a PATRIOT-compliant software patch (the lucky big investor? Winston Partners, founded by Dubya's brother, Marvin. Forbes reports them to be part of "a few winners" emerging from the war on terror. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Making a mess
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/24/2003 3:39:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The perception of 'war gone wrong' reveals as much about America's cautious military strategy as it does about events on the ground. Having launched a war with the aim of doing as little as possible to achieve its ends - and a military strategy that stressed avoiding risky action and hand-to-hand combat - military commanders now seem surprised that they may actually have to fight. It is the wishful-thinking element of the military strategy, and America and Britain's own defensiveness, that makes the current situation seem so very 'shaky'. I will say that I've never seen a less effective (in fact down right dumb) military plan of action. Even the logistics have not been well thought out. The series of mistake after mistake in operations is another eye opener. I can't figure out who is planning what. As for the mechanics who took a wrong turn. Why were they alone and unguided? Does anyone over there know where they're going and why? And the plunge toward Baghdad, they're leaving a lot of uncontrolled open space behind them. That defeated Napoleon and Hitler in Russia. I'd be a mite more careful there too. What a fiasco. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Hostages to fortune
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/24/2003 3:39:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the Iraqi prisoners of war who were shown being searched, handcuffed, and walking in lines with their hands above their heads could also be said to have been shown in a humiliating light for the purpose of public curiosity. 'There's been a little violation on each side', concludes Dentley F Vagts, a specialist on the laws of war at Harvard University Law School (5). I too found this interesting. If we expect our prisoners to be treated in total compliance with the Geneva Conventions, then what about all those guys we're holding in Cuba. I guess we don't have to, but they have to--or something? Maybe there's been a lot of violation on each side. And in Afghanistan even before they were aware that Walker was an American, he was being very roughly interrogated by our CIA agents. I know that the one agent's family totally blame Walker for his death, but just how an unarmed man in handcuffs with two bullet wounds could have killed anyone has always been a mystery to me. It's always been true that nations at war cheat on the Geneva Conventions. Still since we are doing what we do, it might be a good idea not to fuss too loudly about the behavior of others. Prudy A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] 65 Billion Dollars
-Caveat Lector- What did I wake up to this morning, when I turned on the radio news? Get this, George W. Bush is going to petition the American Congress today for ... get this 65 Billion dollars in an aid request package, to pay for this genocidal invasion of iraq. Hmmm... that is interesting, 65 billion dollars huh? So in other words this invasion (not war) has not even been paid for by taxpayers of america as of yet, but is a campaign being fought on borrowed time and money. One can only wonder if that is the case, how long George W. Bush can continue this charade of mock freedom fighting, which is nothing more than re-buttressing of the chickhawk republican zionist right wing guard in Washington. My question though is specifically directed towards the American Taxpayer. Is this invasion worth that type of price tag? Ask yourself? I mean, I am a practical guy, and find it interesting how confusing issues such as war propoganda proliferation etc etc, confuses even the wise amongst us, but when the accountant sits down to tally the count in dollars and cents, things become crystal clear in such situations. 65 Billion dollars America ... no not million, billion we are talking about here you don't have to be Michael Moore, or for that matter from Hollywood to figure out this one out. It doesn't take a genius to figure out this one. Comon America, wake up and smell the coffee, are you not tired of being taken for a ride by the chickhawk express??? ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.463 / Virus Database: 262 - Release Date: 3/17/2003 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
Re: [CTRL] Saddam's son beats 12-year-olds who say no to sex: defectors
-Caveat Lector- While Sutherland and I would probably not agree on what is Greenwich Mean Time, (he making it up and my going to the website), there is corroboration for this information in the book Circle of Fear by Hussein Samaida. Samaida is the son of one of Saddam Hussein's principal lieutenants and was a member of the Iraqi elite. The book came out in 1991. While the book is full of inside information on the political and military doings of the elite there, there is also information on the culture of the elite. He left and took asylum in Canada. New Year's Day 1987 I was invited to a birthday party for one of the Mukhabaret men. The party was to be held in a special neighborhood on Umm al-Khanazir, an island in the Tigris, located where the river bends at the southern edge of Baghdad. On the surface it looks like any well-to-do neighborhood: large homes with tended gardens, guarded by armed sentries. The whole island is owned by the Ba'thist Party, and the houses are used for the entertainment of the elite. I learned that to have a party in Umm-al-Khanazir, one needed special permission from the office of the Ba'thist Party headquarters, Internal Affairs--a horribly apt title as it turned out. Inside each house is comfortable, but in order to leave room for dancing, the L-shaped salons are sparcely furnished. Our birthday party was an ordinary-enough affair, with twenty or so agents and as many girls. I played deejay while everyone ate, drank and danced to western pop music. That night, I learned more about this neighborhood and what went on behind its closed doors. The person who told me was an officer in one of the Amn security departments. After a few drinks, he entertained the group --sickened might be more accurate--with stories about other parties that went on in these houses, affairs attended by party higher-ups. Like everything else in this Iraqi-Arabian nightmare, sex is deformed, perverted and full of terror. The story I heard wasn't a tale filled with romantic clichés about dark-eyed desert sheikhs and pampered harem beauties who drift about in gauzy silk, eating figs until summoned to the royal cushions. Many of Saddam's men have quite different tastes. A party bigwig reserves the houses, has the furniture moved out of the salon leaving only the cushions. When the host arrives, he brings with him his own privately sponsored musical group. The party bigwigs all have groups who cater to their individual taste in entertainment. There is usually a singer, backed up by a small band, who has a repertoire of old Bedouin and modern Iraqi members. Such musical groups are bought and paid for, and preferably its members are all blind. The Ba'th has been a bonanza for blind musicians. They're preferred because the feature attraction at these soirees is erotic dancing by young Egyptian boys. They bend and writhe, stripping off scanty costumes down to their smooth young skin. As the nude dancing boys excite them, the men begin to beat the boys with special batons and whips brought for the occasion. Most of the boys are male prostitutes of sixteen or seventeen. Some never grow older. The climax of the evening is the rape of the boys by these Iraqi rulers who profess such an abhorrence of homosexuals. Grunting and yelling obscenities, they brutalize their lovers, competing to see who can make his victim scream the loudest in agony. Many of the boys end up in hospital, presumably to be mended for further use. Others, it is said, die of their injuries. I know that prisoners in Iraqi jails are often subjected to the same sadism, a hideous form of hypocrisy and cruelty that says more about these men than any other single fact. Worse, there is nothing new about this intimate horror. It's not unique to Iraq or to the Ba'th Party. Others have written of the same tortures in Iranian, Turkish and Greek prisons. Sexual sadism seems to be a common denominator of male tyrants. I won't even pretend to understand what it means, but it's dark and evil. Iraqi sadists prefer to act out their perversions on Egyptians because they can never be sure if an Iraqi victim might turn out to be an agent for one of the other security branches, or might have powerful family relatives. Moreover, Iraqis are renowned for pride and arrogance. The Egyptians are considered inferior, and they are submissive and available in large numbers. Iraqis like to say the Egyptians are easy to jump over, like a low wall. Egyptians have always been present in Iraq, where they are employed in menial jobs that Iraqis refused to do. Many more Egyptians arrived after the war with Iran began to deplete the work force. They soon filled posts left vacant by the military draft. After a few years of conflict, it was hard to find an Iraqi in any of the businesses along Rashid Street. Egyptians literally became the lifeblood of the community. Those who weren't drug addicts were forced to donate blood to the
[CTRL] Killing 2 Million Civilians With Thirst - over half of them children under 15
-Caveat Lector- http://truthout.org/docs_03/032603A.shtml Annan Seeks Urgent Steps to Get Water to Basra Reuters Monday 24 March 2003 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday called for urgent measures to help the people of Basra in southern Iraq obtain adequate water supplies amid heavy fighting between U.S. and British forces and Iraqi defenders. I have heard a report from the (International) Red Cross that the people in Basra may be facing a humanitarian disaster in that they have no water and they have no electricity, Annan told reporters at U.N. headquarters. I think urgent measures should be taken to restore electricity and water to that population, he said. A city of that size cannot afford to go without electricity or water for long. Apart from the water aspect, you can imagine what it does for sanitation. Basra's main Wafa al-Qaed water treatment plant on the northern edge of the city has been out of action due to a power outage since Friday and although other plants are able to supply some 40 percent of usual needs, the quality of the water is poor, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in Geneva. This is an emergency situation. We need to restore the full supply, Red Cross spokeswoman Nada Doumani said. She said she did not know the reason for the power cut. Adequate drinking water is vital for the local population because day time temperatures in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, can soar toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), she said. Basra has a population of around 2 million. Tamara al-Rifai, ICRC spokesperson in Kuwait, told Reuters the ICRC was waiting for guarantees of safe passage from the combatants in order to be able to repair Wafa al-Qaed. 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] EU and Iraq
-Caveat Lector- -Caveat Lector- We need some public examination of the roles of the EU and the US in regard to Iraq. Here is starter information which was passed on to me. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25523153.htm http://www.globalprogress.org/ingles/Washington/gardner.html http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?sid=9 (Re Solana and the UN) A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""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] 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 Om
[CTRL] Why do you do this to us?
-Caveat Lector- Counting Iraq's dead civilians By Jackson Thoreau Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her. Especially not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining 2,000-lb. bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact, on Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullahs eight-year-old son. Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bushs and Cheneys Blood for Oil, Inc. war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could care less. Welcome to the New World Order. U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts, especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bushs claim to the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian casualties, unless they are so large that even our corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them. But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years old. He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book. Hes number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs continues to rise. Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept much. I have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once again about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar stage Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the Hollywood crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed. Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures the way the Bush administration wants them painted. I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from Londons Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in the Wilderness Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like the United Kingdoms Independent Media Centre. And Im here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC and others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians many of them children, as almost half of Baghdads population is under age 14 - have been killed by the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many more will probably soon die in hospitals. At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you do this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace Team. Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers. Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student at a high school for girls, is among those with deep wounds who must suffer in anguish without basic medicines that could at least give her some temporary relief from the pain. Cheneys oil company, Dallas-based Halliburton, could make millions supplying Iraq with oil equipment after the 1991 Gulf War. But relief workers could not ship basic medicines to Iraq because that violated the economic sanctions imposed by the UN on Husseins regime. To repeat: Cheneys company can make millions in oil deals, but Iraqi kids like Nada cannot get basic medicines. Want to talk precision bombing? Talk to Nahla Harbi, a passenger driving away from Baghdad with her two-year-old when a military school for boys was struck, causing her car to roll. She escaped with fractures in both legs. Her toddler suffered head injuries. Talk to the families of the five Syrians who died when a U.S. missile struck a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border. Ten other passengers, most of whom were laborers working in Iraqi oil fields, were injured. One of the more ludicrous aspects of this war is how U.S. officials are crying foul when Iraq pulls a few tricks like pretend surrenders and putting POWs on television. Iraq is violating the Geneva Convention, U.S. officials say. These are the same officials who ignore international laws such as the UN charter that states one country cannot invade another without provocation or the blessing of the UN Security Council. These are the same officials who ignore international treaties like those governing nuclear weapons and global warming. So its unfair for Iraq to put prisoners on television or use civilians as soldiers or women and kids as shields? Tell me, whats fair about one side spending $400 billion annually on nuclear weapons, high-tech weapons, etc. and the other spending some $1.4 billion on scud missiles and other low-tech weapons after years of economic sanctions that has wracked its strength? Thats like
Re: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us?
-Caveat Lector- A serious question. The Iraqi leadership has brutalized its people for many years. Now it appeared to be on the verge of brutalizing the western world in connection with other powerful leaders outside of the Arab world. If the US had not taken the action did, what do you think the world and US situation would look like ten years from now and please justify your answer with some factual information. -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jei Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us? -Caveat Lector- Counting Iraq's dead civilians By Jackson Thoreau Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her. Especially not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining 2,000-lb. bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact, on Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullahs eight-year-old son. Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bushs and Cheneys Blood for Oil, Inc. war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could care less. Welcome to the New World Order. U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts, especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bushs claim to the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian casualties, unless they are so large that even our corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them. But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years old. He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book. Hes number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs continues to rise. Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept much. I have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once again about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar stage Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the Hollywood crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed. Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures the way the Bush administration wants them painted. I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from Londons Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in the Wilderness Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like the United Kingdoms Independent Media Centre. And Im here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC and others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians many of them children, as almost half of Baghdads population is under age 14 - have been killed by the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many more will probably soon die in hospitals. At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you do this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace Team. Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers. Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student at a high school for girls, is among those with deep wounds who must suffer in anguish without basic medicines that could at least give her some temporary relief from the pain. Cheneys oil company, Dallas-based Halliburton, could make millions supplying Iraq with oil equipment after the 1991 Gulf War. But relief workers could not ship basic medicines to Iraq because that violated the economic sanctions imposed by the UN on Husseins regime. To repeat: Cheneys company can make millions in oil deals, but Iraqi kids like Nada cannot get basic medicines. Want to talk precision bombing? Talk to Nahla Harbi, a passenger driving away from Baghdad with her two-year-old when a military school for boys was struck, causing her car to roll. She escaped with fractures in both legs. Her toddler suffered head injuries. Talk to the families of the five Syrians who died when a U.S. missile struck a Syrian passenger bus near the Iraqi border. Ten other passengers, most of whom were laborers working in Iraqi oil fields, were injured. One of the more ludicrous aspects of this war is how U.S. officials are crying foul when Iraq pulls a few tricks like pretend surrenders and putting POWs on television. Iraq is violating the Geneva Convention, U.S. officials say. These are the same officials who ignore international laws such as
Re: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us?
-Caveat Lector- You ask us to predict a hypothetical future for 10 years to come and justify it with facts? You don't ask for much, do you? But for one thing, maybe International Law and sovereignity of nations would still be respected. Now, we can only rely on the force of arms and weapons of mass destructions to protect the people and nations on this planet from brutal business warriors and nutcases in charge of armies. As for the facts to support this conclusion, the US handling of North Korea vs US handling of Iraq are an excellent example. One is getting silk gloved treatment, while the other is going to be raped for all it's worth. I bet no WMDs will be found in Iraq, lest it says Made in USA or Israel, painted over with crosses and Irag stamped in place. As for the future we will experience, it is one of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and unlimited warfare for the reasons of business and making money, with total disregard for any treaties and laws. Anarchy, some might call it. But, it is explicitly clear that US and Bush co are keen on pissing on any and all treaties they don't like, and will keep on doing so if and when they can make fast profits for small numbers of people by doing so. On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Zuukie wrote: -Caveat Lector- A serious question. The Iraqi leadership has brutalized its people for many years. Now it appeared to be on the verge of brutalizing the western world in connection with other powerful leaders outside of the Arab world. If the US had not taken the action did, what do you think the world and US situation would look like ten years from now and please justify your answer with some factual information. -Original Message- From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jei Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CTRL] Why do you do this to us? -Caveat Lector- Counting Iraq's dead civilians By Jackson Thoreau Deep in the pit of Hell, Fatima Abdullah screams. Few hear her. Especially not the pilots in the U.S. and British jets that have been raining 2,000-lb. bombs, which obliterate everything within a football field upon impact, on Baghdad since Thursday. Especially not the U.S. generals who refuse to acknowledge the lives of kids like Fatehah Abdullah, Fatima Abdullahs eight-year-old son. Fatehah is dead, another victim in Bushs and Cheneys Blood for Oil, Inc. war. And Bush, Cheney and the generals that push this massacre could care less. Welcome to the New World Order. U.S. Commander Tommy Franks says they will not tabulate body counts, especially of Iraqis, in this war that is as illegitimate as Bushs claim to the White House. The bulk of the U.S. media will not report on civilian casualties, unless they are so large that even our corporate-and-Republican-controlled media cannot ignore them. But some of us will. I will. Fatehah Abdullah may just be eight years old. He may be Arab. But he counts for something in my book. Hes number 303. And that number of Iraqi civilians killed by our bombs continues to rise. Since the outbreak of the latest phase of the war for Iraqi oil and continued U.S. domination of the planet Wednesday, I have not slept much. I have paid little attention to the talking heads on CNN, who like to call themselves the most trusted name in news. CNN commentators lied once again about progressive film maker Michael Moore being booed off the Oscar stage Sunday. As the British news agency Reuters reported, many in the Hollywood crowd gave Moore a standing ovation as he issued his anti-Bush, anti-war remarks. Moore himself had this to say to reporters: Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed. Maybe CNN is the most trusted name in the U.S. media to paint pictures the way the Bush administration wants them painted. I have concentrated on reading international media reports such as from Londons Guardian. I have read the reports from activists like Voices in the Wilderness Iraq Peace Team who put their lives on the line to try to protect Iraqis. I have scanned the reports from alternative media like the United Kingdoms Independent Media Centre. And Im here to tell you what Gen. Franks and CNN and Donahue-less MSNBC and others will not: More than 300 Iraqi civilians many of them children, as almost half of Baghdads population is under age 14 - have been killed by the U.S.-led massive aerial bombing campaign, as of early Tuesday. Many more will probably soon die in hospitals. At Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, Fatima Abdullah screamed, Why do you do this to us? to April Hurley, a physician and member of the Iraq Peace Team. Not only is one of her sons dead, but her four-year-old boy and two daughters were wounded by a missile that hit her uncle's home outside Baghdad, near a bridge targeted by U.S. bombers. Nada Adnan, a 13-year-old student
Re: [CTRL] Hostages to fortune
-Caveat Lector- On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Prudy L wrote: -Caveat Lector- In a message dated 3/24/2003 3:39:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the Iraqi prisoners of war who were shown being searched, handcuffed, and walking in lines with their hands above their heads could also be said to have been shown in a humiliating light for the purpose of public curiosity. 'There's been a little violation on each side', concludes Dentley F Vagts, a specialist on the laws of war at Harvard University Law School (5). I too found this interesting. If we expect our prisoners to be treated in total compliance with the Geneva Conventions, then what about all those guys we're holding in Cuba. I guess we don't have to, but they have to--or something? Maybe there's been a lot of violation on each side. And in Afghanistan even before they were aware that Walker was an American, he was being very roughly interrogated by our CIA agents. I know that the one agent's family totally blame Walker for his death, but just how an unarmed man in handcuffs with two bullet wounds could have killed anyone has always been a mystery to me. It's always been true that nations at war cheat on the Geneva Conventions. Still since we are doing what we do, it might be a good idea not to fuss too loudly about the behavior of others. Prudy Hey! Beware! That is exactly what is called being un-american. If you can't accept the double standard, stay out of America, as the saying goes here. Do onto others, but don't let them do it to you. - has been the New American Motto of foreign policy for the last Bush years and is exactly the reason why so many Arabs are pissed at you. Fucking others as much as you can, sooner or later has that effect. What you sow is what you reap as the saying goes. 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: Scientist hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago
-Caveat Lector- From another list -Original Message- Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Scientist hid nukes in Iraq 20 years ago Oakland Township man says he later lived in fear http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0303/25/a05-118470.htm By Jennifer Brooks / The Detroit News OAKLAND TOWNSHIP -- Gazi George is certain that Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction, because he used to be one of the people hiding them. Two decades ago, while he was employed by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, George says he hid 39 rods of enriched uranium -- enough to build two nuclear bombs -- in a hastily converted swimming pool near the grounds of the Osirak nuclear power plants at Tuweitha. Israeli fighter jets destroyed the plants in 1981. But to his knowledge, no one ever discovered or destroyed the uranium. Instead, when an international inspector came to visit the ruined site, George said he was ordered to contaminate the grounds with alpha emitters, materials that mimic a uranium spill. The inspector, he said, went away satisfied that the plant's nuclear material had been destroyed. We faked the whole thing, said George, who fled the country soon afterward. Today, he runs a chemical and environmental consulting company and lives comfortably in Oakland Township. But he has not forgotten the five years he spent in the Iraqi nuclear program and has never stopped looking over his shoulder, for fear Iraqi agents might appear to carry out his sentence. The former nuclear scientist, who was in charge of health and safety programs at the Osirak plants, recalls harrowing years with his country's fledgling nuclear plant. Perhaps the worst experience was a secret bunker he visited -- hidden beneath a government agriculture building -- where he was asked to test for radiation levels. He found radioactive residue in syringes surrounded by bloody swabs and in cages too small for a person to stand up. He says political prisoners were locked up in those cages, injected with radiation and exposed to an external bombardment of cobalt 60 radiation until their mouths bled, their skin blistered and they died. --- 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] Neo-cons Enlist Dems For Post-War Goals.
-Caveat Lector- http://www.presentdanger.org/commentary/2003/0303pnacletter.html Neoconservatives Enlist Democrats for Post-War Goals By Jim Lobe March 24, 2003 With the war underway, new battle lines to shape the parameters of U.S. policy toward post-war Iraq have moved out of the shadows and into public view. Neoconservatives who allied themselves with traditional right-wing Republicans to push for war in Iraq are now trying to enlist veterans of the Democratic administration of former President Bill Clinton to realize their post-war plans for transforming Iraq. In a new letter released earlier this week, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neoconservative front group that often speaks for neoconservative hawks in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office, said that the "successful disarming, rebuilding, and democratic reform of Iraq can contribute decisively to the democratization of the wider Middle East," which, the group stressed, should be considered "an objective of overriding strategic importance to the United States." And, in an implicit swipe at forces, including right-wing administration hawks who have argued for withdrawing U.S. forces as quickly as possible after the ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the destruction of any weapons of mass destruction (WMD) found in the country, the letter emphasized that Washington should be engaged for the long haul. "Everyone--those who have joined the coalition, those who have stood aside, those who opposed military action, and, most of all, the Iraqi people and their neighbors--must understand that we are committed to the rebuilding of Iraq and will provide the necessary resources and will remain for as long as it takes." "Any early fixation on exit strategies and departure deadlines will undercut American credibility and greatly diminish the prospects for success," the letter, which was signed by 23 prominent neoconservatives and former Clinton advisers, asserts. The letter must be considered significant if only because previous PNAC letters have anticipated the trajectory of the Bush administration's policy in fighting its war on terrorism since the publication of its first missive on the war nine days after the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. On September 20, the group sent a letter signed by 40 individuals--almost all of whom were neoconservatives, traditional Republican right-wingers, or members of the Christian Right--that called for Bush to extend the war on terrorism beyond al Qaeda and Afghanistan by cutting off aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), pressing Syria and Iran to cease aiding Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, and removing Hussein from power in Iraq "even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the (Sept. 11) attack." Six months later, the group called for Washington to break ties with the PA's Yassir Arafat and to provide the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with Washington's "full support" in his efforts to suppress Palestinian "terrorism." Bush adopted all those positions fully by the end of June. There is little question about the source of PNAC's influence. When it was founded in 1997 by two prominent neoconservatives, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, its charter, which called for a U.S. strategy of global pre-eminence based on military power, was signed by men who would become the most influential hawks in the Bush administration, including Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, and Cheney's influential national security adviser, I. Lewis Libby. But while Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bolton are traditional right-wing Republicans, most of PNAC's backers are neoconservatives--mostly former Democrats, or even Trotskyites, who moved to the right in reaction to the anti-Vietnam War movement and the UN's denunciations of Israel in the late 1960s and 1970s. While they share the unilateralism of Republican right-wingers, they tend to be much more committed to the idea that the United States has a global mission to fulfill, and that the U.S. political and economic "model" should be exported to the rest of the world, by force if necessary. During the 1990s, for example, they excoriated right-wing Republican lawmakers who opposed Clinton's interventions in the Balkans and even in Haiti for neo-isolationism and for betraying Washington's mission to export democracy and protect vulnerable minorities. And, despite their influence within the Bush administration, they have loudly criticized it for failing to devote more resources--particularly in security and reconstruction aid--to Afghanistan after ousting the Taliban regime in late 2001. Those same criticisms have been voiced by Democrats in Congress who continue to complain that the administration's reliance on military power in the conduct of foreign affairs has been far too narrow. The
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Michael Moore disinfo. Press conference audio! His Oscar at Academy Awards.
-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- Much media disinfo about Michael Moore speech after his Oscar for best documentary. Google News search shortcut for Michael Moore. http://news.google.com/news?q=michael+moore But for the truth, and a good laugh, check out the audio link for the press conferencethat occured after the Michael Moore speech. Mike was in good form at the press conference. If just clicking the URL below does not work, then launch Windows Media Player. Click "Open URL" in the file menu. Copy and paste the URL below into the form. Click OK. It will buffer and then play. Add the URL to the Media Library to access it again quickly later. http://mfile.akamai.com/8629/asf/clips.download.akamai.com/8629/DocumentaryFeature_300k.asx Best article I have seen so far on the Michael Moore speech at the Oscars is below: -- -In These Times article begins---http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=133_0_7_0_C Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards By Joel Bleifuss | Mar 24, 03 print | email | comment Michael Moore: Im an American, and you dont leave your citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak Theatre. ... I dont stop being who I am when I come to this ceremony, and Im extremely grateful for this response. On Day 5 of the war, it was supremely ironic that network television viewers had to tune into the 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony to hear voices that questioned the wisdom of the Bush Administration.Rumblings of protest began on Saturday. At the Independent Spirit Awards (the award ceremony for independent films) in Santa Monica, California, Maggie Gyllenhaal, the starred in Secretary, said the country was in the middle of a war about oil and imperialism and I hope for peace as soon as we can possibly find it. That same afternoon at the Miramax party,.it was reported that crooner Michael Feinstein couldnt rouse the guest to sing God Bless America no matter how hard he tried.Then there was ABCs presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday night. It started off on a good note with Steve Martin, saying, I am really glad they cut back on the red carpet, thatll send them a message. Minutes later he followed up with with, A movie star is many things: they can be tall, short, thin or skinny. They can be Democrats ... or skinny.The political statements ranged from the subdued to angry. Susan Sarandon, wearing the Dove of Peace pins designed by Henry Dunay for Global vision for Peace, flashed a peace sign. Chris Cooper, winner of the best supporting actor for his role in Adaptation, quietly said, In light of all the troubles in this world, I wish us peace.Gael Garcia Bernal, the hunky star of Y Tu Mama Tambien, introducing the nominated best song from Frida, said to loud applause: The necessity for peace in the world is not a dream, it is a reality. And we are not alone. If Frida was alive, she would be on our side, against war.Pedro Almodovar, accepting the Oscar for best original screenplay for Talk to Her, read a statement: I also want to dedicate this award to all the people who are raising their voices in favor of peace, respect of human rights, democracy and international legality, all of which are essential qualities [for life.]And the audience cheered as Adrien Brody, who won best actor for The Pianist, admonished the orchestra to stop so he could say, Whether you believe in Allah or God, may he watch over you, and pray for a peaceful and swift resolution to this war.And then there was Michael Moore. He received a standing ovation when Bowling for Columbine was announced the winner of best documentary. The Chicago Tribunes Mark Caro reported that the pressroom also erupted in applause when it was announced that Moore had
[CTRL] Haliburton Stocks Up
-Caveat Lector- Haliburtons stock is up 58 cents ... noon day stock report... Dick Chaney I am sure is not complaining.. business looks good for him. ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.463 / Virus Database: 262 - Release Date: 3/17/2003 A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Mind Control Ops At Stanford Research Institute
-Caveat Lector- http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=778mode=order=0thold=0 Mind Control Operations at Stanford Research Institute by Alex Constantine [related articles and photos: Photos of "Captain" Al Hubbard and allies Smoking Gun on MK-ULTRA and ''Captain'' Al Hubbard British Columbia's "Acid Flashback"] Concrete evidence that electronic mind control was an object of study at SRI was exposed by the Washington Post in 1977: "When the Navy awarded a contract to the Institute, the scientific assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, Dr. Sam Koslov, received a routine briefing on various research projects, including SRIs. As the briefer flashed his chart onto the screen and began to speak, Koslov stormily interrupted, What the hell is that about? Among the glowing words on the projected chart, the section describing SRIs work was labelled, ELF AND MIND CONTROL. ELF stands for extremely [low] frequency electromagnetic waves, from the very slow brain frequencies up to about 100 cycles per second But the Mind Control label really upset Koslov. He ordered the SRI investigations for the Navy stopped, and cancelled another $35,000 in Navy funds slated for more remote viewing work." Contrary to Koslov's order to kill the research, the Navy quietly continued to fork out $100,000 for a two-year project directed by a bionics specialist. Mind control is not a humanitarian pastime: the project was military, and if SRI was a source of covert EMR brain experimentation, test subjects were subjected to torture plied with the same thorough disregard for human rights as the radiation tests conducted at the height of the Cold War. To be sure, the treatment subjects have received at the hands of their own government would be considered atrocities if practiced in wartime. Mind control was also used in domestic covert operations designed to further the CIAs heady geopolitical ambitions, and during the Vietnam War period SRI was a hive of covert political subterfuge. The Symbionese Liberation Army, like the People's Temple, was a creation of the CIA. The SLA had at its core a clique of black ex-convicts from Vacaville Prison. Donald DeFreeze, otherwise known as Cinque, led the SLA. He was formerly an informant for the LAPDs Criminal Conspiracy Section and the director of Vacaville's Black Cultural Association (BCA), a covert mind control unit with funding from the CIA channelled through SRI. The Menlo Park behaviour modification specialists experimented with psychoactive drugs administered to members of the BCA. Black prisoners were programmed to murder selected black leaders once on the outside. The CIA/SRI zombie killer hit list included Oakland school superintendent Dr. Marcus Foster, and Panthers Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, among others. DeFreeze stated that at Vacaville in 1971-72, he was the subject of a CIA mind control experiment. He described his incarceration on the prisons third floor, where he was corralled by CIA agents who drugged him and said he would become the leader of a radical movement and kidnap a wealthy person. After his escape from Vacaville (an exit door was left unlocked for him), that's exactly what he did. EM mind control machines were championed at Stanford University by Dr. Karl Pribram, director of the Neuropsychology Research Laboratory: "I certainly could educate a child by putting an electrode in the lateral hypothalamus and then selecting the situations at which I stimulate it. In this was I can grossly change his behaviour." Psychology Today touted Pribram as The Magellan of Brain Science. He obtained his B.S. and M.D. degrees at the University of Chicago, and at SRI studied how the brain processes and stores sensory imagery. He is credited with discovering that mental imaging bears a close resemblance to hologram projection (the basis for transmitting images to the brains of test subjects under the misnomer "remote viewing?"). The Institute is bonded incestuously to corporate sponsors. Former SRI Chairman E. Hornsby Wasson, for example, was a director of several major companies, including Standard Oil of California, and he went on to become chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and CEO of Pacific Telephone Telegraph and Bell Telephone of Nevada. The SRI/SAIC psi experiments were supervised at Langley by John McMahon, second in command under William Casey, succeeding Bobby Ray Inman, the SAIC director. McMahon has, according to Philip Agee, the CIA whistle-blowing exile, an affinity for technological exotics for CIA covert actions. He was recruited by the Agency after his graduation from Holy Cross College (the alma mater of CIA contractees Edward Bennett Williams, attorney, and Robert Maheu, hit man). He is a former director of the Technical Services Division, deputy director for Operations, and in 1982 McMahon was appointed deputy director of Central Intelligence. He left the Agency six years later to take the position of president of the
[CTRL] Bush's Jihad - Marching On Babylon
-Caveat Lector- http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/3286 Is this war really about the oil? Or are Bush and his core support block of rightwing religious fanatics turning the world into a stage for acting out an elaborate "Armageddon" fantasy? Marching on Bablyon: Are Bush and the Religious Right Forcing the World to Act Out their Religious Fantasies? By Cheryl Seal Mt. Vernon, Baltimore Bush's obsession with attacking Iraq has been attributed to oil, to family vendetta due to his father's confrontation with Saddam, and with over-zealous terrorist-fighting efforts. However, what really lies beneath this obsession is a religious delusion, one shared, alas by many of his government appointees, including John Ashcroft, a devout Pentecostal. Bush, like Ashcroft, believes (and in fact is trying to insure) that the world is in the "end times" called for by the biblical book of Revelation - at least as interpreted by the doomsdayers, who are generally barely functional clinically classical paranoid schizophrenics (Pat Robertson being a prime example). Bily Graham, Bush's much-touted mentor, believes Armaggedon is at hand and has helped to fuel Bush's messianic complex as the "blessed" leader of the righteous in the end times. You can see that messianic complex so clearly in Bush's often inappropriately "rapturous" expression and grandiose body language. In this fantasy scenario, following a mighty battle in a region the "faithful" have pinpointed as Iraq, about 144,000 "good Christians" will be sucked up into Heaven, while the rest are left to fry in a horrific conflagration. The support Bush has shown Israel isn't because of his pro-Jewish sentiments, it is because the "end times prescription" calls for Jews to be in complete control of all of Israel at the time of the big event. But, according to the fanatics' nasty little scenario, the joke will be on the Jews, who will be left to burn with everyone else, aside from a few perhaps a few last-minute converts to Christianity. Sharon, plainly fully aware of Bush's obsession, is taking full advantage of it. He just asked for - and is expected to be granted, up to $10 BILLION more dollars to help secure Israel and to buy war planes to help secure "Babylon." In the fanatic's scenario, Iraq plays a special central role as "Babylon," embodying in the fundy's dark fantasies the "false religion" and the empire of the the "anti-Christ" in the end times. Here's a blurb for a book plugged by the "Bible Prophecy and the Rapture Report: "The Two Babylons. Authored by the late Rev. Alexander Hislop. An excellent source of information regarding the beliefs and rituals of the ancient babylonian cult that will dominate the empire of the Antichrist just as it dominated the major world empires and the Roman Catholic Church. " The Roman Catholic Church, by the way is targeted for the wrath and villification of the righteous rapturists, who condemn it as "a false religion." I doubt if it is any coincidence that since Bush has been in office, the media has aggressively and relentlessly gone after the Catholic Church, fanning the pedophile priest stories into a modern witch hunt, while failing to investigate or expose similar allegations chronically being made by members of other religions, where such abuse may be just as rampant or even worse. Bush's mentor, Billy Graham, as he grew in international fame, became very adept at appearing far more non-fanatical than he truly is in order to draw a bigger audience, a bigger bank account. Yet Graham attended Bob Jones University for some time, is on record making anti-Semitic comments in phone conversations with Richard Nixon, and, in 1948 declared, "The three gravest menaces faced by orthodox Christianity are communism, Roman Catholicism, and Mohammedanism." In reality, Graham is still very much a fanatic, promoting the end times zealously. Here's a quote from his website: "The Bible plainly forecasts the coming of yet another great war. It will be a war to eclipse anything the world has ever seen. It will embrace most of the nations of the world; and its focal point will be in the Middle East, where the armies of the world will some day deploy themselves, centering at Mount Megiddo. This great war has been called the battle of Armageddon. In the midst of this terrifying war that could destroy civilization the Lord Jesus Christ will return to this earth in glory and power to judge the nations of the world and set up His own glorious kingdom. "The Scripture describes this great battle in the sixteenth chapter of the book of Revelation. The sixth angel will pour out his vial upon the great river Euphrates. We are told that the waters of the Euphrates River will be 'dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.' The dry riverbed will permit unhindered passage of the great armies of the East to the scene of the battle. Unclean spirits, demons, will go out into the world to the kings of
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Fw: Dear Brook
-Caveat Lector- A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: "Brook" To: "Hans Kammler Jr." Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: Well, let me know when the group is more about zionists, israel, the current war on terrorism, world domination, etc. I don't want to read about nazis anymore. Whelp The problem with that, darling Is that the current 'war on terrorism'/world domination thing that you'd like to read more about is intricately tied in with the Nazi's and their occultist brethren A compilation of excerpts from posts you way have missed or not viewed properly because you've subscribed to the Digest which limits HTML emphasis: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NeuschwabenlandTimes/message/237 "In the wake of Sept. 11, new light is thrown on the international ties increasingly linking Muslim and neo-Nazi extremists " "As Germany's defeat loomed during the finals months of World War II, Adolf Hitler increasingly lapsed into delusional fits of fantasy. Albert Speer, in his prison writings, recounts an episode in which a maniacal Hitler "pictured for himself and for us the destruction of New York in a hurricane of fire." The Nazi fuehrer described skyscrapers turning into "gigantic burning torches, collapsing upon one another, the glow of the exploding city illuminating the dark sky."" An approximation of Hitler's hellish vision came true on Sept. 11, when terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, killing nearly 3,000 people. But it was not Nazis or even neo-Nazis who carried out the attack, which allegedly came at the hands of foreign Muslim extremists. Still, in the aftermath of the slaughter, white supremacists in America and Europe applauded the suicide attacks and praised Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the massacre. An official of America's premier neo-Nazi group, the National Alliance, said he wished his own members had "half as much testicular fortitude." The awestruck leader of another U.S. Nazi group called the terrorists "VERY BRAVE PEOPLE." Neofascist youth in France celebrated the event that evening with champagne at the headquarters of the extreme right Front National. Jan Kopal, head of the Czech National Social Bloc, declared at a rally in Prague that bin Laden was "an example for our children." German neo-Nazis, some wearing checkered Palestinian headscarves, rejoiced at street demonstrations while burning an American flag. Horst Mahler, a former left-wing terrorist and prominent member of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) in Germany proclaimed his solidarity with the terrorists and said America had gotten what it deserved. What's going on here? " Indeed... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NeuschwabenlandTimes/message/255 "AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI: Born into an affluent family, al-Zawahiri became active in militant Islam at an early age. At 15 he was arrested for membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, which sought to remove foreign influence from Egyptian society. Al-Zawahiri graduated from medical school in 1974. In the 1970s he joined the Egyptian Islamist movement, and served three years in prison, where he was tortured, in connection to the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. After his release he went to Saudi Arabia and the Pakistan, finally moving to Afghanistan, where he became Osama Bin Laden's chief advisor. As aformer psychiatrist and surgeon, Al-Zawahiri studied behavior, psychology and pharmacology as part of his medical degree at Cairo University. His father was a pharmacologist. According to Vincent Cannistraro, former top CIA counterterrorist official,
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Legends of the Merovingian Kings
-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- The Merovingian Mythos:Its Symbolic Significance and its Roots in the Ancient Kingdom of Atlantisby Tracy R. Twyman The Frankish King Dagobert II, and the Merovingian dynasty from which he came, have been romantically mythologized in the annals of both local legend and modern mystical pseudo-history, but few have understood the true meaning and origins of their alluring mystery. The mystique that surrounds them includes attributions of saintliness, magical powers (derived from their long red hair), and even divine origin, stemming from their supposed descent from the one and only Jesus Christ. However, the importance of the divine origin of the Merovingians, and the antiquity from whence it comes, has never to this author's knowledge been fully explored by any writer or historian. As Boyd Rice and I will explain in more detail in our forthcoming book, we have uncovered mountains of evidence which indicates that the origins of the Merovingian race, and the mystery that surrounds them, lies ultimately with a race of beings, "Nephilim," or "Fallen Angels," who created mankind as we know him today, and with a civilization, far more ancient than recorded history, from which came all of the major arts and sciences that are basic to civilizations everywhere, even unto today. As we intend to show, all of the myths and symbolism that are associated with this dynasty can, in fact, be traced back to this earlier civilization. It is known, in some cultures, as Atlantis, although there are many names for it, and it is the birthplace of agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, navigation, architecture, language, writing, and religion. It was also the source of the first government on Earth - monarchy. And the first kings on Earth were the gods. Their race was known by various names. In Greece, the Annodoti. In Sumeria, the Annunaki. In the Celtic lore, the Tuatha de Danaan. In the Semetic scriptures (Torah, Talmud, Old Testament, and other Apocryphal texts like the Book of Enoch), they are called The Nephilim, "The Sons of God," or the Watchers. They are described as having attachments such as wings, horns, and even fish scales, but from the depictions it is clear that these are clothes or costumes worn for their symbolic value, for these symbols indicated divine power and royal blood. The gods themselves had their own monarchy, with laws of succession similar to our own, and they built a global empire upon the Earth, with great cities, temples and monuments, and mighty nations established on several continents. They created mankind as a slave race to work on their farms and in their gold mines, among other things. The Sumerian legends are very clear: man was made to "bear the yoke of the gods." Man was separate from the gods, like a domesticated animal, and there was a great cultural taboo amongst the gods against sharing any of their sacred information with humanity, even things such as writing and mathematics. These gods ruled directly over Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, and their rule is recorded in the histories of all three civilizations. This global monarchy was the crowning glory of the Ages, and the period of their rule came to be called the Golden Age or, as the Egyptians called it, "The First Time," when the gods watched over man directly, like a shepherd his flock. In fact, they were often called "The Shepherd Kings." One of the symbols of this world monarchy was an eye hovering over a throne, and this eye now adorns our dollar bill, presented as the missing capstone of the Great Pyramid of
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Lies and Damnable Lies.
-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- The Frederick the Great Association One of the more twisted myths being propagated by 'Regular' Anglo-American Freemasonry of late is that the Nazi's persecuted 'regular' Freemasonry in Germany during it's reign. 'Regular' Freemasonry plays the recognition game if it wants to deny that a particular infamous individual was a Freemason. Usually this is carried out in regard to Grand Orient Freemasons, which it does not recognize as being legitimate Masons because it has it's own operation called 'Grand Lodges' set up in their countries, France being the largest instance. Thus it is with a particular sense of accomplishment that we have uncovered one of 'regular' American and British Grand Lodge Freemasonry's most noxious official lies; it's record and actions in Nazi Germany. A lie that their favorite recognition game dodge won't work on. In Germany at the time the Nazi's came to power (with the aid of numerous Freemason High Financiers like Henry Ford) there existed nine Grand Lodges and Orients. Three Grand Lodges were were known as 'Old Prussian Grand Lodges', which were large, well organized, and contained the bulk of all Freemasons in Germany. Six were called 'Modern Grand Lodges', which were small, isolated, with only a few thousand members each. One of the groupings had always banned Jews from joining and was fiercely nationalistic and reactionary in it's politics. One of the groupings had always allowed Jews to join and was international and liberal in it's politics. Guess which Grand Lodge group American and British Freemasonry recognized as being 'regular' Freemasonry and which group it branded as 'irregular' and 'clandestine' Freemasonry? You guessed right. It was the 'Old Prussian Grand Lodges', which contained the High Command Officers, Industrialists, and Royal Houses who had always banned Jews from joining and which was fiercely nationalistic and reactionary in it's politics that the American and British Grand Lodges recognized as being 'regular'. The 'Moderns', the ones that allowed Jews to join? 'Regular' Freemasonry said they were 'irregular' and 'clandestine'. In other words they did not recognize the Grand Lodges that allowed Jews to join as being Freemasons or Freemasonry what so ever. 'Regular' Freemasonry is trying to hoodwink their recognition of the anti-semitic National Grand Lodges and their non recognition of the non anti-semitic International Grand Lodges. The Nazi's shut down the 'Modern' Grand Lodges whose membership was heavily jewish, liberal, and 'international', but allowed the 'national' Old Prussian Grand Lodges to carry on after their Grand Master's sent formal written oaths of alliegence to 'Mein Furher', changed their name to 'The Frederick the Great Association'(Frederick the Great being German 'Regular' Freemasonry's founder and principal patron.), and removed any obvious Hebraic wording from it's rituals. When the war was over 'regular' Freemasonry operating under the guise of 'The Frederick the Great Association' changed their name back to what it was before Crystal Nacht. You won't see any of this mentioned on any of those 'Is it true what they say about Freemasonry?' or 'Difficult Questions about Freemasonry' web sites that 'regular' Freemasonry has mirrored all over the net. The Scottish Rite had its beginning in France, when in 1754, the Chevalier de Bonneville established in Paris, a chapter of twenty-five so-called High Degrees which, including the three symbolic Degrees, these High Degrees were called the Rite of Perfection. In 1758 these Degrees were taken to Berlin and placed under a body called the Council of Emperors of the East and West,
[CTRL] Michael Moore disinfo. Press conference audio! His Oscar at Academy Awards.
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: eco man [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:59:34 -0800 (PST) Subject:[cia-drugs] Michael Moore disinfo. Press conference audio! His Oscar at Academy Awards. Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Much media disinfo about Michael Moore speech after his Oscar for best documentary. Google News search shortcut for Michael Moore. http://news.google.com/news?q=michael+moore But for the truth, and a good laugh, check out the audio link for the press conference that occured after the Michael Moore speech. Mike was in good form at the press conference. If just clicking the URL below does not work, then launch Windows Media Player. Click Open URL in the file menu. Copy and paste the URL below into the form. Click OK. It will buffer and then play. Add the URL to the Media Library to access it again quickly later. http://mfile.akamai.com/8629/asf/clips.download.akamai.com/8629/DocumentaryFeature_300k.as x Best article I have seen so far on the Michael Moore speech at the Oscars is below: -- -In These Times article begins--- http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=133_0_7_0_C Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards By Joel Bleifuss | Mar 24, 03print | email | comment Michael Moore: Im an American, and you dont leave your citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak Theatre. ... I dont stop being who I am when I come to this ceremony, and Im extremely grateful for this response. On Day 5 of the war, it was supremely ironic that network television viewers had to tune into the 75th Annual Academy Awards ceremony to hear voices that questioned the wisdom of the Bush Administration. Rumblings of protest began on Saturday. At the Independent Spirit Awards (the award ceremony for independent films) in Santa Monica, California, Maggie Gyllenhaal, the starred in Secretary, said the country was in the middle of a war about oil and imperialism and I hope for peace as soon as we can possibly find it. That same afternoon at the Miramax party,.it was reported that crooner Michael Feinstein couldnt rouse the guest to sing God Bless America no matter how hard he tried. Then there was ABCs presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday night. It started off on a good note with Steve Martin, saying, I am really glad they cut back on the red carpet, thatll send them a message. Minutes later he followed up with with, A movie star is many things: they can be tall, short, thin or skinny. They can be Democrats ... or skinny. The political statements ranged from the subdued to angry. Susan Sarandon, wearing the Dove of Peace pins designed by Henry Dunay for Global vision for Peace, flashed a peace sign. Chris Cooper, winner of the best supporting actor for his role in Adaptation, quietly said, In light of all the troubles in this world, I wish us peace. Gael Garcia Bernal, the hunky star of Y Tu Mama Tambien, introducing the nominated best song from Frida, said to loud applause: The necessity for peace in the world is not a dream, it is a reality. And we are not alone. If Frida was alive, she would be on our side, against war. Pedro Almodovar, accepting the Oscar for best original screenplay for Talk to Her, read a statement: I also want to dedicate this award to all the people who are raising their voices in favor of peace, respect of human rights, democracy and international legality, all of which are essential qualities [for life.] And the audience cheered as Adrien Brody, who won best actor for The Pianist, admonished the orchestra to stop so he could say, Whether you believe in Allah or God, may he watch over you, and pray for a peaceful and swift resolution to this war. And then there was Michael Moore. He received a standing ovation when Bowling for Columbine was announced the winner of best documentary. The Chicago Tribunes Mark Caro reported that the pressroom also erupted in applause when it was announced that Moore had won. Taking the stage, flanked by documentary filmmakers, Moore said: Ive invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us. They are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it is the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. And any time that you have the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. John Horn of the L.A. Times reported that as Moores speech reached its crescendo
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Aristocrat and Industrialist Cultists unite against the Red Threat
-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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NeuschwabenlandTimes/message/285 "Hans Kammler Jr." wrote: Descent into Hell The city is in turmoil. The Kaiser's republic has collapsed with the defeat of Germany in the First World War, and the whole country is up for grabs. It appears as if Germany is about to fall apart into the warring city-states from which it had been assembled nearly fifty years ago. The victorious Allies are demanding enormous concessions from Germany.The Russian Revolution has been in full swing for a year, and German soldiers returning from the front are being cajoled into helping midwife the same type of Communist regime amid the ashes of the Second ReichKurt Eisner--an intellectual and a Jew, a defender of the League of Nations--takes the initiative and proclaims a Socialst Republic in Munich on the seventh of November, 1918. It looks as if there is going to be a Communist regime in Germany-- or, at least, a Socialist one in Bavaria--after all. Hysteria grows among the nationalists, and with it despair that their nation is on the verge of realizing the dreams of Marx and Engels as codified in their famous Manifesto. Germans are bewildered, shocked... stunned into a kind of nervous stupefaction. They have lost the war, their country may be broken up once again into many seperate bickering pieces, and there will soon be Communists calling the shots in Berlin and in the capitol of Bavaria: MunichWithin forty-eight hours there is a meeting of the Thule Gesselshaft. The Thule, a mystical society based in part on the theosophical writings of Guido von List and Lanz von Liebenfels--which is to say, an amalgam of Eastern religion, theosophy, anti-semitism, Grail romance, Runic mystification, and Nordic paganism--meets every Saturday in spacious rooms at the elegant Four Seasons Hotel in Munich. There are roughly 250 members of the Thule in Munich... and over fifteen hundred in Bavaria. On that day, November 9, a bizarre individual, an occultist, an initiate of the Eastern mysteries in Turkey as well as of Freemasonry, and the leader and founder of the Thule--the self-styled Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff--makes an impassioned plea to the assembled cultists for armed resistance to the Reds. This plea eventually degenerates into a monologue on runes, German racial theory, Nordic mythology, and other arcane lore. No matter. Most of his listeners know what to expect. They are, in fact, members of the supersecret, superracist, and superoccult "German Order Walvater of the Holy Grail," or Germanenorden, which is using the name Thule Gesellshaft--or Thule Society, a "literary-cultural society"--as a cover to confuse Munich's fledgling Red Army, which is on the lookout for right-wing extremists. Sebotendorff himself is Master of the anti-Semitic Germanenorden's Bavarian division under its leader and founder, Hermann Pohl.The Thule cultists--whose symbol is a long dagger superimposed on a swastika--need no encouragement. They begin stockpiling weapons in secret supply dumps in and around Munich, anticipating a counterstrike against the new Socialist Republic. They make alliances with other nationalist groups, such as the Pan-Germans under editor Julius Lehmann, the German School Bund, the Hammerbund... and an organized resistance movement is born. All the mystical and clandestine labors of the past twenty years involving a series of secret occult organizations with elaborate initiation ceremonies and complex magical rituals, from the List Society's inner HAO (Higher Armanen Order) to the Order of the New Templars, will soon culminate in a pitched battle in the streets of Munich between the neo-pagan Thule Society and the "godless Communists".February 21, 1919. The
[CTRL] MARINES OUT TO AVENGE BLOOD OF 'EXECUTED' GIs
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- What we should do is go in there and kill every last soul, growled Sgt. Mike Brady. http://www.nypost.com/commentary/71771.htm MARINES OUT TO AVENGE BLOOD OF 'EXECUTED' GIS By VINCE MORRIS March 25, 2003 -- Reporting from a Marine helicopter base in the Kuwaiti desert THE Marines at this chopper base near the Iraqi border are seething with rage and talking revenge over the treatment of American POWs - paraded on TV and some possibly executed. OK, they want to play that way. We can play that way, vowed one enraged pilot. Marine after Marine had the same message - many of them warning that there would be no second chances for those Iraqis now. Virtually every conversation here touched on the POW's treatment and possible executions yesterday. It was discussed on chow lines, in the bomb shelters, outside the latrines. Robert Doc Davenport, a Marine medic trained to both save people and kill them, was among those struggling to digest the appalling news. It makes it harder to do my job, he said, explaining he'll now think twice about dressing the wounds of injured Iraqis. If we run across one of them and he needs my help, it will be harder for me to do it, he added. Many Marines on this desert base - affectionately known as Snakepit - said they believe they were sent to Iraq not to hurt people, but to free them from Saddam Hussein's ruthless grip. We want to help these people and look what they're doing to us, said more than one shocked Marine. What we should do is go in there and kill every last soul, growled Sgt. Mike Brady. If they realize that we are going to kill them like that, they'll be like 'OK, OK, we surrender,' said the 28-year-old Texas native. Brady, who mans the twin 50-caliber machineguns aboard a Sea Stallion chopper, said he'll be much more wary now when he's flying over Iraqi positions. He'll no longer give enemy soldiers the benefit of the doubt when they start waving white flags. I'm going to be a lot quicker to pull that trigger if I think they're up to something, he said. During an air raid yesterday - when everyone rushed into the bomb shelters with their gas masks and chemical and biological gear - one Marine's muffled swearing was heard above the din. Repeating the sneering nickname used for Saddam Hussein, he kept saying, 'So damn' insane, 'so damn' insane. I'm going to come up there myself and kill you. Of course, not everyone on the base is calling for blood - yet. Cpl. Joseph Michinki said he's not convinced the executions actually took place. They can fake all kinds of things with video, noted Michinki, 21, of Georgia. But if that really was Americans being killed, I'd be pretty pissed, he added. --- End of forwarded message --- News alternatives to US corporate propaganda outlets: http://www.aljazeerah.us/ http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news077.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] Court stiff-arms privacy challenge
-Caveat Lector- Secondly, civil libertarians also object to the closed-door legal hearings on FISA. Since these intelligence probes must be kept secret, the Justice Department was authorized to seek warrants in secret hearings within its building. When one FISA judge said Ashcroft was exceeding his legal authority, a special appeals court met to review the dispute and to rule on the matter. Outside attorneys, including the ACLU, were barred. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/5476128.htm Court stiff-arms privacy challenge By David G. Savage LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a preliminary challenge to the government's expanded powers to wiretap and search people who are suspected of having links to foreign terrorists. The justices refused to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to appeal on behalf of Arab Americans and others who believe they may be being secretly monitored. Monday's dismissal leaves open a possible future legal challenge brought by someone who says he was wrongly wiretapped and had his house searched. But the move nonetheless left ACLU lawyers disappointed and frustrated. This is a strange situation where you have a broad ruling and no one can appeal it, said Ann Beeson, an ACLU lawyer who represented the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Last year, in an unusual court hearing behind closed doors at the Justice Department, Attorney General John Ashcroft won the legal authority to merge the FBI's crime-fighting and spying units to track suspected terrorists. It is vitally important that the government's intelligence and law enforcement officials coordinate their efforts to protect America from foreign threats to national security, Ashcroft said Monday. Before last year, the FBI had maintained a wall between spying and criminal probes, a legacy of the Watergate era. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, allowed the attorney general to obtain secret warrants to spy on suspected foreign agents or international terrorists. The warrants were authorized by a judge inside the Justice Department. But until last year, the government said, it kept these spying operations separate from ordinary criminal probes. Ashcroft said that the separation was outdated and hampered the FBI in its pursuit of terrorists operating in the United States. He argued, and the special FISA review court agreed, that the new USA Patriot Act authorized closer coordination between the government's crime fighters and intelligence agents. Civil libertarians protested the move on two counts. First, they said, the government may be violating the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. Normally, the police and federal agents can obtain a search warrant to enter a home or tap a phone only when they have evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Federal agents do not need such evidence to obtain a search warrant under FISA. They need only show evidence indicating the target is linked to a foreign terrorist group. FISA was supposed to apply to a narrow category of intelligence investigations. Under Ashcroft's interpretation, they can use FISA in ordinary criminal cases, said Beeson. Justice Department lawyers deny that charge. They say they use FISA warrants only against foreigners who are believed to have ties to terrorist organizations. Secondly, civil libertarians also object to the closed-door legal hearings on FISA. Since these intelligence probes must be kept secret, the Justice Department was authorized to seek warrants in secret hearings within its building. When one FISA judge said Ashcroft was exceeding his legal authority, a special appeals court met to review the dispute and to rule on the matter. Outside attorneys, including the ACLU, were barred. Still, the civil liberties advocates believe they will have a chance to challenge the sweep of Ashcroft's order in a future case. At some point, the government will introduce evidence in a criminal case that came from a FISA wiretap. The lawyers can challenge that as illegal, and the issue can be appealed, Beeson said. But that will offer a remedy only for people who are indicted for crimes, she noted. We are most concerned about innocent victims of this surveillance, Beeson said. Since they won't be charged with anything, they will have no opportunity to challenge it. News alternatives to US corporate propaganda outlets: http://www.aljazeerah.us/ http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news077.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
[CTRL] (Fwd) NM- Global Crossing, Iraqi Defenses and the Chinese
-Caveat Lector- from another list --- Forwarded message follows --- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/25/125438.shtml Global Crossing, Iraqi Defenses and the Chinese Connection Charles R. Smith Tuesday March 25, 2003 There is one Iraqi weapon system with U.S.A. stamped on it; the NATO code-named Tiger Song air defense system. Much of Tiger Song is U.S. made fiber-optic network systems sold to China by the Clinton administration. The fiber-optic Tiger Song air defense network was installed in Iraq during the 1990s by China in violation of the U.N. ban on weapons sales to Baghdad. Tiger Song is a distributed network and it is similar to the Internet, allowing Iraqi mobile radars and missile units to link into the network from pre-positioned fiber optic sites. Ironically, the Bush administration has so far denied an even greater sale of sensitive U.S. fiber-optic systems to China. The Defense Department opposes the sale of Global Crossing to Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing and his Hutcheson Whampoa company for obvious national security reasons. Although, the U.S. Defense Department opposes the sale of the fiber-optic giant Global Crossing to Hutcheson Whampoa, Li Ka-Shing is fighting back. Bush defense advisor Richard Perle, who was hired to advise Global Crossing on security to satisfy the U.S. government's concerns, conceded that the Chinese Army is in business with Hutcheson Whampoa providing military communications for the PRC and that China has provided fiber-optic systems to Iraq. I am not surprised, he stated. I do not trust the Chinese government on these matters. They have sold dangerous things to Iraq and other nations. It was very clear that the previous Global Crossing proposal was not going to meet U.S. government requirements. The U.S. government is concerned that the Hutcheson ownership will give them the ability to do injury to U.S. national security. Hutcheson Whampoa will now end up with 20% ownership. I have been retained to help Global Crossing find a structure to protect U.S. national security, said Mr. Perle. LI KA-SHING As this reporter has previously written, Li Ka-Shing has a history of helping the Chinese military erect communications networks using U.S. made equipment. For example, in 1989 Li Ka-Shing raised $120 million to buy a HUGHES built communications satellite for AsiaSat. AsiaSat is also a front company for the People's Liberation Army (PLA). According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, AsiaSat is part owned by the Chinese Army unit COSTIND or the Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The AsiaSat Hughes satellite regularly carries military communications traffic for PLA units and Chinese military owned companies. A 1996 report written by then U.S. Ambassador to China James Sasser alleges that the Chinese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) and Chinese billionaire Li Ka Shing were both directly involved with the PLA in financing the communications networks for the Chinese army. The report also states that the PLA was directly involved in the so-called civilian Chinese fiber optic communication systems. Sasser's report noted that the PLA actively worked on a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) fiber optic network that the Clinton administration stated was civil for the House National Security Committee. For example, wrote Sasser, in laying long distance fiber optic lines for the MPT's telephones and digital data network, the PLA has provided soldiers to do much of the work. The PLA cadres are considered disciplined and hard working. Once the cable has been laid, the MPT typically allocates some of the bandwidth to the PLA. In 1997, the Rand Corporation wrote a secret report on the Chinese Defense Industry and it also included a section on billionaire Li Ka Shing and his business with the Chinese Army. The Rand report was obtained in a successful federal lawsuit against the Commerce Department. The Rand Corporation report highlights Li Ka-Shing's direct connections to the Chinese military. According the Rand report, Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing, is also negotiating for PLA wireless system contracts, which would build upon his equity interest in [Chinese army] Poly-owned Yangpu Land Development Company, which is building infrastructure on China's Hainan Island. U.S. and allied forces are now fighting a Clinton-era mistake made in 1994 allowing the fiber-optic systems to be sold to China. The same Tiger Song fiber optic system is now sending the commands of the Iraqi military to fight our soldiers. The Chinese Army would love to get its hands on Global Crossing. It is clear from previous sales of such U.S. made systems to Li Ka-Shing that the Chinese Army will benefit from that technology. It is just as clear that - if given the opportunity - the Chinese Army will use Global Crossing technology and assets against the national
[CTRL] Fw: Non-Partisan Judicial Watch Demands New Inquiry of Perle Role of Li Ka-Shing
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Judicial Watch To: Judicial Watch Infonet Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:01 PM Subject: Non-Partisan Judicial Watch Demands New Inquiry of Perle Role of Li Ka-Shing For Immediate ReleaseMar 25, 2003 Contact: Press Office202-646-5172 HYPOCRITICAL CONYERS SEEKS INQUIRY OF PERLES APPARENT CONFLICTS OF INTEREST WHILE IGNORING ROLES OF CLINTON, MCAULIFFE AND COHEN IN GLOBAL CROSSING SCANDALNon-Partisan Judicial Watch Demands New Inquiry of Perle Role of Li Ka-ShingGlobal Crossing Shareholder Lawsuit Filed By Judicial Watch in May 2002(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that it was disappointed by the hypocritical and politically opportunistic requests of Congressman John Conyers of Michigan for a Defense Department investigation of possible conflicts of interest by Defense Advisory Board Chairman Richard Perle in his actions as an advisor to the telecommunications firm Global Crossing. Congressman Conyers has remained mute concerning Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffes allegedly conspiring with Global Crossing directors and officers to inflate and artificially enhance Global Crossings income and market price of its stock, while allegedly arranging and participating in a political payoff scheme to former President Bill Clinton in exchange for political favors and favorable official actions. Congressman Conyers seems also to have ignored former Clinton administration Defense Secretary, and Global Crossing board member, William S. Cohens alleged conspiracy to pump and dump Global Crossing stock, and alleged corrupt awarding of government contracts.Judicial Watch filed suit on behalf of shareholders of Global Crossing against directors and officers of the corporation, and others, on May 7, 2002. Global Crossing is up for sale to Hutchison Whampoa, a powerful conglomerate controlled by Hong Kong billionaire and Chinese government agent Li Ka-Shing. In 1999, Hutchison Whampoa against U.S. security interests took control of the ports on both ends of the Panama Canal.Judicial Watch is filing formal ethics complaints and requests for investigation with the Office of Government Ethics and the Inspectors General of several government departments concerning Mr. Perles apparent conflicts of interest in the Global Crossing matter, as well as his activities on behalf of software company, Autonomy, and a venture capital firm, Trireme Partners. Judicial Watch encourages Congressman Conyers to seek a full investigation of his Democratic colleagues and their ethically questionable practices as well.Whats good for the goose is good for the gander. Turning a blind eye to ethical questions within ones own party only furthers the dishonesty and corruption thats rampant in Washington, DC. Judicial Watch seeks the whole, unvarnished truth in these matters, stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. © Copyright 1997-2003, Judicial Watch, Inc.--- You are currently subscribed to infonet as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Leave After War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNewsstoryID= 2443643 Leave After War, Iraqi Opposition Group Tells U.S. Tue March 25, 2003 08:13 AM ET TEHRAN (Reuters) - The leader of Iraq's main Shi'ite opposition group warned Washington on Tuesday that U.S. troops would face armed resistance if they stayed in Iraq once President Saddam Hussein was toppled. Iraqis are against foreign dominance, and if they (the Americans) don't want to leave Iraq, the nation will resist, said Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir Hakim, head of the Tehran-based Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). One of the legitimate ways of resistance against occupiers is force and weapons, he told a news conference. The gray-bearded, black-turbaned Hakim said SCIRI, which draws its support from Iraq's Muslim Shi'ite majority, said he had tens of thousands of troops stationed inside and outside Iraq, ready to resist any foreign occupation. The group's armed wing, known as the Badr Brigade, has paraded hundreds of lightly armed fighters in Kurdish- ruled northern Iraq. But it has tended to keep the size and whereabouts of its other forces a closely guarded secret. Iran, which fought an eight-year war against Iraq in the 1980s, has given aid and shelter to the group for more than two decades due to their shared Shi'ite Muslim beliefs and enmity for Saddam. But Tehran has said it will not allow its soil to be used as a launch pad for an attack on Iraq. Hakim said Badr had no military or operational contacts with Washington, and no decision had been taken yet for his forces to confront the Iraqi government. His men would respect international rules and regulations on crossing the Iranian border, he added. The United States is thought to be wary of Hakim's group because of its strong ties to Iran. Hakim, a 62-year-old cleric who fled to Iran in 1979, said Washington had told some Iraqi opposition groups to stay out of the current conflict. But he said it was for Iraqis to shape the future -- a hint to Washington to stay out of post-Saddam politics. We believe the best way is to establish a national government instead of an appointed or imposed one from outside Iraq, he said. Iraq's divided opposition has been trying to patch up feuds to form a transitional government should Saddam be defeated, but Washington doubts their ability to fill a post-war power vacuum. The Shi'ite leader also warned U.S.-led forces to avoid any attack on Iraq's holy Shi'ite cities of Najaf and Karbala. 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] Stiff resistance
-Caveat Lector- http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA/PFVersion.jsp? article=http://10.81.141.122/news/181_220337,001300180012.htm Stiff resistance slows allies' drive in Iraq Agence France-Presse Nasiriya (Iraq), March 24 Aiming for Saddam Hussein's seat of power, US-led warplanes and helicopters attacked Republican Guard units defending Baghdad while ground troops advanced to within 80 kilometres of the Iraqi capital. President George W Bush put a $75 billion price tag on a down payment for the war. The helicopter assault marked the first known engagement between forces in central Iraq, and many of the American craft were hit by Iraqi ground fire. One went down behind enemy lines the cause was unknown and the Pentagon said the two-person crew had been taken prisoner. Five days into Operation Iraqi Freedom, resistance prevented American and British forces from securing the southern cities of Basra and An Nasiriyah and thwarted efforts to extinguish burning oil wells. These things are never easy, conceded British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on the day his country suffered its first combat casualty of the war. There will be some difficult times ahead but (the war) is going to plan despite the tragedies. Saddam sought to rally his own country in a televised appearance. Be patient, brothers, because God's victory will be ours soon, he said, appearing in full military garb and seeming more composed than in a taped appearance broadcast last week. Coalition forces are closing in on Baghdad, Maj Gen Stanley McChrystal told reporters at the Pentagon. The US Air Force flew more than 1,500 sorties over Iraq on Monday. So far, 80 per cent of the bombs and missiles used by the Air Force have been guided by lasers, radar, satellites or video cameras, a defence official said. The Pentagon says the munitions are highly accurate, but Iraq claimed that 252 civilians had been killed Sunday, including 194 in Baghdad. It did not give any figures for military deaths. Asked about ground forces, McChrystal said, We have not gotten into direct firefights with Republican Guard forces. That seemed a matter of not much time, though. Iraqi television showed pictures of one American helicopter in a grassy field, men in Arab headdresses brandishing automatic rifles as they did a victory dance around the aircraft. Hours later, Iraqi television showed two men it said made up the crew. he US War commander Gen. Tommy Franks confirmed a two-man crew was missing. Franks told reporters that 3,000 Iraqi prisoners had been taken. In London, the Ministry of Defence announced the first British combat death, a soldier who fell in fighting near Al Zubayr in southern Iraq, near the city of Basra. BRITISH TROOPS WITHDRAW FROM BASRA Stiff resistance forced British troops to withdraw today from Basra to regroup, British military officials said. Elements of Britain's Seventh Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats, withdrew from the southern Iraqi city the nation's second largest after coming under attack by mortars and guerrillas disguised in civilian clothes. The brigade had at one point surrounded the city. BASRA LOYAL TO SADDAM Military officials admitted they had vastly underestimated the strength of Iraqi resistance and the loyalty of Basra's population to the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. We're currently taking stock of the situation. We were expecting a lot of hands up from Iraqi soldiers and for the humanitarian operation in Basra to begin fairly quickly behind us, with aid organisations providing food and water to the locals, Captain Patrick Trueman said. But it hasn't quite worked out that way. There are significant elements in Basra who are hugely loyal to the regime. US and British forces were having a tough time taming Iraqi resistance in the country's southeast, outside Basra and the key deep-water port of Umm Qasr. Military planners had expected little resistance in the region because they thought the Shiite Muslim majority long repressed by the Sunnis from the north would be glad to be rid of Saddam. We always had the idea that everyone in this area hated Saddam. Clearly, there are a number who don't, Trueman said. The decision to withdraw came after British units came under fierce mortar fire as they blocked the main routes into the city from the north and south.US-led forces battled stubborn Iraqi fighters for control of key towns in southeast Iraq Monday, as a defiant President Saddam Hussein vowed he would win the war aimed at ousting him. US OFFENSIVE US troops backed by Abrams tanks and Cobra helicopters launched a fresh assault on the town of Nasiriyah, a key crossing point over the Euphrates river that has escaped coalition capture due to dogged resistance from the Iraqis. A US Marine officer said between 4,000 and 5,000 troops were involved in the offensive, which he pledged would be an all-out blitz, saying: We're going straight through this city. It will be a Hail Mary with guns
[CTRL] Boycott of America
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=XXJPPYMQPPU0WCR BAELCFEY?type=focusIraqNewsstoryID=2446136 Boycott of American Goods Over Iraq War Gains Tue March 25, 2003 12:43 PM ET By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - No more Coca-Cola or Budweiser, no Marlboro, no American whiskey or even American Express cards -- a growing number of restaurants in Germany are taking everything American off their menus to protest the war in Iraq. Although the protests are mainly symbolic, waiters in dozens of bars and restaurants in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Bonn and other German cities are telling patrons, Sorry, Coca-Cola is not available any more due to the current political situation. The boycotts appear to be part of a nascent worldwide movement. One Web site, www.consumers-against-war.de, calls for boycotts of 27 top American firms from Microsoft to Kodak while another, www.adbusters.org, urges the millions of people against the war to Boycott Brand America. Consumer fury seems to be on the rise. Demonstrators in Paris smashed the windows of a McDonald's restaurant last week, forcing police in riot gear to move in to protect staff and customers of the American fast-food outlet. The attackers sprayed obscenities and boycott on the windows. In Indonesia, Iraq war opponents have pasted signs on McDonald's and other American food outlets, trying to force them shut by sealing them and urging Indonesians to avoid them. In the Swiss city of Basel, 50 students recently staged a sit-down strike in front of a McDonald's to block customers' entry, waved peace signs and urged people to eat pretzels instead of hamburgers. Anti-American sentiment has even reached provinces in Russia, where some rural eateries put up signs telling Americans they were unwelcome, according to an Izvestia newspaper report. A German bicycle manufacturer, Riese und Mueller GmbH, canceled all business deals with its American suppliers. Americans only pay attention when money is on the line, director Heiko Mueller told Reuters, whose firm buys $300,000 worth of supplies from half a dozen American firms each year. We wanted to make a statement against this war and told our American partners that unless they renounce what their government is doing we won't do any business with them anymore. SMALL BUT SYMBOLIC ACTS The German restaurant boycotts of American products started small but spread rapidly after the Iraq war began on Thursday. The conflict has struck a raw nerve in a country that became decidedly anti-war after the devastation of World War II, which it initiated. If people all around the world boycott American products it might influence their policies, said Jean-Yves Mabileau, owner of L'Auberge Francaise which joined 10 Hamburg restaurants in banning Coca Cola, Philip Morris' Marlboro cigarettes, whiskey and other American goods. This started as a light-hearted reaction to Americans dumping French wine in the gutter and renaming 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries', he said. But it feels good to take a stand against this war. It is just a small gesture, but a good one. Diners at the Osteria restaurant in Berlin are finding that things go better without Coke and are ordering Germany's long overshadowed imitation of the real thing -- the slightly sweeter Afri-Cola -- to express their outrage. We wanted to do something to express our annoyance, Osteria owner Fabio Angile told Reuters. We want to hit America where it hurts -- in their wallets. None of the customers have complained. On the contrary, most thought it was a great idea. Herve Keroureda, owner of a French restaurant in Hamburg known as Ti Breizh, said he was astonished by the massive media coverage of their small-scale anti-American protest. It was only intended as a small gesture but has turned into a gigantic issue, he said. And the reaction from the patrons has been tremendous. Most have called it a brilliant idea. In Bonn, bartender Bruno Kessler said he was refusing to sell American whiskey or American beer such as Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser at his Eifeler Stuben. I asked myself 'What can I possibly do to show my anger over this barbary?', he told Germany's N-24 television network. STARBUCKS, BIG MACS AVOIDED Sarah Stolz, a 22-year-old German student of American studies, was headed for a Starbucks, coffee shop in central Berlin when her anti-war conscience got the best of her. I was thinking about going into Starbucks which I love, when I realized it was wrong, she said. I'm backing the boycott because the war is totally unjustified. Rita Marschall was avoiding McDonald's and Burger King. I'm boycotting American products because their policy on Iraq is totally wrong, said Marschall, 26, in front of a Berlin McDonald's. It's just one of many ways we can take a stand. Some German bakeries have renamed a local cake known as Amerikaner -- a disk- shaped pastry with icing on top -- as Peace-ies, bearing a peace sign piped in chocolate
[CTRL] Today's Doonesbury
-Caveat Lector- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/uclickcomics/20030325/cx_db_uc/db20030325 News alternatives to US corporate propaganda outlets: http://www.aljazeerah.us/ http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news077.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] Donors Freeze Money To Palestinian Group After Audit
-Caveat Lector- Donors Freeze Money To Palestinian Group After Audit Source: DJI - Dow Jones International News Mar 25 07:25 JERUSALEM (AP)--International donors have frozen funding for a leading Palestinian human rights group after an independent audit raised suspicion that millions of dollars in grants has been mismanaged, the European Union said Tuesday. The group under scrutiny is called Law Society. Which has been monitoring Israeli and Palestinian human rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since 1990. An audit by the accounting firm Ernst Young indicated that Law Society funneled at least $1.5 million in donor money into a savings account without the donors´ knowledge. The group did this by overstating wages and other expenses and by falsifying annual budget statements and audits, according to an initial report. Israel´s Haaretz newspaper, citing the audit report, said Tuesday that $4 million is unaccounted for. A partial copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press makes note of about $2 million that was apparently mismanaged. The audit spans the period from September 1997 through August 2002, a time when LAW received nearly $10 million in grants. The report names LAW´s former director, Khader Shkirat, as being involved in the mismanagement of funds. In a telephone interview Tuesday, Shkirat acknowledged setting up savings accounts without the donors´ knowledge, but denied any money disappeared. The accounts were set up to make sure the group would have money in the future, should donors decide one day to stop the funding, Shkirat said. 'We wanted to secure the future,' Shkirat said. 'The donors would not have agreed to allow us to save money for the future which is why we didn´t tell them.' The European Union said in a statement that the audit´s initial findings 'indicate considerable mismanagement within LAW.' It said it was continuing to examine the legal and financial implications of the audit and 'in the meantime, the donors have decided to freeze all contributions' to the group. The audit said LAW´s 'accounting records and the accounting system were not reliable.' In addition to setting up the savings account, the audit says LAW misused donor money to give no-interest loans to one of Shkirat´s relatives and to buy cars that members of the group weren´t eligible for. The audit said it has been unable to account for all the grant money. 'It cannot be ruled out that assets have been disposed of,' the report said. In September 2002, LAW informed the donors that some $1.5 million had been set aside in savings accounts without the donors´ knowledge. Shkirat said all the money was found intact in the bank. (Copyright (c) 2003, Dow Jones Company, Inc.) http://imf- clk.dep.divinems.com/fpweb/fp.dll/$imfexport/htm/x_dv.htm/_id/512 575532/_u/mdavid2/_k/maNAI3JQ7qEo0wLB Received Id DJI0308401980 on Mar 25 2003 07:32 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] ANOTHER BAD RUSSIAN TRANSLATION
-Caveat Lector- Notice reference to US's use of dolphins to clear the mines. ;-( --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:57:10 -0600 Subject:[cia-drugs] ANOTHER BAD RUSSIAN TRANSLATION Military USA and the Great Britain supervise ???- 25.03.2003 [21:15] City of Umm-Kasr in the south of Iraq is supervised by the American and British militarians. Messages on it were confirmed taking place on a place of events with the correspondent ?? a satellite telechannel ???-???. As he said, militarians have arranged to journalists trip on old and new port Umm-Kasr. Representatives of MASS-MEDIA have seen, that Americans and freely move on both areas. Meanwhile, representatives of a coalition mark, that have collided(faced) unwillingness of the Iraq party(side) to cooperate with them. All employees of port have left(abandoned) it(him), and now the American and British parties(sides) consider(examine) an opportunity of attraction of experts from abroad for his(its) use. ??? have started mine clearing a waterway of port Umm-Kasr in the south of Iraq after the British military command has declared that all city is under the control of a coalition. As has informed on Tuesday the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA, according to the Australian militarians, mine trawlers already have cleared away a part of water area of port through which coalition forces are going to deliver the foodstuffs and medicines to local population. As it was informed earlier, for detection of the Iraq mines, including benthonic, the fleet of USA is going to use specially trained dolphins. In Iraq port Umm-Kasr arrival of military transport with dolphins onboard expect. Dolphins have trained to not concern the found out mines, and to expose near them special markers, informs ??? 'News'. The officer of fleet of USA ? has informed journalists, that at transportation sea animals address extremely delicately, them carry in the special tanks filled with water. During works of dolphins will feed as at restaurant , and for them reservoirs - sediment bowls are prepared, the officer has noted. Till now divers American - British ??? have not achieved however - nibud' serious successes in searches of mines in muddy water at the Iraq peninsula of Fao. A little bit established mines it was possible to find out, however benthonic mines at all have not found. Without mine clearing to city of Umm-Kasr it is impossible to lead(carry out) court with the humanitarian help. --- End of forwarded message --- News alternatives to US corporate propaganda outlets: http://www.aljazeerah.us/ http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news077.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] Probe of Pentagon Adviser
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNewsstoryID= 2446538 Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Pentagon Adviser Perle Tue March 25, 2003 01:51 PM ET By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Democrat called for an investigation of Richard Perle, an influential architect of the war on Iraq, for possible conflicts of interest in his roles as corporate adviser and Pentagon consultant. Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, asked the Pentagon's inspector general to probe Perle's work as a paid adviser to bankrupt telecommunications company Global Crossing Ltd. and guide to companies on investment opportunities resulting from the Iraq conflict. Perle was not available for comment on Tuesday but has said he has always followed ethics rules. A spokesman for the Defense Department was not available for comment on the issue. I am aware of several potential conflicts that warrant your immediate review, Conyers said on Monday in a letter to the Defense Department's Inspector General Joseph Schmitz. The letter was made available on Tuesday. Mr. Perle is considered a 'special government employee' and is subject to government ethics prohibition -- both regulatory and criminal -- on using public office for private gain, Conyers' letter said. Perle chairs the Defense Policy Board, created in 2001 to advise the Pentagon, but has no official policymaking role and is not paid. A leading Washington hawk, he has played an influential role in developing the Bush administration's blueprint for ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Critics have questioned Perle's activities when not advising Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. GLOBAL CROSSING REVIEW Perle signed on to help Global Crossing, a bankrupt operator of an international fiber- optic network, win U.S. approval to sell a 61.5 percent stake to Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte. The plan has run into trouble with a little-known panel called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The panel, made up of Rumsfeld and other top national security officials, examines mergers and acquisitions for potential harm to U.S. interests and can block such deals. Global Crossing began talks to restructure its deal after the panel raised concern that its network would be controlled by a company with strong ties to China. Hutchison is majority owned by Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing. Perle has said he would be paid $125,000 for his advice and another $600,000 if the government approves the deal. Conyers noted a New York Times article citing a March 7 affidavit in which Perle discussed his unique perspective on national defense and security issues and said he had contacted a government official on Global Crossing's behalf. The fact that Mr. Perle may be reconsidering filing the affidavit does not alter the existence of the alleged conflict, Conyers said. Conyers also asked the Pentagon to probe reports that Perle participated in a conference call sponsored by Goldman Sachs to discuss investment opportunities emerging from the war in Iraq and that he received stock options from a company that does business with the U.S. military. I would submit that it is a conflict of interest for a high-ranking government official to be proffering advice on how to profit from the war, Conyers said. A Goldman Sachs spokesman had no immediate comment. Conyers also pointed out that Perle sits on the board of Autonomy Corp., which lists the U.S. Army and military as customers, and received stock options. 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
[CTRL] Bush: take a breather
-Caveat Lector- Print this article | Close this window Saudis tell Bush: take a breather, give UN another try March 24 2003 Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, has urged the United States to have a breather in its invasion of Iraq and give the United Nations another chance to disarm the country peacefully. Stop the war, let's sit down, let's have a breather after what we have seen of the destruction, Prince Saud told Western journalists in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. The 61-year-old prince also called on Saddam Hussein to start to think of the sacrifices he can make for his country, implying that the Iraqi leader should seek exile rather than see his country destroyed. While Saudi Arabia has not offered sanctuary to Saddam, Prince Saud said the Iraqi leader and his family would be allowed safe passage through the kingdom to reach a third country. Neighbouring Bahrain has offered to shelter Saddam. Saudi Arabia has been a vocal critic of Washington's war plans since they were first discussed a year ago. Like many countries in the region, it fears the conflict could destabilise its own society, which is struggling with a volatile mix of high unemployment and religious extremism among its youth. Saudi Arabia's position is particularly sensitive because the US Air Force commander in charge of the bombing campaign in Iraq is stationed at a Saudi Air Force base just south of the capital - a fact not discussed by the local press or widely known to Saudi citizens. Prince Saud condemned the invasion's aim of destroying the Iraqi Government as outside of the framework of international legality, and warned that rebuilding what has been destroyed will be a dangerous, difficult task. Bringing it back again is going to be a job I don't envy those who are going to be handed it, he said. He said he was worried about talk of a military occupation government, and that he doubted the ability of US and British officials to finesse the web of tribal and ethnic relationships that any government in Iraq must handle to maintain peace. We don't think that is advisable at all, the prince said. The government we would like to see in Iraq after the war is the government that is formed by the Iraqi people. He called on the UN Security Council to take up the Iraq issue again without delay, both to try and stop the fighting and to decide how to manage Iraq after the conflict. It just seems to me it will be a very tough situation to handle unless the United Nations comes to the fore in this and gets whoever is there from the present government to co-operate with them for the process of what they call democratisation, he said. The Saudi Government has said it will not send troops to Iraq, but the prince said it would consider contributing peacekeeping forces if asked by the United Nations and Iraq. Prince Saud also repeated his Government's long-standing plea for the US to help solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been at the heart of the problems and the troubles in the region. If there is stability, if there is peace in the Middle East, that is the way that will bring about a democratisation and an opening of society, the prince said, not through war. The New York Times This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/23/1048354475569.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
[CTRL] You can too!
-Caveat Lector- http://www.vaiw.org/vet/modules.php? op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=61mode=threadorder=0 thold=0 Veterans from throughout the nation converged in Washington to demonstarate near the White House, attend a teach-in, and lobby Congress. By Jan Barry Taking a petition to Washington signed by more than 2,000 veterans opposed to a preemptive war in Iraq is one thing. Getting someone to accept it is much more difficult. We cannot accept anything, said a police officer at the White House. Put it in the mail. As bombs exploded in Baghdad and battles erupted across Iraq, more than 400 military veterans and family members demonstrated Sunday in the nations capital demanding the safe return of our troops. Months of effort to collect signatures on an internet petition and deliver the message to the Bush administration and Congress seemed undone by the abrupt military assault launched just days before. Nonetheless, a determined group of veterans and family members gathered near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at noon to deliver a sobering message. Wearing black armbands in mourning for casualties of this brand- new war, attired in military hats and shirts adorned with military ribbons and medals, and carrying American flags and protest signs, the veterans group was nearly encircled by television camera crews and mounted police. To a mournful tune on a bagpipe and haunting beat of a drum, a five- veteran delegation marched with a wreath to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This scene was repeated at the construction site of the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, and the Veterans Administration headquarters. Gathering on the Ellipse by the south lawn of the White House, the marchers sent a five-person delegation to deliver the Veterans Against Iraq War petition to President Bush. Two Vietnam veterans, a Gulf War vet, and a woman veteran, accompanied by Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, approached the security fence and spoke to a police officer on duty in front of a gate. We would like to deliver this petition to the president, Stewart Nusbaumer, a Marine veteran who lost a leg in Vietnam, said, leaning on a cane. The lone officer gently but firmly declined to accept the red folder containing the petition with 49 pages of signatures. Is there anyone here who can accept it? a television cameraman interjected. No, we cannot accept anything, the officer replied. If you want to, you can mail it. Thats the way Operation Dire Distress went. The White House refused to accept the petition. Congress was out of town. Squadrons of armed cops, many in SWAT team flak jackets, others on horseback and motorcycles, surrounded the veterans as they marched through the streets of Washington near the White House. But when a heckler taunted the demonstrators with obscenities and provocatively charged the line of marchers, mounted police quickly moved in and pushed the young man back onto the sidewalk and warned him to desist. He called me a faggot, said Jaime Vazquez, who was wearing a Marine sergeants coat bedecked with combat medals. Thats verbal assault. Then Vazquez shook off his anger and resumed his peacemaking duties as a parade marshal. After a silent procession through the war memorials on the mall, the marchers broke out into cadence calls as they marched up 17th Street towards the White House. VETERANS ARE HERE TO SAY BRING THE TROOPS HOME TODAY WE DONT WANT THE IRAQ WAR PEACE IS WHAT WERE MARCHING FOR Next to the Executive Office Building, a spontaneous chant erupted and echoed among the government buildings, surely reaching the adjacent White House. BUSH WENT AWOL YOU CAN TOO BUSH WENT AWOL YOU CAN TOO Among the forest of signs: I served in Vietnam, my son served in the Persian Gulf, Bush serves the oil industry. Another one said: Our son is a Marine, dont send him to war for oil. A third said: We are patriots, we served, did you? A large banner near the head of the march said: Support our troops, bring them home. A small home- made placard said: Honor vets, stop this war. Veterans came from as far away as California. One man drove from Cleveland after hearing about the march on C-Span, which broadcast a teach-in at American University on Saturday that kicked off the weekend of protest. A woman veteran flew in from Atlanta. A Gulf War vet flew in from Utah. A bus full of veterans came from New York City. A vanload of vets arrived from St. Louis. Many wore combat insignia from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the first Gulf War. The theme of the Operation Dire Distress march was that the highest patriotism means speaking out against misuse of the men and women in our military to conduct an illegal, unnecessary war. Addressing the assembly on the Ellipse, Vasquez, director of veterans affairs for Jersey City, NJ, pointed out that Americas Founding Fathers challenged the government of their day. Patriotism means challenging our government today, he said. At a teach-in at
[CTRL] Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Pentagon Adviser Perle
-Caveat Lector- http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNewsstoryID=2446538 Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Pentagon Adviser Perle Tue March 25, 2003 01:51 PM ET By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Democrat called for an investigation of Richard Perle, an influential architect of the war on Iraq, for possible conflicts of interest in his roles as corporate adviser and Pentagon consultant. Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, asked the Pentagon's inspector general to probe Perle's work as a paid adviser to bankrupt telecommunications company Global Crossing Ltd. and guide to companies on investment opportunities resulting from the Iraq conflict. Perle was not available for comment on Tuesday but has said he has always followed ethics rules. A spokesman for the Defense Department was not available for comment on the issue. "I am aware of several potential conflicts that warrant your immediate review," Conyers said on Monday in a letter to the Defense Department's Inspector General Joseph Schmitz. The letter was made available on Tuesday. "Mr. Perle is considered a 'special government employee' and is subject to government ethics prohibition -- both regulatory and criminal -- on using public office for private gain," Conyers' letter said. Perle chairs the Defense Policy Board, created in 2001 to advise the Pentagon, but has no official policymaking role and is not paid. A leading Washington hawk, he has played an influential role in developing the Bush administration's blueprint for ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Critics have questioned Perle's activities when not advising Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. GLOBAL CROSSING REVIEW Perle signed on to help Global Crossing, a bankrupt operator of an international fiber-optic network, win U.S. approval to sell a 61.5 percent stake to Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte. The plan has run into trouble with a little-known panel called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The panel, made up of Rumsfeld and other top national security officials, examines mergers and acquisitions for potential harm to U.S. interests and can block such deals. Global Crossing began talks to restructure its deal after the panel raised concern that its network would be controlled by a company with strong ties to China. Hutchison is majority owned by Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing. Perle has said he would be paid $125,000 for his advice and another $600,000 if the government approves the deal. Conyers noted a New York Times article citing a March 7 affidavit in which Perle discussed his "unique perspective" on national defense and security issues and said he had contacted a government official on Global Crossing's behalf. "The fact that Mr. Perle may be reconsidering filing the affidavit does not alter the existence of the alleged conflict," Conyers said. Conyers also asked the Pentagon to probe reports that Perle participated in a conference call sponsored by Goldman Sachs to discuss investment opportunities emerging from the war in Iraq and that he received stock options from a company that does business with the U.S. military. "I would submit that it is a conflict of interest for a high-ranking government official to be proffering advice on how to profit from the war," Conyers said. A Goldman Sachs spokesman had no immediate comment. Conyers also pointed out that Perle sits on the board of Autonomy Corp., which lists the U.S. Army and military as customers, and received stock options. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: In Wartime, Rights Can Be Reduced to Minimum says Supreme Ct Justice
-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- Justice Bans Media From Free Speech Event Wednesday March 19, 2003 2:50 PM CLEVELAND (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an award for supporting free speech. The City Club usually tapes speakers for later broadcast on public television, but Scalia insisted on banning television and radio coverage, the club said. Scalia is being given the organization's Citadel of Free Speech Award. ``I might wish it were otherwise, but that was one of the criteria that he had for acceptance,'' said James Foster, the club's executive director. The ban on broadcast media, ``begs disbelief and seems to be in conflict with the award itself,'' C-SPAN vice president and executive producer Terry Murphy wrote in a letter last week to the City Club. ``How free is speech if there are limits to its distribution?'' The City Club selected Scalia because he has ``consistently, across the board, had opinions or led the charge in support of free speech,'' Foster said. Cameras and recording devices are banned from the Supreme Court chamber, and Scalia prefers not to have camera coverage in other settings, said Kathleen Arberg, spokeswoman for the court. Scalia made the same demand on John Carroll University, where he spoke Tuesday night. He talked mostly about the constitutional protection of religions, but also said that government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. ``The Constitution just sets minimums,'' Scalia said. ``Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.'' War Means Rights May Be Scaled Back Associated Press UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio - The government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday. "The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia said after a speech at John Carroll University in suburban Cleveland. "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires." Scalia, one of the court's most conservative judges, was responding to a question about the Justice Department's pursuit of terrorism suspects and whether their rights are being violated. Scalia did not discuss what rights he believed are constitutionally protected, but said that in wartime, one can expect "the protections will be ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum. I won't let it go beyond the constitutional minimum." Scalia was interrupted once briefly by a protester who shouted an anti-war statement. The protester was taken from the room by security officers but was not arrested. Scalia stopped speaking during the scuffle, then joked that the protest probably was more interesting than his topic, which was the constitutional protection of religions. 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:
[CTRL] Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII
-Caveat Lector- Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII Americans To Take The Fall This Time By: Henry Makow Something very worrisome is happening. Some of Rockefeller's best toadies oppose the Iraq war. But Rockefeller and his ilk are responsible for this war. What gives? It appears the global elite is dividing its minions into two house teams again. The last time this happened we had the Fascist-Communist slugfest called World War Two. The same satanic cabal controlled both sides and picked Germany to take the fall. This time, the U.S., Britain and the coalition of the willing are on one side. On the other are France, Germany, Russia and China. The centre of global power is moving to China, Europe and Russia. I see a world war over Korea, or more likely Iran and control of Middle East oil. The U.S., overextended from Kuwait to Korea, will come up short. My guess is that the US will find itself increasingly isolated and vilified as a result of the Iraq war. I suspect the hidden agenda is to bring down the world's last superpower; to replace the UN with a new instrument of world government; to kill a lot of people, and to wean Americans off democracy and their high standard of living. GLOBALISTS AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR? Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, George Soros, Mikail Gorbachev and Walter Cronkite are all globalist elder statesmen-for-hire. Curiously, they all oppose the Iraq war. Jimmy Carter, a creation of Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission publicly supported more UN inspections. Mikhail Gorbachev said the war is a big mistake. Nelson Mandela called it a tragedy and warned Bush was plunging the world into a holocaust. Financial maven George Soros said: The Bush doctrine is grounded in power; legality and legitimacy are decorations. Finally, Walter Cronkite, who is linked to Rockefeller's CFR warned: We are going to be in such a fix when this war is over, or before this war is over. Our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for this war. I look at our future as, I'm sorry, being very dark. The leaders of Russia, France, Germany and China also voiced opposition with uncharacteristic bluntness. They must have the OK of the global money masters. Military action ... is a big mistake, Vladimir Putin said. Iraq has presented no danger... China urged the US and Britain to halt their military actions. France, Russia and Germany all refused a U.S. request to close their Iraqi embassies. North Korea apparently is preparing for war. Even in England, major newspapers like The Mirror have been scathing in their criticism of Tony Blair. British newspapers belong to the same clan. I suspect England will defect to Europe's side before this fiasco is over. PARALLELS TO WORLD WAR TWO Before World War Two, a faction of the British elite built up Hitler. This was known as the policy of appeasement. After Hitler fell into the trap of attacking Poland, they did a sleight of hand and replaced the accommodating Chamberlain with the defiant Churchill. Iraq is a similar trap. The United States has squandered the sympathy and good will it earned on Sept 11. The images of the World Trade Centre have been replaced in the world's mind by the spectacular explosions in Baghdad. The US comes across as a bully too cowardly to pick on anyone its own side. Notch this victory up beside its thrashings of Grenada, Panama and Serbia. The gloating by US TV commentators is particularly distasteful to the outside world The damage to America's moral authority is incalculable. After this war, who will have sympathy for Americans if Chinese atomic bombs rain down on Los Angeles and New York? The devil degrades his victims before he destroys them. ELITE TREASON For almost 100 years, the American leadership class has belonged to an international cabal that is determined to dissolve all human loyalties, including the nation state, and establish a global tyranny. George Bush, who is part of this cabal, has led the American people into a trap. Who in their right mind would deliberately alienate 1.3 billion Muslims? Of course Hussein is a bad man but this is not the motive. The U.S. is acting as gofer for the Zionists and the oil cartels, two leading parts of the cabal. They will come out ahead while Americans will foot the bill and take the brunt of Muslim indignation. Can the U.S. even count on Israel? At his trial, Israeli Spy Jonathon Pollard was called the greatest traitor in the history of the United States (Gordon Thomas, Seeds of Fire, p.31-32). In the words of CIA Director George Tenet, Pollard, an American Jew, stole every worthwhile intelligence secret we have. In the year prior to his arrest in Nov. 1986, Pollard transmitted over 360 cubic feet of top secret paper to Israel, his trial was told. According to Thomas, Israel's Mossad routinely trades information and technology with China's Secret Intelligence Service. (482) Pollard's information could have commanded a
[CTRL] Fw: [anti-imperialiste] DICTATURE EN SERBIE ! URGENT: Censorship imposed on Yugoslav media! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
-Caveat Lector- Over 4,000 people have been detained Jela Jovanovic - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:00 PM Subject: [anti-imperialiste] DICTATURE EN SERBIE ! URGENT: Censorship imposed on Yugoslav media! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [The banning of DAN in particular is tragic, as it was one= of the best left-wing mass-circulation papers in the Balkans. It rou= tinely reprinted articles by leading leftist intelectuals in the region and= in the world and had a feature series each week on the history of the Comm= unist Party in the Balkans and the anti-fascist resistance during WWII.nbs= p; It is a tragedy that the only independent voice in Montenegro has been s= tiffled by the unpopular DOS regime. Reports from the region claim that ove= r 1,000 people have been detained without any trial by state authorities wh= o have declared Martial Law. During this period all demonstrations ha= ve been banned, and the Minister of the Interior has threatened to liquida= te anyone resisting arrest.] In a message dated 3/18/03 9:05:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, Kilibarda78 wr= ites: Subj:URGENT: Censorship im= posed on Yugoslav media! Date:3/18/03 9:05:10 PM Eastern Standard Time From:Kilibarda78 To:Petokraka78 Media ban amid Djindjic probe Serbian authorities have closed down three publications as part of the e= mergency regulations imposed after the assassination of Prime Minister Zora= n Djindjic. They said the two dailies - Nacional and Dan - and the weekly Identitet= were publishing information that hampered the police investigation into th= e murder last week. The move came as the Serbian parliament voted to replace Djindjic with his = reformist ally Zoran Zivkovic. Mr Zivkovic told the Serbian parliament, hol= ding its first sitting since Djindjic's death, that his government would pr= ess on with reforms and thwart any attempts at destabilising the country. = BR Serbia remains under a state of emergency following the assassination. The = media restrictions are intended to curb speculation about the investigation= , the authorities say. More than 750 people have been arrested as the autho= rities move against the Serbian underworld figures being blamed for the mur= der, Mr Zivkovic said. He knew what the connections were between the old paramilitary apparatu= s and the mafia - Carla Del Ponte, War crimes tribunal chief prosecuto= r Those arrested include Serbia's most famous folk pop singer, Ceca, the wido= w of former warlord Arkan. It is claimed she has had close contacts with th= e chief suspects in the police investigation, including Milorad Lukovic, al= so known as Legija. Mr Lukovic is a former member of Arkan's paramilitary unit, who is now said= to be the leader of one of Serbia's biggest organised crime gangs. On Tues= day they captured two key suspects, Dragan Ninkovic and Zoran Vukojevic, al= leged to be members of a leading criminal gang in Belgrade. Prediction Djindjic, shot dead in central Belgrade last week, had predicted his ow= n death during a meeting in February, said United Nations war crimes chief = prosecutor Carla del Ponte in an interview published on Tuesday. He gave m= e a full run-down of his reform programmes. And then he suddenly told me: '= They'll kill me', Ms Del Ponte told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. = BR He was explaining to me that after beginning the reform of the economy, he= intended to tackle the police and the army. It was a very delicate reform = and very dangerous and the prime minister knew that perfectly well, she sa= id. He also knew, she said, that the fight against organised crime went han= d in hand with the arrest of war criminals. In parliament, Mr Zivkovic said the assassination of Djindjic had a clear p= olitical background and was not linked solely to the mafia. A great man had= been lost, he said. Serbia's new administration would be a cabinet of Zor= an Djindjic's continuity, with the same tasks, goals and people, Mr Zivkov= ic said. Mr Zivkovic, a member of Djindjic's Democratic Party, was a close = ally of the former leader. His immediate task will be to try to maintain po= litical stability. That means trying to keep together a 16-party coalition = which is currently governing the republic. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/2862673.stm Published: 2003/03/18 23:41:27 =A9 BBC MMIII= *END OF MAIL** Liste de diffusion d'informations anti-imperialistes Extraits de presse, articles, déclarations et reactions. langues: anglais, francais, espagnol. --- http://chiffonrouge.org , l'accueil http://lesdamnesdukosovo.chiffonrouge.org , le site de Présentation du Film de Michel Collon et Vanessa
[CTRL] Who's Watching the Watch Lists?
-Caveat Lector- Who's Watching the Watch Lists? By Joanna Glasner Mar. 25, 2003 SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- The head of the venture capital firm formed by the CIA to identify technologies for improving national security said he opposes government agencies' growing reliance on watch lists. Speaking Monday at the PC Forum technology conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, Gilman Louie, CEO of the CIA-backed In-Q-Tel, said he believes agencies should not rely merely on automated filtering tools to identify potential terrorists based on characteristics like travel patterns or citizenship status. One reason is the difficulty in removing your name from a list once the information has been shared with multiple parties. "I think watch lists are a bad thing," Louie said, "Because they don't define how you get on and how you get off (the list)." Louie's comments were in response to a question regarding the effectiveness of the Transportation Security Administration's latest screening initiative, a system known as the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening Program II, or CAPPS II. Under the program, which is under development, the TSA will screen names, addresses, birth dates and other data regarding passengers as a way to root out potential terrorists. For individuals "deemed to pose a possible risk to transportation security," according to a January Federal Register notice, screenings will include additional records, including financial transaction histories and information from law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Cory Doctorow, a sci-fi writer and staffer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, questioned whether individuals flagged as suspicious in the TSA's database would have the "opportunity to rebut the conclusion of an algorithm." Louie, a former video-game developer who left an executive post at Hasbro Interactive to join In-Q-Tel, said he believes agencies need to perform more detailed analysis of data tagged by filtering tools. Although machine-generated data can provide leads, well-trained human analysts are required to investigate links between isolated pieces of information. In its current form, Louie said, the watch-list system shares many of the faults associated with credit scoring services, whose standardized formulas are often criticized for producing unreliable indicators of creditworthiness. "We all know how good credit-card companies are at scoring us," he said. "Do we want to have those kinds of systems determine whether or not you can fly?" That said, Mike Hunter, CEO of Anacubis, a company that provides tools for linking data, said watch lists are a reasonable option, if their use is limited. "When you're tackling a large problem, sometimes it's the only way to do it," he said. As a U.K. citizen, Hunter has had personal experience with watch lists. On several occasions, when entering the United States, he was briefly detained and questioned. The reason, he said, was that a criminal on the loose shared his name and looked somewhat like him. Hunter said he doesn't oppose watch lists as a means to identify potential suspects for further questioning. However, he believes the data they provide is not sufficient for more heavy-handed law enforcement actions, such as detaining someone for an extended period of time. Although it may be tempting for agencies to screen for potential suspects using simple filtering that looks for characteristics like ethnicity or overseas travel history, Louie contended that the price paid in terms of civil liberties is too great. "This great national debate between security and civil rights isn't a tradeoff," he said. Scaled-up screening efforts at airports come as federal agencies are intensifying security measures in response to heightened fears of a domestic terrorist attack as the war in Iraq rages on. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security continues to maintain an orange level alert, its second highest, indicating a high threat of a potential attack. While In-Q-Tel is backed by the CIA, it is not a government agency and functions as a private nonprofit. The fund invests primarily in companies that develop technologies in security and privacy, geospatial applications, data collection and knowledge management. Recent recipients of funding include ArcSight, a security software developer, and MetaCarta, which makes applications for connecting text documents to geographic maps. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58191,00.html A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no
[CTRL] Fw: Leading leftwing activist lies about US intentions toward Iraq
-Caveat Lector- Leading leftwing activist lies about US intentions toward Iraq Dr Aaron OakleyThursday 13 March 2003 Professional idiot and the Australian Conservation Foundation's head honcho Peter Garrett has decided to speak out against toppling Saddam's sadistic regime. In doing so he revealed the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the left. He argued that America has no right to "carpet bomb Baghdad". Who said Baghdad was going to be carpet bombed? In fact, who said any part of Iraq would be carpet bombed? It is just vicious smear mongering to state, as Garrett did, that America intends to "carpet bomb Baghdad" or any other part of Iraq. To justify his defence of Saddam's murderous regime, and that is what it amounted to, Garrett raised the non-issue of depleted uranium: "There has already been use of weapons with depleted uranium in the first Gulf War, raising anxiety about the long-term consequences to human health and groundwater systems. A "bunker busting" bomb made with DU was first detonated on a site in Kandahar in Afghanistan, where preliminary medical tests revealed uranium contamination on human populations 100 times the normal level. Any use of nuclear weapons as contemplated by the new US doctrine would seriously magnify this kind of damage." This guy knows nothing and understands even less. Depleted Uranium is called depleted for a reason. The most radioactive portion (U-235) has been removed. What is left (mostly U-238) has an extremely long half life 4.5- billion years. This means that the danger from radioactivity is minimal. Mr Garrett tells us that contamination by DU is "100 times the normal level". So what? Is 100 times the "normal level (whatever that is) actually dangerous? Perhaps Garrett should read the DU study in the Lancet that showed no correlation between service in the Balkans and cancer or other illnesses. Or another one that found no evidence of widespread radioactive contamination in Kosovo. Garrett says "Any use of nuclear weapons as contemplated by the new US doctrine would seriously magnify this kind of damage". The implication is that he is so dumb he thinks DU constitutes a "nuclear" weapon. According to one correspondent: "DU was used as paperweights on desks of engineers in Los Alamos in the 50s before the regulatory world went nuts. It is used in military shells not because if it very weak radioactivity, but because of its very high density (about 19gm/cc). As such it has high penetrating power." The truth is that DU is more of a hazard as a heavy metal rather than for its radioactivity. What really made Garrett's article morally offensive was its refusal to not only acknowledge the need to remove this Arab Pol Pot but its insinuation that this murderous thug's regime has the same moral right to self-defence as any democracy. It is time that the leftwing likes of Garrett were held to account for their hypocrisy and made to explain why the people of Iraq are less deserving of liberty than themselves. Perhaps that is why our leftwingers remain silent while Saddam's thugs crucify children, publicly behead women, set people on fire and torture children in front of their parents. And that is just Saddam's entre to his smorgasbord of mass murder and torture. 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: 'See men shredded, then say you don't back war'
-Caveat Lector- 'See men shredded, then say you don't back war' By Ann Clwyd (UK Labour M.P. for Cynon Valley) The Times, March 18, 2003. The Times March 18, 2003 See men shredded, then say you don't back war By Ann Clwyd There was a machine designed for shredding plastic. Men were dropped into it and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their remains would be placed in plastic bags and we were told they would be used as fish food . . . on one occasion, I saw Qusay [President Saddam Husseins youngest son] personally supervise these murders. This is one of the many witness statements that were taken by researchers from Indict the organisation I chair to provide evidence for legal cases against specific Iraqi individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. This account was taken in the past two weeks. Another witness told us about practices of the security services towards women: Women were suspended by their hair as their families watched; men were forced to watch as their wives were raped . . . women were suspended by their legs while they were menstruating until their periods were over, a procedure designed to cause humiliation. The accounts Indict has heard over the past six years are disgusting and horrifying. Our task is not merely passively to record what we are told but to challenge it as well, so that the evidence we produce is of the highest quality. All witnesses swear that their statements are true and sign them. For these humanitarian reasons alone, it is essential to liberate the people of Iraq from the regime of Saddam. The 17 UN resolutions passed since 1991 on Iraq include Resolution 688, which calls for an end to repression of Iraqi civilians. It has been ignored. Torture, execution and ethnic-cleansing are everyday life in Saddams Iraq. Were it not for the no-fly zones in the south and north of Iraq which some people still claim are illegal the Kurds and the Shia would no doubt still be attacked by Iraqi helicopter gunships. For more than 20 years, senior Iraqi officials have committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This list includes far more than the gassing of 5,000 in Halabja and other villages in 1988. It includes serial war crimes during the Iran-Iraq war; the genocidal Anfal campaign against the Iraqi Kurds in 1987-88; the invasion of Kuwait and the killing of more than 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians; the violent suppression, which I witnessed, of the 1991 Kurdish uprising that led to 30,000 or more civilian deaths; the draining of the Southern Marshes during the 1990s, which ethnically cleansed thousands of Shias; and the summary executions of thousands of political opponents. Many Iraqis wonder why the world applauded the military intervention that eventually rescued the Cambodians from Pol Pot and the Ugandans from Idi Amin when these took place without UN help. They ask why the world has ignored the crimes against them? All these crimes have been recorded in detail by the UN, the US, Kuwaiti, British, Iranian and other Governments and groups such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Indict. Yet the Security Council has failed to set up a war crimes tribunal on Iraq because of opposition from France, China and Russia. As a result, no Iraqi official has ever been indicted for some of the worst crimes of the 20th century. I have said incessantly that I would have preferred such a tribunal to war. But the time for offering Saddam incentives and more time is over. I do not have a monopoly on wisdom or morality. But I know one thing. This evil, fascist regime must come to an end. With or without the help of the Security Council, and with or without the backing of the Labour Party in the House of Commons tonight. The author is Labour MP for Cynon Valley. 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
[CTRL] Fw: Hollywood stars join with Stalinists to fight Bush
-Caveat Lector- Hollywood stars join with Stalinists to fight Bush Addison RossNew York Wednesday 12 March 2003 The Oscar-winning Jessica Lange has joined, along with a number of Hollywood lefty activists, the Bush-hating WWW (Win Without War) organisation whose intention is to subvert the war against Saddam's murderous regime. Tom Andrews is WWW spokesman and a former Democratic congressman from Vermont. He is also every bit as partisan as the hateful Lange. WWW is closely collaborating with MoveOn.Org, another leftwing anti-Bush group that was set up 1998 by another bunch of partisan Democrats. MoveOn recently publicized an anti-Bush speech by Dem Sen. Robert Byrd, the same Byrd who was a Ku Klux Klan recruiter and who is still being coy about his activities while a member of that terrorist organisation. (This is the guy who called blacks "race mongrels" and who sponsored a bill to name the Senate's main office building after the notorious Georgia Democrat Richard Russell: the man who derailed anti-lynching legislation in the 1930s). What MoveOn also concealed about Byrd's past is that this hypocrite vote for the September 14 war resolution that he is now attacking Bush for implementing. He is also making the sort of war demands of Bush that he never made of LBJ or Jefferson Clinton. Partisan politics at their very worst by a race-baiting bigot. And this is the kind of joker that Bush-hating Hollywood airheads like Lange and Ethan Hawke support. These ever so patriotic organizations are linked to the IAC (International Action Center). The anti-American Ramsey Clark, who is also a friend of Saddam's, collaborated with the Stalinist WWW (Workers World Party) in setting up the IAC, an organisation that also fronts for the sadistic Saddam and the loony Kim Jong-il. So why do the likes of Lange join with America's enemies? Lange's motivation is pure hate. She claims to be a patriot but what kind of patriot would tell a foreign audience: "It makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States it is humiliating"[?] Fanatically toeing the lefty line on Iraq she stated that the Bush administration's policy of overthrowing the murderous Saddam is "unconstitutional, immoral and illegal." This brilliant constitutional lawyer, political analyst and historian has overlooked several facts. Firstly, the legal foundations for overthrowing Saddam were laid down at the end of Gulf War. Secondly, the policy of bringing about a regime change in Iraq, by whatever means, was signed into law by Clinton. This was the Liberation Act of 1998 for which the Senate unanimously voted. Let me spell this out for Lange and her Hollywood comrades: UNANIMOUSLY VOTED. That means Democrats voted for it too. None of this fazes Lange and the rest of Hollywood's celluloid intellectuals, to whom lying, intimidation and hate seem to be second nature. In Lange's fantasy world Bush has turned America into a fascist state that is "intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing". Yet it is the intolerant likes of Lange of who have driven the vast majority of Hollywood conservatives underground. When Bette Midler publicly called Bush an Bush an "a-- h---" while Julia Roberts described Republicans as "reptiles" and Ted Danson sneeringly compared them to "lower primates" they are engaging in hate speech that is meant to inimtidate conservative-minded members of the Hollywood community into silence. For these actors tolerance is a one-way street. Having publicly maligned President Bush and her country, impugned his motives and lied about White House policy on Saddaam Lange wraps herself in Old Glory and solemnly declares, as did Ethan Hawke, that "we are patriots". An American patriot who supports the America-hating Saddam Hussein? Dr Johnson was right when he said that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." What Johnson, whose patriotism was second to none, meant is that the crooked and the treasonous will not hesitate to wave the flag if it protects them or serves their nefarious purposes. Nevertheless, genuine patriots owe Lange a debt of gratitude. She has helped reveal the totalitarian thinking that lurks beneath the surface of Hollywood's leftwing fronts. Their hatred of alternative views and their unspoken belief that all Republican administrations are illegitimate and do not have a genuine moral or legal right to exist. This is Lange's real message and it is one we should never forget. 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Bush-Buddy Reverend Moon Bankrolled N. Korea's Nukes
-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- Robert Parry January 3, 2001 The Consortium (consortiumnews.com) Bush family benefactor Sun Myung Moon funneled millions of dollars into North Korea when developing its nuclear weapons program In 1998, Rumsfeld headed a special commission, appointed by the Republican-controlled Congress, that warned that North Korea had made substantial progress during the decade in building missiles that could pose a potential nuclear threat to Japan and parts of the United States."The extraordinary level of resources North Korea and Iran are now devoting to developing their own ballistic missile capabilities poses a substantial and immediate danger to the U.S., its vital interests and its allies," said the report by Rumsfeld's Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States."North Korea maintains an active WMD [weapons of mass destruction] program, including a nuclear weapon program. It is known that North Korea diverted material in the late 1980s for at least one or possibly two weapons," the report said.Rumsfelds alarming assessment of North Koreas war-making capabilities now is being cited by Republicans as a justification for investing billions of taxpayer dollars in an anti-missile defense system favored by Bush and Rumsfeld.Yet, during the early-to-mid 1990s, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency was monitoring a series of clandestine payments from Sun Myung Moon's organization to the North Korean communist leaders who were overseeing the country's military strategies.According to DIA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Moons payments to North Korean leaders included a $3 million birthday present to current communist leader Kim Jong Il and offshore payments amounting to several tens of million dollars to the previous communist dictator, Kim Il Sung.The alleged payments and broader Moon-North Korean business deals reported by the DIA came at a time of a strict U.S. government ban on financial transactions between North Korea and any U.S. person or entity, to keep hard currency out of North Korea's hands. Legal experts say that ban would have applied to Moon given his status as a permanent U.S. resident, even though he maintains South Korean citizenship. Bush Speeches While negotiating those business deals with North Korea in the 1990s, Moons organization also hired former President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush to give speeches at Moon-sponsored events.During one speech inaugurating a new Moon-sponsored newspaper in Argentina in November 1996, former President Bush declared, I want to salute Reverend Moon, whom Bush praised as the man with the vision.The father of the incoming U.S. president has refused to divulge how much Moons organization paid for these speeches which were delivered in the United States, Asia and South America. Some press estimates have put the fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, though one former leader of Moons Unification Church told me that the organization had earmarked $10 million for the former president.Ex-President Bushs pro-Moon speeches came at a time, too, when Moon now 80 was expressing intensely anti-American views. In the mid-1990s, Moon denounced the United States as Satans harvest and condemned American women as having descended from a line of prostitutes. In a speech to his followers on Aug. 4, 1996, Moon vowed to liquidate American individuality, declaring that his movement would swallow entire America. Moon said Americans who insisted on their privacy and extreme individualism will be digested. Beyond these anti-Americanism diatribes, other questions have arisen about how Moon finances his religious-business-political empire. Evidence has existed
[CTRL] Fwd: A Look Back at Iraq: Saddam, the Darling of the Reagan-Bush Era
-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- Missing U.S.-Iraq History By Robert Parry The Consortium February 27, 2003 Before George W. Bush gives the final order to invade Iraq -- a nation that has not threatened the United States -- the American people might want a few facts about the real history of U.S.-Iraq relations. Missing chapters from 1980 to the present would be crucial in judging Bushs case for war. But Americans dont have those facts because Bush and his predecessors in the White House have kept this history hidden from the American people. When parts of the story have emerged, administrations of both parties have taken steps to suppress or discredit the disclosures. So instead of knowing the truth, Americans have been fed a steady diet of distortions, simplifications and outright lies.This missing history also is not just about minor details. It goes to the heart of the case against Saddam Hussein, including whether he is an especially aggressive and unpredictable dictator who must be removed from power even at the risk of Americas standing in the world and the chance that a war will lead to more terrorism against U.S. targets.For instance, George W. Bush has frequently cited Saddam Husseins invasions of neighbors, Iran and Kuwait, as justification for the looming U.S. invasion of Iraq. By defeating this threat, we will show other dictators that the path of aggression will lead to their own ruin, Bush declared during a speech in Atlanta on Feb. 20.Leaving aside whether Bushs formulation is Orwellian double-speak aggression to discourage aggression there is the historical question of whether Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush actually encouraged Saddams aggressions for geopolitical reasons or out of diplomatic incompetence.Carter's 'Green Light'? This intersection of Saddams wars and U.S. foreign policy dates back at least to 1980 when Irans radical Islamic government held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran and the sheiks of the oil-rich Persian Gulf feared that Ruhollah Khomeini's radical breed of Islam might sweep them from power just as it had the Shah of Iran a year earlier.The Iranian government began its expansionist drive by putting pressure on the secular government of Iraq, instigating border clashes and encouraging Iraqs Shiite and Kurdish populations to rise up. Iranian operatives sought to destabilize Saddams government by assassinating Iraqi leaders. [For details, see An Unnecessary War, Foreign Policy, January/February 2003.]On Aug. 5, 1980, as tensions mounted on the Iran-Iraq border, Saudi rulers welcomed Saddam to Riyadh for the first state visit ever by an Iraqi president to Saudi Arabia. During meetings at the kingdoms ornate palaces, the Saudis feted Saddam whose formidable Soviet-supplied army was viewed as a bulwark against Iran.Saudi leaders also say they urged Saddam to take the fight to Irans fundamentalist regime, advice that they say included a green light for the invasion from President Carter.Less than two months after Saddams trip, with Carter still frustrated by his inability to win release of the 52 Americans imprisoned in Iran, Saddam invaded Iran on Sept. 22, 1980. The war would rage for eight years and kill an estimated one million people.The claim of Carters green light for the invasion was made by senior Arab leaders, including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, to President Reagans first secretary of state, Alexander Haig, when Haig traveled to the Middle East in April 1981, according to top secret talking points that Haig prepared for a post-trip briefing of Reagan.Haig wrote that he was impressed with bits of useful intelligence that he had learned. Both [Egypts Anwar] Sadat and [Saudi then-Prince] Fahd [explained that] Iran is
[CTRL] Miscalculation
-Caveat Lector- THE MISCALCULATION By Serge July Translated from Libration (Paris), Mar. 25: Editorial The United States is waging war without an international mandate, in unfriendly solitude. Even some of the pillars of its alliances, like Turkey, have defected. The Turkish case is all the more dramatic in that it upset the American military's plans by depriving it of an important contingent of GIs, who today were supposed to be on the battlefield to the north of Baghdad. After this diplomatic fiasco, it was hoped that the American war would be all the shorter, all the more surgical, all the less deadly to GIs and Iraqi civilians, all the less destructive to Iraq, as is seen in the decision to ostentatiously incorporate journalists in combat units. In other words, it was supposed to be a large-scale police operation designed to arrest a small number of people linked to the dictatorship, not a war of annihilation on large Iraqi cities. This war, unlike the 1991 war, was based on a political calculation. Military pressure was supposed to provoke the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. This was the scenario the American leaders dreamed about: a house-to- house battle for control of Baghdad, politically fatal in the Western and Arab worlds, was not anticipated. This strategic vision is in trouble after the first five days of the war. The manipulation of the media is certainly intense, but given what American expectations were, what they're not showing us -- and what Gen. Franks's headquarters would like very much to have us see -- must not exist. We are not seeing refugees on the roads, fleeing the combat zone, as in 1991. The camps established on the frontiers are empty. There is even something of a movement in the opposite direction in progress: more than 5000 Iraqis living in Jordan have returned to Iraq since the beginning of hostilities. Surrenders have been very few. On the fifth day of the war, the Anglo-American armies have, according to Gen. Franks, taken 3000 prisoners. In 1991, the ground campaign only lasted four days, but tens of thousands of soldiers were taken prisoner. In those days there was a sort of renunciation in the face of the coalition armies. There's nothing of the sort taking place today. The negotiations with Iraqi officers in the big cities of the southern Iraq are not living up to expectations. Not one city is open. And the fighting is continuing. There are no images showing Iraqis celebrating the Anglo-American troops as liberators. The American war has not, so far, caused the collapse of the dictatorship, which is still quite active, including in the South. To the contrary, the American military full-court press, after twelve years of UN embargoes with dramatic effects, has provoked a patriotic reflex in the face of a military operation whose goals are, for the Iraqis too, unclear. It would top everything if this resistance, over time, turned Saddam Hussein into a national hero. In addition, there is still the awful memory of the bloody repression of the 1991 uprisings, when the Shiite South, the Kurdish North, and even some regiments of the Republican Guard took up arms against Saddam's dictatorship after the rout in Kuwait. Saddam had several hundreds of thousands of people massacred after the Western forces left. This abandonment has made the population particularly mistrustful with regard to the Marines. The nationalist reaction on the one hand and the horrific memory of the repression carried out by Saddam's cronies on the other explain the reactions of the people living in the zones through which the American army has passed. The policing war, the war of liberation, whose screenplay was written by the hawks in Washington, will no doubt not take place. If the war becomes simply warlike, that is, murderous, destructive, and painful, even an American military victory will in the end sound like yet another political defeat for the United States. A specter is now haunting Washington -- the specter of being condemned to undertake the military conquest of Baghdad. It amounts to a terrible miscalculation. http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=98322 -- Translated by Mark K. Jensen Associate Professor of French Chair, Department of Languages and Literatures Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA 98447-0003 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
[CTRL] Fwd: Is America Becoming Fascist?
-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- Click here: Anis Shivani: Is America Becoming Fascist? A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: London Trial of Bush/BCCI Ties Quashed
-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- February 15, 2003 CounterPunch Cold Fronts War is Golden for the Bush Administration By CHRIS FLOYD The opening of a long-delayed civil suit in a London courtroom; a brief, buried article on a judicial nomination; a fluctuation in the commodities market: three mundane, seemingly-unrelated items in the news last week that combined to give a fleeting glimpse of the ugly reality behind the frantic, diversionary façade of the "civilized world." The London case involves our old friends, BCCI, the international bank that served as the front for a global crime ring involving top officials and Establishment worthies in dozens of "civilized" nations. BCCI ran guns to Saddam and other heavies, funded Pakistan's illegal nuclear weapons program, laundered drug profits, peddled prostitutes, doled out bribes, served as a conduit for covert CIA operations -- and, through its connections to the bin Laden family, gave George W. Bush a sweetheart loan of $25 million to bail out one of his many business failures. One of the respectable organizations tainted by the ring was the Bank of England, which was the financial regulator for BCCI when the front finally collapsed in 1991 -- leaving its legitimate creditors some $11 billion in the hole. Not surprisingly, some of these victims filed suit against ye olde B of E, claiming that its oversight of BCCI left something to be desired. But successive British governments --including the plagiaristic poodle-led pack currently in power-- have fought for years to quash the lawsuit, the Observer reports. That's because the trial could open a can of particularly grubby worms concerning the UK government's extensive canoodling with BCCI. A host of worthies are expected to be grilled in the dock, including John Major, former UK prime minister and current business partner of George Bush I in yet another secretive international front that profits from war, weapons, violence, repression and the greasing of highly-placed palms: the Carlyle Group. Even as the trial finally gets underway, British PM Tony "Bow-Wow" Blair is withholding crucial BCCI evidence, claiming it's top secret. In fact, says Blair, the hidden juice is so red hot that even the law under which it has been declared secret must remain secret. An overreaction? Probably not -- not when you consider the fact that BCCI was one of the chief conduits by which Western governments secretly armed Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction throughout the 1980s. This is not the kind of dirty laundry you want aired at the very moment you are waving the bloody shirt of war at, er, Saddam Hussein for, er, possessing weapons of mass destruction that, er, you and your allies sold to him in the first place. The Italian bank BNL was one of BCCI's main tentacles. BNL's Atlanta branch was the primary funnel used by the first Bush Administration to send millions of secret dollars to Saddam for arms purchases, including deadly chemicals and other WMD materials supplied by the Chilean arms dealer Cardoen and various politically-connected operators in the United States like, weapons merchant Matrix Churchill. (As always with the Busha Nostra, geopolitics --in this case, helping Saddam wage aggressive war against Iran-- and crony profits go hand in hand. Once the war was over and Iran was left a shattered hulk, with millions dead and displaced, the useful idiot Saddam was expendable, swiftly morphing from good buddy into budding Hitler.) As soon as the BNL case broke, President Bush I moved to throttle the investigation. He appointed lawyers from both Cardoen and Matrix to top Justice Department posts -- where they supervised the officials investigating their old companies. Meanwhile, White
[CTRL] Fwd: Al-Arian and Henry Hyde?
-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- Feb 26, 2003 Associated Press A Palestinian professor accused of leading a terrorist group's U.S. operations visited the White House and donated nearly $8,000 to members of Congress, including former Georgia congresswoman [Cynthia McKinney]. Sami Al-Arian, indicted last week for alleged ties to Islamic Jihad, was part of a 160-person group from the American Muslim Council that went to a June 2000 meeting at the White House under the Clinton administration [and] in June 2001 . Al-Arian, a tenured professor of computer engineering at the University of South Florida, was arrested Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges. Three other people, including another instructor at the school, were also arrested. They could face life terms if convicted. Four other men named in the federal indictment are overseas and have not been arrested. Al-Arian and his wife, Nahla, gave $7,700 to five political candidates -- three Democrats and two Republicans -- between 1998 and 2000, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. The indictment alleges that Al-Arian, 45, used the school as a cover to bring Islamic Jihad members to the United States on the pretext of attending academic conferences. Of the congressional members who received money from the Al-Arians, former Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., received the most -- $3,200 -- and their eldest son, Abdullah, served as an intern in Bonior's office. Bonior, who is now a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, did not immediately return a call Monday. The five U.S. politicians who received money from the couple did so before Sami Al-Arian's alleged terrorist ties surfaced publicly in September of 2001. [Among them is] Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who was given $1,000 and passed the money on to charity once the allegations surfaced, said Jennifer Palmer, a spokeswoman. A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=""Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] ANOTHER BAY OF PIGS?
-Caveat Lector- I agree, this is looking more and more like Vietnam, with the Vietcong hiding among the civilians. Hussein has apparently learned much from Americas loss in Vietnam. --SW http://www.GuluFuture.com/news/scott_ritter030325.htm US WILL LOOSE THE IRAQ WAR -SAYS SCOTT RITTER 25th March, 2003 by Fintan Dunne, Editor http://www.GuluFuture.com Thorn in the side of the American administration, and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, has warned that America will loose the Iraq war and the American military: will leave Iraq with its tail between its legs. In an interview with Irish radio, Mr. Ritter said that the conflict would become an absolute quagmire, and the US-UK advance would stall outside Bhagdad and fail to capture the city. We find ourselves... facing a nation of 23 million, with armed elements numbering around 7 million --who are concentrated at urban areas. We will not win this fight. America will loose this war, said Mr. Ritter. According to Mr. Ritter, too many in the Pentagon have listened to: the blithering of Iraqi expatriates, whose agenda coincides with neo-conservatives in the White House. We're in Iraq --carrying out the right-wing neo-conservative motives of a handful of people. The Richard Perle's, Paul Wolfowitz's; the Dick Cheney's. And we've allowed them to hijack our foreign policy, he told Irish broadcaster, Vincent Browne on the RTE1 radio Tonight Show. He warned that Shia Muslims in the South were not fighting because of intimidation by the Iraqi government, but because of nationalistic and religious reasons. They're doing it because, the American Crusader Infidel has invaded and violated Holy Iraq, and they will resist us, and they will resist us strongly, said Mr. Ritter. We are not liberating Iraq, we are destroying Iraq, he added later in the interview. Scott Ritter, is a former U.N. weapons inspector and author of the book Endgame. Ritter, a ballistic missile technology expert, worked in military intelligence during his 12-year career in the U.S. armed forces. In 1998, Ritter resigned from the U.N. Special Commissions team to protest Clinton Administration policies that he said subverted the weapons inspection process. Full Transcript Audio follows below. Discussion of situation in Iraq from Tonight Show, on RTE1 24th March, 2003 Listen to Ritter Realplayer 3 minsListen to full Gulf War Analysis Segment Audio 25 minutes[ Realplayer] Vincent Browne: Scott Ritter... are you surprised by how the assault in Iraq is going? Scott Ritter: No actually, I wrote a paper that was published last Fall, that predicted just this. And i'm a little disturbed in listening to some of the analysis going along here. I think that one of the reasons the American find themselves in such difficulties in Iraq, is that so many in the Pentagon have listened to the... blithering of Iraqi expatriots who have spoken out --rightly so-- against Saddam Hussein, and who think that it's a) the role of the United States to liberate Iraq; and b) think that the Iraqi people want us to liberate them from Saddam. And I think that the harsh reality is that in buying off on the expectations of being greeted in the streets of Iraq with song and flowers... we now find we are being greeted with bullets and bombs. And it's the Shia in the south who are fighting us. They're not doing it because Chemical Ali is down there with his death squads threatening to execute 'em. They're doing it because, the American Crusader Infidel has invaded and violated Holy Iraq, and they will resist us, and they will resist us strongly. And no matter how many Iraqi's we kill and slaughter, I predict that America will loose this war and ultimately the American military will leave Iraq with its tail between its legs. Unfortunately, we're going to inflict a tremenduous amount of death and destruction on the people of Iraq; the American soldiers and Marines will also pay a price. And all those who sit outside of Iraq and courageously encourage Americans to go in and slaughter Iraqi's should be ashamed of themselves. Vincent Browne:...You think the Americans will loose this war? Scott Ritter: We lost Vietnam Remember we can kill many, many Iraqui's and we will do so. But I am telling you right now, that we do not have sufficient combat power in Iraq --as we speak-- to win this battle. So we will have to reinforce considerably. The current posture, in terms of American deployment, is predicated on a presumption that the Iraqi Army would surrender; that the Iraqi people would welcome; that the internsational community would support. The exact opposite is happening. And now we find ourselves with fewer than 120,000 boots on the ground; facing a nation of 23 million, with armed elements numbering around 7 million --who are concentrated at urban areas. We will not win this fight. America will loose this war. Saddam Hussein may die... But you know what? I'm betting that Saddam's
[CTRL] Hollywood stars join with Stalinists to fight Bush
-Caveat Lector- Hollywood stars join with Stalinists to fight Bush Addison RossNew York Wednesday 12 March 2003 The Oscar-winning Jessica Lange has joined, along with a number of Hollywood lefty activists, the Bush-hating WWW (Win Without War) organisation whose intention is to subvert the war against Saddam's murderous regime. Tom Andrews is WWW spokesman and a former Democratic congressman from Vermont. He is also every bit as partisan as the hateful Lange. WWW is closely collaborating with MoveOn.Org, another leftwing anti-Bush group that was set up 1998 by another bunch of partisan Democrats. MoveOn recently publicized an anti-Bush speech by Dem Sen. Robert Byrd, the same Byrd who was a Ku Klux Klan recruiter and who is still being coy about his activities while a member of that terrorist organisation. (This is the guy who called blacks "race mongrels" and who sponsored a bill to name the Senate's main office building after the notorious Georgia Democrat Richard Russell: the man who derailed anti-lynching legislation in the 1930s). What MoveOn also concealed about Byrd's past is that this hypocrite vote for the September 14 war resolution that he is now attacking Bush for implementing. He is also making the sort of war demands of Bush that he never made of LBJ or Jefferson Clinton. Partisan politics at their very worst by a race-baiting bigot. And this is the kind of joker that Bush-hating Hollywood airheads like Lange and Ethan Hawke support. These ever so patriotic organizations are linked to the IAC (International Action Center). The anti-American Ramsey Clark, who is also a friend of Saddam's, collaborated with the Stalinist WWW (Workers World Party) in setting up the IAC, an organisation that also fronts for the sadistic Saddam and the loony Kim Jong-il. So why do the likes of Lange join with America's enemies? Lange's motivation is pure hate. She claims to be a patriot but what kind of patriot would tell a foreign audience: "It makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States it is humiliating"[?] Fanatically toeing the lefty line on Iraq she stated that the Bush administration's policy of overthrowing the murderous Saddam is "unconstitutional, immoral and illegal." This brilliant constitutional lawyer, political analyst and historian has overlooked several facts. Firstly, the legal foundations for overthrowing Saddam were laid down at the end of Gulf War. Secondly, the policy of bringing about a regime change in Iraq, by whatever means, was signed into law by Clinton. This was the Liberation Act of 1998 for which the Senate unanimously voted. Let me spell this out for Lange and her Hollywood comrades: UNANIMOUSLY VOTED. That means Democrats voted for it too. None of this fazes Lange and the rest of Hollywood's celluloid intellectuals, to whom lying, intimidation and hate seem to be second nature. In Lange's fantasy world Bush has turned America into a fascist state that is "intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing". Yet it is the intolerant likes of Lange of who have driven the vast majority of Hollywood conservatives underground. When Bette Midler publicly called Bush an Bush an "a-- h---" while Julia Roberts described Republicans as "reptiles" and Ted Danson sneeringly compared them to "lower primates" they are engaging in hate speech that is meant to inimtidate conservative-minded members of the Hollywood community into silence. For these actors tolerance is a one-way street. Having publicly maligned President Bush and her country, impugned his motives and lied about White House policy on Saddaam Lange wraps herself in Old Glory and solemnly declares, as did Ethan Hawke, that "we are patriots". An American patriot who supports the America-hating Saddam Hussein? Dr Johnson was right when he said that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." What Johnson, whose patriotism was second to none, meant is that the crooked and the treasonous will not hesitate to wave the flag if it protects them or serves their nefarious purposes. Nevertheless, genuine patriots owe Lange a debt of gratitude. She has helped reveal the totalitarian thinking that lurks beneath the surface of Hollywood's leftwing fronts. Their hatred of alternative views and their unspoken belief that all Republican administrations are illegitimate and do not have a genuine moral or legal right to exist. This is Lange's real message and it is one we should never forget. 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
[CTRL] U.S. Lifts FBI Criminal Database Checks
-Caveat Lector- http://news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/ap/a/w/1152/3-25-2003/20030325063001_13.html http://news.findlaw.com Tuesday, March 25, 2003 U.S. Lifts FBI Criminal Database Checks By TED BRIDIS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department lifted a requirement Monday that the FBI ensure the accuracy and timeliness of information about criminals and crime victims before adding it to the country's most comprehensive law enforcement database. The system, run by the FBI's National Crime Information Center, includes data about terrorists, fugitives, warrants, people missing, gang members and stolen vehicles, guns or boats. Records are queried increasingly by the nation's law enforcement agencies to help decide whether to monitor, detain or arrest someone. The records are inaccessible to the public, and police have been prosecuted in U.S. courts for misusing the system to find, for example, personal information about girlfriends or former spouses. Officials said the change, which immediately drew criticism from civil-liberties advocates, is necessary to ensure investigators have access to information that can't be confirmed but could take on new significance later, FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said. The change to the 1974 U.S. Privacy Act was disclosed with an announcement published in the Federal Register. The Privacy Act previously required the FBI to ensure information was "accurate, relevant, timely and complete" before it could be added to the system. "It's a pretty big job to be accurate and complete," said Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who specializes in technology and surveillance issues. "On the other hand, these are potentially very significant records for people, and if it's not accurate and complete, it can mean trouble." Critics urged Congress to review the change, arguing that information in the computer files was especially important because it can affect many aspects of a person's life. "This is information that has always been stigmatizing, the type of data that can prevent someone from getting a job," said Marc Rotenberg of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center. "When you remove the accuracy obligations, you open the door to the use of unreliable information." Critics have noted complaints for years about wrong information in the computer files that disrupted the lives of innocent citizens, and the FBI has acknowledged problems. In one case, a Phoenix resident was arrested for minor traffic violations that had been quashed weeks earlier; in another, a civilian was misidentified as a Navy deserter. The system "is replete with inaccurate, untimely information, but everybody does their best to keep it up to date," said Beryl Howell, former general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "That's a goal we shouldn't just throw out." In the change, the Justice Department said earlier restrictions on information "would limit the ability of trained investigators and intelligence analysts to exercise their judgment in reporting on investigations and impede the development of criminal intelligence necessary for effective law enforcement." It added that, because the system collects its data from so many other organizations, "it is administratively impossible to ensure compliance." --- On the Net: National Crime Information Center: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ncic.htm Electronic Privacy Information Center: http://www.epic.org/2003-03-2514:14:50 GMT Copyright 2003 The Associated Press All Rights ReservedThe information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authorityof The Associated Press. Company | Privacy Policy Disclaimer Copyright © 1994-2001 FindLaw A HREF=""www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational
[CTRL] Baghdad City Lights
-Caveat Lector- Does anyone else wonder why the Iraqis don't turn off the lights when Baghdad is being bombed? Isn't a blackout SOP during aerial bombardment? And besides, how do the lights STAY on -- dosn't the havoc disrupt power grids? Questions... Lee 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: [anti-imperialiste] Total war? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: [anti-imperialiste] Total war? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Date sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:19:13 -0500 To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; Wrom: ZAAFXISHJEXXIMQZUIVOTQNQ Subject:Total war? Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I'm picking up an alarming trend in news coverage/government propaganda about the war. Whereas during the first few days there was some attempt to portray the people of Iraq as human beings awaiting US liberation, now that the US is meeting massive resistance I'm beginning to see photos and stories intending to portray the Iraqi people as armed, hostile, predatory Evil Ones. See, e.g., the photo at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/iraq/082701iraqplanea=tmpl=sle= 38 Here, and in the story someone posted earlier about the coming UK attack on Basra, I'm sensing the deliberate blurring of distinctions among unarmed civilians, militia, and regular army. The Vietnam parallel is obvious. I suspect this is laying the groundwork for total war against the people of Iraq -- i.e., mercilessly bombing Baghdad and Basra in an attempt o subdue the populace. An early indication of this new tactic was the destruction of Umm Qasr, which reportedly was literally flattened yesterday after armed resistance prevented the US from securing the town. We had to destroy the village in order to save it. From a coldly tactical point of view, complete disregard for civilian life is probably the US's best chance of fighting and winning the war quickly. Yesterday's Wall Street swoon reinforces the need for a quick decision. IMO we need to prepare ourselves for a war of unprecedented brutality, one in which the US essentially embraces its status as 'rogue superpower,' and consider our strategy in that light. The masks are coming off. jake *END OF MAIL** Liste de diffusion d'informations anti-imperialistes Extraits de presse, articles, déclarations et reactions. langues: anglais, francais, espagnol. --- http://chiffonrouge.org , l'accueil http://lesdamnesdukosovo.chiffonrouge.org , le site de Présentation du Film de Michel Collon et Vanessa Stojilkovic Les Damnés du Kosovo http://resistance.chiffonrouge.org , les news et articles de fond anti-impérialistes et de gauche, en français, anglais et espagnol- inscrivez-vous comme éditeur(trice) ! http://luxfiat.chiffonrouge.org , resources anti-imperialistes http://otan99.chiffonrouge.org , les deux volumes du livre blanc des crimes de l'OTAN en Yougoslavie 1999 - Desinscription: envoyez un message a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pour obtenir de l'aide, ecrivez a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pour toute autre requête concernant chiffonrouge.org ne pas répondre à ce mail(par souci de protection anti-virus les mails retournés à kiosk@ sont détruits), mais adresser les messages à [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vous pouvez soutenir CHIFFONROUGE.ORG en versant, en tout anonymat, une somme forfaitaire de 16 euros qui correspond aux frais mensuels de présence de notre site chez altern.org. De cette somme, pas un cent n'est reversé aux administrateurs de chiffonrouge.org, qui travaillent pour ce site bénévolement. La totalité couvre l'hébergement chez notre fournisseur d'espace web pour 1 mois. Ce soutien nous permettra de consacrer nos efforts à la mise en place de nouveaux documents, fonctionalités et options multimédia sur chiffonrouge.org. Soutenez notre action ! Préparez votre carte bancaire internationale et rendez vous sur: http://chiffonrouge.org/soutien.html et cliquez sur le bouton. Envoyez-nous un mail à [EMAIL PROTECTED], seulement si vous souhaitez nous informer d'un versement (SVP-n'indiquer dans ce mail AUCUNE information confidentielle portant sur votre carte bancaire). Merci de votre soutien. *** 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.
[CTRL] MRC Alert: TimesWatch.org Launched DisHonors in 2 Days (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, 25 Mar 2003 12:28:16 -0700 From: Media Research Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Alert: TimesWatch.org Launched DisHonors in 2 Days ***Media Research Center Event Web Alert*** 4:25pm EST, Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1) Check out the MRC's new Times Watch project anchored by TimesWatch.org, documenting and exposing the liberal political agenda of the New York Times. 2) Just Two Days Until the MRC's DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2002. There is still time to buy a ticket, but you must act fast. 1) Below are the leads for the TimesWatch.org articles written by Clay Waters, Editor of the TimesWatch.org page and Director of the MRC's Times Watch project to document and expose the liberal political agenda of the New York Times. For the Times Watch home page: http://www.timeswatch.org/ Posted on Tuesday, March 25: -- Paul Krugman's Fascist Fantasy Bush-bashing columnist Paul Krugman caught a whiff of fascism at a pro-war rally: To those familiar with 20th-century European history it seemed eerily reminiscent ofBut as Sinclair Lewis said, it can't happen here. See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0325.asp -- Media Companies Doing Political Advocacy? The Times Is Horrified The Times can't take criticism of its political advocacy, but it can sure dish it out. Douglas Jehl's story on a pro-war rally spent six paragraphs on Clear Channel Communications, which has helped organize pro-war rallies. Jehl termed it an arrangement that has been criticized by those who contend that media companies should not engage in political advocacy. See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0325.asp#2 Posted on Monday, March 24: -- President Bush, Con Man? That's Rich New Times associate editor Frank Rich compared President Bush to a con-man movie character in the movie Chicago. After accusing the president of moral arrogance concerning the Iraq war, Rich described Bush's prime-time news conference: Like their ?Chicago' counterparts, the Washington press corps were more than willing to buy fictions if instructed to do so by the puppeteer. See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp -- 9/11, Baghdad: Same Thing? Baghdad Bombing Brings Back Memories of 9/11 by David Chen likened the World Trade Center terrorist attack to the U.S. bombing of Baghdad. [Some] could not help thinking about Sept. 11, and how New York, too, was once under assault from the skies. See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp#2 -- Even Bush's Allies Hate Him Reporter Richard Stevenson argued, Frustration with the lack of information from the administration has bubbled up in recent weeks even among some of the administration's strongest allies. As an example, Stevenson quoted?Sen. Chuck Hagel? See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp#3 -- Pleading Democrats Try To Halt Record Republican Deficits Times reporters Carl Hulse and David Firestone implied it was unseemly for Congressional Republicans to promote Republican legislation during wartime. Though Democrats pleaded for a halt after the war began, the Republican leaders of the House and Senate chose not to stop their march toward tax cuts and record deficits... See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp#4 -- Colin Powell, Non-Frightening Bushie Bill Keller pleaded for Secretary of State Colin Powell to resign, admitting: I can't count the number of times in the past two years I've heard -- occasionally from my own lips -- the observation that the Bush administration would be a much scarier outfit without Colin Powell. See: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/0324.asp#5 To comment on TimesWatch.org, use this address for now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) Just Two Days Until the MRC's DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2002. Order your tickets to this annual event now. In 1999 we had a room with 500 seats. Sold out in advance. In 2001 we got a bigger room with 800 seats. Sold out earlier in advance. This year we've picked an even bigger venue with 1,000 seats and we're approaching a sellout. The 3rd DisHonors Awards will take place the evening of Thursday, March 27 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. And as a CyberAlert subscriber YOU CAN SAVE $25 PER TICKET off the $175 price and pay $150 per seat. Our promise: It's usually the national liberal media
[CTRL] An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversy
-Caveat Lector- scroll for news article Note: These are only a few quotes from a large and well-documented article. This articles and the graphics may be very heavy for survivors. An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversy - James Randall Noblitt, Ph.D. "Michael Newton (cited in Noblitt, 1998a) accumulated data on criminal convictions in the U.S. where allegations of ritual abuse of children were made. He found cases of 145 defendants who were sentenced." " Pamela Hudson (1991) assessed 24 children in a case of alleged ritual abuse at Fort Bragg day care center in California. Hudson found five symptoms to be present among many of the children." "Susan Kelley (1993) compared three groups of children in day care: 35 allegedly ritualistically abused children, 32 children reportedly sexually, not ritualistically abuse, and 67 children without any claims of sexual abuse. She collected data from the abused children's parents and compared the results of the children with non-ritualistic sexual abuse with ritualistic sexual abuse. She found that ritualistically abused children were more likely to report more incidents, types and severity of abuse relative to the non-ritual sexual abuse victims. She also found that ritualistic abuse was more often associated with multiple victim, multiple perpetrator situations." ""Jill Waterman, Robert Kelley, Mary Kay Olivieri, and Jane McCord (1993) did a six year longitudinal study of 82 children who had made allegations of ritualistic sexual abuse (RSA) in the Manhattan Beach, California area in comparison with 37 non-abused (NA) children and 15 non-ritualistically sexually abused (SA) children. A variety of standardized and non-standardized questionnaires and interview instruments were employed. They found that both the RSA and SA group reported intrusive and highly intrusive sexual abuse. Additionally the RSA group but not the SA group reported "terrorizing acts..." "Recantations occurred in 25% of the RSA and 23% of the SA children. This was the case even though the perpetrator in the SA group had given a detailed confession. However, 88% of the RSA group that recanted, later redisclosed abuse." ""Snow and Sorenson (1990) saw 39 children who described abuse in five neighbor-based cults in Utah. In four of the five cults there were alleged incidents of intrafamilial incest, perpetration by adolescents, and features of an adult sex ring. No adolescent perpetration was found in the fifth groupAt least two-thirds of the children described multiple locations of abuse, pornography, ingestion or other use of excrement, the espousal of Satanic beliefs, magical spells and use of occult paraphernalia, animal mutilation or killing, and the use of drugs. The abusers were generally viewed as respected members of the community and many were religious leaders. Two of the accused adult perpetrators were convicted and two adolescents pled guilty." "Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991,1997) reported a case of the ritual abuse of children in the Netherlands. The authors describe the allegations and their observations regarding this case in Oude Pekela." "Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991,1997) reported a case of the ritual abuse of children in the Netherlands. The authors describe the allegations and their observations regarding this case in Oude Pekela." http://www.mkzine.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=6mode=threadorder=0thold=0POSTNUKESID=a5f4bfbe3c863270e6ff3cc39bd87b5b 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] Russians volunteer to defend Iraq - 100,000 children are at risk of disease
-Caveat Lector- http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/03/06/44067.html Thousands of Russians volunteer to defend Iraq Around ten thousand Russian citizens have applied for entry visas into Iraq to defend this country against the planned aggression by the warmongering USA and UK, according to the Iraqi Embassy in Moscow. Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow, Abbas Khalaf, declared last week that the Embassy had received around 3,500 requests, a number which has multiplied in the last few days, according to sources in the same Embassy. The requests come from young males, some with combat experience, who describe themselves as (volunteers) who are willing to defend Iraq against the illegal armed aggression of the USA and the United Kingdom, two countries which continue to follow a belligerent stance on crisis management, wholly outside the generally accepted concepts of a New World Order based upon multilateralist approaches to problem solving, based upon the United Nations Organisation, a position championed by president Putin's Russian Federation. http://electronicIraq.net/news Fighting in Basra intensifies as fears of a crisis grow Report, Oxfam International (25 March 2003) Fighting in Basra intensifies as fears of a crisis grow. The United Nations (UN) warns that less than half the city, home to 1.5 million people, is receiving clean water and there is no power. Some 100,000 children are at risk of disease as fighting has continued for four days, disrupting supplies of drinking water. UN hampered by Annan's weak leadership Ali Abunimah, Electronic Iraq (25 March 2003) UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has betrayed the Charter and legacy of the United Nations by failing to declare the US attack on Iraq illegal, and by not calling for an immediate ceasefire. As the UN becomes more and more relevant, its role is threatened by Annan's weak leadership, writes Electronic Iraq's Ali Abunimah. 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] COMET PHOTO/STORY UPDATE
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: RUBY ALERT: COMET UPDATE -- BE VIGILANT/BE PREPARED Date sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:02:08 -0700 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: http://www.free-minds.org/comet_story.htm DANGER-- COMET PHOTO/STORY UPDATE THIS IS NOT A HOAX...THIS IS A WARNING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SENSE... Below are the actual orbiting photographs of the sun taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO satellite. These photo's show the passage of the comet nicknamed NEAT C/2002 V1 which is reported to be as large as a planet (2x the size of Pluto) and its story was briefly picked-up by the BBC news. I have made some comments underneath each photo to give you a feel of what is going on... (There is a picture - not displayed in this email - between each of the following paragraphs at the website, http://www.free-minds.org/comet_story.htm which is worth a look) The comet approaches the sun and can be seen clearly in the top part of the satellite photo dated 17/2/2003. It was unknown at this point whether the comet would fly out of the sun and back into space, or whether it would be pulled into the gravity of the sun and explode or melt due to the nuclear fusion with the sun... However, some reports (see BBC story) placed the comet as a 'recurring' phenomena every 37,000 years which meant that it would 'fly-past'. The comet continues its approach a few hours later into February 18th as expected...nothing special is happening, and it is still unknown if the comet will survive the pass-by with the sun. As the comet comes close to the sun, a solar flame starts shooting out from the sun towards the area of the comet. Flames shooting out from the sun are a common occurrence and this was perhaps due to the gravitational pull of both the sun and this planet-size comet... An hour later the solar flame is getting higher and higher into space and seems to be heading straight for the comet (this is not usual or typical). Another hour goes by and the solar flame is truly 'lashing-out'. It is unknown how close to the comet the flame is getting, but according to one science website article the comet is at least 5 million miles away from the sun at its nearest point. Another hour goes by and the flame looks set to strike the comet (though this is not certain as the images related are in 2-D, while space is in 3-D). It is now estimated that this solar flame will make a distance of close to 5 million miles. This is one of the climax photos where it seems that the solar flame has scorched the comet (though no assessment could yet be made as to the damage to the comet)...What is also very 'eerier' is that the solar flame draws the picture of a massive 'eye' looking out towards the left! (AMAZING AND TRUE!) An hour later the flame and comet seem to be in close proximity... the comet is still moving closer to the sun (and that eye drawn in space from the flames is now looking forward!). This is when everything strange began to happen...the SOHO images went OFF-LINE for about 7-hours, and when they came back, the image of the comet continuing its pass unaffected was being displayed... However, you can clearly see a 'cutpaste' image of part of the comet in the mid right section which indicates that photo manipulation is taking place. For the next 12 or so hours we saw the 'faked' comet just making its way smoothly away from the sun as per the pre-planned trajectory with its exit point being the exact same location where the 'photo-shop' error placed it in the picture before this!. This day also say a very bizarre 'Home Land' security alert which asked people to have 3-days supply of water and food, as well as first aid kits, flashlights, blankets and to assume that in case of an 'attack' that even telephone and services will be out! Here is a quote from their statement: Some of the things you can do to prepare for the unexpected, such as assembling a supply kit and developing a family communications plan, are the same for both a natural or man-made emergency... If you see large amounts of debris in the air (read their site here). Many hours pass before the 'faked' comet starts to leave the photo shots...Though what is worth noting is that a solar eruption in the SAME PLACE that the comet was struck now begins and will last for nearly 36 hours before its dies down!. Note that once the comet is now gone, the solar activity is going on in the SAME VICINITY where the comet seemed to be struck or hovered nearly 36 hours before! (this flare has been up for a number of hours prior to this photo). This is not a normal phenomena as solar flares in one spot do not last more than a few hours...the only conclusion that has been drawn is that part of the comet has broken off and combusted with the sun causing the excess
[CTRL] Back from the 9-11 Roundie-Round
-Caveat Lector- http://www.theonion.com/onion3911/bush_bravely_leads.html IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDERAs the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division began its ground assault on Iraq Monday, President Bush marched alongside the front-line soldiers, bravely putting his own life on the line for his country by personally participating in the attack. http://graphics.theonion.com/pics_3911/bush_bravely_leads.jpg Above: A weary Bush marches through enemy territory near the Iraq- Kuwait border. Bush is the real deal, and when he talks about fighting for freedom, he means it, said Pvt. Tom Scharpling, 21. He'd never ask one of us grunts to take any risks for our country that he wasn't willing to take himself. According to reports from the front, many of the soldiers were initially suspicious of the president, doubtful that an Ivy Leaguer who once used powerful family connections to avoid service in Vietnam had what it took to face enemy fire head-on. However, Bushor, as his fellow soldiers nicknamed him in a spirit of battlefield camaraderie, 'Big Tex'quickly overcame the platoon's reluctance to having a fancy-pants Yalie in its ranks. Bush is the best soldier I've ever had the honor of fighting alongside, said Pvt. Jon Benjamin, 23. I'd take a bullet for that man, because I know he'd take one for me if he had to. Proving himself a worthy foot soldier, Bush has earned the respect of his fellow front-line combatants with acts of courage and heroism that one soldier called a truly inspiring example of one man's commitment to the cause of liberty. Just yesterday, George stormed an Iraqi machine-gun nest when our sergeant took one in the belly, Pvt. Scott Lumpy Fellers, 20, told reporters. We were pinned down, cut off from our division, and it looked like curtains for us all. Thankfully, George was there. He ran through heavy artillery fire and lobbed a grenade right into their bunker. If it hadn't been for him, God knows how many of us would've been coming home in body bags. It's not just any president who would risk his life like the nation's men in uniform do, Fellers added. God bless him and everything he stands for. Bush's courage, sources say, was evident from the earliest stages of the war's planning. Though the Pentagon initially wanted an air war with minimal ground combat, Bush quickly dismissed this strategy, insisting that the only way a true and lasting victory could be achieved was to go in and fightdune by dune, village by villageuntil Iraq was finally free. White House sources say Bush's decision to place his own life on the line for his country met with resistance from top military leaders. The Joint Chiefs of Staff kept telling him, 'Mr. President, we beg youstay here in Washington, where it's safe.' But George was having none of it, said Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry. He was adamant that if our boys overseas were going to risk their lives for liberty, he was going to do the same. And, by God, he proved himself a man of his word. The president has only been in battle for less than a week, but he has already proven himself more than willing to put himself in the line of fire. The president carried me through an enemy minefield after my arm had been blown off by a mortar shell, blazing away with his pistol as he delivered me to safety, Pvt. Chris Adair said. Then, after he'd gotten me to a medic, he went all the way back through that same minefield carrying a 40-pound bag of ice the whole wayto retrieve my severed arm so the doctors could sew it back on. Now, thanks to President Bush, I'll still be able to play piano for the church choir back home in Appleton, just like I promised Grandma. He is truly an American hero. Adair's comments were echoed by many of the soldiers fighting alongside Bush. I used to be cynical about politicians who are born into privilege and wealth. I thought, 'Sure, they talk a good game about our duty to protect democracy, but when push comes to shove, they'd rather send off the nation's poor, uneducated, and underprivileged to do the fighting for them,' said Pvt. Frank Elkins, 19. I always figured they'd rather see somebody else die in some foreign land than make that sacrifice themselves. But now I know I was wrong. There may be some folks out there, born silver spoon in hand, who'd act that way, but that ain't Bush. No, that ain't Bush, Elkins said. He ain't no fortunate son. Newsletters Enter your email address below to sign up! More information Privacy Policy Link The Onion Add a link to The Onion on your site. Copyright 2003, Onion, Inc., All rights reserved. Contact Us Help/FAQ Privacy Policy Media Kit The Onion is not intended for readers under 18 years of age. 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
[CTRL] Fwd: PEPIS #48 - Bilderberg 2003 set for Versailles
-Caveat Lector- 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 ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- This is being sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of the mailing list that you joined. List: PEPIS URL: http://www.bilderberg.org PEPIS #48 - 25Mar03 - Bilderberg 2003 set for Versailles Leaks from last May's Bilderberg meeting were one of the first indications in the world that Iraq had been selected for the transatlantic alliance's next military outing. Bilderberg appears to be where plans for U.S. imperial adventurism are run past the handful of people powerful enough to stop them. As the illegal Iraq invasion crawls on, what will be the next staging post in the global crisis being engineered by the governments of Britain, The United States and Israel? Judging by last year's leaks, a fly on the wall in Versailles might well discover the answer. The lower echelons of the ruling class are being told right now that the world is facing total financial meltdown. The only way to save their hard earned investments, they are told, is to throw their weight behind this global crisis centred around the Middle East to replace the time-expired East-West cold war crisis. In fact, one other way out is to abandon global capitalism altogether (apologies for starting it in the English Civil War by-the-way) and introduce state-sanctioned local money systems controlled and owned by the people of all nations. Instead we (in Europe) are being railroaded into the Eurodollar. If you were ever under an illusion that the Euro was different to the dollar then look on the back of each note - it shows a bridge stretching out from Europe across the Atlantic. One can never be 100% certain about a venue and dates for Bilderberg but it does seem pretty likely that this is the spot: The Trianon Palace Hotel - 1, Boulevard de la Reine, Versailles, Paris, France. May 15-18 2003. Kenneth Clarke, in a letter to a Scottish anti-Bilderberg campaigner, has confirmed the venue. The Trianon Palace Hotel http://www.s-h-systems.co.uk/cgi-bin/www.s-h-systems.co.uk/brochure.pl?id=129705t=versailless=c=FR American Free Press http://www.americanfreepress.net will be covering developments in the run-up and during the conference. The annual task remains to break Bilderberg's wall of secrecy at Versailles this May. And see http://www.bilderberg.org/2003.htm for the latest Bilderberg gossip. On a personal note I intend to suspend new postings to this website to concentrate on making sure the Bilderberg site stays up there for you. This list will revert to only 2 postings a year. One to announce the venue when it's discovered and one to announce the official participant list. You'll find links to many honest and well-informed news sites such as Online Journal, What Really Happened and Common Dreams on my War on Freedom page at http://www.bilderberg.org/usglobal.htm. Where will the global crisis end? It seems likely a 'Christian'/'Jewish' vs. 'Moslem' conflict will emerge from this Middle East crisis which is ironic, since the political leaders of all sides, Bin Laden, Bush, Sharon, Saddam etc. appear to be secular, with little love for God, the poor, or for their fellow man. Misguided marionettes Bush and Blair certainly show contempt for the ten commandments which indicates their professed Christianity may be nothing more than a cover story. Keep a close eye too on Zionist attempts to rebuild Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, to expand Israel's borders and to wipe out the Palestinian people. The Zionist eye is firmly on the main chance: feeding the fire of interreligious hatred amongst the
[CTRL] Michael Moore And The Mysterious Microphone Ploy
-Caveat Lector- http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3290/index.php THE "MYSTERIOUS MICROPHONE" PLOY Although we have all now witnessed the wonders of visual "movie magic" in the editing of news footage (remember the missing protestors in the footage of the presidential inauguration?), a new, more insidious bit of "magic" is gaining favor with propagandists. I like to call this technique the "mysterious microphone" ploy, because it is a mystery how what the ear hears live and the network microphones transmit up can be so different! During the speeches given during the massive protest in Washington, D.C. before the war was declared, to hear C-SPAN 's audio coverage, there was often barely a ripple of response by the audience to the speakers. Of course, those present know that the applause and cheering from the crowd that punctuated the speeches was thunderous. But the audience at home, unaware of the live reality, would swear that the activists were playing to a subdued and/or small crowd. When Michael Moore delivered his blast of the Bush Reich at the Oscars, he was, in reality, given a standing ovation and hearty applause. But, to hear the soundbyte presented on the network news, you'd never know it. All you can hear are boos...which, in fact, came from about five people, from eyewitness accounts. Conversely, when Bush so much as smirks at a public affair, to hear the "mysterious microphones" tell it, every person in the place thunderously cheers and applauds. So when you combine the mysterious microphone effect with skillful editng you can, quite effectively, lie through your teeth. Example: The network coverage of Moore (all 3 seconds of it) shows Moore briefly, then, while cutting to a handful of stony-faced people, cranks up the volumne on the five booers. The result: a totally false statement: Moore's speech was met by boos and grim silence, not by enthusiasm and a standing ovation Michael Moore's statement at Oscars "We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president," Moore said. "We live in a time where we have a man who's sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts."Applause gave way to some boos, as the orchestra began playing to cue the filmmaker to leave the stage."We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you," Moore shouted. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/23/state2309EST0088.DTL While Moore received a STANDING OVATION, only a few booed probably Charlton Heston, Bruce "Please send me to Iraq, Mr. Bush" Willis, and Arnold "testosterone-challenged" Swharzenneger. 'When asked by reporters why he made the remarks, he answered: "I'm an American." "Is that all?" "Oh, that's a lot," Moore responded. He dismissed the jeers he received, telling reporters: "Don't report that there was a split decision in the hall because five loud people booed." 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] Skolnick: Great Storms Big Lies Of History
-Caveat Lector- http://www.rense.com/general36/skolov31.htm The Overthrow Of The American Republic - Part 31 Great Storms And Big Lies Of History By Sherman H. Skolnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.skolnicksreport.com 3-22-3 Throughout the events of the world, there were happenings that, on occasion, changed the course of history. Later generations often failed to remember or note the same or see an evil omen of these past occurrences. Some later called them acts of Mother Nature, others preferring to be spiritual, called them Divine Intervention. And then there were the Big Lies of foreign invaders. >From about the 15th Century on, Spain emassed great wealth from plundering countries in the New World. Such as, early in the 16th Century, Spain conquered Peru and Mexico. Perhaps at the time, Spain denied invading those lands to steal their gold and silver. For a time, the Spanish Hapsburg royalty became the most powerful in the world. In 1588, Philip II of Spain ordered his huge Spanish Armada, considered invincible, to set sail to conquer England. Call it Mother Nature, call it a Judgment from Heaven, but a terrible storm blew them off course. What was left of the shipwrecked fleet ended up on the shores of Ireland. The surviving sailors/killers later intermarried with the inhabitants, thus resulting in the Dark Irish. Following the French Revolution late in the 18th Century, what survived of the French Aristocracy that had not met their fate at the guillotine---a machine invented for beheading condemned prisoners---in a form of counter-revolution, installed a brilliant military conniver, Napoleon Bonaparte, of Corsica. As the dictator of France, acceptable to the monied class, he sought to restore their "glory", hurling the best of the French youth, some to their deaths, to conquer with his clever strategies, Germany, Austria, and other places. Eventually Napoleon conquered Russia and briefly set up his headquarters in Moscow. In the winter of 1813, retreating from Moscow, his armed forces were hit with the worst winter ever, 80 degrees below zero. Most of his army of 600,000 were lost. Some were frozen deep in ice and their corpses did not thaw out until many months later. After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, he was sent to be exiled in an island in the mid-South Atlantic Ocean, St. Helena. Some now contend that there is proof from surviving strands of his hair, that Napoleon was murdered, bit by bit, by being poisoned with arsenic. After Adolf Hitler's armies invaded Russia in 1941, the two winters that followed, were, like what hit Napoleon's army in 1813, some of the worst low temperatures ever. Many German soldiers considered being sent to the Russian front as a death warrant. Was it a dark omen of what was to be the great Nazi military disaster at Stalingrad? Perhaps over the last two centuries, foreign invaders and would-be foreign invaders of the Mid-East, did not learn from previous events. Failure to understand the region, rather than Mother Nature or Divine Intervention, brought them eventually to ruin. Each such foreign invader started with bombarding the targetted nation, and others, with the Big Lie that the invaders were coming, not to steal their land and treasures, but for the good of the populace. As one publication quoted George W. Bush, comparing him to Napoleon, Bush was invading Iraq for spreading " 'God's gift' of liberty 'to each and every person', and of how 'Iraqi lives and freedom matter greatly to us' " Wall Street Journal, 3/19/2003, "Past Mideast Invasions Faced Unexpected Perils". What follows are excerpts from the same newspaper: "Napoleon proclaimed a similar era of equality and respect for 'true Muslims' as he marched into Cairo in 1798, killing a thousand members of Eqypt's ruling caste'Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion', said Napoleon as he entered Cairo. 'Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights.' Napoleon's real goals involved France's colonial rivalry with Britain." (Note, several times before George W. Bush invaded Iraq, the head of British Petroleum warned the Bush White House that British Pete, as they are called, will demand a piece of the Iraq post-war oil treasure. Guardian newspaper, London, 10/30/2002.) More excerpts from the Wall Street Journal: "British troops landed in what's now Iraq in 1914, as part of Britain's campaign against the Ottoman Turks, allies of Germany in World War I. 'Britain was bursting with confidence in an easy and early victory', wrote British officer T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of ArabiaCapturing Baghdad after the first three years, they offered almost the same salutation as Napoleon had in Cairo, 'Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators,' trumpeted Gen.F.S. Maude, commander of the British forces in Iraq. 'Your wealth has been
[CTRL] War on the War
-Caveat Lector- http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0313/hoberman2.php Oscar Declares War on the War When Doves Cry by J. Hoberman March 26 - April 1, 2003 The big one: Best Documentary winner Michael Moore takes aim at the fictitious president. (photo: Staci Schwartz) cast of Bill Clinton's cronies, a vaunted billion viewers in 150 countries: There were some who imagined that, four days into the Iraq war, Oscar Night '03 might be the most widely seen peace demonstration ever beamed into the universe. As the Desert Storm sequel drew nigh, the right-wing media shifted their enemies of choice from cheese-eating surrender monkeys to bigmouth movie stars. Could Shock and Awe really be upstaged by Stupefaction and Narcissism? The New York Post suggested that the Academy Awards be canceled. Meanwhile, the Internet crackled with reports that activists like Susan Sarandon and Martin Sheen were on a blacklist and that acceptance speeches would be monitored for political content. Insiders warned a U.K. daily that failure to award Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature would be proof that Hollywood had reverted to the witch-hunting 1950s. What was appropriateand what should people wear? The group Artists United to Win Without War was handing out green peace buttons; other members of the Academy sported a more abstract silver squiggle apparently meant to represent a dove. Monitoring the stars' entrance on the foreshortened red carpet from her E! aerie, fashion arbiter Joan Rivers wondered what they meant. Peace, her daughter explained. Every idiot in the world wants peace, Joan snorted, suggesting that the morning after, the pins will wind up for sale on eBay. But what the buttons and squiggles really meant was that, for those of us who cared, the stars were making a statementor not. The Hollywood left had devolved to this. But then, the movies encourage semiotic readings. The green semaphore seemed more radical, if less chic, than the silver squiggle. It was less surprising to spot a green button affixed to the lapel of Michael Moore's tuxedo than Harvey Weinstein's. Salma Hayek, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Adrien Brody all wore the squiggle but not their fellow nominees Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep (although it had been reported they would). Presenter Richard Gere was besquiggled, surprise loser Martin Scorsese not. Susan Sarandon sauntered confidently out with her pin and held up two fingers in a goddessy peace sign. A shell- shocked-looking Barbra Streisand was unsquiggled, although she did make a statement in praise of protest music. There were some who devised other accessories Matthew McConaughey's lapel had sprouted a peculiar mlange of red, white, and blue flowersbut only Jon Voight seemed to be wearing an American flag pin. Where were movieland's macho men? Who would defend Bush's war? Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all seemed conspicuous by their absence. Had they driven their Humvees into lockdown? Were they stockpiling Poland Spring and boycotting the hippie love-in? Was it the hall? The Kodak Theater's outsize, quasi-pagan Oscar statues and the Babylonian deco splendor had the look of an Iraqi presidential palace. Had the terrorists won? There was an elephant in the room, but it wasn't Republican. Based as they are on the pleasure principle, the movies needed only to exist to come under political attack. In 1920, not long after the U.S. replaced France as the world's greatest movie producer, the vice- crusading Reverend Wilbur Fisk Crafts appealed to Congress and the Catholic Church to rescue America's motion picture industry from the hands of the Devil and 500 un-Christian Jews. Hollywood got the message and has been playing defense ever since. By 1922, the studio heads established a self-regulating body, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), and hired Postmaster General Will Haysan upstanding Indiana Republican and Presbyterian church elderto be its president. When the muckraker Upton Sinclair ran for California governor in 1934, the studios rallied behind his Republican opponent, Frank Merriam, and even tithed employees to support Merriam's campaign. Some credit this with radicalizing screenwriterscertainly it contributed to the creation of their guild. The industry's political consciousness was further raised by the rise of European fascism and the late-'30s influx of Jewish and political migrs. Writers and refugees joined forces in 1936 to found the Hollywood Anti- Nazi League, attracting a fair number of stars and creating a prototype for glamorous activism. Eddie Cantor, Paul Muni, Gloria Stuart, and Sylvia Sidney were among HANL's celebrity sponsors. Almost overnight, HANL fundraising played a key role in the Hollywood social whirl, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner write in their recent history, Radical Hollywood. HANL was attacked as a Communist front
[CTRL] Another Perle Harbor?
http://brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=143 25-3-2003 another PERLE HARBOR? I've been trying for weeks to get a bead on Richard Perle, as his name kept leaping out at me, piquing my curiosity. Not having been in the states since Clinton, I'm not too hip on who's who, but the stuff I've dug up on this guy has me agreeing with those who are calling him the Prince of Darkness or Bush's Svengali. That appears to be right on the money. I've hit on conservative columnist Jude Wanniski for an insight, as he seems to know the most about the Perle. " A word about Richard Perle: I've known him since 1969 and have for many years considered him a friend and ally in our fight against the Communists in Moscow and Beijing. He has a high IQ, but I have not heard him say anything about foreign policy that struck me as being thought through. Colin Powell privately refers to him and Wolfowitz as "the bombers." The reason, I think, is that Perle's mentor and father-in-law, Albert Wohlstetter, was the brains in the family, and when Albert died, Richard inherited his global network of political supporters. I have likened Richard to the Sorcerer's Apprentice, a Mickey Mouse who thinks he can do magic by using the Sorcerer's wand. If you scratch Perle, you will find a mediocre strategist, a checker player at best." Also, just a week after 9-11, Wanniski sent a memo to Henry Kissinger. "I was surprised to see you on television last night making arguments I associate with the worlds No. 1 hawk, Richard Perle, who has been the chief architect of our policy toward the Arab/Islamic world. There is no single American more responsible for inciting outrage among Muslims globally than Richard, whose maniacal prescriptions led inexorably to last weeks cataclysm. It was no surprise to me to see Richard on CNNs EvansNovak, Hunt Shields program on Sunday, calling for all-out war against the Arab world with a coalition entirely composed of western Europeans. If he were just an ordinary maniac, we could live with him, Henry, but he is chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon, and which gives him total access to all military secrets. Do you have any doubt that he is now in constant communication with Ariel Sharon and Binjamin Netanyahu, the leaders of the coo-coo wing of the Likud Party in Israel." This info is quite revealing if you take it from a psychological profile angle. "A little-known fact about Richard Perle, the leading advocate of hardline policies at the Pentagon, is that he once wrote a political thriller. The book, appropriately called Hard Line, is set in the days of the cold war with the Soviet Union. Its hero is a male senior official at the Pentagon, working late into the night and battling almost single-handedly to rescue the US from liberal wimps at the state department who want to sign away America's nuclear deterrent in a disarmament deal with the Russians. Ten years on Mr Perle finds himself cast in the real-life role of his fictional hero - except that the Russians are no longer a threat, so he has to make do with the Iraqis, the Saudis and terrorism in general." Seven months ago this was said of him. "Anyone who has listened to a single political speech knows that Washington, D.C., is a swampy morass controlled by pencil pushers, experts in bureaucratic intrigue. Richard Perle is one of these men. By dint of his mastery of the dark arts of memos and news leaks, Perle has become a Washington eminence, appearing on TV shows, publishing op-eds in the national dailies, and getting quoted (by name!) in news stories. He's something you don't hear about in politicians' speeches: the faceful bureaucrat. Forward to November 2002. "George Bush's top security adviser last night admitted the US would attack Iraq even if UN inspectors fail to find weapons. Dr Richard Perle stunned MPs by insisting a "clean bill of health" from UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix would not halt America's war machine. December. This guy is too much. One of George W Bush's "thinkers" is Richard Perle. I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about "total war", I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing America's "war on terror". "No stages," he said. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now." George Paine of warblogging.com had this to say last month. "Perle is the Department of Defense's most senior civilian advisor. He is not technically a member of the Bush Administration, but he is certainly a mouthpiece for Bush. He is, if nothing else, a
[CTRL] War To Pay Off Big Time
-Caveat Lector- Bush's War Spending Feeds Corporate Interests http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/business/23REBU.html?th=pagewanted=print position=top DIANA B. HENRIQUES - War began last week. Reconstruction starts this week.That, at least, is how it looks to government contract officers, who in the coming days plan to give American companies the first contracts to rebuild Iraq, a task that experts say could eventually cost $25 billion to $100 billion. It would be the largest postwar rebuilding since the Marshall Plan in Europe after World War II. . . The companies that have been invited to bid on the work include some of the nation's largest and most politically connected construction businesses. Among them are Halliburton, where Vice President Dick Cheney served as chief executive from 1995 until mid-2000; the Bechtel Group, whose ranks have included several Republican cabinet alumni; and Fluor, which has ties to several former top government intelligence and Pentagon procurement officials. Others bidding on reconstruction business are the Parsons Corporation, the Louis Berger Group and the Washington Group International, which absorbed Morrison-Knudsen in 1996. . . No company has firmer political connections than Kellogg Brown Root, the engineering and construction arm of Halliburton. Besides its links to Mr. Cheney, the company has been a major military contractor since World War II. Most recently, it handled the high-speed construction of the Guantnamo prison compound for terror suspects . But since last May, the company has also come under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating how the company has accounted for cost overruns on its construction and engineering work since 1998. And this spring, its shareholders will vote on a proposal, sponsored by two giant New York City pension funds, calling for a review of Halliburton's previous business ties to Iran. Louis Berger, based in East Orange, N.J., could be a dark-horse contender in the Iraq reconstruction sweepstakes. Besides its work on an ambitious pipeline to carry oil from Tengiz, Kazakhstan, to a deep-water port on the Black Sea in Russia, the privately held firm has been an important government contractor in the Balkans for years. More recently, it won a contract to oversee extensive infrastructure development in postwar Afghanistan. The centerpiece of the $300 million contract was the rebuilding of a shattered 600-mile highway from Kabul to Herat. . . Bechtel is considered the largest contractor in the country, and one of the largest in the world. Its board includes a former secretary of state, George P. Shultz, and its ranks once included a former defense secretary, Caspar W. Weinberger. . . It is facing a political meltdown of its own in Massachusetts, where it is under severe criticism by the state's inspector general for more than $1 billion in cost overruns on the tunnel and highway construction project in Boston, the so-called big dig. Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts has ordered an independent review of the project, which was managed for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority by Bechtel and its joint venture partner, Parsons Brinckerhoff - which is not related to the Parsons Corporation that is bidding on the Iraqi work. . . Fluor, based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., is not currently working on any Agency for International Development projects, but it has extensive experience building petroleum facilities in difficult places. It is building an enormous plant on Sakhalin Island, off Russia's Pacific coast, for an international consortium that includes Exxon Mobil, and is developing oil and gas fields in Kazakhstan for a consortium whose largest member is ChevronTexaco. Last April, Fluor hired Kenneth J. Oscar, who as acting assistant secretary of the Army oversaw the Pentagon's $35 billion-a-year procurement budget. Its board includes Bobby R. Inman, a retired admiral who was also former director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Fluor is currently in arbitration to untangle a dispute with Anaconda Nickel in Australia over Fluor's work on a $615 million nickel-cobalt processing plant in western Australia. Fluor has disputed the accusations of poor workmanship, but Anaconda has collected millions of dollars in compensation in the first phase of the arbitration. A spokesman for Fluor, Jerry Holloway, confirmed that it had been invited to bid on the work in Iraq but said he could not comment on the scale or scope of the contracts. Parsons, an employee-owned company based in Pasadena, Calif., is one of Bechel's most formidable rivals in the construction market. . . It does not have the prominent political connections that Bechtel and Fluor have, though the labor secretary, Elaine Chao, served on its board for about a year before joining the cabinet in January 2001. In 1998, Parsons won a contract to take over the vehicle inspection program in
[CTRL] RUBY ALERT: Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: RUBY ALERT: Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII Date sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:16:55 -0700 Elite Sets The Stage For WWIII Americans To Take The Fall This Time By: Henry Makow Something very worrisome is happening. Some of Rockefeller's best toadies oppose the Iraq war. But Rockefeller and his ilk are responsible for this war. What gives? It appears the global elite is dividing its minions into two house teams again. The last time this happened we had the Fascist-Communist slugfest called World War Two. The same satanic cabal controlled both sides and picked Germany to take the fall. This time, the U.S., Britain and the coalition of the willingare on one side. On the other are France, Germany, Russia and China. The centre of global power is moving to China, Europe and Russia.I see a world war over Korea, or more likely Iran and control of Middle East oil. The U.S., overextended from Kuwait to Korea, will come up short. My guess is that the US will find itself increasingly isolated and vilified as a result of the Iraq war. I suspect the hidden agenda is to bring down the world's last superpower; to replace the UN with a new instrument of world government; to kill a lot of people, and to wean Americans off democracy and their high standard of living. GLOBALISTS AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR? Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, George Soros, Mikail Gorbachev and Walter Cronkite are all globalist elder statesmen-for-hire. Curiously, they all oppose the Iraq war. Jimmy Carter, a creation of Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission publicly supported more UN inspections. Mikhail Gorbachev said the war is a big mistake. Nelson Mandela called it a tragedy and warned Bush was plunging the world into a holocaust. Financial maven George Soros said: The Bush doctrine is grounded in power; legality and legitimacy are decorations. Finally, Walter Cronkite, who is linked to Rockefeller's CFR warned: We are going to be in such a fix when this war is over, or before this war is over. Our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for this war. I look at our future as, I'm sorry, being very dark. The leaders of Russia, France, Germany and China also voiced opposition with uncharacteristic bluntness. They must have the OK of the global money masters. Military action ... is a big mistake, Vladimir Putin said. Iraq has presented no danger... China urged the US and Britain to halt their military actions. France, Russia and Germany all refused a U.S. request to close their Iraqi embassies. North Korea apparently is preparing for war. Even in England, major newspapers like The Mirror have been scathing in their criticism of Tony Blair. British newspapers belong to the same clan. I suspect England will defect to Europe's side before this fiasco is over. PARALLELS TO WORLD WAR TWO Before World War Two, a faction of the British elite built up Hitler. This was known as the policy of appeasement. After Hitler fell into the trap of attacking Poland, they did a sleight of hand and replaced the accommodating Chamberlain with the defiant Churchill. Iraq is a similar trap. The United States has squandered the sympathy and good will it earned on Sept 11. The images of the World Trade Centre have been replaced in the world's mind by the spectacular explosions in Baghdad. The US comes across as a bully too cowardly to pick on anyone its own side. Notch this victory up beside its thrashings of Grenada, Panama and Serbia. The gloating by US TV commentators is particularly distasteful to the outside world. The damage to America's moral authority is incalculable. After this war, who will have sympathy for Americans if Chinese atomic bombs rain down on Los Angeles and New York? The devil degrades his victims before he destroys them. [In the eyes of the world, the U.S. has lost it's moral imperative and seen as an arrogant Empire. -CR] ELITE TREASON For almost 100 years, the American leadership class has belonged to an international cabal that is determined to dissolve all human loyalties, including the nation state, and establish a global tyranny. George Bush, who is part of this cabal, has led the American people into a trap. Who in their right mind would deliberately alienate 1.3 billion Muslims? Of course Hussein is a bad man but this is not the motive. The U.S. is acting as gofer for the Zionists and the oil cartels, two leading parts of the cabal. They will come out ahead while Americans will foot the bill and take the brunt of Muslim indignation. Can the U.S. even count on Israel? At his trial, Israeli Spy Jonathon Pollard was called the greatest traitor in the history of the United States (Gordon Thomas, Seeds of Fire, p.31-32). In the words of CIA Director George Tenet, Pollard, an American Jew, stole every
[CTRL] Feeding Frenzy Continues
-Caveat Lector- CARLYLE GROUP CASHING IN AS TANKS ROLL http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,919897,00.html Jamie Doward, OBSERVER - It is the sort of thing they really could have done without. For 15 years one of America's most powerful venture capital groups has tried to play down suggestions that its multi-billion dollar funds get fat on the back of global conflict. But now, with the invasion of Iraq under way, a new book chronicling the relatively short history of the Carlyle Group threatens to draw attention to the company's close links with the Pentagon. Dan Briody, author of the Iron Triangle, Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group, alleges the company's executives were so worried about his book they told staff not to talk to him. The Carlyle Group rejects this and argues the book is little more than a cuttings job based around some of the more crazy conspiracy theories found on the internet. It also points out that only around 7 per cent of its funds are invested in defense companies, far less than several other venture capital groups. . . But Briody's account of how an upstart venture capital firm went from nothing to managing funds of nearly $14 billion in just 15 years, earning investors returns of around 36 per cent, is likely to reinforce the controversial image of the Carlyle Group and raise concerns about its influence in Washington and beyond. Sometimes called the Ex-Presidents Club, Carlyle has a glittering array of ex-politicians and big league bankers on its board. Former secretary of state James Baker is managing director while ex-secretary of defense Frank Carlucci is chairman. George Bush senior is an adviser. John Major heads up its European operations. To give the conspiracy theorists plenty of ammunition, US newspapers have also highlighted the fact that current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a wrestling partner of Carlucci's at Princeton and the two have remained close friends ever since. Perhaps Carlyle's most famous acquisition was United Defense in 1997. The company had developed a huge 40-ton howitzer, the Crusader, which, despite widespread opposition from the army, was commissioned by the Pentagon. The $665m contract was signed just two weeks after the attacks on the twin towers and less than a month later Carlyle decided to take the company public in a move that was to earn the group nearly $240m. Months later the Crusader program was scrapped while United Defense was handed a new contract to build a lighter gun. . . In the wake of 11 September came a fear of anthrax attack. One company that benefited was Pittsburgh- based IT Group, which won a number of contracts to clean up anthrax-infected buildings, including the Hart Senate Office Building. Carlyle owned 25 per cent of the firm, which it subsequently sold on. Likewise its investment in US Investigation Services, a company that specializes in checking the background of employees, saw business improve dramatically. . . Last month it bought CSX Lines, an ocean carrier firm that specializes in shipping heavy equipment. One of its biggest customers is the US military. Late last year it bought Firth Rixson, a specialist engineering firm that makes aerospace parts. It also has a 33 per cent stake in Qinetiq, the government's Defense Evaluation and Research Agency. Whatever Carlyle says, its image as being at the apex of what Eisenhower termed the 'military industrial complex' endures. 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] Israelis Execute 10 Yr Old Girl 14 Yr Old Boy Terrorists
-Caveat Lector- Print Edition Haaretz Wednesday, March 26, 2003 Adar2 22, 5763 Israel Time: 04:57 (GMT+2) 2 children, 3 others killed in W. Bank By Arnon Regular and Agencies Five Palestinians, including a 10-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, were killed by the IDF in the West Bank yesterday, Palestinian sources said. Also yesterday, the IDF apprehended a Fatah-Tanzim leader suspected of involvement in multiple terror attacks. Four Palestinians, including the 10-year-old girl, were killed by IDF fire in Bethlehem, Palestinian residents reported. Apparently, the incident occurred when a special IDF force was trying to assassinate two wanted terrorists. The force opened fire at the car with the terrorists, but also killed a passerby, Muwafat Badran, and a girl in the car in front, Christine Sa'ada. According to the Palestinians, the force snatched two of the bodies and disappeared. The child's father, George Sa'ada, and her mother and sister, have apparently sustained moderate to serious injuries and were taken to Hadassah Hospital. In Jenin, a 14-year-old boy was shot dead and a 12-year-old boy was seriously wounded by fire from an Israeli tank, doctors said. The Israeli military said they were shot while climbing on an armored vehicle. Yesterday was the fourth day of the army operation in Jenin, and the IDF yesterday captured Nidal Narnariya, who is suspected of being involved in several terror attacks, including last week's shooting on the road between Mevo Dotan and Shaked, and the deadly attack in Beit She'an at the Likud's internal elections a few months ago, in which four Israelis were killed. Narnariya is also said to have been involved in recruiting and distributing arms to Tanzim members. Sources in Israel's defense establishment said Narnariya was planning two suicide bombings inside Israel in the next two days. In the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, the IDF apprehended Fahed Abu Khamed, who was apparently planning to carry out a suicide bombing. In Ramallah, the IDF arrested two Fatah activists who were reportedly driving a car with fake EU plates. Curfew in Jenin continued, but no curfew was imposed anywhere else in the West Bank. The military court sentenced three Palestinians to consecutive life terms after convicting them of involvement in fatal attacks against Israelis, the military said. In a statement from the military court near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit El, the military said the three were members of an Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades cell in Jenin. The group is affiliated with Fatah, the movement headed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The military said the three carried out shooting attacks on West Bank roads and Jerusalem. The commander of the cell, Mohammed Mazlah, was sentenced to nine consecutive life terms. Among the incidents in which the military said he was involved was the attack on two unarmed Israeli reserve soldiers who lost their way and entered the West Bank Palestinian town of Ramallah in October, 2000. A mob stormed the police station where they were taken, beat them to death and threw their bodies out a second-story window. Another member of the cell received 16 consecutive life terms, and the third was sentenced to four consecutive life terms and an additional 15 years in prison. The defense establishment now has knowledge of 60 terror attacks planned for the near future. © Copyright 2003 Haaretz. All rights reserved A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects 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] GI's returning from Afg.
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Robert Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:28:58 -0500 Subject:[cia-drugs] GI's returning from Afg. There was a short news blip on the radio this weekend that the 4th returning GiI that killed his wife after returning from Afg. had been found dead in his cell. All four were found dead in there cell. None went on trial! --- End of forwarded message --- (I believe they were probably victim of mind control or implants experiments. They could not be allowed to tell what they knew in a public trial. --SW) News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aljazeerah.us/ http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news077.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news078.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] U.S. Army Documents Warn of Occupation Hazards
-Caveat Lector- U.S. Army Documents Warn of Occupation Hazards The War After the War by Jason Vest March 19 - 25, 2003 After a victory in Iraq, the transition from soldier to cop may be harrowing for the U.S. military. Despite the sanguine way George W. Bush and his chamberlains talk about a post-war Iraq, senior military officers are worried. According to recent unpublicized U.S. Army War College studies being read with increasing interest by some Pentagon planners, The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace in Iraq is real and serious. And that's especially true if occupation force soldiers are not retrained to be something similar to a constabulary force and imbued with the understanding that force is often the last resort of the occupation soldier. The War College studies explore in detail a troubling paradox: While all experts agree that stabilizing post-Saddam Iraq would be a protracted endeavor, the longer a U.S. occupation of Iraq continues, one of the studies notes, the more danger exists that elements of the Iraqi population will become impatient and take violent measures to hasten the departure of U.S. forces. One study broaches the subject of suicide attacks against U.S. soldiers. The impact of suicide bombing attacks in Israel goes beyond their numbers, it says, and this fact will also capture the imagination of would-be Iraqi terrorists. Yet Bush and some of his top advisers have consistently preached that laying the foundation for post-blood-and-sand Iraq really won't be that much of a chore. In a recent speech to the American Enterprise Institute, Dubya's tone was upbeat as he rattled off a succinct post-Saddam checklist for the U.S. Army: Deliver medicine to ailing Iraqis, hand out emergency rations, destroy weapons, secure Iraq from those who would spread chaos internally, and mind the oil fields-but not for a day more than necessary. Indeed, after the speech, a senior administration official told one reporter that a transition from U.S. military to U.S. civilian control over Iraq would take only a few months. Testifying before the House Budget Committee earlier this month, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz dismissed Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's suggestion that a U.S. occupation force might run to the hundreds of thousands; in a recent interview with the Voice, a senior Pentagon official dismissed General Shinseki's comments as bullshit from a Clintonite enamored of using the army for peacekeeping and nation-building and not winning wars. But at a time when the U.S. Army is a case study in multitasking-fighting the Global War on Terrorism (or GWOT, in Milspeak), keeping watch on the Korean peninsula, peacekeeping in the Balkans, chasing Islamic rebels in the Philippines, saddling up for more action in Colombia, to name but a few chores-a number of military professionals are quietly venting spleen about how disingenuous they believe the Bush administration is being with the public about post-war Iraq. Some are merely angry at what they see as a gap between optimistic policy pronouncements and the hard realities of a by-the-numbers post-war reconstruction. But perhaps more importantly, others are angry at what they see as the administration's neoconservative ideologues' playing fast and loose with soldiers' lives in an effort to realize a dubious vision for the Middle East. Because what the neocons dream of-either an instantly democratic Iraq that begins a domino effect of democratic revolution and renewal across the Middle East, or an Iraq whose defining aspect of democracy is a volatility that destabilizes the Arab world-is at odds with the lessons the army has learned about modern post-conflict stabilization. The situation has the potential to produce a slew of unintended or unforeseen consequences beyond the U.S.'s ability to handle them. According to The Day After: The Army in a Post-Conflict Iraq, a December 2002 paper produced by the War College's Center for Strategic Leadership, army studies have concluded that even with United Nations support, a post-conflict Iraq requirement of 65,000 to 80,000 U.S. Army personnel is the low-end manpower requirement for a military occupation expected to last not a matter of months, but a minimum of five years and possibly as many as ten. Read on and you have to wonder whether the White House is just ignoring unpleasant possibilities, or reveling in a Roveian-Rumsfeldian cloud-cuckoo-land: While the paper reports that experts disagree as to the required time frame needed to accomplish the post-conflict strategic requirements, particularly the governance and justice aspects, all agree that it won't be measured in months, but years. Part of the reason, the study explains, is that the past decade of army post-conflict stabilization operations has revealed that transitioning from immediate post-war stabilization to civil society is, for a host of practical reasons, complicated. It's one of the
[CTRL] Fwd: PEPIS #48 - Bilderberg 2003 set for Versailles
-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- This is being sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of the mailing list that you joined. List: PEPIS URL: http://www.bilderberg.org PEPIS #48 - 25Mar03 - Bilderberg 2003 set for Versailles Leaks from last May's Bilderberg meeting were one of the first indications in the world that Iraq had been selected for the transatlantic alliance's next military outing. Bilderberg appears to be where plans for U.S. imperial adventurism are run past the handful of people powerful enough to stop them. As the illegal Iraq invasion crawls on, what will be the next staging post in the global crisis being engineered by the governments of Britain, The United States and Israel? Judging by last year's leaks, a fly on the wall in Versailles might well discover the answer. The lower echelons of the ruling class are being told right now that the world is facing total financial meltdown. The only way to save their hard earned investments, they are told, is to throw their weight behind this global crisis centred around the Middle East to replace the time-expired East-West cold war crisis. In fact, one other way out is to abandon global capitalism altogether (apologies for starting it in the English Civil War by-the-way) and introduce state-sanctioned local money systems controlled and owned by the people of all nations. Instead we (in Europe) are being railroaded into the Eurodollar. If you were ever under an illusion that the Euro was different to the dollar then look on the back of each note - it shows a bridge stretching out from Europe across the Atlantic. One can never be 100% certain about a venue and dates for Bilderberg but it does seem pretty likely that this is the spot: The Trianon Palace Hotel - 1, Boulevard de la Reine, Versailles, Paris, France. May 15-18 2003. Kenneth Clarke, in a letter to a Scottish anti-Bilderberg campaigner, has confirmed the venue. The Trianon Palace Hotel http://www.s-h-systems.co.uk/cgi-bin/www.s-h-systems.co.uk/brochure.pl?id=129705t=versailless=c=FR American Free Press http://www.americanfreepress.net will be covering developments in the run-up and during the conference. The annual task remains to break Bilderberg's wall of secrecy at Versailles this May. And see http://www.bilderberg.org/2003.htm for the latest Bilderberg gossip. On a personal note I intend to suspend new postings to this website to concentrate on making sure the Bilderberg site stays up there for you. This list will revert to only 2 postings a year. One to announce the venue when it's discovered and one to announce the official participant list. You'll find links to many honest and well-informed news sites such as Online Journal, What Really Happened and Common Dreams on my War on Freedom page at http://www.bilderberg.org/usglobal.htm. Where will the global crisis end? It seems likely a 'Christian'/'Jewish' vs. 'Moslem' conflict will emerge from this Middle East crisis which is ironic, since the political leaders of all sides, Bin Laden, Bush, Sharon, Saddam etc. appear to be secular, with little love for God, the poor, or for their fellow man. Misguided marionettes Bush and Blair certainly show contempt for the ten commandments which indicates their professed Christianity may be nothing more than a cover story. Keep a close eye too on Zionist attempts to rebuild Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, to expand Israel's borders and to wipe out the Palestinian people. The Zionist eye is firmly on the main chance: feeding the fire of interreligious hatred amongst the worlds three monotheistic religions. Oh, and if you are despairing, like I am, at what passes for film or
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Forbes plugs fund managers who like gold
-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- 3:11p ET Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The guru picks story in Forbes is headlined, Top Fund Managers Buy Gold. You can find it here: http://www.forbes.com/2003/03/25/cz_rt_0325gurupicks.html? partner=yahooreferrer= Or try this abbreviated link: http://ls.shapebyforce.com/sbf/149 CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- FONT COLOR=#99Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/46VHAA/WfTolB/TM;BClick Here!/B/A -~- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Something Suspicious Is in the Air
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carnes, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:46:23 -0600 Subject:[cia-drugs] Something Suspicious Is in the Air http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16791-2003Mar23.html Something Suspicious Is in the Air By Courtland Milloy Monday, March 24, 2003; Page B01 The sign above the highway leading into the nation's capital advised motorists to Report Suspicious Activity and gave an 800 number for the Office of Homeland Security. As a reporter, I figured this was right up my alley and set out yesterday to report on things that struck me as suspicious. For instance, near the Jefferson Memorial, I saw a five-foot-tall metal box that was hooked up to an electrical outlet and equipped with a high-tech antenna and chrome-dome receptor. What was it? I asked a couple of National Park Service workers and some Cherry Blossom Festival organizers whose tent was set up next to the thing if they knew. Little did I know that my inquiry would become a suspicious activity in itself. We hear you've been asking curious questions, U.S. Park Police officer Michael Ramirez said as he and fellow officer Karl Spilde approached me from behind a blossomless cherry tree. Why are you doing that? Both officers carried 9mm semiautomatic pistols, Mace and batons. Perhaps because I had just left the Jefferson Memorial, where I'd read a few lines about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and all men are created equal, I felt bold enough to pose a question of my own: Why are you asking me that? What I really wanted to know was why my questions about the box had made me suspect. Or was it that an African American -- whom someone may have mistaken for a Middle Easterner - - was asking them? The only way to get to the bottom of this, I thought, was to ask more questions. Let me see your ID, Spilde said. Why? I asked. Wrong response. Call for backup, Spilde eventually told Ramirez as he seized my notebook and pen and began to search me. Was I being arrested, I asked before turning over my driver's license. Eight officers responded to the call for backup. One told me that, legally, I was not being arrested, just subject to investigative detention. Said Sgt. R.J. Steinheimer, There have been reports of suspicious activity regarding you. By whom? I asked. Can't tell you that, he replied. What kind of suspicious activity? I asked. Apparently you have been showing interest in equipment on the grounds, making notes, that sort of thing, he said. Are you interested in talking to us about what you're doing? I could have told him right then that I was a journalist. But I figured that any citizen should be able to ask a couple of questions without being detained as a suspicious person. I told him that I simply wanted to know what kind of machine it was. Are you aware of the current threat level? Officer J. Keyser asked. I told him I was. The United States had, after all, just launched an attack on Iraq knowing that it would increase the chances of terrorist attacks at home. But that didn't explain why I was being associated with Code Orange. Officer E. Sinkeldam asked if I'd seen the ABC-TV piece on 20/20 about how al Qaeda operatives had posed as tourists and had used their video cameras for surveillance before 9/11. In this heightened state of alert, he explained, if anyone shows a particular interest in something, we get suspicious. I pointed out that people all around us were using video cameras and cameras of all kinds to photograph who knows what. Even knowing I'd never get a straight answer, I pointedly asked whether I had been detained because I was African American or whether I looked Middle Eastern. The officers just smiled wryly. A Park Police detective would later say that a tourist had reported me to police. As soon as I heard that, I knew which one it was. I recalled that as I began photographing the metal box, a woman pulled out her cell phone and began keeping a not-so-discreet eye on me. After an hour and a half, when word finally got around that I was a writer for The Washington Post, the atmosphere lightened up considerably. The officers even answered my question about that contraption: It was simply an air quality testing device. And as if to let me know that we were all on the same side now, Officer Keyser asked, Have you noticed any suspicious activity in the area? E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] © 2003 The Washington Post Company --- End of forwarded message --- News alternatives to US war propaganda: http://www.aljazeerah.us/ http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news077.htm http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news078.htm A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL
[CTRL] Awakening World Says ENOUGH! of War
-Caveat Lector- --- Forwarded message follows --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SNET: A1 MUST READ: Awakening World Says ENOUGH! of War Date sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:58:54 -0700 Awakening World Says ENOUGH! of War When things are this perverted, warned the Hopi, you are entering the End Time. From: http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/6271.php EXCERPTS: Despite images censored by military minders and nervous networks, a rattled Rumsfeld has acknowledged, We're having a conflict at a time in our history when we have 24-hours- a-day television, radio, media and Internet, and more people in the world have access to what is taking place. But this unrestricted access to myriad straight-from-the-source footage and commentary is skewering White House spin controllers, who are whirling like dizzied dervishes in a desperate bid to make sure Americans do not see the images jolting the central nervous system of an increasingly appalled and angry world. (...) Even as allied forces close in on an ancient city that could become an Arab Stalingrad, satellite television and a worldwide web threaten to enmesh Earth's most powerful army in the immobilizing embrace of an even bigger Superpower:public opinion. In two short years since Sept. 11, a global network of dedicated Lilliputians is learning how to throw an Internet over a gluttonous Gulliver brandishing fearsome weapons of mass destruction. G. W. Bush has seized this moment to unite the world against him and an obsolete power paradigm as no leader has since his granddad financed Hitler. Even as the Bushwhackers trumpet their triumph over yet another monster of their own creation, the moral and financial bankruptcy they exemplify and exacerbate is speeding the downfall of this seemingly invincible police state in a collapse that will come as suddenly and completely as the former Soviet Union. It might be an opportune time -- right now! -- to turn off all brainwashing boxes before sophisticated media mesmerizers drag us by the scruff of our emotions into a bottomless pit of confusion, helplessness and fear. It's time to bring in the angels and focus on peace. WALKING AWAY FROM WAR by William Thomas Commentary - Lifeboatnews.com March 19, 2003 As the glaciers balancing this planet on its axis melt like sherbet on an endless summer day, and Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix compliments Iraq's proactive compliance in a quickening process of disarmament that will not take years, nor weeks, but months - - a sociopath who used to stuff firecrackers into the mouths of frogs before tossing them into the air to watch them explode is about to send thousands of radioactive high explosives into a city the size of Toronto, where this story was reported. When things are this perverted, warned the Hopi, you are entering the End Time. CLIP - Read the whole article at http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/6271.php WELCOME TO A NEW BEGINNING Two nights ago, after robotically reciting a dizzyingly dissonant pastiche of gross distortions and outright lies coupled to a crude cowboy deadline, Bush II raised his middle finger to international law and the world community with a trademark little-boy smirk -- partly fearful, partly defiant -- that asked, Will you let me get away with this? Around the word, the resounding response is, HECK NO! We have had enough of Americans' willful denial and spoiled brat behavior that renames French fries so they can be gobbled without dwelling on the prickly questions of law and morality raised by that longtime American ally while watching Baghdad get blown up like a televised sports event sandwiched between commercials urging more mindless consumption that drives these massacres for oil. As oil author Thom Hartmann observes, a transportation infrastructure based on 6,000- pound SUVs carrying single individuals, cheap forced-labor Chinese goods sold at Wal- Mart's unpaid overtime gulags, and cut-rate Mexican produce plastered with pesticides -- are propelling a conquest that is really about the survival of the American lifestyle, which, in their world-view, is both non-negotiable and based almost entirely on access to cheap oil. But even if Bush's forces seize Iraq's 20 oilfields intact, an oilgarchy's last grab for Iraq's cheap crude will not stop a steepening planetary slide into prohibitively expensive go-juice. Observing that world
[CTRL] Arab Cartoons Reflect on Politics
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[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Russian Billionaire Is Arrested in London
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russian Billionaire Is Arrested in London March 25, 2003 By ALAN COWELL LONDON, March 25 - The British police said today that they had arrested the self-exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky to start legal proceedings possibly leading to his extradition on fraud charges. The arrest illuminated the change in Mr. Berezovsky's fortunes since the 1990's, when he ranked among the most influential of so-called oligarchs at the Kremlin, engineering the destiny of presidents. A police statement said Mr. Berezovsky was arrested on Monday together with Yuly Dubov, a former chief executive of the Logovaz car company. The charge alleges that between January 1, 1994, and December 31, 1995, they defrauded the administration of the Samara region of 60 billion rubles whilst being directors of Logovaz, the police said. At today's exchange rate 60 billion rubles is equivalent to $1.9 billion. Mr. Berezovksy, 57, and Mr. Dubov, 54, were released on bail and ordered to appear in court for preliminary hearings on April 2. Mr. Berezovsky's lawyer, Andrew Stephenson, said the arrests had taken place at a pre-arranged meeting with the police. Russia asked for Mr. Berezovsky's extradition last November, a year after he arrived in Britain seeking permanent residence, and two years after he fled Russia claiming that fraud charges against him were part of a plot by President Vladimir V. Putin to silence him. Mr. Berezovsky has accused Mr. Putin of knowing that the security services in Russia carried out bombings of apartment buildings in Moscow, contrary to official allegations that Chechen serparatists were responsible. Mr. Berezovsky has told visitors that, while his case might be influenced by the international relationship between Britain and Russia, he believes the British court system will vindicate him in protesting his innocence. At the time that Mr. Berezovsky arrived in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair boasted of close ties to President Putin, but the relationship between Moscow and London has soured over the war in Iraq. Russia has been one of the most bitter foes of Britain's alliance with the United States in the conflict. While in Britain, Mr. Berezovsky has angered Mr. Putin by seeking to organize an opposition political party and a human rights organization and has openly called for the Russian president's electoral defeat. He has also funded the legal fees of Akhmed Zakayev, a Chechen leader held in Britain and also facing extradition proceedings. Alan Hamerman, a spokesman for Mr. Berezovsky, said the businessman regarded the fraud charges as an open and shut case of political muscle from the Kremlin to shut him up and insisted that the allegations by the Russian authorities are false. He is confident, upbeat and has faith in the British justice system, Mr. Hamerman said. He says there is no case against him, no crime, no valid reason to extradite. Mr. Berezovsky's arrest signaled the start of extradition proceedings that, in Britain, can take years. The sequence from the initial request for extradition from a foreign state to actual handover of a suspect runs through six separate stages, and, at four of them, the case may be dismissed. The British Home Secretary must also rule on whether to initiate proceedings and, finally, whether to surrender the suspect. Earlier this month, Mr. Berezovsky won a major high court ruling in his favor in a libel suit against Forbes magazine. The case related to his days as a tycoon in the 1990's as Russia emerged from the Soviet command economy into a freewheeling, robber-baron capitalism that enabled a small number of businessmen - the so-called oligarchs - to win great influence at the Kremlin and amass fortunes from the break-up and sale of huge state monopolies. Mr. Berezovsky made his first fortune through the Logovaz car dealership and went on to build an empire spanning the news media, the Aeroflot airline, oil and aluminum. In the process, his control of broadcasting outlets enabled him to campaign for the 1996 re-election of President Boris Yeltsin and the election of Mr. Putin in 2000. Later that year, though, the two men fell out and Mr. Berezovsky left Russia for a relatively opulent self-exile. In an interview here in February he estimated his fortune at some $3 billion and he has enlisted high-powered public relations and law firms to fight his corner. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/international/europe/25CND-BORI.html?ex=1049607672ei=1en=168ee9a03c5e231e 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 2003 The New York Times
[CTRL] NYTimes.com Article: Data Expert Is Cautious About Misuse of Information
-Caveat Lector- This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data Expert Is Cautious About Misuse of Information March 25, 2003 By STEVE LOHR SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 24 - As the government gears up its domestic security program, the chief executive of a venture capital firm founded by the Central Intelligence Agency warned today of the danger of amassing a large, unified database that would be available to government investigators - as some technology executives have advocated. I think it's very dangerous to give the government total access, said Gilman Louie, chief executive of In-Q-Tel, a venture fund established by the C.I.A. in 1999. Besides, the real lesson learned from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Louie said, was that the intelligence failure was not so much that the government had too little information but that the information held by different government agencies was not linked, shared and analyzed. It is already clear that a part of the vast amounts of personal and commercial data housed in government and corporation will increasingly be used in terrorist-related government investigations. But there is a vigorous debate over what data should be collected and how it should be used to balance the interests of national security with personal privacy and individual freedom. Speaking at the PC Forum, an annual gathering of corporate technology executives, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, Mr. Louie said there were two different paths being pursued toward data surveillance by the government. First, there is what he termed the data mining or profiling approach. This involves collecting large amounts of data - like credit card and air travel information - and then sorting the data by names, buying habits or travel plans looking for patterns. The data mining approach, Mr. Louie said, results in the watch lists used by law enforcement authorities. If used as the main tool of surveillance, the data mining approach is too blunt an instrument, in Mr. Louie's view, and one likely to needlessly undermine individual freedom. The policy has not been defined for how you get on or off these watch lists, he said. Mr. Louie said that he had friends who after the terrorists attacks have been interrogated at length and sometimes missed flights because they matched certain characteristics that put them on a watch list. They have Arabic names, he said, they are naturalized citizens and because they are investment bankers they buy one-way tickets. The second way to use database technology to detect threats is what he called the data analysis approach. The alternative, which Mr. Louie supports, starts with some kind of investigative lead and then uses software tools to scan for links between a person under investigation and known terrorists, in terms of where they live, recent travel and other behavior. Las Vegas casinos, for example, use data analysis software called NORA, for Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness, for tracking threats to their business - links between some patrons and sometimes employees with money launderers, known card counters and individuals with criminal records. The company that developed the NORA software, Systems Research and Development, is one of the companies in which In-Q-Tel has invested. Data mining, Mr. Louie said, can play a useful role. But he argues that relying on data mining as the principal way to use database technology in fighting terrorism would be a mistake. This is an ongoing argument, Mr. Louie said, a big debate right now in government. In-Q-Tel was established by the C.I.A., in an effort to inject new thinking and technology into the agency. The agency's handling of information had been shaped by the cold war concerns of big power confrontations where the weapons were tanks and missiles, and the security risks tended to be spies and moles. Information, noted Mr. Louie, a former computer game designer and software executive, was kept in separate database silos so it would not leak or any leak could be quickly contained. Speed of information flow across databases was not a priority. Yet in a world of quickly shifting terrorist threats, Mr. Louie said, the agency realized that this stove-piping of information was a security model that was really vulnerable. Today, In-Q-Tel has invested in 25 companies. At the same time, the Defense Department's advanced research projects agency, or Darpa, and the government's National Imagery and Mapping Agency, or Nima, have also supplied financing to In-Q-Tel for specific programs. Before Sept. 11, Mr. Louie said, In-Q-Tel was seen within government as an intriguing experiment. Now, this isn't an experiment, he said. This is a necessity. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/technology/25DATA.html?ex=1049608608ei=1en=e06cac9de31e47bd HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities